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Meeting Schedule
Thursday, May 14, 2009 (Room 119 Clayton Hall)
- 5:00pm On-site registration and opening mixer
- 6:50pm Meeting welcome, Steve Wilhelm, SCOR Working Group co-chair and K. Eric Wommack, Meeting Organizer
- 7:15pm Graham Hatfull, University of Pittsburgh
Mycobacteriophage genomes and genes galore: What do they do anyway?
Friday, May 15, 2009 (Room 106 Pencader Hall)
- 8:00am Robin Morgan, Dean, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- 8:15am Mya Breitbart, University of South Florida
The Surprisingly (High/Low) Diversity of Marine Viruses? Can We Decide Which?
- 8:45am Thomas Schoenfeld, Lucigen Corporation
Molecular and biochemical diversity of viral replicases from thermal environment
- 9:00am Alice Ortmann, University of South Alabama
Linking changes in virus communities with CRISPRs using metagenomes
- 9:15am Shannon Williamson, J. Craig Venter Institute
Viral (meta)genomics: There's more than one way to skin a cat.
- 9:45am Fei Fan Ng, University of South Florida
Discovering Novel Marine Animal Viruses Using Viral Metagenomics
- 10:00am Karyna Rosario, University of South Florida
- 10:15am Coffee Break
- 11:00am Rebecca Vega Thurber, Florida International University
- 11:15am Keizo Nagasaki, Fisheries Research Agency, Japan
- 11:30am Kurt Williamson, College of William & Mary
- 12:00pm Takuro Nunoura, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology
Viral abundance and distribution in Challenger Deep waters of the Mariana Trough
- 12:15pm Bert Engelen, University of Oldenburg
Viral infections as controlling factors for the deep biosphere?
- 12:30pm Liz Dinsdale, San Diego State University
- 12:45pm Working Lunch: Open discussion of best practices in viral genomics and metagenomics
- 2:00pm Martha Clokie, University of Leicester
- 2:30pm Feng Chen, U. Maryland Biotechnology Inst.
- 2:45pm Olga Stepanova, Natl. Academy of Sci., Sevastopol, Ukraine
Methodical Improvement of Isolation Phaeodactylum tricornutum Virus from Samples of Marine Water
- 3:00pm Marcia Marston, Roger Williams University
- 3:15pm Jessica Clasen, University of California, Irvine
Temporal dynamics of psbA genes in a coastal cyanophage community
- 3:30pm Afternoon Break
- 4:00pm Jay Lennon, Michigan State University
Rapid evolution buffers the ecological impacts of viruses on microbial food webs
- 4:30pm Tae Jin Choi, Pukyong Nat'l University
- 4:45pm Andrew Millard, University of Warwick
- 5:00pm Andrew Lang, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- 5:15pm - 7:15pm Two hour poster session
Saturday, May 16, 2009 (Room 102 Delaware Biotechnology Institute)
- 8:30am Steven Short, University of Toronto
Transient and Persistent Algal Viruses in a North American Great Lake
- 9:00am Jessica Ray, University of Bergen
- 9:15am David Dunigan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 9:30am Kay Bidle, Rutgers University
- 10:00am Christopher Brown, Rutgers University
Virus-Induced Programmed Cell Death in Aureococcus anophagefferens
- 10:15am Jennifer Dingman, University of New Brunswick
Programmed Cell Death Activated in Heterosigma akashiwo During Lytic Viral Infection
- 10:30am Miguel Frada, Equipe EPPO-Evolution du Plancton et PaleOceans, CNRS
- 10:45am Assaf Vardi, Rutgers University
Viral Sphingolipids Biomimic Infection via induction of Coccolithophores Programmed Cell Death
- 11:00am Willie Wilson,Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
- 11:15am - 4:15pm Depart for Longwood
- 6:30pm Closing Banquet, Timothy's
Poster Presentations
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Charles Budinoff, University of Tennessee
Isolation and characterization of roseobacters and roseophage from two distinct coastal environments
- Michael Carlson, University of Washington
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Jesse Colangelo-Lillis, University of Washington
Implications of viral lysogeny and functional transduction in sea ice microbes
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Jennifer DeBruyn, University of Tennessee
Terrestrial phage ecology: Lysogeny in agricultural, native and groundwater ecosystems
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Michael Dumas, University of Delaware
Dehalophage Dynamics in Dehalococcoides Sp. Strain BAV1 Cultures
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Dawn Goldsmith, University of South Florida
Abundance and Diversity of Viruses Throughout the Water Column in the Northwestern Sargasso Sea
- Eun Jung Han, Pukyong National University
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Rebekah Helton, University of Delaware
Exploration and induction of temperate phage from hydrothermal vent diffuse flow water
- Sijun Huang, U. Maryland Biotechnology Inst.
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Yazeed Ibrahim, University of California
Host range patterns in Synechococcus spp. Cyanophages: Linking genotype and phenotype
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Sanchita Jamindar, University of Delaware
Exploration of the abundant genosphere: Environmental annotation of viral genes in the biosphere
- David Keller, UMCES Horn Point Laboratory
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Jonas Leichsenring, University of New Brunswick
Virus-Like Particles in Ship Ballast Destined for Canadian Ports
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Keizo Nagasaki, Fisheries Research Agency
Development of marine diatom transformation system using viral promoter
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Suzanne Rose, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
VIRAL-HOST interactions of PBCV-1 and Chlorella nc64a in viral DNA packaging
- Janet Rowe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Eric Schott, U. Maryland Biotechnology Inst.
- Katherine Sides, University of Tennessee
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Sharath Srinivasiah, University of Delaware
Viral and bacterial interactions in a Uranium contaminated aquifer
- Olga Stepanova, Natl. Academy of Sci., Sevastopol, Ukraine
- Yukari Takashima, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan
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Claudia Weihe, University of California, Irvine
Enumerating the abundance of cyanophages infecting Synechococcus along the southern California coast
- Ashley Whelpley, University of California, Irvine
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Lisa Zeigler, J. Craig Venter Institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Single Virus Genomics: Bridging the Gap Between Cultivation and Metagenomics One Virus at a Time
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