08:45 - 10:10
Viral Ecology in Natural Environments
Main Auditorium
Oral presentations
08:45 - 09:10
Viral Ecology-T01-IvT-01
Invited talk - 25 min
VIRUSES, VIRUSES EVERYWHERE BUT STILL SO MUCH WE DO NOT KNOW
 
Mya Breitbart
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, United States
09:10 - 09:25
Viral Ecology-T01-Oft-02
Offered talk - 15 min
Largely unexplored freshwaters may provide missing links to viral evolution
 
Elina Laanto1, Sari Mäntynen1, Janne Ravantti1, Jaana Bamford1, Ashley Gillum2, Juha Huiskonen2, Lotta-Riina Sundberg1
1University of Jyväskylä, Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions, Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Nanoscience Center, Jyväskylä, Finland, 2University of Oxford, Division of Structural Biology, Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
09:25 - 09:40
Viral Ecology-T01-Oft-03
Offered talk - 15 min
High-throughput single virus genomics unveil reference viral genomes in marine epipelagic ambients at global scale
 
Francisco J. Martínez-Hernández1, Òscar Fornás2, Mónica Lluesma Gomez1, Joaquín Martínez-Martínez3, Josefa Antón1, Matthew Sullivan4, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera5, Josep M. Gasol6, Dolors Vaqué6, Silvia G. Acinas6, Manuel Martinez-Garcia1
1Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Alicante., Alicante, Spain, 2Flow Citometry Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation-Barcelona Biomedical Research Park., Barcelona, Spain, 3Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences., Maine, United States, 4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona., Tucson, United States, 5Microbiology Division, Miguel Hernandez University, San Juan de Alicante, Spain, 6Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar—CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
09:40 - 09:55
Viral Ecology-T01-Oft-04
Offered talk - 15 min
Ciona intestinalis: a new model system for dissecting the roles of phages in modulating host-associated microbial communities
 
Brittany Leigh1, Zachary Graham2, Alexandria Creasy1, Assunta Liberti3, 4, John Cannon3, Gary Litman5, Mya Breitbart1, Larry Dishaw3
1University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, United States, 2St Petersburg College, United States, 3University of South Florida, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, United States, 4Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy, 5All Children's Hospital, Department of Molecular Genetics, United States
09:55 - 10:10
Viral Ecology-T01-Oft-05
Offered talk - 15 min
Local and global variation of crAssphage across space and time
 
Alejandro Vega1, Bas Dutilh2, Robert Edwards1
1San Diego State University, San Diego, United States, 2Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
10:10 - 10:25
Viral Ecology-T01-Oft-06
Offered talk - 15 min
A viral immunity chromosome in the marine green microalga Ostreococcus
 
Nigel Grimsley, Sheree Yau, Claire Hemon, Evelyne Derelle, Hervé Moreau, Gwenaël Piganeau
CNRS, Banyuls sur Mer, France