12:05 - 15:00
Posters Covering Ecology, Host population control, Co-Evolutionary dynamics and Subversion/Evasion of Host Defences
Poster Halls
Poster session
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-01
Poster presentation
Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses
 
François Enault1, 2, Arnaud Briet3, Léa Bouteille3, Simon Roux4, Matthew Sullivan4, 5, Marie-Agnès Petit3
1Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal, Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2CNRS, Aubière, France, 3Micalis Institute, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France, 4Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, 5Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-02
Poster presentation
Hydrography induced changes in viral induced mortality of prokaryotes in a monsoon driven tropical estuarine system (Cochin estuary, India)
 
Parvathi Ammini, et al.
National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, India
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-03
Poster presentation
Marine viral diversity in the Arctic - from surface to deep waters through the long polar night and day.
 
Jessica Ray2, Julia Storesund1, Aud Larsen2, Gunnar Bratbak1
1University of Bergen, Department of Biology, Bergen, Norway, 2Uni Research Environment, Bergen, Norway
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-04
Poster presentation
Research activities at the DSMZ – More than just a collection
 
Johannes Wittmann, Julia Sabirova, Imke Schmidt, Christine Rohde
Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-05
Poster presentation
Characterization of Pseudomonas phages from aquatic and terrestrial samples
 
Katherine Bruder1, 2, Alexandria Cooper2, Siobhan Watkins2, Catherine Putonti2, 3
1University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, United States, 2Loyola University Chicago Department of Biology, Chicago, United States, 3Loyola University Chicago Department of Bioinformatics, Chicago, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-06
Poster presentation
Do viruses regulate the elemental composition of dissolved organic matter in the deep ocean?
 
David Talmy, Chris Follett, Mick Follows
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-07
Poster presentation
High-throughput characterization of Cascade Type I-E CRISPR guide efficacy
 
Becky Xu Hua Fu, Michael Wainberg, Anshul Kundaje, Andrew Fire
Stanford University, Stanford, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-08
Poster presentation
Antarctic phytoplankton viruses – 2 years of field data
 
Tristan Biggs1, Corina Brussaard1, David Pond2, Hugh Venables3, Claire Evans4
1NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, 't Horntje, Texel, Netherlands, 2SAMS-Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, United Kingdom, 3British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 4National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-09
Poster presentation
Annual population dynamics of T7-like cyanophages and their hosts in the Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea
 
Ilia Maidanik, Nava Baran, Svetlana Goldin, Debbie Lindell
Faculty of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-10
Poster presentation
Characterization of two novel podoviruses infecting clinical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii strains
 
Anastasia Popova1, 2, 4, Alexander Bogun2, Artemiy Goncharov3, Sergey Leonov1, Roman Kozlov4
1Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University), Dolgoprudny, Russia, 2State Resea?h Center for Applied Microbiology and Biotechnolog?, Obolensk, Russia, 3North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 4Institute of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Smolensk State Medical Academy, Smolensk, Russia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-11
Poster presentation
Genomics of uncultured viruses from mesopelagic and deep-sea environments through the view of single virus genomics
 
Manuel Martinez Garcia, et al.
University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-12
Poster presentation
Sequence based comparative characterization of phages vB_GEC-EfS_2 and vB_GEC-EfS_4
 
Sophio Rigvava, Ia Kusradze, Natia Karumidze, Irina Chkonia, Teona Dvalidze, Marina Goderdzishvili
G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-13
Poster presentation
Characterization of the unique seed sequence of the CRISPR/Cmr complex
 
Yifan Zhu1, David Taylor2, Eline Stroobach1, Sanne Klompe1, Nirajan Neupane1, 7, Anna Sobieraj1, 8, Willem de Vos1, Jennifer Doudna2, 5, 6, Akeo Shinkai3, 4, Stan Brouns1, John van der Oost1
1Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, United States, 3RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Hyogo, Japan, 4RIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory, Kanagawa, Japan, 5Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, United States, 6Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, United States, 7Research Program of Molecular Neurology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 8Laboratory of food microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-14
Poster presentation
Multidrug resistant clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are highly susceptible to bacteriophages
 
Sopio Tsertsvadze1, Tamar Kokashvili2, Nino Lashkhi2, Marina Darsavelidze2, Tamar Suladze2, Ana Giorgobiani1, Ana Tskhvediani2, Nino Janelidze2, George Tsertsvadze2, Eric Valade3, Marina Tediashvili2
1M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2George Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia, 3Institut de Recherche Biomédicale des Armées (IRBA),, Bretigny Sur Orge, France
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-15
Poster presentation
Biochemical and Infection Characteristics of Escherichia coli O157:H7-specific Bacteriophages and Broad-host-range Bacteriophages for E. coli Serotypes
 
Jong Hyun Park1, Won Jung Park1, Ju Hoon Lee2, Youn Duck Lee3
1Gachon University, Bokjeong-dong, Korea, Republic of (South), 2Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), 3Seowon University, Cheong Ju, Korea, Republic of (South)
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-16
Poster presentation
Viral dynamics within three aquifers of differing ages and origins in the Fennoscandian shield terrestrial deep biosphere
 
Karin Holmfeldt1, Xiaofen Wu1, Ino de Brujin2, 3, Emelie Nilsson1, Brynjar Smári Bjarnason2, Daniel Lundin1, Anders Anderssin2, Stefan Bertilsson4, Mark Dopson1
1Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden, 2School of Biotechnology, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences (BILS), Stockholm, Sweden, 4Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology and Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-17
Poster presentation
Predators as Catalysts of Virus Population Dynamics
 
David Dunigan, Zeina Al-Ameeli, James Van Etten, John DeLong
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-18
Poster presentation
Antagonists’ interaction: phage 8573 sm versus its host Pseudomonas fluorescens IMV 8573
 
Anna Stavniichuk, Lidia Semchuk, Alla Kharina, Valery Polischuk
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-19
Poster presentation
Viral and Bacterial Epibionts in Thermally-Stressed Corals
 
Hanh Nguyen-Kim1, thierry Bouvier2, Corinne Bouvier2, Van Ngoc Bui3, Huong Le-Lan1, Yvan Bettarel2
1Institute of Oceanography, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 2Institute of Research for Development (IRD), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR MARBEC, Montpellier, France, 3Institute of Biotechnology (IBT),, Hanoi, Vietnam
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-20
Poster presentation
Bacteriophage short-term in situ evolution: what can we learn from comparative analysis of the ecologically linked phage isolates.
 
Andrey Letarov1, 2, Alla Golomidova1, Nickolai Prokhorov1, Sergey Nazarov4, Peter Leiman4, Vladislav Babenko5, Yuri Knirel3, Eugene Kulikov1, 2, Pavel Ivanov1, et al.
1Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RC Biotechnology RAS, Moscow, Russia, 2Moscow Istitute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia, 3N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS, Moscow, Russia, 4Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 5SRI of Physical-chemical Medicine FMBA RF, Moscow, Russia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-21
Poster presentation
The role of gut microbiome-associated viruses: Are bacteriophages keeping us healthy?
 
Pilar Manrique, et al.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Bozeman, United States, Department of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Wageningen, Netherlands, Department of Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, Bozeman, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-22
Poster presentation
A new optical method to count viruses and other nanoparticles: Environmental Applications
 
Martine Boccara, et al.
Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), CNRS UMR 8197, INSERM U1024,,, Paris, France
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-23
Poster presentation
Analysis of the atypical ‘hairy’ Enterobacteriacea phage vB_PcaM_CBB
 
Colin Buttimer1, Hugo Oliveira2, Hanne Hendrix2, Rob Lavigne2, Horst Neve3, Olivia McAuliffe4, Colin Hill5, Jim O’Mahony1, Aidan Coffey1
1Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland, 2Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Max Rubner-Institut, Kiel, Germany, 4Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Ireland, 5Microbiology Department, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-24
Poster presentation
Genetic Determinants of Lactococcal C2likeviruses for Host Infection and Their Role in Phage Evolution
 
Dennis Romero, Anne Millen
DuPont Nutrition & Health, Madison, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-25
Poster presentation
Diversity of LPS-dependent Salmonella phages
 
Y. Emre Gencay, Tessa F. Prüssing, Stephen J. Ahern, Lone Brøndsted
Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-26
Poster presentation
Coral mucus is a hot spot of viral infections
 
Yvan Bettarel1, Hanh Nguyen-Kim3, Thierry Bouvier2
1Institute of Research for Development (IRD). UMR MARBEC, Université Montpellier, MONTPELLIER, France, 2CNRS, UMR MARBEC, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France, 3Institute of Oceanography, VAST, Nha Trang, Vietnam
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-27
Poster presentation
Measuring the Costs of Host Switching in a Phage
 
Oyeronke Ayansola, Benjamin Dickins
School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-28
Poster presentation
Environmental effects on host-virus interactions in a unicellular marine alga
 
Sarah Heath, Sinead Collins
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-29
Poster presentation
Human Single Virus Genomics, a new view to study the uncultured salivary viruses.
 
Maria Jose de la Cruz1, Óscar Fornás2, Laura Díaz3, Mónica Lluesma-Gomez1, Fancisco-J Martínez-Hernández1, Maria Angeles Muñoz-Fernández3, Manuel Martinez-Garcia1
1University of Alicante, Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology., Alicante, Spain, 2Flow Citometry Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation-Barcelona Biomedical Research Park., Barcelona, Spain, 3Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón., Madrid, Spain
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-30
Poster presentation
Metagenomic analysis to compare bacteriophage genomes induced from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia complex, isolated from Cystic Fibrosis and Bronchiectasis.
 
Mohammad Tariq1, Lauren Cowley2, Francesca Everest1, Giles Holt1, Anthony De Soyza3, Audrey Perry3, John Perry3, Clare Lanyon1, Darren Smith1
1Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, The University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2Public Health England, London, United Kingdom, 3Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-31
Poster presentation
Bacteriophage-host relationships in the human respiratory tract
 
Kristen Gulino1, Adam Geber1, Alan Twaddle1, Naftali Kaminski2, Barbara Methe3, Alison Morris4, Elodie Ghedin1
1Center for Genomics & Systems Biology, Department of Biology, New York University, New York, NY, United States, 2Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States, 3Department of Microbial and Environmental Genomics, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, United States, 4Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-32
Poster presentation
Isolation of phages targeting different Escherichia coli pathotypes
 
Andrei Sorin Bolocan, Siobhan McDonnell, Amanda Forde, Fergus Shanahan, Paul Ross, Colin Hill
APC Microbiome Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-33
Poster presentation
Pangenome analysis of the group D3112virus infecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa from around the globe
 
Adrian Cazares, Gabriel Guarneros
Departamento de Genética y Biología Molecular, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV IPN), Mexico City, Mexico
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-34
Poster presentation
Temporal shifts in the phylogenetic structure of viral and host communities implies their central role as structuring elements in marine planktonic communities
 
Julia Gustavsen1, Curtis Suttle1, 2, 3
1Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2Departments of Botany, and Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 3Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, Canada
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-35
Poster presentation
Simple and reproducible visualization of virus-host co-occurrence networks using RCy3 and Cytoscape
 
Julia Gustavsen1, Tanja Muetze2, Chris Sander3, Augustin Luna3
1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Adeleide, Australia, 3Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, Canada
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-36
Poster presentation
Isolating lytic Streptococcus equi bacteriophages from manure and water samples and inducing temperate bacteriophages
 
Francesca Everest1, Simon Harris3, Carl Robinson2, Andrew Waller2, Darren Smith1
1University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, United Kingdom, 3Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-37
Poster presentation
Characterisation of Human Gut-Associated Viromes at the Extremes of Life
 
Stephen Stockdale1, 2, Angela McCann1, Marion Dalmasso1, Paul Ross1, 2, Colin Hill1
1Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre Microbiome Institute, Cork, Ireland, 2Teagasc Food Research Centre Moorepark, Fermoy, Ireland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-38
Poster presentation
Trade-offs of chronic infection of Sulfolobus islandicus and its virus SSV9.
 
Samantha DeWerff1, Rachel Whitaker1, 2
1Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States, 2Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-39
Poster presentation
Characterization of Temperate Bacteriophages of Pasteurella multocida Strains from Different Host Species
 
Rezheen Abdulrahman, Jose Penades, Robert Davies
Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation/ University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-40
Poster presentation
Mode of action of a widespread Type IV toxin-antitoxin phage abortive infection resistance system.
 
Hannah Hampton, Simon Jackson, Anne Vogel, Ron Dy, Peter Fineran
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-41
Poster presentation
Novel mechanisms of cyanophage resistance in marine Synechococcus
 
Blanca Perez Sepulveda1, Andrew Millard2, David Scanlan1
1School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 2Microbiology and Infection Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-42
Poster presentation
Isolation and characterisation of phages infecting Legionella
 
Neda Nezam Abadi, Martha R. J. Clokie, Edouard Galyov
University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-43
Poster presentation
Terrestrial Clostridium difficile phages and genomic characterization of two myoviruses.
 
Srwa Rashid1, Jakub Barylski2, Katherine Hargreaves3, Andrew Millard4, Martha Clokie1
1Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Medical Sciences Building, university of leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 2Department of Molecular Virology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, Poznan, Poland, 3Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, OH, 4201,, Ohio, United States, 4Microbiology & Infection Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-44
Poster presentation
Effects of Phage Genetic Diversity on CRISPR-Immunity Evolution
 
Jenny Broniewski, et al.
University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-45
Poster presentation
Iron-Virus Interactions in the Ocean
 
Chelsea Bonnain, Mya Breitbart, Kristen Buck
University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-46
Poster presentation
Single use bioreactor for bacteriophage production.
 
Juan José Jiménez Martínez, Eirik Bårdsen, Hans Petter Kleppen
ACD Pharmaceuticals AS, Oslo, Norway
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-47
Poster presentation
The multi-component dar antirestriction system of coliphage P1 is linked to viral morphogenesis
 
Denish Piya1, 2, Leonardo Vara3, Ryland Young1, 2, Jason Gill2, 4
1Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, 2Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, 3Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, 4Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-48
Poster presentation
Isolation of Staphylococcus aureus mutants that confer resistance to bacteriophage K
 
Melissa D. Ray, Roger D. Plaut, Daniel P. Riggins, E. Scott Stibitz
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-49
Poster presentation
Enhancing student engagement with online annotation of bacteriophage genomes
 
Eric Rasche1, Jason Gill2, Ryland Young1, 3
1Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, 2Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, 3Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M, College Station, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-50
Poster presentation
Isolation and genomic characterization of Alteromonas phages from the deep Mediterranean Sea
 
Elena Lara1, Simon Roux2, Matthew Sullivan2, 3, Gian Marco Luna4
1Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Venezia, Italy, 2Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, 3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, 4Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Ancona, Italy
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-51
Poster presentation
Succession of viral species in freshwater lake: a yearlong study.
 
Ksenia Arkhipova1, Timofey Skvortsov1, John P. Quinn1, John W. McGrath1, Christopher C. R. Allen1, Rob Lavigne2, Leonid A. Kulakov1
1The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-52
Poster presentation
Large-scale variation in viral lysis of marine phytoplankton across the North Atlantic
 
Kristina Mojica1, 2, Jef Huisman3, Steven Wilhelm4, Corina Brussaard2, 3
1Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, 2Department of Biological Oceanography, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands, 3Department of Aquatic Microbiology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-53
Poster presentation
What the lough whispers: detecting the viral gene expression signals in microbial metatranscriptomes
 
Timofey Skvortsov1, Ksenia Arkhipova1, John Quinn1, John McGrath1, Christopher Allen1, Rob Lavigne2, Leonid Kulakov1
1School of Biological Sciences, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-54
Poster presentation
Development of a DNA microarray platform for the detection of viruses transmitted by small mammals and arthropods.
 
Mohd Jaseem Khan, Victor Quintana
University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-55
Poster presentation
Evolutionary dynamics of the phiKMVlikeviruses
 
Damian Magill1, Victor Krylov2, John McGrath1, Christopher Allen1, John Quinn1, Leonid Kulakov1
1Queen's University Belfast, School of Biological Sciences, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, Belfast, United Kingdom, 2Department of Microbiology, Laboratory for Genetics of Bacteriophages, I.I. Mechnikov Research Institute for Vaccines and Sera, Moscow, Russia, Moscow, Russia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-56
Poster presentation
Isolation and characterisation of bacteriophages infecting the pig enteric pathogens Salmonella enterica Subspecies
 
Anisha Thanki1, Martha Clokie1, Charlotte Evans2
1University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 2AHDB Pork, Stoneleigh Park, Warwick, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-57
Poster presentation
Deleterious effect of prophages in intestinal bacteria
 
Jeffrey Cornuault1, Marie-Agnès Petit1, Harry Sokol1, 2, 3, Marianne De Paepe1
1Micalis Institute, INRA, Agroparistech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy en Josas, France, 2Sorbonne University-UPMC Univ Paris 06, INSERM ERL 1157, Avenir Team Gut Microbiota and Immunity, UMR 7203, Saint-Antoine Hospital, AP-HP, UPMC Univ, Paris, France, 3Department of Gastroenterology, Saint Antoine Hospital, Paris, France Inflammation-Immunopathology-Biotherapy Department (DHU i2B), Paris, France
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-58
Poster presentation
Temperate phages from terrestrial habitats: an induction approach
 
Anja Narr1, Eike Mahlandt1, Bärbel Kiesel1, René Kallies1, Patricia Lange2, Kirsten Küsel2, 3, Lukas Y. Wick1, Hauke Harms1, Antonis Chatzinotas1, 3
1Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, 2Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany, 3German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-59
Poster presentation
BcepMu/B3-like prophages in proteobacteria and pseudomonads.
 
Ariane Toussaint1, Frédérique van Gijsegem2
1Génétique et Physiologie Bactérienne, Université Libre de Bruxelles, IBMM-DBM , 12 Rue des Professeurs Jeneer et Brachet, Gosselies (Charleroi), Belgium, 2IEES UMR1392, UPMC, 7 Quai Saint-Bernard, Paris, France
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-60
Poster presentation
Exploring phages of Alphaproteobacteria – what does the systemic approach tell us about them?
 
Przemyslaw Decewicz, Lukasz Dziewit
Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-61
Poster presentation
Modifying the Modified Dilution Method: Robustness and Biases in Estimating Viral-Induced Plankton Mortality
 
Stephen Beckett1, Joshua Weitz1, 2
1School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States, 2School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-62
Poster presentation
Namib Desert salt pans: a rich source of novel viruses of microbes
 
Evelien Adriaenssens1, 3, Leonardo van Zyl2, Don Cowan1, Marla Trindade2
1Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Genetics & Genomics Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 3Microbiology Research Group, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-63
Poster presentation
Bacteriophages against Francisella tularensis
 
Darejan Bolkvadze, Lika Leshkasheli, Leila Kvachadze, Nana Balarjishvili, Natela Chakhunashvili, Taras Gabisonia, Mzia Kutateladze
G. Eliava Institute of Bacteriophages, Microbiology and Virology, Tbilisi, Georgia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-64
Poster presentation
Effect of bacteria physiological state in continuous cellstat production of bacteriophages
 
Dominik Nabergoj1, Metka Stantič2, Aleš Podgornik1, 2, Matjaž Peterka1
1Center of Excellence for Biosensors, Instrumentation and Process Control - COBIK, Ajdovš?ina, Slovenia, 2University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-65
Poster presentation
Digging into the archaeal viriosphere with isolation-independent tools
 
Josefa Anton1, Judith Villamor1, Fernando Santos1, Manuel Martínez1, Mercedes Moreno2, María Dolores Ramos-Barbero1, Tomeu Viver3, Ramon Rosselló-Móra3, Víctor Parro2
1Department of Physiology, Genetics, and Microbiology, University of Alicante, Spain, Alicante, Spain, 2Department of Molecular Evolution, Astrobiology Center (INTA-CSIC), Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, 3Department of Ecology and Marine Resources, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Spain
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-66
Poster presentation
Expanding Our Representation of the Diversity of Coliphages
 
Kema Malki1, 2, Andrea Garretto2, Alexandria Cooper2, Katherine Bruder1, 2, Catherine Putonti2
1University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, United States, 2Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-67
Poster presentation
Jumbo phage PA5oct as a representative of novel genus of bacterial viruses
 
Katarzyna Danis-Włodarczyk1, 2, Ho Bin Jang3, Bob Blasdel2, Jean -Paul Noben4, Rob Lavigne2, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa1
1Department of Pathogen Biology and Immunology, Institute of Genetics and Microbiology Institute of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, Wroclaw, Poland, 2Laboratory of Gene Technology, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 21, Leuven, Belgium, 3Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Columbus, United States, 4Biomedical Research Institute and Transnational University Limburg, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-68
Poster presentation
Temperate bacteriophages are prevalent and diverse among Streptococcus pneumoniae clones associated with high-carriage rates in The Gambia
 
Guillermo Rangel Pineros1, 2, Leonardo Furi3, Fatima Ceesay2, Modupeh Betts2, Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko2, Martin Antonio2, Marco Oggioni3, Brenda Kwambana2, Martha Clokie1
1Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation; Medical Sciences Building; University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, 2Vaccines and Immunity Theme; Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, Fajara, The Gambia, 3Department of Genetics; Adrian Building; University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-69
Poster presentation
UNEARTHING VIRUS-HOST RELATIONSHIPS IN THE OCEANIC BASEMENT
 
Olivia Nigro1, Sean Jungbluth2, Michael Rappe1, Grieg Steward1
1University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, 2University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-70
Poster presentation
Full genome sequencing and characterisation of a Campylobacter jejuni bacteriophage, vB_CjeM_Los1, isolated in the Republic of Ireland
 
Lisa O'Sullivan1, 2, Declan Bolton3, Olivia McCauliffe1, Aidan Coffey2
1Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy, Ireland, 2Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland, 3Teagasc, Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-71
Poster presentation
Bacteriophage Profile in Fermented Radish Kimchi and Characteristics of Weissella cibaria Phage
 
Won Jung Park1, Jae Hyung Park1, Young Duck Lee2, Jong Hyun Park1
1Gachon University, Bokjeong-dong, Korea, Republic of (South), 2Seowon University, Cheong Ju, Korea, Republic of (South)
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-72
Poster presentation
Signatures of coevolution in emerging populations of marine cyanophages
 
Richard Puxty1, Claudia Weihe1, Marcia Marston2, Jennifer Martiny1
1University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States, 2Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-73
Poster presentation
A prototype of a rapid detection assay for E. coli and Salmonella Newport using lytic bacteriophages and nucleic acid mediated amplification
 
Stevan Cucic1, Hany Anany1, Lioubov Brovko2, Mansel Griffiths1
1University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, 2Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-74
Poster presentation
Isolation and characterization of a N4-like lytic bacteriophage infecting Vibrio splendidus, pathogen of fish and bivalves.
 
Pantelis Katharios1, Panos Kalatzis1, 2, Constantina Kokkari1, Elena Sarropoulou1
1Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece, 2Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, Helsingør, Denmark
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-75
Poster presentation
Culturing and isolating crAssphage: A highly abundant phage of unknown function
 
Alejandro Vega1, Lance Boling1, Bas Dutilh2, Stephen Wandro3, Katrine Whiteson3, Robert Edwards1, 4
1Department of Biology, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr. San Diego, CA 92182, USA, San Diego, United States, 2Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands, 3School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA, Irvine, United States, 4Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Dr. San Diego, CA 92182, USA, San Diego, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-76
Poster presentation
Metagenomic time series reveal temporal variations within the viral community in the Baltic Sea
 
Emelie Nilsson, Daniel Lundin, Stina Israelsson, Jarone Pinhassi, Karin Holmfeldt
Centre for Ecology and Evolution in Microbial Model Systems (EEMiS), Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-77
Poster presentation
Genetic and biology of a temperate broad host range siphovirus from B. inopinata
 
Jens A. Hammerl, Cornelia Goellner, Sascha Al Dahouk, Karsten Noeckler, Jochen Reetz, Stefan Hertwig
Federal Institue for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-78
Poster presentation
Surveillance of Shigella pecific phages: A new insight into the epidemiology of Shigella infection
 
Mahmuda Akter, Mahmuda Yeasmin, Sharmin Jahan Luna, Shahin Mahmud, Arafat Rahman, Zhahirul Islam, Kaisar Ali Talukder
International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-79
Poster presentation
Ubiquity and diversity of ssDNA viruses in selected Chinese agricultural soils
 
Li-Li Han
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-80
Poster presentation
A Metagenomic Investigation of the Viruses of Marine Kelp
 
Douglas Beattie
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-81
Poster presentation
VERVENet: the Viral Ecology Research and Virtual Exchange Network
 
Bonnie Hurwitz1, Lori Kindler1, Lenny Teytelman2, Alexei Stoliartchouk2
1University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, 2Protocols.io, Berkeley, United States
12:05 - 15:00
Posters Day 2-T03-Pos-82
Poster presentation
Communication between viruses guides lysis-lysogeny decisions
 
Zohar Erez1, Ida Steinberger-Levy1, 2, Maya Shamir1, Shany Doron1, Avigail Stokar1, Yoav Peleg3, Shira Albeck3, Gil Amital1, Rotem Sorek1
1Weizmann institute of science, Rehovot, Israel, 2Depart. Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona, Israel, 3Israel Structural Proteomics Centre (ISPC) Faculty of Biochemistry, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel