VEGA Agenda - DOE Joint Genome Institute (original) (raw)

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Day 1: Tuesday, November 12, 2024
08:00am – 09:00am Registration and AM Refreshments
Session 1 Viromics Measurement
08:30am – 09:10am Welcome; Symposium Overview
Keynote 09:10am – 09:50am Mya Breitbart, University of South Florida22 years of Viromics: Triumphs and Troubles
Invited speaker 09:50am – 10:15am Ishi Keenum, Michigan Technological UniversityCharacterization to Quantification: Using wastewater to understand how framework shift as we change monitoring purposes
Break 10:15am –10:45am Break
Invited Speaker 10:45am –11:10am Martial Marbouty, Institut Pasteur
11:10am – 12:00pm Panel“Strengths and limitations of current approaches for virome measurement”
Working Lunch 12:00pm – 01:00pm Discussions of charge questions established in the previous panel
01:00pm – 01:30pm Poster Viewing
Short Talk 01:30pm – 01:45pm Selected talk from abstract #1
Invited talk 01:45pm – 02:10pm Libusha Kelly, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Break 02:10pm – 02:30pm Break – groups head to their breakout groups
02:30pm – 04:00pm Breakout groups: “What is needed to improve viromics measurements”Specific group topics guided by panel charge questions and previous discussions
04:00pm – 04:15pm Report out from each breakout group
04:15pm – 04:30pm Discussion following breakout group reports
Short Talk 04:30pm – 04:45pm Selected talk from abstract #2
Short Talk 04:45pm – 05:00pm Selected talk from abstract #3
05:00pm – 07:00pm Poster Session Reception
Day 2: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Welcome – Organizers 08:00am – 09:00am Badging & AM Refreshments
Session 2 Pressing topics in viral ecogenomicsEcology & Evolution of atypical viruses
Keynote 09:00am – 09:40am Joe Pogliano, UC San Diego
Invited Speaker 09:40am – 10:05am Adrienne Correa, UC Berkeley
Short talk 10:05am – 10:20am Selected talk from abstract #4
Break 10:20am – 11:05am Break
Short talk 11:05am –11:20am Selected talk from abstract #5
Short talk 11:20am –11:35am Selected talk from abstract #6
Invited Speaker 11:35am –12:00pm Ken Stedman, Portland State UniversityViruses from Hell: Virus genes and genomes from extreme (and less extreme) environments
Working Lunch 12:00pm – 01:30pm Working lunch, including sponsor’s talks
Session 3 Phage-host and phage-phage interactions
Invited Speaker 01:30pm – 01:55pm Luke Hillary, UC DavisEnhancing RNA viromics to expand our understanding of the soil virosphere
Short talk 01:55pm – 02:10pm Selected talk from abstract #7
Short talk 02:10pm – 02:25pm Selected talk from abstract #8
Break 02:25pm – 02:55pm Break
Invited Speaker 02:55pm – 03:20pm Samuel Díaz-Muñoz, UC Davis
Keynote 03:20pm – 04:00pm Britt Koskella, UC BerkeleyPhages as driver of microbiome form and function