Environmental Virology 2015 Polony Workshop: 1-5 March 2015.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Oral Presentations
Session 1: Monday 2nd March, 16:00-18:30, Biology Auditorium
(20 min presentation + 5-10 min discussion and change over)
16:00 Oded Beja (Technion, Israel)
Viral ‘photosynthesis’
16:30 Ilia Maidanik (Technion, Israel)
The polony method reveals that psbA-containing T7-like cyanophages are highly
abundant and diverse in the Red Sea
17:00 Elina Roine (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Bacteriophages from the Baltic Sea ice show a variety of interactions with their hosts
17:30 Judith Freichtmayer (Munich Technical University, Germany)
Towards viral metagenomics of ultra-low concentrated DNA samples in the human lung
18:00 Evelien Adriaenssens (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Viruses of extreme terrestrial habitats: focus on the Namib Desert and Antarctic Dry
Valleys
Session 2: Wednesday 2nd March, 16:00-18:30, Biology Auditorium
(20 min presentation + 5-10 min discussion and change over)
16:00 Eric Wommack (University of Delaware, USA)
Uncovering the biology of unknown viruses through metagenomics and nucleotide
metabolism genes
16:30 Jerome Payet (University of Oregon, USA)
Unveiling the activity and diversity of viruses in coral reef ecosystems
17:00 Michael Carlson (University of Washington, USA)
Diatom-virus infection networks reveal patterns of virus seasonality and host
permissivity
17:30 Jozef Nissimov (Rutgers University, USA)
The impact of biochemical diversity on infochemical production and viral demise of
Emiliania huxleyi
18:00 Daniella Schatz (Weizmann Inst., Israel)
Life cycle strategies of a large virus that infects the bloom forming coccolithophore
Emiliania huxleyi
Environmental Virology 2015 Polony Workshop: 1-5 March 2015.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Poster presentations, Tuesday 2nd March, 16:00-18:30. 6th floor Emerson Building.
P1:
Mathew Brown (Newcastle University, UK)
Bacteriophage dynamics in a full scale activated sludge plant
P2:
Jessica Chopyk (University of Delaware, USA)
The influence of viral and bacterial community diversity on pathogenic E. coli prevalence
in pre-harvest cattle
P3:
Jose Flores (Technion, Israel)
Closing the gaps on the viral photosystem-I psaDCAB gene organization
P4:
Svetlana Fridman (Technion, Israel)
Characterization of a cyanophage carrying PSI genes
P5:
Yotam Hulata (Technion, Israel)
Isolation, characterization and quantification of cyanophages from Lake Kinneret, Israel
P6:
Ilia Maidanik (Technion, Israel)
A single molecule amplification method reveals that psbA-containing T7-like
cyanophages are highly abundant and diverse in the Red Sea
P7:
Noor Mruwat (Technion, Israel)
Towards quantitative determination of the extent of cyanobacterial infection by
cyanophages at the single-cell level
P8:
Simone Muck (University of Vienna, Austria)
Spatial variations of prokaryotic and viral communities along the Vema Fracture Zone in
the Mid Atlantic Ridge
P9:
Anna Pasechnek (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Characterization of Listeria monocytonogenes prophage life cycles
P10:
Daniel Schwartz (Technion, Israel)
Genetic hurdles limit the arms race between Prochlorococcus and the podoviruses
infecting them