This webinar series is aimed at early career researchers studying viruses in complex communities. We open up a platform to present and discuss your research and get connected.
The ECR Viromics Webinar Series is jointly hosted by the Center of Microbiome Science at Ohio State University, the EVBC, and the NSF EMERGE Biology Integration Institute.
The webinar series will take place regularly on the second Wednesday of the month at 10 am EDT / 7 am PDT / 4 pm CEST.
(Registration is only necessary once. You will receive updates about upcoming speakers.)
See the website at OSU for short biographies of the speakers.
Recordings of some lectures are available upon request. If you want a lecture to be recorded, please contact us beforehand.
Schedule
| 13 December 2023 | Luke Hillary University of California, Davis, US | From lab to landscape: adapting RNA and DNA viromics to expand our understanding of the anthropogenic virosphere |
| 08 November 2023 | Mark Paul Selda Rivarez North Carolina State University, USA / Caraga State University, Philippines | Into the wild and digital: Virus hunting beyond the traditional |
| 13 September 2023 | Sofia Medvedeva Institut Pasteur, France | A global virome of methanogenic archaea highlights novel diversity and adaptations to the gut environment |
| 12 July 2023 | Tom van der Most Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands | Characterising the virome of Culex mosquitoes |
| 14 June 2023 | Erin Harvey The University of Sydney, Australia | The utility of phylogeny in virus discovery: Host association, taxonomy and disease potential |
| 10 May 2023 | Jeroen Meijer Utrecht University, Netherlands | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of massive, parallel bacteriophage outbreaks in compost communities |
| 05 April 2023 | Ruonan Wu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | Unearthing Climate Impacts on Soil Viruses |
| 08 March 2023 | Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany | Interrogating the virome-microbiome interactions to mitigate dysbiosis-associated diseases |
| 11 January 2023 | Cormac M. Kinsella Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands | Computational host discovery for stray viruses in the metagenomic age |
| 14 December 2022 | Justine Charon UMR INRA 1332 / University of Bordeaux, France | Investigating the protist biosphere: the current limits and how we can face them? |
| 09 November 2022 | René Kallies Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH UFZ, Germany | Introduction to MuDoGeR – a pipeline to automatically recover and analyse (viral) genomes from metagenomes |
| 12 October 2022 | Uri Neri Tel Aviv University, Israel | RNA viruses in metatranscriptomes – dawn of a new age? |
| 14 September 2022 | Daan Jansen Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium | Community typing as a way to explore virome compositional changes in IBD patients |
| 10 August 2022 | Elaine Luo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA | Viral diversity in the ocean |
| 13 Jul 2022 | Janina Rahlff Linneaus University, Sweden | Dwelling in the ocean’s skin: lessons learned from studying viruses at the air-sea boundary |
| 08 Jun 2022 | Ahmed Zayed Ohio State University, USA | Ecology and evolutionary origins of the Global Ocean RNA virome |
| 11 May 2022 9:15–11:45 EDT / 6:15–8:45 PDT / 15:15–17:45 CEST | 5th International Viromics Workshop: Viromics mini-Symposium | 9:15 – 9:45 Viromics overview (Simon Roux) 9:45 – 10:15 Oceans overview (Ahmed Zayed) 10:45 – 11:15 Soils overview (Joanne Emerson) 11:15 – 11:45 Host-associated overview (plants, insect, animal) (Arvind Varsani) |
| 13 Apr 2022 | Rotem Sorek Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel | The immune system of bacteria: Beyond CRISPR |
| 16 Mar 2022 | Florian Pfaff Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Germany | Virus discovery now and then – from Koch’s postulate to browsing viruses in the internet |
| 09 Feb 2022 | Ann Gregory Ohio State University, United States | Growing opportunities for studying microdiversity in viral ecology |