Registration

Welcome

Bird's Eye View

Chairs: Joana Azeredo and Madalena Pimentel

• Algal ecology from a virus's View

  Corina Brussaard

• Sparrow's view on phage research

  Sylvain Moineau

Opening Reception

Session 1: Ecology and evolution of microbial viruses I

Chairs: Cristina Moraru and Corina Brussaard

• Sequencing ribosomal RNA to to infer taxon-specific lysis in microbial communities

  Curtis Suttle

• Evolutionary and ecological aspects of CRISPR-Cas – phage interactions

  Stineke van Houte

• Uncultured giant viruses in soil exhibit previously unseen capsid morphologies

  Matthias Fischer

• Phage superinfection exclusion factors against host cell scarcity

  Leonard Bäcker

• Virus-host interactions in a municipal landfill include non-specific viruses, hyper-targeting, and interviral conflicts

  Nikhil George

• Asgard archaeal viruses

  Pedro Leao

Coffee Break

Session 2: Virus structures and function I

Chairs: Douwe van Sinderen and Deborah Hinton

• DNA recognition and capsid expansion during virus assembly

  Alfred Antson

• The secrets of unique lemon-shaped viruses of Archaea

  Mart Krupovic

• Towards a complete molecular description of infection initiation by bacteriophage T7

  Ian J. Molineux

• Mechanism of virion formation of the Emiliania huxleyi virus 201 enveloped by two membranes

  Miroslav Homola

• Implications of endolysin diversity on phage-host adaptation and evolution

  Frank Oechslin

Lunch

Posters Session I

Session 3: Agro-food, Veterinary and Environmental Biotechnology Applications I

Chairs: Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa and Hugo Oliveira

• Cell wall polysaccharides - the gate-keepers of phage infection in Streptococcus thermophilus

  Jennifer Mahony

• Infection of Erwinia amylovora by the phages S6 and M7 depends on bacterial cellulose

  Lars Fieseler

• How to produce phage tail-like particles from phages

  Cedric Woudstra

• Phage biocontrol of rhizogenic Agrobacterium: solving the root of the problem

  Kiandro Jeroen Fortuna

• SMART design of a multi-receptor phage cocktail against Salmonella and impact of phage resistance on bacterial fitness

  Carlos Soto

Coffee Break

Session 4: Biotechnology applications in health care I

Chairs: Jeremy Barr and Ivone Martins

• Identification of Bacterial Pathogens in Sepsis Using Bacteriophage Present in Circulating Free DNA

  Paul Bollyky

• Phages playing molecular Lego

  Yves Briers

• Efficacy against dual-species biofilms using phage- antibiotics combinations is independent of the biofilm model

  Luís Melo

• Chimeric endolysins selectively kill S. aureus in vitro, on reconstituted human epidermis, and on murine skin

  Christian Röhrig

• Engineering of endolysins for the targeted treatment of localized Staphylococcus aureus infections

  Anja Keller

• From biological data to new phage-based antimicrobials: the case of AMP-like regions in Gram-negative phage endolysins

  Roberto Vázquez

ISVM General Assembly

Session 5: Virus-host interaction: host defense and viral evasion mechanisms

Chairs: Sylvain Moineau and Peter Fineran

• Pseudomonas prophages exploit bacterial signalling to modulate phage defence

  Karen L. Maxwel

• New mechanisms of anti-phage defense

  Rotem Sorek

• Cyclic nucleotides in bacterial immune response: a glue for deadly molecular assemblies

  Gaelle Hogrel

• Biological consequences of 7-deazaguanine hypermodifications in phage genomes

  Witold Kot

• Discrimination of phages and plasmids through inverse regulation of surface-based and CRISPR-Cas immune strategies

  Leah M. Smith

• CRISPR and non-CRISPR defences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa act synergistically against phage infection

  Alice Maestri

Coffee Break

Session 6: Virus-host interaction: overcoming cell barriers

Chairs: Yves Briers and Sílvio Santos

• Phage strategies for overcoming diverse cell barriers in E. coli

  Lone Brøndsted

• Phage-derived carbohydrate depolymerases - from structure to function and exploitation

  Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa

• Bitter sweet symphony: Coevolutionary dynamics and diversity of resistance mechanisms against a polylysogenic competitor

  Olaya Rendueles

• Understanding the complete reservoir of bacteriophage depolymerases against A. baumannii capsules

  Hugo Oliveira

• The interplay between phages, Listeria and host cells

  Yang Shen

Lunch

Posters Session II

Session 7: Virus structures and function II

Chairs: Mart Krupovic and Priscila Pires

• The T4 MotB protein improves infection in various, unexpected ways

  Deborah Hinton

• Lactococcal phage-host interactions at a molecular level: a cheesy story

  Douwe van Sinderen

• Salmonella virus Epsilon15 tailspike has multiple binding sites and two catalytic activities

  Mateo Seoane-Blanco

• Diversity and evolution of tail spike proteins of Ackermannviridae phages

  Anders Nørgaard Sørensen

• Insertion tolerance regions for synthetic RNA phage engineering

  Shin-Yae Choi

Coffee Break

Session 8: Ecology and evolution of microbial viruses II

Chairs: Kelly Williams and Curtis Suttle

• Using cultivations to discover new phage diversity in the marine environment

  Cristina Moraru

• Global metatranscriptome analysis reveals vast diversity of novel RNA viruses in protists and other eukaryotes

  Valerian V. Dolja

• Marine viral infection networks revealed through proximity-ligation sequencing

  Cynthia Silveira

• Seasonality and transcriptomic responses of the Rheinheimera phage-host system from the Baltic Sea

  Karin Holmfeldt

• The influence of early life exposures on the infant gut virome

  Yichang Zhang

• Intestinal virome in Crohn's disease patients

  Marianne De Paepe

Conference Dinner

Session 9: Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms I

Chairs: Laurent Debarbieux and Luís Melo

• Phage defense at the multicellular level – from small molecules to cellular development

  Julia Frunzke

• Ecological significance of extracellular vesicles in modulating host-virus interactions during algal blooms

  Daniella Schatz

• Genetic dissection of host takeover by phage T5: developing tools for genome engineering of large virulent phages

  Ombeline Rossier

• The gut environment regulates bacterial gene expression which modulates susceptibility to bacteriophage infection

  Chaffringeon Lorenzo

• Phage-Antibiotic Synergy for filamentation-inducing antibiotics

  Julián Bulssico

• Exploring protein lysine acetylations during phage infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Hanne Hendrix

Coffee Break

Session 10: Agro-food, veterinary and environmental biotechnology applications

Chairs: Martin Loessner and Ana Oliveira

• Phages select for non-virulent variants of Flavobacterium pathogens: implications of pathogen control in aquaculture

  Mathias Middelboe

• Ultrasonic spray deposition of a bio-based coating loaded with the Salmonella phage Felix 01 on food contact materials

  Sanna Sillankorva

• Unveiling the impact of STEC infecting phages on the colon microbiota using an in vitro fermentation model

  Graça Pinto

• Multi-aspect safety assessment of bacteriophage products dedicated for animal health

  Ewelina Wójcik

• Evaluation of spray-dried microencapsulated phage cocktail to control Salmonella carriage and shedding in weaned pigs

  Golam Shaharior Islam

Lunch

Poster Session III

Session 11: Virus-host interaction

Chairs: Karen Maxwel and José Penades

• Infection mechanism of haloarchaeal viruses

  Tessa Quax

• A sweet key to bacteriophage infection: Polysaccharide interactions at Gram-negative bacterial surfaces and in extracellular glycan matrices

  Stefanie Barbirz

• Reversible bacteriophage resistance by shedding the bacterial cell wall

  Véronique Ongenae

• Abortive infection and defensive symbiosis - novel defense strategies against giant viruses

  Patrick Arthofer

• Unraveling bacterial determinants of tolerance to endolysin lytic action

  Ana Gouveia

Coffee Break

Workshop on Viral Genomics and Taxonomy - from isolate to GenBank and beyond

Andrew Kropinski; Evelien Adriaenssens & Dann Turner

Session 12: Biotechnology applications in health care II

Chairs: Krystyna Dabrowska and Martha Clokie

• Discovery, dynamics, engineering, and the therapeutic opportunities for phage treatment of Mycobacterium infections

  Graham Hatfull

• Fundamentally applied phage biology

  Jeremy Barr

• Phage therapy: a Belgian experience

  Sarah Djebara

• Targeted design and manipulation of defined microbial consortia by bacteriophages

  Alexandra von Strempel

• Selective photokilling of colon cancer cells using a spheroid-penetrating phage retargeted to the fibronectin receptor

  Luca Ulfo

• Phages promote polarization of M1 macrophages

  Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen

Coffee Break

Session 13: Round Table: Current state and latest developments of phage therapy

Chair: Tobi Nagel
Jean-Paul Pirnay, Patrick Soentjens, Ran Nir-Paz, Martha Clokie, Sofia Corte-Real

Career Award

Lunch

Session 14: Virus-host interaction: molecular mechanisms II

Chairs: Tessa Quax and Carlos São-José

• Bacteriophages mobilise pathogenicity islands encoding immune systems as weapons to eradicate competitors

  José Penadés

• Biasing Bacteriophage Behaviours

  Alexander Hynes

• Regulation of prophage induction and lysogenization by phage communication systems and the SOS response

  Edze Westra

• Compartmentalization of bacteriophage SPP1 replication and assembly in the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

  Audrey Labarde

• Diversity generating retroelements: from phage host- range evolution to targeted mutagenesis tools

  Raphael Laurenceau

• Dual pathogenicity island transfer by a novel form of lateral transduction

  John Chen

Coffee Break

Session 15: New horizons, new conquests

Chairs: Julia Frunzke and Rob Lavigne

• Phages and their satellites encode hotspots of antiviral systems

  David Bikard

• Type III CRISPR-Cas provides resistance against nucleus-forming jumbo phages via abortive infection

  Peter Fineran

• On the occurrence and multimerization of two- polypeptide phage endolysins encoded in single genes

  Carlos São-José

• Enhancing bacteriophage therapeutics through in situ production and release of heterologous antimicrobial effectors

  Samuel Kilcher

• How to connect RNAs with proteins? -RNAylation of proteins

  Katharina Höfer

• Structural insight into giant virus infection of marine picoplankton

  Carina Büttner

Closing Session