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KITP Online Conference: Bacteriophage Forum
(Aug 11 - Sep 8, 2020)
Coordinators: Terry Hwa and Boris Shraiman

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Tuesday, Aug 11, 2020

12:00pm Matthew Sullivan (OSU) Tracking viruses in nature: Patterns, processes and paradigms throughout the global oceans[Video]
1:30pm Forest Rohwer (SDSU) Piggybacking viruses[Video]

Tuesday, Aug 18, 2020

12:00pm Graham Hatfull (U. Pittsburgh and HHMI) Three key phage genome features: Mosaicism, mosaicism, mosaicism.[Video]
1:30pm Joshua Weitz (Georgia Tech) The Entangled Fates of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts[Video]

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020

12:00pm Luciano Marraffini (Rockefeller U/HHMI) CRISPR-Cas13: programmable abortive infection[Video]
1:30pm Paul Turner (Yale) Pleiotropy, evolutionary constraints, and the promise of phage therapy.[Video]

Tuesday, Sep 01, 2020

12:00pm Britt Koskella (UC Berkeley) Phages as drivers of bacterial diversity[Slides][Video]
1:30pm Otto Cordero (MIT) Phage-bacteria interactions control microbial community assembly and function on model marine particles.[Video]

Tuesday, Sep 08, 2020

12:00pm All Participants General Discussion[Protected][Video]