Invited speakers list

(provisional titles)

Samuel Alizon (Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CIRB), College de France, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) dynamics and evolution in the vaginal environment

Anne-Claire Baudoux (Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France)
Virus interactions in current and future ocean
 

Stéphane Blanc (INRAE, Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), Montpellier, France)
Separate spread of distinct genes of multi-component viruses to new cells and new hosts
 

Sebastian Bonhoeffer (Dept. of Environmental Systems Science, Institut für Integrative Biologie, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
The mutualism to antagonism continuum: insights from plasmids
 

Christopher Brooke (Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Collective dynamics within influenza virus populations
 

Sam Diaz-Munoz (Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA)
The social side of genetic exchange among influenza A viruses
 

Pilar Domingo-Calap (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain)
Implications of phage-phage interactions in the design of phage therapeutic cocktails
 

Siobain Duffy (Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA)
Cassava virus evolution in susceptible, tolerant and "resistant" hosts
 

Santiago Elena (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Universitat de València-CSIC, Valencia, Spain)
From mutual cooperation to prisoner' dilemma and beyond: how viral genomes affect critical mutation rate in quasispecies models
 

Lucie Etienne (CNRS, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Lyon, France)
(Co)evolution between mammalian hosts and viruses
 

Sylvain Gandon (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
Adaptive plasticity of viral life cycles
 

Fernando Garcia Arenal (Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
The effect of virus infection in wild plants in nature depends on the fitness component and the environment
 

Nolwenn Jouvenet (Dept. of Virology, Institut Pasteur, Paris France)
Clash of the titans: RNA viruses and interferons
 

Britt Koskella (Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Bacteriophages as competitors and facilitators of competition in complex communities
 

Anice Lowen (Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, USA)
Beneficial virus-virus interactions within cells drive efficient propagation of influenza A virus
 

Katrina Lythgoe (Dept. of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom)
How within-host selection affects the between-host evolution of pandemic viruses
 

Susanna Manrubia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid, Spain)
Virus-satellite associations as drivers of viral coexistence
 

Jessica Metcalf (Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
The immuno-epidemiology of viral interactions
 

Yannis Michalakis (CNRS Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs : Ecologie Génétique Evolution et Contrôle (MIVEGEC) , Montpellier, France)
Reassortment in a multipartite virus
 

Gwenael Piganeau (Integrative Biology of Marine Organisms, Sorbonne University, Banyuls, France)
Virus-host dynamics in the phytoplankton-dsDNA virus system through the genomic lens
 

Roland Regoes (Dept. of Environmental Systems Science, Institut für Integrative Biologie, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Experimental epidemiology with viruses: toward assessing phylodynamics
 

Philippe Roumagnac (Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM), Montpellier, France)
Temporal dynamics of plant-associated viral communities of a Mediterranean grassland
 

Rafael Sanjuan (Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain)
The role of receptor usage in viral zoonoses
 

Mircea Sofonea (Pathogenesis and Control of Chronic and Emerging Infections, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France)
Modelling viral polymorphism dynamics: from within-host interactions to epidemiology & evolution
 

Matthew Sullivan (Dept. of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Planetary-scale virology: from ecology and diversity to evolution and selection throughout the global oceans
 

Paul Turner (Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, USA)
Evolutionary genetics of bacteria in response to individual versus combined phage-selection pressures
 

Lena Wilfert (Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany)
How the acquisition of vector borne transmission changes bee virome interactions
 

Anouk Willemsen (Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
Swimming with giants: underpinnings of protist-giant virus interactions
 

Mark Zwart (Dept. of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands)
Embrace the noise: What can we learn from variation in the frequency of virus genome segments?