The following is a list of the lead speakers for the six conference sessions.
| Friday Jan 9, 2015 - THE HISTORY | |
 | Forest Rohwer (SDSU) "Welcome and Introduction" |
 | William Summers (Yale University) "Foundation of the American Phage Group and Discipline Formation" |
 | Betty Kutter (Evergreen College) "Working Historically and Collaboratively to Jump-Start Phage Therapy" |
 | Allan Campbell (Stanford University) "Current Work on Classical Phages: Major Revisions or Minor Refinements?" |
 | Douglas Berg (Washington University, UCSD) "Transposable Elements in a Phage World Context" |
 | Moselio Schaechter (Tufts Univ., SDSU, UCSD) "History of Cold Spring Harbor Labs" |
 | Jack Johnson (The Scripps Research Institute) "Virus Maturation: Phage Leads the Way" |
 | Partho Ghosh (UCSD) "Anticipatory Binding in Phage" |
 | Lin Chao (UCSD) "Phage Age?" |
 | Paul Turner (Yale University) "Evolution of Fitness Trade-Offs in Phage" |
 | Frede Thingstad (University of Bergen) "Theoretical Consequences of Assuming Strain-Specific Viruses" |
 | Jed Fuhrman (University of Southern California) "How Marine Viruses Entered the Mainstream: A Historical Perspective" |
 | Ken Stedman (Portland State University) "From Weird to Wonderful: Archaeophage to Archaeal Viruses" |
 | Peter Salamon (SDSU) "Bacteriophage Thermodynamics" |
 | Maria Alejandra Bautista (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) "Virus-Induced Dormancy in Sulfolobus islandicus" |
 | Ry Young (Texas A&M) "A Century of Lysis: From Simple Enzymology to Molecular Gymnastics" |
| Saturday Jan 10, 2015 - THE FUTURE | |
 | Nick Conley (EpiBiome, Inc) "Phage Therapy in Agriculture" |
Karen Shaw (AmpliPhi) "Engage the Phage: Treatments for Bacterial Infections" | |
 | Kevin Hockett (University of Arizona) "Independent Acquisition of a Phage Toxin in Pseudomonas" |
 | Joe Pogliano (UCSD) "Phage and the Origin of Eukaryotic Life" |
 | Nicholas Shikuma (California Institute of Technology) "Phage and Phage-like Elements as Agents of Bacterium-Animal Interactions" |
 | Fawzy Hashem (University of Maryland Eastern Shore) "Controlling Ineffective Bradyrhizobia with Bacteriophage to Enhance Nodulation and Growth of Soybean" |
 | Alejandro Reyes Munoz (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) "Phage Biology: Another Century Creating New Sciences" |
 | Bradley Bearson (USDA, ARS, National Laboratory of Agriculture and the Environment)) "Fluoroquinolone Induction of Phage-mediated Gene Transfer in Multidrug-resistant Salmonella" |
 | Jeff Roberts (Cornell University) "History of Phage Research" |
 | Justin Meyer (UCSD) "Phage Experimental Evolution and Its Future Synergies with Synthetic Biology" |
 | Lisa Zeigler (JCVI) "There’s a Phage in the Cell on the Rock in the Vent in the Hole in the Bottom of the Sea" |
 | David Lipson (SDSU) "Metagenomic Investigation of Viruses in Arctic Soil" |
 | Antoni Luque (SDSU) "Modeling the Physical Properties of Bacteriophage Capsids" |
 | Gregory Weiss (UCI) "Putting Phage to Work: Cancer Sensing with Viruses Integrated into Electronics" |