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