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Welcome to our iVoM4 (2026)
Our fourth webinar series will run from January to April 2026 and will include six sessions. Each episode will feature presentations from senior researchers as well as Early and Mid-Career Researchers (EMCRs). Academics and industry professionals are invited to participate in our #iVoM4 series by signing up with their email above. Additional instructions for access and completion of registration will be provided after sign-up. Participation is free for all, but we welcome donations to help support ISVM activities.
THE CHAIRS
Matthias Fischer
Danielle Peters
Cedric Lood
Session 5: Giant Viruses
Wednesday, 25th March at 17:00 CET / 12:00 EDT / 09:00 PDT
Speaker
Jônatas Abrahão
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Naiavirus: an enveloped giant virus with a pleomorphic, flexible tail
Speaker
Lotte Mayer
University of Vienna, Austria
A glimpse inside the viral factory
Speaker
Uri Sheyn
Virginia Tech, USA
Single-cell perspectives on giant viral latency and reactivation in a green alga
Speaker
Claire Bugnot
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, France
Single-cell detection of viral mRNA reveals population heterogeneity during infection and recovery in Ostreococcus tauri
Session 4: Viruses of Pseudomonas
Wednesday, 11th March at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST
Speaker
Paul Bollyky
Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, USA
TBA
Speaker
Nadiia Pozhydaieva-Weber
TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands
Defensome regulation in clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Speaker
Veronica Tran
McMaster University, Canada
Reduced type IV pilus expression protects against phage infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Speaker
Luciana Meneses
UMinho, Minho, Portugal
Pseudomonas aeruginosa response to personalized phage therapy in a Portuguese cystic fibrosis patient with chronic lung infection
Session 3: Viromics
Wednesday, 25th February at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST
Speaker
Frederik Schulz
Joint Genome Institute, BioSciences, Berkeley, CA, USA
Discovery of Megagenomoviruses through Genome-Resolved Metagenomics
Speaker
Osher Pollak Fiyaksel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Viral Lockdown: Excluding Phage Infection Through Asymmetric Division
Speaker
Stevan Cucic
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Multi-omics characterization of a lytic phage targeting Listeria monocytogenes
Speaker
Alaina Weinheimer
Bigelow Lab for Ocean Science, Maine, USA
Single-particle genomics reveal abundant non-canonical DNA viruses in the sea
Session 2: Viral Evolution
Wednesday, 11 th February at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST
Speaker
Milan Gerovac
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
When evolution kicks into high gear
Speaker
Manuela Reuter
Max Planck Institute, Plön, Germany
Experimental evolution modulates phage life history in ΦΧ174
Speaker
Isaac Meza Padilla
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
A jumbo cyanophage encodes the most complete ribosomal protein set in the known virosphere
Speaker
Rodrigo Sánchez Martínez
TUM School of Life Sciences, Freising, Germany
Biological context modulates virus-host dynamics and diversification
Session 1: Viral Biotechnology
Wednesday, 28 th January at 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST / 08:00 PST
Speaker
Steven Bowden
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA
Salmonella enterica resistance to broad-host range bacteriophages
Speaker
David Parker
SciLifeLab, Solna, Sweden
Recoded Bacteriophage Genome for Bioorthogonal-enabled Concentration and Detection of E. coli in Drinking Water
Speaker
Audrey Leprince
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Strengthening phage resistance of Streptococcus thermophilus
Speaker
Irem Iskender
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Cell-Free Synthesis of Salmonella Phages