iVoM
Announcing iVoM Season 2!
Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) conference finally taking place summer 2022 in Portugal (after being rescheduled from 2020). In collaboration, the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms (ISVM), Phage Directory, and the organizers of VoM 2022 are excited to announce Season 2 of iVoM, a series of online lectures from prominent researchers studying viruses of microbes. Seven sessions will run from December 2021 to May 2022, in the lead-up to the exciting in-person version of VoM, July 2022.
Enter your email address below to sign up for Season 2!
Visit the VoM2020 YouTube channel for Season 1 videos.
Dear Phage Community,
We hope this second season of iVoM events will enable you to connect more with the ISVM society, which now has close to 800 members from over 40 countries. As you may know, ISVM membership remains free, so please consider registering to be informed about upcoming conferences, news from our society and having your voice heard within the ISVM organization.
For this second iVoM season, we’re requesting a small contribution from senior scientists (50€ for the entire season 2; 100€ for industry members) to allow us to cover the expenses and logistics for this online conference. In addition, any additional income will flow directly to the organization of the three upcoming VoM meetings in Portugal, Georgia and Australia. We have made the event free for all PhD students and for researchers from low and middle income countries. We thank you in advance for this contribution and of course for your active participation in this exciting event.
— Prof. Rob Lavigne, ISVM President
Register for the iVoM Event Series
iVoM Season 2 is a series of online lectures from prominent researchers studying viruses of microbes, running monthly from Dec 2021-May 2022.
For the remainder of the series, we are asking you to pay for the series in an effort to fund ISVM. As a registered member, you also get to view all previously recorded webinar events on a member page.
- Students, Scholarships, Low-Middle Income, Sponsors: free
- Academia, Government and Nonprofits: €50
- Industry: €100
For the next event, Zoom invites will only go out to those who have registered for Season 2. These funds will help ISVM better run future events. Thank you for understanding!
Please use the same email for registration and payment, as we use your email to link your account
~ The ISVM iVoM team
Become an ISVM member!
Basic Membership is Free. Please click here to join. To support travel grants and poster prizes for early career scientist, please choose the option 'Contributing member' when joining (valid for two years) and fill in the amount you would like to donate, e.g., 50 US dollars.
Upcoming Seminar
iVoM2 #3: Phage application in the One Health approach
2 pm CET, Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Using phage to detect low levels of Mycobacteria in blood samples from cattle, lions and humans
Professor of Microbiology, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham
Reporter mycobacteriophages for TB diagnosis
Prof. Mariana Piuri
School of Exact and Natural Sciences (FCEN), University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
There’s a phage for that
University of Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Section for Food Safety and Zoonoses
Chairs
Dr. Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Westmead Institute for Medical Research and University of Sydney, Australia
iVoM2 #4: Endless virus diversity most beautiful
6 pm CET, Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022
Fungal and oomycete viruses with persistent lifestyles and unprecedented genome organizations
Dr. Eeva Vainio
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Helsinki, Finland
Diversity of Giant Viruses
Prof. Frank Aylward
Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Revealing the viruses in the most abundant animals on Earth
Prof. Curtis Suttle
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC
Chairs
Dr. Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
iVoM2 #5: Environmental impact of virus-host interactions
2 pm CET, Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
Coupling metagenomics to correlative microscopy for identification of novel viruses in the deep biosphere
Prof. Alexander Probst
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Title TBA
Dr. Cynthia Silveira
Univ Miami, USA
Title TBA
Dr. Neeti Sanan-Mishra
International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India
Chairs
Dr. Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
iVoM2 #6: Models for viral action
Date and Time TBA
The titles and speakers for this even is still to be announced
Chairs
Dr. Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
iVoM2 #7: Personalised phage therapy
3 pm CET, Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 Note: 9am Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Therapeutic phage monitoring in children
Dr. Ameneh Khatami
University of Sydney, Australia
Quality Control of Phage APIs for human therapeutic use
Dr. Pieter-Jan Ceyssens
Sciensano, Belgium
Title TBA
Dr. Ronen Hazan
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Chairs
Dr. Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands
