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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.

The first iVoM2 event will be Dec. 8th at 12:00 PM (noon) CET, under the theme "Control on Viral Action: regulation of viral activity by other viruses and mobile genetic elements".

It will feature talks by:

• Dr. Aude Bernheim, INSERM, France: "Systematic and quantitative view of the antiviral arsenal of prokaryotes"
• Prof. Martin Polz, Univ. of Vienna, Austria: "The dynamics of bacterial innate defenses against phage"
• Dr. Matthias Fischer, MPI for Medical Research, Germany: "The sleeper within - how endogenous virophages may defend protists against giant viruses"

Chair:

• Prof. Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands)
• Dr. Alex Petrovic Fabijan (Westmead Institue for Medical Research and University of Sydney, Australia)

Register at https://ivom.phage.directory!

The rest of iVoM Season 2 will take place in 2022 and consist of six additional sessions (#2-7) on the topics of:

2. Raiders of the third domain
3. Phage application in the One Health approach
4. Endless virus diversity most beautiful
5. Environmental impact of virus-host interactions
6. Models for viral action
7. Personalised phage therapy