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Many of us are excited for the upcoming Viruses of Microbes (VoM) 2022, the conference finally taking place this summer 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. These events will run monthly from December to June, in the lead-up to the in-person version of VoM, which will still take place July 2022.

The first iVoM2 event will be Dec. 8th at 12:00 PM (noon) CET, under the theme "Control of 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"
• Dr. Matthias Fischer, MPI for Medical Research, Germany: "The sleeper within - how endogenous virophages may defend protists against giant viruses"

Chairs:

• Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands)
• Shawna McCallin (Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zürich, Switzerland)

The rest of iVoM Season 2 will start in January and consist of six sessions, on per month, on the topics of:

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

More details (and registration link) coming soon! For now, feel free to check out the presentations from iVoM Season 1, which ran 2020-2021.