The 2nd SBCR Conference - 2025: "Viruses Across Domains of Life"
The conference, held at the Yitzhak Rabin Center on May 19, 2025, presented novel and cross-disciplinary approaches to virus research across domains of life
Conference Speakers and Lecture Titles
Keynote Lecture - Session 1
Chair: Prof. Adi Stern (TAU)
- Prof. Raul Andino (UCSF) - SARS-CoV-2 airway epithelium replication and variant evolution
Session 2: Virus Genetics
Chair: Prof. Dudu Burstein (TAU)
- Prof. Debbie Lindell (Technion) - Genes stolen from hosts: The example of nblA in a marine cyanophage
- Prof. Tzachi Hagai (TAU) - The evolution of host-virus interactions: lessons from viral mimicry
- Prof. Eran Bacharach (TAU) - Fishful Thinking: From HIV to Maternal Inheritance - Transcription Regulation of the Snakehead Retrovirus
- Dr. Yiska Weisblum (HUJI) - High-throughput screens reveal novel antiviral proteins targeting respiratory viruses
Session 3: Virus Ecology and Evolution
Chair: Prof. Marcelo Ehrlich (TAU)
- Prof. Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute of Science) - Viral infection in the ocean – A journey across scales
- Dr. Idan Frumkin (TAU) - Harnessing Random-Sequence Genes for Specific and Broad Anti-Phage Defense in Bacteria
- Prof. Adi Stern (TAU) - Living on the Edge: Rapid Predation by the RNA Phage MS2 and Parallel Resistance Mechanisms in E. coli*
Session 4: Virus - Host Interactions
Chair: Prof. Itai Benhar (TAU)
- Prof. Uri Gophna (TAU) - Virus-defense interactions in an archaeon
- Prof. Anat Herskovits (TAU) - Coordination of co-habiting phage elements in Listeria monocytogenes*
- Prof. Avigdor Eldar (TAU) - Listening on others - the role of communication in phage lysis-lysogeny decisions
- Dr. Yael Litvak (HUJI) - A Shiga toxin-encoding prophage interferes with the induction of co-hosted prophages
