Algal Virus Workshop

Table of Contents

Abstracts:

Virus of Macroalgae

Biology of brown algal viruses in experimental cultures and natural habitats.

Host-virus interactions in brown algae: ways to suppression of virus replication and escape from infection

Viral infections of the brown alga, Feldmannia

Virus assembly in Hincksia hincksiae

Molecular investigations of the Ectocarpus siliculosus Virus EsV

Unusual lifestyle of giant Chlorella viruses.

Virus of Microalgae

Characterisation of a Microalgal Virus Isolated from Irish Waters and Initial Genome Studies

Algal-virus interactions in Swedish coastal waters: host specificity of viruses infecting the marine photosynthetic flagellate Micromonas pusilla.

Diversity of viruses as revealed by DNA polymerase gene sequence analysis.

Detection of Phaeocystis-virus by PCR

Characterization of virus infected phytoplankton cells by FCM

Cyanophages

Investigation of cyanophage diversity in phosphate-manipulated seawater mesocosms using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE).

Dynamics, morphology and molecular characterisation of cyanophages infecting coastal strains of Synechococcus from the western Baltic Sea

Distributions and diversity of lysogenic cyanophages in marine cyanobacteria

Observations on complete virus-induced lysis of a semi-natural community of filamentous cyanobacteria

Ecology

Ecology of algal host-virus interactions.

Elevated production of dimethylsulfide resulting from viral infection of cultures of Phaeocystis pouchetii.

Is Red Tide Disintegration Regulated by Viral Algicidity?

Is diatom lysis in extensive mucilage of Adriatic Sea due to a viral infection ?

Modelling virus - phytoplankton interactions

Posters:

Distribution of virus infection in Ectocarpus fasciculatus on a rocky shore in Southern England.

Several genes in Chlorella virus strain CVG-1 encode putative coatamers.

Observations on viral infection in Micromonas pusilla.