Marine Viruses Plenary OCB2024

Plenary Session: Evolving understanding of viral dynamics in marine ecosystemsChairs: Jessica Labonté (TAMU-G, remote), Sheri Floge (Wake Forest Univ), Jeff Bowman (Scripps)Session introduction (Chairs)Viral presence and function in marine ecosystems (Kate Thompson, WFU and Jordan Walker, TAMU-G)  Who infects whom: identifying productive viruses by combining sequencing with abundance data (Cynthia Silveira, Univ. Miami)Quantifying the viral shunt in the North Atlantic Ocean (Kristina Mojica, Univ. Southern Mississippi)Beyond viral lysis: understanding the role of infected cells in marine planktonic communities (Sheri Floge, Wake Forest Univ.)  Empirically modeling carbon flow through marine viruses and microzooplankton grazers (David Talmy, Univ. Tennessee, Knoxville)Generalizing viral elemental composition and infection as trophic transfer (Daniel Muratore, Santa Fe Institute)Panel discussion Tuesday, June 11, 2024 Learn more https://web.whoi.edu/ocb-workshop/