Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022

Živilė Buivydaitė; Laxman Aryal; Felipe Borim Corrêa; Tingting Chen; Valérie Langlois; Christine Lorenzen Elberg; Tarquin Netherway; Ruiqi Wang; Tianci Zhao; Basistha Acharya; Joanne B Emerson; Luke Hillary; Ram B Khadka; Kyle Mason-Jones; Rumakanta Sapkota; Suvi Sutela; Gareth Trubl; Richard Allen White 3rd; Anne Winding; Cátia Carreira

doi:10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199121

Meeting report: The first soil viral workshop 2022

Virus Res. 2023 Jul 2:331:199121. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2023.199121. Epub 2023 Apr 30.

Authors

Živilė Buivydaitė¹, Laxman Aryal², Felipe Borim Corrêa³, Tingting Chen⁴, Valérie Langlois⁵, Christine Lorenzen Elberg⁴, Tarquin Netherway⁶, Ruiqi Wang⁷, Tianci Zhao⁸, Basistha Acharya², Joanne B Emerson⁹, Luke Hillary⁹, Ram B Khadka², Kyle Mason-Jones¹⁰, Rumakanta Sapkota⁴, Suvi Sutela¹¹, Gareth Trubl¹², Richard Allen White 3rd¹³, Anne Winding⁴, Cátia Carreira⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Electronic address: zivile@envs.au.dk.
² Nepal National Plant Pathology Research Center, Nepal Agricultural Research Council, Khumaltar, Lalitpur, Nepal.
³ Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
⁴ Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
⁵ Département de Biochimie, de Microbiologie et de Bio-informatique, Université Laval, G1V 0A6 Québec, QC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls väg 16, 756 51 Uppsala, Sweden.
⁷ Department of Environmental Biology, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Einsteinweg 2, 2333 CC Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁸ Microbial Ecology Cluster, Genomics Research in Ecology and Evolution in Nature (Green), Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, 9747AG Groningen, the Netherlands.
⁹ Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, 1 Shields Ave., Davis, CA, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Droevendaalsesteeg 10, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands.
¹¹ Forest Health and Biodiversity Group, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
¹² Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
¹³ Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Kannapolis, NC, USA.

Abstract

Soil viral ecology is a growing research field; however, the state of knowledge still lags behind that of aquatic systems. Therefore, to facilitate progress, the first Soil Viral Workshop was held to encourage international scientific discussion and collaboration, suggest guidelines for future research, and establish soil viral research as a concrete research area. The workshop took place at Søminestationen, Denmark, between 15 and 17th of June 2022. The meeting was primarily held in person, but the sessions were also streamed online. The workshop was attended by 23 researchers from ten different countries and from a wide range of subfields and career stages. Eleven talks were presented, followed by discussions revolving around three major topics: viral genomics, virus-host interactions, and viruses in the soil food web. The main take-home messages and suggestions from the discussions are summarized in this report.

Keywords: Biogeochemistry; Ecology; Soil; Soil food web; Viruses; Virus–host interactions.

Publication types

Clinical Conference
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ecology
Food Chain
Genome, Viral
Humans
Viruses*