Meeting report: International soil virus conference 2024

María Touceda-Suárez¹, Matthew A Perry², Riccardo Frizzo³, John Henry Lotz-McMillen⁴, Ruby Ann Gilmore⁴, Shauna M Bennett⁴, Jonelle T R Basso⁵, William Donovan⁶, Jane D Fudyma², Sara E Geonczy², Marissa Gittrich⁷, Grant Gogul⁸, Christina Hazard⁹, Luke S Hillary², Ellie Jameson¹⁰, Lucie Jiraska², Sarah Stewart Johnson⁴, James C Kosmopoulos¹¹, Ikaia Leleiwi⁶, Bin Ma¹², Catherine M Mageeney¹³, Andrew Millard¹⁴, Uri Neri⁵, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos¹⁵, Simon Roux⁵, Di Tong¹², Yiling Wang¹², Kurt Williamson¹⁶, Ruonan Wu¹⁵, Paula Dalcin Martins¹⁷, Rumakanta Sapkota¹⁸, Joanne B Emerson², Gareth Trubl¹⁹

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¹ Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy.
⁴ Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
⁵ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁶ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁸ Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁹ Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne LEM, CNRS UMR5557, INRAE UMR1418, Villeurbanne, France.
¹⁰ School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2TH, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹² Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
¹³ Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Leicester Centre for Phage Research, Dept Genetics, Genomics, and Cancer Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
¹⁶ Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Biology Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 AJ, The Netherlands; Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
¹⁹ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. Electronic address: Trubl1@llnl.gov.

PMID: 39954746
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2025.199544

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Meeting report: International soil virus conference 2024

María Touceda-Suárez et al. Virus Res. 2025 Apr.

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. 2025 Apr:354:199544.

doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2025.199544. Epub 2025 Feb 19.

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¹ Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
³ Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy.
⁴ Department of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
⁵ DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁶ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁷ Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁸ Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA.
⁹ Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne LEM, CNRS UMR5557, INRAE UMR1418, Villeurbanne, France.
¹⁰ School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2TH, United Kingdom.
¹¹ Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA; Microbiology Doctoral Training Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
¹² Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
¹³ Biotechnology & Bioengineering, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA.
¹⁴ Leicester Centre for Phage Research, Dept Genetics, Genomics, and Cancer Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom.
¹⁵ Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
¹⁶ Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Biology Department, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Microbiology, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6525 AJ, The Netherlands; Department of Ecosystem and Landscape Dynamics, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands.
¹⁸ Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark.
¹⁹ Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. Electronic address: Trubl1@llnl.gov.

PMID: 39954746
DOI: 10.1016/j.virusres.2025.199544

Abstract

The research field of soil viral ecology continues to advance rapidly as the roles of viruses in the functioning of soil ecosystems are increasingly recognized. To address recent developments in the field, the second International Soil Virus Conference was held in Livermore, California, USA, from June 25 to 27th, 2024, providing soil viral ecologists the opportunity to share new findings and suggest guidelines for future research, while encouraging international scientific discussion and collaboration. The meeting was held in person with sessions simultaneously streamed online. Fifty researchers attended from ten different countries and spanned a wide range of subfields and career stages. A total of 21 oral presentations were presented, followed by discussions covering key themes in soil viral research. This report summarizes the main takeaways and recommendations from the talks and discussions.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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