WEES seminar – Arvind Varsani

‘Notes on viral discovery, evolution and more: From the tropics to the frozen continent’

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88914587072

Associate Professor Arvind Varsani, Biodesign Institute and School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, USA

Viruses infect all organisms, however, our knowledge of viruses is heavily biased towards viruses that cause disease in plants and animals. The last decade has seen a significant amount of activity in viral research which has been facilitated by new molecular approaches and tools, in particular, high throughput sequencing. This talk will address our ‘viral view’ of the world and the great unknown. The talk will highlight some of our ‘viral’ research from the tropics to polar regions.

WEES background
WEES is an initiative of PhD students and postdocs at Wageningen University to organize a continuing series of stimulating seminars on contemporary topics in evolution and ecology. We aim to bring together different groups at Wageningen University using a variety of systems, but with a common interest in evolutionary and ecological questions. For this series we invite researchers from all over the world who have leading roles in their field. After the talk there will be drinks for an informal discussion. WEES is funded by graduate schools PE&RC, WIMEK, EPS, VLAG, and WIAS.

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