Syllabus
1. Viruses from a historical perspective, their evolution and taxonomy2. Viruses in the oceans and their importance3. Plant viruses and viroids, history, taxonomy4. Plant virus vectors, replication strategy, gene expression and resistance5. Viruses infecting protists, mimivirus and its relatives, epidemiology and ecology, virophages6. Viruses in insects, their classification, ecology, gene expression7. Viruses and prions in yeast, fungi and unicellular organisms8. Bacteriophages, history, evolution, host interaction and biology9. Human virome and viruses in us
Annotation
The lecture series shows viruses as a group of diverse intracellular parasites that are a common part natural systems.
It mainly focuses on viruses found in invertebrates, plants, fungi, protists or bacteria, which make up more than half of all known types of viruses.
After a general introduction, i.e. what viruses actually are, we will focus on viruses from different environments in more detail, their history, replication strategy, pathogenesis, ecology, or possibility of use in biomedical research.
We will look at viruses in the seas and oceans, plant viruses, fungal viruses, insect viruses, bacteriophages and not forgetting human viruses that are actually part of us.
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