{"618040":{"#nid":"618040","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Virus, Microbes, and Their Entangled Fates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E led a press briefing on Sunday, Feb. 17, about how viruses reshape the fate of cells, populations, and global ecosystems. The briefing previewed the symposium \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2019\/meetingapp.cgi\/Session\/21151\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Virus, Microbes, and Their Entagled Fates,\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E which Weitz co-organized for the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWeitz is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and the director of Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/qbios.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInterdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Joining Weitz at the press briefing and symposium were \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/microbiology.osu.edu\/people\/sullivan.948\u0022\u003EMatthew Sullivan\u003C\/a\u003E, from Ohio State University, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/micro.utk.edu\/faculty\/buchan.php\u0022\u003EAlison Buchan\u003C\/a\u003E, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; the symposium was co-organized with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.owlnet.rice.edu\/~ac53\/index.html\u0022\u003EAdrienne Correa\u003C\/a\u003E from Rice University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his remarks, Weitz dispelled a likely common belief \u0026ndash; that the most common hosts of viruses are humans, \u0026ldquo;Indeed, viruses that infect humans \u0026ndash; like influenza, Ebolazaire, HIV, or Zika \u0026ndash; can have devastating and often lethal consequences,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;Yet, most viruses on Earth don\u0026rsquo;t infect humans. Instead, they infect microbes, including single-celled bacteria and archaea.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EViruses that infect bacteria are known as bacteriophage. They are abundant and\u0026nbsp;highly diverse.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe symposium and briefing highlighted how research on virus-microbe dynamics in the oceans may inform climate change mitigation efforts. It could also lead to virus-based therapeutics to \u0026nbsp;treat antimicrobial-resistant infections.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"How viruses reshape the fate of cells, populations, and global ecosystems"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/joshua-weitz\u0022\u003EJoshua Weitz\u003C\/a\u003E led a press briefing on Sunday, Feb. 17, about how viruses reshape the fate of cells, populations, and global ecosystems. The briefing previewed the symposium \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2019\/meetingapp.cgi\/Session\/21151\u0022\u003E\u0026ldquo;Virus, Microbes, and Their Entagled Fates,\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E which Weitz organized for the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington, D.C.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The global effects of virus infections of bacteria are just beginning to be understood. "}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-02-18 21:37:04","changed_gmt":"2019-02-18 21:43:58","author":"A. 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Maureen Rouhi, Ph.D.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCollege of Sciences\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maureen.rouhi@cos.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}