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A sea of symbionts, viruses, and pathogens: a journey across scale

Name: A sea of symbionts, viruses, and pathogens: a journey across scale
Start: 2026-10-16T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-16T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver

Oct16

Friday, October 16, 202611:00 – 12:00

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver

events.ubc.ca/event/a-sea-of-symbionts-viruses-and-pathogens-a-journey-across-scale/

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About the event

Speaker

Dr. Andrian “Adi” Gajigan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University

Visiting Researcher, UP Marine Science Institute

Abstract

The ocean holds immense diversity, from charismatic megafauna to microscopic life. Microbes (e.g., plankton, bacteria and viruses) may be the least visible, but they dominate the ocean and are central to the structure and function of marine ecosystems. In this seminar, I will introduce our studies of marine “giant” viruses that infect phytoplankton, as well as our bacterial and viral surveys of a seaweed ice-ice disease (IID). Marine giant viruses in the…