Viruses of Microbes (VoM 2026)

Viruses of Microbes (VoM 2026) is a conference dedicated to developments in the fields of viruses of microorganisms, including archaeal viruses, bacteriophages (or phages, the viruses of bacteria), and viruses of microbial eukaryotes.

Topics

• Virus-host interactions
• Ecology and evolution of microbial viruses
• Viral structure and function
• Phage therapy
• Archaeal and Eukaryotic viruses
• Bioinformatics and AI applications
• Bacterial immune systems and viral defence
• Microbiome and systems virology
• Early-Career Researcher (ECR) spotlight session
• Synthetic virology