We are delighted to announce our 2025 invited speakers
Corina Brussaard
Estefanía Lozano Andres
Edwin van der Pol
We are delighted to announce our 2025 invited speakers
Prof. Dr. Corina Brussaard is a Senior Research Team Leader at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), and was leading the Microbiology Unit the last 10 years. She is since 2013 Professor of Viral Ecology at UvA, and since 2016 a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.
She pioneered the use of flow cytometry for high-throughput detection and enumeration of aquatic viruses. Her research demonstrates quantitative importance of viruses as mortality agents for marine microorganisms, including the unicellular algae (named phytoplankton), and highlights viruses as driving forces of marine microbial host population dynamics and biogeochemical cycling. As biological oceanographer and microbial ecologist she combines process-oriented viral ecology field research with mechanistic experimental investigations.
Corina has (co-)authored >165 publications, has been chief scientist on numerous cruises (😉), and serves/served the scientific community as editor (e.g. FEMS Microbiology Reviews), meeting organizer (e.g. 2022-GRC Marine Microbes), president of ISVM (International Society for Viruses of Microbes), Secretary of SCOR (Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research), Science Advisory Committee member for the Dutch Research Council (NWO), intiated the Netherlands Association of Virus Ecology (NAVE), and became recently board member of Division Virology of the Netherlands Society for Microbiology (KNVM).
