Frank Aylward

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

United States

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Dr. Frank Aylward is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University College of Science, located in the United States. His research focuses on the interactions between host organisms and giant viruses, viral taxonomy, marine microbiology, and evolution of viral and cellular machinery. Recent publications highlight his work on giant endogenous viral elements, virus-host dynamics, and the implications of virus taxonomy advancements.

Recent Grants

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NSF CAREER: Bioinformatic Resources for Promoting Research and Education of Giant Viruses

Open Date: 2022-08-01

Close Date: 2027-07-01

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NIH R35: Coevolutionary Dynamics and Gene Exchange Between Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses and Eukaryotes

Open Date: 2022-01-01

Close Date: 2027-01-01

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IIBR Informatics: Innovative Software and Databases to Leverage RNA Polymerase as a Phylogenetic Marker in Metagenomic Data

Open Date: 2019-08-01

Close Date: 2022-07-31

Grant: Close

Early Career Award in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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Hanna Oksanen

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Virus species names have been standardized; virus names remain unchanged

Cryptic infection of a giant virus in a unicellular green alga

Virus taxonomy proposal summaries: a searchable and citable resource to disseminate virus taxonomy advances

Giant endogenous viral elements in the genome of the model protist Euglena gracilis reveal past interactions with giant viruses

A single-cell perspective on host–virus dynamics in the ocean

Evolution of ubiquitin, cytoskeleton, and vesicular trafficking machinery in giant viruses

Towards a unifying phylogenomic framework for tailed phages

Genomic analysis of hyperparasitic viruses associated with entomopoxviruses

Single-cell RNA-seq of the rare virosphere reveals the native hosts of giant viruses in the marine environment

March of the proviruses

Changes to virus taxonomy and the ICTV Statutes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2024)

Bacterial chemotaxis toward virus-infected cyanobacteria

The microbiota of moon snail egg collars is shaped by host-specific factors

Correction for Boysen et al., “Particulate Metabolites and Transcripts Reflect Diel Oscillations of Microbial Activity in the Surface Ocean”

Endogenous DNA viruses take center stage in eukaryotic genome evolution

Assessing the biogeography of marine giant viruses in four oceanic transects

Analysis of Viral Promoters for Transgene Expression and of the Effect of 5′-UTRs on Alternative Translational Start Sites in Chlamydomonas

A timeline of bacterial and archaeal diversification in the ocean

A timeline of bacterial and archaeal diversification in the ocean

Contrasting drivers of abundant phage and prokaryotic communities revealed in diverse coastal ecosystems

Taxonomic update for giant viruses in the order Imitervirales (phylum Nucleocytoviricota)

Endogenous giant viruses contribute to intraspecies genomic variability in the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Viral Complexity

Infection strategy and biogeography distinguish cosmopolitan groups of marine jumbo bacteriophages

Genome size distributions in bacteria and archaea are strongly linked to evolutionary history at broad phylogenetic scales

Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle

Phylogenetic Signal, Congruence, and Uncertainty across Bacteria and Archaea

Collaborators (19)

Hanna Oksanen

Stuart Siddell

Samuel Wilson

François Ribalet

Edward F. DeLong

angelicque White

Karin Rengefors

Charlie K Cornwallis

Elliot Lefkowitz

Carolina A. Martinez Gutierrez

Mohammad Moniruzzaman

E. Virginia Armbrust

John Casey

Evelien Adriaenssens

Malgorzata Lobocka

Elisabeth A Herniou

Daniel R. Mende

Angela Boysen

Bryndan Durham

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