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Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology:
Synthesis & Selection of Host-Microbe Systems

 

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Friday // July 31st

5:30-7:30
Registration and reception
7:30-8:30
Keynote talk: Julie Segre, National Institutes of Health – “Genomic Epidemiology: Full genome sequencing to track antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria within and between hospitals”
8:30-10:30
Poster Session
 
8:30-9:00 odd posters
 
9:00-9:30 even posters
 
9:30-10:30 open presentation & viewing
 

Saturday // August 1st

7:00-8:30
Breakfast with themed tables for directed discussions
 
Session 1: Host Selection on Microbiota
8:30-8:55
June Round, University of Utah – “Redefining self: MHC variation influences microbial community composition”
8:55-9:20
Rustom Antia, Emory University – “A population biological approach to understanding adaptive immune repertoires”
9:20-9:45
Khrys Duddleston, University of Alaska Anchorage – “Investigating the gut microbial community of an extreme hibernator, the arctic ground squirrel”
9:45-9:55
Keaton Stagaman, University of Oregon – “The zebrafish adaptive immune system subtly shapes its gut microbiota”
9:55-10:25
Session discussion, moderated by Claire Fraser (University of Maryland) and Karen Guillemin (University of Oregon)
 
10:25-11:00
Break
 
 

 

Session 2: Structure/Function Relationships in Host-Microbe Systems
11:00-11:25
Carolina Tropini, Stanford University – “Gut microbiota dynamics during physical perturbations”
11:25-11:50
Jason Shear, University of Texas – “3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities”
11:50-12:00
Travis Wiles, University of Oregon – “Dissecting the ontogeny of host-associated bacterial communities”
12:00-12:10
Alexander Eng, University of Washington – “An algorithm for designing minimal microbial communities with desired metabolic capacities”
12:10-12:40
Session discussion, moderated by David Relman (Stanford University) and Tristan Ursell (University of Oregon)
 
12:40-1:40
Buffet lunch
 
1:40-3:40
Poster session
 
1:40-3:40 open presentation & viewing
 

Session 3: Population Variation of Host-Microbe Systems

3:40-4:05
Mohamed Donia, Princeton University – “Small-molecule-mediated interactions in complex microbial communities”
4:05-4:30
Margaret Romine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – “Potential coordination of community metabolism via B12 limitation”
4:30-4:55
Natalia Shulzhenko, Oregon State University – “Uncovering host-microbiota interactions using transkingdom networks”
4:55-5:05
Jennifer Hampton, University of Oregon – “A novel protein produced by the gut microbiota induces pancreatic β cell proliferation”
5:05-5:15
Ohad Manor, University of Washington – “An integrative computational framework for identifying taxonomic drivers of functional shifts in the human microbiome”
5:15-5:45
Session discussion, moderated by Steve Wiley (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Raghuveer Parthasarathy (University of Oregon)
 
Free time – for dining suggestions please refer to the guide provided with your symposium materials. Be sure to check out the ‘Show Your Badge’ deals!
 

Sunday // August 2nd

7:00-8:00
Breakfast with themed tables for directed discussions
 

Session 4: Modeling Microbial Communities

8:00-8:25
Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University – “Historical contingency in host-microbe interactions”
8:25-8:50
Pankaj Mehta, Boston University – “Learning interactions in the Human Microbiome”
8:50-9:00
Stephen Nayfach, University of California San Francisco – “Uncovering the gene content and biogeography of microbial species from the human gut microbiome”
9:00-9:30
Session discussion, moderated by Curtis Huttenhower (Harvard University) and Brendan Bohannan (University of Oregon)
 
9:30-10:05
Break
 

Session 5: Evolutionary Perspectives of Host-Microbe Systems

10:05-10:30
Michael Travisano, University of Minnesota – “Ecological perspectives on synthetic biology: insights from microbial population biology”
10:30-10:55
Nels Elde, University of Utah – “Paying an evolutionary Fe(3+) to the Red Queen”
10:55-11:05
Kat Milligan-Myhre, University of Alaska Anchorage – “Natural variation in the immune response to gut microbiota”
11:05-11:30
Stephen Giovannoni, Oregon State University – “Genome Streamlining and the Uncultured Microbial Majority”
11:30-12:00
Session discussion, moderated by Thomas Sharpton (Oregon State University) and William Cresko (University of Oregon)
 
Meeting adjourned at noon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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