Symposium on Host-Microbe Systems Biology: Modeling Our Microbial Selves
Friday // August 8th
5:30-7:30
Registration and reception
7:30-8:30
Keynote talk: Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard – “Known knowns and known unknowns in host-associated microbial communities”
8:30-10:30
Poster Session
Saturday // August 9th
7:00-8:10
Breakfast with themed tables for directed discussions
8:10-8:15
Welcoming remarks: Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon
Session 1: Microbial Ecology of Human Disease
8:15-8:40
Larry Forney, University of Idaho – “The dynamics of human vaginal communities: windows of risk to disease”
8:40-9:05
David Schneider, Stanford – “Warping disease space to improve recovery from infections”
9:05-9:15
Renee Greer, Oregon State University – “Unraveling interactions between gut microbiota, interferon-gamma and glucose metabolism”
9:15-9:25
Roxana Hickey, University of Idaho – “Community dynamics of the adolescent vaginal microbiome during puberty and onset of menarche”
9:25-9:55
Session discussion, moderated by Claire Fraser, University of Maryland
9:55-10:25
Break
Session 2: Experimental Models of Host-Microbe Systems
10:25-10:50
Angela Douglas, Cornell – “How to interact with resident microorganisms: insights from fruit flies”
10:50-11:15
Andrew Goodman, Yale – “Resilience mechanisms in the human gut microbiota”
11:15-11:40
John Rawls, Duke – “Microbial Regulation of Lipid Metabolism and Gene Expression in the Intestine”
11:40-11:50
Ketrija Touw, University of Chicago – “Drug-induced constipation alters gut microbiota stability leading to physiological changes in the host”
11:50-12:00
Annah Rolig, University of Oregon – “Defined bacterial communities in the zebrafish intestine exhibit complex regulation of community membership and host innate immunity”
12:00-12:30
Session discussion, moderated by Scott Gilbert, Swarthmore
12:30-1:30
Buffet lunch
Session 3: Population Variation of Host-Microbe Systems
1:30-1:55
Andrew Clark, Cornell – “Heritability of the human gut microbiome”
1:55-2:20
David Tobin, Duke – “An extreme-phenotype outbreak strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
2:20-2:30
Catherine Igartua, Univeristy of Chicago – “Nasopharyngeal microbiome composition is associated with lung function in adult Hutterites”
2:30-2:40
Ines Martinez, University of Nebraska – “Characterization of the fecal microbiota in adults from two different regions of Papua New Guinea”
2:40-2:50
David Baltrus, University of Arizona – “Microbes inside of Microbes: Phenotypes of Endophytic Fungi are Influenced by a Diverse Array of Facultative Bacterial Symbionts”
2:50-3:20
Session discussion, moderated by William Cresko, University of Oregon
3:20-3:50
Break
Session 4: Theoretical and Computational Models of Host-Microbe Systems
3:50-4:15
Elhanan Borenstein, University of Washington – “Metegenomic Systems Biology: Toward a Predictive Systems Level Model of the Human Microbiome”
4:15-4:40
Ned Wingreen, Princeton – “Interpreting 16S metagenomic data without clustering to achieve sub-OTU resolution”
4:40-4:50
Thomas Sharpton, Oregon State University – “High-throughput annotation of metagenomes reveals community physiological variation in the mammalian microbiome”
4:50-5:00
Adam Burns, University of Oregon – “Contribution of neutral processes to microbial community assembly changes over host development”
5:00-5:30
Session discussion, moderated by Stephen Wiley, PNW National Laboratory
5:30-8:30
Free time
8:30-10:30
Poster Session
Sunday // August 10th
7:00-8:15
Breakfast with themed tables for directed discussions
Session 5: Cutting Edge Approaches for Studying Host-Microbe Systems
8:15-8:40
Katie Pollard, UC San Francisco – “Challenges of statistical modeling with shotgun metagenomes”
8:40-9:05
Ming Hammond, UC Berkeley – “Riboswitch-Based Fluorescent Biosensors to Interrogate In Vivo Biochemistry in Bacteria”
9:05-9:30
Hyun Jung Kim, Wyss Institute at Harvard – “Microengineered Human Gut-on-a-Chip”
9:30-9:40
Matthew Jemielita, University of Oregon – “Spatial and temporal features of microbial growth during initial colonization of the zebrafish gut”
9:40-10:10
Session discussion, moderated by Raghuveer Parthasarathy, University of Oregon
10:10-10:40
Break
Session 6: The Future of Manipulating Host-Microbe Systems for Human Health
10:40-11:05
Eugene Chang, University of Chicago – “Our microbial organ and its role in health and diet-induced disease”
11:05-11:30
Samuel Miller, University of Washington – “Potential of therapeutic manipulation of the fecal microbiome in cystic fibrosis and inflammatory bowel disease”
11:30-12:00
Session discussion, moderated by David Relman, Stanford
Meeting adjourned at noon