Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Nested Ecosystems
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:55 pm - 8:20 pm
"Complex Layering of Animal-Bacterial Interactions in a Simple Marine Sponge Holobiont"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:00 pm
"The Process of Coevolution Within Webs of Interacting Species"
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Biodiversity: A Microbial World Within Animal Hosts
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
"Host-Microbiomes as Metacommunities"
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
"The Evolution of the Tetrapod Gut Microbiome"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
"A Case for Comparative Research: What Our Primate Cousins Have to Teach Us About the Human Gut Microbiome"
11:10 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
"Social Behavior in Bees Influences the Abundance of Microbial Symbionts"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"The Less Secret Lives of Coral Microbes"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The Molecular Language of Symbiosis
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Modes of Signal-Response Underlying the Squid-Vibrio Association on Squid Symbioses"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
"A Single Phage Candidate Gene for Male Killing in a Bacterial Endosymbiont"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
"Using Host Genetics to Decipher Gut Microbial Metabolism"
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Looking at Symbiosis Through the Host's Lens
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
"The Foreign Within: Drosophila -Spiroplasma Interaction as a Model of Insect Endosymbiosis"
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
"Genetic Control of Enterobacter Commensal Abundance and Function in C. elegans "
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
"Finding a Niche: Microbial Colonization of Host Mucosal Barriers"
11:10 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
"Development of the Accessory Nidamental Gland in the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, Euprymna scolopes "
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"Gut Feeling: Mechanisms of Microbial and Nutritional Perception in the Vertebrate Intestine"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Experimental Models for Host-Microbe Interactions
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Uncovering the Molecular Mechanisms of Intracellular Coral-Algal Symbiosis Using an Anemone Model"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
"Convergent and Divergent Metabolic Routes to the Evolution of Stable Symbiosis"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
"Cultivating Relationships: Genetic Landscapes that Shape Microbiome Form and Function"
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Goods and Services Provided by Microbial Symbionts
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
"Coordinating Communal Living in Chemosynthetic Symbioses"
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
"Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling by the Marine Sponge Holobiont: From Microbes to Ecosystems"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
"Strain-Level View on the Gut Microbiota of Social Bees"
11:10 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
"Multiple Bodyguards or a Single Strong One? Coexistence of Defensive Symbiont Strains in a Beetle"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Metamorphosis"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Endosymbiosis and the Evolution of Eukaryotic Cells
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Archaeal Genomes as Window into the Role of Symbiosis in Key Evolutionary Events"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
"Two Intracellular and Cell Type-Specific Bacterial Symbionts in the Placozoan Trichoplax H2"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
"Mergers and Acquisitions: Endosymbiosis and Gene Flow in Microbial Eukaryotes"
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Symbiosis, Pathogenesis and Parasitism
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:15 am - 9:40 am
"Assessing Metabolism and Interspecies Interactions in Microbial Symbioses via Metaproteomics"
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Discussion
9:55 am - 10:10 am
"Hijacking the Cell's Command Center: Transcriptional Profiling of the Interaction Between an Intranuclear Bacterial Parasite and Its Deep-Sea Mussel Host"
10:10 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
"Molecular Insights into Vibrio cholerae 's Intra-Amoebal Replication Niche"
11:10 am - 11:25 am
Discussion
11:25 am - 11:40 am
"Metabolic Costs of a Defensive Symbiont for Its Insect Host"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
"Zombie Ants: Manipulation of Animal Behavior by a Fungal Parasite"
12:10 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm
"Modulation of the Gut Microbiota: An Ecological Perspective"
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm
"Engineered Symbionts Trigger RNA Interference to Protect Honey Bees from Viruses and Parasitic Mites"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:10 pm
"Responding to Amphibian Disease Emergence with Microbial Therapy"
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure