Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Keynote Session: Host-Population Structure and Symbiont Biogeography
Discussion Leader: Raul Gonzalez-Pech (The Pennsylvania State University, United States)
3:15 pm - 3:50 pm
Tory Hendry (Cornell University, United States)
"Who, What, Where: Genetic Diversity, Life History, and Geography in Symbioses."
3:50 pm - 4:00 pm
Discussion
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Poster Session
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Maintenance and Breakdown of Symbioses
Discussion Leader: Justin Maire (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Lukas Leibrecht (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Host vs Environmental Selection in a Marine Chemosynthetic Symbiosis"
5:45 pm - 5:50 pm
Discussion
5:50 pm - 6:05 pm
Martin Jahn (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Mapping the Biogeography of the Gut Microbiome: From Spatial Ecology to Disease Resistance"
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Discussion
6:10 pm - 6:25 pm
Junchen Deng (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"The Long-Term Stability of Extremely Fragmented Symbiotic Complexes in a Clade of Planthoppers"
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm
Discussion
6:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Alessandro Garritano (University of New South Wales, Australia)
"Keeping it Simple: How Just Two Symbionts Help the Glass Sponge Aphrocallistes Beatrix to Thrive in the Deep Sea"
6:45 pm - 6:50 pm
Discussion
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm
Liam Sullivan (University of Arizona, United States)
"No Guarantees: Imperfect Horizontal Transmission of an Obligate Symbiont in an Arboreal Leaf-footed Bug"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:25 pm
Luella Allen-Waller (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Cell Physiology Feedbacks of Symbiotic Instability in the Cnidarian Bleaching Response"
7:25 pm - 7:30 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Mechanisms of Maintenance
Discussion Leader: Lilian Caesar (Indiana University, Bloomington, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Roselydiah Makunja (University of Helsinki, Finland)
"Impacts of Maternal Microbial Metabolites and Extracellular Vesicles on Fetal Development"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Ida Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Wood Ants and Their Associated Microorganisms Inhibit Plant Pathogens"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Jiayue Yang (Keio University, Japan)
"An Intestinal Mucosa-Associated Bacterium which Modulates Host Health"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Godfred Yaw Boanyah (International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya / University of Witwatersrand, Kenya)
"Investigating the Effect of Diet on Anopheles Arabiensis Infected with Microsporidia MB, a Plasmodium -Blocking Symbiont"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Soleil Young (UW-Madison, United States)
"An Unusual Mechanism of Genetic Organization in a Polyploid and Polykaryotic Obligate Fungal Mutualist"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Briana Davis (Duke University, United States)
"Elf3 as a candidate mediator of intestinal epithelial transcriptional responses to microbiota"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Careers in Symbiosis
Discussion Leader: Jennah Dharamshi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
1:40 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Academia and Beyond
Stephanie McClelland (Springer Nature, United Kingdom)
Tory Hendry (Cornell University, United States)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes