Saturday
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2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Translating the Microbiome
Discussion Leader: Jeanette Rimbey (Texas Tech University, USA)
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3:45 pm - 4:15 pm |
Colleen Cutcliffe (Whole Biome Inc, USA)
"Whole Biome: Translating the Microbiome"
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4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
Harnessing Microbial Language to Solve the Problems of the Anthropocene
Discussion Leader: Michaeline Albright (Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
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7:30 pm - 7:45 pm |
Alexander Tveit (UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)
"Living on Air: A Widespread Bacterium that Grows at Atmospheric Methane Concentration"
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7:45 pm - 7:50 pm |
Discussion
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7:50 pm - 8:05 pm |
Katja Luxem (Princeton University, USA)
"Large Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation Distinguishes Nitrogenase-Derived Methane from Other Sources"
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8:05 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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8:10 pm - 8:25 pm |
Zhao Wang (Duke University, USA)
"Marine Microbial Population and Community Responses to the Climate Change Parameters: pH and Temperature"
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8:25 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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8:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Alice Maina (Technical University of Kenya, Kenya)
"Vibrio cholerae Bacteriophages Isolated from the Environmental Waters of Kenya as Biocontrol Against the Pathogen"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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8:50 pm - 9:05 pm |
Aakansha Roberts (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)
"Characterization of a Pseudomonas Integrative and Conjugative Element for Diphenylmethane and Biphenyl Degradation"
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9:05 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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9:10 pm - 9:30 pm |
General Discussion
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Sunday
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7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Discovering the Microbial Rosetta Stone
Discussion Leader: Oliver Schmidt (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
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9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Alejandra Hernández-Terán (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
"Structure and Variation of the Rhizosphere Microbiome in Wild Metapopulations of Cotton in Mexico"
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9:15 am - 9:20 am |
Discussion
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9:20 am - 9:35 am |
Priscilla Hempel (University of Delaware, USA)
"Transcriptomic Response of Heterotrophic Freshwater Actinobacteria to Light"
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9:35 am - 9:40 am |
Discussion
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9:40 am - 9:55 am |
Garrett Smith (Ohio State University, USA)
"Metabolic Exchanges Influenced by Organic Nitrogen and Carbon Inputs Drive Biogeochemical Cycling in Columbia River Sediments"
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9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Sherlynette Pérez Castro (Marine Biological Laboratory, USA)
"Microbial Community Dynamics and Coexistence in a Sulfide-Driven Phototrophic Bloom"
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10:15 am - 10:20 am |
Discussion
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10:20 am - 10:35 am |
Karin Yaniv (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
"Using Functional Screening of Environmental Metagenomic Libraries for Anti-Quorum Sensing Compounds as a Platform for Microbial Ecology Study and Drug Discovery"
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10:35 am - 10:40 am |
Discussion
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10:40 am - 10:55 am |
Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
"Rediscovery of the Beta-Hydroxyaspartate Cycle Closes a Gap in the Marine Carbon Cycle"
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10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Samuel Prudence (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)
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1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Building a Career in Microbiology: Perspectives for Academia, Government and Industry
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Romy Chakraborty (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
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Joel Kostka (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Mollie Murnane (Vedanta Biosciences, USA)
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Karsten Zengler (University of California, San Diego, USA)
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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