| Saturday |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: The Impact of Aquatic Microbes in the Tree of Life |
| Discussion Leader: Javier Del Campo (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:55 pm | Thomas Richards (University of Exeter, United Kingdom) "New Branches on the Tree of Life Residing in Aquatic Environments" |
| 3:55 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Diversity and Evolution of Marine Microbes |
| Discussion Leader: Flora Vincent (Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS), France) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Ales Horak (Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) "Unexpected Diversity and Abundance of Planktonic Diplonemids in the World Ocean" |
| 5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
| 6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Sara Cregeen (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany) "Microbiota of Dominant Copepods from the Atlantic: Pleuromamma Species Host Betaproteobacterial Symbionts" |
| 6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Hugo Doré (Station Biologique de Roscoff, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) "Biogeography of Marine Picocyanobacteria Reveals Interactions with Both Their Picocyanobacterial Pairs and Abiotic Factors" |
| 6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
| 7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Elisabet Alacid (Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spanish National Research Council, Spain) "A Game of Russian Roulette for a Generalist Parasitoid of Dinoflagellates: Host Susceptibility Is the Key to Success" |
| 7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Microbial Interactions in a Changing Ocean |
| Discussion Leader: Jamie Becker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Salvador Almagro-Moreno (Dartmouth College, USA) "Mucin Components Prime Environmental and Human Host Colonization of Marine Pathogens" |
| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Sheila Roitman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) "Closing the Gaps on the Viral Photosystem-I psaDCAB Gene Organization" |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Bennett Lambert (MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, USA / ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "Investigating the Chemical Preferences of Marine Microbes In Situ at Organismal Scales" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Marine Landa (University of Georgia, USA) "Bacterial Metabolism in a Three-Member Bacterial-Phytoplankton System as Revealed by Time Course Transcriptomics" |
| 10:50 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 | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Career Building |
| Discussion Leader: Bryndan Durham (University of Washington, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Julia Kubanek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Designing a Scientific Career for the 21st Century" |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |