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 Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Microbiomes, Culture Collections, and Consortia
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Constructing and Manipulating Complex Defined Communities"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
"Eco-Evolutionary Mechanisms of Microbiota-Mediated Infection Protection"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Predicting Microbiome Collective Behavior and Editing Target Identification
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:50 am
"Metabolic Modeling for Microbiome Engineering"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Systems Ecology of the Human Microbiome: From Identifying Emergent Properties to Unraveling Novel Functions"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Predicting Functional Behavior in Soil Microbiomes: Leveraging Omics to Guide Editing Interventions"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
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
DNA Delivery to the Microbiome: Plasmids
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Engineering Conjugative Plasmids for CRISPR-Cas9 Editing in the Microbiota"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Plasmids Fight Back: Anti-Defense Islands Enable Efficient Conjugation"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
DNA Delivery to the Microbiome: Phages
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:50 am
"Phage-Based Approaches to Eliminate or Alter Bacteria within Complex Microbial Communities"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Diverse CRISPR Strategies to Engineer Bacteria and Phages, In Vitro and In Situ"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
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
Engineering Colonization Resistance and Engraftment
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Mining the Microbiome for Bacterial Strains to Displace MDR Enterobacterales from the Gut"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Precision Elimination of Strains from the Gut Microbiome by Niche Engineering"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Genetic Tools for Microbiome Editing
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:50 am
"Metagenomic Editing of Commensal Bacteria In Vivo: From Discovery to Translational Tools"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Genetic Manipulation of Non-Model Human Gut Commensals for Mechanistic Dissection of Microbe–Host Interactions"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"Engineering Sensing and Skin Modulation with Skin Microbes"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
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
Genotype to Phenotype in the Microbiome
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"New Tools and Strategies for Targeted Microbiome Modulation"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Metagenomic Editing of Commensal and Pathogenic Bacteria in vivo Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Microbiome Interactions with Hosts and Environments
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:50 am
"Microbiota Control of Host Physiology"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
"Flipping the Script: Mechanisms of Phage Evasion in the Disease-Associated Gut Bacterium Eggerthella lenta "
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:45 am - 11:50 am
Discussion
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
"The Dynamic Selective Landscape of Human Microbiomes"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
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
Clinical, Environmental, and Industrial Applications
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Engineering Phage-Derived Particles for Precise Microbiome Modulation"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm
"Bacterial Delivery Systems: From Pathogenesis to Therapeutics"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure