Tuesday, January 16, 2024 8 a.m.–7 p.m.
Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Agenda
| When | Event | Location |
| 8–8:45 a.m. | Registration/light breakfast | Iribe Center lobby |
| 8:45–9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks | Antonov Auditorium |
| 9:15–10:15 a.m. | Susannah Tringe, Division Director of DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory gives keynote talk: “Sequence-based Interrogation of Soil Microbiomes and Their Ecosystem Benefits” | Antonov Auditorium |
| 10:15–10:45 a.m. | Coffee Break | Iribe Center lobby |
| 10:45–11:45 a.m. | Lightning Talks (Abstracts)
Steve Kutos. “What’s brewing? Impacts of cultivation management on the Coffea arabica soil microbiome” Taylor K.S. Richter. “Long-term impacts of untreated dairy manure on the microbiome and pathogenic E. coli persistence in agricultural soil” Hannah Zierden. “Vaginal bacterial extracellular vesicles as mediators of gynecologic health” Glory Minabou Ndjite. “Fructose Epimer Utilization by Gut Bacteria” Jeba Mercy Gnanasekaran. “The Role of Periodontitis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” |
Antonov Auditorium |
| 11:45 a.m.–12 p.m. | Group Photo | Iribe Center lobby |
| 12–1:30 p.m. | Lunch/Poster Session | Iribe Center lobby |
| 1:30–2:30 p.m. | Lightning Talks (Abstracts)
Julian Urrutia-Carter. “Antimicrobial Peptides in Appalachian Salamanders” Zeyang Shen. “A genome catalog of the infant skin microbiome indicates microbial diversity, function, and transmission in early life” Justin Grynovicki, Mangeet Kaur. “Making the Invisible Visible” Decode the microbial universe” Samuel P. Forry. “A Sensitivity Analysis of Methodological Variables for Metagenomic Sequencing” |
Antonov Auditorium |
| 2:30–3:30 p.m. | Breakout Sessions | Rooms 2107 & 2207 |
| 3:30–4 p.m. | Coffee Break | Iribe Center lobby |
| 4–5 p.m. | Joff Silberg, Professor of BioSciences at Rice University, gives keynote talk “Using Synthetic Biology to Program Microbes and Environmental Consortia For Real-Time Sensing and Actuation” | Antonov Auditorium |
| 5–7 p.m. | Networking Reception | Iribe Center lobby |
Keynote Speakers
Susannah Tringe, Division Director, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Joff Silberg, Professor of BioSciences, Rice University