Conference Schedule

2024 Conference Schedule

To be Announced

2022 Conference Schedule

*Tentative Schedule – Details Subject to Change*

Sunday, July 10, 2022

1:00p	Registration		Annex
5:30p	Welcome and Keynote Address		Shannon Hall
	Phytoplasmas – Beneficial Microbes of Insects and Pathogens of Plants	Saskia Hoegenhout
6:30p	Opening Reception		Tripp Commons

Monday, July 11, 2022

8:00a	Registration		Annex
9:00a	Session I – Developmental Impact of Microbes		Shannon Hall
	Adapting an Evolutionary Model Organism for Host-microbe Studies	Session Host: Kat Milligan-McClellan
9:30a	Social Interactions with Non-maternal Caregivers Influence the Diversity of Skin and Gut Microbial Communities of Infants Living in Chicago	Melissa B. Manus
9:45a	Wolbachia is a Nutritional Mutualist	Amelia Lindsey
10:00a	Break
10:30a	Features of the Gut Microbiome Relate to Allergic Respiratory Phenotypes in Urban Children	Mustafa Özçam
10:45a	Neonatal Microbes Stimulate Beta-cell Development	Jennifer Hill
11:00a	A Natural C. elegans Microbiome Bacterium, Pseudomonas lurida, Can Restore Normal Development in Insulin Signaling Mutants	Nick Burton
11:15a	Gut Colonization with a Branched Chain Amino Acid Synthesis Mutant of Phocaeicola (Bacteroides) vulgatus Affects Host Organ Metabolism	Jay Jawahar
11:45a	Lunch		Profile/Tripp Deck
1:00p	Session II: Host Factors Shaping the Microbiome		Shannon Hall
	Gut Bacterial Catabolism of Purines, its Relationship with Systemic Levels of Uric Acid and Host Disease	Session Host: Federico Rey
1:30p	Nutritional Programming of Host-microbiome Interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans	Dana Blackburn
1:45p	Micron-scale Biogeography of Bacteria and Host within a Reproductive Organ of the Hawaiian Bobtail Squid	Derrick Kamp
2:00p	Break
2:30p	A Physical Niche Regulates Stable Association of a Multispecies Gut Microbiota in Drosophila	Will Ludington
2:45p	A Short Chain Fatty Acid-centric View of Clostridioides difficile Pathogenesis	Andrew J. Hryckowian
3:00p	A Healthy Human Microbiota Contains Members that Prevent Colon Cancer and Enhance Immunotherapy	Allison Weis
3:15p	High-fat Diet Disrupts Diurnal Interactions Between Small Intestinal Host Innate Immune Factor REG3γ and Gut Microbiota Resulting in Metabolic Dysfunction	Katya Fraizer
3:30p	Poster Session: Odd-Numbered		Great Hall
5:30p	Dinner		Profile/Tripp Deck
6:30p	Microbial Networking		Tripp Commons

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

8:00a	Registration		Annex
9:00a	Session III: Ecology and Evolution of Microbe-Host Interactions		Shannon Hall
	Who’s in Charge Here?: Microbial Contributions to Animal Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution	Session Chair: Kevin Kohl
9:30a	Diversity, Evolution and Role of the Bombella Bacteria Associated with Stingless Bees	Lílian Caesar
9:45a	Universal Microbial Relationships in the Gut Microbiota of Wild Baboons	Elizabeth Archie
10:00a	Break
10:30a	Exploring Coral Symbiosis in the Undergraduate Lab Setting Through Use of CUREs	Angela Z. Poole
10:45a	Reduced Microbiome Richness Leads to Poorer Community Stability and Lower Parasite Fitness	Margaret L. Doolin
11:00a	Increases in Genome Complexity Exacerbate Transcript Dosage Imbalance in a Cicada Endosymbiont	Noah J. Spencer
11:15a	Vibrio fischeri Coculture Results in Extensive Horizontal Gene Transfer and Mosaicism in Evolved Genomes	Stephanie Smith
11:45a	Lunch		Profile/Tripp Deck
1:00p	Session IV: Social Interactions and Microbial Transmission		Shannon Hall
	Hopanoid Lipids in the Legume:rhizobia Symbiosis	Session Chair: Brittany Belin
1:30p	Social-like Behavior is still Inducible in the Evolutionarily Asocial Mexican Cave Tetra by a Dietary Intervention	Masato Yoshizawa
1:45p	Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Ants Promote Fungus Garden Hygiene Using Trichoderma-derived Metabolite Cues	Kathleen Kyle
2:00p	Break
2:30p	Early Life Assembly of the Salivary Microbiome is Associated with Maternal Microbiome and Future Dental Caries	Freida Blostein
2:45p	Staphylococcus aureus Secreted Factors Antagonize Biofilm Growth and Nasal Cell Colonization by Commensal Corynebacterium Species	Joshua Huffines
3:00p	Intra- and Transgenerational Maintenance and Function of Dung Beetle Microbiota	Joshua Jones
3:15p	High Levels of Cyclic Di-guanylate Interfere with Initiation of a Beneficial Symbiosis	Ruth Y. Isenberg
3:30p	Free Afternoon & Evening

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

8:00a	Registration		Annex
9:00a	Poster Session: Even-Numbered		Great Hall
11:00a	Session V: Microbe-Host Interactions at the Molecular Scale		Shannon Hall
	Maintaining Work-Life Balance When You Are a Bacterial Symbiont	Session Chair: Heidi Goodrich-Blair
11:30a	Investigating Cobamides as a Driver of Skin Microbiome Community Dynamics	Mary Hannah Swaney
11:45a	Symbiont-induced Epigenetic Changes in the Host Genome during the Initiation of the Squid-vibrio Partnership	Noelle Rubas
12:15p	Lunch		Profile/Tripp Deck
1:15p	Gut Microbial Metabolism of Dietary Polyphenols in Health and Disease	Jan Claesen
1:30p	Steinernema Nematodes as Genetic Models to Study Mutualistic and Parasitic Symbiosis	Mengyi Cao
1:45p	The Role of Bacterial Genotype in Persistence of the Microbiota of Drosophila melanogaster	Sarah Gottfredson
2:00p	Metabolism of Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids by Gut Microbes	Janine Comrie
2:15p	Break
2:30p	Session VII: Constructing/harnessing Beneficial Microbe		Shannon Hall
	Making Sense of the Unknowns in Metagenomic and Metabolomic Dark Matter	Session Host: Katrine Whitson
3:00p	The Glucoamylase Inhibitor Acarbose Targets Intracellular Glucosidases, Limiting the Growth of Gut Bacteroides	Haley A. Brown
3:15p	The Ecological Mechanisms Underlying Diversity-Mediated Pathogen Inhibition on Amphibian Skin	Melissa Y. Chen
3:30p	Break
3:45p	Cooperation and Competition for Xanthan Gum in Gut Microbiomes	Matthew Ostrowski
4:00p	Ingestible Paramagnetic Beads with Surface-linked Nutrients for In Vivo Multiplexed Analysis of Gut Microbiota Metabolism	Darryl Wesener
4:15p	Nectar-dwelling Bacteria Increase Protein Release from Pollen by Inducing Germination and Bursting	Shawn Christensen
4:30p	A Secondary Metabolite Drives Intraspecies Antagonism in a Gut Symbiont that is Inhibited by Cell Wall Acetylation	Jeehwan Oh
4:45p	Break
6:00p	Keynote Address		Shannon Hall
	Divergent Forms of Highly Conserved Proteins Promote Fitness of Commensal Bacterium in the Mammalian Gut	Eduardo Groisman
7:00p	Banquet		Great Hall
8:00	Evening Reception		Tripp Commons

Thursday, July 14, 2022

8:00a	Registration		Annex
9:00a	Session VIII: The Role of Immunity in Host-Microbe Interactions		Shannon Hall
	Compensatory Actions of the Gut Microbiome during Times of Chronic Nutritional Stress	Session Host: Suzanne Devkota
9:30a	Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Microbiota-Induced Immune Tolerance	Morgan J. Engelhart
9:45a	Commensal Microbes Fortify the Skin Barrier through the Control of Tryptophan-Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Cascade	Aayushi Uberoi
10:00a	Break
10:30a	A Family of Bacterial Mutualism Factors Mitigates both Bacterial Virulence and Host Inflammation	Catherine D. Robinson
10:45a	Silent Recognition of Flagellins from Human Gut Commensal Bacteria by Toll-like Receptor 5	Sara J. Clasen
11:00a	Helicobacter pylori at the Host-microbe Interface: Modulation of the Host Antioxidant Response	Maia Baskerville
11:15a	Benefits of Saccharibacteria (TM7): Epibiont that Prevents Inflammatory Response	Batbileg Bor
11:30a	Poster Awards & Flash Talks		Shannon Hall
12:00p	Closing Remarks		Shannon Hall
12:15p	Boxed Lunch		Lobby