Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Becoming Small: Genome Reduction in Microbial Symbionts |
| Discussion Leader: Colin Dale (University of Utah, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:55 pm - 8:25 pm | Christian Kost (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany) "Less Is More: On the Creative Potential of Adaptive Gene Loss in Bacteria" |
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm | John McCutcheon (University of Montana, USA) "Endosymbiont Genomes: From Big to Small to Big Again" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Insects: The Great Experimenters in Symbiosis |
| Discussion Leader: Alex Wilson (University of Miami, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Martin Kaltenpoth (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) "Host Immune Defense Affects Symbiont Genome Evolution in a Protective Symbiosis" |
9:50 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Lee Henry (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) "Horizontal Transfer and the Persistence of Symbioses in Diverse Host Species" |
10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:50 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:25 am | Takema Fukatsu (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) "Host Insect Factors Involved in Microbial Symbioses" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:15 pm | Angela Douglas (Cornell University, USA) "Metabolic Coevolution: How Insect Hosts Converse with Symbionts Subject to Genomic Decay" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Overlooked Partners: Viruses and Fungi |
| Discussion Leader: Mya Breitbart (University of South Florida, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael Poulsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) "Novel Insights into Biomass Decomposition Through Holobiotic Sequencing of an Ancient Farming Symbiosis" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Forest Rohwer (San Diego State University, USA) "BAM (Bacteriophage Adherence to Mucus): A Phage-Based Adaptive Immune System" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hooking up Underwater: Symbiosis in the Sea |
| Discussion Leader: Ute Hentschel (Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Todd LaJeunesse (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Toward a Unified Understanding of the Ecology and Evolution of Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbioses" |
9:50 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Shelbi Russell (Harvard University, USA) "Transmission Mode Is a Continuum in the Solemya velum Chemosynthetic Symbiosis" |
10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:25 am | Silvia Bulgheresi (University of Vienna, Austria) "Dressed to Cooperate: Symbiont Spatial Orders on Host Surfaces" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:15 pm | Tim Miyashiro (Pennsylvania State University, USA) "Exploring Bacterial Gene Expression Patterns in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Learning from Plant-Microbe Symbioses |
| Discussion Leader: R. Ford Denison (University of Minnesota, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Ann Hirsch (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "The Root - The Plant Gut?" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Peter Mergaert (CNRS, France) "Controlling Endosymbiotic Bacteria in Plants and Insects with Antimicrobial Peptides" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Alliance, Cooperation and Conflict |
| Discussion Leader: Toby Kiers (VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Monika Bright (University of Vienna, Austria) "Cooperation in Thiotrophic Symbioses" |
9:50 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Xiang-Yi Li (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany) "What Games Are Growing Bacterial Populations Playing?" |
10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:25 am | Matthias Horn (University of Vienna, Austria) "Breaking Good: Bacterial Symbionts of Amoebae" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:15 pm | Stuart West (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) "Major Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Approaches in Symbiosis Research |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Hettich (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Pieter Dorrestein (University of California, San Diego, USA) "The Development of a Social Networking Interface to Understand the Molecular Nature of Microbial Interactions" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:10 pm | Jeroen Raes (University of Leuven, Belgium) "Predicting Species Interactions from Metagenomics Data" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Effects on Animal Life History Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Bosch (University of Kiel Zoological Institute, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Rosie Alegado (University of Hawaii, USA) "Bacterial Sulfonolipids Regulate Multicellular Development in Choanoflagellates" |
9:50 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Marie Lund (Aarhus University, Denmark) "Genome Evolution of Vertically Transmitted, Extracellular Verminephrobacter Symbionts of Earthworms" |
10:20 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:25 am | Denise Dearing (University of Utah, USA) "Friends with Benefits: Gut Microbes Allow Herbivores to Ingest Toxic Plants" |
11:25 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 12:15 pm | Seth Bordenstein (Vanderbilt University, USA) "Why the Origin of Species Needs Microbial Symbiosis" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Close to Home: The Human Microbiota |
| Discussion Leader: Andrew Jermy (Nature Microbiology, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Jon Sanders (Harvard University, USA) "Gut Microbiomic Consequences of Dietary Shifts in Animals Great and Small" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Sarkis Mazmanian (California Institute of Technology, USA) "A Gut-Microbiome-Brain Link During Neurodevelopment Disorders" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |