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 | Insights from Model Systems |
| Discussion Leader: Mak Saito (WHOI) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Penny Chisholm (MIT)
"Prochlorococcus: Power Through Diversity and Community" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
"Genomics-Based Exploration of the Secrets of Marine Diatoms" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbes in the Wild |
| Discussion Leader: Bethany Jenkins (University of Rhode Island) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sonya Dyhrman (Columbia University)
"Metatranscriptome Based Profiling of Phytoplankton Nutritional Physiology; Tracking Drivers of Bloom Dynamics" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Kay Bidle (Rutgers University)
"A Tug of War at Sea: Arms Races Across a Mandala of Phytoplankton-Virus Interactions"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Victoria Coles (University of Maryland)
"Ship to Silicon: Exploring Genomics and Transcriptomics Along the Amazon River Plume" |
12:10 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 | Evolutionary Genomics |
| Discussion Leader: Chris Dupont (JCVI) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Tal Dagan (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
"Trends and Barriers for Plasmid- and Phage- Mediated Lateral Gene Transfer" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jesse Shapiro (University of Montreal)
"Microbial Evolution on Human Time Scales" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Assessing Diversity |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Zeigler-Allen (JCVI) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Titus Brown (MSU)
"How Much Is Enough? Reference-Free Estimation of Sequencing Depth, Community Diversity, and Community Richness" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Linda Amaral Zettler (MBL)
"The Plastisphere: Diversity, Function and Fate" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ramiro Logares (CSIC)
"A Global Perspective of Deep-Sea Protists" |
12:10 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 | Viruses |
| Discussion Leader: Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Mya Breitbart (USF)
"Time-Series Analysis Reveals Recurring Patterns in the Abundance and Diversity of Marine Viruses"
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8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Joshua Weitz (Georgia Tech)
"Modeling Ocean Viral Dynamics: From Infections to Ecosystem-Level Effects"
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9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Low Oxygen Zones: Past, Present and Future |
| Discussion Leader: Alyson Santoro (University of Maryland) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sean Crowe (UBC)
"Photoferrotrophy in Ancient Ferruginous Oceans" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Frank Stewart (Georgia Tech)
"Meta-Omic Insights into Metabolic Niche Partitioning in Anoxic Oxygen Minimum Zones" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Curtis Deutsch (University of Washington)
"Microbial Ecosystem Dynamics Drive Oscillating N Cycles in the Oxygen Minimum Zones" |
12:10 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 | Digging in to DOM |
| Discussion Leader: Catherine Legrand (Linnaeus University) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Liz Kujawinski (WHOI)
"Using Metabolomics to Interrogate Marine Microbial Processes" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Thorsten Dittmar (ICBM Oldenburg / MPI Bremen)
"Explaining a Deep-Sea Paradox: Starving Microbes in a Sea of Dissolved Organic Substrate" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Ecology One Cell at a Time |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Campbell (Texas A&M University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Ger van den Engh (Becton-Dickinson)
"The Distribution of Prochlorococcus in the Water Column at Station Aloha" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ramunas Stepanauskas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences)
"Single Cell Genomics: When Treated as Individuals, Microbes Talk"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Christof Meile (University of Georgia)
"Models of Microbial Metabolism: From Cells to Aggregates and Beyond" |
12:10 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 | Autonomous Sensing of Marine Microbes |
| Discussion Leader: Tammi Richardson (University of South Carolina) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Peter Girguis (Harvard University)
"Islands in the Sea: The Distribution and Physiological Poise of Vent Microbes and the Implications for Carbon Cycling"
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8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Mary Jane Perry (University of Maine)
"Can We Expand the Spatial Footprint of Under-Sampled Microbes?" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |