Sunday |
4:00 pm - 8:00 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 | Microbial Activities and Interactions in Natural Communities and Ecosystem Foodwebs |
| Discussion Leader: Pep Gasol (Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spain) |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Opening Remarks |
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | David Scanlan (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) "Assessing the Factors Controlling Marine Picocyanobacterial Diversity and Abundance" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Morten Iversen (Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Germany) "From Sub-Aggregate Scale
to the Full Water Column – A 3D Look at Microbial Communities Within Marine Snow" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Linking Microbial Diversity and Function to Ecology and Biogeochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Jed Fuhrman (University of Southern California, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:55 am | Pierre Galand (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, France) "Rarity, Diversity and Ecosystem Functioning" |
9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
10:05 am - 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 11:15 am | Adina Howe (Iowa State University, USA) "Metagenomic Explorations of Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 12:10 pm | Shinichi Sunagawa (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany) "From Big Data to Ecology
and Population Structure of Marine Microbial Communities at Global Scale" |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Previews |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Interactive Pressures on
Microbial Genome Structure |
| Discussion Leader: Bryndan Durham (University of Washington, USA) |
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
6:05 pm - 6:50 pm | Ilana Berman-Frank (Bar Ilan University, Israel) "Dust to Dust – Coupling Export Production and Programmed Cell Death in the Bloom Forming Diazotrophic Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium" |
6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Discussion |
7:05 pm - 7:45 pm | Otto Cordero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Microbial Community Dynamics on Model Marine Particles" |
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Evolution of Microbial Interactions and Function |
| Discussion Leader: Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:50 am | Assaf Vardi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "The 'Virocell' Metabolism - Metabolic Innovations During Host-Virus Interactions in the Ocean" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:15 am | Debbie Lindell (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) "Cyanobacterial-Cyanophage Coevolution: From Genes to Populations" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 12:10 pm | Alexander Petroff (Rockefeller University, USA) "Hydrodynamics
and Collective Behavior of Tethered Microbes" |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Previews |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Incorporating
Microbes into Biogeochemical and Climate Models |
| Discussion Leader: Kay Bidle (Rutgers University, USA) |
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
6:05 pm - 6:45 pm | Stephanie Dutkiewicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Modeling Diverse Phytoplankton Communities" |
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm | Discussion |
6:55 pm - 7:05 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Naomi Levine (University of Southern California, USA) "Competition in a Patchy World: Insight from a New Modeling Approach"" |
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
7:10 pm - 7:50 pm | Colin Brownlee (Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom) "The Silicon Requirement for Coccolithophore Calcification: Understanding
the Evolutionary and Ecological Implications" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Host-Associated Microbiome Communities |
| Discussion Leader: Melissa Garren (California State University, Monterey Bay, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:50 am | Russell Hill (Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET), University of Maryland, USA) "Sponge Symbionts and Darwin's Paradox: Bacterial Symbionts in Sponges Are Key Players in Nutrient Cycling in Coral Reef Ecosystems" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:15 am | Jillian Petersen (Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria) "Friends
with Unexpected Benefits: 'Omics'-Driven Discoveries on the Functions, Biodiversity and Evolution of Marine Bivalve Symbionts" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 12:10 pm | Jesse Zaneveld (Oregon State University, USA) "Coral Microbiomes Through Space and
Time" |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Previews |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Environmental
Shaping of Functional Traits and Community Structure |
| Discussion Leader: Emil Ruff (University of Calgary, Canada) |
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
6:05 pm - 6:45 pm | Zoe Finkel (Mount Allison University, Canada) "Phylogenetic Differences in the Macromolecular Composition of Microbes" |
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm | Discussion |
6:55 pm - 7:05 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Marine Landa (University of Georgia, USA) "Bacterial Metabolism in a Three Member Bacterial-Phytoplankton System as Revealed by Time Course Transcriptomics" |
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
7:10 pm - 7:50 pm | Laura Gomez-Consarnau (University of Southern California, USA) "Reevaluating the Importance of Photoheterotrophy in Oligotrophic Systems" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | 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 |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Infochemicals and Cell
Signaling as Drivers of Microbial Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Julia Kubanek (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:50 am | Benjamin Van Mooy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) "The Potential for Chemically-Mediated Microbial Interactions to Affect the Strength of the Ocean's Biological Carbon Pump" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:15 am | Einat Segev (Harvard Medical School, USA) "Bacterial Influences on Emiliania huxleyi Physiology and Biomarkers" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 12:10 pm | Sebastian Fraune (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany) "Cnidarian holobionts: a deep cross talk between
the host and the bacteria" |
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Previews |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Microbes, Well-Being and Sustainability |
| Discussion Leader: Carlos Pedros-Alio (Centro Nacional Biotecnología, CSIC, Spain) |
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
6:05 pm - 6:20 pm | Selected from Poster Abstracts: Salvador Almagro-Moreno (Dartmouth College, USA) "Mucin Components Prime Environmental and Human Host Colonization of Marine Pathogens" |
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 7:10 pm | Melissa Garren (California State University, Monterey Bay, USA) "From Bacteria to
Boats: The Stories that Tracks Have to Tell" |
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm | Discussion |
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm | Corina Brussaard (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands) "Evolution, Nature and Function of Microbial Interactions, Synthesis with a Twitch" |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Closing Remarks |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |