Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: How to Identify the Function of Your Favorite Microbial Symbiont
Discussion Leader: Piotr Lukasik (University of Montana, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Angela Douglas (Cornell University, USA)
"How to Identify the Function of Your Favorite Microbial Symbiont"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Diversification and Evolution in a Symbiotic World
Discussion Leader: Jarrett Lebov (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Piotr Lukasik (University of Montana, USA)
"Multiple Independent Splits of a Nutritional Endosymbiont into Symbiotic Consortia"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Sandra Breum Andersen (NYU Langone Medical Center, USA)
"Social Interactions Drive Evolution of Iron Metabolism of Pathogens During Long-Term Infection"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Jennah Dharamshi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Novel, Diverse and Abundant Chlamydia Discovered in Loki's Castle Deep Marine Sediments"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Brandon Seah (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)
"Sulfur-Oxidizing Symbiotic Bacteria Without Known Pathways for Autotrophic CO2 Fixation"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Aniek Ivens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Specificity in a Multilevel Mutualistic Network of Ants, Trophobionts and Their Interacting Microbiomes"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Asher Leeks (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Relatedness or Transmission Mode: Why Are Some Symbionts More Beneficial than Others?"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Mutualisms
Discussion Leader: Jennah Dharamshi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Jarrett Lebov (Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, USA)
"Experimental Adaptation of an Environmental Bacterium to the Zebrafish Digestive Tract"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Lucie Kesnerova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Disentangling Metabolic Functions of Honey Bee Gut Bacteria"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Lizbeth Sayavedra (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiolgy, Germany)
"Understanding Symbiont Colonization in Deep-Sea Mussels Using Differential Gene Expression"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Takanori Nishino (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
"A Novel Symbiotic Organ on the Hindleg of Megymenum gracilicorne (Insecta: Hemiptera: Dinidoridae ) Associated with Fungal Symbionts"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Sarah McAnulty (University of Connecticut, USA)
"Catch and Release: Differential Hemocyte Binding in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Philipp Weber (University of Vienna, Austria)
"Cell Growth and Chromosome Segregation in Longitudinally Dividing Nematode Symbionts"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leaders: Aniek Ivens (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Sarah McAnulty (University of Connecticut, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Symbiosis
Edward Ruby (University of Hawaii, USA)
Zakee Sabree (The Ohio State University, USA)
Elizabeth Vallen (Swarthmore College, USA)
Emily White (Nature Microbiology, United Kingdom)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes