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: Nested Symbiosis
Discussion Leader: Eric Gordon (University of Connecticut, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
John McCutcheon (University of Montana, USA)
"A Functional Metabolic Chimera in the Three-Way Nested Endosymbiosis of Mealybugs"
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
Understanding the Intricacies of Nutritional Symbioses
Discussion Leaders: Alejandro Manzano Marin (Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (CBGP), UMR1062, INRA, France) and Megan Sorensen (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Nana Ankrah (Cornell University, USA)
"Metabolic Reprogramming in Animal-Microbe Symbiosis: A Spittlebug Story"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Céline Loussert (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
"The 'Language' of Endosymbiotic Partners: A Workflow Combining Cryo-Preparation, Fluo/Electron Microscopy, and NanoSIMS Imaging to 'Listen' to the 'Dialogue' Between Partners in Symbiotic Corals"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Dustin Dial (University of Georgia, USA)
"Differential Division of Labor in the Ancient Symbionts of Sap-Sucking Insects (Sternorrhyncha: Adelgidae)"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Filip Husnik (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Exploring Protist-Bacteria/Archaea Symbioses in Insect Microbiomes via Single-Cell Genomics"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Charlotte Francoeur (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Garden Bacteria of Fungus-Farming Ants Can Metabolize Plant Secondary Compounds"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Jon Sanders (Cornell University, USA)
"The Evolution of the Tetrapod Gut Microbiome"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
The Secrets of Establishment and Maintenance of Symbiosis
Discussion Leaders: Tobin Hammer (University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Susann Rossbach (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Nancy Obeng (Kiel University, Germany)
"Bacterial Perspectives on Evolving an Association with a Host"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Joany Valentina Mariño Coronado (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
"Predicting the Population-Level Consequences of Trophic Symbiosis in Thyasirid Bivalves Using an Energy Budget Model"
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Dylan Shropshire (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"The Simple Genetic Basis of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Lucia Pita Galan (GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany)
"Microbial Recognition in Marine Sponges"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Daniel Tamarit (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
"Chlamydiae and the Symbiogenetic Origin of Eukaryotic Organelles"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Silvia Moriano Gutierrez (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA)
"The Vibrio fischeri Non-Coding sRNA, SsrA, Impacts Initiation of the Euprymna scolopes Symbiosis"
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: Making Science Accessible: From Twitter to Scientific Journalism
Discussion Leaders: Laura Rix (University of Queensland, Australia) and Daniel Tamarit (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm
Elisabeth Bik (Microbiome Digest / Harbers-Bik LLC, USA)
"Science and Social Media"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Elizabeth Pennisi (Science, AAAS, USA)
"Tripartite Symbiosis: Journalist, Scientist and the Public: How Can We Best Communicate?"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes