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Wednesday 18 February, Afternoon

Registration

16:00 - 17:00

Keynote speech: Unraveling Microbial Interactions and Niches Enables The Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome

Dr. Karsten Zengler - University of California, San Diego

17:00 - 18:00

Refreshments

18:00 - 19:00

Thursday 19 February, Morning

Session 1 - Microbes in Host-Associated Microbiomes

Offered talk: A Phenotype-Based Approach Yields Selective Enrichment, Characterization, and Cultivation of Function-Specified Gut Bacterial Consortia

Emmanuel T. Ugwuoji - Baylor University, USA

09:00 - 09:30
Offered talk: Investigating the Bacteroidales injection systems in a human gut microbe

Josie Rivera Alfaro - San Diego State University, USA

09:30 - 10:00
Trainee Presentation: From prunes to bones: Anaerostipes caccae metabolites linking diet and trabecular bone in mice

Laleh Walsh - Michigan State University, USA

10:00 - 10:15
Trainee Presentation: Association Between Human Co-diversifying Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Emerson Taminang - Arizona State University, USA

10:15 - 10:30

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

10:30 - 11:00

Session 2 - Microbes in clinically relevant microbiomes

Offered talk: Gut bacteria on the Pathobiont Spectrum from Commensal to Disease Promoting Microbes

Robert Quinn - Michigan State University, USA

11:00 - 11:30
Exhibitor talk: Cmbio

11:30 - 12:00
Trainee Presentation: Metabolomic investigation of the human microbiome as a source of inhibitory small molecules against Klebsiella pathogenesis

Hannah Kim - University of Michigan, USA

12:00 - 12:15

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

12:15 - 13:15

Thursday 19 February, Afternoon

Session 3 - Synthetic Communities and Experimental Microbiomes

Offered talk: Design and dissection of synthetic communities to understand microbiota function in C. difficile inhibition

Jordan Bisanz - Pennsylvania State University, USA

13:15 - 13:45
Offered talk: Steering the Grapevine Microbiome Against Downy Mildew: From Epidemiological and Evolutionary Data to the Design of Biocontrol Synthetic Microbial Communities (SynComs)

Corinne Vacher - INRAE, France

13:45 - 14:15
Trainee Presentation: Identification and Multi-omics Validation of Minimal Synthetic Microbial Communities for the Production of Novel Water Kefir

Anik Khan - University College Cork, UK

14:15 - 14:30

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

14:30 - 15:00

Session 4 - Microbes in Environmental Microbiomes

Offered talk: Uncovering Extremophilic Cytochrome P450 enzymes from an Australian Hot Spring Through Sequence-Based Metagenomics

Simran Kundral - The University of Queensland, Australia

15:00 - 15:30
Trainee Presentation: Do epiphytic cryptogam communities and their microbiomes vary with microclimate on San Bruno Mountain?

Abbey Schedler - San Francisco State University, USA

15:30 - 15:45
Trainee Presentation: The Impacts of Long-Term Soil Warming on Rhizosphere and Free-Living Soil Microbiomes in Panama

Nicole Norve - Florida International University, USA

15:45 - 16:00

Keynote speech

Dr. Kelly Wrighton - Colorado State University, USA

16:00 - 17:00

Friday 20 February, Morning

Session 5 - Microbes in the Human Gut Microbiome

Offered talk: Gut Microbial Metabolism of Dietary Polyphenols in Health and Disease

Jan Claesen - Cleveland Clinic Research, USA

09:00 - 09:30
Offered talk: N-glycan utilisation by infant-associated species of Bifidobacterium

Lucy Crouch - University of Birmingham, UK

09:30 - 10:00
Trainee Presentation: Exercise and the Gut Microbiome: Functional Insights from Athlete Metagenomes

Tehreema Ghaffar - University of Rome "Foro Italico", Italy

10:00 - 10:15
TBC

10:15 - 10:30

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

10:30 - 11:00

Session 6 – Microbes in Food microbiomes

Outdoor Activity

11:00 - 12:00
Trainee Presentation: Accessible Whole Metagenome Shotgun Analysis of the Kombucha Microbiome: Taxonomic and Functional Insights into a Cross-Kingdom

M Alejandra Diaz De Rienzo - University of Salford, UK

12:00 - 12:15

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

12:15 - 13:15

Friday 20 February, Afternoon

Registration

Keynote speech: Unraveling Microbial Interactions and Niches Enables The Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome

Refreshments

Offered talk: A Phenotype-Based Approach Yields Selective Enrichment, Characterization, and Cultivation of Function-Specified Gut Bacterial Consortia

Offered talk: Investigating the Bacteroidales injection systems in a human gut microbe

Trainee Presentation: From prunes to bones: Anaerostipes caccae metabolites linking diet and trabecular bone in mice

Trainee Presentation: Association Between Human Co-diversifying Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Gut bacteria on the Pathobiont Spectrum from Commensal to Disease Promoting Microbes

Exhibitor talk: Cmbio

Trainee Presentation: Metabolomic investigation of the human microbiome as a source of inhibitory small molecules against Klebsiella pathogenesis

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Design and dissection of synthetic communities to understand microbiota function in C. difficile inhibition

Offered talk: Steering the Grapevine Microbiome Against Downy Mildew: From Epidemiological and Evolutionary Data to the Design of Biocontrol Synthetic Microbial Communities (SynComs)

Trainee Presentation: Identification and Multi-omics Validation of Minimal Synthetic Microbial Communities for the Production of Novel Water Kefir

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Uncovering Extremophilic Cytochrome P450 enzymes from an Australian Hot Spring Through Sequence-Based Metagenomics

Trainee Presentation: Do epiphytic cryptogam communities and their microbiomes vary with microclimate on San Bruno Mountain?

Trainee Presentation: The Impacts of Long-Term Soil Warming on Rhizosphere and Free-Living Soil Microbiomes in Panama

Keynote speech

Offered talk: Gut Microbial Metabolism of Dietary Polyphenols in Health and Disease

Offered talk: N-glycan utilisation by infant-associated species of Bifidobacterium

Trainee Presentation: Exercise and the Gut Microbiome: Functional Insights from Athlete Metagenomes

TBC

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Outdoor Activity

Trainee Presentation: Accessible Whole Metagenome Shotgun Analysis of the Kombucha Microbiome: Taxonomic and Functional Insights into a Cross-Kingdom

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Ultrasmall episymbiont Nanosynbacter lyticus employs multiple energy-generating metabolic pathways during horizontal transmission

Offered talk: Emergent properties of an engineered co-culture of electroactive bacteria

Trainee Presentation: Lipid metabolites produced by cervicovaginal microbiota modulate HPV18 oncogene expression

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Genetic conservation, dual functionality, and potential role of Ruminococcus gnavus bile salt hydrolase in inflammatory bowel disease

Trainee Presentation: Variation in the pathogenic potential of the ubiquitous human oral microbiome constituent: Fusobacterium nucleatum

Trainee Presentation: Differential Host Gene Expression with Disparate Vaginal Microbiome Profiles in Pregnancy

Keynote speech

Closing remarks and prizes

Registration

Keynote speech: Unraveling Microbial Interactions and Niches Enables The Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome

Refreshments

Offered talk: A Phenotype-Based Approach Yields Selective Enrichment, Characterization, and Cultivation of Function-Specified Gut Bacterial Consortia

Offered talk: Investigating the Bacteroidales injection systems in a human gut microbe

Trainee Presentation: From prunes to bones: Anaerostipes caccae metabolites linking diet and trabecular bone in mice

Trainee Presentation: Association Between Human Co-diversifying Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Gut bacteria on the Pathobiont Spectrum from Commensal to Disease Promoting Microbes

Exhibitor talk: Cmbio

Trainee Presentation: Metabolomic investigation of the human microbiome as a source of inhibitory small molecules against Klebsiella pathogenesis

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Design and dissection of synthetic communities to understand microbiota function in C. difficile inhibition

Offered talk: Steering the Grapevine Microbiome Against Downy Mildew: From Epidemiological and Evolutionary Data to the Design of Biocontrol Synthetic Microbial Communities (SynComs)

Trainee Presentation: Identification and Multi-omics Validation of Minimal Synthetic Microbial Communities for the Production of Novel Water Kefir

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Uncovering Extremophilic Cytochrome P450 enzymes from an Australian Hot Spring Through Sequence-Based Metagenomics

Trainee Presentation: Do epiphytic cryptogam communities and their microbiomes vary with microclimate on San Bruno Mountain?

Trainee Presentation: The Impacts of Long-Term Soil Warming on Rhizosphere and Free-Living Soil Microbiomes in Panama

Keynote speech

Offered talk: Gut Microbial Metabolism of Dietary Polyphenols in Health and Disease

Offered talk: N-glycan utilisation by infant-associated species of Bifidobacterium

Trainee Presentation: Exercise and the Gut Microbiome: Functional Insights from Athlete Metagenomes

TBC

Morning Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Outdoor Activity

Trainee Presentation: Accessible Whole Metagenome Shotgun Analysis of the Kombucha Microbiome: Taxonomic and Functional Insights into a Cross-Kingdom

Lunch, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Ultrasmall episymbiont Nanosynbacter lyticus employs multiple energy-generating metabolic pathways during horizontal transmission

Offered talk: Emergent properties of an engineered co-culture of electroactive bacteria

Trainee Presentation: Lipid metabolites produced by cervicovaginal microbiota modulate HPV18 oncogene expression

Afternoon Refreshments, posters and exhibition stalls

Offered talk: Genetic conservation, dual functionality, and potential role of Ruminococcus gnavus bile salt hydrolase in inflammatory bowel disease

Trainee Presentation: Variation in the pathogenic potential of the ubiquitous human oral microbiome constituent: Fusobacterium nucleatum

Trainee Presentation: Differential Host Gene Expression with Disparate Vaginal Microbiome Profiles in Pregnancy

Keynote speech

Closing remarks and prizes