Technical Program
ICME 2023 Technical Program
(This Program is subject to change)
Confex program - View abstracts here
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DAY 1 - December 8 |
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11:30 AM |
6:00 PM |
Registration |
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12:10 PM |
12:15 PM |
Conference Welcome & Keynote Introduction |
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12:15 PM |
1:05 PM |
Keynote Presentation |
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1:05 PM |
2:35 PM |
Session 1 - Fundamental Understanding of Microbiome Dynamics |
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1:05 PM |
1:30 PM |
Chemistry in the Rhizosphere: Using Exometabolomics and Fabricated Ecosystems to Enable |
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1:30 PM |
1:55 PM |
A bacterium that cannot grow on glucose |
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1:55 PM |
2:15 PM |
Spatiotemporal Dynamics During Niche Remodeling by Super-Colonizing |
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2:15 PM |
2:35 PM |
Building the World’s Largest Plasmid-Host Interaction Network Using Proximity Ligation Technology Benjamin Auch - Phase Genomics |
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2:35 PM |
3:00 PM |
Afternoon Coffee Break |
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3:00 PM |
4:30 PM |
Session 2 - Industrial and Food Production Applications |
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3:00 PM |
3:25 PM |
Engineering Water Infrastructure Microbiomes: Past, Present, Future |
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3:25 PM |
3:50 PM |
Engineering Synthetic Anaerobic Consortia Inspired by the Herbivore |
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3:50 PM |
4:10 PM |
Programming Electronic Communication in Microbial Consortia for Environmental Sensing Siliang Li - Rice University |
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4:10 PM |
4:30 PM |
Synbio in the Soil: Tools, Models, and Applications Natalie Farny - Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
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4:30 PM |
4:50 PM |
Lightning Talks Session A |
| 4:30 PM | 4:40 PM | Lightning Talk - Mapping Gut Microbiota Interactions That Are Robust to C. Difficile strain Variability and Nutrient Landscapes Jordy Evan Sulaiman - University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 4:40 PM | 4:45 PM |
Lightning Talk - Ultrasound Imaging of Engineered Bacteria Colonizing Tumors |
| 4:45 PM | 4:50 PM | Lightning Talk - Easily Accessible Single-Microbe Sequencing (EASi-seq) to Generate Microbiome Atlas Xiangpeng Li - University of California-San Francisco |
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6:00 PM |
Poster Session A |
| 6:30 PM |
8:00 PM |
Evening Reception hosted by Innovative Genomics Institute
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DAY 2 - December 9 |
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8:00 AM |
4:00 PM |
Registration |
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9:00 AM |
9:10 AM |
Morning Welcome |
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9:10 AM |
10:00 AM |
Keynote Presentation |
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10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Morning Coffee Break |
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10:30 AM |
11:35 AM |
Session 3 - Microbiome and Probiotic Engineering for Human and Animal Health I |
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10:30 AM |
10:55 AM |
Microbiome Engineering with Synthetic Biology |
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10:55 AM |
11:15 AM |
In Situ Targeted Mutagenesis of Gut Bacteria Jesus Fernandez-Rodriguez - Eligo Bioscience |
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11:15 AM |
11:35 AM |
Formulation Development of Probiotics for Women's and Neonatal Health Applications in Developing Countries Mairead Heavey - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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11:35 AM |
12:45 PM |
Poster Session B |
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12:45 PM |
2:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Lunch Roundtable Discussion: Innovations in DNA Synthesis Moderators: Jeremiah Hanes, PhD - Ansa Biotechnologies, Brady Cress, PhD - Innovative Genomics Institute, UC-Berkeley Kerry Lowrie, MBA, PhD-Ansa Biotechnologies |
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2:00 PM |
2:45 PM |
Session 4 - Biocontainment I |
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2:00 PM |
2:25 PM |
Engineering the Microbiome |
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2:25 PM |
2:45 PM |
Engineering Tools to Control Individual Microbes and Microbiota without Antibiotic Resistance Genes at a Single Strain Level Tae Seok Moon - Engineering Biology Research Consortium |
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2:45 PM |
3:05 PM |
Lightning Talks Session B |
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2:45 PM |
2:55 PM |
Lightning Talk - Competition and Mutualism in the Dysbiotic Vaginal Microbiome Lillian Dillard - University of Virginia |
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2:55 PM |
3:00 PM |
Lightning Talk - Targeting Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria In Vivo with Siderophore Antimicrobial Peptides from Live Engineered Probiotics Benedikt Mortzfeld - University of Massachusetts-Chan Medical School |
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3:00 PM |
3:05 PM |
Lightning Talk - Tracking Horizontal Gene Transfer in Microbiomes Using RNA Memory Joff Silberg - Rice University |
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3:30 PM |
Afternoon Coffee Break |
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3:30 PM |
4:15 PM |
Session 5 - Biocontainment II |
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3:30 PM |
3:55 PM |
Beyond Containment: Designing Safe Genetically Engineered Microbes (GEMs) for Release |
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3:55 PM |
4:15 PM |
Design of an Orthogonal and Obligate Commensalism for Organism-Based Biological Containment Aditya Kunjapur - University of Delaware |
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4:15 PM |
4:35 PM |
Lightning Talks Session C |
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4:15 PM |
4:25 PM |
Lightning Talk - The Gut Microbiota Regulates Host Metabolism through Circadian Clock Genes Nr1d1 and Nr1d2 Samskrathi Sharma - Carnegie Mellon University |
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4:25 PM |
4:30 PM |
Lightning Talk - A Bacterial Sensor Taxonomy across Earth Ecosystems for Machine Learning Applications Paramvir Dehal - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
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4:30 PM |
4:35 PM |
Lightning Talk - Tuning Interdomain Conjugation Toward in Situ Population Modification in Yeast Kevin Stindt - University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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4:35 PM |
6:00 PM |
Poster Session C |
| 6:30 PM | 8:30 PM |
Evening Reception AT Jupiter
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DAY 3 - December 10 |
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8:00 AM |
12:00 PM |
Registration |
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9:00 AM |
9:10 AM |
Morning Welcome |
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9:10 AM |
10:00 AM |
Keynote Presentation |
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10:00 AM |
10:30 AM |
Morning Coffee Break |
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10:30 AM |
12:25 PM |
Session 6 - Microbiome Engineering Tool Development |
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10:30 AM |
10:55 AM |
Conjugation as a tool for genetic engineering |
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10:55 AM |
11:20 AM |
Fungal Highways Unlock New Applications for Genetic Circuits in the Soil Microbiome |
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11:20 AM |
11:45 AM |
Rapid design of bacteriophage cocktails to suppress the burden and virulence carbapenem-resistant |
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11:45 AM |
12:05 PM |
Investigating and Leveraging Type I-F CRISPR-Associated Transposon Regulators to Improve |
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12:05 PM |
12:25 PM |
Precision Editing of Non-Model Bacteria in Native Microbiomes Using Mobile |
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12:25 PM |
1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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1:30 PM |
2:35 PM |
Session 7 - Microbiome and Probiotic Engineering for Human and Animal Health II |
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1:30 PM |
1:55 PM |
Microbiome Engineering: The Next Generation of Living Therapeutics Carlotta Ronda - Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley and UCSF |
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1:55 PM |
2:15 PM |
Combining Engineered Microbes with Gut-on-a-Chip Systems to Elucidate |
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2:15 PM |
2:35 PM |
Engineering Precise Production of Lipopolysaccharides for Intratumoral Immune Activation |
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2:35 PM |
2:45 PM |
Closing Statements |
