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Technical Program

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ICME 2023 Technical Program

(This Program is subject to change)

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DAY 1 - December 8

11:30 AM

6:00 PM

Registration

12:10 PM

12:15 PM

Conference Welcome & Keynote Introduction
Conference Chairs: Brady Cress - IGI, UC Berkeley,
Natalie Farny - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ben Rubin - IGI, UC Berkeley

12:15 PM

1:05 PM

Keynote Presentation
The Industrialized Gut Microbiome: In Need of Repair

Justin Sonnenburg - Stanford University

1:05 PM

2:35 PM 

Session 1 - Fundamental Understanding of Microbiome Dynamics
Session Chair: Ben Woolston - Northeastern

1:05 PM

1:30 PM

Chemistry in the Rhizosphere: Using Exometabolomics and Fabricated Ecosystems to Enable
Engineering Microbiomes for Sustainable Agriculture and Soil Carbon Storage

 Trent Northen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

1:30 PM

1:55 PM

A bacterium that cannot grow on glucose
 Seth Rakoff-Nahoum - Harvard Medical School

1:55 PM

2:15 PM

Spatiotemporal Dynamics During Niche Remodeling by Super-Colonizing
Bacteria in the Mammalian Gut

Guillaume Urtecho - Columbia University Irving Medical Center

2:15 PM

2:35 PM

Building the World’s Largest Plasmid-Host Interaction Network Using Proximity Ligation Technology
Benjamin Auch - Phase Genomics

2:35 PM

3:00 PM

Afternoon Coffee Break

3:00 PM

4:30 PM 

Session 2 - Industrial and Food Production Applications
Session Chair: Natalie Farny - Worcester Polytechnic Institute

3:00 PM

3:25 PM

Engineering Water Infrastructure Microbiomes: Past, Present, Future
Kara Nelson - University of California-Berkeley

3:25 PM

3:50 PM

Engineering Synthetic Anaerobic Consortia Inspired by the Herbivore
Rumen for Biomass Breakdown and Conversion

Michelle O'Malley - University of California-Santa Barbara

3:50 PM

4:10 PM

Programming Electronic Communication in Microbial Consortia for Environmental Sensing
Siliang Li - Rice University

4:10 PM

4:30 PM

Synbio in the Soil: Tools, Models, and Applications
Natalie Farny - Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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
and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Marjorie Buss - California Institute of Technology

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
4:50 PM

6:00 PM

Poster Session A

6:30 PM

8:00 PM

Evening Reception hosted by Innovative Genomics Institute
Directions to IGI

 

 

 

   

DAY 2 - December 9

8:00 AM

4:00 PM

Registration

9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Morning Welcome 

9:10 AM

10:00 AM

Keynote Presentation
Microbiome-directed Interventions to Improve Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes in the Global South
Vanessa Ridaura - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Morning Coffee Break

10:30 AM

11:35 AM 

Session 3 - Microbiome and Probiotic Engineering for Human and Animal Health I
Session Chair: Megan McClean - University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:30 AM

10:55 AM

Microbiome Engineering with Synthetic Biology
 Timothy Lu - Senti Bio

10:55 AM

11:15 AM

In Situ Targeted Mutagenesis of Gut Bacteria
Jesus Fernandez-Rodriguez - Eligo Bioscience

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

11:35 AM

12:45 PM

Poster Session B

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

2:00 PM

 2:45 PM

Session 4 - Biocontainment I
Session Chair: Tae Seok Moon - Engineering Biology Research Consortium 

2:00 PM

2:25 PM

Engineering the Microbiome
 Chris Voigt - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 

2:45 PM

3:05 PM 

Lightning Talks Session B

2:45 PM

2:55 PM

Lightning Talk - Competition and Mutualism in the Dysbiotic Vaginal Microbiome
Lillian Dillard - University of Virginia

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

3:00 PM

3:05 PM

Lightning Talk - Tracking Horizontal Gene Transfer in Microbiomes Using RNA Memory
Joff Silberg - Rice University
3:05 PM

3:30 PM

Afternoon Coffee Break

3:30 PM

 4:15 PM

Session 5 - Biocontainment II
Session Chair: Tae Seok Moon

3:30 PM

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