Technical Program
Technical Program
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Technical Program
(this program is subject to change)
| Day 1 - Nov 12 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM |
Morning Welcome |
| 9:10 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote Eric Alm - MIT Session Chair: Tae Seok Moon - J. Craig Venter Institute |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Session 1 - Engineering Animal Microbiome Systems Session Chair: Nikhil Nair - Tufts University |
| 10:30 AM | 10:55 AM | Harnessing Microbiome Engineering to Mitigate Enteric Methane Emissions and Enhance Livestock Productivity Arvind Kumar - Biomedit |
| 10:55 AM | 11:20 AM | Vaccination of Cattle to Reduce Enteric Methane Emissions Matt Dunn - ArkeaBio |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | A Conserved Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity Based on Live Imaging of Colonization Dynamics Karina Gutierrez Garcia - Carnegie Institution for Science |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Unveiling the Honey Bee 'dark Matter': Engineering Bacterial Symbionts As Noninvasive Biosensors for the Bee Gut Environment Audam Chhun - University of Lausanne |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | 3:05 PM | Session 2 - Microbiome and Probiotic Engineering for Human Health Session Chair: Tae Seok Moon - J. Craig Venter Institute |
| 1:30 PM | 1:55 PM | Engineered probiotics for mucosal drug delivery Anik Debnath - TenzaBio |
| 1:55 PM | 2:15 PM | Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Var. Boulardii as an Orally Delivered Carrier of Gut-Directed Therapies Miranda Wallace - Washington University School of Medicine |
| 2:15 PM | 2:35 PM | Engineering the Skin Commensal Cutibacterium Acnes to Benefit Human Health Nastassia Knödlseder - University Pompeu Fabra |
| 2:35 PM | 2:55 PM | Positive Prognosis: Factors Impacting Native E. coli-Based Live Bacterial Competition and Engraftment in the Gut Nicole Siguenza - UC San Diego |
| 2:55 PM | 3:00 PM | Lightning Talk: Exploring the Landscape of Medium Chain Fatty Acid Production of a Synthetic Anaerobic Bacterial Community Using a Bottom-up Systems Biology Approach Madeline Hayes - UW Madison |
| 3:00 PM | 3:05 PM | Lightning Talk: Employing Siderophore Antimicrobial Peptides to Target Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria In Vivo Using Live Engineered Probiotics Benedikt Mortzfeld - UMass Chan Med School |
| 3:05 PM | 3:40 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:40 PM | 5:30 PM | Session 3 - Underlying Science of Microbial Dynamics in Microbiomes Session Chair: Eric Young - WPI |
| 3:40 PM | 4:05 PM | Bayesian optimization of microbial consortia and fibers to promote gut microbiome functions Jaron Thompson - Duke University |
| 4:05 PM | 4:30 PM | Using ecological principles to build and manage microbiomes Benjamin Wolfe - Tufts University |
| 4:30 PM | 4:50 PM | Engineering Microbes for Environmental Release: Hyperspectral Monitoring, Long-Term Field Studies, and Genetic Tools for Bacteria in the Wild Yonatan Chemla - MIT |
| 4:50 PM | 5:10 PM | Engineering Microbial Consortia: Uptake and Leakage Rate Differentially Shape Community Arrangement and Composition Estelle Pignon - University of Lausanne |
| 5:10 PM | 5:30 PM | Defined Symbiotic Communities of Saccharomyces Boulardii and Probiotic Bacteria Increase the Production of Anti-Inflammatory Effectors in Vitro Karl Alex Hedin - Technical University of Denmark |
| 5:30 PM | 5:35 PM | First Day Closing |
| Day 2 - Nov 13 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Morning Welcome |
| 9:10 AM | 10:00 AM | Keynote Presentation: Exploring Vaginal Microbiome Dynamics through Synthetic Microbial Communities Dominated by Lactobacillus Species Sarah Lebeer - University of Antwerp Session Chair: Nikhil Nair - Tufts University |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Session 4 - Microbiome Engineering Tool Development I Session Chair: Nikhil Nair - Tufts University |
| 10:30 AM | 10:55 AM | Massively Parallel Screening of Microbial Communities Jared Kehe - Concerto Biosciences |
| 10:55 AM | 11:20 AM | Engineering Genetic Tools to Control Individual Microbes and Microbiota without Antibiotic Resistance Genes at a Single Strain Level Tae Seok Moon - J Craig Venter Institute |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | RNA-Addressable Memory Identifies Bacteriophage Host Range in Microbial Communities Zachary LaTurner - Rice University |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Blueberry - Size Capsule for Detecting Labile Inflammatory Biomarkers in Situ Maria Eugenia Inda - MIT |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Session 5 - Microbiome Engineering Tool Development II Session Chair: Nathan Crook - NCSU |
| 1:30 PM | 1:55 PM | Designing a high-throughput platform for assessing microbial dynamics in native environments Tagbo Niepa - Carnegie Mellon University |
| 1:55 PM | 2:15 PM | Population-Level Amplification of Gene Regulation By Programmable Gene Transfer Hye-In Son - Duke University |
| 2:15 PM | 2:35 PM | Predictive Multi-Scale Models of Artificial Microbial Communities and Micro-Environments Samuel Oliveira - North Carolina A&T State University |
| 2:35 PM | 2:40 PM | Lightning Talk: Using Observational Data to Guide Early Decision-Making in the Probiotic Development Pipeline: Hypertension As a Case Study Anita Silver - Duke University |
| 2:40 PM | 2:45 PM |
Lightning Talk: Developing a Probiotic Therapy for Phenylketonuria Using Bacterial and Enzyme Engineering |
| 2:45 PM | 2:50 PM | Lightning Talk: Programming Microbial Consortia Using Ribozyme-Based Memory and Sensing Devices August Staubus - Rice University |
| 2:50 PM | 3:30 PM | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 3:30 PM | 6:00 PM | Poster Session |
| Day 3 - Nov 14 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | 9:10 AM | Morning Welcome |
| 9:10 AM | 10:40 AM | Session 6 - Engineering Plant and Soil Microbiome Systems Session Chair: Kirsten Benjamin - Pivot Bio |
| 9:10 AM | 9:35 AM | Engineering Auxin-Mediated Plant-Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere Microbiome Jonathan Conway - Princeton |
| 9:35 AM | 10:00 AM | Can Engineering Resource Interactions Mediate Functionalities in the Microbiome? Linda Kinkel - University of Minnesota |
| 10:00 AM | 10:20 AM | Gene-Edits in Microbial Inoculants to Enable Partial Replacement of Synthetic N Fertilizer Neal Shah - Pivot Bio |
| 10:20 AM | 10:40 AM | Engineering Plant-Rhizobacteria Interactions for Sustainable Agriculture Gözde Demirer - Caltech |
| 10:40 AM | 11:10 AM | Morning Coffee Break |
| 11:10 AM | 12:20 PM | Session 7 - Microbiome and Probiotic Engineering for Non-biomedical Applications Session Chair: Ruben Vazquez-Uribe - KU-Leuven |
| 11:10 AM | 11:35 AM | Engineering microbial division of labor for plastic upcycling Ting Lu - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 11:35 AM | 12:00 PM | Engineering gut microbiome composition and function using polysaccharide fine structure Steve Lindemann - Purdue University |
| 12:00 PM | 12:20 PM | Microbial Valorization of Lobster Shell Chitin Sara Aliyeva - UMass Dartmouth |
| 12:20 PM | 12:30 PM | Closing Statements |