Program
15 July 2021 | Thursday
5-9am Hawaii | 11am-3pm New York | 4-8pm Lisbon | 5-9pm Berlin
Times below refer to Lisbon time zone
04:00 pm | Welcome address
04:10 pm | Invited Speaker
The Microbiome in the Anthropocene
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello
04:55 pm | Break
05:15 pm | Ecological diversification and incipient speciation in an ecoevolutionary model of resource competition
Massimo Amicone
05:30 pm | Chemotaxis and AI-2 signaling promote gut colonization and drive niche segregation of Escherichia coli strains in the mammalian gut
Leanid Laganenka
05:45 pm | Multi-kingdom ecological drivers of microbiota assembly in preterm infants
Katharine Z. Coyte
06:00 pm | Gut mélange à trois: fluctuating selection modulated by microbiota, host immune system, and antibiotics
Hugo Barreto
06:15 pm | Break
06:30 pm | The story of Torix group Rickettsia: A widespread but neglected symbiont of invertebrates
Jack Pilgrim
06:45 pm | Establishment of synthetic biofilm community as a model system for freshwater periphyton
Olga Lamprecht
07:00 pm | Disentangling the impact of environmental and phylogenetic constraints on prokaryotic species diversity
Oleksandr Maistrenko
07:15 pm | Nutritional symbionts of leeches: who, where, and what?
Alejandro Manzano-Marín
07:30 pm | Development of Engineered Probiotics to Deliver Narrow-Spectrum Siderophore Antimicrobial Peptides Against Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria
Benedikt M. Mortzfeld
16 July 2021
3-8h30 am Hawaii | 9 am-2:30 pm New York | 2-7:30 pm Lisbon | 3-8:30 pm Berlin
Times below refer to Lisbon time zone
02:00 pm | Invited Speaker / IGC Friday Seminar
Spontaneous body wall contractions shape and stabilize the symbiotic microbiota in Hydra
Thomas Bosch
03:00 pm | Break
04:00 pm | Networking session
05:00 pm | Break
05:15 pm | Nitrate as a prebiotic and nitrate-reducing species as potential probiotics to improve oral health –in vitro and in vivo evidence
Bob T. Rosier
05:30 pm | How the elimination of a single glycan shaped primate evolution
Sumnima Singh
05:45 pm | Potential Evolutionary Implications of Reproductive Tract Microbiota in the Polygynandrous Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus)
Liisa Veerus
06:00 pm | The Preoperative Presence of Prevotella associates with Anastomotic Healing after Colorectal Surgery
Konstantina Zafeiropoulou
06:15 pm | Break
06:30 pm | Invited Speaker
A ridge-to-reef ecosystem microbial census characterizes environmental reservoirs for animal and plant microbiomes.
Nicole Hynson
07:15 pm |Closing Remarks
Invited Speaker talks: 30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion
Invited Speaker / IGC Friday Seminar: 60 minutes total
Alumni talks: 10 minutes + 5 minutes discussion