Early next week, we will send out the Abstract e-book via email.
If you would also like to receive a printed copy, please indicate your preference by Friday, May 31st (conference2024symbnet@igc.gulbenkian.pt)
Monday, 10th June, 2024
12:00pm - 01:15pm → Arrival and registration
01:15pm - 01:30pm → Welcome and opening remarks
01:30pm - 02:00pm → Opening talk :
02:00pm - 05:30pm → Session 1: Evolutionary adaptation of host-microbe associations (Session organized and sponsored by CRC1182)
02:00pm - 02:30pm → Plenary session:
02:30pm - 02:45pm → Francesco Comandatore, "Does the host regulate Wolbachia gene expression?"
02:45pm - 03:00pm → Tal Dagan, "Evolution of a domesticated symbiosis plasmid in the plant-associated Pantoea."
03:00pm - 03:15pm → Junchen Deng, "The long-term stability following extreme genome fragmentation in an ancient endosymbiont of planthoppers"
03:15pm - 03:45pm → Coffee break
03:45pm - 04:15pm → Plenary Session:
04:15pm - 04:30pm → Charlotte Huyghe, "Gut microbiome dynamics and digestive adaptations in a cichlid adaptative radiation"
04:30pm - 04:45pm → Yaara Oppenheimer, "Exploring the dymanic interpaly of mobile genetic elements and their role in plant-microbial symbiosis"
04:45pm - 05:00pm → Francesca Pinton, "Photosymbiosis and immunity evolution: hints from acoel flatworms"
05:00pm - 05:15pm → Daniela Ramirez-Sanchez, " Characterization of the microRNA/target pairs involved in the symbiosis between Arabidopsis thaliana and Piriformospora indica"
05:15pm - 05:30pm → Emily Stevens, "Whitin-host competition sparks pathogens molecular evolution and perpetual microbiota dysbiosis"
05:30pm - 07:00pm → Poster session (odd numbers)
07:30pm → Dinner
Tuesday, 11th June 2024
09:00am - 12:30pm → Session 2: Ecological interactions within host-microbe symbiosis
09:00am - 09:30am → Plenary session:
09:30am - 09:45am → João Barnabé, "Harnessing microbiota from wild legumes for drought-resilient crops: insights from the Iberian Peninsula"
09:45am - 10:00am → Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga, "Drug-induced alterations in community composition drives the loss of colonization resistance against Salmonella Typhimurium"
10:00am - 10:15am → Luis Franco, "Impact of crop rotation on microbial diversity in maize soil of Guatemala"
10:15am - 10:30am → Laura Glendinning, "Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact on microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia"
10:30am - 11:00am → Coffee break
11:00am - 11:30am → Plenary Session:
11:30am - 11:45am → Nicola Kriefall, "The relative importance of host-associated vs. environmental microbes for mosquito larvae changes with diet"
11:45am - 12:00pm → Aditi Pandit, "Natural existing arbuscular mycorrhizal-bacterial biofilm associations and their functional behavior"
12:00pm - 12:15pm → Johana Rotterova, "Intraspecific variation in a syntrophic symbiosis between marine anaerobic ciliates and intrecellular methanogens"
12:15pm - 12:30pm → Camila Souza Beraldo, “The microbiota composition of an insect community is explained by species and seasonality differences but not habitat disturbance”
12:30pm - 02:00pm → Lunch
02:00pm - 03:00pm → Free time
03:30pm - 07:00pm → Social activity - Boat trip along Ria Formosa
Free dinner in town (participants organize their own dinner)
Wednesday, 12th June 2024
09:00am - 12:30pm → Session 3: Metabolic interactions within host-microbe symbiosis
09:00am - 09:30am → Plenary session:
09:30am - 09:45am → Greta Bellinzona, "Harnessing structural predictions to understand host-symbiont dynamics: the strange case of Midichloria mitochondrii"
09:45am - 10:00am → Lena Best, "Metabolic modeling reveals aging-associated decline of host-microbiome metabolic interactions in mice"
10:00am - 10:15am → Sarela Garcia-Santamarina, “Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment”
10:15am - 10:30am → Ana Figueiredo, "The role of biliverdin reductase A in malaria"
10:30am - 11:00am → Coffee break
11:00am - 11:30am → Plenary Session:
11:30am - 11:45am → Camila Fiori Pereira, "Unraveling metabolic exchange in a multipartite symbiosis"
11:45am - 12:00pm → Elie Jami, "Systematic discovery of prokaryotic symbionts of ciliate protozoa in the rumen"
12:00pm - 12:15pm → Waldan Kwong, "Cell atlas of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) hindgut, a symbiotic organ"
12:15pm - 12:30pm → David Sannino, "Investigations into the metabolic interplay of Drosophila melanogaster and its microbiota"
12:30pm - 02:00pm → Lunch
02:00pm - 05:30pm → Session 4: From understanding to engineering microbiomes (Session organized and sponsored by NCCR Microbiomes)
02:00pm - 02:30pm → Plenary session:
02:30pm - 02:45pm → Mónica Cordeiro Louro, "Biofilm formation in multicellular gut microbiota communities"
02:45pm - 03:00pm → Grant Hughes, "Characterising the native resident Wolbachia strains of Anopheles mosquitoes and exploitation for malaria control"
03:00pm - 03:15pm → Martin Jahn, "Mapping the biogeography of the gut microbiome: from spatial ecology to disease resistance"
03:15pm - 03:30pm → Michael Knopp, "Microbial context-dependence in the evolution of antibiotic resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae"
03:30pm - 04:00pm → Coffee break
04:00pm - 04:30pm → Plenary Session:
04:30pm - 04:45pm → Elena Matveishina, "GEMsembler: a package for comparing and combining ensemble of genome-scale metabolic models to study microbial metabolism"
04:45pm - 05:00pm → Marta Salvado Silva, "Evolutionary trajectories of gut bacteria determine intestinal colonization resistance"
05:00pm - 05:15pm → Gonçalo Santos-Matos, " Competition Between Honeybee Gut Symbionts is Modulated by the Type 6 Secretion System"
05:30pm - 07:30pm → Poster session (even numbers)
07:30pm -02:00am → Conference dinner & party
Thursday, 13th June 2024
09:00am - 12:30pm → Session 5: Mutualistic to pathogenic continuum in symbiosis
09:00am - 09:30am → Plenary session:
09:30am - 09:45am → Angela Xu, " Evolution of gut symbionts over a single lifespan can reduce host longevity"
09:45am - 10:00am → Muhammad Bilal Haider, " Friend or Foe: Unravelling the genetic complexities of host control over beneficial microbes"
10:00am - 10:15am → Ronja Krüsemer, "Creating a genetically tractable symbiosis: experimental symbiont replacement in grain pest beetles"
10:15am - 10:30am → Brian Lazzaro, " Serratia marcescens uses anti-immune defenses to infect Drosophila melanogaster"
10:30am - 11:00am → Coffee break
11:00am - 11:30am → Plenary Session:
11:30am - 11:45am → Eglantine Mathieu-Begne, " If the door is locked, take another one: Evolution of alternative entrance points for a parasite"
11:45am - 12:00pm → Claudia Pogoreutz, " The role of Endozoicomonas in marine animal hosts: The good, the bad, and the commensal"
12:00pm - 12:15pm → Cintia Cansado Utrilla, " Commensal to pathogen transition in the mosquito gut"
12:15pm - 01:45pm → Lunch
13:45pm - 16:45pm → Session 6: Microbes and host development and physiology
01:45pm - 02:15pm → Plenary Session:
02:15pm - 02:30pm → Anna Zaidman-Rémy, "Eavesdropping on the intimate dialogue between an insect and its nutritional endosymbiont along key stages of their life together"
02:30pm - 02:45pm → Jan Taubenheim, "Metazoan Transcriptional Responses to Microbiome Dynamics Reveal Species-Specific Adaptations"
02:45pm - 03:00pm → Adam Dobson, "Acetobacter modulate Drosophila lifespan and metabolism via gut-brain Tk-TkR99D signalling"
03:00pm - 03:30pm → Coffee break
03:30pm - 03:45pm → Sílvia Henriques, "How diet-microbiome-host interactions remodel the fly metabolic landscape, appetite, and physiology"
03:45pm - 04:00pm → Sara Dendene, "Sinorhizobium meliloti FcrX coordinates cell cycle and division during freeliving growth and symbiosis through a ClpXP-dependent mechanism"
04:00pm - 04:15pm → Ayele Argaw Denboba, "Host-microbiota interactions: from the father's gut to the unborn child"
04:15pm - 04:45pm → Plenary Session:
04:45pm - 05:00pm → Poster Awards, Best Talk Awards and Closing remarks