Technical Program
Monday, December 2nd
| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Christopher Voigt, Massachusetts Institute of Technologies |
| 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM | SESSION 1: Emerging technologies to manipulate and study microbiomes |
| Session Chair: Ophelia Venturelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Lawrence David, Duke University |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Dan Cornforth, Georgia Tech |
| 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 AM - 11:35 AM |
High-Throughput Isolation and Automated Sorting of Diverse Microbiomes Reduce Biases of Traditional Cultivation Strategies Bill Watterson, University of Chicago |
| 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM |
High-Throughput Characterization of Host-Bacteriophage Interactions with an Eye Towards Emerging Pathogenic Threats Benjamin A. Adler, UC Berkeley |
| 11:50 AM - 12:05 PM |
Validation of CRISPR-Based Tools for Engineering Bacteroides Species As Living Therapeutics Agn猫s Orom铆-Bosch, Caribou Biosciences |
| 12:05 PM - 12:20 PM |
Microsplit: Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Technology for Microbes Anna Kuchina, University of Washington |
| 12:20 PM - 12:35 PM |
Engineering Microbiomes Using Physical-Organic Chemistry Mohit Verma, Purdue University |
| 12:35 PM - 12:50 PM |
California Institute of TechnologyRemote Control of Cellular Localization in the Gastrointestinal Tract Using Magnetic Particles Marjorie T. Buss, California Institute of Technology |
| 12:50 PM - 2:20 PM | Lunch |
| 2:20 PM - 5:20 PM | SESSION 2: Computational modeling to predict and understand microbiomes |
| Session Chair: Rachel Haurwitz, Caribou Biosciences, Inc. | |
| 2:20 PM - 2:50 PM |
Controlling microbial communities: theory for the user Marco Tulio Angulo, National Autonomous University of Mexico |
| 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM | Alex Kostic, Harvard Medical School |
| 3:20 PM - 3:35 PM |
Predicting Function from Composition: A Synthetic Ecology Approach to Understand Butyrate Production By Human Gut Microbiome Communities Ryan L. Clark, UW-Madison |
| 3:35 PM - 3:50 PM |
Computational Design of Synthetic Microbial Communities Incorporating Competitive and Cooperative Interactions Behzad D. Karkaria, University of College London |
| 3:50 PM - 4:05 PM |
Systems Modelling of the Skin Microbiome Rachita Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology |
| 4:05 PM - 4:20 PM | Coffee Break |
| 4:20 PM - 4:50 PM | Kelsey Wheeler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 4:50 PM - 5:05 PM |
Microbiome Exploration and Discovery Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 5:05 PM - 5:20 PM |
Systems Modelling of the Skin Microbiome Florian Centler, UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research |
| 5:20 PM - 6:30 PM | Poster Session and Reception |
Tuesday, December 3rd
| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Wendy Garrett, Harvard School of Public Health |
| 9:45 AM - 12:15 PM | SESSION 3: Engineering of organisms and communities for the environment and biotransformations |
| Session Chair: Matthew J. Scarborough | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Sloan Devlin, Harvard Medical School |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Steve Van Dien, Persephone Biome |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Peter Andeer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Ultra-High Throughput Screening of Synthetic Microbial Communities in Agriculture and Human Health Jared Kehe, Massachusetts Institute of Technologies |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
A Guild-Based Metabolic Model Improves Understanding of a Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Producing Microbiome Matthew J. Scarborough, University of Vermont |
| 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM |
An Investigation into Ratiometric Control for Synthetic Ecosystems Alice Boo, Imperial College of London |
| 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM - 5:00 PM | SESSION 4: Engineering therapeutic microbes for clinical applications |
| Session Chair: Kevin R. Foster, University of Oxford | |
| 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Cammie Lesser, Harvard Medical School |
| 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Mark Charbonneau, Synlogic |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Weston Whitaker, Novome Biotechnologies |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Rajita Menon, Vedanta Biosciences |
| 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM |
Engineering Commensal Clostridia for Therapeutic Microbiome Interventions Ben Bradley, CHAIN Biotechnology |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM |
Engineering Bacterial Therapy in Multicellular Coculture Model Tetsuhiro Harimoto, Columbia University |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM |
Towards Engineered Probiotics to Deliver Narrow-Spectrum Antimicrobial Peptides Against Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria Benedikt M. Mortzfeld, University of Massachusetts Medical School |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM |
Depletion of Microbiome-Derived Molecules in the Host Using Clostridium Genetics Tingting Li, Stanford University |
Wednesday, December 4th
| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Morning Coffee |
| 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Wenyuan Shi, Forsyth Institute |
| 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | PANEL DISCUSSION: Challenges in microbiome engineering: spanning distinct areas of expertise |
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Kevin R. Foster, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator: Rachel Haurwitz, Caribou Biosciences, Inc. | |
| 11:15 AM - 11:35 AM | Closing Remarks |
