| Event area: Bldg. 50 Auditorium | Break area: IGB (Bldg. 91) 3rd floor lounge area | ||
Session 1Thursday, August 24, 2023 |
New Lineages and New Functions |
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| 08:00 – 08:55 AM | Registration and Badge pick-up on the 3rd floor IGB (Bldg 91) | |
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08:55 – 09:00 AM |
Welcome Remarks |
Bldg. 50 Auditorium Frederik Schulz, New Lineages of Life Lead |
| 09:00 – 09:25 AM | “Life in black goo: multi-omics of biofouling at municipal landfills” | Invited speaker 1: Laura Hug, University of Waterloo |
| 09:25 – 09:30 AM | Questions | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 AM | Chosen Abstract Speakers (4 speakers x 10 minutes talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “A novel bacterial phylum for the deep subsurface” | Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware | |
| “The Indigenous Microbiome of a Tetrachloroethene (PCE)-Contaminated Superfund site subjected to enhanced in-situ reductive dechlorination (ERD)” | Rebecca Reiss, New Mexico Tech | |
| “Isolation and characterization the first methanogenic Archaeglobi: Methanoglobus nevadensis XG-1” | Grayson Chadwick, UC Berkeley | |
| “Temporal biology of a microbial community revealed by diel metatranscriptomics” | Amanda Shelton, Carnegie Science | |
| 10:30 – 10:55 AM | Break | Bldg. 91 |
| 10:55 – 11:20 AM | “New insights on the origin of plastids from the uncultured microbial diversity” | Invited Speaker 2: Fabien Burki, Uppsala University |
| 11:20 – 11:25 AM | Questions | |
| 11:25 – 12:25 PM | Chosen Abstract Speakers (4 speakers x 10 minutes talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “Missing Genomes: Predicting the phylogenetic and geographic distribution of uncharacterized microbes in 16S” | Nate Cira, Cornell University (Virtual) | |
| “Inference of Global Eukaryotic Phylogeny using Newly Identified Sets of Proteins”
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Eunsoo Kim, Ewha Womans University / American Museum of Natural History | |
| “Marker gene based survey of microbial eukaryotes across Earth’s biomes reveals new lineages and functions” | Miguel F. Romero, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| “Finding a home for orphans: evaluating the phylogenetic placement and genome evolution of malawimonads” | Xyrus Maurer-Alcala, American Museum of Natural History | |
| 12:25 – 01:50 PM | Lunch
**01:15 – 01:45 PM JGI Tour |
Bldg. 91
Bldg. 91 1st floor indoor area |
Session 2 |
Microbial Symbioses |
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| 01:50- 02:15 PM | “Experimental evolution coupled with whole genome sequencing reveals the selective drivers of mutualism decline” | Invited Speaker 3: Rebecca Batstone, McMaster University |
| 02:15 – 02:20 PM | Questions | |
| 02:20 – 03:05 PM | Chosen Abstract Speakers (3 speakers x 10 minutes talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “Evolution of sulfate reducing bacteria towards a syntrophic partnership with anaerobic methanotrophic archaea” | Ranjani Murali, California Institute of Technology | |
| “A newly discovered symbiotic lineage of Cercozoa (Eukaryota: Rhizaria) infects colonial green algae (Eukaryota: Archaeplastida)” | Vasily Zlatogursky, University of British Columbia (Virtual) | |
| “Saccharibacteria harness light energy using type-1 rhodopsins that may rely on retinal sourced from microbial hosts” | Alexander Jaffe, Stanford University (Virtual) | |
| 03:05 – 03:35 PM | Break | Bldg. 91 |
| 03:35 – 04:00 PM | “Big tiny blindspots: New lineages that change how we interpret major transition in evolution” | Invited Speaker 2: Patrick Keeling, University of British Columbia (Virtual) |
| 04:00 – 04:05 PM | Questions | |
| 04:05 – 04:50 PM | Chosen Abstract Speakers (3 speakers x 10 minutes talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “First steps towards defining the role of aiptasia microbiome in facilitating host response to climate change” | Maggie Sogin, UC Merced | |
| “Insights from environmental metagenomics: multiple independent evolution of host association in Rickettsiales” | Tiago Nardi, University of Pavia | |
| 05:00 – 07:00 PM | Meet the Speakers Reception | IGB (Bldg 91), 3rd Floor Cafe area |
Session 3Friday, August 25, 2023 |
Evolution of Cellular Complexity |
AM / PM Refreshments to be served at Bldg 50 |
| 09:00 – 09:25 AM | “The energetic cost of complexity in cell evolution” | Invited Speaker 3: Sergio Munoz Gomez, Purdue University |
| 09:25 – 09:30 AM | Questions | |
| 09:30 – 10:15 AM | Chosen Abstract Speakers (3 speakers x 10 minutes talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “A computational screen for alternative genetic codes in over 250,000 genomes” | Yeketerina Shulgina, UC Berkeley | |
| “ATP synthase evolution on a cross-braced date tree of life” | Tara Mahendrarajah, NIOZ (Virtual) | |
| “Elucidating the ecology, evolution, and genome biology of protists in extreme environments” | Hannah Rappaport, Syracuse University (Virtual) | |
| 10:15 – 10:40 AM | Break | Bldg. 50 |
| 10:40 – 11:05 AM | “Symbioses, the deep roots and diversification of cellular life” | Invited Speaker 4: Anja Spang, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NIOZ (Virtual) |
| 11:05 – 11:10 AM | Questions | |
| 11:10 – 11:55 AM | Chosen Abstract Speaker (3 speakers x 10 minute talk, 5 minutes Q&A) | |
| “Characterizing the genetic determinants of plasmid-host interactions” | Jigyasa Arora, UC Berkeley | |
| Comparative Analysis of stem cell niches across eukaryota: Single-Cell insites into transcriptional mechanisms of cell type differentiation” | Alexis Garretson, JGI / The Jackson Lab | |
| “Extant DNA Polymerase A Enzymes Evolved from Uracil-DNA Glycosylase-DNA Polymerase Fusions that Pervade in the Global Metavirome” | Ryan Doss, University of Nevada | |
| 11:55 – 01:30 PM | Lunch | Bldg. 91 |
Session 4 |
Methods to discover the undiscovered |
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| 01:30 – 01:55 PM | “Not your grandma’s methanogens: First-time cultivation of methanogens of phylum Thermoproteota” | Invited Speaker 5: Anthony Kohtz, Montana State University for Roland Hatzenpichler |
| 01:55 – 02:00 PM | Questions | |
| 01:00 – 02:45 PM | Chosen Abstract Speaker (3 speakers x 10 minute talk, 5 minute Q&A) | |
| “Discovery of novel degradation pathways in microbial communities using Photoaffinity labeling (PAL)” | Saad Naseem, Joint Bio Energy Institute (Virtual) | |
| “Physiological and Evolutionary studies of signaling pathways regulating methanogenesis” | Dipti Nayak, UC Berkeley | |
| “Identifying DNA methylation patterns and cognate restriction systems in non-model microbes with nanopore sequencing” | Alexander Crits-Christoph, Cultivarium | |
| 02:45 – 03:05 PM | Break | Bldg. 50 |
| 03:05 – 03:30 PM | “Assessing microbial activity and community diversity in marine environments using single cell sorting and genomics” | Invited Speaker 6: Nicole Poulton, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences |
| 03:30 – 03:35 PM | Questions | |
| 03:35 – 04:20 PM | Chosen Abstract Speaker (3 Speakers x 10 minute talk, 5 minute Q&A) | |
| “Fast pangenome species limitations are as good as ANI” | Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb, Wilfrid Laurier University (Virtual) | |
| “Missing microbial eukaryotes and misleading meta-omic conclusions” | Arianna Krinos , JGI / MIT-WHOI | |
| “Sediment-burrowing Chironomid larvae impact methane cycling in wetlands” | S. Emil Ruff, The Marine Biological Laboratory | |
| 04:20 – 05:00 PM | Meet the speakers | |