Annual OSU Microbial Communities Symposium
Fri. April 12, 12-4pm
Energy Advancement and Innovation Center, Room 130
Microbial Community Friends – it’s your time to shine!
Join us for the Annual OSU Microbial Communities Symposium!
Early Registration deadline: midnight, March 22nd for lunch.
Registration open March 23 - April 12: No lunch guaranteed
Registration is free but required to plan for attendance and refreshments.
Abstract submission for the poster session now closed. Thank you for your submissions!
This year we will feature a special session on Microbiome Science and Latin America in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies.
Symposium will be in-person with session recordings available after the conference per speaker consent.
Come invigorate your microbiome with exciting science and networking with amazing OSU colleagues!
OSU Microbial Communities Symposium Agenda
April 12, 12-4pm
Co-hosted by the Infectious Diseases Institute Microbial Communities Program and the Center of Microbiome Science
11:45am-12pm | Pick up Lunch
12:05 pm | Welcome and Introduction
Announce CoMS Trainee Travel Awards
12:15-1pm | Opening Session
Keynote: Dr. Karen Dannemiller: Microbial function indoors: Implications for maintaining healthier built environments on Earth and in space
Featured speaker: Dr. Darryl Wesener: In vivo manipulation of human gut Bacteroides fitness by abiotic oligosaccharides
1-2 pm | Poster Session/Networking
Abstracts available at: https://go.osu.edu/abstracts_microbial_communities
2 pm | Introduce General Session
2:05-3 pm | General session
Dr. Miqdad Dhariwala: Commensal-myeloid crosstalk in neonatal skin regulates long-term cutaneous type 17 inflammation
Dr. Alison Bennett: Selenium-driven evolution in soil microbiomes
Dr. Karna Gowda: On prediction and predictability of microbial community function
3-3:15 pm | Networking Break
3:15-4 pm | Microbiome Science and Latin America - Session hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center of Microbiome Science
Dr. Barbara Piperata: Ecoculturing the Infant Gut Microbiome in the Urban Amazon
Dr. Soledad Benitez Ponce: Eras tour – Benitez Ponce versión
Dr. Luis Martinez Villegas: Searching for evidence of niche construction: do Aedes aegypti females actively modify the bacterial signature profile of breeding sites through oviposition?
Christian Quiles: From Puerto Rico to Microbiome Sciences: Studying Lachnospiraceae’s Metabolism and Physiology
Panel Discussion
Optional Social at Somewhere in Particular
LOGISTICS
Bus service: Service to the EAIC building in Carmenton: https://ttm.osu.edu/bus/carmenton-transit
Parking: The Innovation lot has WA, WB, and WC spaces – any central permit can park out here too. For anyone without a pass, there is Pay-by-plate via park mobile using section # 69367