Final Agenda
Thursday Jan 16th
Avedisian Hall, University of Rhode Island
4:00-5:00 pm Registrants – First Floor Atrium
Upon arrival please check in at the registrant table to pick up a program booklet and name badge
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm – 170 Avedisian Hall
5:00-5:15 pm Welcoming Remarks
Christopher Hemme, PhD., Rhode Island INBRE Bioinformatics Core Director
Dr. Bongsup Cho, PhD., Rhode Island INBRE Program Director
Dr. Paul Larrat, PhD., Dean, College of Pharmacy, University of Rhode Island
5:15-6:00 pm Keynote Speaker 1
Dr. Tami Lieberman, Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering, MIT
“De novo mutations in human skin microbiomes”
6:00-8:00 pm Poster Session and Networking Reception – 1st Floor Atrium, Avedisian Hall
Friday Jan 17th
Avedisian Hall, University of Rhode Island
7:00-8:30 am Registrants – First Floor Atrium
Upon arrival please check in at the registrant table to pick up a program booklet and name badge
8:30 am to 12:00 pm – 170 Avedisian Hall
8:30-8:45 am Overview of Symposium Goals (170 Avedisian Hall)
Christopher Hemme, PhD., Rhode Island INBRE Bioinformatics Core Director
8:45-10:15 am Session I – Diet and the Microbiome – Chair: Peter Belenky, PhD.
Mollie Monnig, PhD., Brown University “Microbial Translocation and Innate Immune Markers following Moderate Alcohol in Healthy Volunteers”
Dr. Kanakaraju Kaliannan, PhD., Harvard-MGH “The Effects of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on the Gut Microbiome”
Swathi Penumutchu, Brown University “Effects of Complex Polysaccharides on Antibiotic-Induced Gut Dysbiosis”
Zachary Pimentel, University of Rhode Island “Taxonomic and functional profiling of the microbiome of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica”
10:15-10:30 am Break
10:30-12:00 am Session II – Pathogens, Antibiotics and the Microbiome – Chair: Kathryn Ramsey, PhD.
Amanda Jamieson, PhD., Brown University “Impact of Lung Microbes on Tolerance to Influenza A Virus Infection”
Peter Belenky , PhD., Brown University “The Role of Microbial and Host Metabolism in Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis”
Kellyanne Duncan, Brown University “Mucus Residing Community is Key for Gut Microbiome Stability”
Rebecca Lebeaux, Dartmouth College “An Expedition into the Establishment of the Resistome: Exploring the Collection of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in the Infant Gut”
12:00-12:45 pm Lunch and Facilities Tours
- Facilities Tours
- 3D Facility for Biomedical Sciences (292 Avedisian Hall)
- Rhode Island Genomics and Sequencing Center (352 CBLS)
- RI-INBRE Central Research Core Facility (405 Avedisian Hall)
12:45-2:00 pm Lunch Breakout Sessions
Bioinformatics – Chair: Christopher Hemme, PhD. – 105 Avedisian Hall
August Guang, PhD., Brown University “Aspects of Power for Metagenomic Studies”
Jason Dwyer , PhD., University of Rhode Island “Nanopore Sensors for -omics: Combing Through the Microbiome one Molecule at a Time”
Ying Zhang, PhD., University of Rhode Island, “From Genomes to Ecosystems: Model-Based Characterization of Omics Data”
Open Discussion
Lightning Talks – Chair: Matthew Ramsey, PhD. – 130 Avedisian Hall
Benjamin Korry, Brown University “Antibiotic Resistance Genes are Ubiquitous Amoung the Gut Microbiota of Narragansett Bay Fish Species”
Jenna Wurster, Brown University “Host Hyperglycemia Impacts Antibiotic Efficacy within the Gut Microbiome ”
Dasith Perera, University of Rhode Island “An Unexpected Finding in the Serum of Type II Diabetics”
Kayla Russo, University of Rhode Island “Metabolic Modeling of a Novel Mycoplasma Identified from Eastern Oyster Microbiome”
Bianca Ross, University of Rhode Island ”Analysis of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria communities in advanced nitrogen-removal onsite wastewater treatment systems”
Alissa Cox, University of Rhode Island “Microbial composition of greenhouse gas cycling communities in soils above septic system drainfields”
Sarah Wigginton, University of Rhode Island “Microbial Nitrogen Removal in Soils Treating Septic System Wastewater”
Arianna Krinos, “EUKnique: Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis for Marine Microbial Eukaryotes” MIT
Jessica Carney, University of Rhode Island “Tiny Cells with a Big Impact: An Unexpected Bloom in the Mid-Atlantic”
Dawn Gratalo, Shoreline Biome “Microbiome Profiling at the Strain Level Using rRNA Amplicaons”
2:00 pm to 6:00 pm – 170 Avedisian Hall
2:00-2:45 pm Keynote Speaker 2
Sarah Hird, PhD., Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut
“Birds and Bacteria: Evolution of the Avian Microbiome”
2:45-4:15 pm Session III – Healthy States: Commensal Microbiomes – Chair: Roxanne Beinart, PhD.
Matthew Ramsey, PhD., University of Rhode Island “Identifying Mechanisms That Dictate Spatial Composition of the Oral Microbiota”
Laura Williams, PhD., Providence College “Inter-Individual Variation in the Gut Bacterial Communities of Captive Coppery Titi Monkeys”
Bianca Brown, Brown University “Effects of Environment and Species Identity on the Gut Microbiomes of Co-occurring Small Mammals in a Savanna Ecosystem”
Rebecca Stevick, University of Rhode Island “Linking Environmental Variability to Oyster Microbiomes in Narragansett Bay”
4:15-4:30 pm Break
4:30-6:00 pm Session IV – Microbial Ecology – Chair: Ying Zhang, PhD.
Marcia Marston , PhD., Roger Williams University “Long-term Coexistence of Cyanobacterial and Viral Communities in Narragansett Bay”
Koty Sharp, PhD., Roger Williams University “Using the Local Temperate Coral Astrangia poculata to Identify What Drives Stability of Coral-Microbe Interactions”
Laura Blum, Middlebury College “Microbial Drivers of Nitrogen Metabolism: Searching Tara Oceans Metagenomes”
Corinna Breusing, PhD., University of Rhode Island “High-Pressure Shipboard Experiments Provide Insights into the Physiological Dynamics of Chemosynthetic Vent Snail Symbionts”
6:00 pm Closing Remarks