Tuesday, September 3, 2024
8:00–8:50 AM
Event Check-In & Coffee | MSB 1st floor
8:55 AM
Welcome | Ebling Symposium Center
9:00–9:30 AM
Professor Vanessa Sperandio | UW-Madison MMI | The highs and lows of enteric infections
9:30–10:00 AM
Professor Rachel Whitaker | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Evolutionary Principles of Local Adaptation in One Health
10:00–10:15 AM
Biswajit Samal | UW-Madison | Development of plant-metabolite responsive bacterial biosensors: A novel tool for enhanced N delivery to the crops & sustainable agriculture
10:15–10:45 AM
Professor Maggie Alexander | UW-Madison MMI | A diet-dependent host metabolite shapes the gut microbiota to protect from autoimmunity
10:45 AM
Poster Session Opens
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Even Posters “Live”
12:00–12:30 PM
Boxed Lunch Served
12:30–1:30 PM
Odd Posters “Live”
1:30–2:00 PM
Professor Jake McKinlay | University of Indiana | Why would a bacterium externalize adenine?
2:00–2:30 PM
Dr. Emily Diaz-Vallejo | USDA Agricultural Research Service | Critical Engaged Pedagogy to Confront Racism and Colonialism in Science Education Through a Historical Lens
2:30–3:00 PM
Professor Emile Glück-Thaler | UW-Madison Plant Pathology | Starships: a new frontier for fungal biology
3:00–3:30 PM
Professor Heidi Goodrich-Blair | University of Tennessee at Knoxville | Decoding Dialects: Impacts of Xenorhabdus Genomic Strain Variation on Interactions with Others
3:30 PM
Nancy Gouker Award Presentation & Closing
3:45 PM
Informal Reception | MSB 2nd Floor Atrium
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