Morning events:
8:30-9:00
Event Check-In & Continental Breakfast First floor of Microbial Sciences Building
9:00
Welcome – Ebling Symposium Center
9:10-9:40
Professor Chris Gisriel | UW-Madison, Biochemistry
Molecular Basis of Light-harvesting Diversity in Chlorophyll D-based Cyanobacteria
9:40-10:10
Professor John R. Kirby | Medical College of Wisconsin, Microbiology & Immunology
Microbiota, Thermogenesis, and Calorimetry: From Femtowatts to kCals to Obesity
10:15-11:15
Coffee and Posters (even-numbered)
11:15-11:30
Flash talk selected from poster abstracts
11:30-12:00
Professor Helen Blackwell | UW-Madison, Chemistry
Redirecting Bacterial Conversations with Synthetic Chemical Signals
12:00-1:00
Boxed lunch, 2nd floor atrium
Afternoon events:
1:00-1:30
Professor Alita Burmeister | UW-Milwaukee, Biological Sciences
Evolution of TolC-dependent Phages in the Lab and in the Environment
1:30-2:00
Professor Daniel Amador-Noguez | UW-Madison, Bacteriology
A Tale of Two Microbes: Revealing Metabolic Design Principles through Systems Biology
2:00-3:00
Beverages and Posters (odd-numbered)
3:00-3:30
Professor Johanna Elfenbein | UW-Madison, Pathobiological Sciences
Mechanisms of Sulfite Stress Resistance in the Model Pathogen Salmonella enterica
3:30-4:00
Professor Zac Freedman | UW-Madison, Soil and Environmental Sciences
Microbial Mediation of Forest Soil Carbon Fluxes in the Anthropocene
4:00
Nancy Gouker Award Presentation & Closing, followed by
Informal Reception, 2nd floor atrium