2026 Schedule

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

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

12:00-1:00
Boxed lunch, 2nd floor atrium

Afternoon events:

1:00-1:30
Professor Alita Burmeister | UW-Milwaukee, Biological Sciences

1:30-2:00
Professor Daniel Amador-Noguez | UW-Madison, Bacteriology

2:00-3:00
Beverages and Posters (odd-numbered)

3:00-3:30
Professor Johanna Elfenbein | UW-Madison, Pathobiological Sciences

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