Symbiosis & Cooperation Group and Program for A.D. White Professors-at-Large present Microbial Friends & Foes: Cooperation and Conflict in Interspecific Associations Tuesday, September 25 G10 Biotechnology Building |
| 8:30 - 9:00 | Poster set-up and coffee |
| 9:00 - 9:15 | Immune physiology of the Caribbean sea fan Gorgonia ventalina to pathogens and environmental stress Colleen A. Burge1, Morgan E. Mouchka1, C. Drew Harvell1 & Steven Roberts2 1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 2School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington |
| 9:15 - 9:30 | Identification of symbiotic-specific genes reveals a role for host immunity in a cnidarian-dinoflagellate mutualism Morgan E. Mouchka1, E.M. Lehnert2, M.S. Burriesci2, J. Schwarz3 & J.R. Pringle2 1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, 2Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 3Biology, Vassar College |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | The ins and outs of bacterial flagellin perception reveal a fundamental difference in the innate immune systems of plants and mammals Hai-Lei Wei, Suma Chakravarthy, Jay Worley & Alan Collmer Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology |
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Gibberellin-DELLA signaling: A key component in establishing functional arbuscular mycorrhizas Daniela S. Floss, Julien G. Levy, Hee-Jin Park, Lauren N. Carley & Maria J. Harrison Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Poster session and coffee |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Costs and benefits of a male-killing Wolbachia Robert L. Unckless1 & John Jaenike2 1Molecular Biology & Genetics, and Entomology, Cornell University, 2Biology, University of Rochester |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Host range of the Spiroplasma defensive bacterial endosymbiont in Drosophila and transfer of phenotypic effects Tammy Haselkorn1, Sarah Cockburn2, Finn Hamilton2, Steve Perlman2 & John Jaenike1 1Biology, University of Rochester, 2Biology, University of Victoria |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | The inconstant gut microbiota of Drosophila species revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis John M. Chaston, Chun-nin (Adam) Wong & Angela Douglas Entomology |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | How the intestinal fatty acid propionate inhibits salmonellosis: Repressing invasion by post-translational control of HilD Chien-Che Hung & Craig Altier Population Health and Diagnostic Sciences |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Poster session and lunch |
| 1:30 - 1:45 | Deletion of effector gene cluster VIII from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pto) DC3000D28E, an effector polymutant of Pto DC3000 Suma Chakravarthy & Alan Collmer Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology |
| 1:45 - 2:00 | Citrus Greening: Devastating disease caused by a reduced genome bacterium and potential control through endosymbiont manipulation Magdalen Lindeberg, Wayne Hunter & Surya Saha Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Tools for taxonomic classification of 16S/ITS and whole genome shotgun metagenomes Surya Saha & Magdalen Lindeberg Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology |
| 2:15 - 3:00 | Coffee and informal discussion |
| 4:00 pm | Animals as complex communities: Making peace with trillions of microbial partners Margaret McFall-Ngai, A.D. White Professor-at-Large Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin |
| Posters |
| Plants versus Pathogens: Vegevaders – a Game of Infiltration and Detection Bryant Adams, Candace Collmer, Magdalen Lindeberg, and Alan Collmer Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology |
| Dissecting the role of ABC transporters during AM symbiosis in Medicago truncatula Armando Bravo, Quan Zhang, and Maria Harrison Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
| Characterization of Trichodesmium-associated viral communities Julia M. Brown and Ian Hewson Microbiology |
| Computational and molecular identification of Xanthomonas oryzae TAL effector targets in rice Raul Andres Cernadas, E. Doyle, L. Wang, C. Schmidt, and A.J. Bogdanove Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University |
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Anti-flagellin IgA quenches motility of commensal gut bacteria |
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Experimental manipulations of nest-dwelling bacteria: effects on egg defenses and nestling immune status in wild tree swallows |
| Host genetic control of the human gut microbiome Julia K. Goodrich1,2, Ran Blekhman1,3, Omry Koren1,2, Michelle Beaumont4, Jordana T. Bell4, Timothy D. Spector4, Andrew G. Clark1, and Ruth E. Ley1,2 1Microbiology, Cornell University, 2Molecular Biology & Genetics, Cornell University, 3Neurology & Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College, 4Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College, London, U.K. |
| Circular ssDNA viruses in aquatic metazoa: Identification and dynamics amongst natural populations Ian Hewson Microbiology |
| The role of the Drosophila gut microbiota in immune system induction and pathogen defense Virginia M. Howick, Angela E. Douglas, and Brian P. Lazzaro Entomology |
| Chromosome organization and genome assembly in Epulopiscium sp. type B Elizabeth Hutchison and Esther Angert Microbiology |
| Polyphosphoinositides in membrane interface formation during arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi symbiosis Sergey Ivanov and Maria J. Harrison Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
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Changes to the gut microbiome during pregnancy |
| Fingerprinting facultative endosymbiont genome evolution using PAML and the gene ontology Stephen J. Mondo and Teresa E. Pawlowska Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology |
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Correlation of salivary amylase levels with gut microbiome composition |
| Shared amino acid metabolism between the Pea aphid and their bacterial symbionts, Buchnera aphidicola Calum W. Russell, Anton Poliakov, Klaas van Wijk, and Angela E. Douglas Entomology |
| Targeted genome reconstruction strategy for endosymbionts in eukaryotic meta-genomes Surya Saha1, Wayne B. Hunter2, and Magdalen Lindeberg1 1Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, 2USDA-ARS, US Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce |
| Host-induced gene silencing in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis Alexa Schmitz and Maria Harrison Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research |
| Mycoplasma-related endobacteria of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: distribution, molecular diversity, and evolutionary history Kevin H. Toomer1, X. Chen1, M. Naito1, S.J. Mondo1, J.B. Morton2, Y. Lekberg3, and T.E. Pawlowska1 1Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University, 2Plant & Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, 3Ecosystem & Conservation Sciences, University of Montana |
| For more information contact Teresa Pawlowska (tep8) & Esther Angert (era23) |