ICME 2018 Program
Schedule is subject to change. Last updated October 23, 2018
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Schedule is subject to change. Last updated October 23, 2018
| Sunday, November 4th | |
| 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM | REGISTRATION |
| 1:00 PM to 1:45 PM | POSTER SET-UP |
| 1:45 PM to 2:00 PM | WELCOMING REMARKS |
| 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION: The role of engineers in the microbiome field |
| 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM | SESSION 1: From genome-scale to community-scale models |
| 3:00 PM to 3:15 PM | Scalable Tools for Metabolic Modeling of Microbial Communities with Application to the Gut Microbiota - Siu Hung Joshua Chan, Colorado State University |
| 3:15 PM to 3:30 PM | Examination of Metabolic Interactions between Phycosphere Associated Bacteria and Phaeodactylum Tricornutum - Ali Navid, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 3:30 PM to 3:45 PM | Building Metabolic Models of Human Microbiota to Probe Community Composition and Diversity - Michael A. Henson, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Miniaturized Next-Generation Sequencing for Microbiome and Metagenomics - Jefferson Lai, Labcyte, Inc. |
| 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM | BREAK and POSTER SET-UP |
| 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM | Poster Session and Reception |
| Monday, November 5th | |
| 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM | REGISTRATION |
| 9:15 AM to 9:30 AM | OPENING REMARKS |
| 9:30 AM to 10:15 AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School |
| 10:15 AM to 12:45 PM | SESSION 2: Engineering and modeling of microbial communities I |
| 10:15 AM to 10:45 AM | INVITED SPEAKER: Michelle O'Malley, University of California Santa Barbara |
| 10:45 AM to 11:00 AM | Spurious Associations in Microbiome Studies - Rajita Menon, Vedanta Biosciences |
| 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM | BREAK |
| 11:45 AM to 12:15 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Arolyn Conwill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 12:15 PM to 12:30 PM | An Integrated Multi-Scale Modeling Approach for 13c Metabolic Flux Analysis in Microbial Communities - Maciek R. Antoniewicz, University of Delaware |
| 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM | Spatial Metagenomic Characterization of Microbial Biogeography in the Gut - Ravi U. Sheth, Columbia University |
| 12:45 PM to 2:15 PM | LUNCH |
| 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM | SESSION 2: Engineering and modeling of microbial communities II |
| 2:15 PM to 2:45 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Tami Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:45 PM to 3:00 PM | Mechanical Forces and Constraints Shape the Gut Microbiota - Carolina Tropini, Stanford University |
| 3:00 PM to 3:15 PM | Multi-Species Co-Culture Platform to Enable Spatial Analysis of Microbial Communication - Christopher A. Vaiana, Massachusetts Institute for Technology |
| 3:15 PM to 5:15 PM | SESSION 3: Computational models for design |
| 3:15 PM to 3:45 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Almut Heinken, University of Luxembourg |
| 3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Systematic Dissection of Sequence Elements Controlling sigma70 Promoters Using a Genomically-Encoded Multiplexed Reporter Assay - Guillaume Urtecho, University of California Los Angeles |
| 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM | BREAK |
| 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Claire Duvallet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 5:00 PM to 5:15 PM | Engineering of Lactobacillus Reuteri As a Biotherapeutic Delivery System - Laura Ortiz-Vélez, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Tuesday, November 6th | |
| 8:30 AM to 12:00 PM | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 AM to 9:15 AM | OPENING REMARKS |
| 9:15 AM to 10:00 AM | KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Elhanan Borenstein, University of Washington |
| 10:00 AM to 12:45 PM | SESSION 4: Engineering of the organism and tools to manipulate it I |
| 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM | INVITED SPEAKER: Cynthia Collins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 10:30 AM to 10:45 AM | Probiotic Associated Therapeutic Curli Hybrids (PATCH) - Pichet Praveschotinunt, Harvard University |
| 10:45 AM to 11:00 AM | Utilizing CRISPR-Based Genome Editing for Microbiome Engineering - Jonathan W. Kotula, Caribou Biosciences |
| 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM | BREAK |
| 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Harris Wang, Columbia University |
| 12:00 PM to 12:15 PM | A Stealth-Based Approach to Evade Restriction-Modification Systems during Genetic Engineering: Lessons from Bacteriophage - Christopher D. Johnston, The Forsyth Institute |
| 12:15 PM to 12:30 PM | A Modular Platform for Antibody-Targeted Bacterial Delivery - Ava M. Vargason, University of North Carolina |
| 12:30 PM to 12:45 PM | Multiplexed Characterization of Regulatory Components in Diverse Bacterial Cell-Free Expression Systems - Nathan Johns, Columbia University Medical Center |
| 12:45 PM to 2:00 PM | LUNCH |
| 2:00 PM to 4:45 PM | SESSION 4: Engineering of the organism and tools to manipulate it II |
| 2:00 PM to 2:30 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Mark Mimee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2:30 PM to 3:00 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Jeff Tabor, Rice University |
| 3:00 PM to 3:15 PM | Living Materials in the Gut - Neel Joshi, Harvard University |
| 3:15 PM to 4:00 PM | BREAK |
| 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM | INVITED SPEAKER: Paul Miller, Synlogic |
| 4:30 PM to 4:45 PM | Applying Advanced Synthetic Engineering Capabilities for Developing Phage Cocktail - Lior Zelcbuch, BiomX |
| 4:45 PM to 5:00 PM | CLOSING REMARKS |
| 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM | POSTER TEAR-DOWN |