Technical Program

High-Throughput Isolation and Automated Sorting of Diverse Microbiomes Reduce Biases of Traditional Cultivation Strategies

Bill Watterson, University of Chicago

High-Throughput Characterization of Host-Bacteriophage Interactions with an Eye Towards Emerging Pathogenic Threats

Benjamin A. Adler, UC Berkeley

Validation of CRISPR-Based Tools for Engineering Bacteroides Species As Living Therapeutics

Agnès Oromí-Bosch, Caribou Biosciences

Microsplit: Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Technology for Microbes

Anna Kuchina, University of Washington

Engineering Microbiomes Using Physical-Organic Chemistry

Mohit Verma, Purdue University

California Institute of TechnologyRemote Control of Cellular Localization in the Gastrointestinal Tract Using Magnetic Particles

Marjorie T. Buss, California Institute of Technology

Controlling microbial communities: theory for the user

Marco Tulio Angulo, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Predicting Function from Composition: A Synthetic Ecology Approach to Understand Butyrate Production By Human Gut Microbiome Communities

Ryan L. Clark, UW-Madison

Computational Design of Synthetic Microbial Communities Incorporating Competitive and Cooperative Interactions

Behzad D. Karkaria, University of College London

Systems Modelling of the Skin Microbiome

Rachita Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology

Microbiome Exploration and Discovery

Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute 

Systems Modelling of the Skin Microbiome

Florian Centler, UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research 

Jared Kehe, Massachusetts Institute of Technologies

A Guild-Based Metabolic Model Improves Understanding of a Medium-Chain Fatty Acid Producing Microbiome

Matthew J. Scarborough, University of Vermont

An Investigation into Ratiometric Control for Synthetic Ecosystems

Alice Boo, Imperial College of London

Engineering Commensal Clostridia for Therapeutic Microbiome Interventions

Ben Bradley, CHAIN Biotechnology

Engineering Bacterial Therapy in Multicellular Coculture Model

Tetsuhiro Harimoto, Columbia University

Towards Engineered Probiotics to Deliver Narrow-Spectrum Antimicrobial Peptides Against Drug-Resistant Enteric Bacteria

Benedikt M. Mortzfeld, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Depletion of Microbiome-Derived Molecules in the Host Using Clostridium Genetics

Tingting Li, Stanford University

Kevin R. Foster, University of Oxford

Bernat Olle, Vedanta Biosciences

Mark Charbonneau, Synlogic

Wenyuan Shi, Forsyth Institute