PROGRAM AGENDA
Day 1 - Tuesday, October 16
| 7:30 am | Conference materials pick up and continental breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Welcome - Fred Choobineh, Nebraska EPSCoR Director - Daniel Schachtman, Conference Organization Chair / University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 8:50 am | Ed Yong - The Atlantic I contain multitudes: Telling stories about microbes and the people who study them |
| 9:40 am | Noah Fierer - University of Colorado at Boulder Searching for simplicity amidst the complexity of the soil microbiome |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Mary Firestone - University of California, Berkeley A web of interactions shapes the soil microbiome |
| 11:40 am | Eoin Brodie - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Microbial life in soil and deciphering the signatures of niche adaptation |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 1:30 pm | Kirsten Küsel - University of Jena Forming a groundwater microbiome: Go with the flow and find a niche |
| 2:20 pm | Break |
| 2:45 pm | Julie Huber - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute / NSF Science and Technology Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations | Microbes, fluids and rocks: Life beneath the seafloor |
| 3:35 pm | Kelly Wrighton - Colorado State University Methanogenesis in soils: It may not be as deep as we all thought |
| 4:25-6:30 pmPoster session and reception | |
Day 2 - Wednesday, October 17
| 7:30 am | Conference materials pick up and continental breakfast |
| 8:40 am | Opening Remarks | Michael Boehm, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 8:50 am | Martin Blaser - NYU School of Medicine Perturbing the microbiota of early life and its consequences |
| 9:40 am | Emma Allen-Vercoe - University of Guelph / NuBiyota | Can we use bugs as drugs? Restoring the gut microbiota with 'Microbial Ecosystem Therapeutics' |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:50 am | Kasie Raymann - University of North Carolina at Greensboro | The effects of antibiotics and pesticides on the gut microbiome and health of honeybees |
| 11:40 am | Christine Hawkes - North Carolina State University Can the plant mycobiome serve as a tool for improving grass stress resistance? |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 1:30 - 4:00 pm | INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP - SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Sandra Blakeslee & Mary-Charlotte Domandi | Critical skills for talking to the media: How to prepare for an interview and win public trust |
| 4:00 pm | End of conference |