Agenda

Sunday, December 8

Sunday, December 8th

- 6:30 p.m.: Opening Dinner

- 7:00 p.m.: Welcome: Dr. Donal Manahan, National Science Foundation Division Director for the Integrative Organismal Systems Division in the Biological Sciences Directorate

- Plenary talk: Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin Discovery Center

“Microbiomes From the White House to the Lab”

Monday, December 9th

- 8:00 a.m.: Welcome: workshop goals and outcomes

- Plenary talk: Lita Proctor, NIH (retired)

“Microbiome Science is Coming of Age But Are We Building the Tower of Babel or the Rosetta Stone?”

- 8:45 – 9:55 a.m.: Microbiome Assembly and Functions: state of the science. Patrick Degnan, Moderator

- Will Ludington, Carnegie Institution

“A combinatorics approach to dissect microbiome complexity”

- Kelly Wrighton, Colorado State University

“Shales across scales: Refining our Microbial Scale of Reference”

- Otto Cordero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Design Principles of Polysaccharide Degrading Communities”

- 9:55 – 10:15 a.m.: Break

- 10:15 – 11:05 a.m.: The ecology and evolutionary biology of microbiomes: borrowing and building a conceptual and theoretical foundation for microbiome science. Ashley Shade, Moderator

- Jay Lennon, Indiana University

“Microbial rescue effects: how microbiomes can save hosts from extinction”

- Nandita Garud, UCLA

“Evolutionary dynamics of commensal bacteria in the human microbiome”

- 11:05 – 12:15 p.m.: Discussion 1: Establishing the foundation: Where do we go from here?

Kat Milligan-Myhre and Ben Wolfe, Moderators

- 12:15 – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch Provided on-site

- 1:00 – 1:50 p.m.: Species interactions and signaling in mediating microbiome functional capacities.

Jonathan Klassen, Moderator.

- Britt Koskella, University of California-Berkeley

“Selecting on the microbiome: what does it mean and where does it get us?”

- Mohammed Donia, Princeton University

“Small-molecule-mediated interactions in microbe-host systems”

- 1:50 – 2:40 p.m.: Integrating diverse data: multi-‘omics in microbiome science

Jonathan Klassen, Moderator.

- Kirsten Hofmockel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

“Multiomics: from metagenomes to metaphenomes”

- Julia Gauglitz, University of California San Diego

“Connecting the worlds’ mass spectrometry data using integrative tools"

- 2:40 – 3:00 p.m.: Break

- 3:00 – 4:10 p.m.: Cross-systems and comparative approaches to microbiome science.

Kat Milligan-Myhre, Moderator.

- Seth Bordenstein, Vanderbilt University

“Darwin's Blind Spot: Microbes and the Origin of Species”

- Sarah Hird, University of Connecticut

“Evolution of the microbiome as a trait of the host”

- Zakee Sabree, Ohio State University

“Host-microbial interactions at the gut interface”

- 4:10 – 5:30 p.m.: Discussion 2: Towards predictive ecological and evolutionary theory for microbiomes. Jonathan Klassen and Ashley Shade, Moderators.

- 5:30 p.m.: Adjourn/ dinner on your own

Tuesday, December 10th

- 8:30 – 9:40 a.m.: Synthetic Microbiomes and Model Systems: tools for building replicative and predictive knowledge? Ben Wolfe, Moderator.

- Will Harcombe, University of Minnesota

“Illuminating the dynamics of microbial systems with computational and experimental model communities”

- Nic Vega, Emory University

“Tradeoffs and opportunities in tractable microbiome-host models”

- Trent Northen, US-DOE Joint Genome Institute

“EcoFABs: Advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated ecosystems”

- 9:40 – 10:30 a.m.: Where does the future take us? Big ideas and new approaches in microbiome science and education. JP Dundore-Arias, Moderator.

- Ilana Britto, Cornell University

“A new approach to define mechanisms underlying microbiome-related disorders using public databases”

- Emily Balskus, Harvard University

“Decipering Microbiomes with Chemistry”

- 10:30 – 10:50 a.m.: Break

- 10:50 – 12:00 p.m.: Discussion 3: Building the future: Targeting innovation to advance understanding and applications in microbiome science. JP Dundore-Arias and Linda Kinkel, Moderators

-12:00-12:15 p.m.: I like, I wish, I wonder feedback

- 12:15 – 1:15 p.m.: (Net)Working lunch (lunch provided; box lunches available for those traveling)

Identification and coalescence of research partners, unique opportunities, and big ideas for next steps in research, grants, workshops, and conferences (Post-it Process)

- 1:15 – 2:00 p.m.: Integration and Summary: Next-steps, dissemination, rippling outward to science and our communities. Developing a roadmap for meeting synthesis, identifying core writing team and tasks.

- 2:00 p.m.: ADJOURN