Wednesday, April 25th
8:00-8:30 | Registration/Breakfast/Coffee
8:30-11:15 | Session 1-The History of Manipulating the Microbiome
Jo Handelsman – UW–Madison
Mandy Joye – University of Georgia
Lutgarde Raskin – University of Michigan
Jack Gilbert – University of Chicago
Pilar Ossorio – UW–Madison
Sailendharan Sudakaran – UW–Madison
11:35-12:45 | Lunch with Career panelists – Varsity Hall, Union South
1:00-4:15 | Session 2-Predicting and Harnessing Microbiomes
Michelle O’Malley – University of California-Santa Barbara
William Harcombe – University of Minnesota
Héctor García Martín – The Joint Bioenergy Institute
Frank Löffler – University of Tennessee
Camil Diaz – University of Delaware
Ophelia Venturelli – UW–Madison
4:15-6:00 Posters+Social
Thursday, April 26th
8:00-8:30 | Breakfast/Coffee
8:30-11:50 | Session 3-Cross Talk and Signaling in Microbiomes
Federico Rey – UW–Madison
Julia Segre – NIH
Karen Guillemin – University of Oregon
Melissa Duhaime – University of Michigan
11:45-1:30 | Lunch + Round table panels (4 options)
1:45-5:00 | Session 4-Microbiome Interactions with the Environment
Susan Thibeault – UW–Madison
Karthik Anantharaman – UW–Madison
Thea Whitman – UW–Madison
Daniel Amador-Noguez – UW–Madison
5:00-5:30 | Closing & Happy Hour Hootenanny at Steenbock’s on Orchard