Date

Time

Title

Speaker

3-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

What is microbial diversity?

Scott Dawson/Rachel Whitaker

3-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Historical overview of microbial diversity and the course

Scott Dawson/Rachel Whitaker

4-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

HOLIDAY

 

5-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Building a cell

Kyle Costa

5-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Making energy with redox reactions

Kyle Costa

6-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Phototrophy and redox

Kyle Costa

6-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Electron transport reactions inside and outside the cell

Kyle Costa

7-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Phototrophic microbes

Hope Johnson

7-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Global nutrient cycling

Trina McMahon

10-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Heterotrophic and fermenting bacteria

Deborah Hogan

10-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

H2 and syntrophy

John Spear

11-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Microbes and metals

John Spear

11-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

C1 and methanogenesis

Kyle Costa

12-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Nitrogen Cycle

Jose de la Torre

12-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

"Functional" genes and biochemical pathways

Scott Dawson/Brad Stevenson

13-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Growing together: getting the most out of limited energy

Trina McMahon

13-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Origins and Evolution of Cells

Scott Dawson/Rachel Whitaker

14-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Cell surfaces and structures

Scott Dawson

14-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Douglas Eveligh Endowed Lecture

Becky Parales

15-Jul-23

Symposium I

Microbial Organelles and Machines

 

17-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Eukaryote Diversity and Organelles

Scott Dawson

17-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Maynard and Suzanne Goldman Lecture

John McCutcheon

18-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Microbial Motility and chemotaxis

Becky Parales

18-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Archael Cell Biology

Sonja Albers

19-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Genome architecture and stability

Scott Dawson / Rachel Whitaker

19-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Plasmid diversity

Jamie Hall (virtual)

20-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Population and Infection Genomics

Rachel Whitaker

20-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

What can (and can't) we learn from building cultured communities in the lab?

Roberto Kolter

21-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Culture independent community dynamics

Trina McMahon

21-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Reverse Ecology Population Genomics

Rachel Whitaker

24-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Nutritional symbiosis

Colleen Cavanaugh

24-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Roger D Milkman Endowed Lecture

Irene Newton

25-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Virus Diversity and Symbiosis

Danielle Campbell

25-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Virus-host coevolution

Paul Turner

26-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Competition, Cooperation, and Tradeoffs

Paul Turner

26-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Microbial diversity and community ecology

Dan Buckley

27-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

Microbial dark oxygen in the subsurface

Emil Ruff

27-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Microbial ecology of the terrestrial carbon cycle

Dan Buckley

28-Jul-23

9-10:15 am

TBA

Alex Worden

28-Jul-23

10:30-11:45 am

Microbial Diversity: past, present, and future recap

Scott Dawson/Rachel Whitaker

29-Jul-23

Symposium II - Archaeal Biology:

 
 

9:00am

Alyson Santoro : The impact of ammonia-oxidizing archaea on the ocean's carbon cycle

 

10:00am

Melina Kerou: Global Players in the Nitrogen Cycle: Evolution and Ecology of Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea in Soils

 

11:00am

Amy Schmid: Evolution of gene regulatory network structure and function in haloarchaea

 

2:00pm

Uri Gophna Discovery of new environmental viruses

 

3:00pm

Brett Baker: Archaeal roots of eukaryotic life

 

4:00pm

Christa Schleper: What Cultivated Asgard Archaea Can Tell Us about the Evolution of 
Eukaryotes

31-Jul-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

1-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

2-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

3-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

4-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

7-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

8-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

9-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

10-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

11-Aug-23

miniprojects (no morning lectures)

14-Aug-23

Proposal/Presentation Prep

15-Aug-23

Final Student Talks