2026 Postdoctoral Symposium

10:00am Registration and Coffee

10:25am Words of Welcome - Biagio DiSalvo and Ilana Stein

Session 1

10:30am Stephanie Krueger - Independent evolution of venom glands in teleost fishes

10:45am Etika Goyal Gupta - Segmentation and Grid Patterning

11:00am Noah Martin - The relationship between a unique, intrinsically disordered domain of cephalopod ADAR1 and high-order mRNA recoding

11:15am Jens Wira - From Images to Particle Cycling Insights: AI-Driven Search of the Oceanic Flux Program Image Archive

11:30am Melanie Hayn - Can our estuaries recover from nitrogen loading? A tale from West Falmouth Harbor.

11:45am Shane Jinson - Scaffolding, Organization, & Language in Biology: Historical and Social Studies of Interdisciplinary Biology Groups as Cases of Technical Alignment

12:00pm Lunch Break

Session 2

1:30pm Nancy Yang - Variations of iron and sulfur in coastal marshes

1:45pm Emeline Vidal - Dark oxygen production: an overlooked subsurface microbial process

2:00pm Olivia Ahern - Microbial food web connectivity is structured by time

2:15pm Joe Vineis - Genomics and distribution of methanogens that sidestep competition with sulfate reducers

2:30pm Biagio DiSalvo - Rhizosphere microbes and their potential to oxidize sulfide to benefit of Spartina alterniflora

3 - 5pm - Poster Session and Refreshments

Posters

JC Weber: Examination of Sinking Particles to the Deep Sea: Dynamic Changes in Species Contributions with Depth and Seasonality Captured by the Oceanic Flux Program Image Archive (2004-present)

Chase Glatz: Deep-ocean incubation of plastics to study microbial colonization and biofilm lipid
composition

Neeharika Verma: Using single-cell RNA seq to understand germline regeneration in Parhyale hawaiensis

Quincy Dowling: Inter-annual, sediment depth, and horizontal landscape distributions of dominant
methanogens in a brackish tidal marsh

Abigail Skena: Optimizing Early Establishment of Zostera marina Seedlings: In Vitro vs. Ambient
Conditions for Seed-Based Seagrass Restoration

Aileen Jung: Exploring Microbial Necromass Decomposition Pathways in Soil Enrichment Cultures

Yuxuan Xu: From Molecules to Morphology: Building a Cell Atlas of S. Mansoni Cercariae

Mayra Sánchez-García: Inter-Species and Seasonal Variability in Pelagic Sargassum Composition

Ashley Gendreau: How octopuses adjust arm recruitment and motor strategies when retrieving increasingly heavy objects