EVOLUTION OF SYMBIOSIS, INSECTS AND MICROBES SYMPOSIUM
Speaker Schedule
SYMPOSIUM Schedule
March 29, 2025
8:30 am - 5:00 PM
| Time | Name | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-8:59 AM | Arrive, catered coffee and pastries | ||
| 9:00am-10:25 AM | SESSION 1 | ||
| 9:00-9:05 AM | Nancy Moran [UT Austin] | Introduction | |
| 9:05-9:12 AM | Erick Motta [TAMU] | The role of bacterial symbionts in honey bee detoxification | |
| 9:15-9:22 AM | PJ Lariviere [UT Austin] | Engineering bee gut symbionts and/or investigating mechanisms of bee gut colonization | |
| 9:25-9:32 AM | Korin Jones [UT Austin] | Priority effects in the establishment of Snodgrassella alvi in honey bees | |
| 9:35-9:42 AM | Yulin Song [UT Austin] | Microbial interactions in the honeybee gut | |
| 9:45-9:52 AM | Qiang Huang [Jiangxi Ag U] | Colonization barrier of Snodgrassella between social bees | |
| 9:55-10:02 AM | Tobin Hammer [UC Irvine] | How sociality drives gain and loss of gut symbionts during host diversification | |
| 10:05-10:12 AM | Kasie Raymann [NC State] | The cost of adaptation for opportunistic bacterial pathogens | |
| 10:15-10:22 AM | Jerry Maeda [UT Austin] | Extreme fitness trade-offs in a heritable, defensive symbiosis | |
| 10:25-11:00 AM | GROUP PICTURE, DISCUSSION | ||
| 11:00 AM -12:10 PM | SESSION 2 | ||
| 11:00-11:07 AM | Paul Kirchberger [OK State, Stillwater] |
Weird viruses/mobile genetic elements in ubiquitous marine Archaea | |
| 11:10-11:17 AM | Rahul Raghavan [UT San Antonio] | Evolution of bacterial sRNAs | |
| 11:20-11:27 AM | Gaelen Burke [UGA] | Beneficial parasitoid viruses | |
| 11:30-11:37 AM | Louis-Marie Bobay [NC State] | New approach to reconstruct full strain genotypes from metagenomic datasets | |
| 11:40-11:47 AM | Patrick Degnan [UC Riverside] | Consequences of MGEs in the mammalian gut | |
| 11:50-11:57 AM | Andrew Moeller [Princeton] | Recent genetic drift in the lab-mouse gut microbiota | |
| 12:00-12:07 PM | Md Hassan uz-Zaman [UT Austin ] | How to get genes out of nothing | |
| 12:10-1:30 PM | LUNCH | Catered Taco Bar from Cabo Bob's | |
| 1:30-2:50 PM | SESSION 3 | ||
| 1:30-1:37 PM | Laila Phillips [UT Austin] | Host-microbe interactions between Drosophila melanogaster and naturally-associated Orbaceae bacteria | |
| 1:40-1:47 PM | Mariana Mateos [TAMU] | On Drosophila-associated Spiroplasma | |
| 1:50-1:57 PM | John McCutcheon [AZ State] | The infection strategy of Sodalis |
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| 2:00-2:07 PM | Zakee Sabree [OH State] | Host and microbial phenotypes of sympatry |
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| 2:10-2:17 PM | Margaret Steele [Texas Tech - fall 2025] |
Predatory amoebae and the evolution of pathogenic bacteria | |
| 2:20-2:27 PM | Allison Hansen [UC Riverside] | Rapid loss of symbionts in galling Hawaiian psyllids | |
| 2:30-2:37 PM | Nicole Gerardo [Emory] | A life together: establishing an environmentally acquired symbiosis | |
| 2:40-2:47 PM | Alex Wilson [U Miami] | The host/symbiont interface | |
| 2:50-3:30 PM | BREAK, DISCUSSION | ||
| 3:30-4:30 PM | SESSION 4 | ||
| 3:30-3:37 PM | Kevin Vogel [UGA] | Role of symbionts in kissing bug immunity | |
| 3:40-3:47 PM | Zheng Li [Miami U of Ohio] | Chromosome evolution in Aphidomorpha | |
| 3:50-3:57 PM | Gordon Bennett [UC Merced] | Evolutionary influence of endosymbiosis on host genomes | |
| 4:00-4:07 PM | Sean Leonard [LLNL] | In symbiosis with a national lab | |
| 4:10-4:17 PM | Ben Normark [UMASS Amherst] | Endosymbionts and the origins of haplodiploidy | |
| 4:20-4:27 PM | Vince Martinson [U New Mexico] | Ecology and evolution of galling tephritid flies in the genus Aciurina and their associated communities | |
| 4:30-5:00 PM | WRAP UP, DISCUSSION | ||