Morning

8:00 am – session 5 – “Characterizing microbes in diverse habitats”

• Jian Xu Qingdao (Institute of Bioenergy and
  Bioprocess Technology) – “RACS-Seq and FlowRACS: Developing instruments for mapping microbiome @ single-cell resolution”
• Michael Patnode (University of California, Santa Cruz) – “Microbe-microbe interactions at nutrient depots in the gut”
• Laura Knoll (University of Wisconsin) – “Modeling intestinal eukaryotic microbes in
  mice and microfluidic devices”
• Meng Wu (WashU Molecular Microbiology) – “Tripartite interactions among the microbiota, stromal cells and the immune system”

10:00 am – session 6 – “Metabolism!”

• Federico Rey (University of Wisconsin) – “Gut bacterial metabolism and cardiometabolic disease”
• Peter Crawford (University of Minnesota) – “Protective interorgan, intercellular, and intercompartmental metabolite shuttles in obesity”
• Mark Charbonneau (Solarea Bio) – “Mining the edible plant microbiome to
  develop medical foods for managing postmenopausal bone loss and rheumatoid arthritis”
• Brian Muegge (WashU Medicine) – “Transcriptional and epigenetic control of
  intestinal metabolism”

Afternoon

1:30 pm – session 7 – “Career trajectories”

• ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION – “The many paths to becoming a cancer biologist”
  • Michelle Hermiston (University of California,
    San Francisco)
  • Neel Dey (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center)
  • Marios Giannakis (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)

• Alejandro Reyes (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) – “Advancing microbiome sciences in LMICs”
• Robert Heuckeroth (Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania) – “From protein N-myristoylation to the enteric nervous system”

3:15 pm – closing remarks

• Jeffrey Gordon (WashU Pathology & Immunology)