Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this year's Early Career Scientist Symposium,
to be held Saturday, March 28, 2015 in East Hall on the campus of the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The theme this year is "Ecosystems
within organisms: ecology and evolutionary biology of the microbiome."
Our outstanding lineup of keynote speakers and emerging leaders will
address topics such as the role of the microbiome in disease processes,
micro-evolution, and development, meta-community theory in
host-associated communities, multi-host multi-parasite systems, and
eco-immunology. The research focus ranges from bacteria to metazoans and
from fitness effects on host organisms or their microbiota to the
downstream effects of microbiomes on ecosystems.
We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers:
Seth Bordenstein, Associate Professor, Departments of Biological
Sciences and Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University
Georgiana May, Professor, College of Biological Sciences, University of
Minnesota.
The following series of talks and interaction time have been scheduled:
Seth Bordenstein (Vanderbilt U.): The microbiome and Darwin’s mystery of
mysteries
Katherine Amato (U. Colorado): Into the wild: exploring the influence of
gut microbes on host ecology and behavior
Kevin Kohl (National U. San Luis): Friends for life: gut microbes allow
herbivores to consume toxicplants
Andrea Jani (U. Hawaii): Microbial ecology of an infectious disease: Do
symbiotic bacteria protect frogs from the fungal pathogen
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis?
Kelly Weinersmith (Rice U.): Parasite manipulation of host phenotype:
mechanisms, behavior, ecology, and evolution
Lunch and poster session, East Hall, third floor terrace
Rachel Vannette (Stanford U.): Community assembly and function of the
floral microbiome
Justine Garcia (Emory U.): Animals in a microbial world: partner
fidelity and of horizontal bacterial symbioses in true bugs
Angela Poole (Cornell U.): Human salivary amylase gene copy number
impacts the gut microbiome and its function
Georgiana May (U. Minnesota): Microbial interactions drive the evolution
of virulence in pathogens
Dinner reception, Museum of Natural History, Hall of Evolution, second floor
Register to attend : http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/
Registration is free of charge but we strongly encourage you to register
so we may provide adequate food and refreshment. Graduate students from
all universities and all disciplines are invited to present their work
during a lunchtime poster session, and can indicate so when they register.
Lunch will be provided at the poster session and a dinner reception will
follow the symposium.
Looking forward to your participation,
2015 Early Career Scientists Symposium organizing committee
Tim James (chair)
Chelsea Wood
Kevin Theis
Marian Schmidt
Thomas Jenkinson
For further information, contact
Kimberly Fonville <[email protected]>
