Speakers

Paul Turner

Yale University, USA
Phage therapy to combat infections by antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Katharina Ribbeck

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Partners in Slime: How Mucus Regulates Microbial Virulence

Gregg Beckham

US National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA
Lignin degradation via outer membrane vesicles in Pseudomonas putida

Wei Huang

Oxford University, UK
Chromosome-free SimCells

Jenna Gallie

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
Adaptive flexibility in bacterial tRNA gene sets via large-scale duplications in Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25

Elijah Mehlferber

University of California Berkeley, USA
Unraveling the role of the microbiome in resistance to Pseudomonas syringae

Jessica Scoffield

University of Alabama Birmingham, USA
Interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Commensal Streptococci

Session: Genomics and gene regulation
Moderator: Stephen Lory, Harvard Medical School

• Sheyda Azimi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology 
• Pengbo Cao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Haibi Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia
• Shira Zelikman, PhD Student, Bar-Ilan University

Session: Antimicrobial tolerance
Moderator: Fabrice Jean-Pierre, Dartmouth

• Anna Clara Galdino, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Inga Leus, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
• Cristian Roca, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Sara Van den Bossche, PhD Student, Ghent University

Session: Host-Pathogen interactions
Moderator: Kendra Rumbaugh, Texas Tech University 

• Paul Bollyky, Associate Professor, Stanford University
• Gitta Coaker, Professor, University of California Davis
• Samantha Durfey, PhD Student, University of Washington
• Varsha Singh, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science
• Bryan Wang, PhD Student, Columbia University 

Session: Metabolism and Physiology
Moderator: Matthew Parsek, University of Washington

• Michael Franklin, Professor, Montana State University
• Nicolás Gurdo, PhD Student, Technical University of Denmark
• Ana Sofia Ortega, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
• Courtney Reichhardt, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Session: Harnessing the potential of Pseudomonas species
Moderator: Pablo Ivan Nikel, The Center for Biosustainability

• Charles Begley, PhD Student, University of Strathclyde
• Nora Bitzenhofer, PhD Student, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldor
• Rafael Jiménez-Díaz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint BioEnergy Institute
• Luzie Kruse, PhD Student, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldor
• Nicholas Tucker, Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde

Session: Evolution and Coevolution
Moderator: Peter Greenberg, University of Washington

• Catherine Armbruster, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh 
• Jeffrey Carey, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
• Matthew Higgs, PhD Student, University of North Carolina
• Matthew Shepherd, PhD Student, University of Bath

Session: Ecology
Moderator: Caroline Harwood, University of Washington

• Ellinor Alseth, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Exeter
• Michelle Clay, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
• Eric Déziel, Professor, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
• Amy Schaefer, Research Scientist, University of Washington
• Patrick Secor, Assistant Professor, University of Montana

Session: Multi-species Interactions
Moderator: Kalai Mathee, Florida International University

• Lucia Grassi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
• Morten Lindqvist Hansen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Denmark
• Chelsey VanDrisse, Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
• Conan Zhao, PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology