Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

"The Importance of Environmental Microbes in Insect Ecology"

by Dr. Tory Hendry, of Cornell University

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

"The Unexpected ways Freshwater Heterotrophs Use Light"

by Dr. Julie Maresca, of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

"A Frugal Lifestyle: Energy Conservation Mechanisms in Methanogenic Archaea"

by Dr. Geo Santiago Martinez, of the University of Connecticut.

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“Adapting an Evolutionary Model Organism for Host-Microbe Interaction Studies: Diversity Matters”

by Dr. Kathryn Milligan-McClellan, of the University of Connecticut

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“The Forest in Your Mouth: What Structure Tells Us About Function”

by Dr. Jessica Mark Welch, of the Marine Biological Laboratory

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“The Microbiology of Climate Change: The Outsized Climate Impacts of Tiny Soil Microbes”

by Dr. Kristen DeAngelis, of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst

and

“Tasty [Beer] Innovations from Wasp Yeast: The Benefits of Academic and Industry Partnerships”

by Dr. Anne A. Madden, of Lachancea LLC.

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“Shedding light on chemosynthetic symbioses:

Comparative genomics, transmission mode, and genome evolution”

by Prof. Colleen Cavanaugh, of Harvard University

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“It’s Not Over til It’s Over: Perennial Threats to Science Education”

by Steven Mirsky, Author and Podcaster of Scientific American

Location: Minnowbrook Conference Center

The Keynote Lecture:

“A Natural and Human History of Adirondack Waters”

by Dr. Daniel Kelting, Executive Director of Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College

Keynote Lecture:

Electromicrobiology: A New Paradigm for Microbial Physiology and Ecology

By Dr. Yuri Gorby, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute