Keynote
“Microbial Traits Associated with Adaptation to Climate Warming in Soils”
by
Dr. Kristen DeAngelis
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
and
“Tasty [Beer] Innovations from Wasp Yeast: How Academic and Industry Partnerships Can Lead to New Technology”
by
Dr. Anne Madden
Lachancea, LLC and Indigo Ag, Inc.
MEETING SCHEDULE
June 28, 2019
5:00 pm: Microbial Traits Associated with Adaptation to Climate Warming in Soil
Dr. Kristen DeAngelis– University of Massachusetts – Amhers
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30 -9:00 pm: Poster Session A*
Followed by Social
June 29, 2019
7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast
8:30 am: The Gut Microbiome in People with Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
David Esteban – Vassar College
9:05 am: Introducing Uncultivated Hydrothermarchaeota from the Subseafloor Crustal Biosphere
Stephanie Carr, Sean Junbluth, Ramunas Stepanauskas, Tanya Woyke, Michael Rappe, and Beth Orcutt – Hartwick College
9:25 am: A Novel Form of Propagating Wave within a Starving Myxococcus xanthus Biofilm
Jessica A. Comstock, Fatmagül Bahar, Jessica M. O’Connell, Makan Fardad, and Roy D. Welch – Syracuse University
9:45 am: Interval
9:55 am: Genetic Characterization of the Diphenylether Degradation Pathway in Sphingomonas sp. Strain SS3
Aakansha J. Roberts and Gerben J. Zylstra – Rutgers University
10:30 am: Photosynthetic Microbes in Atmospheric Water Around puy de Dôme, France
Kevin P. Dillon, F. Correa, C. Judon, M. Sancelme, D.E. Fennell, A.-M. Delort, P. Amato – Rutgers University
10:50 am: Enhancing Viral Replication through Stress: How Reovirus Benefits from Exposure to Sodium Arsenite
Michael M. Lutz, Megan P. Worth, Meleana M. Hinchman, John S.L. Parker, and Emily D. Ledgerwood – Le Moyne College
11:15 am: Dynamics of the Aedes aegypti Midgut Microbiota during Bloodmeal Digestion
Jacquelyn La Reau1,2, Josephine Hyde2, Doug Brackney2, and Blaire Steven2 – 1Quinnipiac University, 2Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
11:35 am: Indigo Ag, Harnessing Nature to Sustainably Feed the Planet
Molly Veregge and Sarah Richards – Indigo Ag
11:55 am: Group Photo
12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Microbe Walk (Optional)
A nature-walk focusing on microbial habitats and field marks
5:00 pm: Tasty [Beer] Innovations from Wasp Yeast: The Benefits of Academic and Industry Partnerships
Dr. Anna A. Madden –Lachancea LLC.
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:30-9:00pm: Poster Session B**
9:00 pm: Scholarship Raffle
Followed by Social
June 30, 2019
7:30-8:30 am: Breakfast
8:30 am: Deconvolving Pseudomonas aeruginosa Gene Expression in Co-Culture with Candida albicans: A Machine Learning Approach
Georgia Doing, Casey Greene, and Deborah Hogan – Dartmouth College
9:05 am: Unravelling the Oxidative Stress Response of Haemophilus parainfluenzae
Dasith Perera, Shannon Oliver, Jessica Mark Welch, and Matthew Ramsey – University of Rhode Island
9:25 am: Understanding Biofilm Production on Subsurface Rocks
Hailey Pooler and Stephanie Carr – Hartwick College
9:45 am: Interval
10:00 am: Microbial Community Structure in St. Lawrence River Wetlands and Management of Mercury-Methylation
Rebecca Lightman, Evie Brahmstedt, Matthew Windle, Michael Twiss, Jeff Ridal, and Erin Eggleston – Middlebury College
10:35 am: Hungry for Drugs – The Microbial Degradation of Pharmaceuticals in Estuarine Environments
Michelle L. Zeliph, Max Häggblom – Rutgers University
10:55 am: Deciphering the Diversity of Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) Skin-Associated Bacterial Communities
Myra C. Hughey – Vassar College
11:20 am: Antisepsis and the First World War
Michael Hanophy – St. Joseph’s College
11:30 am: NEMPET business meeting
12:00- 1:00 pm: Lunch and Departure
POSTER SESSION A*
Can We Identify Regulatory Sequences for Control of Gene Expression by the non-DNA Binding Response Regulator Sma0114 in S. meliloti using a Motif Recognition Algorithm?
Ihunna Amugo, John Braverman, Preston Garcia, and Catalina Arango – St. Joseph’s University
Complementary Approaches for Identification of Protein Partners Associated with the Sma0114 Response Regulator in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Breanna Babiarz, Megan Nadler, and Preston P. Garcia – Castleton University
Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Merrimack River
Cheryl Wilkinson, Ricky Santosuosso, and Charlotte Berkes – Merrimack College
Assessing Functionality of divIVA Alleles in the Large Bacterium Epulopiscium sp. type B
William Blanding, Erin Clough, Alexandra Glathar, William Schutt, Elizabeth Hutchison – SUNY Geneseo
How Does AgpT Regulate Expression of the Alpha-Galactoside Utilization Operon agp-melA in Sinorhizobium meliloti?
Isabella Carpenter, Rachel Schwartz, Leona Ryder, Frank Mele, Vincent Pepe, Christina Mirarchi, Joseph Johnson, Muhammad Arif, Lucie Ngaba, Francesca Samony, Avery Clark, and Catalina Arango – St. Joseph’s University
Nutritional Interactions between Legionella and Biofilm-Resident Bacterial Species
Christa Chatfield – SUNY Cortland
Use of a Campus-Wide Science Immersion Course to Collect, Map and Compare Violacein Producing Isolates World-Wide
Allegra Cooper, Sacha Medjo-Akono, Brooke A. Jude – Bard College
Cloud-Forming Properties of Aerosolized Marine Viruses
Benjamin Diaz, Jozef Nissimov, Chana Kranzler, Chia-Li Chen, Georges Saliba, Savannah Lewis, Luke Ziemba, Richard Moore, and Kay Bidle – Rutgers University
Catalase expression and activity in Serratia marcescens (SM) grown under static and shaking conditions
James Faraci, Karina Ckless, and José de Ondarza – SUNY Plattsburgh
Comparison of Quorum-Sensing Related Behaviors among Unique Violacein-Producing Isolates
Julia Gibson and Brooke Jude – Bard College
Exogenous Sulfite Production by Bacteria and its Role in Mineral Transformations
Jennifer Goff and Nathan Yee – Rutgers University
Determining the Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in the Syracuse Urban Deer Population
Gabriella Oliva, Jason Luscier, and Emily D. Ledgerwood – Le Moyne College
POSTER SESSION B**
The Metabolism of Bacterial Enrichments Grown on Hops Extracts
Melissa Caruana, Andrea Fontaine, Scott Britton, Mary Allen, and Jeff Werner – SUNY Cortland
Characterization of female sexual development-1 (fsd-1) Transcript Structure,
Expression, and Mutant Alleles in the Fungus Neurospora crassa
Elizabeth Hutchison, Katherine Cotten, Margaux Hales, Mark Soto, and Kathryn Emmens – SUNY Geneseo
Microbial Dark Matter: A Fundamental Description of the AC1 Genome
Ravishankar Ishmael, Stephanie Carr, and John Spear – Hartwick College
Pig worm egg inactivation, the final chapter?
Giovanna Ferguson-Lewis, Johannah Buehrer, Kristina Macky, Michaela Labare, M. Butkus, D.D. Bowman, and M. P. Labare – USMA West Point
Indirect repression of the Locus of Enterocyte Effacement in enteropathogenic E. coli by Hfq-dependent small regulatory RNAs OmrA and B
Sarah Muche, J. El-Fenej, W. Yu, B. Amos, T. Buerkert, M. Riga, T. Hunter, and S. Bhatt – St. Joseph’s University
Discovery and Study of a New Enterobacter Species
Reilly Bolin, Katelyn Cross, Nicholas Eddy, G.B. Rakitha Malewana, Samara Muth, Ryan Tham, Emily L. Messina – Husson University
Genetic Manipulation of the Second Enzymatic Step of Dioxins Degradation by Sphingomonas wittichii RW1
Thamer Mutter and Gerben Zylstra – Rutgers University
How Do Microorganisms Direct the Timing of Development in Drosophila melanogaster?
Peter Newell, Rita Ntim-Gyakari, Tylea McCarthy-Walker, Gabrielle Solomon – SUNY Oswego
Carbon Fixation and Energy Metabolism across Different Bioregimes of the East Pacific Rise
Ian Schlegel, and Costantino Vetriani – Rutgers University
Desert Biological Soil Crusts as a Model for Soil Carbon Cycling
Blaire Steven – Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Isolation and Characterization of Novel Bacteriophages
Reilly Bolin, Katelyn Cross, Nicholas Eddy, GB Rakitha Malewana, Samara Muth, Ryan Tham, and Emily L. Messina – Husson University
Investigating Cryptococcus neoformans Melanin Production in the Presence of Redox Reagents
Fu Dong, Tasnia Tabassum, and Helene Eisenman Barbour – Baruch College, CUNY