Feb 18–21, 2025 | Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, AB, Canada
Scientific Organizers:
Suzanne Devkota, Jeff F Miller, and Roberto G. Kolter

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Scientific Organizers: Suzanne Devkota, Jeff F Miller, and Roberto G. Kolter
Suzanne Devkota
Jeff F Miller
Roberto G. Kolter
***Meeting program subject to change.
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Session Chair
Session Chair
Commensals and Pathobionts in the Gut
Session Chair
The History of Microbiology and Modern-Day Approaches
Microbiome-Derived Small Molecules in Health and Disease
Genomic Insights into the Global Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
Short Talk: Revealing Hidden Diversity in Bifidobacterium Longum: Insights from Early Life Cohorts
Short Talk: Small and Large Bowel Microbiota Mismatches Following Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Lead to Long-Term, Unintended Effects On The Host
Session Chair
Phage-Derived Lysins for Precision Engineering of the Small Intestinal Microbiota
Human Microbiota-Associated Mice: Mouse-Adapted Human IBD Microbiota Transplant to Colitis-Susceptible Germ-Free Mice Induces More Consistent, Reproducible Colitis with High Microbial Transfer Efficiency Relative to Human Fecal Transplant
Phage-Derived Protein Delivery: A Tool for Microbiome Interactions
Identification of a Type VII Toxin Secretion System in Crohn’s Disease patient-derived Clostridium innocuum
Host-Derived Electron Acceptors Facilitate Uremic Toxin Production by E. coli, Exacerbating Chronic Kidney Disease
Genetically Uniform Parabacteroides from Fistulous Microlesions Highlights Lineage Adaptation in a Transmissible Bacterial-Succinate Cytotoxic Model of Crohn’s Disease Complications
Diverse Phage Communities are Maintained Stably on A Clonal Bacterial Host
Epimerization of Host-Derived Bile Acids By Ruminococcus Gnavus as Hallmark of Microbiota Dysbiosis
Session Chair
Diversity Generating Retroelements in the Gut Microbiome
Community Adaptations Across Environments
Host-Microbe Dynamics in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Short Talk: Intraspecies Warfare Restricts Strain Coexistence In Human Skin Microbiomes
Short Talk: How Does Diversity Affect Ecological Stability?
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Harnessing the Gut Microbiome to Counteract and Predict Cancer Chemotherapy Toxicity
Time to Turn the Spotlight on the Small Intestinal Microbiome
At First Sight: How Hosts and Microbes Sense Each Other
Fungal Commensalism and the Co-evolution of Type 2 Immunity
Short Talk: Maternal Immunoglobulin a Regulates the Development of the Neonatal Microbiota and Intestinal Microbiota-Specific CD4+ T Cell Responses
Short Talk: Regulation of Enterocyte Lipid Metabolism by the Microbiota-derived Metabolite, Phenyllactic Acid
Director, Bacterial Genomics
Founder & CSO/Group Leader
Senior Principal Scientist
Assistant Professor
Program Officer
Panel Co-Leader
Panel Co-Leader
Inter-Kingdom Interactions Shaping Malaria Infections
Bacterial Diversity and Host Response to Medications
Environmental Lifestyle and Evolvability of Vibrio Cholerae
Short Talk: Bacterial Quorum Sensing Molecules Produced Via HdtS Homologs Affect Host T Cell Immunity In The Mammalian Gut
Short Talk: Gut Microbiota Induce an Immunoglobulin A-DMBT1 Feedback Loop to Tune Epithelial Cycling and Tumor Risk
Friday, February 21, 2025
Integrating Mass Culturing and Metagenomic Analysis for Human Microbiome Translational Science
Dissecting Microbe: Microbe and Microbe: Host Interactions using Genomics
Strain-Resolved Metagenome-Wide Association Studies
Short Talk: Dramatically Improved Viral Profiling From Metagenomes And Metatranscriptomes Using Marker Sequence Identification
Short Talk: Tree-Of-Life Scale Genotype-Phenotype Association Reveals Conserved Gene Modules that Govern Microbial Colonization of the Mammalian Gut
Short Talk: How to Quantify Microbiome Effects for Hundreds of Food Items: A Bayesian Model for High-Dimensional, Hierarchically Related Predictors
Short Talk: Gene-Centric Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Microbiome Functional Insights into Diseases
Abyssal Antibiotics – Marine Biodiscovery from the Deep Ocean
Bacterial Metabolites as Drugs
Bacterial Delivery Systems from Agents of Pathogenesis to Vectors for Novel Therapeutics
Genetic Perturbation of Gut Bacteria With Engineered Phage Vectors and CRISPR
Saturday, February 22, 2025
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