Join Co-Organizers Ken Birnbaum and Mark Siegal, CGSB Director Elodie Ghedin, and Dean Michael Purugganan for an outstanding lineup of speakers at the 17th annual Genomics Symposium.
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| 9:00 | E. Ghedin & M. Purugganan, NYU Welcome & Opening Remarks |
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| 9:15 | Monica Modina, Penn State Cnidarian-Algal-Microbial Symbiosis and their Response to Climate Change |
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| 9:45 | Duccio Cavalieri, University of Florence Social Wasps as Ecological Models in Yeast Evolutionary Systems Biology |
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| 10:15 | Robin Hopkins, Harvard Reinforcement in Phlox: a colorful role for pollinators in plant speciation |
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| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | Ben Wolfe, Tufts Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Biotic Interactions within Microbiomes |
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| 11:45 | Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Solving the Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture through Mutualistic Symbiotic Associations |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 2:15 | Gabriel Leventhal, MIT Uncovering Co-Evolution in Natural Microbial Consortia Using Genomics |
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| 2:45 | Neslihan Tas Baas, Berkeley Lab Awakening the Sleeping Giant: microbial controls in permafrost ecosystems |
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| 3:15 | Matt Sullivan, Ohio State Ocean Viral Ecology: at the global scale |
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| 3:45 | Coffee | |
| 4:15 | Greg Asner, Carnegie Institute Advanced Earth Observations for Forest and Reef Biology |
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| 4:45 | Corina Tarnita, Princeton Spatial Self-Organization and its Implications for Ecosystem Robustness |
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| 5:15 | Reception |