6th International Conference on Model Hosts

Program - Tuesday, October 04

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    Accommodations

    Accommodations for the conference are at the Sheraton Hotel. The Hotel is located in Ixia, Rhodes, 14.5 km from the airport.

    Arrival and Check-in 

    Attendees are expected to arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM local time. Registered participants arriving after 10:00 PM should make alternative dinner arrangements.  

    Conference Venue

    The Sheraton Conference Center is located at the hotel.  

    Handicapped Accessibility 

    The site is fully handicapped accessible. 

    Oral Presentations

    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A. 

    City Tour

    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby 3:00 PM. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast

    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Sheraton Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.

    Lunches/Informal Discussions

    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions

    Three of the dinners/informal discussions will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting. 

    Internet, Phone, & Computer 

    Wireless internet access is available throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. 

    Certificate of Participation

    A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session.

    Meeting Room Policy

    Mask Recommendation

    Face masks are recommended indoors.

    No Photographs and Recording Devices 

    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Other Information

    Animals are not permitted on site. 

    Badges are required for admission to all events. 

    All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking. 

     

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Tuesday, October 04

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Inferring host traits from their associated microbial genomes
Chair: Michael Gilmore
08:30 AM - 08:55 AM
Unpredictable Responses by Mammalian Cells to Amoeba Host-Adapted Effectors of Legionella pneumophila
Yousef Abukwaik
08:55 AM - 09:20 AM
Leveraging large-scale comparative genomics to quantify microbial adaptation to spaceflight
Braden Tierney1, Nitin Singh2, Anna Simpson2, Andrea Hujer3, Robert Bonomo3, Kasthuri Venkateswaran2, and Christopher Mason1
09:20 AM - 09:45 AM
Polymicrobial crosstalk on the skin limits MRSA colonization and disease
Alexander Horswill
09:45 AM - 10:10 AM
Ubiquity of enterococcal gut colonization of land animals provides an ideal model for deciphering key host/microbe relationships
Michael Gilmore
10:10 AM - 10:25 AM
A clash of kingdoms: Dissecting Aspergillus fumigatus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa polymicrobial interactions in the CF lung environment
Stephen Dolan and Marvin Whiteley
10:25 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
Microbial biogeography and the host response
Chair: Marvin Whiteley
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Enterococci use diverse strategies to evade bacteriophage infection
Breck Duerkop
11:25 AM - 11:50 AM
Spatial structure of polymicrobial biofilms causing human tooth-decay
Hyun (Michel) Koo
11:50 AM - 12:15 PM
But some are useful: A mouse model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection
Joanna Goldberg
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
Dual oxic-anoxic co-culture enables direct study of host-anaerobe interactions at the airway epithelial interface
Ryan Hunter
12:40 PM - 01:05 PM
Using bacterial human infection transcriptomes to guide pre-clinical model development
Marvin Whiteley
01:05 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
City Tour (Buses Depart from Hotel Lobby)
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions (Buses do not return to the hotel prior to dinner)