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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) experts in microbes will be presenting their latest findings at this year’s World Microbe Forum. Researchers from around the globe will gather virtually to discuss the latest in infectious pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, the role of microbes in climate change, food microbiology, and synthetic and applied microbiology.

Below is a list of PNNL scientists presenting at the conference. If you’re attending, please add these compelling sessions to your agenda. See you there!

Presentations and Posters

Mini-conference (On-Demand). AES102. Mechanistic Ecology Enabled Through Investigation of Simplified Microbial Communities

Sunday, June 20, 6:00 AM to 9:30 AM EST

• Kirsten Hofmockel will be part of this mini-conference which will present the latest progress in using SynComs to gain insight into the dynamics of microbial communities and how they can affect their environment.

Poster: It Takes a Village: using a crowdsourced approach to investigate organic matter composition in global rivers through the lens of ecological theory

Sunday, June 20 (all day)

• Emily Graham, James Stegen, and Amy Goldman will present a community effort that breaks these traditional boundaries of the publication process by engaging the scientific community from initial hypothesis generation to final publication.

Symposium (Interactive). HMB105. New Tricks for Old Questions: Imaging of Microbe Biology

Monday, June 21, 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM EST

• Chris Anderton will be part of this interactive session and present on exploring molecular interactions across inter-kingdom microbiomes using multimodal imaging.

Fast Track (Interactive). AES120. Humor and Puns in Science Communication

Tuesday, June 22, 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM EST

• Jason McDermott will be part of this interactive session that will discuss fun and wordplay that can be had in science communication.

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Soil Viruses

Thursday, June 24, 6:45 AM – 7:45 AM  EST

Janet Jansson gives a plenary on how recent developments in multi-omics have facilitated discovery of novel soil viruses and their functional potentials. This talk will also frame the discussion of soil viruses in the context of their response to climate change; specifically changes in historical precipitation patterns and soil moisture in grassland soils and during permafrost thaw.

The Xfam database boosts viral discovery and provides new viral gene annotations

Ongoing

• Paul Piehowski and Josh Adkins will be available throughout the conference to discuss their poster on how they and their collaborators sought to build a resource for the research community that would accelerate viral discovery in metagenomes and improve the annotations of viral genes. 

The virocell metabolic landscape under phosphorus limitation

Ongoing

• Josh Adkins and his colleagues will be available to discuss a study on phage-specific metabolic reprogramming of virocells from two infections of marine heterotroph Pseudoalteromonas (PSA) 13-15.

Metabolism driven regulation of translation by non-enzymatic acetylation of the ribosome

Ongoing

• Ernesto Nakayasu and his colleagues will be available to discuss their study on Non-enzymatic lysine acetylation by acetyl phosphate.

Transcriptional and translational landscape of Candida Auris in response to caspofingin

Ongoing

• Ernesto Nakayasu and his colleagues will be available to discuss their study of Candida auris  and effective treatment approaches to combat this fungus.

Microbial responses to engineered conditions for the active remediation of subsurface sediments

Ongoing

• Christopher Bagwell, Katie Muller, Josh Torgeson, and Lirong Zhong discuss the effects of polymers (chemical composition, concentration, and temporal aging) on the ability of remedial amendments (reductants, adsorbent) to effectively treat hexavalent chromium, a pervasive groundwater contaminant.

Bacterial Metabolism and Disruption of the Epithelial Barrier: Insights from a Metaproteomic Study of Bacterial Vaginosis

Ongoing

• Samuel Purvine and his colleagues will be presenting results from their study of bacterial vaginosis.