Microbial Communities III

Presentations

• Species interactions and colonization resistance in a spatially structured microbial community

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Babak Momeni

    • Boston College

  Authors

  • Babak Momeni

    • Boston College

  • M Vahramian

  • Yilin Chen

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• Investigating negative Gaussian curvature as an antimicrobial vulnerability

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Yonghan Wu

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Yonghan Wu

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Haleh Alimohamadi

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Steven Gross

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Albert Siryaporn

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Responses to invasion and antibiotics by model gut microbiomes in zebrafish

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Raghuveer Parthasarathy

    • University of Oregon

  Authors

  • Raghuveer Parthasarathy

    • University of Oregon

  • Piyush Amitabh

    • University of Oregon

  • Susana Marquez

    • University of Oregon

  • Ryan Pirrung

  • Vivan Winkler

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• Biofilm clearance using magnetically actuated surfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Ernest Park

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Ernest Park

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • MJ Ferencz

  • Michelle Fung

  • Arnold Mathijssen

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Cooperative antibiotic response in coupled biofilm and planktonic E. faecalis communities

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Gabriela Fernandes Martins

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Gabriela Fernandes Martins

    • University of Michigan

  • Keanu Alexander Guardiola-Flores

  • Luis Zaman

  • Jordan Horowitz

    • University of Michigan

  • Kelsey Hallinen

    • Princeton University

  • Kevin Wood

    • University of Michigan

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• Carbonized Cellulase-Derived Carbon Dots for disruption of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms through Charge-Dependent Electrostatic Interaction

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Vikram Sawant

    • Texas Tech University

  Authors

  • Vikram Sawant

    • Texas Tech University

  • Hammed Faleke

  • Dimitri Pappas

  • Gordon Christopher

    • Texas Tech University

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• Phenotyping single-cell motility of single gene variants during fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Maves

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Benjamin Maves

    • Syracuse University

  • Alison Patteson

    • Syracuse University

  • Roy Welch

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• Mechanosensing by Myxococcus Xanthus under Cyclic and Static Substrate Compression

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jedidiah Tulu

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Jedidiah Tulu

    • Syracuse University

  • Alison Patteson

    • Syracuse University

  • Jennifer Schwarz

  • Roy Welch

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• Abstract Withdrawn

  Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM

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• Mapping metabolic networks to physical observables in space and time

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jorge Reyes

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Jorge Reyes

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Jorn Dunkel

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Cell death and population heterogeneity affect DNA-replication-based estimates of bacterial growth

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Hunter

    • University of British Columbia

  Authors

  • Michael Hunter

    • University of British Columbia

  • Hans Ghezzi

  • Asmita Jain

  • Carolina Tropini

    • University of British Columbia

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• Predicting characterization of microbiome taxonomy from imaging using machine learning approaches

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Vernita Gordon

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Vernita Gordon

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Brandon Niese

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Philip Sweet

  • Bryan Dinh

  • Amanda Scholes

  • Danielle LeSassier

  • Krista Ternus

  • Lydia Contreras

    • The University of Texas at Austin

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• Deciphering the predator-prey dynamics between protists and bacterial biofilms

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Sebastian Gonzalez La Corte

    • Yale University

  • Jing Yan

    • Yale University

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