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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• From Microbes to Machines: Harnessing the multiscale organization of microbial communities for energy-efficient natural computing.

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

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

  Publication: Johnson, C. G. M., Johnson, Z., Mackey, L. S. et al. Multi-Omics Reveals Temporal Scales of Carbon Metabolism in Synechococcus Elongatus PCC 7942 Under Light Disturbance. PRX Life, 3, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/l2dp-kw2t
  Palmer, B.J., Almgren, A.S., Johnson, C.G.M. et al. BMX: Biological modelling and interface exchange. Sci Rep 13, 12235 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39150-1
  
  Bohm Agostini, N., Johnson, C., Cannon, W., and Tumeo, A. ChemComp: A Compilation Framework for Computing with Chemical Reaction Networks. In Proceedings of the 30th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC '25), (2025). https://doi.org/10.1145/3658617.3703315
  
  Johnson, C. G. M., Fletcher, A. G., Soyer, O. S. ChemChaste: Simulating spatially inhomogeneous biochemical reaction–diffusion systems for modeling cell–environment feedbacks, GigaScience, 11, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac051
  
  Johnson, C. G. M., Bohm Agostini, N., Cannon, W. R., Tumeo, A. Computing with a Chemical Reservoir, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC), (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRC64395.2024.10937022
  
  Palmer, B.J., Johnson, C.G.M., Almgren, A.S. et al. Three-dimensional modeling of hyphal fusion, branching, and nutrient transport in filamentous fungi. Phys. Rev. E, 112, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1103/xbjp-zqj1

  Presenters

  • Connah Johnson

    • Pacific Northwest Natl Lab

  Authors

  • Connah Johnson

    • Pacific Northwest Natl Lab

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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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