Presenting Author

Abstract Title

Presentation

Achal, Varenyam

Bacterial community composition as affected by acid rain in heavy metal contaminated soil influenced by biomineralization

virtual poster

Aggarwal, Poonam

Liver cancer-associated microbiome and its role in tumor progression and therapy

poster

Aguilar Lopez, Miriam

Oral microbiota in children with autism spectrum disorder—Associations between GI symptoms and behavior

poster

Ahannach, Sarah

Isala citizen-science map of the vaginal microbiome

poster

Alafiatayo, Akinola

Detection of potential microbiome biomarkers for colorectal cancer using a non-invasive method

poster

Antonello, Giacomo

Salivary microbiota-host genome wide association study of 1,925 Italians highlights potential host-microbe interactions

talk

Arif, Sabrina J

Host transcriptional responses to interpopulation gut microbiome variation

poster

Asangba, Abigail E

Diagnostic and prognostic potential of the microbiome in ovarian cancer treatment response

poster

Awoniyi, Muyiwa

Host resident microbes drive accelerated proximal colitis and dysplasia in a murine model of primary sclerosing cholangitis associated inflammatory bowel disease (PSC-IBD)

talk

Bar, Ofri

Comparison of vaginal microbiota between women with inflammatory bowel disease and healthy controls

poster

Barak, Netta

Analyzing genomic contexts of genes in metagenomic bacterial communities using de novo assembly

poster

Barrack, Kaitlyn

Building an in vitro medium to investigate microbial dynamics in the CF gut

poster

Bashan, Amir

Interactions-based classification of a single microbial sample

talk

Basu, Oni

New microfluidic applications to characterize microbial species and their functions

talk

Bhosle, Amrisha

Identifying novel bioactive metabolites in inflammatory bowel disease

poster

Blekhman, Ran

Multi-omic analyses of human milk reveal effects of milk composition on the infant gut microbiome

talk

Blumenfeld, Britny

Functional annotation of small proteins in a Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage cocktail

poster

Bor, Batbileg

Diversity, episymbiosis, and disease association of ultrasmall Saccharibacteria

virtual poster

Bowden, Sierra

Elucidating the function, targets, and mechanism of small regulatory RNAs in E. faecalis.

poster

Brito, Ilana

Host-microbiome protein-protein interactions modulate host cellular physiology

talk

Brooks, Erin F

The human microbiome—An under-tapped source of antimicrobial peptides

poster

Brown, Kirsty

Map of microbially-induced metabolic changes across diverse body sites in mice

virtual poster

Campbell, Amy E

Genomic foundations of Staphylococcus aureus virulence in diabetic wounds

poster

Carty, Dwayla Marie

One Health—A pathway for collaborative microbiome research and education

poster

Chang, Daniel

GMHI2—An enhanced predictive index for health status using taxonomic gut microbiome profiling

poster

Chanin, Rachael

Analysis of long read datasets finds reversible intragenic inversions in multiple bacterial phyla

poster

Chaudhari, Snehal N

Therapeutic targeting of microbial bile salt hydrolases to improve intestinal permeability

talk

Che, You

Recovery of the skin microbiome in DOCK8-deficient patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

virtual poster

Choudhury, Ankan

Precision therapy against H. pylori infection using engineered probiotics targeting VacA virulence factor

talk

Cohen, Ziv

Microbial hydrogen sulfide drives cryptic redox chemistry in gut microbial communities

talk

Cole, Cody G

Lantibiotic-producing Blautia producta SCSK impacts colonization efforts of key metabolite producers in the gut microbiota

poster

Conlan, Sean

The pangenome of C. tuberculostearicum, an important member of the human skin microbiome

poster

Cremer, Jonas

Short-chain fatty acid production by the gut microbiota and its contribution to energy homeostasis in humans

talk

Crouch, Audra L

From stool to pool—A novel approach to enrich for eukaryotic microbial diversity from microbiomes

poster

Dahal, Nikesh

Impacts of invasive filter-feeder on bacterial biodiversity is context dependent

poster

Davenport, Emily R

Using the microbiome as a proxy for host environmental influences in genome-wide association studies

talk

David, Lawrence

DNA metabarcoding for the study of human diet

talk

Dawson, Tyson

Integrating bacterial microbiome with viromics and host transcriptomics data to identify associates of health outcomes in early pandemic COVID-19 patients from New Jersey

poster

De Nisco, Nicole J

Recurrent urinary tract infection shapes the functional metabolic potential and resistome of the urobiome of postmenopausal women

poster

DeClercq, Vanessa

Oral microbial signatures associated with frailty in Canadian adults

poster

Delanghe, Lize

The skin microbiome in atopic dermatitis in Belgium and how to modulate it with probiotics

poster

Doyle, Boryana

Functional elements in the gut microbiome of melanoma patients treated with immunotherapy

poster

Dvorak, Mai

Effects of fecal collection conditions on microbial measurements and composition

poster

Eckenrode, Kelly

Novel mucus-utilization protein families implicated in the gut microbiome during inflammatory bowel disease

poster

Elmassry, Moamen M

A meta-analysis of the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease patients identifies disease-associated small molecules

talk

Ennis, Dena

The dynamics of Bifidobacterium species in utilizing human milk oligosaccharides  in the breastfed infant gut

poster

Enright, Nora

Investigation of structure-function relationship of bacterial large serine recombinases

poster

Fang, Gang

Systematic characterization of DNA methylation in both microbiome and host epigenomes

talk

Fansler, Ryan T

Iron homeostasis mediates commensal resilience in the inflamed gut

poster

Fernandez Pato, Asier

Choice of DNA extraction method affects stool microbiome recovery and subsequent phenotypic association analyses

poster

Filloramo, Gina V

Integrated Microbiome Resource—Recent advances in microbiome sequencing and bioinformatics

poster

Fisher, Benjamin R

The relationship between blood and tumour microbiomes in patients with cancer

poster

Frame, John W

Discerning the distinctive effects of antibiotics on the intestinal microbiota in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

poster

Fricker, Ashwana D

Establishing mucin degrading bacterial communities from the human gut

poster

Gaber, Mohamed

The microbiome mediates carcinogenic alterations of the mammary gland in the context of obesity

poster

Gallagher, Lewis

Elucidating the role of the microbiome in driving prostate cancer therapeutic resistance

poster

Gazzaniga, Francesca S

Microbiome illuminates a mechanistic strategy for cancer immunotherapy

talk

Gomi, Sumiko

Effects of oseltamivir on the intestinal microbiome during experimental post-influenza A methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia

poster

Gopalakrishnan, Vancheswaran

Multiomic signature of microbiome and host identified from the comparison of diet- or surgical- induced weight loss in people with obesity

poster

Grieshop, Matthew P

Investigating the regulatory targets of trans-acting sRNAs in the human gut opportunistic pathogen Enteroccous faecalis with Ribo-Seq

poster

Grodner, Benjamin M

Mobile genetic element spatial mapping in human oral plaque biofilms

poster

Gupta, Vinod K

Changes in IgA-coated gut microbial strains in patients with multiple sclerosis following B cell depletion therapy

poster

Haddock, Naomi L

The circulating phageome reflects bacterial infections

poster

Han, Alvin

Ambient temperature alters the gut microbiome and gastrointestinal motility of mice

poster

Han, Jungmin

The effects of CD4+ T cell reduction on the human skin microbiome

virtual poster

Harbort, Christopher J

Integrating host and microbiome genetics to identify determinants of typhoid fever

virtual poster

Hatzios, Stavroula

A microbial transporter of the dietary antioxidant ergothioneine

talk

Herrera Paredes, Sur

Detecting natural selection in the gut microbiome

talk

Hryckowian, Andrew J

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron as a chassis for understanding gut-resident bacteriophages

poster

Hubner, Alexander

Reconstruction of Middle and Late Paleolithic metagenomes to access natural products

poster

Hughes, Elizabeth R

Rhs proteins contribute to Akkermansia intraspecies competition in the mouse gut

poster

Hullar, Meredith A

Whole and refined grain diets alter gut microbial activity but not diversity

talk

Janiak, Mareike C

Limited evidence for a relationship between social integration and gut microbial composition or function in free-ranging rhesus macaques

poster

Jensen, Jordan

Integrating reference- and assembly-based methods for improved viral identification from metagenomes, metatranscriptomes, and viromes

poster

Joglekar, Payal

Integrated pan-genomics, transcriptomics and phenotypic analyses reveal extensive metabolic diversity in human skin associated staphylococci

talk

Kardaras, Filippos

A clinical assessment of Chios Mastic effects on gingivitis and the oral microbiome using advanced sequencing techniques

poster

Kardaras, Filippos

Agnodice—Indexing experimentally supported bacterial sRNA-RNA interactions

poster

Kashiwagi, Saori

Mucolytic Ruminococcus gnavus and adherent-invasive E. coli functionally interact with intestinal mucus

poster

Ke, Shanlin

Dissecting the role of the human microbiome in COVID-19 via metagenome-assembled genomes

poster

Kijner, Sivan

The infant gut commensal Bacteroides dorei presents a generalized transcriptional response to various human milk oligosaccharides

poster

Kim, Dasom

Regulation of T cell responses against intestinal microbes

poster

Kim, Min-Ji

Dynamics of microbiome and resistome during cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms

poster

Kim, YounHun

ChronoStrain—Time-series strain tracking with uncertainty from shotgun metagenomic sequencing

poster

Kusel, Kirsten

Feeding and shaping the subsurface microbiome

talk

Kuziel, Gavin A

Functional diversification of plant small molecules by the gut microbiome drives intestinal homeostasis

poster

Kuzma, Marek

Study of fecal metabolome and microbiome in the THY-Tau 22 mouse model of tau pathology

poster

Lee, GyuDae

Understanding the relationship between dietary habits and gut microbiota through Ramadan fasting

poster

Li, Xiangpeng

High-throughput single microbe genomic DNA sequencing with a commercial instrument

virtual poster

Liao, Chen

Relative enrichment of oral bacteria in feces indicates loss of gut commensals with implications to host health

poster

Lind, Abigail

Genomic diversity of commensal Blastocystis gut protists reveals strain-specific changes in host-interfacing pathways

talk

Lindell, Anna

Interaction of environmental pollutants and food contaminants with gut bacteria

poster

Litichevskiy, Lev

Interactions between aging, dietary restriction, and the gut microbiome in a cohort of 960 genetically diverse mice

talk

Long, Dustin R

Characterizing the role of the patient microbiome in surgical site infection and prophylactic antibiotic resistance—A novel approach to targeted metagenomic sequencing of paired clinical samples.

poster

Longman, Randy

Sulfasalazine inhibition of gut microbiome folate synthesis regulates butyrate production and joint inflammation in IBD-associated spondyloarthritis

talk

Lozano Betancourt, Gabriel L

Back to basics—Reexamining the regulation of starch utilization system in Bacteroides

talk

Lubin, Jean-Bernard

Arresting microbiome development limits immune system maturation and resistance to infection

poster

Lui, Lauren

Long read sequencing and assembly for metagenomes—Creating catalogues of complete genomes, plasmids, and phage from environmental microbiomes

poster

Lumish, Melissa A

A prospective biospecimen collection platform to define the microbiome correlates of metastasis and therapy resistance in early onset compared with average onset gastrointestinal cancers

virtual poster

Maghini, Dylan

Infinity long-read sequencing yields high-quality metagenomic assemblies

poster

Maldonado-Contreras, Ana

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the microbiota of pregnant women and their infants

poster

Mancuso, Christopher P

High-throughput competition reveals frequent intra-species antagonism among Staphylococcus epidermidis

poster

Mandal, Rabindra K

Gut Bacteroides cause severe malaria

poster

Mann, Allison E

HIV infection in children is associated with a more divergent and individualistic oral microbiome in late-stage caries development as compared to perinatally exposed and uninfected children

poster

Mark Welch, Jessica L

Imaging the oral microbiome illuminates taxon-taxon interactions and microhabitat taxon specificity

talk

Mazzoni, Chiara

Towards a strain-level atlas of IBD-associated bacteria and their role in host inflammatory response

poster

McDonald, Teresa

Infant dietary diversity and gut microbial metabolism

poster

McLean, Anthony R

Streptococcus site-specificity in the human oral microbiome

poster

Merenstein, Carter

The respiratory microbiome in COVID-19—Associations with disease severity and systemic immune response

poster

Miltiadous, Oriana

Microbial bile acid metabolism shapes effector T cell responses during inflammation in mouse and human

talk

Milligan-McClellan, Kat

Adapting an evolutionary model organism, Stickleback fish, for host-microbe studies

talk

Moriel, Nadav

The development of the preterm infant gut and gastric residual microbiome

poster

Mu, Chunlong

Targeted gut microbiota manipulation attenuates seizures in a model of infantile spasms syndrome

virtual poster

Nearing, Jacob T

Examining the oral microbiome for biomarkers of breast, prostate and colon cancer

poster

Neugent, Michael L

Microbial community structure associated with recurrent UTI susceptibility in the postmenopausal urobiome

talk

Nevot, Guillermo

Genetic domestication of Cutibacterium acnes for monitoring skin inflammatory diseases

poster

Nielsen, Torben N

Long read sequencing and assembly for metagenomes—What are all the circles?

poster

Ogata, Yusuke

Association between gut microbiome and mesenchymal stem/stromal cell

poster

Oliveira, Pedro H

The anti-phage defensome of ocean, soil, and human gut microbiomes

talk

Oliveira, Rita

Symbiotic bacterial strain consortium design to enhance resistance against Klebsiella pneumoniae

poster

Olukolu, Bode A

OmeSeq-qRRS/Qmatey—A platform for broad-spectrum, quantitative, and strain-level metagenomic profiling

virtual poster

Park, Ryan

Detecting phase variation from long-read sequencing runs

poster

Pearl Mizrahi, Sivan P

Lack of impactful species in multiple synthetic communities

poster

Peimbert, Mariana

Identification of possible biocontrol agents en el microbiome of wildlife Aedes aegypti.

poster

Peled, Jonathan

Nutritional contribution to microbiome injury in bone-marrow-transplant patients and antibiotic-treated mice

poster

Pinto, Yishay

Phanta—Phage-inclusive profiling of human gut metagenomes

poster

Pope, Rosemary L

Antibiotic sensitivity and composition of the fecal microbiota in mice obtained from different mouse colonies from two commercial vendors

poster

Portik, Daniel

Evaluation of taxonomic profiling methods for long-read shotgun metagenomic sequencing datasets

poster

Prasad, Aiswarya

Whole-genome shotgun metagenomics reveals differences in gut microbiomes among honeybee species

poster

Proctor, Diana M

Integrating data types to understand the genomic epidemiology of the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris

virtual talk

Qian, Gordon

Uneven metagenomic read coverage at transcription start sites is correlated with gene expression

poster

Qu, Evan B

On-person strain coexistence varies by geographic region in the global skin microbiome

poster

Rahnavard, Ali

Characterizing microbiome dynamics among maternal and donor breastmilk and infants

poster

Ramirez Puebla, S. Tabita

Exposing the hidden micron-scale spatial organization of the human tongue dorsum microbiome

poster

Reigel, Alicia

The unique composition of the sponge exometabolome impacts the structure of shallow tropical reef picoplankton communities

talk

Richard, Stephanie R

Impact of climate change on copepod microbiome

poster

ROMANO SPICA, Vincenzo

S100B protein and microbiota

virtual poster

Schluter, Jonas

The gut microbiota is associated with immune cell dynamics in humans

poster

Schmidtke, Danica T

Identification of Bacteroides vulgatus as a host for the prototypic crAssphage

poster

Severyn, Christopher

Identifying gut microbes and microbial metabolites that increase B cell proliferation

poster

Shaffer, Michael

Signals across ‘omics layers at first vaccine dose predict infant titer levels at one year

talk

Shen, Beth

Development of a natural mammalian gut microbiome model to study interbacterial antagonism in situ

poster

Shen, Zeyang

Skin microbiome of an infant cohort characterized for atopic dermatitis

poster

Siam, Rania

For better or for worse—Microbial communities in Sinai/Egypt solar and saline lakes

talk

Smith, Byron J

Strain-resolved inference of microbial gene content in large metagenomic datasets

talk

Son, Sophie

Determining the mechanisms driving gut microbiota-dependent host protection against Clostridioides difficile infection

poster

Song, Yu Ping

Pre-school Wheeze and Deviations in Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Maturation in a Chinese Birth Cohort

virtual poster

Spiga, Luisella

Commensal iron acquisition machinery modifies host nutritional immunity

poster

Stappenbeck, Thaddeus

Role of microbes in pathogenesis and repair in inflammatory bowel diseases

talk

Sun, Zheng

Depletion of exaggerated false-positive identifications in decoding metagenomic data

poster

Sung, Jaeyun

TaxiBGC—A taxonomy-guided approach for the identification of experimentally verified microbial biosynthetic gene clusters and secondary metabolite production potential in metagenomes

talk

Tao, Junyi

Opioid use exacerbate dysbiosis in a caerulein-induced chronic pancreatitis mouse model

poster

Thai, Kehleyr

The antiepileptic drug topiramate increases Lactobacillus johnsonii which aids in reducing pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures

poster

Tierney, Braden T

Functional response to a microbial synbiotic in the gastrointestinal system of children—A randomized clinical trial

poster

Torres Morales, Julian

Site-specialization of human oral Fusobacterium species

poster

Tsai, Ming-Ting

Epithelial relay of microbial signals to macrophages to regulate barrier repair

poster

Uberoi, Aayushi

Commensal microbes fortify the skin barrier through the control of tryptophan-aryl hydrocarbon receptor cascade

talk

Veerus, Liisa

Excess estrogen affects gut metabolic function and microbiome

poster

Velsko, Irina M

Genetic drivers of dental plaque biofilm niche specialization in oral Streptococcus species

poster

Vineis, Joseph H

Networks and genome resolved metagenomics of a diatom bloom shed light on potential parasites and the importance of biotic interactions

talk

Vishnempet Shridhar, Shivkumar

Deep metagenomic sequencing study of Mesoamerican highland communities reveals very large gut microbiome diversity and strain sharing

talk

Wang, Dong

Machine learning and network analysis of the gut microbiome from schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic subjects reveals behavioral risk factors and bacterial interactions

poster

Wang, Ya

Scalable virome enrichment methods for community detection and quantification

poster

Whittle, Emma L

Blood microbiome as a novel source of biomarkers for prediction of polyclonal hematopoiesis development in patients with a RUNX1 FPD germline predisposition

poster

Wilkinson, Jeremy

High MAG recovery and precision species profiling of a pooled human gut microbiome reference using PacBio HiFi sequencing

poster

Wirbel, Jakob

Evaluation of microbiome association models under realistic and confounded conditions

poster

Wright, Robyn

Exploring compositional changes and microbial biomarkers of Irritable bowel disease in the saliva microbiome

poster

Wu, Wan-Jung

Mucosa associated commensal bacteria promotes intestinal barrier repair via macrophage IL-1β induction

poster

Yaffe, Eitan

Evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the human gut

talk

Yissachar, Nissan

Diet-induced modifications to human microbiome reshape colonic homeostasis in irritable bowel syndrome

talk

Zegarra Ruiz, Daniel F

Microbiota regulation of thymic microbiota-specific T cells development

talk

Zeng, Jun

Dietary perturbation-mediated gut microbiome disruption during hematopoietic stem cell transplant exacerbates patient outcomes

talk

Zhang, Chenran

Acidovorax temperans polarizes Th17 cells and skews neutrophils maturation to promote lung adenocarcinoma development

poster

Zhang, Meifan

Mechanisms underlying obesity induced by early-life antibiotic exposure

poster

Zhang, Xi

Maternal antibiotic exposure perturbs gut microbiome of offspring and overrides the inherent resistance to aggravate metabolic dysfunctions

poster

Zhang, Xinyang

seqSight—A tool to jointly profile microbial strains, genes, and biosynthetic gene clusters from metagenomics data

talk

Zhang, Yancong

Predicting functions of uncharacterized gene products in microbial communities

virtual talk

Zhang, Zhenrun J

Lantibiotic resistance systems mediate in vivo fitness of human gut commensals

talk

Zheng, James J

Gut phageome mediates cancer immunotherapy response

virtual poster

Zlitni, Soumaya

Small but mighty—A novel peptide quorum sensing system in the gut bacterium and pathogen E. faecalis

talk