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March 28-29, 2014, Davenport University
 
 
Lettinga Campus, Grand Rapids
 
     
 
"The Human Microbiome"
 
     
     
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
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Tentative
 
 
 
 
Friday, March 28
6:00-8:00 pm Student/Faculty Mixer Hilton, Grand Rapids
7:00 pm Board Dinner  Spinnaker Room
Hilton, Grand Rapids
     
Saturday, March 29
7:45-8:45 am Breakfast and Registration Sneden Conference Rooms 1-3
8:50-9:00 am Introduction and Welcome Sneden Auditorium
9:00-10:00 am Plenary Session 1 Sneden Auditorium
 

Joseph Petrosino, PhD (more info) (website) (video)
"The Human Microbiome: An Underappreciated Organ Important for Human Health"
Director
Alkek Center of Metagenomics and Microbiome Research
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

10:00 -11:00 am Poster/Vendor viewing
Coffee Break
 
11:00 -12:00 pm Student Speakers 1-4 (video) Sneden Auditorium
12:00 -1:15 pm Lunch and Business Meeting Sneden Conference Rooms 1-3
1:15 - 2:15 pm Plenary Session 2 Sneden Auditorium
 

Casey Theriot, PhD (more info) (website) (video)
“The Gut Microbiome and Metabolome in Susceptibility to Clostridium difficile Infection”
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of infectious Diseases
University of Michigan , Ann Arbor

2:15 - 2:30 pm Student Award Presentations and Board Announcements Sneden Auditorium
2:30 - 3:30 pm Plenary Session 3 Sneden Auditorium
 

Marius Vital, PhD (more info) (website) (video)
“How to Investigate Specific Functions in Complex Microbial Communities: Butyrate-Synthesis in the Gut Microbiota as an Example”
Center for Microbial Ecology
Michigan State University, East Lansing

3:30 Meeting Adjourns  
3:30 - 4:30 pm Board Meeting  
     
 


 
Planning Committee: Susan Gunn and Kristyne Baumgarten
 
     
     
 

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