Monday August 12, 2013

2.00 pm– 4.00 pm  Nematode Session- Contributed papers I

Tuesday August 13, 2013

8.00 am –10.00 am Nematode Session- Contributed papers II

12.30 pm-4.00 pm  Optional Excursion includes box lunches (for those registered at SIP)

Wednesday August 14, 2013

10.30 am 12.00 pm Poster Session (Location TBD)

 4.00 pm-6.00  pm Symposium "Symbiont Contributions to Host Fitness"

4.00-4.30. I. Eleftherianos. Drosophila transcriptional response to infection by Heterorhabditis nematodes and their mutualistic Photorhabdus bacteria.

4.30-5.00 N. Waterfield.  A systems biology level analysis of human host adaptation of the nematode symbiont Photorhabdus asymbiotica.

5.00-5.30 S. Forst. Natural biology of antimicrobials in symbiotic Xenorhabdus species.

5.30-6.00. F. Bashey Carrying the Right Symbiont: How nematode competitive success is influenced by bacterial interactions.

Thursday August 15, 2013

8.00 am–10.00 am  Nematode Session- Contributed papers III

Friday, August 16, 2014

9.00 am –10.00 am  NEMASYM Session “Ecology of Nematode-Bacterium Associations”

9.00-9.30. Keynote Speaker: John Dahl, Myxococcal multicellular development as a defense against nematode predation.

9.30.-10.00 Discussion

10.00-10.20. Matthew Rogers, Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Nuclear Wolbachia transfers in the genome of the parasitic nematode Brugia malayi

10.20-10.40. Shelly Michalski, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI, USA. NIH/NIAID Filariasis Research Reagent Resource Center:  Reagents available to NemaSym members

10.40 am-11.00 am Coffee break

11.00 am – 12.00 pm NemaSym Business meeting