Abstract Submission
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Oral & Poster Presentations
See the most recent version of the Workshop schedule here
Oral Presentations:
All presentations (except Keynote talks) are scheduled for 25 minutes, including ~5 minutes of questions.
We will operate the presentations for the Workshop from a centralized computer. Please prepare your talk on a commonly used software for presentations (i.e., Powerpoint, PDF). Please prepare your talk to be compatible to transfer to the centralized computer via upload to a shared drive (links will be sent) or flash drive. To streamline the process, we intend to only allow presentations from a personal laptop under exceptional circumstances.
Poster guidelines:
Please make your poster no wider than 3 feet (36 inches; 92cm). Any poster wider than 3.5 feet (42 in) will likely collide with neighboring posters and may be difficult to display/hang properly.
Depending on your number and the organization of the room, your poster will be hung either on a movable wall, or on a free-standing easel.
Three poster sessions have been planned:
Session I: Odd # posters - Thursday, June 16th, 8:00-9:45p
Session II: Even # posters - Friday, June 17th, 8:00-9:45p
Session III: "Freeform" - Saturday, June 18th, 4:30-6:00p
See the Program (PDF) for a list of posters that is formatted in an easier-to-read manner.
For your information, the Google Forms page used for Abstract submission is archived here..
Supplies and instructions to hang your posters will be provided at the Workshop.
# Presenter Title
1 Joshua P. Abraham ENGINEERING MEDIUM CHAIN FATTY ACID PRODUCTION IN SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. PCC 7002
2 Jackson Achankunju ISOLATION,LAB SCALE CULTIVATION AND APPLICATION OF CYANOBACTERIAL SPECIES FROM HYPERSALINE WATER BODIES
3 Anton Avramov LIFE AND DEATH IN SINGLE-CELL LINEAGES OF CYANOBACTERIA
4 Anindita Bandyopadhyay THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK ORCHESTRATES SEGREGATION OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND NITROGEN FIXATION IN UNICELLULAR DIAZOTROPHIC CYANOBACTERIA
5 Joe Basalla A CONSERVED TRYPTOPHAN MEIATES THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE POSITIONING PROTEIN McdB AND BOTH α- AND ß-CARBOXYSOMES
6 Devaki Bhaya DIFFERENTIAL PHOTOTACTIC BEHAVIOR OF CLOSELY RELATED CYANOBACTERIAL ISOLATES FROM YELLOWSTONE HOT SPRING BIOFILMS
7 Devaki Bhaya GENETIC TRANSFORMATION OF AN EXTREMOPHILE CYANOBACTERIUM FROM YELLOWSTONE HOT SPRINGS
8 Devaki Bhaya EXPLORING CARBON EXCHANGE BETWEEN THERMOPHILIC SYNECHOCOCCUS AND CHLOROFLEXUS IN A SYNTHETIC COCULTURE
9 Sandeep Biswas ENGINEERING IsiA QUENCHING PROPERTIES IN CP43 INCREASES HIGH-LIGHT TOLERANCE IN SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803
10 Mahir Bozan DUAL-SPECIES CYANOBACTERIAL BIOFILMS FOR TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS
11 Chris Brininger CALCIUM CARBONATE PRECIPITATION BY A DIAZOTROPHIC CYANOBACTERIUM
12 Suraj Chauhan STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL INVESTIGATION OF A MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED CRP INVOLVED IN INORGANIC CARBON RESPONSE IN SYNECHOCYSTIS PCC 6803
13 Niaz Bahar Chowdhury CHARACTERIZING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN RUBISCO AND NITROGENASE ENZYMES OF RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS
14 Matthew Dwyer DESIGNING A SYNTHETIC CARBOXYSOME SHELL TO MEASURE OXYGEN PERMEABILITY OF THE SHELL
15 Jeff Elhai A NATURAL N2-FIXING ORGANELLE: CHARACTERIZATION OF ITS DEGREE OF INDEPENDENCE
16 Roberto Espinoza-Corral DETERMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE NEWLY DISCOVERED PBS LINKER APCG
17 Mingxu Fang USING AN IN VITRO CLOCK TO STUDY THE CIRCADIAN RESETTING MECHANISM
18 Snehal D Ganjave CYANOBACTERIA DERIVED PROMOTERS FOR INDUCER-FREE PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN E. COLI
19 Susan Golden UV TOLERANCE GENES REVEALED BY A GENOME-WIDE FITNESS ASSESSMENT IN A MODEL CYANOBACTERIUM
20 Jorge Guío EXPLORING TRANSCRIPTIONAL NETWORKS INVOLVING FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR (FUR) PROTEINS IN ANABAENA SP. PCC 7120
21 Adrian Tüllinghoff MAXIMIZING PHOTOSYNTHESIS-DRIVEN BAEYER-VILLIGER OXIDATION EFFICIENCY
22 Harvey Hou ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROALGAE: FROM POLLUTION CONTROL TO FORENSIC ANALYSIS
23 Darcy Hunstiger INDUCIBLE TRANS-CINNAMIC ACID PRODUCTION IN SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803
24 Maria Luísa Jabbur THE WINTER BLUE-GREENS: HOW CYANOBACTERIAL PREDICT WINTER
25 Zhenxiong Jiang PHOTOSYNTHESIS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH ACCELERATED EVOLUTION
26 Virginia Johnson USE OF CRISPR-INTERFERENCE TO DISSECT THE PHOTOSYSTEM II LIFECYCLE IN THE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCYSTIS SP PCC 6803
27 Kes Lynn Joseph MUTAGENESIS OF A PHYCOERYTHROBILIN LYASE TO GAIN ISOMERASE FUNCTION IN SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. A15-62
28 Mark William Kathol INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PBBR1’S MOBILIZATION PROTEIN IN PLASMID MAINTENANCE IN NON-MODEL BACTERIA
29 Tom Dongmin Kim ENGINEERING PHOTOSYSTEM II BY DIRECTED EVOLUTION
30 Shashi Kiran Nivas KINETIC STUDY OF BIOREMEDIATION OF 2,4D A WIDELY USED HERBICIDE USING CYANOBACTERIA (OSCILLATORIA SP.) DERIVED BIOCHAR
31 Manos Kokarakis APPLICATION OF QUORUM SENSING SYSTEM IN SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942 FOR HARVESTING CELL BIOMASS
32 Michelle Liberton PHOTOSYSTEM II FUNCTIONAL REGULATION DURING THE DIURNAL CYCLE OCCURS INDEPENDENTLY OF PsbA4 IN CYANOTHECE SP. ATCC 51142
33 Xindi Liu THE BETA-SUBUNIT PHCOERYTHERIN I SUBSTRATE AFFECTS ISOMERIZATION ACTIVITY OF MpeV IN MARINE SYNECHOCOCCUS STRAIN WH8020
34 Haijun Liu PURIFICATION AND SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF REACTION CENTERS FROM DROUGHT RESISTANT CYANOBACTERIUM LEPTOLYNGBYA OHADII
35 Claudia Mak HYDRATION OF CHARGED RESIDUES AND OLIGOMERIZATION MODULATE PHASE SEPARATION OF THE CARBOXYSOME-POSITIONING PROTEIN MCDB OF SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS
36 Vicente Mariscal CROSSTALK AT EARLY STAGES OF THE SYMBIOTIC INTERACTION BETWEEN NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME AND ORYZA SATIVA
37 Eveleyn Mortimer THE ROLE OF CITIZEN SCIENCE IN CYANOBACTERIA MONITERING IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTES
38 Shubhangi Padhi FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN EXORIBONUCLEASE RNASE IN SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC803
39 Ruchi Pathania ELUCIDATING THE PHOTOAUTOTROPHIC METABOLISM OF NATIVE MARINE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS BDU 130192 THROUGH ISOTOPICALLY NONSTATIONARY 13C-MFA (METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS)
40 Silke Pradella THE COLLECTION OF CYANOBACTERIA AT THE LEIBNIZ-INSTITUTE DSMZ - GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES GMBH
41 Rees Rillema IMPROVING SYNTHETIC CYANOBACTERIA/HETEROTROPH CONSORTIA WITH RATIONAL DESIGN: STABILIZING LIGHT-DRIVEN SYNTHETIC MICROBIAL CONSORTIA WITH QUORUM SENSING MODULES
42 Joao Rodrigues EFFECT OF ISOPRENE PRODUCTION ON CYANOBACTERIAL CELL ECONOMY WHEN GROWN UNDER DIFFERENT LIGHT REGIMES
43 Thomas Rohr BIOCATALYSIS IN GREEN AND BLUE: SYNECHOCOCCUS PCC11901 AS A NEW WORKHORSE
44 Jonathan Sakkos ELUCIDATING THE IMPACT OF SPATIAL STRUCTURING ON PARTNER FITNESS IN A SUCROSE-SECRETING CYANOBACTERIAL CONSORTIUM
45 Filipe Branco dos Santos CHANNELING ANABOLIC SIDE PRODUCTS TOWARDS VALUABLE COMPOUNDS
46 Jacob Sebesta BIOCONTAINMENT OF CYANOBACTERIA GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO PRODUCE ETHYLENE
47 Ella Sendersky THE ALTERNATIVE SIGMA FACTOR SIGF1 IS ESSENTIAL FOR BIOFILM SELF-SUPPRESSION IN SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC7942
48 Annesha Sengupta STREAMLINING THE GENOME OF A FAST-GROWING CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS UTEX 2973 FOR ENHANCED BIOPRODUCTION
49 Fuad Shatara INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF MICROPLASTICS ON FRESHWATER HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS
50 Damien Sheppard DIVERSITY AMONG C-TERMINAL DOMAIN-LIKE CAROTENOID PROTEINS IN CYANOBACTERIA
51 Amit Singh REGULATION OF RUBISCO IN RESPONSE TO ALTERED CARBON STATUS IN THE CYANOBACTERIUM SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942
52 Vaibhav Srivastava INCREASING SOLVENT TOLERANCE OF SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 11801 BY ADAPTIVE LABORATORY EVOLUTION
53 Sunil Tiwari COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PHYCOCYANIN FROM DIFFERENT CYANOBACTERIA
54 Kazuma Toida IDENTIFICATION OF A HISTIDINE KINASE INVOLVED IN REGULATION OF MOTILITY IN THE FILAMENTOUS CYANOBACTERIUM, LEPTOLYNGBYA
55 Piotr Tokarz INSIGHT INTO THE STRUCTURE OF CYANOBACTERIAL SEPTAL JUNCTIONS
56 Alejandro Torrado CYTOCHROME c6 PLAYS AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HETEROCYSTS OF NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120
57 Ross Walker UNCOVERING THE MECHANISM OF POWERED CARBONIC ANHYDRASE-LIKE ACTIVITY IN SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 7942
58 Patricia Walker HltA: A UNIVERSALLY CONSERVED CYANOBACTERIAL PROTEIN PHOSPHATASE INVOLVED IN LIGHT TOLERANCE
59 Pramod Wangikar SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 11801 - A FAST-GROWING AND ROBUST HOST FOR PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTION OF BIOCHEMICALS
60 Ningdong Xie KEY METABOLIC PROCESSES SUPPORTING ROBUST PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN CYANOBACTERIA
61 Audrey Ynigez-Gutierrez DEVELOPMENT OF CYANOBACTERIA SYNECHOCOCCUS SP. STRAIN PCC 7002 FOR BIOSYNTHETIC STUDIES OF FATTY ACID-CONTAINING SECONDARY METABOLITES
62 Ruanbao Zhou GENETICALLY ENGINEERING N2-FIXING CYANOBACTERIA TO PRODUCE LINALOOL FROM ATMOSPHERIC CO2, N2 AND MINALIZED WATER
63 Baltazar Zuniga SYSTEMS BIOLOGY TO ENABLE MODULAR METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF FATTY ACID PRODUCTION IN CYANOBACTERIA