8th Annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium: Connections to the Environment and Health September 19, 2022 10 AM - 6:00 PM CALIT2 Building Auditorium University of California, Irvine REGISTER HERE: https://microbiome.uci.edu/microbiome-symposium-rsvp/ This event is free, but registration is limited. Parking is $13 in the Anteater Parking Structure. Including a new poster session for early career researchers SUBMIT A POSTER https://tinyurl.com/3bbmyffd SCHEDULE 10 a.m.: Welcome and Introductions 10:15 a.m.: Suzanne Devkota, Cedars-Sinai “Physiological and immunological responses to gut bacterial translocation in humans” 10:50 a.m.: Juliet Morrison, UCR “Pleural macrophages promote recovery from influenza virus infection” 11:25 a.m.: Travis Wiles, UCI “Tracing microbial life cycles in the gut microbiome” LUNCH BREAK 1 p.m.: Kevin Honker, BiomeSense “A translation-focused framework for human gut microbiome studies” 1:35 p.m.: Margaret McFall-Ngai, Carnegie Science “The imperative to integrate macro-and microbiology: Challenges and strategies” 2:10 p.m.: Jed Fuhrman, USC “Analyses of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic ocean microbiomes, vetted with mock communities and metagenomics” COFFEE BREAK 3:30 p.m.: Nick Shikuma, SDSU “A tale of phage tails and tubeworms: How bacteria stimulate animal metamorphosis” 4:05 p.m.: Joleah Lamb, UCI “Marine Greens: Using microbial processes of coastal ecosystems to improve human and ocean health” POSTER SESSION CO-ORGANIZED BY: UCI Microbiome UC RIVERSIDE UC San Diego UCI CALIT2