Thursday, July 30, 2009: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Pier 4 (Westin Harbour Castle Hotel)
Session 30: Cryptic pathways and symbionts
Chair:Eric W. Schmidt
2:00 PMBacteria-insect mutualisms
Jon Clardy, Cameron R. Currie
2:30 PMTeredinibacter turnerae, a multitalented symbiont of shipworms (Teredinindae)
Margo Haygood, Joyce C. Yang, Nathan Ekborg, Yvette Luyten, Amaro Trinidade-Silva, Carlos A.G. Soares, Sherif Elshahawi, Amro Hanora, Eric W. Schmidt, Naomi Ward, Jonathan Eisen, Jonathan Badger, Daniel Distel
3:00 PMcoffee break
3:30 PMSymbioses in the gut microbial community of termites for efficient cellulose digestion
Moriya Ohkuma
4:00 PMCharacterizing symbiosis in leaf-cutting ant fungus gardens using metagenomics
Garret Suen, Cameron R. Currie
4:30 PM3A secondary metabolic symbiosis: metagenomic studies of ascidians
Eric W. Schmidt, Mohamed S. Donia, John McIntosh

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