25TH NORTH AMERICAN SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION CONFERENCE
June 5 - 8, 2022
2022 Conference Schedule
*Tentative Schedule - Details Subject to Change
Sunday, June 5, 2022
| Wisconsin Memorial Union - 800 Langdon Street | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Registration |
| Opening Session – Great Hall | |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Welcome Introduction Jean-Michel Ané – Chair of the Local Organizing Committee |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Paul Ludden – University of Wisconsin-Madison Historical perspective on research on the nitrogenase at the University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Kathryn VandenBosch – University of Wisconsin-Madison Historical perspective on research on rhizobia |
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception |
Monday, June 6, 2022
| Microbial Sciences Building - 1550 Linden Drive | ||
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration & Refreshments – Atrium | |
| Session 1 – Symbiotic Signaling and Nodule Development – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Liana Burghardt | ||
| 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM | Senthil Subramanian – South Dakota State University | |
| 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM | Sanhita Chakraborty – University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 9:10 AM – 9:30 AM | Poulami Chatterjee – University of California, Davis | |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Matias Kirst – University of Florida | |
| 9:50 AM – 10:10 AM | Manish Tiwari – University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| 10:10 AM – 10:40 AM | Coffee Break – Atrium | |
| Session 2 – Diversity of Nitrogen - Fixing Bacteria – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Sonali Roy | ||
| 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | Gyaneshwar Prasad – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Esperanza Martínez-Romero – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | |
| 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM | Allie Igwe – University of Miami | |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | Alasteir Ong – University at Buffalo | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch in and around the Microbial Sciences Building | |
| Session 3 – Nodule Physiology and Function – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Sanhita Chakraborty | ||
| 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Sonali Roy – Tennessee State University | |
| 1:20 PM – 1:40 PM | Feng Feng – Oklahoma State University | |
| 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM | Bethany Holland – University of Illinois | |
| 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Rafael Venado – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | |
| Poster Session 1 | ||
| 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM | Flash Talks (5 Odd Numbered) – Ebling Auditorium Mario Ceron Romero – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Divya Jain – Tennessee State University Urmi Das – North Dakota State University Lourdes Girard – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | |
| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Poster Session 1 (Odd numbered posters presenting) – Atrium | |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner on your own | |
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
| Microbial Sciences Building - 1550 Linden Drive | |
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Refreshments – Atrium, Microbial Sciences Building |
| Session 4 – Genomic and Proteomic Approaches to Symbiosis – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Barney Geddes | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM | George DiCenzo – Queen's University |
| 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM | Mark O'Brian – University at Buffalo |
| 9:10 AM – 9:30 AM | Louis Tisa – University of New Hampshire |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Wendell Pereira – University of Florida |
| 9:50 AM – 10:20 AM | Coffee Break – Atrium |
| Session 5 – Physiology and Genetics of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Ivan Oresnik | |
| 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM | Barney Geddes – North Dakota State University |
| 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | Ivan Oresnik – University of Manitoba |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Kathryn Jones – Florida State University |
| 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM | Birgit Scharf – Virginia Tech |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | Brittany Belin – Carnegie Institution For Science |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch in and around the Microbial Sciences Building |
| Session 6 – Associative Fixation and Non-Legumes – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Esperanza Martínez-Romero | |
| 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Jean Michel Ané – University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1:20 PM – 1:40 PM | Gladys Alexandre – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM | Florence Mus – Washington State University |
| 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Devanshi Khokhani – University of Minnesota Twin Cities |
| Poster Session 2 | |
| 2:20 PM – 3:00 PM | Flash Talks (4 Even numbered) – Ebling Auditorium Rafael Nunes – Microquimica Tradecorp Company Ahmad Ardi – North Dakota State University Siva Sankari – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ivan Sosa-Marquez – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Poster Session 2 (Even numbered posters presenting) – Atrium |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner on your own |
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
| Microbial Sciences Building - 1550 Linden Drive | |
| 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM | Refreshments – Atrium |
| Session 7 – Physiology and Genetics of the Plant Host – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Georgina Hernández | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:50 AM | Georgina Hernández – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| 8:50 AM – 9:10 AM | Julia Frugoli – Clemson University |
| 9:10 AM – 9:30 AM | Jared K. Ellingsen – University of Missouri |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM | Anna Neubauer – University of Zurich |
| 9:50 AM – 10:20 AM | Coffee Break – Atrium |
| Session 8 – Ecology and Evolution of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Gyaneshwar Prasad | |
| 10:20 AM – 10:40 AM | Liana Burghardt – Pennsylvania State University |
| 10:40 AM – 11:00 AM | Joel Sachs – University of California, Riverside |
| 11:00 AM – 11:20 AM | Stephanie Porter – Washington State University |
| 11:20 AM – 11:40 AM | Arafat Rahman – University of California, Riverside |
| 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM | Rebecca Batstone – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch in and around the Microbial Sciences Building |
| Session 9 – Agricultural Applications of Nitrogen Fixation – Ebling Auditorium Chair: Jean-Michel Ané | |
| 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM | Karsten Temme – Pivot Bio Inc. |
| 1:20 PM – 1:40 PM | Alicja Ziemienowicz – Lethbridge Research and Development Centre |
| 1:40 PM – 2:00 PM | John M. Squire – Azotic Technologies |
| 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM | Malinda Thilakarathna – University of Alberta |
| 2:20 PM – 2:40 PM | Marcus Meadows-Smith – BioConsortia Inc. |
| 2:40 PM – 3:10 PM | Coffee Break – Atrium |
| Closing Presentation – Ebling Auditorium | |
| 3:10 PM – 4:10 PM | Closing Presentation Turlough Finan – McMaster University |
| 4:10 PM – 4:30 PM | Closing comments |
| Pyle Center - 702 Langdon Street | |
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Gala Dinner – Alumni Lounge |
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conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon Street | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534