Decoding the Biosphere: Advances in Environmental DNA and Metagenomics

 

Please join NEB at our 2025 Symposium:  Decoding the Biosphere: Advances in Environmental DNA and Metagenomics

We are excited to host a day of talks and poster session focused on the present and future of environmental DNA. Featured topics include:

  • Microbial and viral communities
  • Analytics and technological innovations in metagenomic research
  • Geomicrobiology & microbial ecology in extreme environments
  • Functional metagenomics

Date: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Location: Kimpton Marlowe Hotel  |  25 Edwin H Land Blvd  |  Cambridge, MA 02141
 

Time Speaker Session
9:30 AM Sir Richard Roberts
Nobel Laureate & Chief Scientific Officer, New England Biolabs
Welcome & Introduction
9:45 AM Dr. Dianne Newman
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen
Professor of Biology and Geobiology;
Merkin Institute Professor
California Institute of Technology

Paying attention to the biology of stasis

10:30 AM Break

 

10:30 AM

Dr. Peter Thielen
Senior Staff Scientist
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University

Enabling Scalable Biological Observation through Time- and Reagent-Optimized eDNA Analysis
11:35 AM

Dr. Simon Roux
Staff Scientist
DOE Joint Genome Institute
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Large-scale comparative metagenomics highlights the complexity of inter-organism interactions in microbiomes

12:20 - 1:20 PM Lunch  
1:20 PM

Dr. Trinity Hamilton
Associate Professor
Department of Plant
and Microbial Biology
University of Minnesota

Life at the extreme: photosynthesis and microbial diversity from geysers to snowfields
2:05 PM

Dr. Laura Hug
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair
in Environmental Microbiology
University of Waterloo

Microbial interactions in (and with!) municipal landfills
2:50 PM Break  
3:05 PM

Dr. Sean F. Brady
Evnin Professor
Laboratory of Genetically
Encoded Small Molecules
Rockefeller University

Culture independent discovery of bioactive small molecules

3:50 PM Closing Remarks  
4:00 - 5:30 PM Poster Session Reception  

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