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Friday, July 29 �������ד arrive early!

8:00 - 9:00 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Friday Evening Lecture, Cornelia Clapp Auditorium and Virtually

�������ל50 Years of Microbial Diversity; What a Ride!�������ם
Carrie Harwood, PhD, University of Washington
Class of 1975; Director, 2000-2003; Faculty, 1985; Lecturer 2010-2011

Saturday, July 30 �������ד all lectures take place in the Cornelia Clapp Auditorium

7:30 �������ד 7:55 AM �������ע&�Բ�����;Coffee and Treats, MBL Quad

8:00 AM �������ע Welcome
Planning Committee

8:00 �������ד 8:20 AM �������ע&�Բ�����;Brief History of the Course: Tributes
Jared R. Leadbetter, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Class of 1990; Director, 2014-2017; Faculty, 2005-2007; Lecturer, 1997, 2009, 2011-2013; Course Assistant, 1983-1985; Teaching Assistant, 1993, 2000

8:20 �������ד 9:30 AM �������ע&�Բ�����;Environmental/Ecological Diversity

8:20 �������ד 8:30 AM �������ע Introduction �������ע 1971-1984
Carrie Harwood, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
Class of 1975; Director, 2000-2003; Faculty, 1985; Lecturer, 2010-2011

8:30 �������ד 8:50 AM
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, PhD, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
Class of 1979; Lecturer, 2019

8:50 �������ד 9:10 AM
Mercedes Pascual, PhD, University of Chicago
Class of 1985

9:10 �������ד 9:30 AM
Colleen Hansel, PhD, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Class of 2000; Lecturer, 2016

9:30 �������ד 10:15 AM �������ע&�Բ�����;Coffee Break, MBL Quad

10:15 �������ד 11:45 AM �������ע&�Բ�����;Physical Diversity

10:15 �������ד 10:25 AM �������ע Introduction �������ע 1985-1999
John Breznak, PhD, Michigan State University
Director, 1990-1994; Faculty, 1982, 2004; Lecturer, 2009-2010

10:25 �������ד 10:45 AM
Pete Greenberg, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine
Class of 1973; Director, 1985-1989; Faculty, 1980-1984; Lecturer, 1978, 2009-2011

10:45 �������ד 11:05 AM
Rebecca Parales, PhD, University of California, Davis
Class of 1987

11:05 �������ד 11:25 AM   
Andreas Kappler, PhD, Universität Tübingen
Class of 1998; Faculty, 2003

11:25 �������ד 11:45 AM
Lev Tsypin, Caltech
Class of 2017

11:45 AM �������ד 1:00 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Lunch, Swope Center

1:00 �������ד 2:10 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Phylogenetic Diversity

1:00 �������ד 1:10 PM �������ע Introduction �������ע 2000-2013
Tom Schmidt, PhD, University of Michigan
Class of 1982; Director, 2003-2008; Faculty, 2000; Lecturer, 2011, 2015

1:10 �������ד 1:30 PM - Virtual
George Fox, PhD, University of Houston
Class of 1973

1:30 �������ד 1:50 PM
Emily Balskus, PhD, Harvard University
Class of 2009; Lecturer, 2014-2015, 2017

1:50 �������ד 2:10 PM
Beth Archie, PhD, Notre Dame
Class of 2019

2:10 �������ד 3:00 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Coffee Break, MBL Quad

3:00 �������ד 4:30 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Genetics and Functional Diversity

3:00 �������ד 3:10 PM �������ע Introduction �������ע&�Բ�����;2014-2022
Dianne Newman, PhD, Caltech
Class of 1995; Director, 2014-2017; Faculty, 2005-2006, 2008-2009; Lecturer, 2011-2012, 2019; Teaching Assistant, 1998

3:10 �������ד 3:30 PM
Mecky Pohlschröder, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Class of 1990; Faculty, 2006-2008; Lecturer, 2014-2015, 2017, 2019

3:30 �������ד 3:50 PM
Kurt Dahlstrom, PhD, University of Georgia
Teaching Assistant, 2014-2015

3:50 �������ד 4:10 PM
Fatima Aysha Hussain, PhD, MGH and MIT 
Class of 2017; Lecturer, 2021

4:10 �������ד 4:20 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Closing Remarks

4:30 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Group Photo, Lillie Steps

6:00 PM �������ע&�Բ�����;Symposium Dinner and Reception, Swope Lower Terrace