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

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, NewEnglandBiolabs	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
10:30AM	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
2:50PM	Break
3:05PM	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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