Chemical Ecology and Methods 

3:00 PM- Skylar Carlson (University of the Pacific, ASP Younger Members Committee Co-Chair) - Welcome

Chemical Ecology

3:05 PM - Christopher Boya (INDICASAT AIP) - MS/MS Molecular Networking Metabolomics Profiling, Diversity, and Bioactivities of the Culturable Bacteria Associated with Acromyrmex Echinatior Ecosystem

3:25 PM - Sogol Momeni (The University of Alabama) - Natural Soft Electrophiles Induce Reversible Cryptobiosis in Tardigrades

3:45 PM - Richard Tehan (Oregan State University) - A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: 3D Visualization of Specialized Metabolites to Investigate Chemical Ecology in an Insect-Fungus Host-Pathogen System

Methods

4:05 PM - Ankur Kumar Tanwar (National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, S.A.S. Nagar.) - qNMR as an analytical technique for essential oils – Quantitative analysis of Eucalyptus tereticornis leaf oil

4:25 PM - Sarah Bonitatibus (University of IL at Chicago) - Development of a Feature Prioritization Strategy for Deorphanizing the Human Gut Metabolome in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Model

4:45 PM - Chase Clark (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - SocialGene: A Large Scale Search Engine for Free-Living Representatives of Metagenomic BGCs