BLAST XVIII
WHEN:
LOCATION:
ACCOMMODATIONS:
January 19-24, 2025
Cancun, Mexico
Conference Registration:
Conference registration includes your hotel rooms, food and drinks for
Check-In on Sunday January 19, 2025 and Check-Out on morning of Friday January 24, 2025.
For making your travel plans, the scientific sessions will be Monday morning through Thursday evening.
The only activity on Sunday will be an evening reception. The only activity on Friday will be breakfast.
Your hotel rooms will be booked for you. If you need extra nights beyond these dates, then you can select additional nights for an additional cost.
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If your travel change after you register, then please contact
Sarah Van Heusen at blast.sarahvh@gmail.com to notify her so she can modify your hotel reservations.
Please be aware that the registration timeline for BLAST XVIII is significantly compressed compared to previous BLAST meetings for multiple reasons:
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BLAST, Inc. signed a contract committing to pay the hotel a down payment at a much earlier time frame than in past years. We must collect registration fees in time to meet our contractual payment deadlines.
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BLAST XVIII will take place during peak tourist season in Cancun.With no prior BLAST meetings in Cancun as a basis to estimate probable attendance or what the ratio of single to double rooms will be, we tried to reserve enough rooms for the meeting while minimizing our financial risk.Similarly, demand for rooms during the meeting might exceed our contracted block. In both cases, signing up early will provide the best chance for us to obtain needed extra rooms.
Sessions and Chairs
KEYNOTE
Lori Burrows (McMaster University, Canada)
Ann Stock (Rutgers University)​
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MEETING LEADERSHIP
Chair - Barbara Kazmierczak (Yale University)
Vice Chair – Josh Shrout (University of Notre Dame)​
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SESSIONS AND CHAIRS​
Microbial Signal Perception
Chair – Victor Sourjik (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Cellular Signal Processing
Chair – Kirsten Jung (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany)
Signal Response: The Output
Chair - Dan Kearns (Indiana University)
Interactions and Communities
Chair – Karin Sauer (Binghamton University)
Microbial Traits: Behavior, Development, and Pathogenesis
Chair – Urs Jenal (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Integrative Approaches: Computer Models, Synthetic Biology, and Systems Biology
Chair – Thierry Emonet (Yale University)
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Latest Technology Innovations and Hot Topics
Chair – Susan Lea (NIH)
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MEETING REVIEW COMMITTEE
Chair – Joanne Engel (University of California, San Francisco)
Abhishek Shrivastava (Arizona State University)
Sima Setayeshgar (Indiana University)
Tu-Ahn Huynh (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Chair – Arden Baylink (Washington State University)
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POSTER AWARDS COMMITTEE
To Be Determined
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ZOOM HOST
To Be Determined
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chair - Bob Bourret (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Gladys Alexandre (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Ariane Briegel (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Birgit Scharf (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Tino Krell (Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Spain)
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ADMINISTRATOR
Sarah Van Heusen
Sarah McGee
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