The Eric Schmelz Symposium on Chemical Communication between Organisms
September 19, 2025
TATA Hall
Chemical Communication Between Organisms
September 19 2025, Tata Hall, UC San Diego
8:30 am – Coffee and pastries
Morning session chair – Steven Briggs, UCSD
9:00 am – Jorg Bohlmann, Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia
10:00 am – Shawn Christensen, Department of Nutrition, Dietetics, & Food Science, Brigham Young University
11:00 am – Elly Poretsky, Western Regional Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture
Noon – Lunch
Afternoon session chair – Yunde Zhao, UC San Diego
1:00 pm – Yezhang Ding, Department of Molecular EcoSystems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory
2:00 pm – Philipp Zerbe, Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis
3:00 pm – Coffee and cookies
3:15 pm – Adam Steinbrenner, Department of Biology, University of Washington
4:15 pm –Alisa Huffaker, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, UC San Diego
5:15 pm – Reception