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Omni Providence, 1 West Exchange Street, Providence, RI 02903
August 19-20, 2013
Day 1: Communities and Composition - Metagenomic Platforms for Diagnostic, Microbial Composition and Etiologic Agent Discovery Applications
- Archaea and Fungi of the Human Gut Microbiome
- Microbial Ecosystems Therapeutics: A New Paradigm in Medicine?
- uBiome: Next-Generation Sequencing and Citizen Science
- An Active Subset of the Human Gut Microbiota Responsive to Xenobiotics
Day 2: Computation
- Principled Probabilistic Machine Learning Models for Analyzing Microbiome Time-Series Data
- Genboree Workbench and Network for Integrative Microbiome Analysis
- An EM Algorithm for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Community Composition from Short-Read Sequencing Data
- SPA: A Short Peptide Assembler for Metagenomic Data
- Observing Both the Forest and the Trees: Building Metagenomic Analysis Workflows with MetAMOS
Plenary Keynote Session - RNA is Everywhere: Characterizing the Spectra and Flux of RNA in Mammalian Circulation
- Genomics and the Single Cell
- Genome Hacking
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Organized by:
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Invited Speakers:
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- Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular Virology and Microbiology; Director, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine
- Christian Hoffmann, Research Scientist, Frederic D. Bushman Laboratory, Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Emma Allen-Vercoe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph
- Jessica Richman, CEO, uBiome
- Corinne Maurice, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Peter J. Turnbaugh Laboratory, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University
- Georg K. Gerber, M.D., Ph.D., MPH, Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Metagenomics, Director, Computational Unit, Associate Pathologist, Center for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics, Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine
- John Novembre, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Human Genetics, University of Chicago
- Shibu Yooseph, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute
- Todd Treangen, Ph.D., Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland
- David Galas, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
- Sherman Weissman, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Genetics and Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
- Yaniv Erlich, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Whitehead Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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July 12, 2013
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Registration:
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Register Today
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E-mail:
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kwaterman@healthtech.com
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