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Inaugural Dynamics of the Microbiome on Health and Disease

 
  April 26, 2013  
     
 
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

 

 
 
Organized by: Cambridge Healthtech Institute
Invited Speakers:
  • 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
 
Deadline for Abstracts: July 12, 2013
 
Registration: Register Today
E-mail: kwaterman@healthtech.com
 
   
 
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