WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

14h00 – 17h00

Bioinformatics tools for genome-based microbial surveillance: Practical demonstrations

14h00 – 14h25

Dag Harmsen, Münster, Germany: Overview of software for rapid high-throughput sequence analysis in clinical & Public Health microbiology

14h25 – 14h45

Keith Jolley, Oxford, UK: BIGSdb: Scalable Analysis of Bacterial Genome Variation at the Population Level

14h45 – 15h05

Philippe Lemey, Leuven, Belgium: Reconstruction and visualization of pathogen dispersal through time and space

15h05 – 15h20

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

15h20 – 15h45

Coffee break

15h45 – 16h10

Claudine Médigue, CEA-Genoscope, France: Tools and challenges in the annotation and comparison of multiple bacterial genomes

16h10 – 16h30

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

16h30 – 16h50

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

16h50 – 17h00

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

17h30 – 18h00

Welcome addresses

18h00

Opening Session

Welcome address: Sylvain Brisse & personalities (to be defined)

Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Center, Hinxton, UK: Genomics of pathogens and public health microbiology

Andréa Ammon, eCDC: The challenges of public health surveillance

19h15

Wine and cheese party at Institut Pasteur

THURSDAY, October 3

8h30 – 10h20

Outbreak genomics and epidemiology

2 invited speakers (20min +5min)

8h30 – 8h55

Matt Gilmour, Public Health Canada: Real time genomics for bacterial pathogen surveillance

8h55 – 9h20

Tim Peto, Oxford, UK: Genomics and epidemiology of C.  difficile

9h20 – 9h40

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

9h40 – 10h00

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

10h00 – 10h20

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

10h20 – 10h55

Coffee break

10h55 – 12h35

Population genetics, phylogenomics, emergence

2 invited speakers (20min +5min)

10h55 – 11h20

Martin Maiden, Oxford Univ., UK: Genomic epidemiology of the re-emerging Neisseria

11h20 – 11h45

Stefan Niemann, Borstel, Germany: Tuberculosis genomic epidemiology

11h45 – 12h05

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

12h05 – 12h25

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

12h25 – 14h00

Lunch at Institut Pasteur

14h00 – 15h30

Poster Session with vignettes; industry talks

15h30 – 17h00

Molecular typing and epidemiology

15h30 – 15h55

René Hendriksen, DTU, Denmark: Genome sequencing - the ultimate answer to global real time genotyping and surveillance?

15h55 – 16h20

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

16h20 – 16h40

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

16h40 - 17h00

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

17h00 - 17h30

Coffee break

17h30 – 18h50        

Phylodynamics of viral pathogens

17h35 – 18h00

Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Leuven, Belgium: Phylogenomics of HIV and other viral pathogens

18h00 – 18h20

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

18h20 – 18h40

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

19h00 – 23h30

Gala dinner

FRIDAY, October 4

8h30 – 10h25

Virulence emergence, diagnostic and epidemiology

8h30 – 8h55

Siv Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden: Small genomes: bacterial pathogens and synthetic biology

8h55 – 9h20

Jörg Hacker, Leopoldina Academia, Germany: Virulence genes in pathophysiology, epidemiology and diagnostic

9h20 – 9h45

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

9h45 – 10h05

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

10h05 – 10h25

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

10h25 – 10h55

Coffee break

10h55 – 12h25

Resistance emergence, diagnostic and epidemiology

10h55 – 11h20

Laurent Poirel, Univ. Paris Sud, France: Emergence and global dissemination of resistant clones of gram-negative nosocomial pathogens

11h20 – 11h45

Alessandra Carattoli, Rome, Italy: Plasmid biology and diffusion of resistance

11h45 – 12h05

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

12h05 – 12h25

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

12h25 – 14h00

Lunch at Institut Pasteur

14h00 – 15h30

Poster Session with vignettes; industry talks

15h30 – 17h00

Typing and surveillance networks

15h30 – 15h55

Peter Gerner-Smidt, CDC, Atlanta, USA: from PFGE to genomic epidemiology: the American experience

15h55 – 16h20

M. Struelens, eCDC, Stockholm: integration of genomic epidemiology in surveillance networks: the European experience 

16h20 – 16h40

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

16h40 - 17h00

1 talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

17h00 - 17h30

Coffee break

17h30 – 18h25        

Diagnostic by high-throughput sequencing

17h30 – 17h55

Alex Friedrich, Groningen, NL: Novel diagnostic technologies for next-gen clinical microbiology and infection control

17h55 – 18h20

talk selected from the abstracts (15min+5min)

19h00 –

Free evening

SATURDAY,

October 5

Early Registration
Up to June 30, 2013