Past Presentations
International Human Microbiome Congress
- Dates: March 9 - 11, 2011
- Location: Vancouver, BC
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- March 9th, 2011
- Intro
- George Weinstock, Ph.D. and Jane Peterson, Ph.D.
- Bhagirath Singh, Ph.D. and Marc Ouellette, Ph.D.
- Scott E. Campbell, Ph.D.
- General Session 1
- "The Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiome: Cultivability, Diversity and Contributions to Disease", Michael G. Surette, Ph.D.
- "Challenges in Quantitative Metagenomic Analysis: Accurately Counting Genes and Genera", Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Ph.D.
- "Statistical Foundations for Analyzing Human Microbiome Data", Bill Shannon, Ph.D.
- General Session 2
- "Analysis of the Effect of Probiotics on Shaping of Human Gut Microbiota", Masahira Hattori, Ph.D.
- "MicroDroplet Enabled Parallel Co-Cultivation of Symbiotic Microbial Communities", Xiaoxia Nina Lin, Ph.D.
- "Metabolic Reconstruction in Microbial Communities", Curtis Huttenhower, Ph.D.
- Concurrent Sessions 3A
- "Microbiome Workbench: A Genboree-Powered Workbench Developed for the Analysis of 16S rRNA Microbial Sequences", Kevin P. Riehle, M.S.
- "Microbial Co-Exclusion and Co-Occurrence: Making it All Add Up", Andrew Fernandes, Ph.D.
- "PhylOTU: A High-Throughput Procedure Quantifies Microbial Community Diversity and Resolves Novel Taxa from Metagenomic Data", Thomas J. Sharpton, Ph.D.
- "A Phylogeny-Based Taxonomic Characterization of the Human Gut Microbiome from Shotgun Sequence Data", Rebecca Lamb, Ph.D.
- Concurrent Sessions 3B
- "Identifiability of the Human Microbiome: Investigator Perspectives", Amy McGuire, J.D., Ph.D.
- "Social and Philosophical Ramifications of the Human Microbiome Project", Kieran O'Doherty, Ph.D.
- "The Human Microbiome Project: Ethics from the Trenches", Laura Achenbaum, M.A.
- "Ecological Metaphors in Microbiome Research", Mark Sagoff, Ph.D.
- Concurrent Sessions 3C
- "Challenges in the Study of Extinct Microbiomes", Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., Ph.D.
- General Session 4
- "Selective Enrichment of Key Bacterial Groups Within the Human Colon in Response to Changes in Diet", Alan Walker, Ph.D.
- "Temporal Effects of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) on the Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Among Gambian Infants", Martin Antonio, Ph.D.
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- March 10, 2011
- General Session 5
- "Gut Microbiota Studies in Ulcerative Colitis", Francisco Guarner, M.D., Ph.D.
- "Disappearing Microbiota and Epidemic Obesity", Martin Blaser, M.D.
- General Session 6
- "Structure-Function Analyses of the Human Gut Microbiota in Australian Subjects for Improved Risk Stratification and Clinical Management of IBD", Mark Morrison, BSc, MSc
- Concurrent Sessions 7A
- "Approaches for Revealing Virus and Phage Communities in Healthy and Diseased Individuals", Joseph Petrosino, Ph.D.
- "The Characterization of the Human Virome in Children and Adults", Kristine M. Wylie, Ph.D.
- "The Virome of the Human Gut: Metagenomic Analysis of Changes Associated with Diet", Frederic D. Bushman, Ph.D.
- Concurrent Sessions 7B
- "Ecology and Evolution of the Cystic Fibrosis Lung Microbiome", Heather Maughan, Ph.D.
- "The Vaginal Bacterial MetaTranscriptome", Jean Macklaim, B.Sc.
- "The Chemical Biology of Microbiomes", Julian Davies, B.Sc., Ph.D.
- Concurrent Sessions 7C
- "Use of 13C-Labeled Substrates to Decipher Fermentation of Prebiotics in the Human Colon In Vitro and In Vivo", Koen Venema, Ph.D.
- "Sequencing Profiling Mucosal TCell Repertoires", Lisa Raeburn
- "Microfluidics for Creating and Controlling Spatially Structured Communities of Anaerobic Microorganisms", Meghan Vincent
- "Characterization of Complex Microbial Communities Developed in a Single-Stage Chemostat Model of the Human Distal Gut", Julie McDonald, B.Sc.
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- March 11, 2011
- General Session 8
- "Indigenous Communities and Genomics: Lessons for the Microbiome", Paul Spicer, Ph.D.
- "The Microbiome of Healthy Humans: Commonalities and Variations", Makedonka Mitreva, Ph.D.
- "A Metabolomic Analysis of the Mammalian Gut Microbiota", L. Caetano M. Antunes, Ph.D.
- General Session 9
- "Unlocking the Evolutionary Mysteries of Microbiome-Immune Symbiosis", Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Ph.D.
- General Session 10
- "A New Way to Research into Human Gut Microbiome", Bin Hu, Ph.D.
- "Untitled", Bruce Birren, Ph.D.
- "The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Obesity in the Amish", Claire Fraser-Liggett, Ph.D.
- "Looking for Biology in the Human Microbiome", George Weinstock, Ph.D.
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18th Annual International Meeting on Microbial Genomics
- Dates: September 12 - 16, 2010
- Location: Lake Arrowhead, CA
- Available Presentations
- "Our Microbes: A Reference Genome Collection for the Human Microbiome", Ashlee Earl
Human Microbiome Research Conference
- Dates: August 31 - September 2, 2010
- Location: St. Louis, MO
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- August 31, 2010
- Intro
- Welcome from WashU, Larry Shapiro, VP/Dean
- Welcome from NIH, Jane Peterson
- Welcome from WashU, George Weinstock
- Session 1
- "Status of the NIH Human Microbiome Project", George Weinstock
- "Comprehensive Body Sampling of the Human Microbiome in Healthy Adults: The Cumulative Experience in Two Centers", Jim Versalovic
- "High throughput methods for 16S sequencing in human metagenomics", Bruce Birren
- "Microbe Hunting", W. Ian Lipkin
- Session 2
- "The J. Craig Venter Institute's update on the HMP", Roger Lasken & Johannes Goll
- "Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing and Analysis at the Washington University Genome Center", Makedonka Mitreva
- "A Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project", Owen White
- "Recombination in the core and flexible genome drives ecological differentiation in sympatric ocean microbes", Eric Alm
- Session 3
- "From Bench to Bedside: Anticipating Ethical Challenges in the Clinical Translation of the HMP", Richard R. Sharp & Ruth M. Farrell
- "Functional metagenomics to study antibiotic resistance determinants in the environment and the human gut", Jo Handelsman
- "How deep does the Rabbit Hole Really go? Studying Microbial Ecology at Strain Level Resolution Using Community Genomics", Vincent Denef
- Session 3b
- "The Human Microbiome, One Cell at a Time", David Relman
- "Host-Microbe Partnerships Through Animal Evolution", Margaret McFall-Ngai
- "First steps towards automated metagenomic assembly", Mihai Pop
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- September 1, 2010
- Session 4
- "The Human Oral Microbiome", Floyd Dewhirst
- "Molecular Signatures of the Periodontitis Metagenome", Susan Haake
- "TBA", Jeff Gordon
- "Dietary Modulation of Gut Microbiota for Preventive Management of Metabolic Diseases", Liping Zhao
- Session 5
- "Toward Improved Bacterial and Viral Metagenomic Sequencing and Analysis Strategies in Healthy and Diseased Individuals", Joe Petrosino
- "Antibiotic Use and Intestinal Bacterial Diversity in Preterm Infants", Phil Tarr
- "The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Ulcerative Colitis", Vincent Young
- "Urethral & Coronal Sulcus Microbiome of Adolescent Males", J. Dennis Fortenberry
- First Concurrent Sessions
- Health
- "Functional Microbiomics: Identifying and Characterizing Novel Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance", Gautam Dantas
- "The Application of Proteomics Technologies to the Human Microbiome and Other Complex Microbial Communities", Brooke L. Deatherage
- "Low Microbial Diversity is Associated With More Pronounced Clinical Symptoms in Cystic Fibrosis Patients", Anthony Fodor
- "NOD2 is Essential for Temporal Development of Intestinal Microbial Communities", Philip Rosenstiel
- Technology Development
- "Detecting Novel Species and Genera from Short Reads", Gail Rosen
- "Culturing the Human Microbiome", Tom Schmidt & Vince Young
- "Manipulation and Genome Sequencing of Single Microbial Cells", Kun Zhang
- "RTqPCR Based Quantitative Analysis of Gene Expression in Single Bacterial Cells", Weiwen Zhang
- Animal Studies
- "Evolutionary Costs and Benefits of a Newly Discovered Symbiosis between the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium and Bacteri", Debbie Brock
- "Longitudinal Shift in Diabetic Wound Microbiota Correlates with Prolonged Skin Defense Response in a Mouse Model of Impaired Wound Healing", Elizabeth A. Grice
- "A Two-Way Interaction: Expression of Human Paraoxonase1 Alters the Gut Microbiome of Drosophila Melanogaster", Alejandro Pezzulo
- "The Human Gut Microbiome predicts Susceptibility to Choline Deficiency Induced Fatty Liver", Melanie D. Spencer
- Second Concurrent Sessions
- Health
- "Changes in the Bacterial and Viral Populations of the Human Gut Associated with Dietary Intervention", Fredric Bushman
- "Foregut Microbiome in Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma", Zhiheng Pei
- "Microbial Signatures Present in Microbiomes of Pediatric Irritable Bowel Syndrome", James Versalovic
- "The Vaginal Microbiome: Disease, Genetics and the Environment", Gregory Buck
- Ethical, Legal & Social Implications (ELSI)
- "Federal Regulation of Probiotics", Diane E. Hoffmann
- "The Ethics of Human Microbiome Research", Amy McGuire
- "The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric: Implications for Health and Communities", Rosamond Rhodes & Nada Gligorov
- "Engaging Indigenous Communities for Microbiome Research", Paul Spicer
- "The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric: Implications for Health and Communities", Rosamond Rhodes & Nada Gligorov
- Informatics
- "Fast and Accurate Taxonomic Assignments of Metagenomic Sequences Using MetaBin ", Todd Taylor
- "Computational Discovery of Shared Growth Trajectories from Timeseries Microbiome Data ", Georg K. Gerber
- "Spatially and Temporally Explicit Studies of the Human Microbiome", Rob Knight
- "From Parts Lists to Ecosystem Networks: Development of a 2nd Generation Toolkit for MetaOmics Analysis ", Jeroen Raes
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- September 2, 2010
- Session 6
- "A Phylogeny Driven Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects", Jonathan Eisen
- "Towards Microbial Markers for the Human Gut Microbiome", Peer Bork
- "Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract", Dusko Ehrlich
- "Microbiota of the Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tumor Micro-environment", Kanitsak Boonanantanasarn
- Session 7
- "The Skin Microbiome in Disease States: Atopic Dermatitis and Immunodeficiency", Heidi Kong
- "Fragment Assembly and Metabolic/Species Diversity Analysis for HMP", Yuzhen Ye
- "Algorithmically Tuning Protein Families from Reference Genomes for Systems Discovery", Daniel Haft
- "A Comparative Study of The Middle Ear Microbiota in Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media and Cholesteatoma", Cindy M. Liu
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Third Annual Summit on Systems Biology
- Dates: June 16 - 19, 2009
- Location: Richmond, VA
- Available Presentations
- A Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project, Michelle Gwinn-Giglio, Ph.D.
ASM General Meeting
- Dates: May, 2009
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Available Presentations
- A Data Analysis and Coordination Center for the Human Microbiome Project