Microbes, Genes, and Metabolites
Friday, November 30, 2018
8AM to 4.30PM
The Rotunda at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115
Register online at: http://tinyurl.com/HostMicrobiome or email ssljivo@partners.org
Free and open to the public - lunch will be available for registered attendees
Schedule
8.15-8.3 | Breakfast, welcome and introduction |
Lynn Bry, PhD, MD, BWH | |
Microbes, genes, and metabolites that influence host physiology | |
8.30-9 | Microbial genes that alter host metabolism |
Abigail Sloan Devlin, PhD, HMS | |
9-9.30 | Performance-enhancing bugs |
Alex Kostic PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center | |
9.30-10 | Effects of maternal gut bacteria on neurodevelopmental disorders |
Jun Huh, PhD, HMS | |
10-10.30 | Microbes and microbial products that influence early-life thymic T cell development |
Nitya Jain, PhD, MGH | |
10.30-10.45 | Break |
New directions in C. difficile disease | |
10.45-11.15 | A novel wnt signalling inhibitor based on C. difficile toxin B |
Min Dong, PhD, BCH | |
11.15-11.45 | Mechanisms behind current C. difficile infections across patient populations |
Jessica Allegretti, MD, BWH | |
11.45-12.15 | Genomics and clinical risks of asymptomatic C. difficile carriage in hospitalized patients |
Jay Worley, MD, BWH | |
12.15-1 | Lunch |
Machine learning approaches | |
1-1.30 | Towards rational bacteriotherapy design with machine learning models |
Travis Gibson, PhD, BWH | |
1.30-2 | Computational optimization of Treg-inducing live bacteriotherapeutics |
Vannie Bucci, PhD, UMass Dartmouth | |
2-2.30 | Carnelian: enhanced functional profiling of whole genome metagenomics |
Sumaiya Nazeen, PhD, MIT | |
2.30-2.45 | Break |
Microbiota Boot Camp: Host-Microbiome Systems a HOW-TO | |
2.45-3.15 | Functional systems to drive microbiota-based clinical applications |
Lynn Bry, PhD, MD, BWH | |
3.15-3.45 | Measuring the metabolic effects of the microbiome on energy balance |
Alex Banks, PhD, BIDMC | |
3.45-4.15 | Predicting the microbiome and predicting the microbiome over time |
Georg Gerber, MD, PhD, BWH | |
4.15-4.30 | Questions and close |