1st Workshop on Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges in Microbiome Data Analysis

Name: 1st Workshop on Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges in Microbiome Data Analysis
Start: 2016-02-25T08:30:00-05:00
End: 2016-02-26T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Simons Foundation

Feb 25, 2016, 8:30 AM → Feb 26, 2016, 5:00 PM America/New_York

GDF Auditorium (Simons Foundation )

GDF Auditorium

Simons Foundation

160 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10010

Christian Mueller (Simons Center for Data Analysis ), Eric Alm (MIT BE & MIT Center for Microbiomes Informatics and Therapeutics), Richard Bonneau (Simons Center for Data Analysis & New York University ), Victoria Mountain (MIT Center for Microbiomes Informatics and Therapeutics)

Program Administrator

cnorrell@simonsfoundation.org

Thu, February 25
- Thu, Feb 25
- Fri, Feb 26
- 9:00 AM → 9:15 AM
  
  Registration: Introductory Remarks
- 9:15 AM → 9:40 AM
  
  Section I: Dirk Gevers – Janssen Research & Development
- 9:40 AM → 10:05 AM
  
  Section I: Susan Huse - Symbiota
- 10:05 AM → 10:30 AM
  
  Section I: Ian Jeffrey – APC Microbiome Institute
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 AM → 11:50 AM
  
  Section II: Rafael Irizarry – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- 11:50 AM → 1:15 PM
  
  Lunch 1h 25m
- 1:15 PM → 1:40 PM
  
  Section III: Zachary Kurtz – New York University
- 1:40 PM → 2:05 PM
  
  Section III: Lawrence David – Duke University
- 2:05 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  Section III: Michael Tikhonov – Harvard University
- 2:30 PM → 3:15 PM
  
  Coffee Break / DNA Twister 45m
- 3:15 PM → 3:40 PM
  
  Section IV: Jeroen Raes – Rega Institute for Medical Research
- 3:40 PM → 4:05 PM
  
  Section IV: Karoline Faust – KU Leuve, VIB - VUB
- 4:05 PM → 4:30 PM
  
  Section IV: Hongzhe Li – University of Pennsylvania
- 4:45 PM → 7:00 PM
  
  Poster Session & Reception 2h 15m
Fri, February 26
- Thu, Feb 25
- Fri, Feb 26
- 8:00 AM → 9:00 AM
  
  Registration 1h
- 9:00 AM → 9:25 AM
  
  Session V: Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn – University of Girona
- 9:25 AM → 9:50 AM
  
  Session V: Sarah Preheim – Johns Hopkins, Whiting School of Engineering
- 9:50 AM → 10:15 AM
  
  Session V: Elaine Holmes – Imperial College London
- 10:15 AM → 10:40 AM
  
  Coffee Break 25m
- 10:40 AM → 11:05 AM
  
  Section VI: Patricio La Rosa – Monsanto Company
- 11:05 AM → 11:30 AM
  
  Section VI: Sebastian Schmidt – University of Zurich
- 11:30 AM → 11:55 AM
  
  Section VI: Benjamin Callahan – Stanford School of Medicine
- 11:55 AM → 1:15 PM
  
  Lunch 1h 20m
- 1:15 PM → 1:40 PM
  
  Session VII: William Shannon – Washington University School of Medicine
- 1:40 PM → 2:05 PM
  
  Session VII: Ilana Brito – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2:05 PM → 2:30 PM
  
  Session VII: Aravind Subramanian – The Broad Institute
- 2:30 PM → 2:50 PM
  
  Coffee Break 20m
- 2:50 PM → 3:00 PM
  
  Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Candidate: Nolen Perualila - Development of Microbiome Biomarkers
- 3:00 PM → 3:10 PM
  
  Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Poster Session Candidate: Jonas Schlueter -The Ecology of the Microbiome: Networks, Competition, and Stability
- 3:10 PM → 3:20 PM
  
  Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Candidate: Wes Viles - Entropy, Statistical Dependence, and Network Structure of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome
- 3:25 PM → 3:50 PM
  
  Session IX: Christopher Quince – Warwick Medical School
- 3:50 PM → 4:15 PM
  
  Session IX: Charles Fisher – Pfizer, Inc.
- 4:15 PM → 4:40 PM
  
  Session IX: Michael Shaffer – University of Colorado School of Medicine
- 4:40 PM → 5:00 PM
  
  Closing Remarks and Best Talk Award 20m