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

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

GDF Auditorium (Simons Foundation )

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)

General Agenda SACMDA.pdf

Participants - SACMDA .pdf

Thursday, February 25

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

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

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

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

Friday, February 26

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Registration

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

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

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

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