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

Registration: Introductory Remarks

Section I: Dirk Gevers – Janssen Research & Development

Section I: Susan Huse - Symbiota

Section I: Ian Jeffrey – APC Microbiome Institute

10:30 AM Coffee Break

Section II: Rafael Irizarry – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:50 AM Lunch

Section III: Zachary Kurtz – New York University

Section III: Lawrence David – Duke University

Section III: Michael Tikhonov – Harvard University

2:30 PM Coffee Break / DNA Twister

Section IV: Jeroen Raes – Rega Institute for Medical Research

Section IV: Karoline Faust – KU Leuve, VIB - VUB

Section IV: Hongzhe Li – University of Pennsylvania

1 Poster Session & Reception

Friday, February 26

8:00 AM Registration

Session V: Vera Pawlowsky-Glahn – University of Girona

Session V: Sarah Preheim – Johns Hopkins, Whiting School of Engineering

Session V: Elaine Holmes – Imperial College London

10:15 AM Coffee Break

Section VI: Patricio La Rosa – Monsanto Company

Section VI: Sebastian Schmidt – University of Zurich

Section VI: Benjamin Callahan – Stanford School of Medicine

11:55 AM Lunch

Session VII: William Shannon – Washington University School of Medicine

Session VII: Ilana Brito – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session VII: Aravind Subramanian – The Broad Institute

2:30 PM Coffee Break

Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Candidate: Nolen Perualila - Development of Microbiome Biomarkers

Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Poster Session Candidate: Jonas Schlueter -The Ecology of the Microbiome: Networks, Competition, and Stability

Session VIII - Poster Session Candidates: Candidate: Wes Viles - Entropy, Statistical Dependence, and Network Structure of the Human Infant Gut Microbiome

Session IX: Christopher Quince – Warwick Medical School

Session IX: Charles Fisher – Pfizer, Inc.

Session IX: Michael Shaffer – University of Colorado School of Medicine

4:40 PM Closing Remarks and Best Talk Award