2nd Workshop on Statistical Algorithms Challenges in Microbiome Data Analysis

Feb 16, 2017, 8:00 AM → Feb 17, 2017, 6:00 PM US/Eastern

Richard Bonneau (Flatiron Institute and New York University), Eric Alm (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Vicki Mountain (The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard), Christian Mueller (The Flatiron Institute)

General Agenda SACMDA2 .pdf

Thursday, February 16

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Compressive Metagenomics: Scaling Faster than Light

Speaker: Dr Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )

10:30 AM → 11:05 AM Technical Presentation: Longitudinal Analyses for the Human Microbiome: Statistical Challenges

Convener: Dr Susan Holmes (Stanford University, Holmes Lab)

11:05 AM → 11:40 AM Technical Presentation: Predictive and Interpretable Bayesian Models for Analyzing Microbiome Mime-series Data

Conveners: Dr Elijah Bogart (Harvard Medical School / University of Utah ), Dr Georg Gerber (Harvard Medical School, Gerber Lab)

11:40 AM → 12:15 PM Technical Presentation: Measuring and Testing Linear Compositional Association”

Convener: Juan Jose Egozcue (U. Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC))

12:15 PM → 1:30 PM LUNCH

1:30 PM → 2:05 PM Technical Presentation: Visualizing uncertainty in phylogenetic trees

Convener: Dr Amy Willis (Cornell University, Bunge Lab )