For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center – Amphitheater
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Arrival |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | Opening Remarks |
| 1:45 – 2:00 | Dean’s Welcome |
| 2:00 – 3:15 | Martin Blaser, Rutgers University “The microbiota does not live in a vacuum” |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Katherine Lemon, The Forsyth Institute “Picking sides: bacterial interactions in the nose” |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Kjetil Bjornevik, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “The gut microbiota in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” |
| 4:00 – 4:15 | Coffee Break |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Yancong Zhang, The Broad Institute “Identifying Novel Bioactive Microbial Gene Products in Inflammatory Bowel Disease” |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Michael Wu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center “Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Microbiome Studies” |
| 5:00 – 6:30 | Poster Session & Reception Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Lobby |
THURSDAY, MAY 16
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center – Amphitheater
| 8:15 – 9:00 | Arrival/Breakfast |
| 9:00 – 10:15 | Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania “Bacterial Growth Dynamics, Applied Statistics, Optimal Permutation Recovery – Pillars of Microbiome Data Analysis” |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Matt Redinbo, University of North Carolina “Molecular Control of the Gut Microbiota” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Mònica Bulló, Universitat Rovira i Virgili “Lifestyle intervention program: a way to change gut microbiota” |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Sydney Lavoie, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “Crohn’s Disease Pathogenesis: Unraveling Genetic Risk, the Gut Microbiota, and the Immune System using Metagenomics and Gnotobiotics” |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Mingyang Song, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health “The MICRObiome Among Nurses (MICRO-N) Study: overview and implications for future prospective investigations” |
| 12:15 – 1:15 | Lunch Bag Lunch available for pickup in the Lobby |
| 1:15 – 2:30 | Panel: The impact of the microbiome in public health Martin Blaser, Rutgers University Frank Hu, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Bernat Olle, Vedanta Biosciences Julie Segre, National Human Genome Research Institute Amanda Spickard, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Andrew Goodman, Yale University “Disentangling host and microbiome contributions to drug metabolism” |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 – 3:30 | Jeremy Wilkinson, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health “The Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Microbiome Analysis Core (HMAC): Advancing Microbiome Research” |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Xochitl Morgan, University of Otago “A persistent lineage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis from New Zealand” |
| 4:00 – 5:15 | Julie Segre, National Human Genome Research Institute “Microbiome: Friend and Foe” |
| 5:15 – 5:30 | Closing Remarks |
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Institutes of Health NIDDK grant R24DK110499 for this inaugural meeting through the Human Microbiome Bioactives Resource.