For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
Register HERE! More information is available on the main Symposium Page.
Monday, May 15, 2023
(All times below are EDT)
Joseph B Martin Center – Amphitheater
Also available via Zoom
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases Faculty Chair, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS), Graduate School of Arts & Sciences |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Rick Bushman, University of Pennsylvania “The human virome in health and disease” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Jess Metcalf, Colorado State University “A universal fungal and bacterial network decomposes nutrient-rich mammalian cadavers” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Emily Van Syoc, Pennsylvania State University “Mining metagenomes reveals gut mycobiome alterations with metformin and type 2 diabetes mellitus” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | A.Delphine Tripp, Harvard University “C. acnes phage predation in the healthy human skin microbiome” |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Corinne Maurice, McGill University “What’s phage gut to do with it? Contrasting gut phage-bacteria interactions in early-life and adulthood” |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Haley Gause, University of California, San Francisco “Cross-kingdom Interactions between Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis in the Gut Microbiome” |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Diana Proctor, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health “Candida auris and the great ESKAPE: the skin as a reservoir for multi-drug resistance and transmission” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:45 – 1:30 | Lunchtime discussion panel: “Commercialization of microbiome science” Participants: Matt Henn (Seres Therapeutics), Sou Miyake (Corundum Systems Biology), Michelle Rooks (Pfizer), Mariia Taguer (Merck), Jeremy Wilkinson (PacBio), Sabrina Yang (Empress Therapeutics) |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab “Microbiome Data Science: from the Human Gut Microbiome to the Global Virome” |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Melanie Schirmer, Technical University of Munich “Inflammation-associated host-microbial interactions” |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Rachel Dutton, University of California, San Diego “Friends and Foes: Fungi as drivers of cheese microbiome interactions” |
| 3:45 – 4:45 | Joseph Petrosino, Baylor College of Medicine “Revealing constituents of the virome and mycobiome for the benefit of human health” |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 – 6:30 | Poster Reception (available online all day) |