Thursday, November 19, 2015
Georgia Tech Hotel
4:30-5:45pm
Registration
Georgia Tech Hotel, Prefunction Area, in front of Salons I-III
4:30-5:45pm
Welcome Reception
Georgia Tech Hotel, Salons I-III
5:45pm
Mark Borodovsky, PhD – Georgia Tech and Emory University
Opening Remarks
Georgia Tech Hotel, Salons I-III
Session I
Session Chair – King Jordan – Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Hotel, Salons I-III
6:00pm
Elodie Ghedin, PhD – New York University
Getting the Flu: Exploring Influenza Virus Evolutionary Dynamics
6:40pm
Yury Khudyakov, PhD – Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Hepatitis Molecular Surveillance by GHOSTing
7:20pm
Timothy Read, PhD – Emory University
Intersection of Bacterial Comparative Genomics and Metagenomics
8:00pm
Adjourn for Day
Friday, November 20, 2015
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
7:00-8:00am
Continental Breakfast
Second Floor Break Area
Session II
Session Chair – Fredrik Vannberg – Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
8:00am
Oleg Balanovsky, PhD – Vavilov Institute of General Genetics
The Microevolution Processes in Human Populations: The Emerging Portrait of Global Gene Pool Structure
8:40am
Howard Ochman, PhD – University of Texas at Austin
The Extraordinary Evolution of the Great Ape Microbiome
9:20am
Ying Xu, PhD – University of Georgia
Microbial evolution in human guts driven by oxidative stress and contribution to colon cancer initiation
10:00-10:15am
Coffee Break
Second Floor Break Area
Session III
Session Chair – Mark Borodovsky – Georgia Tech and Emory University
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
10:15am
The Margaret O. Dayhoff Lecture
Pavel Pevzner, PhD – University of California, San Diego
Antibiotics Discovery: From Genome Sequencing to Genome Mining to Spectral Networks
11:15-11:25
Coffee Break
Second Floor Break Area
Session IV
Session Chair – Elodie Ghedin – New York University
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
11:25am
Ashlee Earl, PhD – The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
High throughput genomic analysis to rewind the clock on the evolution of drug resistant tuberculosis
12:05pm
Eduardo Rocha, PhD – Institut Pasteur
Trade-offs Shaping Temperate Phages as Deadly, Accommodated, and Serviceable Parasites
12:45-2:00pm
Lunch Break – Georgia Tech Hotel Restaurant
First Floor, Georgia Tech Hotel
Session V
Session Chair – Ashlee Earl – The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
2:00pm
David Roos, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
Designing and Mining (Pathogen) Omics Database Resources
2:40pm
Edward Holmes, PhD – University of Sydney
Using Meta-Transcriptomics and Ancient DNA to Reveal Microbial Emergence and Evolution
3:20pm
Eugene Koonin, PhD – National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Discovery of Novel Mobile Elements and Host Defence Systems in Genomic and Metagenomic Databases
4:00-6:00pm
Poster Session and Coffee Break
Second Floor Atrium and Break Area
6:00pm
Adjourn for Day
6:00-8:00pm
Dinner for Conference Speakers
Georgia Tech Hotel, Conference A
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
7:00-8:00am
Continental Breakfast
Second Floor Break Area
Session VI
Session Chair – Eugene Koonin – National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
8:00am
Joshua Weitz, PhD – Georgia Tech
Theoretical Principles of Virus-Microbe Dynamics: Lessons from the Lab, Challenges from the Field
8:40am
Greg Gibson, PhD – Georgia Tech
Transcriptional Analysis of Malaria Challenge and Vaccine Response Studies in Colombia
9:20am
Paul Sharp, PhD – University of Edinburgh
Comparative genomics of ape malaria parasites and the emergence of human malaria
10:00-10:10am
Coffee Break
Second Floor Break Area
Session VII
Session Chair – Eduardo Rocha
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
10:10am
Jennifer Gardy, PhD – British Columbia Centre for Disease Control
Reconstructing Outbreaks with Genomics: Pathogen Evolution Giveth and it Taketh Away
10:50am
Eric Delwart, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Deep Sequencing for Human and Animal Viral Discovery and Diagnostics
11:30am
Alexander Zelikovsky, PhD – Georgia State University
Algorithms for Analysis and Applications of High-throughput Sequencing of Intra-host Viral Populations
12:10-1:40pm
Lunch Break – Global Learning Center
First Floor Atrium
Session VIII
Session Chair – Greg Gibson – Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech Global Learning Center, Auditorium 222
1:40pm
Paul Keim, PhD – Northern Arizona University
Genomic Investigations of Anthrax – Sequence Data from Complex Specimens
2:20pm
Kostas Konstantinidis, PhD – Georgia Tech
Toward microbial disease diagnosis using metagenomics: A case of the runs
3:00pm
Adam Phillippy, PhD – National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)/ National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Preparing for the $1 Genome: Fast Genome and Metagenome Distance Estimation using MinHash
3:40-4:00pm
Mark Borodovsky, PhD – Georgia Tech and Emory University
Conference Closing Remarks