Detailed program of the Symposium

Organizers: Pilar Junier, Andrea Bshary

Monday 10.09

9:00-10:30 Arrival, welcom, coffee

10:30-12:00 “Strategies of metagenomic analysis” (Shinichi Sunagawa, Institute of Microbiology, ETHZ)

12:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 “The bacterial microbiome of fungi” (Geoffrey House, Los Alamos National Laboratory)

15:00 Coffee break

15:30-18:00 Presentations by the participants, Work in groups

Tuesday 11.09

7:00-8:00 running around Villars (start at the hotel lobby at 7 am);

9:00-10:30 “Microbiota profiling in a diagnostic laboratory: quality aspects & applications” (Gilbert Greub, Institute of Microbiology, CHUV)

                  “Inferring Microbial Interactions and therapeutic effects from Metagenomic Time-series”  (Patrick Favre, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 “Oral microbiota in health and disease” (Vladimir Lazarevic, Genomic Research Laboratory, University of Geneva)

                    “Large scale recovery of genomes from metagenomes” (Rob Finn, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton)

12:45-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 “Manipulating composition and functions of the plant root microbiome” (Klaus Schlaeppi, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern)

                     “Effects of inoculation of cassava with genetically similar mycorrhizal fungi on local mycorrhizal fungal communities and why it matters” (Ian Sanders, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne)

                     “Genome recovery from environmental metagenomic datasets” (Bastiaan von Meijenfeldt, Utrecht University)

16:00 Coffee break and outdoors activity

Wednesday 12.09

9:00-10:00 "The microbiome of the leaf surface of Arabidopsis protects against a fungal pathogen." (Laurent Falquet, Department of Biology, University of Fribourg)

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-12:30 Discussion and round tables

12:45 Lunch

End of the Symposium