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