Program

 March 26 - CAD2 Auditorium 104

Time
Event
08:00 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
Meeting opening
09:30 - 10:30
David Holmes - Astrobiology: emerging opportunities for environmental microbiologists
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Industry Talk - Illumina
11:30 - 12:30
Francisco Rodriguez-Valera - Postgenomic Microbiology
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Oral presentations
15:30 - 16:30
Marcos Rogério Tótola and Victor Satler Pylro (co-speaker) -
Brazilian Microbiome Project: Revealing the unexplored microbial diversity -
Challenges, prospects, and standards
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 - 19:00 Poster Session

 

March 27 - CAD2 Auditorium 104

Time
Event
08:00 - 09:30
Mini-course: Bacterial Metagenomics
09:30 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30
Mini-course: Bacterial Metagenomics
11:30 - 12:30
Bent Petersen – Challenges in assembling metagenomic data
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Oral presentations
15:30 - 16:00
Industry Talk - Life Technologies
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:30
Ramy Aziz – Genes Without Borders: Mobile Genetic Elements in Genomes
17:30 - 19:30
Poster Session

 

March 28 - CAD2 Auditorium 104

Time
Event
08:00 - 09:30
Mini-course: Phage genomics and metagenomics
09:30 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 11:30
Mini-course: Phage genomics and metagenomics
11:30 - 12:30
Suzan Pantaroto  - Functional metagenomics
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Rohit Ghai – Aquatic metagenomics
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Awards
16:00 - 16:30
Meeting Closing
16:30 - 21:00
Happy Hour  (place to be announced)