November 2021
The meeting was on:
Atlantic:
NOVEMBER 9th 2021 PACIFIC:
NOVEMBER 11th 2021
Premier Session
Atlantic

Time:
9th NOVEMBER: 10.00am New York
15.00pm London
00.00am Tokyo (on 10th November)
Second Session
Pacific

Time:
11th NOVEMBER 20.30pm New York (10th of November)
🇬🇧 1.30am London
🇯🇵 10.30am Tokyo
THE MAIN SPEAKER WILL GIVE THE TALK TWICE LIVE!
COMPLETE PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED!
KEYNOTE TALK
The Human Virome in Health and Disease
Abstract:
Viruses are the numerically most abundant biological entities on Earth. The lecture will review approaches for studying the human-associated virome. The lecture will overview results from the field, then focus on two recent studies. The first characterizes the mechanism of colonization of human neonates by viruses. Neonates begin life sterile, but by one month virus-like particles are detectable in stool at a billion per gram. Multiple research strategies show that prophage induction provides a first wave of viral colonization. Viruses that grow on human cells appear later, and abundance of these viruses are negatively associated with breast feeding. Thus colonization of the gut of neonates appears to be step-wise, first by prophages induced from pioneer bacteria, and secondly by viruses infecting human cells, which is inhibited by breastfeeding. The second reports on studies of the virome dark matter, and the identification a new family of human-associated oro respiratory viruses recovered from the viral dark matter, named Redondoviruses.
prof Frederic D. Bushman
Frederic Bushman is a Professor of Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bushman received his bachelor’s degree in Biology and English from Amherst College. He received his PhD in cellular and developmental biology from Harvard University. His research focuses on host/microbe interactions, with specific projects focusing on the human microbiome, HIV pathogenesis, and human genome therapy. Many recent projects in the laboratory involve developing new methods for studying microbiology using deep sequencing and bioinformatics. Dr. Bushman has published over 200 papers and two books.
CV:
THE LAB:
SELECTED TALKS
Castalagin, a natural polyphenol, exerts antitumor activity and circumvents anti-PD-1 resistance through effects on the gut microbiome
Meriem Messaoudene
CRCHUM University of Montreal
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Characterizing microbial community viability with RNA-based high-throughput sequencing
Ya Wang
Harvard University
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Longitudinal disease-associated gut microbiome differences in infants with early food allergic manifestations
Moran Yassour
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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HIGHLIGHTS
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Engineering Genetically Intractable Bacteria: Targeted elimination of restriction-modification motifs in plasmid sequences with the SyngenicDNA Tool Generator (SyToGen)
Gianmarco Piccinno
University of Trento
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Microbiota links to neural dynamics supporting threat processing
Caitlin Hall
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
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Healthy urogenital microbiome as a source of putative uropathogenic strains - Escherichia coli in the spotlight
Magdalena Ksiezarek
UCIBIO – Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, REQUIMTE, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Associate Laboratory i4HB – Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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Microdiversity of the Vaginal Microbiome in Preterm Birth
Jingqiu Liao
Columbia University
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Rapid and accurate identification of ribosomal RNA sequences using deep learning
Zhi-Luo Deng
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
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A Microbiome Restoration Strategy Modulates the Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Markers in Healthy Adults
Fuyong Li
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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OPEN-ACCESS PAPER HIGHLIGHT
Large-scale genome-wide analysis links lactic acid bacteria from food with the gut microbiome
Edoardo Pasolli
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Portici, Italy
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Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3
Francesco Beghini
University of Trento
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HOSTED BY
ATLANTIC
PACIFIC
Varun Aggarwala, Maria Carmen Collado, Chris Hoffman, Serena Manara, Eleonora Nigro, Nicola Segata, Levi Waldron
Varun Aggarwala, Luis Pedro Coelho, Amy Loughman, Serena Manara, Sayaka Mizutani, Felix Salim, Carra Simpson, Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic, Takuji Yamada