Scientific Program
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Thursday, 9 June 2016- 12:00 - 13:00
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Registration & welcome coffee
Installation of posters - 13:00 - 14:30
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Session: NGS for Public Health surveillancePlenary lecture ILothar H. Wieler (Robert Koch Institute, Germany):Plenary lecture IIMarc Struelens (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden):
- 14:30 - 15:00
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Coffee break
- 15:00 - 16:00
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Session: Tracing foodborne pathogensKey note lecture 1Martin Maiden (University of Oxford, United Kingdom):Katia Rouzeau-Szynalski (Nestlé, Switzerland):Practical application of Whole Genome Sequencing in the food industryBirgitta Duim (Utrecht University, The Netherlands):Source identification of a Campylobacter fetus outbreak through next generation sequencing
- 16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
- 16:30 - 17:30
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Session: MetagenomicsKey note lecture 2Daniel Huson (University of Tuebingen, Germany):Key note lecture 3Torsten Semmler (Robert Koch Institute, Germany):SLIMM: Species level identification of microorganisms from metagenomes
- 17:30 - 18:15
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Session: NGS implementation in Public HealthGuido Werner (Robert Koch Institute, Germany):Thijs Bosch (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands):Next-generation sequencing of a large MRSA outbreak shows that transmission likely occurred between Dutch healthcare centersErik Alm (Public Health Agency of Sweden, Sweden):
- 18:15
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End of scientific program day 1
Welcome reception with finger food
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Friday, 10 June 2016- 08:30 - 09:00
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Welcome coffee
- 09:00 - 10:30
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Session: Antimicrobial resistance – genome to phenomeKey note lecture 4Andrew McArthur (McMaster University, Canada):Key note lecture 5Philip Supply (GenoScreen, France):Deeplex-MycTB, an all-in-one NGS-based diagnostics of M. tuberculosisAlison J. Cody (University of Oxford, United Kingdom):Using whole genome sequence data to predict the antimicrobial resistance profiles of human campylobacteriosis isolatesMatthew J. Ellington (Public Health England, United Kingdom):
- 10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00
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Session: Pathogen discoveryKey note lecture 6Adam Grundhoff (Heinrich Pette Institute, Germany):Unbiased NGS for clinical infectious disease diagnosticsRobert Schlaberg (University of Utah, USA):TAXONOMER, an integrated ultra-fast tool for metagenomic sequence analysisSabin-Christin Kornell (Kiel University, Germany):6380-year-old oral pathogens from hunter-gatherer remains found in Kiel bay: A metagenomic approach to ancient DNA
- 12:00 - 13:00
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Lunch
- 13:00 - 15:00
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Poster session
- 15:00 - 16:15
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Session: Tracing hospital acquired pathogensKey note lecture 7Alexander Mellmann (University of Muenster, Germany):Hospital real time prospective surveillanceMohamed Abdelbary (Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland):Real-time whole-genome sequencing to investigate a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak at a tertiary care hospitalSofia Hauck (University of Oxford, United Kingdom):Aldert Zomer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands):
- 16:15 - 16:45
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Coffee break
- 16:45 - 18:30
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Session: Comparative microbial genomics toolsBruno Pichon (Public Health England, United Kingdom):João Carriço (University of Lisboa, Portugal):Keith Jolley (University of Oxford, United Kingdom):Jörg Rothgänger (Ridom GmbH, Germany):Katrien de Bruyne (Applied Math, Belgium):Gary van Domselaar (University of Manitoba, Canada):Bernhard Haubold (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany):
- 18:30
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End of scientific program day 2
- 19:30
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BBQ & Party
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Saturday, 11 June 2016- 09:15 - 09:45
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Welcome coffee
- 09:45 - 11:00
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Session: Tracing community acquired pathogensKey note lecture 8Matthias Merker (Research Center Borstel, Germany):MDR tuberculosis evolutionary history and transmissionKey note lecture 9Stephan Günther (Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany):Temporal and spatial analysis of the Ebola virus outbreakJohn W. A. Rossen (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands):
- 11:00 - 11:30
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Coffee break
- 11:30 - 12:30
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Session: Future microbial genomics developmentsLinda van der Graaf-van Bloois (Utrecht University, The Netherlands):Viola Schleusener (Research Center Borstel, Germany):Key note lecture 10Dag Harmsen (University of Muenster, Germany):
- 12:30 - 13:30
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Farewell