Programme 2026

Wednesday 26.8.2026Thursday 27.8.2026Friday 28.8.2026
8:30 - 9:00 Morning coffee8:45 - 9:15 Morning coffee
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and practicalities
9:10 - 10:10 Rob Knight: Towards predictive microbiome science: how do computational models help?9:15 - 10:15 Jingyuan Fu: Microbial genetic diversity and its functional consequences?
10:10 - 11:10 Jeroen Raes: Dynamics of the Healthy Gut Microbiome: Data-driven Bioinformatics insights10:15 - 11.15 Harri Lähdesmäki: Longitudinal generative models for microbiome research
BreakBreak
11:30 - 12:30 Panel discussion11:30 - 12:30 Student presentations 2
12:30 - 13.30 Lunch12:30 - 14:45 Lunch and poster session 2, networking
13:30 - 14:30 Student presentations 114:45 - 15:45 Ilze Elbere: Computationally linking microbial functions and population phenotypes in Latvian microbiome cohort
14:30 - 16:30 Poster session 1 & Coffee break, networking15:45 - 16:00 Wrap up and closing
16.25-17:55 Gene Forum Microbiome session (included in the participation fee)17:00 - 21:00 Trip on the barge SUME on Emajõgi river
18:00 Welcome Reception