Programme
| Time | Tuesday 13.8.2024 | Wednesday 14.8.2024 | Thursday 15.8.2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day Theme | Community-level analyses | Sequence-level analyses | Emerging topics | |
| 8:30-8:50 | Morning coffee | Morning coffee | Morning coffee | |
| 8:50-9:00 | Welcome and practicalities | |||
| Organizers' presentation | 9:00-10:00 | Leo Lahti: Population cohort studies of the human microbiome | Anders Andersson: Ecology and evolution of the aquatic microbiome through metagenomics and high-throughput imaging | Matti Ruuskanen: Spatial patterns and modeling human microbiomes at the population level |
| Invited lecture or demo | 10:30-11:30 | Oliver Aasmets: Statistical and machine learning techniques in microbiome research | Katariina Pärnänen: Past, present and future in antibiotic resistance mapping | Antti Karkman: Metagenomic assembly and applications |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | |
| Student presentations | 12:30-13:30 | Local & Student presentations | Local & Student presentations | Local & Student presentations |
| Poster session or lecture | 13:30-14:30 | Facilitated networking and poster session 1 | Facilitated networking and poster session 2 | Tommi Vatanen: Expanding the metagenomic toolbox beyond taxonomic and functional profiles |
| 14:30-15:00 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | |
| Invited lecture or demo | 15:00-16:30 | Aura Raulo: Modeling transmission of microbiomes | H. Bjørn Nielsen: Precise and sensitive quantification of bacteria and viruses from metagenomes | Antton Alberdi: Measuring metabolic capacities of microbiomes |
| Social program | 18:00 | Dinner (own cost) | Dinner & sauna (included) - Kavalto Estate, Piikkiö | |