Programme 2026

Wednesday 26.8.2026Thursday 27.8.2026Friday 28.8.2026
8:30 - 9:00 Morning coffee with light snacks8:45 - 9:15 Morning coffee with light snacks
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: Unlocking Microbial Functionality: a multidimensional framework for metagenomic analysis
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
16.05-17:35 Gene Forum Microbiome session Estonian National Museum, Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu (included in the participation fee)16:30 - 20:00 Trip on the barge SUME on Emajõgi river: A bus will pick up the participants at Vanemuise 46 (16:30)
18:00 Welcome Reception: Delta Café, Narva mnt 18, Tartu