Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health Center
“Understanding the microbiome may transform our understanding of how healthy bodies become diseased, how aging leads to infirmity, and how we could alter our internal ecosystems to prevent and treat a vast range of conditions.”
– Michelle A. Williams, Former Dean, Harvard Chan School
Email
hcmph@hsph.harvard.edu
Location
677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
2023-program
For information, please contact Nicole Levesque (levesque@hsph.harvard.edu, 617-432-4902)
Register HERE! More information is available on the main Symposium Page.
Monday, May 15, 2023
(All times below are EDT)
Joseph B Martin Center – Amphitheater
Also available via Zoom
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks Dyann Wirth, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases Faculty Chair, Harvard Integrated Life Sciences (HILS), Graduate School of Arts & Sciences |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Rick Bushman, University of Pennsylvania “The human virome in health and disease” |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Jess Metcalf, Colorado State University “A universal fungal and bacterial network decomposes nutrient-rich mammalian cadavers” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Emily Van Syoc, Pennsylvania State University “Mining metagenomes reveals gut mycobiome alterations with metformin and type 2 diabetes mellitus” |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | A.Delphine Tripp, Harvard University “C. acnes phage predation in the healthy human skin microbiome” |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Corinne Maurice, McGill University “What’s phage gut to do with it? Contrasting gut phage-bacteria interactions in early-life and adulthood” |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Haley Gause, University of California, San Francisco “Cross-kingdom Interactions between Candida albicans and Enterococcus faecalis in the Gut Microbiome” |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Diana Proctor, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health “Candida auris and the great ESKAPE: the skin as a reservoir for multi-drug resistance and transmission” |
| 12:15 – 1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 12:45 – 1:30 | Lunchtime discussion panel: “Commercialization of microbiome science” Participants: Matt Henn (Seres Therapeutics), Sou Miyake (Corundum Systems Biology), Michelle Rooks (Pfizer), Mariia Taguer (Merck), Jeremy Wilkinson (PacBio), Sabrina Yang (Empress Therapeutics) |
| 1:30 – 2:30 | Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab “Microbiome Data Science: from the Human Gut Microbiome to the Global Virome” |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Melanie Schirmer, Technical University of Munich “Inflammation-associated host-microbial interactions” |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 3:45 | Rachel Dutton, University of California, San Diego “Friends and Foes: Fungi as drivers of cheese microbiome interactions” |
| 3:45 – 4:45 | Joseph Petrosino, Baylor College of Medicine “Revealing constituents of the virome and mycobiome for the benefit of human health” |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:00 – 6:30 | Poster Reception (available online all day) |