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Next Generation Bioinformatics Tools for Microbiome Research
19 May 2023
APC and SeqBiome are proud to host the 2023 meeting, Next Generation Bioinformatics Tools for Microbiome Research on June 7th in the Aula Maxima in UCC
With speakers from UCC, MTU, UG, UCD, Universities & Institutes of Helsinki, Turku, Crete, Budapest & Madrid
Topics covered include AI, data integration, long reads, new tools, databases & statistical methods
Register here
Full programme below:
| Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 9.40-10.00 | Marcus Claesson | University College Cork | Welcome & Introduction |
| 10.00-10.20 | Katri Korpela | University of Helsinki | Impact of data compositionality on detection of microbiota responses |
| 10.20-10.40 | Francesca Bottacini | MTU | Making the most of long reads for the analysis of bacteriomes and their mobile genetic elements |
| 10.40-11.00 | James Butler | University College Cork | Generative AI for Microbiome - Current Progress and Future Potential |
| 11.00-11.30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11.30-11.50 | Kardokh KakaBra | University College Cork | SPINGO ver2: Enhancing 16S rRNA taxonomic classification through k-mer counting and native Bayesian classification |
| 11.50-12.10 | Giorgos Papoutsoglou | University of Crete | Predictive modelling on microbiome data: the AutoML perspective |
| 12.10-12.30 | Thomaz Bastiaansen | University College Cork | Kronos: circadian rhythmicity analysis in microbiome and other ‘omics datasets |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch Break | ||
| 13.30-13.50 | Ines Thiele | University of Galway | Microbiome modelling tools for investigation of host-microbiome co-metabolism |
| 13.50-14.10 | Tim Hulsthof | University of Galway | Opportunities and challenges in using chatGPT for accelerating bioinformatic analysis |
| 14.10-14.30 | Leo Lahti | University of Turku | Statistical programming techniques for multi-assay data integration in microbiome research |
| 14.30-14.50 | Laura Marcos | IMDEA Food Institute, Madrid | Enhancing Metagenomics Analysis with Machine Learning: Available Software and Tools |
| 14.50-15.20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15.20-15.40 | Andrey Shkoporov | University College Cork | Metagenomic analysis of viromes |
| 15.40-16.00 | Balazs Ligeti | Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest | Harnessing the Power of Genomics Language Models in Microbiome Research |
| 16.00-16.20 | Olateju Idowu | University College Dublin | A Benchmark Dataset for Evaluating Computational Methods of Detecting Pathogens in Metagenomes |
| 16.20-16.50 | Panel discussion | How can we progress microbiome methods development? |
As registered attendee, you are also invited to the final COST Action Conference for ML4Microbiome
(Aim: to optimise, standardise & disseminate ML for human microbiome studies)
The 8th June in Aula Maxima, UCC
