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Registration and refreshments

Welcome

Chair(s): Nicholas Loman (University of Birmingham, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited speaker: What’s in a vOTU? Viral MAGs from various ecosystems

Offered oral: Human cytomegalovirus strain diversity and dynamics reveal the donor lung as a major contributor after transplantation

Invited speaker: Charting the unknown multi-kingdom diversity of the human microbiome

Offered oral: Introducing the SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for uncultivated archaea and bacteria with DNA sequences as type.

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Chair(s): Falk Hildebrand (Quadram Institute, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited speaker: MAGs from early-life gut microbiomes

Offered oral: Using direct whole genome sequencing as an alternate approach to characterise Campylobacter species from human stool

Invited Speaker: Investigating the impact of database choice on the accuracy of metagenomic read classification for the rumen microbiome

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Chair(s): Mark Pallen (Quadram Institute, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited speaker: Using MAGs to investigate microbial relationships across host phylogenies

Offered oral: The extensive taxonomic and functional diversity of the Ethiopian village chicken microbiota

Publishing for the community – getting involved with Society journals

Drinks reception and poster viewing

Barbeque

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Welcome

Chair(s): Nicholas Thomson (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited Speaker: Oxford Nanopore R10.4 long-read sequencing enables the generation of near-finished bacterial genomes from pure cultures and metagenomes without short-read or reference polishing

Offered oral: The phylogroup shift in commensal Escherichia coli population during international travel, as detected from metagenome assembled genomes

Offered oral: Using genomes of novel uncultured lineages to investigate archaeal evolution and habitat adaptation.

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Flash poster presentations

Chair(s): Christopher Quince (Earlham Institute, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited speaker: Analysis of virus composition in metagenomic data

Invited speaker: TBC

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Chair(s): Evelien Adriaenssens (Quadram Institute, UK), Early career co-chair: TBC

Invited speaker: Genome-resolved metagenomics to determine population-level impacts of antibiotic consumption on the human gut microbiome

Invited speaker: Strain-resolved meta-analysis of the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease

Closing remarks and presentation of poster prize

Registration and refreshments

Welcome

Invited speaker: What’s in a vOTU? Viral MAGs from various ecosystems

Offered oral: Human cytomegalovirus strain diversity and dynamics reveal the donor lung as a major contributor after transplantation

Invited speaker: Charting the unknown multi-kingdom diversity of the human microbiome

Offered oral: Introducing the SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for uncultivated archaea and bacteria with DNA sequences as type.

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Invited speaker: MAGs from early-life gut microbiomes

Offered oral: Using direct whole genome sequencing as an alternate approach to characterise Campylobacter species from human stool

Invited Speaker: Investigating the impact of database choice on the accuracy of metagenomic read classification for the rumen microbiome

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Invited speaker: Using MAGs to investigate microbial relationships across host phylogenies

Offered oral: The extensive taxonomic and functional diversity of the Ethiopian village chicken microbiota

Publishing for the community – getting involved with Society journals

Drinks reception and poster viewing

Barbeque

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Welcome

Invited Speaker: Oxford Nanopore R10.4 long-read sequencing enables the generation of near-finished bacterial genomes from pure cultures and metagenomes without short-read or reference polishing

Offered oral: The phylogroup shift in commensal Escherichia coli population during international travel, as detected from metagenome assembled genomes

Offered oral: Using genomes of novel uncultured lineages to investigate archaeal evolution and habitat adaptation.

Refreshments, networking and poster viewing

Flash poster presentations

Invited speaker: Analysis of virus composition in metagenomic data

Invited speaker: TBC

Lunch, networking and poster viewing

Invited speaker: Genome-resolved metagenomics to determine population-level impacts of antibiotic consumption on the human gut microbiome

Invited speaker: Strain-resolved meta-analysis of the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease

Closing remarks and presentation of poster prize