Take a look at the full program and plan ahead to tune in for upcoming sessions.

All sessions will be available for 6 months after the conclusion of the conference.  

Epidemiological Cues: Sequencing in Clinical and Public Health Microbiology

• Discusses how sequencing is being used in clinical and public health microbiology, and the challenges and successes in implementing these technologies in routine and standard practice.

Pipelines to Pixels: Bioinformatic Tools, Workflows, Data Integration and Visualization

• Explores approaches in using tools for integrating and visualizing data for use in decision making.

Farm to Table: Sequencing in Veterinary, Food and Environmental Microbiology

• Highlights genomic research in veterinary, food and environmental microbiology.

Drugs and Thugs: Sequencing to Combat AMR

• Explores new approaches for antimicrobial genotyping and the characterization of antimicrobial resistant microbial populations, and the development of new tools to improve their impact.

Pipe Dreams: Analytical Methods, Bioinformatic Tools and Pipelines​

• Focuses on new analytical methods and bioinformatics tools designed to surf the growing wave of genomic data.

All scheduled session times are in EST.

Duncan MacCannell - Chair
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta

Ruth Timme - Co-Chair
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
College Park, Md.

Marc Allard
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
College Park, Md.

Jennifer Gardy
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Seattle

Elodie Ghedin
New York University
New York

George Gthinji
KEMRI/Wellcome Trust
Nairobi, Kenya

Dag Harmsen
University of Muenster
Muenster, Germany

Paul Keim
Northern Arizona University and TGen North
Flagstaff, Ariz.

Adam Phillippy
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Md.

Torsten Seemann
University of Melbourne            
Melbourne, Australia

Sofonias Tessema
Africa CDC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia