Schedule-at-a-Glance

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ASM BIG Schedule-at-a-Glance

Note: Continental breakfast will be provided on Oct. 12-14 and luncheon will be provided on Oct. 12 and 13.

Schedule-at-a-Glance

9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Workshop: Empowering Your Microbial Research With Expert Tools and Resources: Unlock the Power of NCBI Data
Additional $25 workshop fee applies.

4–6 p.m.

Opening Keynote Session

6–7:30 p.m.

Welcome Reception  

8–8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast  

8:30–10 a.m.

Scientific Session I: Epidemiology, From Global to Local Surveillance

10–11:30 a.m.

Poster Session #1 With Refreshments

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

An Overview of the NIH Human Virome Program

12:30–1:15 p.m.

Lunch Buffet 

1:15–2 p.m.

Sponsored Lunch & Learn Presentation 

2–3:30 p.m.

Special Interest Session: Featured Presentations by Travel Award Recipients

3:30–5 p.m.

Poster Session #2 With Refreshments

5–6:30 p.m.

Scientific Session II: Multiomics in the Clinic

8–8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast  

8:30–10 a.m.

Scientific Session III: Data Sharing, Visualization & AI

10–11:30 a.m.

Poster Session #3 With Refreshments  

11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

Featured Oral Abstracts

12:30–1:15 p.m.

Lunch Buffet

1–2 p.m.

Sponsored Lunch & Learn Presentation

2–3:30 p.m.

Special Interest Session: Graph-Based Analysis of Microbial Genomes

3:30–5 p.m.

Poster Session #4 With Refreshments

  

5–6:30 p.m.

Scientific Session IV: Microbial Ecology, Systems Biology & the Microbiome

7:45–8:15 a.m.

Continental Breakfast  

8:15–9 a.m.

Sponsored Breakfast Symposium 

9–10:30 a.m.

Scientific Session V: Methods, Tools & Algorithms

10:30–10:45 a.m.

Morning Break

  

10:45–11:15 a.m.

When Tests Don’t Fit the Rules: Regulatory Challenges for Agnostic mNGS Diagnostics in Infectious Diseases

11:15 a.m.–12 p.m.

Meeting Wrap-Up