Emerging Opportunities for Mathematics in the Microbiome

January 23 - 24, 2020

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, January 23, 2020
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50	Janet Jansson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) The Soil Microbiome – From Metagenomics to Metaphenomics
10:00 - 10:10	Break
10:10 - 11:00	Liping Zhao (Rutgers University) Guild-based Strategy for Mining Gut Microbiome Data in Human Health and Diseases
11:10 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 12:10	A. Murat Eren (Meren) (University of Chicago) Integrating de novo protein biochemistry and metagenomics to tease apart evolutionary processes acting on environmental microbial populations
12:20 - 2:20	Lunch (on your own)
Afternoon Session
2:20 - 3:10	Susan Holmes (Stanford University) Challenges posed by dependency structures in non-normal multivariate data from microbiota
3:20 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:20	Nandita Garud (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) Population Genetics in the Human Microbiome
4:30 - 6:00	Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
Friday, January 24, 2020
Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00	Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50	Elaine Hsiao (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)) microbiome interactions with the nervous system in health and disease
10:00 - 10:10	Break
10:10 - 11:00	Carolina Tropini (University of British Columbia) Dynamics of microbiota communities during physical perturbation
11:10 - 11:20	Break
11:20 - 12:10	Jack Gilbert (University of California, San Diego (UCSD)) Microbiome of the Built Environment
12:20	Conclusion