Data-driven Epidemiology and biology of infections Research Area Symposium
December 7 @ 13:00 – December 8 @ 12:30 CET
Welcome to a symposia with the new DDLS Fellows and national as well as international researchers within the area of data-driven epidemiology and biology of infections.
We encourage personal participation to network with the new DDLS Fellows and other experts of the field however online participation is possible.
Deadline for registration November 29th
Program Wednesday, 7 December
12:00 LUNCH will be served
13:00- 13:20 Welcomes and Introductions
Siv Andersson, Head of Basic Research at Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Uppsala University,
Olli Kallioniemi, Director SciLifeLab and DDLS Director, Karolinska Institutet
Maria Smedh Site Coordinator, SciLifeLab Göteborg
13:20 DDLS in Epidemiology and Biology of Infection
Oliver Billker, DDLS Research Area Lead, Umeå University
13:30 Keynote: Using genomic surveillance data to understand bacterial epidemiology
Nicholas J Croucher, Imperial College London
14:10 DDLS Fellow talk: Predicting the disease threats of the future
Johan Bengtsson-Palme, DDLS Fellow at Chalmers University of Technology
14:50 Keynote (virtual) Data and decisions in an imperfect world
Bill Hanage, Associate Professor, Harvard, School of Public Health
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 DDLS Fellow talk: A global perspective on antimicrobial resistance in animals raised for food
Thomas van Boeckel, ETH Zurich and future DDLS Fellow at Gothenburg University
16:40 Pandemic preparedness – The SciLifeLab perspective
Staffan Svärd, SciLifeLab Scientific Director, Uppsala University
17:10 Discussion and conclusion of the first day
17:30 Snacks and mingle in Restaurant Nordic
18:30 SYMPOSIUM DINNER in Restaurant Nordic
Program Thursday, 8 December
8:30 DDLS Fellow Talk: Strength in numbers: leveraging publicly available (meta)genomic data to gain insight into the epidemiology and virulence potential of bacterial pathogens
Laura Michelle Carroll, Umeå University
9:10 Keynote: Data-driven dynamic disease surveillance and studies for mapping systemic effects of the human gut microbiome
Tove Fall, Uppsala University
9:50 COFFEE
10:20 DDLS Fellow Talk: Intimately microbial: symbioses in OB-GYN,
Luisa Warchavchik Hugerth, DDLS Fellow Uppsala University
11:00 National services for data and bioinformatics within DDLS and SciLifeLab
Sara El-Gebali, SciLifeLab Data Centre,
Björn Nystedt, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure
Short presentations followed by a discussion to determine needs for computational support for infections research in Sweden.
12:00 Discussion: DDLS initiative and Data-Driven Epidemiology and Biology of Infection: where next?
12:30 LUNCH will be served
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