We are looking forward to the CLIMB launch next week (14th-15th July). The confirmed agenda is below:
Day 1
12:30 – 1:00 Registration (Medical School Foyer)
1:00 – 1:10 Introduction Mark Pallen, University of Warwick
1:10 – 1:35 The CLIMB System Tom Connor, University of Cardiff
1:35 – 2:00 The Set-up of the CLIMB system Arif Ali, OCF
2:00-3:15 CLIMB Demo (General) Nick Loman, Tom Connor
3:15-3:35 Coffee
3:35 -5:00 CLIMB Demo (Specific interest areas)
7pm Dinner (Chancellors Suite)
Day 2
09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee
09:30 – 09:45 Welcome and Introduction to CLIMB
Session 1 Chair: Sam Sheppard
09:45 – 10:15 Pathogen metagenomics: window of the past, promise of
the future Mark Pallen, University of Warwick
10:15 – 10:45 Real-time genomic surveillance of pathogens in the field
Nick Loman, University of Birmingham
10:45 – 11:15 Shigella: a global view
Tom Connor, University of Cardiff
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee
Session 2 Chair: Nick Loman
11:45 – 12:15 GWAS: religion or a promising new approach
Sam Sheppard, University of Bath
12:15 – 12.45 Staph aureus genomics and an end user’s perspective of
CLIMB, Ed Feil, University of Bath
12.45 – 13:15 Roaming Zebra’s view of the CLIMB infrastructure
Simon Thompson, University of Birmingham
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch (buffet lunch in Arts Centre)
Session 3 Chair: Tom Connor
14:15 – 14:45 Next generation sequencing at the Animal and Plant
Health Agency: What type of work are we performing
and what are our needs?, Muna Anjum, APHA
14:45 – 15:15 Metagenomics: binning and diversity
Chris Quince, University of Warwick
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee
Session 3 continued Chair: Tom Connor
15:45 – 16:15 The colonization of the New World by African and
European Helicobater pylori, Daniel Falush, University of
Bath
16:15 – 16.30 Closing remarks, Mark Pallen