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October 8–11, 2017; Washington, DC, USA Conference review reportTeresia M BuzaPenn State UniversityConferences MissionThis conference is one of many conferences organized by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). It is relatively new compared to others. All ASM conferences have common mission. In summary the ASM conferences mission is to: Identify emerging or underrepresented topics of broad scientific significance. Facilitate interactive exchange in meetings of 100 to 500 people. Encourage student and postdoctoral participation. Recruit individuals in disciplines not already involved in ASM to ASM membership. Foster interdisciplinary and international exchange and collaboration with other scientific organizations. Personal goalI was so exited attending this conference in anticipation of sharing our proposed microbiome analysis pipeline (iMAP) and also meet some specific goals including: Obtaining knowledge on modern tools used in microbiome data analysis. Getting opportunity to meet experts face to face and discuss workflows for analyzing highly complex microbiome data with diverse developers, data analysts and users. Exploring opportunities of forming new professional network. I strongly believe that I met all the stated goals in addition to sharing and discussing the proposed iMAP pipeline with diverse participants, who overwhelmingly showed great interest in the workflow of this pipeline and wanted to give it a try. My promise was it will be online very soon. Conference audienceThis was an international conference. There were over 400 participants from different countries, five main sessions, 25 speakers and 161 posters. All sessions were conducted in one place, a large conference room at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC. I attended all of them. The session’s theme ranged from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics in relation to: Public health, veterinary, food, and environmental microbiology Epidemiology AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) Databases (NCBI) Data integration Visualization Analytical methods Bioinformatics tools Pipeline workflows e.t.c Main sessionsOpening Keynote SessionKeynoteWGS for Public Health Microbiology - Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs Speaker: Catherine Arnold, Head of Genomic Services and Development Unit, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK Three Decades Riding the Exponential Curve - NCBI Putting Sequences to Use from 1988 to 2017 Speaker: Jim Ostell, Acting Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH, NIH Distinguished Investigator, Bethesda, MD Session 1Epidemiological Cues: NGS in Clinical and Public Health Microbiology KeynoteIncorporating Epidemiology and Microbial NGS to Maximize Clinical and Public Health Impact. Speaker: Yonatan Grad, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Session 2From Pipelines to Pixels: NGS Data Integration (Reporting, QC/QA, Accreditation, Training) and Visualization KeynoteReal-time Tracking and Prediction of RNA Virus Evolution Speaker: Richard Neher, Associate Professor of Computational Modeling of Biological Processes, Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Session 3Farm-to-Table: NGS in Veterinary, Food, and Environmental Microbiology KeynoteSingle-cell Sequencing: From Diversity to Function Speaker: Tanja Woyke, Head, Microbial Genomics Program at DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, CA Session 4:Drugs & Thugs: NGS to Combat AMR KeynoteTracing Ancient Origins of Hospital Adaptation using NGS Speaker: Ashlee Earl, Group Leader, Bacterial Genomics, Infectious Disease & Microbiome Program, The Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Session 5:Pipe Dreams: Analytical Methods, Bioinformatics Tools, and Pipelines KeynoteRapid End-to-End Workflows for Hypothesis-Free, NGSBased Pathogen Detection in a Diagnostic Laboratory Speaker: Robert Schlaberg, Medical Director, Microbial Amplified Detection, Virology, and Fecal Chemistry Laboratories, and Assistant Medical Director of the Molecular Infectious Disease Laboratories at ARUP; Assistant Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT Probably, knowing the sponsors of this conference may help in understanding the main interest and probably the intended audience. Below is a screen shot of the 2017 ASM-NGS sponsors. 
Please see the final program for more details on speakers and other presentations in each session . Our abstract is number 55 on poster session (page 61). My major takeawaysVery important conference for people involved in analysis of NGS data to meet experts, learn new tools and understanding the challenges for new discoveries. Learnt that deep sequencing provides better understanding of microbial present in an environmental sample. Up-to-date and highly reviewed tools have better features for data analysis, visualization and interpretation. Bioinformatics tools should undergo significant testing before publishing for public use. NB: This is a 2nd ASM-NGS conference, organizers are seeking advices for future improvement and diversity. RecommmendationI have no doubt that supporting more people to attend this conference will increase chances of initiating U.S-international partnership to develop integrated NGS and bioinformatics research initiatives that are key in identifying most dangerous pathogens and other microbial communities from a given environmental samples. ReferenceASM-NGS & Pipelines (2017). Final Program with Abstracts. 2nd ASM Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines, October 8–11, 2017, Washington, DC, USA. Link. Directory: publications publications -> Acm word Template for sig site publications -> Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging publications -> Adjih, C., Georgiadis, L., Jacquet, P., & Szpankowski, W. (2006). Multicast tree structure and the power law publications -> Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (eth) Zurich Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory publications -> Quantitative skills publications -> Multi-core cpu and gpu implementation of Discrete Periodic Radon Transform and Its Inverse publications -> List of Publications Department of Mechanical Engineering ucek, jntu kakinada publications -> 1. 2 Authority 1 3 Planning Area 1 publications -> Sa michelson, 2011: Impact of Sea-Spray on the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bound. Layer Meteor., 140 ( 3 ), 361-381, doi: 10. 1007/s10546-011-9617-1, issn: Jun-14, ids: 807TW, sep 2011 Bao, jw, cw fairall, sa michelson Download 118.96 Kb. Share with your friends:
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