Valencia 2nd - 5th December 2025
12 d 12 h 59 m 59 s Left "A pan-genomic view of new gene evolution"
Howard Ochman
University of Texas at Austin, USA
“Infectious diseases, zoonoses, therapeutics… Are we doomed? Pwn3d-genome to the rescue!”
Hervé Tettelin
University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
"Mapping Microbial Diversity and Resistance Gene Burden in Global Food Metagenomes"
Avelino Álvarez Ordóñez
University of Leon, Spain
"From pangenomes and strain diversity to the functional diversity of commensal microbes"
Till Strowig
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Short talks
10 min each
"Uncovering hidden diversity: Pangenomics of rhizosphere bacteria and their role in environmental and host health"
Zulema Udaondo
National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain
Talk title TBA
Rekha Seshadri
Joint Genome Institute, USA
"On the biological meaning of the local pangenome"
Francisco Rodríguez Valera
Miguel Hernandez University, Spain
"Coral holobiont bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene"
Mónica Medina
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Posters and coffee
Posters viewing during coffee break
Short talks
Short talks 10 min each
"Leveraging mOTUs for Microbiome Comparison Across Hosts and Habitats"
Marija Dmitrijeva
Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
“High throughput microbial single-cell genomics for studying interactions of bacteria with their mobile genetic elements”
Maria Dzunkova
University of Valencia, Spain
"Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game"
Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán
Ramon y Cajal Health Research Institute, Spain
Talk title TBA
José Penadés
Imperial College London
Posters and coffee
Posters viewing during coffee break
Short talks
Short talks 15 min each
"One Health Microbiome"
Pascale Vonaesch
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
"Environmental Microbiome and One Health: Exploring the Interface Between Livestock and Ecosystem Health"
Clara Marín Orenga
CEU Cardenal Herrera University, Spain
"Assessment of the acquisition and transmission of the microbiome through strain-level profiling: a One Health perspective"
Mireia Vallès-Colomer
Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
“Leveraging the vaginal metapangenome to design next-generation live biotherapeutic products for women’s health”
Jacques Ravel
University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Posters and coffee
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Short talks
Short talks 10 min each
Talk title TBA
José Antonio Escudero
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Talk title TBA
David Ussery
Oklahoma State University, USA
Whole genome sequencing of veterinary pathogens for an improved antimicrobial stewardship
Lourdes Migura-García
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Spain
Talk title TBA
Matthew Beale
Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Posters and coffee
Posters viewing during coffee break
Short talks
Short talks 10 min each
Free slot
Free slot
“Deciphering and targeting the virome”
David Páez-Espino
Ancilia Bio, USA
“Exploring the co-evolutionary arms race between bacteria and phages”
Rafael Pinilla-Redondo
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Using evolutionary genomics of phage-bacteria interactions to advance biotechnology
Paul Turner
Yale University, USA
“Phage therapy as personalized medicine against bacteria”
Pilar Domingo
University of Valencia, Spain
Poster and coffe
Poster viewing during coffee break
Short talks
Short talks 10 min each
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