Valencia 2nd - 5th December 2025
"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
17:30-17:45 Biofilm-associated genes encoding amyloids are part of the accessory genome of the pathobiome.
Ainara Aginaga Etxamendi, Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IDAB-CSIC), Spain.
17:45-18:00 Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach.
Muhummed Abdifatah Muktar, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Uncovering hidden diversity: Pangenomics of rhizosphere bacteria and their role in environmental and host health"
Zulema Udaondo
National Centre for Biotechnology, Spain
"A microbial genome census during the uncultivated data deluge"
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
Short talks
11:30-11:45 Solving the pangenome paradox: detecting accessory genes under balancing selection in Klebsiella pneumoniae.
- Cara Conradsen, The University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
11:45-12:00 High precision binary trait association on phylogenetic trees.
- Ishaq Balogun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
12:00-12:15 Intrinsically disordered protein regions encoded by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pangenome are fast evolving and contribute to virulence.
- Manuela Sironi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
12:15-12:30 Accessory no more: plasmid domestication in the plant-associated Pantoea.
- Devani Romero Picazo, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany.
12:30-12:45 Gh168 endo-fucanases reveal lineage-specific adaptation to fucoidan-rich niches in Pirellulaceae.
- Raquel Liébana García, Fundación AZTI, Spain.
12:45-13:00 Plastic-degrading enzyme discovery in the Stutzerimonas genus via genome and pangenome analyses.
- Anna Luiza Bauer Canellas, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
"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
"Immune-deficient bacteria serve as gateways to genetic exchange and microbial evolution"
José Penadés
Imperial College London
Short talks
17:30-17:45 Circulation of carbapenem resistance plasmids between hospital and aquatic environments at the scale of a coastal river basin.
- Stéphanie Bedhomme, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, France.
17:45-18:00 Cliquebait : detecting clades living at the limit (of the 95% ani gap).
- Moritz Buck. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
18:00-18:15 Pangene-o-meter: Exploring bacterial genome evolution through gene-content analysis.
- Haim Ashkenazy, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany.
18:15-18:30 Host-associated mobilome dynamics and pangenome evolution in livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus.
- José Francisco Díaz Méndez, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain.
18:30-18:45 Enhancing alignment accuracy through core alignment refinement: a comparative tool-based study.
- Jordi Sevilla Fortuny, Institut Pasteur, France.
18:45-19:00 PANGNBANK: A database of pangenome graphs for comparative microbial genomics.
- Téo Lemane, CNRS/Genoscope, France.
"One Health Microbiome"
Pascale Vonaesch
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
"Environmental Microbiome and One Health: Exploring the Interface Between Livestock and Ecosystem Health"
Laura Lorenzo Rebenaque
Institute of Science and Animal Technology, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, 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
Short talks
11:30-11:45 Mapping the pangenome functional landscape with protein language models links bacterial genetic diversity to host proteostasis.
- Daniel Martínez Martínez, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), United Kingdom.
11:45-12:00 Fusobacterum animalis core genes rather than virulence operons may underlie oncogenic potential.
- Manuela Sironi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
12:00-12:15 Phage activation and genome decay under chemotherapy shape skin microbiome evolution.
- Zaki Saati Santamaría, University of Salamanca, Spain.
12:15-12:30 Escherichia coli isolated in maternal-infant environment: an in-depth perspective from genome to function.
- Manuel Bernabeu. Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology, National Research Council (IATA-CSIC), Spain.
12:30-12:45 A decade of experience mapping the microbiota in enteric infections and searching for novel solutions through competitive exclusion.
- Hector Arguello-Rodríguez, Universidad de León, Spain.
12:45-13:00 Antibiotic-resistant bacteria decolonization through fecal microbiota transplantation facilitates de novo generation of multidrug-resistant organisms in mice.
- Candela Fuster González, FISABIO Foundation, Spain.
When Names lie: Taxonomic turbulence and pangenome diversity in the Enterobacteriaceae.
David Ussery
Oklahoma State University, USA
"Integrons, a shared toolbox against phages and antibiotics"
José Antonio Escudero
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Whole genome sequencing of veterinary pathogens for an improved antimicrobial stewardship
Lourdes Migura-García
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology, Spain
Integrating accessory genomic elements into infectious disease epidemiology
Mathew Beale
Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
Short talks
17:30-17:45 What do we really know about leprosy? New insights from early medieval and roman genomes.
- Marta Pla Díaz, University of Basel, Switzerland.
17:45-18:00 Analysis of the global group b Streptococcus pangenome: insights into genetic diversity and evaluation of potential vaccine targets.
- Nida Javaid, Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom.
18:00-18:15 Large-scale study of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pangenome: population structure and antimicrobial resistance.
- Andrea Sánchez-Serrano, FISABIO Foundation, Spain.
18:15-18:30 Genomic association of sars-cov-2 severity during the omicron wave.
- Mireia Coscollá Devís, I2SysBio, University of Valencia, Spain.
18:30-18:45 A pangenomic view of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ecotypes and host? Range determinants.
- Paula Ruiz Rodríguez, I2SysBio, University of Valencia. Spain.
18:45-19:00 Pangenome analysis of a complex vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in the Comunitat Valenciana.
- Carlos Valiente Mullor, FISABIO Foundation – University of Valencia, Spain.
Best Sequencing project
19:00-19:15 Mining the cazome of seaweed-associated bacteria from the Brazilian coast for new industrial biocatalysts.
- Bruno de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil.
19:15-19:30 A Mycobacterium tuberculosis pangenome during infection to shed light on the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
- Ana María García Marín, Biomedicine Institute of Valencia, Spain.
“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
Short talks
11:30-11:45 From pioneers to persistence: breastfeeding and maternal reservoirs shape infant gut phageome maturation.
- Elena Cabello Yeves, Biomedicine Institute of Valencia (IBV-CSIC), Spain.
11:45-12:00 The origins and evolution of cyanomyophages infecting picocyanobacteria: a conundrum spanning the salinity divide.
- Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
12:00-12:15 Mobile elements and phages as key drivers of genome architecture variability in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis and their comparison with B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki.
- Raida Zribi-Zghal, Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia.
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