PANGENOME2025 » PROGRAM

14:00-17:00

Registration

15:00-16:00

Inaugural Talk

15:00-16:00

"A pan-genomic view of new gene evolution"

Howard Ochman

16:00-19:00

Session 1: Introduction to global pangenomes for One Health

16:00-16:30

“Infectious diseases, zoonoses, therapeutics… Are we doomed? Pwn3d-genome to the rescue!”

Hervé Tettelin

16:30-17:00

"Mapping Microbial Diversity and Resistance Gene Burden in Global Food Metagenomes"

Avelino Álvarez Ordóñez

17:00-17:30

"From pangenomes and strain diversity to the functional diversity of commensal microbes"

Till Strowig

17:30-18:00

Short talks

10 min each

18:00-20:00

Welcome cocktail

09:00-13:00

Session 2: Evolution of the pangenome and environmental interactions

09:00-09:30

"Uncovering hidden diversity: Pangenomics of rhizosphere bacteria and their role in environmental and host health"

Zulema Udaondo

09:30-10:00

Talk title TBA

Rekha Seshadri

10:00-10:30

"On the biological meaning of the local pangenome"

Francisco Rodríguez Valera

10:30-11:00

"Coral holobiont bacterial pangenomes in the Anthropocene"

Mónica Medina

11:00-11:30

Posters and coffee

Posters viewing during coffee break

11:30-13:00

Short talks

Short talks 10 min each

13:00-15:00

Lunch Time

15:00-19:00

Session 3: Interconnected microbiomes and gene exchange

15:00-15:30

"Leveraging mOTUs for Microbiome Comparison Across Hosts and Habitats"

Marija Dmitrijeva

15:30-16:00

“High throughput microbial single-cell genomics for studying interactions of bacteria with their mobile genetic elements”

Maria Dzunkova

16:00-16:30

"Plasmid evolution: a (copy) numbers game"

Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán

16:30-17:00

Talk title TBA

José Penadés

17:00-17:30

Posters and coffee

Posters viewing during coffee break

17:30-19:00

Short talks

Short talks 15 min each

09:00-13:00

Session 4: Pangenomic diversity in human and animal microbiomes

09:00-09:30

"One Health Microbiome"

Pascale Vonaesch

09:30-10:00

"Environmental Microbiome and One Health: Exploring the Interface Between Livestock and Ecosystem Health"

Clara Marín Orenga

10:00-10:30

"Assessment of the acquisition and transmission of the microbiome through strain-level profiling: a One Health perspective"

Mireia Vallès-Colomer

10:30-11:00

“Leveraging the vaginal metapangenome to design next-generation live biotherapeutic products for women’s health”

Jacques Ravel

11:00-11:30

Posters and coffee

Posters viewing during coffee break

11:30-13:00

Short talks

Short talks 10 min each

13:00-15:00

Lunch time

15:00-19:00

Session 5: The pangenome in infectious diseases

15:00-15:30

Talk title TBA

José Antonio Escudero

15:30-16:00

Talk title TBA

David Ussery

16:00-16:30

Whole genome sequencing of veterinary pathogens for an improved antimicrobial stewardship

Lourdes Migura-García

16:30-17:00

Talk title TBA

Matthew Beale

17:00-17:30

Posters and coffee

Posters viewing during coffee break

17:30-19:00

Short talks

Short talks 10 min each

19:00-20:00

Free slot

21:00-24:00

Social Dinner

09:00-13:00

Session 6: The role of phages: from community dynamics to phage therapy

09:00-09:30

“Deciphering and targeting the virome”

David Páez-Espino

09:30-10:00

“Exploring the co-evolutionary arms race between bacteria and phages”

Rafael Pinilla-Redondo

10:00-10:30

Using evolutionary genomics of phage-bacteria interactions to advance biotechnology

Paul Turner

10:30-11:00

“Phage therapy as personalized medicine against bacteria”

Pilar Domingo

11:00-11:30

Poster and coffe

Poster viewing during coffee break

11:30-13:00

Short talks

Short talks 10 min each

13:00-13:30

Final notes and closure. M. Pilar Francino