Talks will cover the following omics techniques with a focus on data integration and solving key biological challenges

• Functional genomics
• Proteomics
• Metabolomics
• Transcriptomics
• AI/ Machine Learning

The day will include interactive discussions, panel discussions, poster session and prizes, lunch and networking

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Programme

09:30-10:00 – Registration and refreshments
10:00-10:15 – Welcome and opening remarks (Dr Muhammed Yasir)

Session 1, Chair: Dr Heather Felgate

10:15-10:40 Professor Daniel Figeys (Quadram Institute, UK) Metaproteomics for uncovering drug-microbiome interactions

10:40 to 10:45 Mr AmirAli Toghani (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK) Computational structural biology of NLR immune receptors 

10:45 to 11:10 Professor Irene Papatheodorou (Earlham Institute, UK) Decoding phenotypes at the cell type level

11:10 to 11:15 Dr Christina Homberger (University of Basel, Switzerland) Dissecting bacterial heterogeneity with single -cell transcriptomics

11:15 to 12:00 Interactive session & hands-on data challenge

12:00 to 13:15 Lunch and poster session

Session 2, Chair: Dr Lizbeth Sayavedra

13:15 to 13:40 Professor Mark Webber (Quadram Institute, UK)  Functional genomics from single cells to communities

13:40 to 13:45 Dr Emily Stoakes (University of Cambridge, UK) Campylobacter complex datasets – challenges and opportunities

13:45 to 14:00 Dr Noemi Tejera (EMBL-EBI, UK) Advancing FAIR metabolomics data sharing with MetaboLights

14:00 to 14:10 Dr Gwenaelle Le Gall (University of East Anglia, UK) Diet, the microbiome, and the metabolome

14:10 to 14:15 Dr Natalia Miguel Vior (John Innes Centre, UK) Pairing transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses in Streptomyces

14:15 to 15:00 Interaction session and coffee break ML/AI models for data integration

Session 3, Chair: Dr Muhammad Yasir

15:00 to 15:30 Panel discussion Integration of functional multi-omics data

15:30 to 16:15 Keynote: Professor Lars Barquist (University of Toronoto, Canada / Helmholtz Institute Würzburg, Germany) The challenge of structure for functional ‘omics data integration 

16:15-16:30 – Closing remarks, poster prizes, feedback and thanks

Supported by the Microbiology Society, Centre for Microbial Interactions and AI in Bioscience network and Microbial Genomics