Events

September 2021

• Sept. 29-30: Center for Microbiome Innovation International Microbiome Meeting

PAST EVENTS

June 2020

• June 4th, 6-7:30pm, Cheese Microbiome Webinar (and optional tasting)
  • Hosted by Jasper Hill Farm Creamery in Vermont
  • Will feature invited guests Dr. Ben Wolfe and Dr. Rachel Dutton discussing the cheese microbiome.
  • Register here ($10 for webinar alone, $110 includes cheese shipped to your house)
• June 8th, 3pm, Advanced Ecological Statistics Working Group (First meeting) – Lead by Ahmed Zayed (email microbiome@osu.edu for more information)
• June 9th, 2pm, IMG Statistical Analysis Tools Webinar 
  • Perform statistical comparisons of gene counts across discrete groups of isolate genomes or metagenomes in IMG. Register here.
• June 11th, 9:30-11pm, Microbiome Futures Online Panel Discussion
  • An interactive digital session where a group of microbiome experts discuss the potential of developing a new generation of microbiome therapies.
  • For more information, and to register (free), click here.
• June 15th, 9:30-10:20am, Plant Pathology Seminar – Ana M. Vazquez-Catoni. “Come together”: Studying drivers in bacterial community composition inside tomato plants grown in soils with chicken grazing history.
  • Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/98744054720?pwd=VXFTRWtDTzVqYmszUkFHcHJRV1cvUT09
  • Password: 685515
• June 16th, 2pm, IMG ANI (Average Nucleotide Identity) Webinar 
  • Learn how ANI is computed and interpreted for species delineation. Browse or search these pre-computed isolates’ clusters in IMG. Register here.
• CANCELLED: June 18-22, Chicago, IL, ASM Microbe
• June 22nd, 3pm, Joint Virome and Microbiome Working Group Meeting
  • Virome Working Group: Email Mohamed Mohamed mohamed.440@buckeyemail.osu.edu and Funing Tian tian.570@buckeyemail.osu.edu for information.
  • Microbiome Working Group: Email Dylan Cronin cronin.87@osu.edu for more information.
• June 27th, World Microbiome Day

July 2020

• July 6-10, Virtual Multiscale Microbial Dynamics Modeling Summer School
  • Topics include: Metagenomics, Environmental Metabolomics, Genome-scale Metabolomic Modeling, Reactive Transport Modeling
• July 8 – August 12, Wednesdays, 10am ET, Free Online seminar series on Microbial ‘Omics for beginners
  • Seminar hosted by A. Murat Eran (Meren) of the Unversity of Chicago. Register here.
  • The primary aim of this seminar series is to give a broad introduction to some of the key concepts and strategies that enable us to study the ecology, evolution, and functioning of naturally occurring microbial populations.
  • Topics include: Introduction to microbial life and ‘omics approaches, Metagenomic read recruitment, Genome-resolved metagenomics, Pangenomics, Metapangenomics, Phylogenomics
• July 13, 11am-7pm, Microbiome For Mars Virtual Workshop: Surveying Microbiome Connections to Healthcare with Implications for Long-Duration Human Space Flight
• July 14, 10:30am-12pm, Intro to Supercomputing at the Ohio Supercomputer Center Webinar
• July 23, 10am, Understanding the potential impact of the gut microbiome on SARS-CoV-2 Research
  • Presented by ThermoFisher Scientific, register here.
• July 23, 1-5pm, RNA-Seq Data Analysis at OSC, Day 1
• July 30, 1-5pm, RNA-Seq Data Analysis at OSC, Day 2

August 2020

• CANCELLED: August 3-6, Penn State University, Life Without Oxygen: Advances in Medicine, the Environment, Biotechnology and Astrobiology
• August 6, 1-5pm, Hands-On Introduction to Supercomputing at OSC Webinar
• WILL INCLUDE VIRTUAL OPTIONS: August 8-12, Denver, CO, APS Plant Health 2020 (Abstract deadline March 15)
  • Multiple sessions on soil microbiome and plant/microbe interactions, and microbiome / Big Data / bioinformatics workshop
• August 11, 3-5:45pm, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bacteriophage Forum
  • Featuring Matthew Sullivan (OSU), Forest Rohwer (SDSU)
• August 12, 1pm EDT, Nature Research Webinar: Gene-level metagenomics for microbiome research
  • Strain-level identification of microbes associated with human disease
  • Register here.
• August 12, 9-10:30am, Cystic Fibrosis and the Microbiome Webinar
  • Presented by Lindsay Caverly, University of Michigan
  • Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/95601686644?pwd=MVByeUxYU2NKRngzY2tYcWp3dnZHZz09 
    • Password: 956873
• August 11, 3-5:45pm, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bacteriophage Forum
  • Featuring Graham Hatfull (U Pitt), Joshua Weitz (GA Tech)
• August 13, 1-3pm, Introduction to Supercomputing at OSC Webinar
• August 18, 3-5:45pm, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bacteriophage Forum
  • Featuring Luciano Marrafini (Rockefeller), Paul Turner (Yale)
• August 21, 1pm EDT, Nature Research Webinar: Microbiome sequencing in high-host and low biomass samples
  • Featuring Dr. Stefan J. Green of the Genome Research Core and Research Resources Center, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago.
  • Register here.
• August 25, 12-1pm, Agriculture and the MicrobiomeCAST Webinar
  • Featuring Drs. Ignazio Carbone & Megan Andrews
  • Register here.
• POSTPONED TO AUGUST 2022: Cape Town, South Africa, International Society for Microbial Ecology

September 2020

• September 1, 3-5:45pm, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Bacteriophage Forum
  • Featuring Drs. Alison Buchan (UTK) and Britt Koskella (UCB)
• September 9, 2-5pm, OSC Virtual Workshop: Using Parallel R at OSC
• POSTPONED to SEPT. 17-19, 2021: East Lansing, Michigan, Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference
  • September 15, 12-1pm, Immunology Seminar: Andrew T. Gewirtz (Georgia State University), Microbiota-innate immunity-rotavirus interactions
    • Zoom link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/93894198875?pwd=MU1BRHF3M2JDalJMZ1lYNE8zVFVBdz09&from=msft
    • Zoom password: 785567
  • September 17, 7am EDT (11am GMT), Viruses of Microbes Webinar: Ecology and Evolution of Microbial Viruses
    • Featuring Rob Edwards Ruth-Anne Sandaa, Colin Hill
  • September 18, 12-1:15pm, OSUN Seminar: Mark Morrison (University of Queensland), Variations in the Mucosa-Associated Microbiota throughout the Gastrointestinal Tract in Health and Disease: The Brisbane Approach
    • Zoom link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/95832849858?pwd=djZkM3hHNlJDazJCL2Jva210NzErUT09 
    • Zoom password: 049105
  • September 21, 2-3pm, IDI Microbial Communities Virtual Seminar: Lawrence David (Duke University School of Medicine), Microbial resource availability in the mammalian gut
    • Register here. Recorded seminars available at go.osu.edu/IDIseminars 
  • September 24, 1pm, EEOB Virtual Seminar, Jason Slot (OSU, Plant Pathology), Fungal interactions: nonvertical and combinatorial evolution of biochemical traits
    • Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/91436806049?pwd=VkdUUlE1YlI5dmtENUlmNWtCemRUdz09 
  • September 30-October 2, 9am-4pm EDT, Virtual Microbial Ecology with R workshop run by Pat Schloss
    • This workshop teaches how to use tidyverse tools to generate popular data visualizations using microbial community data. Email pdschloss@gmail with questions.

October 2020

• October 5-9, Microbiome Bioinformatics with QIIME2 Online Workshop
  • Registration is $50, deadline September 15th
• October 7-8, 1-5pm, Ohio Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Symposium
  • Register by October 4th, Email of intent to submit posters due September 16th
• October 8, 1pm, EEOB Virtual Seminar, Elizabeth Otteson (UGA), Structure and function of complex microbial communities in the wild
  • Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/91436806049?pwd=VkdUUlE1YlI5dmtENUlmNWtCemRUdz09
  • PW: 087086
• October 20-23, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Virtual Microbiome Meeting
• October 23-26, Washington, D.C., ASM NGS Conference: Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines

November 2020

• November 14, SatRday Columbus: A virtual R conference featuring useRs across Ohio
• November 16-18, Cold Spring Harbor Virtual Course: Advanced Sequencing Technologies & Bioinformatics Analysis
  • Applications due September 15th
• November 18th, 9am, Metabolon Webinar: Deeper Understanding of COVID-19 Phenotypes Through Metabolomics: A Panel Discussion
  • Register here
• November 18th, 1-2:30pm, Microbiome Centers Consortium Workshop
  • Register here
  • Agenda:
    • MCC news
    • Update from the National Microbiome Data Collaborative
    • Opportunities for coordinating microbiome seminars
    • Opportunity for an MCC science workshop

December 2020

• Dec. 10, 2-3pm, Arizona State University Biodesign Institute Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics Virtual Seminar
  • Jessica Metcalf – Forensic Microbiome
  • Zoom: https://asu.zoom.us/j/99976409410?pwd=MEFHU0NzKzBvaVAybmkyeksyamdEZz09

January 2021

• Jan. 18-21, Keystone Symposia (Virtual): The Microbiome: From Mother to Child joint with Harnessing the Microbiome for Disease Prevention and Therapy
  • Abstracts due Dec. 7th for short talk consideration or Jan. 4th for ePoster.

February 2021

• Feb. 17th, 4-5pm, IDI Seminar Series: Monitoring & Disinfecting SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment
  • Karen Dannemiller, PhD: Viruses in dust in the indoor environment: Dust as a surveillance matrix for SARS-CoV-2 monitoring
  • Natalie Hull, PhD:  Disinfection of SARS-CoV-2 by UV light: Mechanisms, kinetics, and public health implications
  • Register here.
• Feb. 23-24, 8am-4pm, NIEHS Virtual Microbiome Workshop: Impact of Environmental Exposures on the Microbiome and Human Health
  • Registration is required, but free of charge.  The registration deadline is February 5, 2021.
  • The goals of the workshop are:
    • To understand the relationship between environmental agents, the microbiome, and human health
    • To build a network of environmental health microbiome researchers
    • To determine if best practices can be developed by assessing environmental contaminants and the microbiome

March 2021

• March 2 – May 4, Tuesdays 1-3pm EST, start of the Microbiome Informatics Webinar Series
  • Registration is required
  • Topics covered in this webinar series range from microbiome data pre-processing to analysis, and include:
    • QIIME, basic and advanced ecological statistics
    • Processing of of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs)
    • Microbial pathways and genome-resolved inference with DRAM
    • Next-generation taxonomy and phylogenomics
    • Identifying and working with virus sequences
    • Introduction to long-read sequencing to microbiome analysis
• Friday, March 5, 11:30am-1:20pm, Human Nutrition Seminar, Dr. Janelle Ayers, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
  • Host-microbe interactions: Harnessing co-evolution to treat disease
  • Zoom link: https://osu.zoom.us/j/97021537043?pwd=QzRoek1WdEJsSWx5SG5xTjNoSjdQQT09
  • Meeting ID: 970 2153 7043
  • Password: 6v826f
• Tuesday, March 23, 11:30am-1pm, Data Science for Scientists Club Info Session
  • Meets weekly on Tuesdays 11:30am-1pm
  • Open to any individual (students, postdocs, or faculty) interested in developing skills necessary to analyze any type of data
  • No programming experience necessary! Club is a great place for absolute beginners to get introduced to the basics of data analysis and programming
  • Develop programming skills in Python, R, and associated libraries
  • Share tips and tricks for data analysis and visualization
  • Email freitas.5@osu.edu or popova.4@osu.edu for more information
  • Zoom link
• Tuesday, March 23, 4-5pm, Dr. Amber Jennings, University of Memphis
  • Modified chitosan biomaterials for biofilm-based infection prevention and treatment
  • Zoom link here
• Wednesday, March 24, 4:10-5:05pm, Dr. Sheri Floge, Wake Forest University
  • Microbial roles in the ocean carbon pump
  • Zoom link here
• Thursday, March 25, 12pm, Dr. Katherine Lemon, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Human nasal microbiota and disease (see flyer here…)
  • Webex link here
  • The Lemon lab seeks to identify bacterial strains and bacterial-produced compounds from human nasal microbiota that will lead to new ways to prevent infections. They have identified and developed human nasal microbiota as a model system to address fundamental questions about how host-associated bacteria shape their communities through interspecies interactions.
• Thursday, March 25, 12pm, Q&A with CoMS Leadership
  • Come learn about what CoMS is up to, ask questions, share your ideas!
  • Zoom link here
  • Password: 142484
• Tuesday, March 30, 10:30am-12pm, OSU Sustainability Institute Seminar
  • How to develop, win and execute interdisciplinary grants for research 
  • Click here to register.
• Wednesday, March 31, 4:10-5:05pm, Dr. Phil Hugenholtz, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Organizing Earth’s microbiome and virosphere: how computationally-empowered taxonomy advances microbiome science
  • Co-hosted with the Center of Microbiome Science and Infectious Disease Institute Microbial Communities
  • Zoom link here

April 2021

• Wednesday, April 7th, 3-4pm: OSU STEAM Factory Discussion
  • When Disciplines Collide: Pulling back the curtain on an interdisciplinary team
  • For more info and to register, click here.
• Thursday, April 8, 4pm: IDI WIP Seminar, Dr. Sebastian Winter, UT Southwestern
  • Gut Microbiota Metabolism during Health and Disease  (see flyer here…)
  • Zoom link here
  • Dr. Winter is a leader in his field and has two main areas of focus:
    • Interactions among the host, the intestinal microbiota, and enteric pathogens, particularly during episodes of intestinal inflammation.
    • The mechanisms of microbiota changes in the inflamed intestine in the absence of a bacterial pathogen
• Wednesday, April 14th, 11am-12pm EST, NIH Nutrition Webinar – Dr. Purna Kashyap, Mayo Clinic
  • Gut Microbiome and Personalized Nutrition
  • Webex Link: https://nih.webex.com/nih/j.php?MTID=m9c2c3358cbf030c8faaf0dced573b185
  • Meeting number: 126 841 421
  • Meeting password: ODSeminar

• Thursday, April 15th, 9am-5pm, Annual Russell Klein Online Nutrition Symposium
  • Register here by March 12th 11:55pm.

• Wednesday, April 21, 4:10-5:05pm, Dr. Suzanne Fleiszing, University of California at Berkeley
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa interactions with host cells: A model of diversity, inclusion and cooperation
  • Host: Rajendar Deora
  • Zoom link here…
  • Password: 469281
• Wednesday, April 21, 12-1pm, Dr. Tammy Kielian, University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Metabolic crosstalk between Staphylococcus aureus biofilm and innate immunity influences infection persistence
  • Host: Dan Wozniak
  • Zoom link here…
    • Meeting ID: 928 5842 2793
    • Password: 294202
• Thursday, April 22, 9-11:15am (At IDI Annual Meeting), Dr. Kenneth P. Wright, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Impact of Sleep and Circadian Disruption on Microbiome Function and Host Physiology
  • This will be followed by a panel (10:15-11:15am) on Emerging Topics in Microbiome Science with Drs. Virginia Rich, Zakee Sabree, Matt Anderson, Karen Dannemiller, Matt Sullivan, and Kenneth Wright
  • Host: Matt Sullivan, IDI and CoMS
  • Click here for more info and to register…
• Friday, April 23, 11:30-1:20pm, Dr. Prosper Boyaka, Ohio State University
  • Gut feelings: role of intestinal epithelial cell subsets in allergy and obesity
  • Zoom: https://osu.zoom.us/j/97021537043?pwd=QzRoek1WdEJsSWx5SG5xTjNoSjdQQT09
    • Meeting ID: 970 2153 7043
    • Password: 6v826f
• Monday, April 26, 10:30-11:30am, Dr. Joshua Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Pandemic Theory and Pasteur’s Quadrant: On the Ongoing Need for Response and Mitigation Instruments
  • Host: Ralf Bundschuh, Biophysics Seminar, co-hosted by IDI and CoMS
  • Zoom: 98340866123

June 2021

• June 20-24, ASM + FEMS Virtual Conference: World Microbe Forum
• Abstracts due March 18th

 

July 2021

• • • What can the Center of Microbiome Science do for you?
      • Come find out what the Center of Microbiome Science has to offer for OSU/NCH investigators. Sessions will be tailored to each college, but attendance will not be limited to members of that college.
        • College of Engineering: Thursday, July 8 at 1pm
        • Arts and Sciences College: Tuesday, July 13 at 1pm
        • College of Medicine: Thursday, July 15 at 11am
        • College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences: Tuesday, July 20 at 1pm
        • College of Veterinary Medicine: Thursday, July 22 at 11am
      • Register here to attend.