The field of Genomics continues to grow in importance and new techniques emerge regularly both to produce data and to analyze data. We will invite several local and foreign speakers to present their methods and results. Selected PhD students will present shortly their projects. All CUSO PhD students will be invited to have lunch with the speakers.

10:15 Welcome address

10:20 Dr. Gregory Resch, CHUV-UNIL
« Phage therapy: recent advances in Lausanne (and elsewhere) »

10:55 Dr. Shawna McCallin, Balgrist University Hospital, UniZH
« Clinical applications of phage therapy and support from genomic analysis »

11:30 Coffee Break

11:45 Dr. Matthew Dunne, ETHZ
« Genetically engineered bacteriophages as future therapeutic and diagnostic agents »

12:20 Selected PhD talks (3-4x 10min)
If interested to be selected to give a talk, please contact Laurent Falquet ASAP

12:50 Lunch break

14:00 Dr. Fabien Labroussaa, VetSuisse, UniBe
« Awakening the sleeping beauties in multidrug-resistant bacterial genomes: lytic conversion of
prophages in Staphylococcaceae »

14:35 Dr. Alise Ponsero, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland
« Computational phage detection tools for metagenomic dataset : a reproducible benchmark »

15:10 Coffee Break

15:30 Prof. Carlos Peña-Reyes, HEIG-VD, SIB, Yverdon-Les-Bains
« Hey Phage, give me your genome! Predicting phage-bacteria interactions from genomics data
with deep and machine learning »

16:05 Dr. Mirjam Zünd, UC Irvine, USA (online)
« Localization and quantification of inducible prophages in microbial genomes using NGS data »

16:45 Open-ended Poster session for Msc Bioinfo