GLOBAL MICROBIOME NETWORK GLOMINE 2024 I CHILE SYMPOSIUM
Location
Event Description
Human societies are facing an ecological crisis of global proportions. Accumulation of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is shifting the planets radiative balance and increasing global temperatures. The increased temperatures and associated climate change is resulting in desertification, extreme weather events and less predictable weather patterns. This represents a major challenge to marine, land, and air ecosystems, and threatens the very foundations of human civilization.
Microbial diversity, crucial for human and ecosystems health, is globally threatened by climate change and urbanization. Unless the urgency of preserving it is recognized and research to understand the functions of the microbiome diversity is encouraged, it risks being lost.
There is a clear association between industrialization/urbanization and the rocketing of immune and metabolic malfunctions leading to diseases such as asthma, allergies, type 1 diabetes, celiac disease, etc. Microbes at risk of extinction will be needed in the future to reverse the worldwide trends of increasing chronic diseases.
The current symposium, held by scientists from America, Asia, Africa and Australia, encompasses talks from the fields of microbiology, molecular biology, ecology, bioinformatics, anthropology, conservation, preservation, ethics, and public health. The symposium will discuss and promote the value of microbial biodiversity and the importance of conservation efforts.
The target audience are students, researchers, and policy makers, in particular from Chile and South America.GloMiNe for Chile is the fourth of a series of symposia to help establish a global microbiome network. The GloMiNe for Chile is hosted by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and organised by a committee which includes institutions from America. This is an initiative under the mission of Microbiota Vault to conserve long-term health for humanity and the environment where we live.
Registration is free but required. Please RSVP at the top of the page.
Deadline: January 9th, 2024
Program (Online Event)
Day 1 – Jan 9th
Starting 09:00 am UTC-3/ 12:00 pm UTC/ 07:00 am EST/ 1:00 pm CET/ 10:00 pm AEST/ 2:00 am HST/ 4:00 am PST
Welcome (9:00-9:15)
9:00-9:05
Pedro Bouchon – Vicerrector for Research P. Universidad Católica de Chile
9:05- 9:10
Aisén Etcheverry Escudero – Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation
9:10 – 9:13
Rodrigo A. Guttierez – Director for Research and Planning. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, P. Universidad Católica de Chile
9:13 – 9:15
Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello – President, the Microbiota Vault
Session 1: The Human Microbiome – Moderator: Beatriz Diez (9:15-12:00)
9:15 – 9:30
Phil Hugenholtz – Brisbane University, Australia: Finding the needles in the haystack: data-driven selection of therapeutic candidates from the human gut microbiome
9:30 – 9:45
Thomas Bosch – Universität Kiel: Importance of preserving microbial biodiversity, an evolutionary informed perspective
9:45- 10:00
Martin Blaser – Rutgers University: Microbiome and Health
10:00-10:15
Ana Maldonado-Contereras– University of Massachusetts
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-10:45
Lars Engstrand – Karolinska Institute, Sweden: Culturomics, a crucial part in microbiota collections
10:45-11:00
Manuel Frankhauser – Seerave Foundation: Role of foundation in the MV-Initiative
11:00-11:15
Maria Carmen Collado – IATA-CSIC Valencia, Spain: Early life microbiota: factors influencing and relevance for human health
11:15-12:00
General Discussion
Lunch
Session 2: Culture, Environment, Ecology and Ethics – Moderator: Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez, (1:00-3:30)
1:00-1:15
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan – University of Oklahoma: Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Support Traditional Indigenous Foodways- the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity microbiome research
1:15 -1:30
Beatriz Diez – P. Universidad Católica de Chile: Microbiome structure, biogeography, and interactions in hot spring environments
1:30-1:45
Filipa Godoy- Vitorino – Universidad de Puerto Rico: Caribbean Biodiversity Matters: ecosystems, health and education
1:45-2:00
Mauricio González – INTA Universidad de Chile: Structure of plant-associated microbial communities in the Andean Atacama Desert.
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-2:30
Jean Baptiste Ramond – P. Universidad Católica de Chile: Functional profiling of Atacama Desert edaphic niches
2:30-2:45
Raquel Quatrini – Universidad San Sebastián, Chile: Acidic microbiomes as model systems in eco-evolutionary studies
2:45-3:00
Amber Hartman Scholz – Leibniz Institute DSMZ: What does international environmental law have to do with the microbiome? A brief overview of the Nagoya Protocol, Access and Benefit-sharing, and Digital Sequence Information
3:00-3:15
Alika Maunakea – University of Hawaii.: Understanding the Epigenomic Origins of Diabetes Disparities in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders to Enable Prevention
3:15-3:30
General Discussion
Day 2 – Jan 10th
Starting 09:00 am UTC-3/ 12:00 pm UTC/ 07:00 am EST/ 1:00 pm CET/ 10:00 pm AEST/ 2:00 am HST/ 4:00 am PST
Session 3: Methods of collection, preservation and research (9:00-12:30)
9:00 – 9:15
Eduardo Castro – Universidad de Talca, Chile: Composition, taxonomy, and functional diversity of the microbiota in asthma in Chile, USA, and Portugal
9:15 – 9:30
Pascale Vonaesch – University Lausanne, Switzerland: Pilot study of the Microbiota Vault
9:30 – 9:45
Mathieu Groussin – Kiel University, Germany: The Microbiome Conservancy: Preservation & multiomics investigation of the global gut microbiome
9:45- 10:00
Anton Lavrinienko – ETH Zurich, Switzerland: The importance of metadata standards for integrative microbiome research
10:00-10:15
Javiera Ortiz Severín – INTA Universidad de Chile: Exploring antibiotic resistance in marine bacteria using phenotypic and metagenomic approaches
10:15-10:30
Curtis Huttenhower – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University: A multi-omic view of the human microbiome’s unique molecular activities
10:30-10:45
Julieta Orlando –Universidad de Chile e Instituto Milenio BASE: Microbiomes at the end of the world: from a community to an intra-population perspective
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00- 11:15
Nicole Trefault – Universidad Mayor, Chile: Understanding sponge-microorganisms symbiosis in extreme environments.
11:15- 11:30
Rob Knight – Univ California San Diego, US: Microbiota analyses from 36,000 feet high
11:30-12:25
General discussion
12:25-12:30
Closing remarks Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez, P. Universidad Católica de Chile