Dear colleagues,<br>We are pleased to inform you that inscriptions to the first International Conference on Clinical Metagenomics (ICCMg, Campus Biotech, Geneva, October 13-14 2016) are still available from the <a href="http://www.clinicalmetagenomics.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.clinicalmetagenomics.org/&source=gmail&ust=1472822414179000&usg=AFQjCNGrlE30gBMX59owSrgOff7G5pq49g">conference website</a>.<br><br><strong><u>Here are at least 7 reasons to attend ICCMg:</u></strong><br><br>1.The conference welcomes <strong>prestigious speakers</strong> (see the program below)<br><br>2.<strong>Clinical metagenomics is one the most exciting,</strong> emerging fields in medicine<br><br>3.Geneva is an <strong>easily accessible city</strong>, and so is Campus Biotech where ICCMg will be held<br><br>4.Conference schedule fits with an <strong>early arrival on the 13^th</strong>, and an <strong>early departure</strong> on the 14h (but you can also choose to stay and enjoy Geneva)<br><br>5.<strong>The conference fee is low</strong> (100CHF for students, 250CHF for others, with 1CHF=1USD)<br><br>6.For 50CHF more, you’ll get a <strong>wonderful dinner at the Vieux Bois</strong>, close to the <strong>Geneva Lake</strong><br><br>7.And before that, we will hold a <strong>convivial poster session with open bar</strong><br><br> <br><br><strong>FINAL PROGRAM</strong><br><strong>NGS and bio-informatics</strong><br><strong>Patrick Wincker</strong> <i>(Genoscope, Evry, France)</i>: Next-generation sequencing.<br><strong>Nick Loman</strong> <i>(University of Birmingham, UK)</i>: What's next in NGS? The Nanopore technology.<br><strong>Aitana Lebrand</strong> <i>(Swiss Institute of Bio-informatics, Geneva, Switzerland)</i>: Management of metagenomic data.<br><br><strong>Clinical Metagenomics</strong><strong></strong><br><strong>Georges Weinstock</strong> <i>(Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, US)</i>: Probing the Medical Microbiome.<br><strong>Marc Eloit</strong> <i>(Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)</i>: Clinical metagenomics in immunocompromized patients.<br><strong>Jerôme Bouquet</strong> <i>(University of San Francisco, US)</i>: Clinical metagenomics for diagnosis of acute Infectious diseases.<br><strong>Gilbert Greub</strong> <i>(Institute of Microbiology, Lausanne, Switzerland)</i>: Clinical metagenomics for the discovery of new pathogens.<br><strong>Derrick Crook</strong> <i>(University of Oxford, UK)</i>: Inferring the antibiogram from genomes.<br><strong>Etienne Ruppé</strong> <i>(Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland)</i>: Clinical metagenomics in bone and joint infections.<br><strong>Frank Aarestrup</strong> <i>(Danish Technical institute, Lyngby, Denmark)</i>: Clinical metagenomics in urinary-tract infection.<br><strong>Judith Breuer</strong> <i>(Faculty of Medical Sciences, London, UK)</i>: Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from samples.<br><br><strong>Intestinal Microbiota</strong><br><strong>Dusko Ehrlich</strong> <i>(Metagenopolis, Jouy-en-Josas, France)</i>: The intestinal microbiota and the link with diseases.<br><strong>Eric Pamer</strong> <i>(Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, US)</i>: Microbiota-mediated defense against intestinal infections.<br><strong>Christopher Ford</strong> <i>(Seres Therapeutics, Cambridge, US)</i>: Microbiome therapeutics.<br><strong><br>Oncology</strong><br><strong>Stylianos Antonarakis</strong> <i>(Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland)</i>: Metagenomics and tumor profiling<br><strong>Peer Bork</strong> <i>(EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany)</i>: Diagnostic of colon cancer using metagenomics.<br><strong>Cynthia Sears</strong> <i>(John Hopkins University, Baltimore, US)</i>: Using Biofilms and Metagenomics to Diagnose Colon Cancer.<br><br>ICCMg will start on Thursday October 13 at 1:45pm and will end on Friday October 14 at 3:40pm. ICCMg will take place at <strong>Campus Biotech</strong>, which is nicely located close to the <strong>Geneva Lake</strong>and <strong>easily accessible by public transportation</strong> from the train station or airport.<br><br><strong>Late-breaker abstracts</strong> are still welcomed for <strong>poster presentations</strong> (<a href="https://events.kuoni-dmc.com/ei3/cm.esp?id=100157&pageid=_4M00PXMPD&showpage=login&src=eiscript&cd=4221633344" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://events.kuoni-dmc.com/ei3/cm.esp?id%3D100157%26pageid%3D_4M00PXMPD%26showpage%3Dlogin%26src%3Deiscript%26cd%3D4221633344&source=gmail&ust=1472822414179000&usg=AFQjCNEFJLm5aJI0tuWOoO0Fy6al70lWBg">abstract submission</a>). The posters will be presented at the specific poster exhibition and open bar on Thursday evening, followed by the <strong>conference dinner</strong> (optional).<br><br>We hope to welcome you in Geneva and are looking forward to receiving your registration.<br><br>With best regards<br><br>Etienne Ruppé, Enrico Zuffi and Jacques Schrenzel<br><br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