Programme

Day 1: Thursday November 6, 2025
10:00 – 10:20 : Welcome at Campus Biotech
10:20 – 10:30 : Welcome to ICCMG10!
Speakers: Jacques Schrenzel & Etienne Ruppé
10:30 – 11:45 : Next-NG: What’s up for the next decade?
Presentations by Illumina, PacBio, and Nanopore, followed by a round table discussion.
11:45 – 12:00 : Networking around CMg: the CCMID initiative
Speaker: David Gaston (United States)
12:00 – 12:30 : Abstract Presentations
(Open slots – submit your abstract!)
12:30 – 14:00 : LUNCH
14:00 – 15:00 : Clinical Metagenomics
Luke Snell (United Kingdom) – CMg in intensive care
Flaminia Olerao (Germany) – CMg in bone and joint infections
15:00 – 16:00 : Climate and Metagenomics
Onur Mutlu (Switzerland) – Redundancy in databases
Grégoire Michoud (Switzerland) – The Vanishing Glaciers Field Team
16:00 – 16:30 : COFFEE BREAK and Abstracts Presentation
16:30 – 16:45 : ICCMG Prizes & Winning Abstract Presentation
16:45 – 17:30 : Prestige Lecture
Speaker: Charles Chiu (United States) – What’s up in CMg for the next decade?
17:30 – 18:30 : Posters & Drinks
Day 2: Friday November 7, 2025
08:30 – 09:00 : Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 10:00 : Cell-free DNA Sequencing
Jan Esse (Germany) – Clinical value
Iwijn De Vlaminck (United States) – Tackling contaminants
10:00 – 10:30 : Abstracts Presentations
(Open slots – submit your abstract!)
10:30 – 11:00 : COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 : Strain-Resolution in the Microbiota
Ruth Ley (Germany) – Strain tracking
Alice Chen-Liaw (United States) – Species-specific strain richness
12:00 – 12:30 : Abstracts Presentations
(Open slots – submit your abstract!)
12:30 – 13:30 : LUNCH
13:30 – 14:30 : Microbiota and Food
Christian Diener (Austria) – Sequencing DNA of nutrients
Nicola Segata (Italy) – Personalized nutrition
14:30 – 15:15 : Prestige Lecture
Speaker: Curtis Huttenower (United States) – Overview of the microbiome field
15:15 – 15:20 : Conclusion: See you at ICCMG11!
Speakers: Jacques Schrenzel & Etienne Ruppé