Infectomics – How to make use of different omics technologies in the field of microbe and infection research

Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 11:00–16:20
Location: Medisiina D, Lauren 2

Tentative program

11:00-12:00 Salad lunch

12:00 Opening words / Jukka Hytönen

Microbial genomics / Chair Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela

12:10 What has whole genome sequencing ever done for us? / Teemu Kallonen
12:30 NGS sequencing as a part of clinical diagnostics / Marianne Gunnell
12:50 Shared resistome and mobilome of human and poultry gut metagenomes / Shivang Bhanushali

13:10-13:20 Break

Microbiomics / Chair Santosh Lamichhane

13:20 Human Microbiome Research It’s about time to deliver a clinical impact / Eveliina Munukka
13:40 The tissue resident DNA virome of humans / Lari Pyöriä
14:00 Studying child gut microbiota development through different omics / Satu Silojärvi
14:20 Metabolomics Applications in Microbiome Research / Heidi Isokääntä

14:40-15:00 Coffee break

Host interactions/Chair Jukka Alinikula

15:00 Transcriptomics of immune response of borrelia infection / Varpu Rinne
15:20 Altered immune landscape of cervical lymph nodes reveals Epstein Barr virus signature in multiple sclerosis / Joona Sarkkinen (on line presentation)
15:40 CSF biomarker discovery in Lyme neuroborreliosis : a metabolomics driven approach / Ilari Kuukkanen
16:00 The relationship between gut microbiota and the risk of future infection / Teemu Niiranen

16:20 End of the meeting

This event is organized by MIRP (Microbes and Immunity Research Program) and CompLifeSci (Computational and Molecular Methodologies for Life Sciences)

To help us with lunch arrangements, we kindly ask you to register by April 30 using the following link:

https://konsta.utu.fi/Default.aspx?tabid=88&tap=21571

We hope to see many of you there!