* All times are based on Canada/Eastern EST.

    • Thursday

    Oct. 24

    Friday

    Oct. 25

    8:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EDT

    Continental Breakfast

    Phoenix catering

    9:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

    Community assembly in the skin microbiome at the strain level

    Tami Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Keynote conference

    10:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

    Picky Eaters: Exploring the selective diet of marine microorganisms in past and present oceans

    Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University

    10:30 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

    Coffee break with sponsors booths

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    11:00 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

    Interrogating your microbiome with QIAseq technologies

    Charles Dokken, MS Senior Technical Sales Manager, Qiagen

    11:30 AM

    Canada/Eastern
    11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

    Lunch break

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    12:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    12:45 PM - 1:45 PM EDT

    Student talks

    3 presentations, 15 min each

    1:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    1:45 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

    Can microbes predict the future?

    Étienne Yergeau, INRS

    2:15 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    2:15 PM - 2:45 PM EDT

    Coffee break with sponsors booths

    Phoenix catering / Sponsors: Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Illumina, Lallemand, PharmaMedSci, Qiagen, Tecniplast

    2:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

    Student talks

    3 presentations, 15 min each

    3:45 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    3:45 PM - 4:15 PM EDT

    Fibromyalgia, autoantibodies and the gut microbiome

    Emerson Krock, McGill University

    4:15 PM

    Canada/Eastern
    4:15 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

    Closing remarks

    Irah King, Director, McGill Centre for Microbiome Research

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