Abstracts

Scientific Program
4:00 – 4:30 pm Microbial Forensics and Its Needs for Standards and
Standardization
Bruce Budowle; Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
4:30 – 5:00 pm Anthrax – Molecular Epidemiology and Forensics from Whole
Genome Sequencing and Metagenomic Sampling of Complex
Specimens
Paul Keim; Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ
5:00 – 6:30 pm Poster Session B
Hampton Room Even-numbered posters will be officially presented.
7:00 – 10:00 pm Conference Party
Blue Room
Enjoy a relaxed and fun evening with your colleagues. A DJ
will play a range of music and dancing is encouraged. Heavy
hors d’oeuvres, a carving station and a tickets/cash bar will be
provided.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
8:00 – 10:00 am Session 9: Genomics for Clinical Microbiology Pathogen
Blue Room
Surveillance
Session Chair: Stefan Niemann
8:00 – 8:30 am Full Genome Sequencing to Track Carbapenem Producing
Organisms within a Hospital
Julie Segre; National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
8:30 – 9:00 am Prospective Genome Sequencing for Real-time Surveillance of
Resistant Bacteria in a Univ. Hospital
Alexander Mellmann; Univ. of Munster, Munster, Germany
9:00 – 9:15 am Whole-genome Sequence Analysis of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa in Acute Infection Reveals Widespread withinpopulation
Diversity and Rapid Transmission within the Body
Hattie Chung; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
9:15 – 9:30 am Beyond the SNV: Integrating Multiple Data Types into
Genomic Epidemiology
Meredith Wright; J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA
ASM Conference on Rapid Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic
Pipelines for Enhanced Molecular Epidemiologic Investigation of Pathogens
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