1st Colombian Congress of Microbiome Biotechnology

A comprehensive view of microbial ecology and bioprocess engineering for biotechnological developments

2022

November 8

to Noviember 11

Universidad del Valle

Calle 13 # 100-00

The first Colombian congress of Microbiome Biotechnology seeks to collect national and international scientific advances that are focused on biotechnological developments based on microbiomes.

The most recent scientific results related to the cultivation of microbiomes under different technologies will be discussed. The ultimate goal is to integrate the ecological theory of microbial communities with bioprocess engineering to engineer biotechnological developments.

The event will feature the participation of experts from different universities and two workshops related to the science and engineering of microbiomes will be held. It is expected to begin to generate appropriation of knowledge about microbiomes in the scientific community of Colombia and generate collaborative ties that allow joining efforts for applied research in microbiomes.


UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE

National and international speakers

November 08 –  November 11

Elaine Holmes

She completed her PhD in molecular phenotyping using NMR spectroscopy and has since expanded her research capabilities to develop chemometric and other statistical methods for analyzing large-scale metabolic data. Elaine has applied metabolic phenotyping in the areas of toxicology, molecular epidemiology, nutrition and health. The goal of it is to strengthen existing analytical frameworks to illuminate the biochemical pathways involved in gut microbial control of human metabolism through chemical elucidation of microbe-derived biomarkers associated with health and establish variations in molecular phenomenon across individuals.

Elaine Holmes

Professor of Molecular Phenomics at Murdoch University and Head of the Centre for Computational & Systems medicine

She completed her PhD in molecular phenotyping using NMR spectroscopy and has since expanded her research capabilities to develop chemometric and other statistical methods for analyzing large-scale metabolic data. Elaine has applied metabolic phenotyping in the areas of toxicology, molecular epidemiology, nutrition and health. The goal of it is to strengthen existing analytical frameworks to illuminate the biochemical pathways involved in gut microbial control of human metabolism through chemical elucidation of microbe-derived biomarkers associated with health and establish variations in molecular phenomenon across individuals.

Siobhon Egan

Molecular biologist and PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. She did her Ph.D. studying the ecology of ticks and their microbiome, as vectors of disease. She currently works as a researcher at the Center for Computational and Systems Medicine and works in conjunction with the National Center for Phenomenology of Australia, in a project entitled 'Understanding the signaling axes of the host microbiome in aging', which will allow in the future improvement in the area of health care. Areas in which she works include integrated data genomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and infectious disease epidemiology.

Siobhon Egan

Postdoctoral researcher at Murdoch University

Molecular biologist and PhD from Murdoch University, Australia. She did her Ph.D. studying the ecology of ticks and their microbiome, as vectors of disease. She currently works as a researcher at the Center for Computational and Systems Medicine and works in conjunction with the National Center for Phenomenology of Australia, in a project entitled 'Understanding the signaling axes of the host microbiome in aging', which will allow in the future improvement in the area of health care. Areas in which she works include integrated data genomics, metabolomics and bioinformatics, phylogenetics, and infectious disease epidemiology.

Janeth Sanabria

Her area of research is based on the environmental microbiome, the understanding of microbial ecology along with the use of culture and molecular techniques. She has developed new methods to cultivate beneficial microorganisms in controlled reactors for waste recovery and human health. She is the founder and director of the GAOX research group, classified A1 by Minciencias in Colombia. She currently also serves as a consultant to the Australian National Phenome Center, conducting research on the gut microbiome in bioreactors.

Janeth Sanabria

Full Professor - Senior Researcher Universidad del Valle - Coordinator of the Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory

Her area of research is based on the environmental microbiome, the understanding of microbial ecology along with the use of culture and molecular techniques. She has developed new methods to cultivate beneficial microorganisms in controlled reactors for waste recovery and human health. She is the founder and director of the GAOX research group, classified A1 by Minciencias in Colombia. She currently also serves as a consultant to the Australian National Phenome Center, conducting research on the gut microbiome in bioreactors.

Julien Wist

PhD, Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Degree in Chemistry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Head of research group: Development and Applications in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - DARMN. Areas of interest: NMR automation and the study of complex mixtures using Chemoinformatics tools. Currently, he is joining efforts to consolidate the chemoinformatics and computational capacity of the Australian National Phenome Center (ANPC) and Center for Computational Systems Medicine (CCSM) and strengthen the relationship between Universidad del Valle and Murdoch University.

Julien Wist

Professor of Computational Spectroscopy, Murdoch University

PhD, Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Degree in Chemistry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland Head of research group: Development and Applications in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance - DARMN. Areas of interest: NMR automation and the study of complex mixtures using Chemoinformatics tools. Currently, he is joining efforts to consolidate the chemoinformatics and computational capacity of the Australian National Phenome Center (ANPC) and Center for Computational Systems Medicine (CCSM) and strengthen the relationship between Universidad del Valle and Murdoch University.

Marcel van der Heijden

His research fucuses in Agroecology and Plant-Microbiome-Interactions. He investigate agro-ecosystems and study how plant microbiomes, mycorrhizal fungi and soil biodiversity influence plant growth and ecosystem functioning. His aim is to develop sustainable agro-ecosystems that are environmentally friendly and productive. The research in his group is a collaboration between the University of Zurich and Agroscope, the Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural research.

Marcel van der Heijden

Plant–Soil Interactions Group, Agroscope. Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

His research fucuses in Agroecology and Plant-Microbiome-Interactions. He investigate agro-ecosystems and study how plant microbiomes, mycorrhizal fungi and soil biodiversity influence plant growth and ecosystem functioning. His aim is to develop sustainable agro-ecosystems that are environmentally friendly and productive. The research in his group is a collaboration between the University of Zurich and Agroscope, the Swiss centre of excellence for agricultural research.

Vanessa Otero

Bacteriologist from UCMC, with a master's degree in microbiology and a doctorate in Sciences-Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently Postdoctoral Researcher at College of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Idaho. Her work has focused in recent years on the functional and structural study of soil microbial communities, trying to understand the ecological interactions that occur under different rice straw management practices.

Vanessa Otero

Postdoctoral Researcher at College of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Idaho

Bacteriologist from UCMC, with a master's degree in microbiology and a doctorate in Sciences-Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently Postdoctoral Researcher at College of Agricultural and Life Science, University of Idaho. Her work has focused in recent years on the functional and structural study of soil microbial communities, trying to understand the ecological interactions that occur under different rice straw management practices.

Erika Yuliana Ortiz Montoya

Chemical Engineer, PhD in Chemical, Materials and Process Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) and PhD in Science from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). promotion expert and management of international R+D+i projects and actions (Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Erika Yuliana Ortiz Montoya

Professor of the Department of Biochemical Engineering at ICESI University

Chemical Engineer, PhD in Chemical, Materials and Process Engineering from the University of Genoa (Italy) and PhD in Science from the University of São Paulo (Brazil). promotion expert and management of international R+D+i projects and actions (Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Luc Patiny

Zakodium is the outcome of 5 years of industry-driven research efforts at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Université de Lausanne (UNIL). Zakodium is a company dedicated to the development of tools for storing, processing, visualizing and exploiting scientific data. In particular, Zakodium is specialized in the processing of NMR spectra, mass spectra, metabolomics data, statistical analysis.

Luc Patiny

PhD in chemistry, he is also teaching organic chemistry, structural analysis and cheminformatics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Chief Scientific Officer at Zakodium

Zakodium is the outcome of 5 years of industry-driven research efforts at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Université de Lausanne (UNIL). Zakodium is a company dedicated to the development of tools for storing, processing, visualizing and exploiting scientific data. In particular, Zakodium is specialized in the processing of NMR spectra, mass spectra, metabolomics data, statistical analysis.

David Johnston-Monje

Plant biologist University of Ottawa focused on the chemical ecology of medicinal plants with John Arnason. M.Sc. in wood genetics at the University of British Columbia with the late Carl Douglas and PhD with Manish Raizada from the University of Guelph in microbial ecology of maize.

David Johnston-Monje

Principal Investigator and Max Planck Tandem Group Leader at Universidad del Valle (CO)

Plant biologist University of Ottawa focused on the chemical ecology of medicinal plants with John Arnason. M.Sc. in wood genetics at the University of British Columbia with the late Carl Douglas and PhD with Manish Raizada from the University of Guelph in microbial ecology of maize.

Andrés Orlando Castillo Giraldo

Molecular biologist from the Universidad del Valle. PhD in Medical Sciences from Kagoshima University Postdoctorate Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, United States, His research areas are the Application of molecular techniques and omic analysis for the determination of pathogenic variants of diagnosis and prognosis in chronic and infectious diseases, as well as the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of pathogenic microorganisms and the search for biomolecules with therapeutic potential. . He is currently working on the role of the intestinal microbiota in bacteremia and graft-versus-host disease in children receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants in the city of Cali.

Andrés Orlando Castillo Giraldo

Full Professor and Coordinator of the Omic Analysis and Techniques Laboratory at the Universidad del Valle

Molecular biologist from the Universidad del Valle. PhD in Medical Sciences from Kagoshima University Postdoctorate Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, United States, His research areas are the Application of molecular techniques and omic analysis for the determination of pathogenic variants of diagnosis and prognosis in chronic and infectious diseases, as well as the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of pathogenic microorganisms and the search for biomolecules with therapeutic potential. . He is currently working on the role of the intestinal microbiota in bacteremia and graft-versus-host disease in children receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants in the city of Cali.

Howard Junca

Director of the Research Group on Ecology, Metabolism, Genomics and Evolution of Microorganisms, Microbiomas Foundation, Chía, Colombia and Research Scientist at the Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, HZI, Braunschweig, Germany. He is currently working on the exploration of microbiomes associated with healthy activities and states mediated by probiosis, homeostasis, or antagonisms to environmental or biological selectors in holobionts of insects, corals, marine sponges, fish, and humans.

Howard Junca

PhD in Natural Sciences. Head of Department at Microbiomas Foundation

Director of the Research Group on Ecology, Metabolism, Genomics and Evolution of Microorganisms, Microbiomas Foundation, Chía, Colombia and Research Scientist at the Microbial Interactions and Processes Research Group, HZI, Braunschweig, Germany. He is currently working on the exploration of microbiomes associated with healthy activities and states mediated by probiosis, homeostasis, or antagonisms to environmental or biological selectors in holobionts of insects, corals, marine sponges, fish, and humans.

Luz Stella Cadavid

Chemical Engineer, Specialist and Master in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from the Universidad del Valle and PhD in Engineering from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom)

Luz Stella Cadavid

Associate Professor Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Chemical Engineer, Specialist and Master in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from the Universidad del Valle and PhD in Engineering from the University of Leeds (United Kingdom)

Pascale B Beauregard

B.S. in biochemistry from Université de Montréal (2002) and PhD Université de Montréal. She then went on to Harvard Medical School (2010-2014, Boston) in the laboratory of Dr Roberto Kolter, where she started exploring the relations between Bacillus subtilis and plants. Dr Beauregard joined the biology department at Université de Sherbrooke in 2014, where her group investigates many topics gravitating around bacterial biofilms, including interaction with plants, horizontal gene transfer, micronutrient acquisition and Alzheimer’s disease

Pascale B Beauregard

Associate professor Universite of Sherbrooke

B.S. in biochemistry from Université de Montréal (2002) and PhD Université de Montréal. She then went on to Harvard Medical School (2010-2014, Boston) in the laboratory of Dr Roberto Kolter, where she started exploring the relations between Bacillus subtilis and plants. Dr Beauregard joined the biology department at Université de Sherbrooke in 2014, where her group investigates many topics gravitating around bacterial biofilms, including interaction with plants, horizontal gene transfer, micronutrient acquisition and Alzheimer’s disease

Hugo Caicedo

His work is focused in the intersection of enterprise strategy, R&D, commercial, and regulatory policy. His career spans Strategic Innovation for Drug Product Development, Clinical Development, and laboratory-based Preclinical Drug Discovery (Immuno-Oncology, Hematology and Neuroscience).

Hugo Caicedo

Healthcare Business Strategist with practical cross-functional experience in the biopharmaceutical industry

His work is focused in the intersection of enterprise strategy, R&D, commercial, and regulatory policy. His career spans Strategic Innovation for Drug Product Development, Clinical Development, and laboratory-based Preclinical Drug Discovery (Immuno-Oncology, Hematology and Neuroscience).

Location

Information

CONGRESS

  • CONGRESS ($50.000 COP)

There are limited sites for oral and posters presentations, an evaluation of the abstracts will be carried out and it will be informed if it was accepted for oral presentation, otherwise, it is automatically registered to present a poster.

Instructions for payment will be sent after completing the registration form. If you apply for a scholarship, you will receive a response on October 17

Deadline for register: October 20

Registration and abstract submission:

CONGRESS REGISTER!

WORKSHOP 1:

  • WORKSHOP 1 ($300.000COP):

Ecology and bioinformatics for microbiome study.

Metataxonomics 16s – metagenomics – NG sequencing – diversity index –  multivariate analysis – bioinformatic pipelines using R and Python – metabolomics – chemoinformatics

In-site
November 8 to 9

Limited seating. 

Availability of 100% scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate students from Valle del Cauca

Instructions for payment will be sent after completing the registration form. If you apply for a scholarship, you will receive a response on October 17

Deadline for register: October 14 

WORKSHOP 1 register

WORKSHOP 2:

  • WORKSHOP 2 ($150.000COP):

Build your own open-hardware simple spectrophotometer

You will solder your own battery-powered spectro that can even monitor cell growth (OD) in the incubator. https://spectro.hackuarium.org

In-site
November 9

Limited seating. 

Availability of 100% scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate students from Valle del Cauca

Instructions for payment will be sent after completing the registration form. If you apply for a scholarship, you will receive a response on October 17

Deadline for register: October 14 

WORKSHOP 2 register

SCHEDULE

  • 1st Colombian Congress of Microbiome Biotechnology 2022
  • A comprehensive view of microbial ecology and bioprocess engineering for biotechnological developments.
  • Date: November 8-11 2022
  • Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia. Ciudadela Universitaria Meléndez (calle 13 # 100-00)

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Sponsors

Organize:
Profa. Dra. Janeth Sanabria Gómez
Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory
School of Environmental & Natural Resources Engineering
Universidad del Valle-Sede Meléndez.

e-mail for information

andres.nicolas.rodriguez@correounivalle.edu.co

Design: –  GyRE -SoPhIC -department- 2022 – 1st Colombian Congress of Microbiome Biotechnology