Organized by:

Dusko Ehrlich, INRA, France

Jack Gilbert, University of Chicago, USA

Nan Qin, Zhejiang University, China

Ting Zhu, Tsinghua University, China

Major Topics:

1. Environmental microbiology;

2. Microbial behavior in environments;

3. Microbiome and human health;

4. Emerging techniques in microbial sequencing (single-cell etc.);

5. Bioinformatic toolboxes for metagenomics;

6. New frontiers of microbial discovery (extremophile, astrobiology etc.)

Keynote Speaker:

Dusko Ehrlich, INRA, France Jack Gilbert, University of Chicago, USA

Invited Speakers:

Christopher Carr , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA 

Yehuda Cohen , Nanyang Technological University , SINGAPORE 

Alana Firl , University of California, Davis , USA 

Andrew Holmes , University of Sydney , AUSTRALIA 

George Kowalchuk , Utrecht University , NETHERLANDS 

Shuangjiang Liu , Institute of Microbiology, CAS , CHINA 

Nan Qin , Zhejiang University , CHINA 

Jacques Ravel , University of Maryland , USA 

Peter Turnbaugh , University of California, San Francisco , USA 

George Weinstock , Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine , USA 

Paul Wilmes , University of Luxembourg , LUXEMBOURG 

Gary Wu , University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine , USA 

Ruifu Yang, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, CHINA

Yunsheng Yang , Chinese PLA General Hospital , CHINA 

Jun Yu , The Chinese University of Hong Kong , CHINA 

Yu-Zhong Zhang , Shandong University , CHINA 

Liping Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CHINA

Jizhong Zhou , University of Oklahoma, USA 

Ting Zhu , Tsinghua University , CHINA