January 20, 2022
Katrine Whiteson (UC Irvine): Looking into the unknowns
Updates on IMMSA Working Groups from the working group leads
October 21, 2021
Denise O'Sullivan: Microbiome Standards Development at LGC;
Michael McLaren (NCSU): Accounting for Taxonomic Bias in Metagenomics Experiments
Updates on IMMSA Working Group from the working group leads
July 15, 2021
Scott Jackson: Recent Progress Towards Microbiome Standards Development at NIST;
Jonathan Jacobs and Briana Benton (ATCC): Data Provenance & Authenticity for Microbial Reference Genomes;
IMMSA Working Group Kick-Off!
April 15, 2021
IMMSA re-launch; Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh: Advances in Metagenomics for Microbiome Analysis;
Siyuan Chen: Writing the Future with Twist BioSceince
July 7, 2019
Chris Mason: Titrated Genetic and Epigenetic Quantification in Metagenomes
April 11, 2019
Scott Tighe: Characterizing the whole cell microbial reference standard using RNA and DNA-Sequencing
November 8, 2018
Tim Mercer: Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing and analysis
Luke Thompson: Standards-enabled Metagenomics and Metabolomics of Earth’s Microbial Communities
Sept 13, 2018
Sam Westreich: Community Challenges for the Advanceent of Microbiome Standards
Jefferson Lai: Miniaturized Next-Generation Sequencing for Microbiome and Metagenomics
August 9, 2018
Michalis Hadjithomas: The Mosaic Community Challenge: Standards
Weida Tong: The FDA experience with emerging genomic technologies and biomarker development
Ben Callahan: Exact Sequence Variants, (De-)Contamination, and MGS Bias
June 14, 2018
Pat Schloss: Reproducible research
Bob Bowers: MISAG/MIMAG standards and the genomic diversity of a hot spring sediment sample (not included in recording)
April 12, 2018
Keith Crandall: Computational Approaches for Pathogen Detection and Microbiome Characterization
Denise O’Sullivan: Investigating the source of technical error when performing microbiome analysis using mock microbial communities
Michalis Hajithomas: Mosaic Community Challenge- Clinical Strain Detection
Nabsys: P. haloplanktis Assembly Report
March 8, 2018
PrecisionFDA CFSAN Pathogen Detection Challenge
Ivan Liachko: From Contigs to Chromosomes-How Hi-C is revolutionizing genome and metagenome assembly
February 8, 2018
Sequentia: Gaia- Software for true metagenomics analysis, unlocking the eukarytoic potential
January, 11, 2018
Nabsys: Whole Genome Mapping...Now in HD
Chris Mason: Firefly demo
December 14, 2017
Rashmi Sinha: Moving microbiome research into population studies- Fecal Collection
Michalis Hajithomas and Keng Soh: Mosaic- Accelerating translational microbiome science through community challenges
Scott Jackson: NIST update- Standards for Microbiome and Metagenomic Measurements
September 14, 2017
Heike Sichtig: FDA database for reference grade microbial sequences (FDA-ARGOS)
Lynn Schriml: Genomic Standards Consortium
Daryl Gohl: Novel Set of Synthetic Standards for Microbiome Analysis
May 11, 2017
DNAgenotek: Metrology Strategies and Performance Benchmarks for Microbiome Sampling & Stabilization
TheBiocollective: A Marketplace for Microbiome Research
April 13, 2017
MVP Challenge v1. Announcement
Dieter M. Tourlousse: Synthetic nucleic acid standards for microbiome community measurements
Shuiquan Tang: ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community Standards
February 9, 2017
Scott Tighe: Beta Test Results of Four New developments in metagenomic Standardization
October 13, 2016
Chris Mason: Preview benchmarking manuscript
Scott Jackson: NIST Standards Efforts