[Date/Time] March 12th, 2026 Monday 9:00-17:15
[Venue] MIRAI CREA, 1st Floor
[Speaker (1)] Dr. Stephan Schuster, President’s Chair in Genomics & Professor, NTU School of Biological Sciences; Deputy Centre Director (Facilities & Capacities) and Research Director of the Meta-’omics & Microbiomes Cluster at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE); Scientific Director, GenomeAsia 100K Consortium, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
[Title (1)] Atmospheric Metagenomics: Charting the Air Microbiome and its Impact on Planetary Health
[Speaker (2)] Dr. Stefan Green, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine (Division of Infectious Diseases); Director, Core Laboratory Services (Office of Research Affairs); Faculty Advisor, Genomics and Microbiome Core Facility (GMCF); Institutional Official, Rush University Medical Center (RUMC), Rush University, Chicago, USA
[Title (2)] Frontiers of Urban, Environmental, and Human Health Research Using Air Sampling Coupled with Genomics-informed Molecular Techniques
[Speaker (3)] Dr. Naomichi Yamamoto, Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, SNU Graduate School of Public Health; Principal Investigator, Environmental Genomics Laboratory at SNU, Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea
[Title (3)] What Falls from the Sky? Molecular Profiling of Life Falling from the Atmosphere
[Speaker (4)] Dr. So Nakagawa, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Life Science (Faculty of Medicine), Tokai University, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
[Title (4)] Development and Operation of a Large-Scale Sequence Analysis System for Microbial Identification in the Carbon-Neutral Era
[Speaker (5)] Dr. Patrick Lee, Professor, School of Energy and Environment, CityU; Director of the Low-Carbon and Climate Impact Research Centre (LCCIC) at CityU. (Former Associate Dean of SEE, 2017–2021.), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong SAR, China
[Title (5)] Bacterial Adaptation and Viral Evolution in Response to Airborne Anthropogenic Stressors
[Speaker (6)] Dr. Deb Jaisi, Professor of Environmental Biogeochemistry, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware; Director of the Environmental Biogeochemistry Laboratory (EBL) at UDel, University of Delaware, USA
[Title (6)] Microbial Biogeochemistry at the Soil–Atmosphere Interface — Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Carbon Neutrality
[Speaker (7)] Dr. Jaime Martínez-Urtaza, Professor in Genetics, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, UAB; Former Senior Scientist at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and CEFAS (UK), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
[Title (7)] Sizing the global infectious disease landscape in a warming planet via Lancet Countdown
[Speaker (8)] Dr. Xavier Rodó, ICREA Research Professor; Head of the Climate and Health Program (CLIMA) at ISGlobal ; Former Founding Director of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences (IC3) and visiting professor at UB and other institutions, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
[Title (8)] Uncovering airborne diseases, biodiversity and host-parasite relationships through the eyes of eDNA
