PART I. GENERAL TOPICS AND FOUNDATIONS 1. Phylogenomic analysis and the origin and early evolution of viruses 2. Application of Next Generation Sequencing for Genetic and Phenotypic Studies of Bacteria 3. Genomic insight into deciphering bacterial outbreaks 4. Drug resistance in bacteria, molecular mechanisms and evolution 5. Virulence evolution of bacterial species PART II. METHODS IN THE PHYLOGENOMICS 6.

Modeling evolutionary changes of k-mer patterns of bacterial genomes 7. Clock Rates and Bayesian Evaluation of Temporal Signal 8. Microbial evolutionary reconstruction in the presence of mosaic sequences 9. Tools for SNP calling and the way to deal with big datasets PART III. PHYLOGENOMICS OF SPECIFIC PATHOGENS 10. Phylogenomics of Yersinia pestis 11. Salmonella Phylogenomics 12. The phylogenomics of Shigella spp.

13. Phylogenomic diversity within Corynebacterium diphtheriae, a re-emerging threat to global public health 14. Phylogenomics of the East Asian lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 15. Mycobacterium kansasii 16. Taxonomy and phylogenomics of Leptospira 17. Phylogenomics and evolution of Measles virus 18. Phylogenomics of HIV-1 19. Respiratory syncytial virus 20.

Phylogenomics of Flaviviruses 21. How clonal is Staphylococcus aureus? 22. Genomic research of ancient pathogens in Central Asia 23. Subspecific nomenclature of the Cryptococcus neoformans/gattii complex and the predominant clonal evolution (PCE) model 24. Phylogenomics of Mycobacterium leprae.