Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday
Shuttle Schedule (between JGI & Marriott)
Monday, March 21
Satellite Workshops: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Tuesday, March 22
Satellite Workshops: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Welcome and Keynote Address: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
5:00 PM
The Turn-on of LCLS: the X-Ray Free-Electron Laser at SLAC
Persis Drell – Stanford University, Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
6:00 PM
The Gulf Oil Spill – Ecogenomics and Ecoresilience
Terry Hazen – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Joint BioEnergy Institute
Opening Reception and Poster Session: 6:00 – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, March 23
SESSION I: 8:30 – 11:45 AM
8:30 AM
Evolutionary Genomic Analyses of Insect Society: Eat, Drink, and Be Scary
Gene Robinson – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:00 AM
Comparative Metagenomics of Gut and Ocean: Identification of Microbial Marker Genes for Complex Environmental Properties
Peer Bork – European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Resequencing in Populus: Towards Genome Wide Association Genetic
Jerry Tuskan – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:30 AM
Designing Biological Systems for Sustainability and Programmed Environmental Interface
Pam Silver – Harvard University
11:00 AM
Spatially and Temporally Resolved Studies of the Human Microbiome
Rob Knight – University of Colorado
11:30 AM
JGI New Technologies and Capabilities Available to Users
Len Pennacchio – JGI
12:00 – 1:15 PM
Lunch
SESSION II: 1:15 – 3:00 PM
1:15 PM
JGI Strategic Overview
Eddy Rubin, JGI
1:35 PM
JGI User Program, CSP
Jim Bristow, JGI
1:55 PM
User Input on JGI User Programs, Strategic Planning and Other Issues
JGI Users, JGI Senior Management
2:40 PM
Break
SESSION III: 3:30 –4:30 PM
3:30 PM
Genomic Analysis of Speciation and Adaptation in Aquilegia
Scott Hodges – University of California, Santa Barbara
4:00 PM
Low Temperature Regulatory Networks Controlling Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis
Mike Thomashow – Michigan State University
4:30 PM
Genomics of Extinct and Endangered Species
Stephan Schuster – Penn State University
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Travel to JGI – Bus Service from Marriott
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Reception, Poster Session and Tours at JGI
8:00 – 9:00 PM
Travel from JGI – Bus Service to Marriott
Thursday, March 24
SESSION IV: 8:30 –11:45 AM
8:30 AM
Relating Host Genetic Variation to the Microbiome
Ruth Ley – Cornell University
9:00 AM
Insights from Sequencing the World’s Most Diverse Crop: Maize
Ed Buckler – USDA-ARS, Cornell University
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
Metatranscriptomics of Marine Microbial Communities
Mary Ann Moran – University of Georgia
10:30 AM
How to Eat a Wooden Ship: A Genomic View of Wood-eating Bacterial Endosymbiosis in the Shipworm Bankia setacea
Dan Distel – Ocean Genome Legacy
11:00 AM
Remote Detection of Marine Microbes in Coastal Waters and the Deep Sea Using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP)
Christopher Scholin – Monteray Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
11:45 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
SESSION V: 1:30 – 4:30 PM
1:30 PM
Hardware and Software Trends in Computational Systems for Biology
Kathy Yelick – National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
2:00 PM
The Physiological Genomics of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass Responses to Climate Change
Tom Juenger – University of Texas at Austin
2:30 PM
How to Lose Half your Genome in 10 million Years and Live to Tell the Tale: Comparative Genomics of Arabidopsis lyrata and A. thaliana
Magnus Nordborg – Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI)
3:00 PM
Break
3:30 PM
Tackling Metagenomics’ Largest Challenge: The Great Prairie Project
Jim Tiedje – Michigan State University
4:00 PM
Massive Discovery of Biomass Degrading Genes and Genomes in Rumen
Zhong Wang – JGI
4:30 PM
End of User Meeting
Friday, March 25
Satellite Workshops – 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Shuttle Schedule
Tuesday, March 22
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Shuttle between Marriott and JGI
Pickup on :00 at the JGI (last pickup at 4:00)
Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (last pickup at 3:30)
7:00 – 9:30 PM – Shuttle from Marriott to JGI (Last pickup at 9:30)
Wednesday, March 23
8:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Shuttle between Marriott & JGI
Pickup on :00 at the JGI (last pickup at 4:00pm)
Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (last pickup at 3:30)
5:00 – 7:00 PM – Shuttle from Marriott to JGI (For JGI Poster Session, 5-9 PM)
7:00 – 9:00 PM – Shuttle from JGI to Marriott (Last pickup at 9:00)
Thursday, March 24
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Shuttle between Marriott & JGI
Pickup on :00 at the JGI (Last pickup at 4:00)
Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (Last pickup at 5:30)