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Tuesday, April 2, 2019 |
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| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Technology Mini Colloquium – See Full Agenda Here | Host: Len Pennacchio / Nigel Mouncey |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | KBase Isolate Analysis Workshhop | Host: Ben Allen |
| 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM | KBase Microbiome Workshop | Host: Dylan Chivian |
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 |
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| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | KBase Functional Genomes Analysis Workshop | Host: Sunita Kumari |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | KBase Office Hours | Host: Shane Canon / Paramvir Dehal |
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | JGI Showcase and Future Directions – See Full Agenda Here | Len Pennacchio / Matt Blow |
2019 User Meeting Kick Off |
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| 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Session Title: Advancing Plant Science with Omics | Session Chair: Jeremy Schmutz |
| 1:00 PM – 1:10 PM | Welcome & Introduction | Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director |
| 1:10 PM – 2:00 PM | Keynote Speaker Presentation: “Selection for Gene Regulation in Rice” | Michael Purugganan, New York University |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | “Understanding Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis to Improve Plants for Biofuel Production: The Power of a Combined Fundamental and Directed Approach” | Debra Mohnen, University of Georgia |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Talk Title TBD | Doane Chilcoat, Corteva Agriscience |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | “Integrating Pan-Genomic Information with High-Resolution Phenotyping to Accelerate Sorghum Trait Discovery and Improvement” | Todd Mockler, Danforth Center |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | 2 Short Talks – To Be Selected From Poster Abstracts | |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Diversity Presentation “Talk Title TBD” | Geri Richmond, University of Oregon |
| 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Poster Session & Reception | |
| 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sponsor Showcase | |
Thursday, April 4, 2019 |
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| 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Session Title: Inter-Organismal Interactions | Session Chair: Susannah Tringe |
| 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Keynote Speaker Presentation: “Disentangling the Web of Interactions Shaping Microbial Communities in Soil” | Mary Firestone, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | “Promoting Plant Health with Tiny Earth: Student Sourcing Antimicrobial Discovery” | Amanda Hurley, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | 2 Short Talks – To Be Selected From Poster Abstracts | |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | “Diving Deep: Molecular and Isotopic Insights into the Microbiology of the Deep Sea” | Anne Dekas, Stanford University |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | “Towards a Decadal Multi-Omics Systems Characterization of Climate Change in a Thawing Arctic Peatland” | Virginia Rich, Ohio State University |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Industry Showcase Luncheon | |
| 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Session Title: Eukaryotic Microbiology | Session Chair: Dan Rokhsar |
| 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | “Host Factors in Plant-Pathogen Interactions” | Mary Wildermuth, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | 2 Short Talks – To Be Selected From Poster Abstracts | |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | “Using Symbiogenic Technology to Generate Climate Resilient, Nutritionally Independent, and Pathogen Resistant Crop Plants” | Rusty Rodriguez, Symbiogenics/Adaptive Symbiotic Technologies |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | “Fungal Synthetic Biology: Optogenetics, Circuitry and Transcriptional Memory” | Luis Larrondo, Universidad Catolica de Chile |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM | “Resilience of Wild Microbial Communities” | Ashley Shade, Michigan State University |
| 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM | User Facility Flash Talks | |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | “Molecular Switch for Oxygenic Photosynthesis and Metabolism in a Green Alga” | Melissa Roth, University of California, Berkeley |
| 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Poster Session & Reception | |
| 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Sponsor Showcase | |
Friday, April 5, 2019 |
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| 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Session Title: Engineering Biology | Session Chair: TBD |
| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Talk Title TBD | Pamela Peralta-Yahya, Georgia Tech |
| 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM | “Development of Genetic and Epigenetic Strategies to Optimize Biomass-Degrading Capabilities in Anaerobic Fungi” | Kevin Solomon, Purdue University |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | “Host Engineering for Robust and Scalable Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts” | Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Joint BioEnergy Institute |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | “Skill and Practical Knowledge in the Automated Laboratory” | Emma Frow, Arizona State University |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | 2 Short Talks – To Be Selected From Poster Abstracts | |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | “Persistent Connections Between Researchers and Their Contributions: Making Research Results Findable and Citable” | George Garrity, Michigan State University |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Industry Showcase Luncheon | |
| 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Session Title: Data-Intensive Biology | Session Chair: Kjiersten Fagnan |
| 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM | “Genomics at Exascale” | Dan Jacobson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM | “Interesting Insights on Gene Networks Associated with Agronomic Gain Via An EMS-treated Sorghum Population” | Doreen Ware, USDA ARS, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Keynote Speaker Presentation: “On the origin of virulence of pathogenic microbes” | Arturo Casadevall, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:00 PM | End of JGI User Meeting | |