JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting
Monday, August 30th |
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| Session 1: Beyond Sequence: Exploring the Universe of Specialized Metabolites | Session Chair: Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director / Trent Northen, Metabolomics Group Lead | |
| Welcome / Kick Off | Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director | |
| Metabolomics / Secondary Metabolites at JGI | ||
| Keynote Speaker – “Veridical Data Science” | Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Virulence to Plants” | B. Gillian Turgeon, Cornell University | |
| “Fungal Natural Products – Genome Mining from Fungi for New Natural Products” | Yi Tang, University of California Los Angeles | |
| Poster Session | ||
| Session 2: Understanding Ecosystems: From Microbial Sequence to Environmental Function | Session Chair: Simon Roux, DOE Joint Genome Institute /Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| Microbial and Metagenome Programs at JGI | ||
| “Understanding the Fitness of Soil Bacteria from Genomes to Traits” | Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “An Archaeon at the Prokaryote–Eukaryote Interface: Isolation, Genomics, and New Insights into Eukaryogenesis” | Masaru K. Nobu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | |
| “Ecosystem Effects of Viruses in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones” | Jennifer Brum, Louisiana State University | |
Tuesday, August 31st |
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| Session 3: Of Friends and Foes: The Many Facets of Plant-Microbial Interactions | Session Chair: Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology /Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| Plant and Fungal Programs at JGI | ||
| Keynote – “Genomics of wild and domesticated plant diversity for crop improvement” | Robert Henry, The University of Queensland | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “Comparative Genomics of the Xylariaceae: What are the Functional Roles of Previously Unknown Endophytic Fungi?” | Jana U’Ren, The University of Arizona | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “The Ecological and Genetic Basis of Resistance to Switchgrass Pathogen Across North America” | David Lowry, Michigan State University | |
| Poster Session | ||
| Session 4: Smarter Than Us: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Biology | Session Chair: Kjiersten Fagnan, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| Data Science and Informatics at JGI | ||
| “What Can Deep Learning Do For You?” | Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “Data Solutions for Life Science” | Berenice Wulbrecht, Ontoforce | |
| “New Bioinformatic Methods to Recover 100s of Genomes and their Interactions from Metagenomic Chronoseries” | Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute Technology | |
Wednesday, September 1st |
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| Session 5: Building Better: Integrative Omics-Inspired Plant and Microbe Engineering | Session Chair: Yasuo Yoshikuni, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Ian Blaby, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| DNA Synthesis Science at JGI | ||
| Keynote Speaker – “Bio-manufacturing in green algae – Food and Fuel for the 21st Century” | Stephen Mayfield, University of California, San Diego | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “Understanding the relation between genome sequence and the dynamic interface between Populus and its mycobiome” | Jessy Labbe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “GenoChemetics – blending synthetic biology with synthetic chemistry, enabling access to new to nature natural products” | Rebecca Goss, University of St. Andrews | |
| Poster Session | ||
| Session 6: The Cutting Edge: Technology Highlights | Session Chair: Susannah Tringe, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Axel Visel, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| New Technologies at JGI | ||
| “An integrated cell/cell-free metabolic engineering approach for rapid prototyping of genes and pathways” | Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Short Talk | ||
| “Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green algae” | Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Berkeley | |
| “Small Ripples Make Big Tides: Genomics Informed Biogeochemistry of River Sediments” | Kelly Wrighton,Colorado State University |