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JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting
| Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time |
Monday, August 29th |
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| 8:00AM – 9:00AM | Badge Pick Up | IGB Building 91 |
| 9:00AM – 9:10AM | Welcome / Kick Off | Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director |
| Session 1: Microbial / Metagenome / Viral | Session Chair: Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 9:10AM – 9:30AM | Microbial and Metagenome Programs at JGI | Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 9:30AM – 10:15AM | Keynote – “CRISPRology: The Science and Applications of Genome Editing” (Virtual) | Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:15AM – 10:30AM | Short Talk – “Bacterial-Algal Interactions in High pH-High Alkalinity Algal Cultivations” | Huyen Bui, Montana State University |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Break | |
| 10:45AM – 11:15AM | “Interkingdom Interactions in the Mycorrhizal Hyphosphere” | Erin Nuccio, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:15AM – 11:30AM | Short Talk – KBase User – “Ecological and Genomic Responses of Soil Microbiomes to High-Severity Wildfire: Linking Community Assembly to Functional Potential” | Dr. Nicholas Dove, AgBiome |
| 11:30AM – 12:00PM | “Predicting and Designing Community-Level Functions of Human Gut Microbiota” | Ophelia Venturelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase | IGB Terrace – Building 91 |
| 1:30PM – 1:50PM | 25th Anniversary Speaker – “Human Genome Row” | Ari Patrinos |
| Session 2: Secondary Metabolites / Metabolomics | Session Chair: Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Trent Northen, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 1:50PM – 2:10PM | Metabolomics / Secondary Metabolites at JGI | Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Trent Northen, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology |
| 2:10PM – 2:40PM | “Redesigning Plant Metabolism with Synthetic Biology” | Patrick Shih, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2:40PM – 2:55PM | Short Talk – “Leveraging Multi-Omics to Unveil the Regulatory Networks for the Production of Biomass with Bulk Commodities in Microalgae” (Virtual) | Anju Mehra, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology |
| 2:55PM – 3:25PM | “Illuminating Metabolomic Dark Matter Reshaping How to Mine and Reuse Big Mass Spectrometry Data” | Ming Wang, University of California, San Diego |
| 3:25PM – 3:45PM | Break | |
| 3:45PM – 4:15PM | Cataloging Quorum Sensing Signal Diversity in Carbon Cycling Microbial Communities | Aaron Puri, The University of Utah |
| 4:15PM – 4:30PM | Short Talk – “Finding Associated Metabolites with SIMILE” | Ben Bowen, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 4:30PM – 5:00PM | “Ecological and Evolutionary Roles of Microbial Species Interactions in Mediating the Functional Capabilities of Plant Microbiomes” | Linda Kinkel, University of Minnesota |
| 5:00PM – 7:00PM | Poster Session (Onsite) | IGB Building 91 |
| Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time |
Tuesday, August 30th |
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| 8:00AM – 9:00AM | Badge Pick Up | IGB Building 91 |
| Session 3: Plant / Fungal | Session Chair: Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology /Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 9:00AM – 9:15AM | Plant and Fungal Programs at JGI | Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology / Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 9:15AM – 10:00AM | Keynote Speaker – “Host-Virus Dynamics in the Ocean-a Journey Across Scales” (Virtual) | Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 10:00AM – 10:30AM | “Climbing Through the Green Tree of Life to Investigate Plant Gene and Genome Evolution” | James Leebens-Mack, University of Georgia |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Break | |
| 10:45AM – 11:00AM | Short Talk – “Periodic DNA Patterns Associated with Chromatin Regulation Across Eukaryotes” | Stephen Mondo, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 11:00AM – 11:30AM |
“Time of Day Informs Transcriptional and Metabolic Responses to Abiotic Stress in Brassica Crops”
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Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota |
| 11:30AM – 12:00PM | “From Trash to Treasure: Bioprospecting Nature’s Microbial Communities for Biotechnology” | Michelle O’Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase | IGB Terrace – Building 91 |
| 1:30PM – 1:50PM | “25 Years of JGI – A DOE Perspective” (Virtual) | Todd Anderson, Department of Energy |
| Session 4: Informatics / Big Data | Session Chair: Kjiersten Fagnan, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 1:50PM – 2:05PM | Data Science and Informatics at JGI | Kjiersten Fagnan, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 2:05PM – 2:25PM | “Analysis of 100s of Metagenomes Shows that Species Exist and their Activities can be Reliably Tracked Upon Environmental Change” (Virtual) | Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 2:25:PM – 2:40PM | Short Talk – “Tools for Improved Annotation and Visualization of Genomic and Metagenomic Sequences” | Travis Wheeler, Arizona State University |
| 2:40PM – 3:00PM | “Elastic BLAST: Accelerating Alignments in the Cloud” | Tom Madden, NIH ElasticBLAST Team |
| 3:00PM – 3:20PM | “Petabase-Scale Search and Containment Analysis with Fractional Sketches” | Luiz Irber, 10x Genomics |
| 3:20PM – 3:30PM | Break | |
| 3:30PM – 5:00PM | Poster Session – Virtual | |
| Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time |
Wednesday, August 31st |
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| 8:00AM – 9:00AM | Badge Pick Up | IGB Building 91 |
| Session 5: New Technology | Session Chair: Ronan O’Malley, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Rex Malmstrom, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 9:00AM – 9:15AM | New Technology at JGI | Ronan O’Malley, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Rex Malmstrom, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 9:15AM – 10:00AM | Keynote – “Transposable Element-Mediated Structural Variation: from McClintock to Pangenomes” | Susan Wessler, University of California, Riverside |
| 10:00AM – 10:30AM | “Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Modify Plant Development” | Jenn Brophy, Stanford University |
| 10:30AM – 10:45AM | Break | |
| 10:45AM – 11:00AM | Poster Session Recognition | |
| 11:00AM – 11:30AM | “Next Generation Physiology approaches to study microbial in situ phenotypes” | Roland Hatzenpichler, Montana State University |
| 11:30AM – 11:45AM | Get to Know Your UEC | |
| We11:45AM – 12:00PM | UC Merced Flash Talks | Natalie Meachum, Tyrone Sweet, Edward Lu |
| 12:00PM – 1:30PM | IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase | IGB Terrace – building 91 |
| 1:30PM – 1:50PM | 25th Anniversary Speaker | Dan Drell, DOE – Retired |
| Session 6: Synthetic Biology | Session Chair: Yasuo Yoshikuni, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Ian Blaby, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 1:50PM – 2:05PM | DNA Synthesis Science at JGI | Yasuo Yoshikuni, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Ian Blaby, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 2:05PM – 2:35PM | “Towards Lignin Consolidated Bioprocessing: Bacteria or Fungi?” | Davinia Salvachua, National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 2:35PM – 2:50PM | Short Talk – “Population Genomics and Machine Learning Analysis Enable Designing a Better Issatchenkia Orientalis Strain” | Ping-Hung Hsieh, DOE Joint Genome Institute |
| 2:50PM – 3:20PM | “Stepping On The Gas Towards A Circular Economy: Engineering Gas Fermenting Organisms For Carbon-Negative Biomanufacturing” | Michael Kopke, LanzaTech |
| Meeting Adjourn |