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2021 Agenda

JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting

Monday, August 30th

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

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

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

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