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2023 Agenda

Monday, August 21st

8:00AM

Badge Pickup & Breakfast

B91 – 3rd Floor

9:00AM

Welcome Kick Off

Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director

Session 1: New Chemistry from Genomes

Session Chairs:

Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director

Yasuo Yoshikuni, Synthesis Science Program Head

9:15AM Session Overview Session Chairs
9:30AM Keynote – “A Fascination With Phenazines” Dianne Newman – CalTech
10:15AM Break 50 Auditorium
10:45AM “Linking Genes and Metabolites for Informed Antibiotic Discovery” Katherine Duncan – Strathclyde University
11:15AM Short Talk
11:30AM TBD (Invited talk)
12:00PM Working Lunch – Sponsor Showcase B91 – 3rd Floor

Session 2: From Bytes to Biology

Session Chairs:

Kjiersten Fagnan, CIO

Nikos Kyrpides, Microbiome Data Science Lead

1:30PM Session Overview Session Chairs
1:45PM “Deciphering the Chemical Language of the Microbiome” Marnix Medema – Wageningen University
2:15PM Short Talk
2:30PM UC Merced Internship Program Talks
3:15PM Break 50 Auditorium
3:45PM “Integrative Text Mining and Graph Learning for Data-Driven Biological Knowledge Discovery” Cathy Wu – University of Delaware
4:15PM Meet the JGI User Executive Committee
4:45PM Adjourn to Poster Session
5:00PM – 7:00PM Poster Session (onsite) IGB
5:00PM – 7:00PM UEC Conference Room 101   

Tuesday, August 22nd

Session 3: Microbes in Wild and Wilder Environments

Session Chairs:

Tanja Woyke – Deputy, User Programs

Emiley Eloe -Fadrosh – Metagenome Science Program Head

8:00AM

Badge Pickup & Breakfast

B91 – 3rd Floor

9:00AM

Session Overview

Session Chairs

9:15AM Keynote – “Wild Microbial Ecology” Bruce Hungate – Northern Arizona University
10:00AM Short Talk
10:15AM Break 50 Auditorium
10:45AM “On the Wild Side of Microbiology” Mircea Podar – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:15AM Short Talk
11:30AM “Microbes in Space: Lessons Learned” Kasthuri Venkateswaran – JPL – NASA
12:00PM Tours / UEC 2nd Meeting / Sponsor Showcase B91 – 3rd Floor

Session 4: Secretive Lives

Session Chairs:

Axel Visel – Deputy, Science Programs

Igor Grigoriev – Fungal & Algal Program Head

2:00PM

Session Overview

Session Chairs

2:15PM “The Secret Life of Extremophilic Red Algae” Debashish Bhattacharya – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2:45PM Short Talk
3:00PM “The Secret Life of Cheese: Microbial Interactions and Evolution in a Simple Microbiome” Rachel Dutton – Arcadia Science
3:30PM Virtual Poster Session
5:00PM Meeting Adjoum for the Day

Wednesday, August 23rd

Session 5: Viruses, Mobile Elements, Metabolites

Session Chairs:

Trent Northen – Metabolomics Program Head

Simon Roux – Viral Genomics Lead

9:00AM

Session Overview

Session Chairs

9:15AM Keynote – “Redefining Virus Macroevolution” Edward Holmes – University of Sydney
10:00AM Short Talk
10:15AM Break
10:45AM “Cells as Playgrounds for Mobile Genetic Elements” Eduardo Rocha – Institut Pasteur
11:15AM Short Talk
11:30AM “Metabolic Coordination Through Metabolite-Protein Interactions” Uwe Sauer – ETH Institute of Molecular Systems Biology
12:00PM Working Lunch

Session 6: How Plants Get Tough

Session Chairs:

John Vogel – West Coast Plant Genomics Lead

Jeremy Schmutz – Plant Program Head (HudsonAlpha)

1:30PM

Session Overview

Session Chairs

1:45PM “Regulatory Hierarchies Shape Needed Resilience Mechanisms in Rice” Julia Baily-Serres – University of California, Riverside
2:15PM Short Talk
2:30PM Break
3:00PM “Genomics-Driven Search for Defense-Related Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Wheat” Guy Polturak – John Innes Center
3:30PM Short Talk
3:45PM “AI-driven discovery of proteins as functional polymers” Ranjani Varadan – Shiru
4:15PM TBD
4:45PM Meeting Adjourn

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