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JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting

Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time

Monday, August 29th

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 Speaker – “Host-Virus Dynamics in the Ocean-a Journey Across Scales” Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science
10:15AM – 10:30AM Short Talk
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
11:30AM – 12:00PM “Predicting and Designing Community-Level Functions of Human Gut Mocrobiota” Ophelia Venturelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00PM – 1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM – 1:50PM 25th Anniversary Speaker
Session 2: Secondary Metabolites / Metabolomics Session Chair: Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Trent Northen, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
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
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
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)
Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time

Tuesday, August 30th

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 – “Transposable Elements-Mediated Structural Variation: from McClintock to Pangenomes” Susan Wessler, University of California, Riverside
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
11:00AM – 11:30AM
“Time of Day Informs Transcriptional and Metabolic Responses to Abiotic Stress in Brassica Crops”
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 Lunch
1:30PM – 1:50PM 25th Anniversary Speaker
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” Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:25:PM – 2:40PM Short Talk
2:40PM – 3:00PM “Elastic BLAST: Accelerating Alignments in the Cloud” Tom Madden, NIH ElasticBLAST Team
3:00PM – 3:20PM Sourmash: TBD 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

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 – “CRISPRology: The Science and Applications of Genome Editing” Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
10:00AM – 10:30AM “Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Modify Plant Development: Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
10:30AM – 10:45AM Break
10:45AM – 11:00AM Short Talk
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
11:45AM – 12:00PM UC Merced Flash Talks
12:00PM – 1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM – 1:50PM 25th Anniversary Speaker 
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
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

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