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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 | |
| 7:30AM – 7:45AM | Welcome / Kick Off | Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director |
| 7:45AM – 8:00AM | Metabolomics / Secondary Metabolites at JGI | |
| 8:00AM – 8:45AM | Keynote Speaker – “Veridical Data Science for Biomedical Discovery: Detecting Epistatic Interactions with epiTree” | Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley |
| 8:45AM – 9:00AM | Short Talk | |
| 9:00AM – 9:30AM | “Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Virulence to Plants” | B. Gillian Turgeon, Cornell University |
| 9:30AM – 10:00AM | “Fungal Natural Products – Genome Mining from Fungi for New Natural Products” | Yi Tang, University of California Los Angeles |
| 10:00AM – 11:00AM | 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 | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | Microbial and Metagenome Programs at JGI | |
| 11:15AM – 11:45AM | “Understanding the Fitness of Soil Bacteria from Genomes to Traits” | Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 11:45AM – 12:00PM | Short Talk | |
| 12:00PM – 12:30PM | “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 |
| 12:30PM – 1:00PM | “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 | |
| 7:35AM – 7:45AM | Plant and Fungal Programs at JGI | |
| 7:45AM – 8:30AM | Keynote – “Genomics of wild and domesticated plant diversity for crop improvement” | Robert Henry, The University of Queensland |
| 8:30AM – 8:45AM | Short Talk | |
| 8:45AM – 9:15AM | “Comparative Genomics of the Xylariaceae: What are the Functional Roles of Endophytic Fungi?” | Jana U’Ren, The University of Arizona |
| 9:15AM – 9:30AM | Short Talk | |
| 9:30AM – 10:00AM |
“The Ecological and Genetic Basis of Switchgrass Microbiome Assembly and Pathogen Impacts Across North America”
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David Lowry, Michigan State University |
| 10:00AM – 11:00AM | 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 | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | Data Science and Informatics at JGI | |
| 11:15AM – 11:45AM | “Introduction to Graph Neural Networks” | Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:45AM – 12:00PM | Short Talk | |
| 12:00PM – 12:30PM | “Data Solutions for Life Science” | Berenice Wulbrecht, Ontoforce |
| 12:30PM – 1:00PM | “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 | |
| 7:30AM – 7:45AM | DNA Synthesis Science at JGI | |
| 7:45AM – 8:30AM | Keynote Speaker – “Bio-manufacturing in green algae – Food and Fuel for the 21st Century” | Stephen Mayfield, University of California, San Diego |
| 8:30AM – 8:45AM | Short Talk | |
| 8:45AM – 9:15AM | “Understanding the relation between genome sequence and the dynamic interface between Populus and its mycobiome” | Jessy Labbe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 9:15AM – 9:30AM | Short Talk | |
| 9:30AM – 10:00AM | “GenoChemetics: Blending Synthetic Biology with Synthetic Chemistry for Molecule Making” | Rebecca Goss, University of St. Andrews |
| 10:00AM – 11:00AM | Poster Session | |
| Session 6: The Cutting Edge: Technology Highlights | Session Chair: Susannah Tringe, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Axel Visel, DOE Joint Genome Institute | |
| 11:00AM – 11:15AM | New Technologies at JGI | |
| 11:15AM – 11:30AM | JGI Data Policies | |
| 11:30AM – 11:45AM | Short Talk | |
| 11:45AM – 12:15PM | “Widespread polycistronic gene expression in green algae” | Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Berkeley |
| 12:15PM – 12:30PM | Short Talk | |
| 12:30PM – 1:00PM | “Window into the soil methane cycle: new outlooks on the metabolically active reservoir in wetlands” | Kelly Wrighton,Colorado State University |