Monday, September 30 |
All talks in the California Ballroom | ||
| 08:00AM | Badge Pickup
Breakfast |
Main floor lobby
Ballroom Pre-function Area |
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| 08:50AM | Welcome Kick Off | Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director | |
| Session 1: From carbon to nitrogen: plants, microbes, and sustainability | Session Chairs: | ||
| 09:00AM | Keynote – “Advancing understanding, quantification and forecasting of soil organic matter dynamics to inform climate change mitigation strategies” | Francesca Cotrufo – Colorado State University | |
| 09:45AM | “Cyanobacteria from marine oxygen deficient zones encode both form I and form II rubiscos” | Alexander Jaffe – Stanford University | |
| 10:00AM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 10:30AM | “Lipidomic biomarkers for phytoplankton, grazers, and viruses in the surface ocean.” | Bethanie Edwards – UC Berkeley | |
| 11:00AM | “Microbial bosses: drivers of carbon flow during litter decomposition” | Marie Kroeger – Los Alamos National Lab | |
| 11:30AM | “Methane Cycling in Arid Soils: Methanotrophic Microbiomes and Associations with Plants” | Nathalie Delherbe – San Diego State University | |
| 11:45AM | “MIQ: Evaluating Performance Against a Complex Standard” | Michael Weinstein – Zymo Research Sponsor Showcase |
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| 12:00PM | Working Lunch | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| Session 2: Plant Talk | Session Chairs: | ||
| 1:30PM | “Engineering plant-microbe communication in the rhizosphere” | Gözde Demirer – Caltech | |
| 2:00PM | “A multifaceted approach to studying plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture” | Katrien Devos – University of Georgia | |
| 2:30PM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 3:00PM | “Exploring Root Traits in Sorghum: A Pathway to Enhanced Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resilience” | Nadia Shakoor – Danforth Center | |
| 3:30PM | “Multiplexed, single-cell perturbation of a conifer identifies cryptic components of Taxol biosynthesis”
“Contribution of the microbiome to Eelgrass Wasting Disease” |
Conor McClune – Stanford University
Rebecca Maher – University of Washington |
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| 4:00PM | Workshops
04:00 – 05:00pm | Microbial & Metagenome Programs (M&G) 04:00 – 06:00pm | NMDC Workshop |
Sacramento California Ballroom |
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Tuesday, October 1 |
All talks in the California Ballroom | ||
| 8:00AM | Badge Pickup
Breakfast |
Main floor lobby
Ballroom Pre-function Area |
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| Session 3: From Spores to Shores: Genomic Tales of Fungi and Algae | Session Chairs:
Igor Grigoriev – Fungal & Algal Program Head Teresa Pawlowska – Cornell CALS
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| 9:00AM | Keynote – “Developing high throughput functional genomics for filamentous fungi” | N. Louise Glass – UC Berkeley | |
| 9:45AM | “Genetic and regulatory complexity in fungal primary carbon metabolism” | Ronald de Vries – Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute | |
| 10:00AM | Break | ||
| 10:30AM | “Role of DNA adenine methylation in controlling gene expression in early diverging fungi.” | Victoriano Garre – Universidad de Murcia | |
| 11:00AM | “Diatom genome evolution in real time” | Thomas Mock – University of East Anglia | |
| 11:30AM | “Unraveling the cellular response of the alga Picochlorum celeri under stress through interrogation of metabolic control and gene regulatory mechanisms” | Bishoy Kamel – Joint Genome Institute | |
| 11:45AM | “Multi-omics expression profiling of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mutants elucidates functions of unknown photosynthesis genes” | Vy Duong – Joint Genome Institute | |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| Session 4: Taking microbial biology to the extreme | Session Chairs: | ||
| 1:30PM | “Microbial survival strategies at the limits of life” | Belinda Ferrari – UNSW Sydney | |
| 2:00PM | “CRISPR guided insights into the biology of methanogenic archaea” | Dipti Nayak – UC Berkeley | |
| 2:30PM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 3:00PM | “Insights into genetic features that might provide rumen bacteria with competitive advantages under conditions of methanogenesis suppression” | Matthias Hess – UC Davis | |
| 3:30PM | “Genomics of environmental microcompartments reveals novel genetic elements in the ocean”
“Unlock the potential of mixed-culture arrested anaerobic digestion: Engineering design and multiomics analysis |
Ramunas Stepanauskas – Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences
Minxi Jiang – UC Berkeley |
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| 4:00PM – 6:00PM | Poster Session I
04:00 – 05:00pm | Synthesis Science Program (M&G) |
Contra Costa I & II
Santa Rosa |
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Wednesday, October 2 |
All talks in the California Ballroom | ||
| 8:00AM | Badge Pickup
Breakfast |
Main floor lobby
Ballroom Pre-function Area |
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| Session 5: From bytes to biology | Session Chairs: | ||
| 9:00AM | Keynote – “I, for one, welcome our new robotic partners” | Ian T. Foster – Argonne National Lab | |
| 9:45AM | “Predicting microbial growth conditions from amino acid composition” | Tyler Barnum – Cultivarium | |
| 10:00AM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 10:30AM | “Building, scaling and sustaining life science data resources” | Guy Cochrane – EBI | |
| 11:00AM |
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Shira Goldhaber-Gordon – JGI / John Hopkins University | |
| 11:15AM | 15-min UC Merced student talks:
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UC Merced students
Erika Maquiling Leonel González Peter Nguyen |
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| 12:00PM | Working Lunch | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 1:30PM
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Poster pitches
* Poster prize announcements |
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| 2:30PM | Meet your JGI User Executive Committee members | UEC Members | |
| 3:00PM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 3:30PM | “Examining Data Reuse and Reproducibility Challenges through a Genomic Standards Perspective” | Lynn Schriml – University of Maryland | |
| 4:00PM – 6:00PM | Poster Session II | Contra Costa I & II | |
Thursday, October 3 |
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| 8:00AM | Badge Pickup
Breakfast |
Main floor lobby
Ballroom Pre-function Area |
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| 08:30-11:00AM | JGI tour Round trip shuttle from the Walnut Creek Marriott to the IGB. Space is limited – Confirmation emails have been sent to the tour participants. |
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Session 6: Metabolic Innovations: Exploring New Frontiers in Discovery and Engineering Biology |
Axel Visel – Deputy of Science Programs | ||
| 09:00AM | “Functional Gene Screening and Metabolic Engineering of Anaerobic Microbial Ethylene Synthesis for Bioplastics” | Justin North – Ohio State University | |
| 09:30AM | “Applying Fluorescent Protein Biosensors for Engineer Substrate Channeling”
“Natural Products Discovery from Plant-Bacterial Interactions” |
Nathan Ricks – University of Utah
Barbara Adaikpoh – University of Illinois Chicago |
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| 10:00AM | Break | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| 10:30AM
10:45AM |
“Engineering Hydrogenophaga pseudoflava for the production of aviation fuel precursors using waste C1 gas stream aerobic conditions”
“A high-throughput screening for transcriptional signatures of rhizobacteria during plant root colonization” |
Neha Bansal – Biosciences, LBNL
Tomoya Honda – Joint Genome Institute |
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| 11:00AM | Closing Keynote – “Cell biology meets Metabolism: Knowledge Gaps and Opportunities in Metabolic Cell Biology” | Sue Rhee – Michigan State University | |
| 11:45AM | Working Lunch | Ballroom Pre-function Area | |
| Concurrent Workshops | |||
| 01:30 – 06:00pm | Advancing terrestrial microbiome science through fabricated ecosystems | California Ballroom | ||
| 01:30 – 03:30pm | Multi-Omics of Microbial Eukaryotes Workshop | Contra Costa I | ||
| 01:30 – 03:30pm | Analyzing & Publishing Microbial Genomes and Community Metagenomes with KBase Workshop | Sacramento | ||
| 01:30 – 05:30pm | Metabolomics Data Analysis Hands-On Workshop | Contra Costa II | ||
| 01:30 – 05:30pm | IMG Workshop | Santa Rosa | ||
Friday, October 4 |
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| 09:00AM | Concurrent Workshops
09:00 – 12:00pm | JGI’s Scalable Metagenomics Toolbox Workshop 09:00 – 05:00pm | IMG Workshop All breaks will be served in the Ballroom Pre-function Area |
Contra Costa II Santa Rosa
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