Preliminary agenda
Monday, September 30 |
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| 08:00AM | Badge Pickup & Breakfast | Ballroom Pre-function Area |
| 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 | 1 abstract talk | |
| 10:00AM | Break | |
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| 11:00AM | “Microbial bosses: drivers of carbon flow during litter decomposition” | Marie Kroeger – Los Alamos National Lab |
| 11:30AM | 1 abstract talk | |
| 11:45AM | Preparation and Introduction for Sponsor Showcase | |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch – Sponsor Showcase | 30-minute break to get food |
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 | |
| 3:00PM | Nadia Shakoor – Danforth Center | |
| 3:30PM | 2 abstract talks | |
| 4:00PM | Workshops
04:00 – 05:00pm | Microbial & Metagenome Programs (M&G) 04:00 – 06:00pm | NMDC Workshop |
Conference Room Location:
Main Ballroom CR Sacramento |
Tuesday, October 1 |
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| 8:00AM | Badge Pickup & Breakfast | Ballroom Pre-function Area |
| Session 3: From Spores to Shores: Genomic Tales of Fungi and Algae | Session Chairs: | |
| 9:00AM | Keynote – “Developing high throughput functional genomics for filamentous fungi” | N. Louise Glass – UC Berkeley |
| 9:45AM | 1 abstract talk | |
| 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 | Thomas Mock – University of East Anglia | |
| 11:30AM | 1 abstract talk | |
| 11:45AM | Preparation and Introduction for Sponsor Showcase | |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch – Sponsor Showcase | 30-minute break to get food |
| 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 | |
| 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 | 2 abstract talks | |
| 4:00PM – 6:00PM | Poster Session I
04:00 – 05:00pm | Synthesis Science Program (M&G) |
Contra Costa I & II
Santa Rosa |
Wednesday, October 2 |
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| 8:00AM |
Badge Pickup & Breakfast |
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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 | 1 abstract talk | |
| 10:00AM | Break | |
| 10:30AM | Guy Cochrane – EBI | |
| 11:00AM | 1 abstract talk | |
| 11:15AM | UC Merced student talks | UCM student talks |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch | |
| 1:30PM | Poster pitches | |
| 2:30PM | Meet your JGI User Executive Committee members | UEC Members |
| 2:30PM | Break | |
| 3:00PM | “Examining Data Reuse and Reproducibility Challenges through a Genomic Standards Perspective” | Lynn Schriml – University of Maryland |
| 4:00PM – 6:00PM | Poster Session II
05:30pm | Poster prize announcements |
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Thursday, October 3 |
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| 8:00AM |
Badge Pickup & Breakfast |
Ballroom Pre-function Area |
Session 6: Metabolic Innovations: Exploring New Frontiers in Discovery and Engineering Biology |
Axel Visel – Deputy of Science Programs | |
| 08:30-11:00AM | JGI/IGB tours Round trip shuttle from the Walnut Creek Marriott to the IGB Limited to the first 50 people to register via the Tour sign up form **Please note, you must be registered to the meeting to attend the tour. |
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| 09:00AM | “Functional Gene Screening and Metabolic Engineering of Anaerobic Microbial Ethylene Synthesis for Bioplastics” | Justin North – Ohio State University |
| 09:30AM | 2 abstract speakers | |
| 10:00AM | Break | |
| 10:30AM | 2 abstract speakers | |
| 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
01:00 – 01:30 PM – Room turnover (must clear out California ballroom) |
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| 01:30PM | Concurrent Workshops
01:30 – 02:30pm | Microbial & Metagenome Programs (M&G) 01:30 – 06:00pm | Advancing terrestrial microbiome science through fabricated ecosystems 01:30 – 03:30pm | Fungal & Algal Genomics Workshop 01:30 – 03:30pm | Analyzing & Publishing Microbial Genomes and Community Metagenomes with KBase Workshop 01:30 – 05:30pm | IMG Workshop 01:30 – 05:30pm | Metabolomics Workshop |
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Friday, October 4 |
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| 09:00AM | Workshop
09:00 – 12:00pm | JGI’s Scalable Metagenomics Toolbox Workshop 09:00 – 05:00pm | IMG Workshop |
Conference Room Locations:
Santa Rosa Contra Costa I |