Joint Genome Institute

JGI Annual User Meeting

2019 NeLLi Symposium – Agenda

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 – Golden Gate Rooms 6, 7, 8
Session 1 Phylogenetic Novelty and Evolution of Taxa in Natural Microbial Communities Session Chairs: Tanja Woyke, Phil Hugenholtz
8:00 AM – 8:25 AM AM Refreshments
8:25 AM – 8:30 AM Welcome and Introduction Tanja Woyke, Joint Genome Institute
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “The Origin of Complex Cells” Thijs Ettema, Wageningen University
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Questions
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM “Landfill Microbial Diversity and Contaminant Remediation” Laura Hug, University of Waterloo
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Questions
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM “New Insights into the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from the Metagenomes of Novel Cyanobacteria and Melainabacteria Living in Antarctic Lakes” Dawn Sumner, University of California, Davis
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM Questions
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM “Exploration of Metagenomic Data to Understand the Diversity and Evolution of Methane Metabolisms” Simonetta Gribaldo, Institut Pasteur
10:50 AM – 11:00 AM Questions
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM “New Insights into the Metagenomic Diversity of Microbial Communities Associated with Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Deposits” Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Portland State University
11:20 AM – 11:30 AM Questions
11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
“Updates on the Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB)”
 Phil Hugenholtz, University of Queensland, Australia
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM Questions
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Working Lunch
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM “The Twisted Tree of Life Awards: Why We Should Care About Misrepresentations of the Tree of Life” Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis
1:00 PM – 1:10 PM Questions
Session 2 Laboratory Approaches to Study the ‘Uncultivated’ Session Chairs: Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Brian Hedlund
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “The Hot Origins and Mesophilic Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Thaumarchaea Deciphered by Ancestral Reconstructions” Christa Schleper, University of Vienna
2:00 PM – 2:10 PM Questions
2:10 PM – 2:30 PM “Saccharibacteria/TM7 Cultivation and Genomic Diversity Across Mammalian Microbiomes” Jeffrey McLean, University of Washington
2:30 PM – 2:40 PM Questions
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM “Linking the Environment and the Lab: Expression of Environmental Cyclases in a Microbial Model System” Paula V. Welander, Stanford University
3:00 PM – 3:10 PM Questions
3:10 PM – 3:40 PM Break
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM “Scale and sampling in microbial ecology: the lenses through which we view microbial communities” Joshua Ladau, DOE Joint Genome Institute
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM Questions
4:10 PM – 4:30 PM “Reverse Genomics for Targeted Isolation and Cultivation of the Dark Microbial Matter” Mircea Podar, Oakridge National Laboratory
4:30 PM – 4:40 PM Questions
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM “Genomics-Assisted Cultivation and Functional Study of Atribacteria (OP9) in Hot Springs” Jeremy Dodsworth, California State University San Bernardino
5:00 PM – 5:10 PM Questions
5:10 PM – 5:30 PM General Discussion
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM Poster Pitches

  1. Endosymbiont in endosymbiont: A Rickettsia-like     bacterium within mitochondria of the amoeba Vannella sp. – Tomas Tyml, DOE Joint Genome Institute
  2. Lateral gene transfer shapes the distribution of RuBisCO among Candidate Phyla Radiation bacteria and DPANN archaea – Alexander Jaffe, UC Berkeley
  3. Linking identity and in situ metabolism of uncultured microbes by “Next Generation Physiology” – Roland Hatzenpichler, Montana State University
  4. Metabolic strategies of bacterial and archaeal metagenome-assembled genomes recovered from Lake Tanganyika, an ancient, deep and mainly anoxic freshwater lake – Patricia Tran, University of Wisconsin
  5. Novel Obscuribacteriales from an illuminated environment and expanded representation of aerobic respiration within the Melainabacteria – Christy Grettenberger, University of CA, Davis
  6. The distribution of predominant high-temperature archaeal and bacterial lineages in Yellowstone National Park – William Inskeep, Montana State University
  7. Using deep UV spectroscopy to localize biomass in the deep terrestrial subsurface – Haley Sapers, CalTech
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Poster Session and Reception

Golden Gate Rooms 2, 3, 4, 5

Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Session 3 Functional Exploration and Niche Adaptation of New Lineages of Microorganisms Session Chairs: Rex Malmstrom, Cindy Castelle
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM AM Refreshments
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “From Genomes to Function in an Insect-Bacterial Endosymbiosis” John McCutcheon, University of Montana
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Questions
“Microbial Genomics Poster Prize Announcement”
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM “Genes and Geochemistry in a Deep Subsurface Karst Aquifer” Jennifer Macalady, Pennsylvania State University
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM Questions
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM “Caves as Conduits to Explore Microbial Processes in the Deep Subsurface” Hazel Barton, University of Akron
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM Questions
10:10 AM – 10:40 AM Break
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM “Everything Isn’t Everywhere: Strain-Resolved Metagenomes and Biogeography of Wild Bacteria” Lizzy Wilbanks, University of California, Santa Barbara
11:00 AM – 11:10 AM Questions
11:10 AM – 11:30 AM “In Search of the Niche – A Lost Treasure in Microbiology” Marc Strous, University of Calgary
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM Questions
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM General Discussion
12:00 PM Symposium Close