This year’s JGI User Meeting will begin Wednesday with workshops scheduled in the morning and presentations in the afternoon, followed in the evening with an opening reception and poster session. Speaker presentations will continue on Thursday to be followed by a reception and posters in the evening at JGI. The Meeting will conclude Friday morning following the final keynote presentation.
All functions will be held at the Walnut Creek Marriott (2355 North Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA) unless otherwise noted.
Slides and Videos
Presentation slides are linked below, adjacent to the talk title, as they become available. Videos are hosted on YouTube.
Wednesday, March 25
| Start Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | JGI Workshops | |
| IMG Tutorial | Nikos Kyrpides | ||
| Eukaryotic Annotation Tools | Igor Grigoriev | ||
| JGI 101: Introduction to the JGI | Jim Bristow | ||
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch provided for WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ONLY on this day | |
| 1:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Plants, Biomass Degradation and Biofuels | Jim Bristow, Chair |
| 1:00 PM | 1:15 PM | Introduction | Eddy Rubin, JGI |
| 1:15 PM | 1:45 PM | Pathogen virulence and the plant immune system |
Jeff Dangl, U. North Carolina |
| 1:45 PM | 2:15 PM | Reverse-engineering cellulosomes in Clostridia | Jamie Cate, EBI |
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Algal Engineering for the production of an energy crop | Bryan O’Neill, Sapphire Energy |
| 2:45 PM | 3:15 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 PM | 3:45 PM | Evolution of Ancient Agriculture in Ants | Cameron Currie, U. Wisconsin |
| 3:45 PM | 4:15 PM | Arabidopsis Epigenetics | Joe Ecker, Salk Institute |
| 4:15 PM | 4:45 PM | New Developments in High Throughput Proteomics Measurements: Augmenting Genomics |
Dick Smith, PNNL |
| 5:30 PM | 6:15 PM | Keynote Presentation – Download slides | Chris Somerville, EBI |
| 6:15 PM | 10:00 PM | Opening Reception and Poster Session (at the Marriott) | |
Thursday, March 26
| Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Genome Evolution and Adaptation – Part 1 | Dan Rokhsar, JGI, chair |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Whole Genome Comparisons of Bacillus subtilis | Ashlee Earl, Harvard University |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) – download slides | Jonathan Eisen, U. California, Davis |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Fungal genomics | James Galagan, Broad Institute |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | Genomic Analysis of Adaptation and Speciation in Mimulus guttatus | John Willis, Duke University |
| 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Diatom comparative genomics | Ginger Armbrust, U. Washington |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Business Meeting – open forum with JGI management | |
| 1:45 PM | 5:00 PM | New Technologies and Functional Genomics | Len Pennacchio, Chair |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | Keynote Presentation | George Church, Harvard University |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Pacific Biosciences | Steve Turner, Pacific Biosciences |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Short Read Assembly | Pavel Pevzner, UCSD |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Phylochip Analysis of Microbial Diversity | Gary Andersen, LBNL |
| 4:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Chlamydomonas Transcriptomics | Sabeeha Merchant, UCLA |
| 5:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Travel to JGI — Bus Service from Marriott | |
| 6:00 PM | 9:00 PM | Reception, Poster Session, and Tours at JGI | |
| 9:00 PM | 10:00 PM | Travel from JGI — Bus Service to Marriott | |
Friday, March 27
| Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Genome Evolution and Adaptation – Part 2 | Eddy Rubin, Chair |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Population Genomics and the Bacterial Species Concept | Peg Riley, U. Massachusetts |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Systems biology in Caulobacter | Lucy Shapiro, Stanford University |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Diversity Generating Retroelements | Jeffrey Miller, UCLA |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | To Refseq or Reseq Oryza – That is the Question | Rod Wing, U. Arizona |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Keynote Presentation | Craig Venter, JCVI |
| 12:15 PM | End of User Meeting | ||