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2011 User Meeting

Monday – Tuesday – Wednesday – Thursday – Friday
Shuttle Schedule (between JGI & Marriott)

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Monday, March 21

Satellite Workshops: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Tuesday, March 22

Satellite Workshops: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Welcome and Keynote Address: 5:00 – 6:00 PM

5:00 PM

The Turn-on of LCLS: the X-Ray Free-Electron Laser at SLAC
Persis Drell – Stanford University, Director of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

6:00 PM

The Gulf Oil Spill – Ecogenomics and Ecoresilience
Terry Hazen – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Joint BioEnergy Institute

Opening Reception and Poster Session: 6:00 – 10:00 PM

Wednesday, March 23

SESSION I: 8:30 – 11:45 AM

8:30 AM

Evolutionary Genomic Analyses of Insect Society: Eat, Drink, and Be Scary
Gene Robinson – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

9:00 AM

Comparative Metagenomics of Gut and Ocean: Identification of Microbial Marker Genes for Complex Environmental Properties
Peer Bork – European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg

9:30 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Resequencing in Populus: Towards Genome Wide Association Genetic
Jerry Tuskan – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:30 AM

Designing Biological Systems for Sustainability and Programmed Environmental Interface
Pam Silver – Harvard University

11:00 AM

Spatially and Temporally Resolved Studies of the Human Microbiome
Rob Knight – University of Colorado

11:30 AM

JGI New Technologies and Capabilities Available to Users
Len Pennacchio – JGI

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Lunch

SESSION II: 1:15 – 3:00 PM

1:15 PM

JGI Strategic Overview
Eddy Rubin, JGI

1:35 PM

JGI User Program, CSP
Jim Bristow, JGI

1:55 PM

User Input on JGI User Programs, Strategic Planning and Other Issues
JGI Users, JGI Senior Management

2:40 PM

Break

SESSION III: 3:30 –4:30 PM

3:30 PM

Genomic Analysis of Speciation and Adaptation in Aquilegia
Scott Hodges – University of California, Santa Barbara

4:00 PM

Low Temperature Regulatory Networks Controlling Cold Acclimation in Arabidopsis
Mike Thomashow – Michigan State University

4:30 PM

Genomics of Extinct and Endangered Species
Stephan Schuster – Penn State University

5:00 – 6:00 PM

Travel to JGI – Bus Service from Marriott

6:00 – 9:00 PM

Reception, Poster Session and Tours at JGI

8:00 – 9:00 PM

Travel from JGI – Bus Service to Marriott

Thursday, March 24

SESSION IV: 8:30 –11:45 AM

8:30 AM

Relating Host Genetic Variation to the Microbiome
Ruth Ley – Cornell University

9:00 AM

Insights from Sequencing the World’s Most Diverse Crop: Maize
Ed Buckler – USDA-ARS, Cornell University

9:30 AM

Break

10:00 AM

Metatranscriptomics of Marine Microbial Communities
Mary Ann Moran – University of Georgia

10:30 AM

How to Eat a Wooden Ship: A Genomic View of Wood-eating Bacterial Endosymbiosis in the Shipworm Bankia setacea
Dan Distel – Ocean Genome Legacy

11:00 AM

Remote Detection of Marine Microbes in Coastal Waters and the Deep Sea Using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP)
Christopher Scholin – Monteray Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

11:45 – 1:30 PM

Lunch

SESSION V: 1:30 – 4:30 PM

1:30 PM

Hardware and Software Trends in Computational Systems for Biology
Kathy Yelick – National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

2:00 PM

The Physiological Genomics of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass Responses to Climate Change
Tom Juenger – University of Texas at Austin

2:30 PM

How to Lose Half your Genome in 10 million Years and Live to Tell the Tale: Comparative Genomics of Arabidopsis lyrata and A. thaliana
Magnus Nordborg – Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI)

3:00 PM

Break

3:30 PM

Tackling Metagenomics’ Largest Challenge:  The Great Prairie Project
Jim Tiedje – Michigan State University

4:00 PM

Massive Discovery of Biomass Degrading Genes and Genomes in Rumen
Zhong Wang – JGI

4:30 PM

End of User Meeting

Friday, March 25

Satellite Workshops – 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Shuttle Schedule

Tuesday, March 22

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Shuttle between Marriott and JGI

Pickup on :00 at the JGI (last pickup at 4:00)

Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (last pickup at 3:30)

7:00 – 9:30 PM – Shuttle from Marriott to JGI (Last pickup at 9:30)

Wednesday, March 23

8:00 AM – 4:30 PM – Shuttle between Marriott & JGI

Pickup on :00 at the JGI (last pickup at 4:00pm)

Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (last pickup at 3:30)

5:00 – 7:00 PM – Shuttle from Marriott to JGI  (For JGI Poster Session, 5-9 PM)

7:00 – 9:00 PM – Shuttle from JGI to Marriott (Last pickup at 9:00)

Thursday, March 24

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM – Shuttle between Marriott & JGI

Pickup on :00 at the JGI (Last pickup at 4:00)

Pickup on :30 at the Marriott (Last pickup at 5:30)

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