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DOE JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM KBase Workshop: Genome Analysis Host: Bob Cottingham
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Fungal Genomics Workshop Host: Igor Grigoriev
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Prokaryotic Program Workshop Host: Nikos Kyrpides
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM KBase Workshop: Community Analysis Host: Bob Cottingham
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM KBase Workshop: Functional Analysis Host: Bob Cottingham

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM KBase Workshop: How to Integrate Your Tools Into KBase Using the Software Development Kit (SDK) Host: Bob Cottingham
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Technology Overview Workshop Host: Matt Blow
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium Host: Nikos Kyrpides
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM DNA Synthesis and Metabolomics Joint Workshop Host: Yasuo Yoshikuni / Trent Northen
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM Sample Management and Library Development Workshop Host: Yuko Yoshinaga
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM Sequence to Science: An Overview of Analysis at JGI Host: Alex Copeland
4:00 PM – 9:00 PM Sponsor Showcase Open
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “Linking uncultivated microorganisms to biogeochemical processes” Victoria Orphan, Caltech
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Poster Session

Thursday, March 15, 2018

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sponsor Showcase Open
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM AM Split Session #1: Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium 
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM AM Split Session #2: Eukaryotic Functional Genomics  Session Chair: Dan Rokhsar
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM “Leveraging Genetic Variation Among Single Cells or Individuals to Understand the Cryptic Biology of Fungi” Tim James, University of Michigan
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM

“From Single Nuclei to Whole Genome Assemblies of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi”

Mercè Montoliu Nerín, Uppsala University

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM “Rethinking Agriculture from an Ecosystem Perspective” Evan DeLucia, UIUC / CABBI
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM “Ice Plant Gene Atlas Resource Development” John Cushman, University of Nevada
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Break  
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM “Switchgrass Diversity: Identifying Signatures of Adaptation” Jeremy Schmutz, JGI
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM “Insights into Eukaryotic Evolution from the Stress-Tolerant Red Alga Porphyra umbilicalis” Susan Brawley, University of Maine
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM “Mushroom Forming Fungi Converting Plant Waste Streams into Novel Biomaterials” Han Wösten, Utrecht University
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Working Lunch – 2nd Poster Session  
1:30 PM – 5:30 PM Session: Interrogating the Microbiome Session Chair: Susannah Tringe
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “Building microbial chemical factories” Kristala Prather, MIT
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM “Automated Reconstruction of the Nitrogen Cycle along Defined Redox Gradients in Saanich Inlet Using the TreeSAPP Pipeline“ Julia Anstett, University of British Columbia
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM “Feedback Responses of Grassland Soil Microbial Communities to Climate Warming” Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
“Engineering Microbial Communities for Form and Function”
Cynthia Collins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM “The Deep Blue (Inland) Seas: Illuminating Microbial Activity in Earth’s Largest Freshwater Ecosystem” Maureen Coleman, University of Chicago
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM “Applications of Genomic Standards for Microbiome Science” Lynn Schriml, University of Maryland
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM “Chemical Communication in the Soil Microbiome” Kriti Sharma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM Keynote Speaker Presentation: “Reproducible research: challenges and improvements”
& Banquet Dinner
John Ioannidis – Stanford University

Friday, March 16, 2018

 8:00 AM – 1:30 PM Sponsor Showcase Open
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Session: Complementary Technologies Session Chair: Len Pennacchio
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM “Assessing Soil Microbial Responses to Land Use Change” Krista McGuire, University of Oregon
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM “Linking Omics and Structural Biology” James Evans, EMSL
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM “Exploring Metabolite Production from Tryptophan Precursors in Two Algal Associated Bacteria, Algoriphagus sp. ARW1R1 and Marinobacter sp. 19DW” Ty Samo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM “High-Throughput Sequencing and Metabolomics Enabled Phenomics to Investigate the Integration of Heat and Circadian Responses in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii“  Ru Zhang, Danforth Center
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Break  
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM “Social Life of Microbial Communities: Structural Studies of Contact-Dependent Signaling in Bacteria” Andrzej Joachimiak, Argonne National Laboratory
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM “Exploring Microbial Ecology with Isotopes and Imaging” Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM “Effective Solutions for Diversity and Inclusion, Going Beyond Gender and Race” Sheena Becker, DowDuPont
 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM Working Lunch: Industry Showcase Presentations
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Session: Use-inspired “Omics” Session Chair: Yasuo Yoshikuni
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM “Establishing Cell-Free Systems for Rapid Biosynthetic Pathway Prototyping and Biomanufacturing” Mike Jewett, Northwestern University
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM 200 Fungal Genomes: Accelerating Insights into Genomic Drivers of Fungal Symbioses with Plants Daniela Pignatta, Indigo Agriculture
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM “CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing and CRISPRa/i Tools for Engineering the Oleaginous Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica“ Ian Wheeldon, UC Riverside
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM “Novel Cyclic Triterpenoid Biosynthesis Enzymes from Environmental Metagenomes“ Amy Banta, Stanford University
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break  
3:30 PM – 3:45 PM “Transcription Start Site Sequencing Reveals Distinct Feature of Zymomonas mobilis Sigma 70 Promoter Elements” Jessica Vera, GLBRC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM “A metaproteomics method to determine carbon sources and assimilation pathways of species in microbial communities” Manuel Kleiner, North Carolina State University
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM “Genomics and Engineering of Non-Conventional Yeasts for Biotechnical Applications” Tom Jeffries, Xylome
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM “From Oat Genomics to Biosynthetic Gene Clusters” Aymeric Leveau, John Innes Centre
5:00 PM End of JGI User Meeting  

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