Joint Genome Institute

JGI Annual User Meeting

2022 Agenda

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JGI Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting

Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time

Monday, August 29th
8:00AM – 9:00AM Badge Pick Up IGB Building 91
9:00AM – 9:10AM Welcome / Kick Off Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director
Session 1: Microbial / Metagenome / Viral Session Chair: Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:10AM – 9:30AM Microbial and Metagenome Programs at JGI Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:30AM – 10:15AM Keynote – “CRISPRology: The Science and Applications of Genome Editing” (Virtual) Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley
10:15AM – 10:30AM Short Talk – “Bacterial-Algal Interactions in High pH-High Alkalinity Algal Cultivations” Huyen Bui, Montana State University
10:30AM – 10:45AM Break
10:45AM – 11:15AM “Interkingdom Interactions in the Mycorrhizal Hyphosphere” Erin Nuccio, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:15AM – 11:30AM Short Talk – KBase User – “Ecological and Genomic Responses of Soil Microbiomes to High-Severity Wildfire: Linking Community Assembly to Functional Potential” Dr. Nicholas Dove, AgBiome
11:30AM – 12:00PM “Predicting and Designing Community-Level Functions of Human Gut Microbiota” Ophelia Venturelli, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00PM – 1:30PM IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase IGB Terrace – Building 91
1:30PM – 1:50PM 25th Anniversary Speaker – “Human Genome Row” Ari Patrinos
Session 2: Secondary Metabolites / Metabolomics Session Chair: Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Trent Northen, DOE Joint Genome Institute
1:50PM – 2:10PM Metabolomics / Secondary Metabolites at JGI Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Trent Northen, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
2:10PM – 2:40PM “Redesigning Plant Metabolism with Synthetic Biology” Patrick Shih, University of California, Berkeley
2:40PM – 2:55PM Short Talk – “Leveraging Multi-Omics to Unveil the Regulatory Networks for the Production of Biomass with Bulk Commodities in Microalgae” (Virtual) Anju Mehra, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
2:55PM – 3:25PM “Illuminating Metabolomic Dark Matter Reshaping How to Mine and Reuse Big Mass Spectrometry Data” Ming Wang, University of California, San Diego
3:25PM – 3:45PM Break
3:45PM – 4:15PM Cataloging Quorum Sensing Signal Diversity in Carbon Cycling Microbial Communities Aaron Puri, The University of Utah
4:15PM – 4:30PM Short Talk – “Finding Associated Metabolites with SIMILE” Ben Bowen, DOE Joint Genome Institute
4:30PM – 5:00PM “Ecological and Evolutionary Roles of Microbial Species Interactions in Mediating the Functional Capabilities of Plant Microbiomes” Linda Kinkel, University of Minnesota
5:00PM – 7:00PM Poster Session (Onsite) IGB Building 91
Please note: All listings below are Pacific Time

Tuesday, August 30th
8:00AM – 9:00AM Badge Pick Up IGB Building 91
Session 3: Plant / Fungal Session Chair: Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology /Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:00AM – 9:15AM Plant and Fungal Programs at JGI Jeremy Schmutz, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology / Igor Grigoriev, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:15AM – 10:00AM Keynote Speaker – “Host-Virus Dynamics in the Ocean-a Journey Across Scales” (Virtual) Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science
10:00AM – 10:30AM “Climbing Through the Green Tree of Life to Investigate Plant Gene and Genome Evolution” James Leebens-Mack, University of Georgia
10:30AM – 10:45AM Break
10:45AM – 11:00AM Short Talk – “Periodic DNA Patterns Associated with Chromatin Regulation Across Eukaryotes” Stephen Mondo, DOE Joint Genome Institute
11:00AM – 11:30AM
“Time of Day Informs Transcriptional and Metabolic Responses to Abiotic Stress in Brassica Crops”
 Kathleen Greenham, University of Minnesota
11:30AM – 12:00PM “From Trash to Treasure: Bioprospecting Nature’s Microbial Communities for Biotechnology” Michelle O’Malley, University of California, Santa Barbara
12:00PM – 1:30PM IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase IGB Terrace – Building 91
1:30PM – 1:50PM “25 Years of JGI – A DOE Perspective” (Virtual) Todd Anderson, Department of Energy
Session 4: Informatics / Big Data Session Chair: Kjiersten Fagnan, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute
1:50PM – 2:05PM Data Science and Informatics at JGI Kjiersten Fagnan, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute
2:05PM – 2:25PM “Analysis of 100s of Metagenomes Shows that Species Exist and their Activities can be Reliably Tracked Upon Environmental Change” (Virtual) Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:25:PM – 2:40PM Short Talk – “Tools for Improved Annotation and Visualization of Genomic and Metagenomic Sequences” Travis Wheeler, Arizona State University
2:40PM – 3:00PM “Elastic BLAST: Accelerating Alignments in the Cloud” Tom Madden, NIH ElasticBLAST Team
3:00PM – 3:20PM “Petabase-Scale Search and Containment Analysis with Fractional Sketches” Luiz Irber, 10x Genomics
3:20PM – 3:30PM Break
3:30PM – 5:00PM Poster Session – Virtual
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Wednesday, August 31st
8:00AM – 9:00AM Badge Pick Up IGB Building 91
Session 5: New Technology Session Chair: Ronan O’Malley, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Rex Malmstrom, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:00AM – 9:15AM New Technology at JGI Ronan O’Malley, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Rex Malmstrom, DOE Joint Genome Institute
9:15AM – 10:00AM Keynote – “Transposable Element-Mediated Structural Variation: from McClintock to Pangenomes” Susan Wessler, University of California, Riverside
10:00AM – 10:30AM “Synthetic Genetic Circuits to Modify Plant Development” Jenn Brophy, Stanford University
10:30AM – 10:45AM Break
10:45AM – 11:00AM Poster Session Recognition
11:00AM – 11:30AM “Next Generation Physiology approaches to study microbial in situ phenotypes” Roland Hatzenpichler, Montana State University
11:30AM – 11:45AM Get to Know Your UEC
We11:45AM – 12:00PM UC Merced Flash Talks Natalie Meachum, Tyrone Sweet, Edward Lu
12:00PM – 1:30PM IGB Lab Tours / Sponsor Showcase IGB Terrace – building 91
1:30PM – 1:50PM 25th Anniversary Speaker  Dan Drell, DOE – Retired
Session 6: Synthetic Biology Session Chair: Yasuo Yoshikuni, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Ian Blaby, DOE Joint Genome Institute
1:50PM – 2:05PM DNA Synthesis Science at JGI Yasuo Yoshikuni, DOE Joint Genome Institute / Ian Blaby, DOE Joint Genome Institute
2:05PM – 2:35PM “Towards Lignin Consolidated Bioprocessing: Bacteria or Fungi?” Davinia Salvachua, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2:35PM – 2:50PM Short Talk – “Population Genomics and Machine Learning Analysis Enable Designing a Better Issatchenkia Orientalis Strain” Ping-Hung Hsieh, DOE Joint Genome Institute
2:50PM – 3:20PM “Stepping On The Gas Towards A Circular Economy: Engineering Gas Fermenting Organisms For Carbon-Negative Biomanufacturing” Michael Kopke, LanzaTech
Meeting Adjourn

DOE Joint Genome Institute
Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting

Select videos from the Meeting are available – go here to watch.

Thanks for joining us at Berkeley Lab and virtually for the 2022 JGI Annual Meeting!

Hope to see you next year.

The 2022 DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting coincided with the Institute’s 25th Anniversary. We hope that this gathering of leaders from diverse disciplines highlighted how they are addressing the world’s most pressing energy and environmental challenges. The invited talks emphasize how the research infrastructure – DNA sequencing, synthesis, metabolomics, data analysis, and new technology developments – that the JGI offers through its User Programs on a competitive, peer-reviewed basis to the worldwide scientific community can advance your research goals. This year’s Meeting, to be held August 29 – 31, was a hybrid event ­– in person at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – and virtually through the Social27 platform. See the speakers list here and below. The Meeting was followed by several workshops.

Here below are the winners of the poster competition in the order they were presented:

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2022 JGI Annual Meeting Speakers:

You can check out videos from the 2021 Meeting talks here.

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