Monday, August 21st |
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| 8:00AM |
Badge Pickup & Breakfast |
B91 – 3rd Floor |
| 9:00AM |
Welcome Kick Off |
Nigel Mouncey, JGI Director |
Session 1: Microbes in Wild and Wilder Environments |
Session Chairs:Tanja Woyke – Deputy, User ProgramsEmiley Eloe -Fadrosh – Metagenome Science Program Head |
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| 9:15AM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 9:30AM | Keynote – “Wild Microbial Ecology” | Bruce Hungate – Northern Arizona University |
| 10:15AM | Break | 50 Auditorium |
| 10:45AM | “On the Wild Side of Microbiology” | Mircea Podar – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| 11:15AM | “Temporal biology of a microbial community revealed by diel metatranscriptomics” | Amanda Shelton – Carnegie Institution for Science |
| 11:30AM | “Microbes in Space: Lessons Learned” (Virtual) | Kasthuri Venkateswaran – JPL – NASA |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch – Sponsor Showcase | B91 – 3rd Floor |
Session 2: From Bytes to Biology |
Session Chairs:Kjiersten Fagnan, CIONikos Kyrpides, Microbiome Data Science Lead |
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| 1:30PM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 1:45PM | “Deciphering the Chemical Language of the Microbiome” (Virtual) | Marnix Medema – Wageningen University |
| 2:15PM | “Leveraging MemVerge’s Cloud Automation 2.0 for Sustainable, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Bioinformatics Workflows” | Sateesh Peri – MemVerge |
| 2:30PM | UC Merced Internship Program Talks | Andrew Lin
Shayna Bennett Tahirah Williams |
| 3:15PM | Break | 50 Auditorium |
| 3:45PM | “Integrative Text Mining and Graph Learning for Data-Driven Biological Knowledge Discovery” (Virtual) | Cathy Wu – University of Delaware |
| 4:15PM | Meet the JGI User Executive Committee | |
| 4:45PM | Adjourn to Poster Session | |
| 5:00PM – 7:00PM | Poster Session (onsite) | IGB |
| 5:00PM – 7:00PM | UEC | Conference Room 101 |
Tuesday, August 22nd |
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| 8:00AM |
Badge Pickup & Breakfast |
B91 – 3rd Floor |
Session 3: New Chemistry from Genomes |
Session Chairs:Nigel Mouncey, JGI DirectorYasuo Yoshikuni, Synthesis Science Program Head |
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| 9:00AM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 9:15AM | Keynote – “A Fascination With Phenazines”. (Virtual) | Dianne Newman – CalTech |
| 10:00AM | “Biosynthetic gene clusters of Gymnopilus imperialis secondary metabolites with emphasis on polyketide synthases – An integration of metabolomic and genomic tools” | Lhais Caldas – Federal University of São Paulo |
| 10:15AM | Break | 50 Auditorium |
| 10:45AM | “Linking Genes and Metabolites for Informed Antibiotic Discovery” | Katherine Duncan – Strathclyde University |
| 11:15AM | “Engineering Synthetic Sugar Catabolism and Sensing Circuits in Root-Colonizing Pseudomonas putida” | Christopher Dundas – Stanford University |
| 11:30AM | “AI-driven discovery of proteins as functional polymers” | Ranjani Varadan – Shiru |
| 12:00PM | Tours / UEC 2nd Meeting / Sponsor Showcase | B91 – 3rd Floor |
Session 4: Secretive Lives |
Session Chairs:Axel Visel – Deputy, Science ProgramsIgor Grigoriev – Fungal & Algal Program Head |
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| 2:00PM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 2:15PM | “The Secret Life of Extremophilic Red Algae” | Debashish Bhattacharya – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| 2:45PM | “Genomic and ecological factors shaping generalism and specialism across an entire subphylum” | Chris Hittinger – Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center/University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 3:00PM | “The Secret Life of Cheese: Microbial Interactions and Evolution in a Simple Microbiome” | Rachel Dutton – Arcadia Science |
| 3:30PM | Virtual Poster Session | |
| 5:00PM | Meeting Adjoum for the Day | |
Wednesday, August 23rd |
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| 8:00AM |
Badge Pickup & Breakfast |
B91 – 3rd Floor |
Session 5: Viruses, Mobile Elements, Metabolites |
Session Chairs:Trent Northen – Metabolomics Program HeadSimon Roux – Viral Genomics Lead |
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| 9:00AM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 9:15AM | “Metabolic Coordination Through Metabolite-Protein Interactions” | Uwe Sauer – ETH Institute of Molecular Systems Biology |
| 9:45AM | “Resource partitioning of algal exometabolites among phycosphere bacteria” | Vanessa Brisson – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 10:00AM | “Trying to make sense of many thousands of RNA viruses – insights from genome secondary structure” | Uri Neri – Tel – Aviv University |
| 10:15AM | Break | |
| 10:45AM | “Cells as Playgrounds for Mobile Genetic Elements” (Virtual) | Eduardo Rocha – Institut Pasteur |
| 11:15AM | Keynote – “Redefining Virus Macroevolution” (Virtual) | Edward Holmes – University of Sydney |
| 12:00PM | Working Lunch | |
Session 6: How Plants Get Tough |
Session Chairs:John Vogel – West Coast Plant Genomics LeadJeremy Schmutz – Plant Program Head (HudsonAlpha) |
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| 1:30PM | Session Overview | Session Chairs |
| 1:45PM | “Roots: Hidden Lynchpin in Climate Resiliency of Crops” | Julia Baily-Serres – University of California, Riverside |
| 2:15PM | “The physiological control of growth rate variation in the model grass Brachypodium” | Dave Des Marais – Massachusettes Institute of Technology |
| 2:30PM | Break | |
| 3:00PM | “Genomics-Driven Search for Defense-Related Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Wheat” | Guy Polturak – John Innes Center |
| 3:30PM | “Epicuticular Wax Accumulation and Regulation of Wax Pathway Gene Expression During Bioenergy Sorghum Stem Development” | Robert Chemelewski – Texas A&M University |
| 3:45PM | “Discovering conservation among chaos – path to superior clones?” (Virtual) | Peggy Ozias-Akins – University of Georgia |
| 4:15PM | “Considerations for Machine Learning-Aided Lab in the Loop Scientific Discovery” | Joseph Viviano – Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute |
| 4:45PM | Meeting Adjourn |