Arrowhead 2004
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
4:00-6:00 pm	Arrival and Check-in at Lake Arrowhead Conference Center
6:15-7:45 pm	Dinner (Dining Room) Opening of Meeting (Pineview Room)
7:45-8:10 pm	Jeffrey H. Miller University of California, Los Angeles “Welcome”
8:10-9:00 pm	Keynote Address Edward F. Delong Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Systems Biology in the Ocean”
9:00 pm	Reception (Iris Room)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
7:45-8:30 am	Breakfast (Dining Room)
Session I	Microbial Communities I: Metagenomics/Biodiversity (Pineview Room)
8:45-9:00 am	Introduction/Announcements
9:00-9:30 am	Jonathan Eisen The Institute for Genomic Research “Microbial Life in the Sargasso Sea”
9:30-10:00 am	Martin Keller Diversa “From Genomes to Life”
10:00-10:30 am	Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California “Subfreezing Activity of Microorganisms and the Potential Habitability of Mars’ Polar Regions”
10:30-10:50 am	Break
10:50-11:20 am	Kasthuri Venkateswaran Jet Propulsion Laboratory “Microbial Diversity of Spacecraft Associated Microbes and Their Survival Capabilities Under Martian Environmental Conditions”
11:20-11:50 am	Steven K. Schmidt University of Colorado “Active Microbial Communities Under Snow”
11:50 am-12:20 pm	Patrick Schloss University of Wisconsin “Using Functional Anchors to Study the Soil Metagenome”
12:30 pm	Lunch (Dining Room)
4:00-6:00 pm	Poster Session (Lakeview Room) Social/Mixer (Lakeview Room)
6:15-7:45 pm	Dinner (Dining Room)
Session II	Microbial Communities II: Biodiversity/Interaction/Evolution
7:45-8:15 pm	John Heidelberg The Institute for Genomic Research “Comparative Genomics of Yellowstone Cynabacterial Mats”
8:15-8:45 pm	Gene Tyson University of California, Berkeley “Genomics of Microbial Communities”
8:45-9:15 pm	Beth Lazazerra University of California, Los Angeles “Mechanisms of Cell-Cell Signaling by Bacillus Subtilis”
9:15-9:30 pm	Break
9:30-10:00 pm	Margaret A. Riley Yale University “Bacteriocin Diversity: Evolutionary Perspectives”
10:00-10:25 pm	Rachna J. Ram University of California, Berkeley “Key Roles for Novel “Hypothetical” Proteins in a Natural Microbial Biofilm are Revealed by Whole Community Proteomics”
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
7:45-8:30 am	Breakfast (Dining Room)
Session III	Syngenomics: Pathways/Modeling/Synthetic Biology I
8:45-9:15 am	Bernhard Palsson University of California, San Diego “Using in silico Models of Microorganisms to Elucidate Metabolic Pathways”
9:15-9:45 am	Jay Keasling University of California, Berkeley “Engineering E. coli to Produce New Pathways”
9:45-10:15 am	Drew Endy Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Design of Genetic System”
10:15-10:35 am	Break
10:35-11:05 am	Donald A. Bryant Pennsylvania State University “Biochemical Genetics in the Obligately Phototrophic Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium Tepidum”
11:05-11:35 am	Michael A. Savageau University of Michigan School of Medicine “Constructing Genetic Circuitry in E. coli”
11:35 am-12:00 pm	Huiying Li University of California, Los Angeles “Using Bioinformatics to Detect Parallel Pathways in Organisms”
12:00 pm- 12:25 pm	Les Hoffman Epicentre “Molecular Biology Tools for Microbial Prospecting”
12:30 pm	Lunch (Dining Room)
4:00-6:00 pm	Poster Session (Lakeview Room) Social/Mixer (Lakeview Room)
5:00- 6:00 pm	Workshop (Pineview Room) Peter Karp SRI International “Making the Most of the EcoCyc Database”
6:15- 7:45 pm	Dinner (Dinning Room)
Session IV	Pathways/Modeling II: New Genome Studies
7:45- 8:15 pm	Clifford Unkefer Los Alamos National Laboratory “Stable Isotope Assisted Metabolome Analysis of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 and Nitrosomonas europae”
8:15- 8:45 pm	Michael Laub Harvard University “Global Approaches to Dissecting the Caulobacter Cell Cycle”
8:45- 9:00 pm	Break
9:00- 9:30 pm	Susannah G. Tringe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “The JGI Genome Sequencing Program – New Findings”
9:30-10:00 pm	Rick Cavicchioli University of New South Wales, Australia “Insight into Cold Adaptation in Archaea from an Integrated Genomic/Proteomic Approach”
10:00-10:25 pm	Pongpan Laksanalamai University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute “A Versatile Nascent Associated Complex in the Archaea: Evidence for a combination of chaperone and protein degradation roles”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
7:45-8:30 am	Breakfast (Dining Room)
Session V	Pathogens/Antibiotic Resistance/Biothreats
8:45-9:15 am	Julian Davies University of British Columbia “Antibiotic Resistance”
9:15-9:45 am	Julian Parkhil Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK “Comparative Genomics and Genome Organization of Microbial Pathogens”
9:45-10:15 am	Carolin Frank University of Uppsala, Sweden “Comparative Genomics of Vector-borne Pathogens”
10:15-10:35 am	Break
10:35-11:05 am	Fredrick Blattner University of Wisconsin “Genomic Studies of Pathogens”
11:05-11:50 am	Paul Keim Northern Arizona University and Jacques Ravel The Institute for Genomic Research “Analyzing Biothreat Agents with Genomic Sequencing Information”
11:50 am-12:20 pm	Nicholas H. Bergman University of Michigan Medical School “Functional Genomics Studies of Anthrax Pathogenesis”
12:30 pm	Lunch (Dining Room)
Session VI A	Extremophiles/New Genomes/Bioremediation
4:30-5:00 pm	Allen Trang University of Massachusetts “New Insights into the “POWER” of Geobacter: Physiology, Regulatory Networks, and Electron Transfer from Genome Analysis”
5:00-5:30 pm	John E. Battista Louisiana State University “Deinococcus radiodurans, an Extremely Radiation Resistant Organism”
5:30-6:00 pm	Wolfgang Liebl University of Goettingen, Germany “Genome Sequence of Picrophilus torridus and its implications for life around pH 0”
6:15-7:45 pm	Dinner
Session VI B	Fungal Genomics/Comparative Analysis
7:45-8:15 pm	Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory “Lessons from Comparative Genomics and Proteomics of Flamentous Fungi”
8:15-8:45 pm	Jim Kronstad University of British Columbia “A SAGE Approach to Fungal Pathogenesis”
8:45-9:10 pm	Vinayak Kapatral Integrated Genomics “Comparative Functional Genome and Evolutionary Analysis of Wolbachia, Rickettsia, and Ehrlichia Genomes Using ERGO Bioinformatics Suite”
9:10 pm	Reception/Party (Iris Room)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
7:30-8:15 am	Breakfast (Dining Room)
Session VII	New Methods/New Discoveries
8:30-9:00 am	Owen White The Institute for Genomic Research “Bacterial Annotation Tools”
9:00-9:30 am	Monica Riley Marine Biological Laboratory “Capturing Information from Structural Elements Provides Functional Information for Many Proteins of Unknown Function”
9:30-10:00 am	Tom Albert NimleGen Systems, Inc “Whole Genome Analysis of Microbial Genomes Using High- Density Oligonucleotide Microarrays”
10:00-10:30 am	Jizhong Zhou Oak Ridge National Laboratory “Novel Random Matrix Theory-Based Approach for Identifying Gene Interaction Networks”
10:45 am	Check-out
11:00 am	Departure of 1st Conference Bus for LAX
12:00 pm	Lunch (Dining Room)
1:15 pm	Departure of Vans to LAX