| Sunday, September 24 |
| 7:45 PM |
Keynote I – Edward M. Rubin,
DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA
“The JGI: Metagenomics and Beyond” |
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| Monday, September 25 |
| Session 1 8:45 AM – 12:20 PM |
| Syngenomics: Pathways/ Modeling/ Synthetic Biology I |
| Jay Keasling |
University of California, Berkeley, CA
“Engineering E. coli to Produce New Pathways” |
| Michael Seibert |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
“Approaches to Developing Biological H(2)-Photoproducing Organisms and Processes” |
| Greg Davis |
Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO
“Use of Group II Introns for Large Scale Engineering of Chromosomes” |
| Bernhard Palsson |
University of California, San Diego, CA
“The Reconstruction of the TRN in E. Coli and its Plasticity with Adaption” |
| Fredrick Blattner |
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
“From Genomes to Designed Genomes: The E. Coli Reduction Experience” |
Special Topics Lecture – Jeff F. Miller,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Tropism Switching in Pathogens Defines
a Family of Diversity-Generating Retroelements” |
| Poster Session | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
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| Session 2 7:45 PM – 10:15 PM |
| New Sequencing and Genomics Methods |
| Jeffrey H. Miller |
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“KOFS: Knockout Fusion Screening of the E. coli KO Collection” |
| Aled Edwards |
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
“Large Scale Biochemical Approaches to Annotated Genomes” |
| John H. Leamon |
454 Life Sciences Corp, Branford, CT
“Routine, One Day Whole Genome Bacterial Sequencing” |
| Christiane Honisch |
Sequenom, Inc., San Diego, CA
“Development of New Methods for Comparative Sequence Analysis” |
Zaida (Zan)
LutheySchulten |
University of Illinois at Urbana, Champagne, Urbana, IL
“Evolutionary Profiles from the QR Factorization of Multiple Sequence Alignments” |
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| Tuesday, September 26 |
| Session 3 8:45 AM – 12:05 PM |
| Resources/ Pathogens/ Biothreats |
| Barry Wanner |
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
“EcoliHub, K-12 Information Resource – Under Construction” |
| Eric Eisenstadt |
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD
“On Using Genomics to Combat Agents of Infectious Diseases” |
| Julian Parkhill |
Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
“Comparative Genomics and Genome Organization of Microbial Pathogens” |
| David Raskin |
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
“Functional Genomic Studies of Vibrio cholerae Essential Genes” |
| Jacques Ravel |
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD
“Genomic Projects at TIGR Involving Pathogens and Biothreats” |
| Victor Nizet |
UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
“Genetic Analysis of Virulence Factors Allowing Streptococcus and Staphylococcus to Escape Phagocyte Killing” |
| Poster Session | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
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| Session 4 7:45 PM – 10:00 PM |
| Microbial Communities I: Metagenomics/ Biodiversity |
| Gregory L. Challis |
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
“Genome Mining in Streptomyces coelicolor” |
| Nathan C. VerBerkmoes |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
“Strain Resolved Proteomics Reveals that Recombination Shapes the Genomes of Acidophilic Bacteria in Natural Consortia” |
| Jessica Green |
University of California, Merced, CA
“Probing Patterns of Microbial Diversity” |
| Curtis A. Suttle |
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
“Metagenomic Analysis of Viral Diversity in the Sea” |
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| Wednesday, September 27 |
| Session 5 8:45 AM – 12:30 PM |
| Microbial Communities II: Biodiversity/ Interaction/ Evolution |
| Jonathan Eisen |
University of California, Davis, CA
“Genomics of Mutualistic Symbioses and the Origin of Novelty” |
| Richard E. Lenski |
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
“Experimental Evolution” |
| Julie Huber |
Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
“Microbial Diversity in the Deep Sea and the Underexplored Rare Biosphere” |
| Margaret A. Riley |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Microbial Phylogonies, Genomics, and the Bacterial Species Concept” |
| Siv Andersson |
University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
“Alpha-Proteobacterial Genome Complexity” |
| Derek Lovley |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Systems Biology Approach to Groundwater Bioremediation and Microbial Electricity Production” |
| Zakee Sabree |
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
“Getting Down and Dirty with Antibiotic Resistance: Cloning the Soil Resistome” |
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| Session 6a 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM |
Genomic Undergraduate Education
Programs/ Gene Function Discovery |
| Cheryl Kerfeld |
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Combined Laboratory Course Effort to Sequence Complete Genome” |
| Erin Sanders-Lorenz |
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“Making Individual Phylogenomic Trees in a Laboratory Course” |
| Tina K. Van Dyk |
DuPont, Wilmington, DE
“From Genome-Wide Reporter Gene Arrays to Gene Function Discovery and Biosensor Development” |
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| Session 6b 7:45 PM – 9:15 PM |
| Cell/ Cell Communication |
| Chris Waters |
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
“The Vibrio harveyi Quorum-Sensing System Uses Shared Regulatory
Components to Discriminate Between Multiple Autoinducers” |
| Marvin Whiteley |
The University of Texas, Austin, TX
“Membrane Vesicles Traffic Signals and Facilitate Group Activity
in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” |
| Tracy Teal |
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
“Spatiometabolic Stratification of Shewanella oneidensis Biofilms” |
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| Thursday, September 28 |
| Session 7 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM |
| New Model Organisms/ Late Breaking Advances |
| Robert Gunsalus |
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
“First Genomic View of ‘The Missing Link’ in Anaerobic Food Chains: Syntrophus aciditrophicus” |
| Jizhong Zhou |
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
“Genomics of Ethanol Producing Bacteria” |
| Poster Talks | 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM |