| Sunday, September 14 | |
| 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) | |
| 7:45–8:05 pm | Jeffrey H. Miller University of California, Los Angeles “Welcome” |
| 8:05–9:00 pm | Keynote Address James C. Liao University of California, Los Angeles, CA “Non-Fermentative Pathways for Synthesis of Branched-Chain Higher Alcohols as Biofuels” |
| 9:00 pm | Reception (Iris Room) |
| Monday, September 15 | |
| 7:45–8:30 am | Breakfast (Dining Room) |
| Opening Session (Pineview Room) | |
| 8:45–9:00 am | Introduction/Announcements |
| I. Microbial Communities I: Biodiversity/ Interaction/ Evolution | |
| 9:00–9:30 am | Jonathan Eisen University of California, Davis, CA “A Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea” |
| 9:30–10:00 am | Bernhard Palsson University of California, San Diego, CA “The Genetic Basis for Adaptive Evolution in E. coli” |
| 10:00–10:30 am | George Weinstock The Genome Center at Washington University, St. Louis, MO “The Human Microbiome: Progress and Challenges” |
| 10:30–10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50–11:20 am | Gary Siuzdak The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA “Metabolomics Reveals Large Effect of Gut Microflora on Biochemistry and Activation of a Host Response” |
| 11:20–11:50 am | Jim Bristow DOE Joint Genomme Institute, Walnut Creek, CA “Microbial Sequencing for Biofuels Applications” |
| 11:50 am– 12:20 pm |
K. Eric Wommack University of Delaware, Newark, DE “Making Sense of the Chaff: What Will Metagenomic Approaches Tell Us About Viral Ecology?” |
| 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) |
| II. New Genomes and Strategies for Genome Sequence Annotation | |
| 7:45–8:15 pm | Valérie de Crécy-Lagard University of Florida, Gainesville, FL “Making Sense of Genomes: Linking Gene and Function by Comparative Genomics” |
| 8:15–8:45 pm | Trent Northen The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA “High Throughput Mass Spectrometry Based Metabolomic and Enzymatic Assays for Functional Genomics” |
| 8:45–9:00 pm | Break |
| 9:00–9:30 pm | Matteo Pellegrini University of California, Los Angeles, CA “New Methods for Processing High-Throughput Sequencing Data: Improving the Solexa/Illumina Data Analysis Pipeline” |
| 9:30–10:00 pm | Sabeeha S. Merchant University of California, Los Angeles, CA “Transcriptomics of Nutritional Copper Homeostasis in Chlamydomonas” |
| Tuesday, September 16 | |
| 7:45–8:30 am | Breakfast (Dining Room) |
| III. Pathogens/ Resistance | |
| 8:45–9:00 am | Lynn L. Silver LL Silver Consulting, LLC, Springfield, NJ “The State of Antibacterial Discovery in 15 minutes” |
| 9:00–9:30 am | Julian Parkhill Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK “Discovering Variation in Genetically Monomorphic Bacteria: SNPs and the Evolution of Salmonella Typhi” |
| 9:30–10:00 am | Tiffany Williams Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX “Global Health and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: Streptococcus pneumoniae sertoype 1 in Africa” |
| 10:00–10:30 am | Kim Lewis Northeastern University, Boston, MA “Persister Cells and Biofilm Resistance” |
| 10:30–10:50 am | Break |
| 10:50–11:20 am | Jeffery F. Miller University of California, Los Angeles, CA “Diversity-Generating Retroelements” |
| 11:20–11:50 am | Steven A. Benner Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, FL “Molecular Paleoscience” |
| 11:50 am– 12:20 pm |
Joe Zhou University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK “Metagenomics Insights of the Feedback Responses of a Grassland Ecosystem to Elevated Atmospheric CO2” |
| 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 (Dinning Room) |
| IV. Microbial Communities II: Metagenomics/Biodiversity | |
| 7:45–8:15 pm | Heather Allen University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI “Using Functional Metagenomics to Discover Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Natural Environments” |
| 8:15–8:45 pm | David A. Relman Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA “Response of the Human Distal Gut Microbiota Disturbance: The Effect of Antibiotics” |
| 8:45–9:00 pm | Break |
| 9:00–9:30 pm | Ashlee Earl Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA “Bacillus subtilis Biofilm Diversity” |
| 9:30–10:00 pm | Mary E. Lidstrom University of Washington, Seattle, WA “Coupling Function to Phylogeny via Single-Cell Phenotyping” |
| Wednesday, September 17 | |
| 7:45–8:45 am | Breakfast (Dining Room) |
| V. Bioenergetics / Regulatory and Metabolic Pathways / Modeling | |
| 8:45–9:15 am | John Dueber University of California, Berkeley, CA “Use of Synthetic Protein Scaffolds to Balance Pathway Flux of Engineered Metabolic Pathways” |
| 9:15–9:45 am | Maria L. Ghirardi National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO “Hydrogen Fuel Production by Microalgae: Issues and Future Directions” |
| 9:45–10:15 am | Caroline S. Harwood University of Washington, Seattle, WA “Redirection of Metabolism of Hydrogen Production” |
| 10:15–10:35 am | Break |
| 10:35–11:05 am | Byung-Kwan Cho University of California, San Diego, CA “The Reconstruction of the Transcriptional Regulatory Network in E. coli” |
| 11:05–11:35 am | Virginia Armbrust University of Washington, Seattle, WA “Molecular Insights into Silicon Bioprocesses in Marine Diatoms” |
| 11:35 am– 12:05 pm |
Athanasios Typas University of California, San Francisco “High-Throughput Quantitative Analysis of Genetic and Chemical-Genetic Interactions in E. coli” |
| 11:35 am– 12:05 pm |
Devaki Bhaya Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA “Germ Warfare in a Microbial Mat Community: CRISPRs Provide Insights into the Co-evolution of Host and Viral Genomes” |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch (Dining Room) |
| VI a. Undergraduate Education Programs Involving Genomics | |
| 4:30–5:00 pm | Erin Sanders-Lorenz University of California, Los Angeles, CA “Integrating Discovery-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences into UCLA Courses Using a Collaborative Curriculum Model” |
| 5:00–5:30 pm | Cheryl Kerfeld DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA “The JGI Microbial Genome Annotation Program” |
| 5:30–6:00 pm | Fredrick Blattner University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin “Insights from the Genomes of Commonly Used Lab Strains” |
| 6:15–7:45 pm | Dinner |
| VI b. Genomics/ New Methods | |
| 7:45–8:15 pm | Colin J. Ingham Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands “Reinventing the Petri Dish: Miniaturized Tools for High Throughput Microbial Culture” |
| 8:15–8:45 pm | Maureen Hillenmeyer Stanford University, Stanford, CA “The Chemical Genomic Portrait of Yeast: Uncovering a Phenotype for All Genes” |
| 8:45–9:15 pm | Simon Prochnik DOE–Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA “The Genome Sequence of the Deep-Branching Amoeboflagellate Naegleria gruberi Reveals Ancestral Eukarotic Functions” |
| 9:15 pm | Reception/Party (Iris Room) |
| Thursday, September 18 | |
| 7:30–8:20 am | Breakfast (Dining Room) |
| VII. Regulatory Mechanisms / New Methods | |
| 8:30–9:00 am | Elizabeth Fozo National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD “Regulating Bacterial Expression of Short Hydrophobic Toxic Proteins with Small RNAs” |
| 9:00–9:30 am | Mariusz Nowacki Princeton University, Princeton, NJ “RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Programming of a Genome-Rearrangement Pathway” |
| 9:30–9:55 am | Barry L. Wanner Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN “Development of the www.EcoliHub.org Information Resource” |
| 9:55–10:20 am | Hirotada Mori Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan “Systematic Analysis of Genetic Interaction of Escherichia coli” |
| 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 |
