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Arrowhead 2010

Scientific Program

 

Sunday, September 12
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 David A. Relman Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA     “Advances in Understanding the Human Microbiome”
9:00 pm	Reception  (Iris Room)
Monday, September 13
7:45–8:30 am	Breakfast  (Dining Room)
	Opening Session  (Pineview Room)
8:45–9:00 am	Introduction/Announcements
Session I.  Microbial Communities I: Microbiomes/Biodiversity
9:00–9:30 am	Nina R. Salama Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA     “Helicobacter pylori: Diversity, interaction with the resident microbiome, and its role in gastric cancer”
9:30–10:00 am	Huiying Li University of California and the David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA     “The Human Skin Microbiome: Acne vulgaris”
10:00–10:30 am	Julia A. Segre National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD     “Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome: Eczema and Immunodeficiencies”
10:30–10:50 am	Break
10:50–11:20 am	Larry Forney University of Idaho, Moscow, ID     “Temporal Dynamics of Vaginal Microbes in Reproductive Age Women”
11:20–11:50 am	Cindy M. Liu Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ     “The Penis Microbiome:  Uncovering the Impacts of Circumcision”
11:50–12:20 pm	Ashlee Earl The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA     “Our Microbes: A Reference Genome Collection for the Human Microbiome”
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: Metagenomics/Biodiversity
7:45–8:15 pm	Steve Kembel University of Oregon, Eugene, OR     “Phylogenetic Ecology and Metagenomics”
8:15–8:45 pm	Rachel Mackelprang LBNL, Berkeley, CA     “Tackling a Soil Metagenome:  Lessons From the Permafrost”
8:45–9:00 pm	Break
9:00–9:30 pm	Shannon Williamson J. Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA     “Single Virus Genomics: Changing the Landscape of Virology”
9:30–10:00 pm	Tanja Woyke DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA     “Single Cell Genomics”
Tuesday, September 14
7:45–8:30 am	Breakfast  (Dining Room)
Session III.  Pathogens / Antibiotics / Resistance
8:45–8:55 am	Jeffrey H. Miller University of California and the David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA     “Introduction/Overview”
8:55–9:25 am	Gautam Dantas Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO     “Antibiotic Resistance Reservoirs in Human and Environmental Microbiomes”
9:25–9:55 am	Shauna McGillivray Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX     “Proteases and Virulence of Bacillus anthracis”
9:55–10:25 am	Michael A. Fischbach University of California, San Francisco, CA     “Small Molecules from Microbes: Streptomyces”
10:25–10:45 am	Break
10:45–11:15 am	Lance B. Price Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ     “Multidrug Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Food Animals:  Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Clonal Complex 398”
11:15–11:45 am	Magdalene So University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ     “Comparative Genomics of Commensal and Pathogenic Neisseria”
11:45–12:15 pm	Colin Manoil University of Washington, Seattle, WA     “Phenotyping a Non-Model Prokaryote at Genome Scale”
12:15–12:30 pm	Michael Y. Galperin NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, MD     “Evolution of Bacterial Signal Transduction”
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 IV.  Evolution / Extremophiles
7:45–8:15 pm	Eric J. Alm The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA     “Darwin’s Footprints in the Microbial World”
8:15–8:45 pm	Jonathan Eisen University of California, Davis, CA     “A Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea”
8:45–9:00 pm	Break
9:00–9:30 pm	Federico Lauro University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia     “Integrative Approaches to the Study of Natural Microbial Communities”
9:30–10:00 pm	Valérie de Crécy-Lagard University of Florida, Gainesville, FL     “A Tale of Two Proteins: Discovering the Function of Two Protein Families of Unknown function Conserved Throughout the Tree of Life”
Wednesday, September 15
7:45–8:30 am	Breakfast  (Dining Room)
Session V.  COMBREX Workshop for Computational and Experimental Determination of Protein Function
8:45–9:05 am	Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA     “Identifying Protein Function: A Call for Community Action”
9:05–9:25 am	Peter Karp SRI International, Menlo Park, CA     “Identification of Annotation Error and Incompleteness through Network Analysis”
9:25–9:45 am	Steven Brenner University of California, Berkeley, CA       — TBA —
9:45–10:05 am	Bruno Sobral Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA     “Prokaryotic Annotation Status”
10:05–10:25 am	Break
10:30–10:50 am	Manuel Ferrer CSIC – Institute of Catalysis, Madrid, Spain     “High Throughput Arrays for Protein Function”
10:50–11:10 am	Alexander Yakunin University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada     “Application of Enzymatic Assays for Experimental Annotation of Unknown Proteins”
11:10–11:30 am	John Gerlt University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL     “Predicting and Discovering New Functions in the Enolase Superfamily”
11:30–11:50 am	Patricia Babbitt University of California, San Francisco, CA     “Annotation Error in Public Databases”
11:50–12:10 pm	Simon Kasif Boston University, Boston, MA     “Breaking the Power Law Curse:  A Computational Bridge to Experiments”
12:10–12:20 pm	Iddo Friedberg     Introduction of breakout groups for afternoon discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch (Dining Room)
Session VI.  COMBREX Workshop for Computational and Experimental Determination of Protein Function
4:15–5:30 pm	Breakout Groups convene
	Annotation/DB issues — ?
	Iddo Friedberg Miami University, Oxford, OH     Computational Predictions
	Andrei Osterman Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, CA     HT/LT Experimentation
	Martin Steffen Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA     COMBREX Nuts and Bolts
5:30–6:15 pm	Report Preparation
6:15–7:45 pm	Dinner (Dining Room)
7:45–7:55 pm	Poster Awards Presentation
7:55–8:10 pm	BG1 presentation
8:10–8:25 pm	BG2 presentation
8:25–8:40 pm	BG3 presentation
8:40–8:55 pm	BG4 presentation
8:55 pm	Richard J. Roberts New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA     Closing
9:25 pm	Reception/Party (Iris Room)
Thursday, September 16
7:30–8:20 am	Breakfast  (Dining Room)
VII. Bioenergetics / Regulatory and Metabolic Pathways / Modeling
8:30–8:55 am	Jizhong (Joe) Zhou University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK     “Rapid Genome Evolution and Adaptation to Salt Selection”
8:55–9:25 am	Athanasios Lykidis DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA     “The Genomics of Bacterial Lipid Metabolism”
9:25–9:50 am	Kimmen Sjölander University of California, Berkeley, CA     “The PhyloFacts Phylogenomic Microbial Protein Family Encyclopedia”
9:50–10:30 am	— TBA —
10:45 am	Checkout
11:00 am	Departure of Bus for LAX
12:00 noon	Lunch
1:00 pm	Departure of Vans for LAX