Agenda
This year’s JGI User Meeting will begin Wednesday with workshops scheduled in the morning and presentations in the afternoon, followed in the evening with an opening reception and poster session. Speaker presentations will continue on Thursday to be followed by a reception and posters in the evening at JGI. The Meeting will conclude Friday morning following the final keynote presentation.
All functions will be held at the Walnut Creek Marriott (2355 North Main Street, Walnut Creek, CA) unless otherwise noted.
Slides and Videos
Presentation slides are linked below, adjacent to the talk title, as they become available. Videos will be hosted on SciVee and linked below.
Wednesday, March 25
| Start Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | JGI Workshops | |
| IMG Tutorial | Nikos Kyrpides | ||
| Eukaryotic Annotation Tools | Igor Grigoriev | ||
| JGI 101: Introduction to the JGI | Jim Bristow | ||
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch provided for WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ONLY on this day | |
| 1:00 PM |
4:30 PM | Plants, Biomass Degradation and Biofuels | Jim Bristow, Chair |
| 1:00 PM | 1:15 PM | Introduction - View on SciVee | Eddy Rubin, JGI |
| 1:15 PM | 1:45 PM | Pathogen virulence and the plant immune system - View on SciVee |
Jeff Dangl, U. North Carolina |
| 1:45 PM | 2:15 PM | Reverse-engineering cellulosomes in Clostridia - View on SciVee |
Jamie Cate, EBI |
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Algal Engineering for the production of an energy crop | Bryan O'Neill, Sapphire Energy |
| 2:45 PM | 3:15 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 PM | 3:45 PM | Evolution of Ancient Agriculture in Ants | Cameron Currie, U. Wisconsin |
| 3:45 PM | 4:15 PM | Arabidopsis Epigenetics | Joe Ecker, Salk Institute |
| 4:15 PM | 4:45 PM | New Developments in High Throughput Proteomics Measurements: Augmenting Genomics - View on SciVee |
Dick Smith, PNNL |
| 5:30 PM |
6:15 PM | Keynote Presentation - Download slides - View on SciVee | Chris Somerville, EBI |
| 6:15 PM |
10:00 PM | Opening Reception and Poster Session (at the Marriott) | |
Thursday, March 26
| Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM |
12:00 PM | Genome Evolution and Adaptation – Part 1 | Dan Rokhsar, JGI, chair |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Whole Genome Comparisons of Bacillus subtilis - View on SciVee | Ashlee Earl, Harvard University |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA) - download slides - View on SciVee | Jonathan Eisen, U. California, Davis |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Fungal genomics | James Galagan, Broad Institute |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | Genomic Analysis of Adaptation and Speciation in Mimulus guttatus | John Willis, Duke University |
| 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM | Diatom comparative genomics | Ginger Armbrust, U. Washington |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 12:00 PM | 1:30 PM | Business Meeting - open forum with JGI management | |
| 1:45 PM |
5:00 PM | New Technologies and Functional Genomics | Len Pennacchio, Chair |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | Keynote Presentation - View on SciVee | George Church, Harvard University |
| 2:30 PM | 3:00 PM | Pacific Biosciences | Steve Turner, Pacific Biosciences |
| 3:00 PM | 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Short Read Assembly | Pavel Pevzner, UCSD |
| 4:00 PM | 4:30 PM | Phylochip Analysis of Microbial Diversity - View on SciVee | Gary Andersen, LBNL |
| 4:30 PM | 5:00 PM | Chlamydomonas Transcriptomics - View on SciVee | Sabeeha Merchant, UCLA |
| 5:00 PM |
6:00 PM | Travel to JGI -- Bus Service from Marriott | |
| 6:00 PM |
9:00 PM | Reception, Poster Session, and Tours at JGI | |
| 9:00 PM | 10:00 PM | Travel from JGI -- Bus Service to Marriott | |
Friday, March 27
| Time | End Time | Subject | Session Chair/Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Genome Evolution and Adaptation – Part 2 | Eddy Rubin, Chair |
| 9:00 AM | 9:30 AM | Population Genomics and the Bacterial Species Concept - View on SciVee | Peg Riley, U. Massachusetts |
| 9:30 AM | 10:00 AM | Systems biology in Caulobacter | Lucy Shapiro, Stanford University |
| 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Diversity Generating Retroelements - View on SciVee | Jeffrey Miller, UCLA |
| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | To Refseq or Reseq Oryza - That is the Question | Rod Wing, U. Arizona |
| 11:30 AM | 12:15 PM | Keynote Presentation - View on SciVee | Craig Venter, JCVI |
| 12:15 PM | End of User Meeting | ||