This is the preliminary meeting agenda. Please check back regulary for updates and changes. You may also download the agenda in PDF format.
Sunday Evening, February 10, 2008 |
| 5:00-8:00 |
Registration and Poster Set Up |
| 6:00-8:00 |
Mixer |
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Monday, February 11, 2008 |
| 7:00-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Welcome, State of Genomics:GTL Program
Salon E
Sharlene Weatherwax
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| 9:00-11:30 |
Plenary Session: DOE Bioenergy Research Centers
Salon E
Moderator: John Houghton |
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| 9:00-9:45 |
Tim Donohue - University of Wisconsin
The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center |
| 9:45-10:30 |
Martin Keller - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Bioenergy Science Center |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-11:30 |
Jay Keasling - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Joint Bioenergy Institute |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Joint Genome Institute Update
Salon E
Eddie Rubin |
| 12:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 1: Metabolic Engineering Working Group (MEWG): Interagency Conference on Metabolic Engineering
Salon F
Moderator: Fred Heineken, National Science Foundation |
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| 2:00-2:25 |
Christina Smolke, Caltech
Foundational advances in RNA engineering applied to control biosynthesis |
| 2:25-2:50 |
Dhinakar Kompala, University of Colorado, Boulder
Kinetic modeling of metabolically engineered Zymomonas mobilis to maximize ethanol production from a mixture of glucose and xylose |
| 2:50-3:15 |
Terry Papoutsakis, University of Delaware
Development of tolerant and other complex phenotypes for biofuel production |
| 3:15-3:40 |
Break |
| 3:40-4:05 |
Roger Ely, Oregon State University
Metabolic engineering for maximal, 24-hour production of hydrogen gas by wild-type and mutant strains of Synechocystis PCC 6803 |
| 4:05-4:30 |
John Frost, Michigan State University/ Frost Chemical Laboratory
Supplanting the chemical legacy of Alfred Nobel: Creation of a pathway for the biosynthesis of 1,2,4-butanetriol |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Group Discussion |
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| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 2: Nanoscience Technology
Salon G
Moderator: Sharlene Weatherwax
Organizers: Ron Zuckermann – Molecular Foundry, LBNL
Mike Simpson – Center for Nanophase Materials Science, ORNL
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| 2:00-3:15 |
Ron Zuckerman – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carolyn Pearce – University of Manchester
Joseph Mougous – University of Washington
Kent Kirshenbaum – New York University
David Robinson – Sandia National Laboratory |
| 3:15-3:30 |
Break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Mike Simpson – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mike McCollum – Miami University
Mitch Doktycz – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gary Sayler – University of Tennessee |
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| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 3: Methods for Studying Proteins & Protein Complexes
Salon H
Moderator: Arthur Katz
Organizer: Jim Bruce, Washington State University |
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| 2:00-2:25 |
Liang Shi – Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Investigation of Protein-protein Interactions Related to
Salmonella typhimurium Pathogenesis: in vivo cross-linking with
formaldehyde, tandem affinity purification and mass spectrometry identification
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| 2:25-2:50 |
Gareth Butland – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title To Be Announced |
| 2:50-3:15 |
Gary Siuzdak – Scripps Research Institute
A Novel Approach Toward Characterizing Protein-Metabolite Interactions |
| 3:15-3:40 |
Greg Hurst – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Analysis of Protein Complexes at the Genomics:GTL Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Group Discussion |
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| 5:00-8:00 |
Poster Session
Salon ABCD |
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 |
| 7:00-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Keynote Speaker - Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Molecules of War & Conversation and the Soil Metagenome
Salon E |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Data Management & Sharing Policy – Susan Gregurick & Jim Fredrickson |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Break |
| 10:00-12:00 |
Plenary Session: Advances in Genomic Technology
Salon E
Moderator: Marvin Stodolsky |
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| 10:00-10:40 |
Daniel Gibson - J. Craig Venter Institute
Mycoplasma Genome Synthesis and Transplantation: Progress on Constructing a Synthetic Cell |
| 10:40-11:20 |
George Church - Harvard University
Genome-wide Reprogramming and Accelerated Evolution |
| 11:20-12:00 |
Daphne Preuss - University of Chicago, Chromatin Inc.
Developing Synthetic Chromosomes for Crops: Applications for Agriculture and Energy
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| 12:00-2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 4:
Advanced Characterization and Imaging of Lignocellulose Materials
Salon F
Moderator: Roland Hirsch
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| 2:00-2:25 |
Barbara Evans - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dynamic Visualization of Lignocellulose Degradation by Integration of Neutron Scattering Imaging and Computer Simulation
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| 2:25-2:50 |
Gary Peter - University of Florida
Title To Be Announced |
| 2:50-3:15 |
Hoi-Ying Holman - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Synchrotron Infrared (SIR) SpectroMicroscopy of Living Microbial Cells |
| 3:15-3:40 |
Paul Bohn - Notre Dame University
Three-Dimensional Spatial Profiling of Lignocellulosic Materials by Coupling Light Scattering and Mass Spectrometry |
| 3:40-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Group Discussion |
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| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 5: Microbial Growth Technologies for Systems Biology
Salon G
Moderator: Joe Graber
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| 2:00-2:25 |
Jeff McLean, J. Craig Venter Institute
Cultivation and Analytical Approaches for Systems Biology of Biofilms
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| 2:25-2:50 |
Mary Lidstrom, University of Washington
Coupling Function to Genomics in Microbial Communities Via Single-Cell Analysis |
| 2:50-3:15 |
Nitin Baliga, Institute for Systems Biology
Culturing Technologies for Constructing Predictive Systems- Scale Models of Microbial Behavior |
| 3:15-3:40 |
Dave Emerson, Bigelow Research Laboratory
The Way Life Should Be: Using Gradients to Capture Microbes and Study Their Behavior |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Group Discussion |
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| 2:00-5:00 |
Breakout Session 6: Web-based Resources for Microbial Genomics
Amphitheater, Lower Level
Moderators: Dan Drell & Sharlene Weatherwax
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| 2:00-2:30 |
Microbes Online
Paramvir Dehal, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 2:30-3:30 |
Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG)
Phil Hugenholtz, Joint Genome Institute |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00-5:00 |
CAMERA Metagenomics Database
Rekha Seshdari, J. Craig Venter Institute |
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| 5:00-8:00 |
Poster Session
Salon ABCD |
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 |
| 7:00-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00-10:00 |
Plenary Session: Protein Interactions, Complexes, & Networks
Salon E
Moderator: Arthur Katz |
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| 8:00-8:40 |
Michelle Buchanan - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Center for Molecular and Cellular Systems: Biological Insights from Large Scale Protein-Protein Interaction Studies |
| 8:40-9:20 |
Mark Biggin - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High Throughput Identification and Characterization of Protein
Complexes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris |
| 9:20-10:00 |
John Tainer - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Molecular Assemblies, Genes, and Genomics Integrated Efficiently (MAGGIE): Integrating Combined Methods and Comparative Systems to Connect Genes to Functional Networks |
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| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 -11:00 |
Zan Luthey-Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title To Be Announced |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory
Presentation on the Joint Report BERAC/ASCAC Joint Report on Computational Modeling in the Genomics:GTL Program |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Closing Remarks |
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