Metagenomics 2006

Guest Speaker: John Wooley, Metagenomics 2006 et. al. Chair and Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, UCSD Date: October 4th, 2006   to October 4th, 0000 Time: 8:30am-5:00pm Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UCSD [webcast] Host: Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 [event website] [registration]

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: 4The First Annual Metagenomics Conference will bring together a diverse community of scientists interested in the emerging discipline of metagenomics. Speakers and participants will be those working at the intersection of biogeochemistry, genome sequencing, molecular biology, bioinformatics, environmental science and related fields. Metagenomics 2006 is sponsored by the UCSD Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), J. Craig Venter Institute, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Details on the conference agenda, speakers, registration and other information are available at theconference website at: www.calit2.net/metagenomics2006 .  For further information, please contact Kayo Arima at karima@ucsd.edu or (858) 822-4946. SPEAKER BIO: 7:30-8:30 AM On-site Registration, Breakfast, and Poster Setup 8:30-8:50 AM Opening Remarks by John Wooley/ UCSD 8:50-9:20 AM Larry Smarr/ Calit2-UCSD "Cyber metagenomics" 9:20-10:25 AM Metagenomics I: Microbial Population and Environmental Genomics    - Francisco Rodriguez-Valera/ Universidad Miguel Hernández     (Spain)     "Strain genome, pangenome and metagenome: The case of      the square haloarchaeon"    - Jeffrey I. Gordon/ Washington University of St. Louis     "It's so nice to have a few trillion friends: Exploring the      structure and functions of our human gut microbiota and      microbiome" 10:25-10:40 AM Coffee Break 10:40-12:00 PM Metagenomics II: Microbial Cyberinfrastructure (This session is followed by demonstrations after Lunch)    - Paul Gilna/ Calit2-UCSD     "The CAMERA project: A cyberinfrastructure for microbial      metagenomic research"    - Frank Oliver Glöckner/ Max Planck Institute for Marine      Microbiology (Germany)     "Novel approaches to bioinformatics for metagenome analysis"    - Victor Markowitz/ Lawrence Berkeley National Lab     "IMG/M: Towards a production metagenome data management      and analysis system" 12:00-1:00 PM Lunch and Poster Setup 1:00-2:30 PM Parallel Tutorials/Demonstrations Multiple locations in Calit2 (Atkinson Hall)    - Tutorial: CAMERA    - Tutorial: IMG/M    - Tutorial: megx.net    - Demonstration: OptIPortal (tiled display demo)    - Demonstration: 4K Super High Definition 2:30-2:45 PM Coffee Break 2:45-4:20 PM Metagenomics III: Microbial Evolution, Functional Metagenomics and Biogeochemistry - W. Ford Doolittle/ Dalhousie University (Canada)   "Metagenomes and metaspecies" - Jillian F. Banfield*/ University of California, Berkeley   "Strain-resolved community proteomics reveals that    recombination shapes the genomes of acidophilic bacteria" - Edward F. DeLong/ MIT   "Microbial ocean metagenomics: The central dogma meets    systems ecology" 4:20-4:35 PM Coffee Break 4:35-5:45 PM Metagenomics IV: Panel Discussion/ Challenge and Opportunities - Co-Chair: Doug Bartlett/ SIO-UCSD - Co-Chair: Rob Edwards/ San Diego State University Panel: all speakers and more 6:00-7:30 PM Poster Session/Cocktail Hour 7:30 PM Dinner 8:30-9:00 PM Keynote Speech II: Jonathan Eisen/ University of California, Davis "The 'axis of evol' and the uses of evolutionary analysis in metagenomic studies"