Saturday Morning and Afternoon, 13 January 2007 --- 10:20 am to 6:20 pm and
Sunday Morning, 14 January 2007 --- 8:00 am till 12:40 pm

NSF/USDA CSREES Microbial Genome Sequencing Program Workshop - Pacific Salon 4 & 5

Organizers: Ann Lichens-Park, USDA/CSREES
(apark@csrees.usda.gov)

and Ronald Weiner, National Science Foundation. (rweiner@nsf.gov)

Speakers:

Saturday 10:20 am to 6:20 pm

1.10:20 am
Maryanna Henkart, National Science Foundation (mhenkart@nsf.gov)
Anna Palmisano, US Department of Agriculture/CSREES (apalmisano@csrees.usda.gov)
"Introductions"

2. 10:40 am
Andreas Weber, Michigan State University (aweber@msu.edu)
"The red, hot genome project genome sequence of the extremophilic microalga Galdieria sulphuraria"

3. 11:10 am
Chris Lawrence, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Lawrence@vbi.vt.edu)
"The Alternaria brassicicola genome project: current status of annotation and applications for health-related research across host kingdoms"

4. 11:40 am
Rosemary Loria, Cornell University (rl21@cornell.edu)
"Characterization of the 10 Mb Genome of Streptomyces scabies"

5. 12:10 pm
Martin Klotz, University of Louisville (Martin.Klotz@louisville.edu)
"Nitrifier genomics insights into a simple catabolic lifestyle"

6. 12:40 pm
"Break for Lunch"

7. 1:40 pm
Adam Bogdanove, Iowa State University (ajbog@iastate.edu)
"Comparative genome analysis of closely related plant pathogenic xanthomonads that differ in host and tissue specificity"

8. 2:10 pm
Nancy Moran, University of Arizona (nmoran@email.arizona.edu)
"Genomics of Bacterial Endosymbionts of Insects"

9. 2:40 pm
Barry Goldman, Monsanto Corporation (Barry.S.Goldman@monsanto.com)
"Xenorhabdus, an emerging model for symbiosis and pathogenesis"

10. 3:10 pm
Amy Horneman, University of Maryland (ahornema@epi.umaryland.edu)
"The question of virulence in Aeromonas hydrophila"

11. 3:25 pm
"Break"

12. 3:40 pm
Jacques Ravel, The Institute for Genomics Research (jravel@tigr.org)
"Lessons learned from the genome projects of the obligate symbiont Prochloron didemni and the model organism Bacillus subtilis"

13. 4:10 pm
Stephen Schuster, Pennsylvania State University (dab14@psu.edu)
"Non-Sanger-sequencing and what it might do for Biology"

14. 4:20 pm
Discussion, New Technologies
"Updates on experiences relating to the advantages and disadvantages of new sequencing technologies (e.g. 454 technology)?"

15. 5:00 pm
"Poster Session"

Sunday 8:00 am to 12:40 pm

2. 8:15 am
Donald Bryant, Pennsylvania State University, (dab14@psu.edu)
"Genomics and metagenomics of green bacteria: unanticipated diversity and the discovery of the first chlorophototroph from the phylum Acidobacteria"

3. 8:45 am
Stephen Kingsmore, National Center for Genome Resources, (sfk@ncgr.org)
"Tools and tales: De novo 454 assembly and resequencing of Phytophthora capsici"

4. 9:15 am
Mark Lawrence, Mississippi State (Lawrence@cvm.msstate.edu)
"Experimental annotation of bovine respiratory disease pathogen genomes by proteogenomic mapping"

5. 9:35 am
Kimmen Sjolander, University of California, Berkeley (kimmen@berkeley.edu)
"Phylogenomic and structural classification of microbial genomes: the PhyloFacts Microbial Encyclopedia (a progress report)"

6. 9:55 am
"Break"

7. 10:10am
Ralph Dean, North Carolina State University (Radean2@ncsu.edu)
"The rice blast genome project (part 2): The box of parts arrived, but where are the assembly and operating instructions?"

8. 10:40 am
Paul Gilna, University of California, San Diego (pgilna@soe.ucsd.edu)
"The CAMERA project, a new cyberinfrastructure for metagenomics research"

9. 11:10 am
Discussion II
Question:
"How do genome sequences and metagenomics enable us to address the big biological questions (complexity, robustness, communication, evolution)?"

10. 12.20 pm
"Closing Remarks"

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