Saturday Morning and Afternoon, 12 January 2008 --- 10:20 am to 6:20 pm and
Sunday Morning, 13 January 2008 --- 8:00 am till 12:40 pm

NSF/USDA CSREES Microbial Genome Sequencing Program Workshop - Pacific Salon 2

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

and Lita Proctor, National Science Foundation. (lproctor@nsf.gov)

Saturday, Morning, 12 January 2008 -- 10:20 am - 12:40 pm, Pacific Salon 2

1. 10:20 am
Maryanna Henkart , National Science Foundation
(mhenkart@nsf.gov)
and
Anna Palmisano, US Department of Agriculture/CSREES
(apalmisano@csrees.usda.gov)
Introductions

2. 10:40 am
Li-Jun Ma, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
(lijun@broad.mit.edu)
Genome Stability and Innovations: Lesson Learned from the Fusarium Comparative Genomics

3. 11:10 am
Patricia Pukkila, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(pukkila@unc.edu)
The Coprinus cinereus Genome Project

4. 11:40 am
Lynda Ciuffetti, Oregon State University
(ciuffetL@science.oregonstate.edu)
Genome Sequence of Pyrenophora tritici-repentis: a Necrotrophic Fungus with a Complex Race Structure

5. 12:10 pm
Christopher Schardl, University of Kentucky
(schardl@uky.edu)
Genome of Epichloe festucae, a Model Endophyte of Grasses

6. 12: 40 pm -- Break for Lunch

Saturday Afternoon, 12 January 2008 --- 1:40 pm to 5:00 pm - Pacific Salon 2 --- 5:00 pm to 6:20 pm ? Poster Session

7. 1:40 pm
Mark Jackwood, University of Georgia
(mjackwoo@uga.edu)
Genomic characterization of newly emerging coronaviruses

8. 2:10 pm
Marilyn Roossinck, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
(mroossinck@noble.org)
Exploring Plant Virus Biodiversity--The 5,000 Virus Genome Project

9. 2:40 pm
Charles Opperman, North Carolina State University
(warthog@unity.ncsu.edu)
The genome sequence of Meloidogyne hapla: A plant parasitic nematode reveals its secrets

10. 3:10 pm
Parwinder Grewal, Ohio State University
(grewal.4@ohu.edu)
The Genome Sequence of Heterorhabditis bacteriphora: Exploiting the Unique Biology and Biological Control of an Entomopathogenic Nematode

11. 3:25 pm -- Break

12. 3:40 pm
Debashish Bhattacharya, University of Iowa
(Debashi-bhattacharya@uiowa.edu)
Preliminary Insights into the Structure and Evolution of the Nuclear Genome of the Glaucophyte Cyanophora paradoxa

13. 4:10 pm
Kimmen Sjolander, University of California, Berkeley
(Kimmen@berkeley.edu)
The PhyloFacts Microbial Encyclopedia of Protein Families

14. 4:25 pm
Discussion I
Updates on sequencing technologies and sequence analysis: What are the current challenges and opportunities?

15. 5:00 pm -- Poster Session

Sunday, 13 January 2008 ---- 8:00 am - 12:40 pm, Pacific Salon 2

1. 8:00 am
Ann Lichens-Park, USDA/CSREES
(apark@csrees.usda.gov)
Opening Comments

2. 8:05 am
Robert Gunsalus, University of California, Los Angeles
(robg@microbio.ucla.edu)
Genomics of the "Missing Biochemical Link" in Anaerobic Food Chains: the Syntrophic Bacteria

3. 8:35 am
Donald Kobayashi, Rutgers University
(kobayashi@aesop.rutgers.edu)
The Genome Sequence of Lysobacter enzymogenes: Insights into Bacterial Pathogenesis of Lower Eukaryotes

4. 9:05 am
Jared Leadbetter, California Institute of Technology
(jared.r.leadbetter@gmail.com)
Genome-Enabled Insights into the Physiological Ecology of Termite Gut Spirochetes

5. 9:35 am
Brett Tyler, Virginia Tech
(bmtyler@vt.edu)
Synthesizing Genome Sequence Information from Diverse Host-Associated Microbes Using the Gene Ontology

6. 9:50 am -- Break

7. 10:05 am
John Heidelberg, University of Southern California
(jheidelb@usc.edu)
Environmental Genome Shotgun Sequencing: Ocean Microbial Populations off the Coast of Nova Scotia, Canada

8. 10:35 am
Eva Top, University of Idaho; Anne Summers, University of Georgia; and Lisa Nolan, Iowa State University;
(evatop@uidaho.edu; summers@uga.edu; lknolan@iastate.edu)
The Genetic Diversity of Plasmids in Prokaryotes: Implications for Health and Environment

9. 11:05 am
Discussion II
Discussion of data base needs for effective interpretation of genomic data and acceleration of knowledge-based discovery

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