Just got this email I thought would be useful to share (with a few edits)
Still time to register for JGI “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting
The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) hosts the “Genomics of Energy & Environment” 6th Annual User Meeting (March 22-24, 2011):
Here
Explore the agenda of presentations, poster sessions, and valuable hands-on workshops (see below).
The meeting brings together,at the Walnut Creek Marriott, people working on:
Synthetic Biology
Ecogenomics and Ecoresilience of the Gulf Oil Spill
Hardware and Software Trends in Genomics Supercomputing
Computational Approaches to Massive Short Read Metagenomic Data Sets
Genomics of Biofuel Crops
Behavioral Genetics of Pollinating Bees
Microbiome Analyses from Humans to Shipworms
Metatranscriptomics of Marine Microbial Communities
Successful Transposable Elements Secrets
Great Prairie Soil Metagenomics
Confirmed speakers include:
Peer Bork, (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) EMBL
Ed Buckler, Cornell University
Dan Distel, Ocean Genome Legacy
Persis Drell, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/Stanford
Terry Hazen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Scott Hodges, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tom Juenger, University of Texas at Austin
Rob Knight, University of Colorado
Ruth Ley, Cornell University
Mary Ann Moran, University of Georgia
Magnus Nordborg, Gregor Mendel Institute
Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Scholin, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Stephan Schuster, Penn State University
Pam Silver, Harvard
Jim Tiedje, Michigan State University
Mike Thomashow, Michigan State University
Jerry Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/DOE JGI
Katherine Yelick, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at LBNL
Workshops will include:
Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG)/Metagenomes data analysis systems http://img.jgi.doe.gov/
Mycocosm fungal genomics portal provides data access, visualization, and analysis tools for comparative genomics of fungi http://genome.jgi-psf.org/ programs/fungi/index.jsf
Phytozome provides data access and visualization tools for comparative plant genomics http://www.phytozome.net/
RNA Technologies & Analysis: a comprehensive suite for transcriptome
interrogation, including RNA-Seq for expression profiling, etc.
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