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6th Annual DOE Joint Genome Institute "Genomics of Energy & Environment" Meeting

Join us for the 6th Annual DOE Joint Genome Institute "Genomics of Energy & Environment" meeting March 22-24, 2011 in Walnut Creek, California. downloadable/printable color flyer

For more information and/or to REGISTER NOW go to: http://go.usa.gov/1FL

The meeting brings together an international network of researchers interest in:

  • 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:
Peer Bork, (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) EMBL

Ed Buckler, Cornell University
Dan Distel, Ocean Genome Legacy
Dusko Ehrlich, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
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
Sue Wessler, University of Georgia
Katherine Yelick, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at LBNL

Workshops 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.

Attached is a downloadable/printable color flyer.  Large posters are available by emailing me.

Hope to see you there.
dg

David E. Gilbert
Public Affairs Manager
DOE Joint Genome Institute
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Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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