Upcoming conference: DOE-JGI User Meeting: Energy, Genomes, Environment, Microbes, Trees and more ...

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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