Frontiers in Metagenomics

Schedule

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Monday May 7, 2012
7:15 am	Registration and Breakfast Monsanto Auditorium Lobby, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center
Scientific Session 1: “Ecology and Natural Communities” Session Chair: Dr. Jack Schultz, Director, Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri
8:30 am	Brian Foster, Provost, University of Missouri Welcome to the University of Missouri
8:40 am	Jack Gilbert, University of Chicago “The earth microbiome project: A new paradigm in geospatial and temporal studies of microbial ecology”
9:20 am	Mark Morrison, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia “Differences down under: Methane, macropodids and metagenomics”
10:00 am	Morning Break
Scientific Session 2: “Coevolution and Adaptation” Session Chair: Dr. Melanie Mormile, Missouri University of Science and Technology
10:30 am	Gautam Dantas, Washington University School of Medicine “Genetic reservoirs of antibiotic resistance in environmental and human microbiota”
11:10 am	Adam Martiny, University of California Irvine “Genetic adaptation to nutrient limitation in marine bacteria”
11:50 am	Andrew Benson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln “The gut microbiota as a complex trait in vertebrates: Discoveries in mice and implications for food animals”
12:30 pm	Lunch
Scientific Session 3: “Metagenomic Discovery Tools” Session Chair: Dr. Daniel Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology
1:30 pm	Anton Nekrutenko, The Pennsylvania State University “Predicting the evolution of high-throughput biology”
2:10 pm	Steve Hallam, University of British Columbia “Metabolic interaction networks for the whole community”
2:50 pm	Barbara Methé, J. Craig Venter Institute “Metagenomic approaches for the study of microbial communities”
3:30 pm	Afternoon Break
Scientific Session 4: “Taxon Discovery” Session Chair: Dr. Michael Calcutt, University of Missouri
3:50 pm	Mitch Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole “Long-tailed distributions in microbial communities in globally distributed sites”
4:30 pm	Guoyan Zhao, Washington University School of Medicine “Metagenomics, next generation sequencing and virus discovery”
7:00 pm	Conference Dinner Les Bourgeois Vineyards and Winery, Rocheport, Missouri *Attendees must pay at registration*
Tuesday May 8, 2012
7:15 am	Breakfast Monsanto Auditorium Lobby, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center
Scientific Session 5: “Metagenomics for all of the Kingdoms” Session Chair: Dr. Gary Stacey, University of Missouri
8:00 am	Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding “Structure of and assembly cues for the Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microflora”
8:40 am	Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Metagenomic insights into the tangled bank of ants and plants”
9:20 am	Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University “Ecology of microbiomes and disease: From coral reefs to cystic fibrosis”
10:00 am	Morning Break
Scientific Session 6: “What’s Going on in the Mammalian Gut?” Session Chair: Dr. Jerry Taylor, University of Missouri
10:20 am	Zhong Wang, Joint Genome Institute “Deep metagenome data mining for biomass-degrading genes and genomes”
11:00 am	Thad Stanton, USDA Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit “Exploring the swine intestinal microbiome”
11:40 pm	Mike Sadowsky, University of Minnesota “The use of fecal microbial transplantation and pyrosequencing to cure and understand Clostridium difficile-associated disease”
12:20 pm	Box Lunch
1:30 pm	Patricio S. La Rosa,Washington University School of Medicine “Hypothesis Testing and Power Calculations for Designing Human Microbiome Experiments”
2:10 pm	Close of Conference

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