Genomics of Energy & Environment
8th Annual DOE JGI User Meeting

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Scientists interested in applying genome sciences and technologies to challenges in
bioenergy and environmental issues are invited to participate in the 8th Annual DOE
Joint Genome Institute Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting. This international gathering offers invited presentations, tours, workshops and tutorials on sequence- based bioinformatics, data management systems and new sequencing technologies, and poster sessions.

Short talks will be chosen from submitted abstracts.

Topics:

• DNA Synthesis & Synthetic Biology
• Application of Single-Cell Genomics in Microbial Ecology & Bioprospecting
• Genomic Analysis of Biofuel Traits in Biomass Feedstocks
• High-Performance Computing for Next Generation Sequencing Applications
• Biodiversity Surveying
• Functional Metagenomics
• Metaproteomics of Marine Bacterial Symbionts
• Massive-Scale Data Transfer
• Analyses of Root-Nodulating Bacteria, and more.

Confirmed speakers include:

Eric Allen – UC San Diego
Rick Amasino – University of Wisconsin
Greg Bell - ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Paul Blainey – Broad Institute
Eoin Brodie – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joe DeRisi – UC San Francisco
Penny Chisholm – MIT
Tom Gilbert – University of Copenhagen
Sam Hazen – University of Massachusetts
Eric Karsenti – EMBO Heidelberg
Zander Myburg – University of Pretoria
Jack Newman – Amyris
Wayne Reeve – Murdoch University
Bob Schmidt – SG Biofuels
Chris Voigt – MIT

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