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The mission of the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute (MPGI) is to promote advances in microbial and plant genomics, genomics-enabled science, and molecular genetics for the benefit of society. Advances in genomics have already had major impacts on how we address modern scientific questions. This has led to an acceleration of knowledge acquisition and application to biological problems. Recent advances in sequencing technology, the so-called next-generation sequencing, have provided opportunities to address biological questions with amazing precision and depth. The focus of this symposium is to observe how high-throughput sequencing approaches are being applied to biological questions. The one-day symposia will include presentation from external speakers as well as University of Minnesota researchers. Topics will include evolutionary genomics, metagenomics, comparative genomics, epigenome profiling and additional areas.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Cargill Building for Microbial and Plant Genomics
Seminar Room 105
Directions and Parking
Welcoming Remarks, Nathan Springer
Janet Jansson, Exploration of the human microbiome using "omics" approaches
Maitreya Dunham, Genomic analysis of experimental evolution in yeasts
Mike Sadowsky, Metagenomic platforms for Human and Environmental Health
Nevin Young, Co-evolution of symbiotic relationships in Medicago
Robert Stupar, Unmasking induced and natural variation in soybean
Anne-Francoise Lamblin, RISS: Developing informatics solutions for research communities
Li-Jun Ma, The power of comparative genomics for understanding genome evolution and fungal niche adaptation
David Largaespada, High throughput sequencing for analysis of cancer insertional mutagenesis experiments
Daniel Zilberman, Evolution of eukaryotic DNA methylation
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, Transposon evolution and genome scans in maize using next-gen sequence data
Concluding Remarks, Nathan Springer
Maitreya Dunham
University of Washington
Department of Genome Sciences
Genomic analysis of experimental evolution in yeasts
Janet Jansson
University of California-Berkeley
Earth Sciences Division
Exploration of the human microbiome using "omics" approaches
David Largaespada
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
High throughput sequencing for analysis of cancer insertional mutagenesis experiments
Li-Jun Ma
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Genome Biology Program
The power of comparative genomics for understanding genome evolution and fungal niche adaptation
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
University of California-Davis
Department of Plant Sciences
Transposon evolution and genome scans in maize using next-gen sequence data
Mike Sadowsky
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Metagenomic platforms for Human and Environmental Health
Bob Stupar
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Unmasking induced and natural variation in soybean
Nevin Young
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Department of Plant Pathology
Co-evolution of symbiotic relationships in Medicago
Daniel Zilberman
University of California - Berkeley
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
Evolution of eukaryotic DNA methylation
