Third Microbial Single Cell Genomics Workshop
June 14-18, 2015
Organizing committee:
Paul Blainey, Broad Institute
David Emerson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Nicole Poulton, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Ramunas Stepanauskas (chair), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Tanja Woyke, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Workshop coordinator:
Brian Thompson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Sunday, June 14 |
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| 6:00-8:00 PM | Welcome Reception & Registration |
Monday, June 15 |
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | Welcome and logistics(Ramunas Stepanauskas and Brian Thompson) |
| 8:45 AM | KEYNOTE Stephen Giovannoni (Oregon State University): Predicting long-term impacts of ocean desertification on microbial plankton communities |
RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS: BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA 1 (Chair - Nicole Poulton) |
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| 9:45 AM | Katherine McMahon (University of Wisconsin): Single Cell Genomes from Freshwater Bacteria - Anchors to Study Population Expansion and Contraction |
| 10:15 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Mircea Podar (Oak Ridge National Laboratory): The world of the yet uncultured: from single cells to reverse genomic microbiology |
| 11:00 AM | Tanja Woyke (DOE Joint Genome Institute): Insights into candidate phyla from hot springs |
| 11:30 AM | Karen Lloyd (University of Tennessee): Obtaining single cell genomes from 85 meters below the seafloor, and using them to bin metagenomic data |
| 11:45 AM | Jessica Labonté (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences): Single cell genomics reveals contrasting life strategies employed by viruses in the environment |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch break (SPI) |
RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS: EUKARYOTES (Chair - Paul Blainey) |
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| 2:00 PM | James Hicks (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): High depth and low depth sequencing of single cancer cells to determine lineage and heterogeneity |
| 2:30 PM | Ramiro Logares (Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC): Exploring the marine pico-eukaryotic dark-matter using single-cell genomics |
| 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 PM | Peter Countway (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences): Sorting out ecological relationships among microbial grazers and their cyanobacterial prey: insights from small populations and single-cells |
| 3:30 PM | Nicolas Tromas (Universite de Montreal): Ecological responses of bacterial populations revealed by time-course sequencing of freshwater cyanobacterial communities |
| 3:45 PM | David Emerson (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences): What single cell genomics is revealing about iron-oxidizing bacteria |
| 4:15 PM | Poster Session |
| 6:00 PM | Traditional Maine Lobster Bake (SPI) |
Tuesday, June 16 |
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | KEYNOTE Pavel Pevzner (University of California - San Diego): Genome assembly: from single cells to metagenomes |
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES (Chair - Tanja Woyke) |
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| 9:30 AM | Gerrit van den Engh (Center for Marine Cytometry): Flow cytometry of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus at Station Aloha |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:15 AM | Holger Daims (University of Vienna): Raman-based sorting of microbes with defined functional properties for single-cell genomics |
| 10:45 AM | Linas Mazutis (Vilnius and Harvard Universities): Drop-Seq: Profiling transcriptome of thousands of single-cells |
| 11:15 AM | Paul Blainey (Broad Institute): Microfluidic systems for single cell sequencing |
| 11:45 AM | Emmanuelle Gerard (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris): Laser microdissection and single cell genomics of microorganisms associated with modern microbialites |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch break |
RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS: BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA 2 (Chair - David Emerson) |
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| 2:00 PM | Matthew Sullivan (University of Arizona): Emerging methods to study bacteriophage infection at the single-cell level |
| 2:30 PM | Philipp Engel (University of Lausanne): Comparative single cell genomics of honey bee gut symbionts |
| 3:00 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:15 PM | Takuro Nunoura (JAMSTEC): Genomic insights into the niche adaptation of marine Thaumarchaeota along the water column from the sea surface to hadal ocean |
| 3:30 PM | Maria Hammond (Uppsala University): Improving whole genome amplification with droplet microfluidics |
| 3:45 PM | Andreas Bremges (Bielefeld University): Metagenomic proxy assemblies of single cell genomes |
| 4:00 PM | Steve Almo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine): Experimental strategies for functional annotation and metabolism discovery |
| 4:15 PM | Ying Zhang (University of Rhode Island): A portable system for the analysis of metabolic models |
| 4:30 PM | Tours and BBQ at Bigelow Laboratory |
Wednesday, June 17 |
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| 7:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM | Ramunas Stepanauskas (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences): Bigelow Laboratory Single Cell Genomics Center: An evolving resource to the research community |
| 9:30 AM | Breakout into discussion groups and coffee |
| 10:45 AM | Breakout group presentations |
| 11:45 AM | Concluding remarks |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch break |
Thursday, June 18 |
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| 7:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM | Boat trip to and hike on Monhegan Island |
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