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16:00 - 18:00 |
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18:30 - 19:00 |
Welcome greetings
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19:00 - 20:00 |
Plenary Lecture:
Environmental Transcriptomics: Eavesdropping on Biogeochemistry
Mary Ann Moran |
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20:00 - 22:00
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Dinner |
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Sunday 22nd |
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Session: Marine microbial communities
Chair: Hans-Peter Klenk |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Metagenomics of deep-sea microbial communities
Purificacion Lopez-Garcia |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
The unique bacterial diversity of the Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea oxic sediments
Paraskevi Polymenakou |
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10-:00 - 10:30 |
Identifying the important units of microbial diversity with metagenomics
Kostas Konstantinidis |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break - Poster time |
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Session: Soil microbial communities
Chair: Lisa Bonch-Osmolovskaya |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Simultaneous assessment of soil microbial community structure and function using meta-transcriptomics
Christa Schleper |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Sampling environmental reservoirs of microbial genes; from drugs to disease
Liz Wellington |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Microbial system molecular ecology and the unravelling of hidden ecosystem functions
Daniele Daffonchio |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Free time |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
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Session: Tools & Rules -
Chair: Christos Ouzounis |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
The metagenomic toolbox: linking natures biodiversity to industrial application
Frank Niehaus |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Designing microbial research commons: learning from institutional policies and collaborative network technologies
Tom Dedeurwaerdere |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Benefit Sharing and Genetic Resources - Ethical and Legal Challenges.
Doris Schroeder |
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16:30 -17:00 |
Ccoffee break - Poster time |
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Session: Methods of Analysis of (Meta) Genomic Data |
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17:00 - 18:30 |
TUTORIAL I
The IMG/M systems
Victor Markowitz |
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18:30 - 19:30 |
Round Table - Policy issues and national efforts
Doris Schroeder
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Willem deVos
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20:00 - 22:00 |
Reception |
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Monday 23rd |
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Session: The human microbiome
Chair: Nikos Kyrpides |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
MetaHIT – a European project on the Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract
Dusko Ehrlich |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
Exploration of the human gut microbiota using a combination of omics approaches
Janet Jansson |
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10-:00 - 10:30 |
Genomic diversity of the enteric microbiota of the infant
Orla O'Sullivan |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee break - Poster Time |
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Session: Biotechnology application
Chair: Roger Garrett |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Industrial Metagenomics - From Science to Application
Willem deVos |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Marine medicine, learning from complex barriers and microbiota in the ocean
Ruth Schmitz-Streit |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Will we be able to construct a synthetic bacterium?
Antoine Danchin |
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12:30 - 14:00 |
Free time |
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14:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch |
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15:00 - 17:00 |
Optional Activities |
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Session: Methods of analysis of Metagenomic Data |
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17:00 - 18:30 |
TUTORIAL II:
CAMERA
Kayo Arima
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18:30 - 19:30 |
Round table - Future of Metagenomics
Phil Hugenholtz
Frank Niehaus
Dusko Ehrlich |
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20:00 - 21:00 |
Dinner |
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Tuesday 24th |
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Session: Symbiotic microbial communities
Chair: Antoine Danchin |
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09:00 - 09:30 |
Metagenomic (and a tiny bit of proteomic) analyses of the symbiotic microbial community of a gutless marine worm
Nicole Dubilier |
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09:30 - 10:00 |
The origin of mitochondria in light of the ocean surface metagenome data
Thijs J. G. Ettema |
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10-:00 - 10:30 |
Investigations into termite hindgut microbiology by leveraging metagenomics
Phil Hugenholtz |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break - Poster time |
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Session: Extremophile communities
Chair: Phil Hugenholtz |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Structural and functional interplay between viruses, plasmids and chromosomes of the acidothermophilic crenarchaeal genus Sulfolobus
Roger Garrett |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of thermophilic prokaryotesmics.PLiza Bonch-Osmolovskaya |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Unraveling the Greek microbial diversity in the frame of MicroBioKosmos
George Tsiamis |
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Closing Session and concluding remarks |
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| 12:30 - 13:00 |
Genetic engineering and biodiversity – The EU legal framework
Angeliki Kallia-Antoniou |
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13:00 - 14:00 |
Open discussion and goodbyes |
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