Annual Symposium 2012
Systems Biology & the Microbiome
Sunday, April 15 and Monday, April 16
11th Annual International Symposium Addresses Systems Biology and the Microbiome
Join a distinguished group of researchers and experts in Seattle for Institute for Systems Biology’s (ISB) 11th Annual Symposium, a two-day dialogue about the microbiome and how using a systems approach can help decipher some of its complexities.
The Symposium will take place on April 15-16, 2012, at ISB’s state-of-the-art facilities in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle. We welcome all who are interested in hearing from microbiome researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)-Heidelberg and University of California-Davis.
Watch a video playlist of the recorded conference
| Sunday, April 15, 2012 | ||
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| Welcoming Remarks | ||
| Leroy Hood, MD, PhD, Co-founder and President, Institute for Systems Biology |
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| Opening Keynote Address | ||
| J. Craig Venter, PhD, Founder/President, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), From reading to writing the genetic code |
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| SESSION I Exploring microbial dark matter | ||
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| Jon Eisen, PhD, UC Davis Genome Center DNA sequencing and the hidden world of microbes |
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| Chris Scholin, PhD, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Detection of water borne microbes using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) |
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| Nitin Baliga, PhD, Institute for Systems Biology Multiscale predictive models of microbial complexity |
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| Paul Blainey, PhD, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT A microfluidics approach to single-cell microbial genomics |
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| SESSION II Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals: Harnessing the power of microbes & microbiomes | ||
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| Panel Discussion: Current Sequencing Systems | ||
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| Monday, April 16, 2012 | ||
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| SESSION III Systems Biology & the Environment | ||
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| Farooq Azam, PhD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego From systems biology to ecosystems biology: microbial structuring of marine ecosystems |
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| Jill Banfield, PhD, University of California, Berkeley Integrated “omics” studies of microbial communities |
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| Eric Alm, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The human microbiome in health and disease |
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| Victoria Orphan, PhD, California Institute of Technology Microbial partnerships and methane-oxidation in the deep sea |
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| SESSION IV Systems Biology & Health | ||
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| Peter Turnbaugh, PhD, Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology Moving towards a metagenomic view of drug metabolism |
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| Julia Segre, PhD, National Human Genome Research Microbial genomics: tracking hospital-acquired infections |
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| David Relman, PhD, Stanford university School of Medicine VA Palo Alto Health Care System System Stability and resilience in the human microbiome |
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| Larry Smarr, PhD, Calit2 Stanford university School of Medicine Quantifying my body – the role of the human and microbiome DNA |
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| Session 4 Panel Discussion | ||
| SYMPOSIUM CLOSING | ||
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| Closing Keynote Address Peer Bork, PhD European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)-Heidelberg Systemic analysis of human-associated microbes: Lessons from a tiny bacterium and a large community |
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