Schedule

Genome Phylogenies and Dynamics

9:00 Eric Alm The Phylogenomic Landscapes of Genes are Shallow
9:30 Csaba Pal Evolution of minimal metabolic networks
10:00 Cristos Ouzounis Quantifying vertical and horizontal gene flow across species and time

Comparative, Population, and Environmental Genomics

11:00 Manolis Kellis Computational Comparative Genomics: Genes, Regulation, Evolution
11:30 Dawn Field Large-scale Comparative Genomic Ranking of Taxonomically Restricted Genes (TRGs) in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes using the “Quality Index for Predicted Proteins” (QIPP)
1:00 Edward Feil Weakened selection and shifting patterns of polymorphism in Shigella
1:30 Patrick Schloss Developing a statistical toolbox to describe and compare communities using metagenomic sequences

Elucidation of Gene Regulation in Microbes

2:00 Mikhail Gelfand Evolution of bacterial regulatory systems
2:30 Erik van Nimwegen Comparative genomic inference of bacterial regulatory systems
3:00 Richard Bonneau Learning global transcriptional dynamics with the Inferelator and cMonkey

Computational Tools and Databases for Microbial Analysis

4:00 Andrei Osterman Genomic Reconstruction and Experimental Assessment of Metabolic Subsystems in Bacteria
4:30 Natalia Maltsev Evolutionary analysis of genomes and gene networks from taxonomic and phenotypic perspective
5:00 Dmitrij Frishman Software tools for high-throughput genome annotation
5:30 Peter Karp The BioCyc Collection of 260+ Pathway/Genome Databases
6:00 Tatiana Tatusov Microbial Genome Resources at NCBI

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