Environmental genomics: from individual genomes to genomes of complex communities
Roscoff (Brittany), France, June 9-13, 2007
Download the poster of the conference
Deadline for application: March 1, 2007
President : J. Peter W. YOUNG
University of York, Department of Biology 3, P.O. Box 373, YORK YO10 5YW, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1904 328 630 - Fax: +44 1904 328 505
E-mail: jpy1@york.ac.ukVice-Président : Frédéric PARTENSKY
Station Biologique, UMR 7144 CNRS et Université Pierre et Marie Curie, "Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu marin",
B.P. 74, F-29682 ROSCOFF Cedex, France
Phone : +33 2 98 29 23 14 - Fax: +33 2 98 29 23 24
E-mail: partensky@sb-roscoff.fr
Understanding the functioning of ecosystems requires an integrated vision of the genetic and functional diversity of the components of biological communities (which are most often unknown or unculturable organisms), and also of their short- and long-term interactions. The Jacques Monod Conference will present the latest developments in the fields of genomics, metagenomics and postgenomics applied to organisms of ecological interest and to complex natural communities. It will take account of the wide range of relevant organisms (prokaryotes, and unicellular and multicellular eukaryotes) and environments (terrestrial, marine, and even intracellular). There will be a particular emphasis on conceptual developments and new bioinformatic tools. Indeed, metagenomic approaches, or the reconstruction of genomes on the basis of environmental sequences, necessitate new concepts and bioinformatic tools. In addition, taking into account polymorphism within populations leads to a huge increase in the number of sequences to be analysed, and this has required the development of specific algorithms. These novel approaches have allowed the emergence of new scientific questions and considerable progress on fundamental problems such as the coordinated functioning of genomes in a complex community, or the dynamics and plasticity of the genomes of free-living organisms or those involved in multi-organism interactions (symbiosis, commensalism, parasitism, etc.).
This conference will bring together 29 first-rank invited speakers using genomic approaches on a variety of organisms ranging from bacteria to fish via microalgae and plants. Nevertheless, there will be a particular emphasis on prokaryotes because the small size of their genomes has facilitated the most spectacular advances. In addition, 8 to 10 abstracts will be selected for oral presentation from among those submitted by the participants, the others being presented in the form of posters. The themes of the sessions take account of current developments and anticipate the likely advances in population, community, evolutionary and functional genomics.
Invited Speakers
(provisional titles)
AINOUCHE Malika (Rennes, France) Hybridization, polyploidy and speciation in plants
ALLEN Eric (Berkeley, USA) Community genomics in microbial ecology and evolution
AMANN Rudolf (Bremen, Germany) Comparative genomics of benthic, marine bacteria
BARLOY-HUBLER Frédérique (Rennes, France) Genomic insights into coevolution of symbiotic organisms
BEJA Oded (Haifa, Israel) Marine metagenomics: achievements and prospects
BLAXTER Mark (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) The promise of a taxonomy based on comparative genomics
BONHOMME François (Montpellier, France) High throughput genomics and the search for adaptive variability in fish populations
BORK Peer (Heidelberg, Germany) Comparative genomics of complex environments
BOWLER Chris (Paris, France) New insights from analyzing the genomes of diatoms
BOYEN Catherine (Roscoff, France) Marine genomics at the European and international levels: achievements and future directions
CAICEDO Ana (Raleigh, USA) Weediness and domestication: insights from plant population genomics
DELNERI Daniela (Manchester, United Kingdom) Fitness and speciation in yeast
FALKOWSKI Paul (New Brunswick, USA) Fossil genes in the oldest ice on Earth
FERRER MARTINEZ Manuel (Madrid, Spain) Comparative genomics of bacteria involved in oil degradation
FORTERRE Patrick (Orsay, France) Viruses, plasmids and DNA-containing vesicles from hyperthermophilic archaea
HANDELSMAN Jo (Madison, USA) Application of genomics to uncultured soil microorganisms
HORNER-DEVINE Claire (Seattle, USA) An ecological perspective on bacterial biodiversity
KOONIN Eugene (Bethesda, USA) Orthologs, paralogs, and evolutionary genomics
LERAT Emmanuelle (Villeurbanne, France) The functional role of transposable elements in eukaryotic genomes
MARTIN Francis (Champenoux, France) Transcript patterns associated with ectomycorrhiza development
MORAN Nancy (Tucson, USA) Genome evolution and symbiosis
MURRELL Colin (Warwick, United Kingdom) Stable isotope probing of the diversity of soil bacteria
PARTENSKY Frédéric (Roscoff, France) Comparative genomics of marine picocyanobacteria: insights into the evolution of their light harvesting complexes
POCH Olivier (Illkirch, France) Adaptation of deep sea worms to extreme environments: insights from genome analysis
SCANLAN Dave (Warwick, United Kingdom) Niche adaptation in marine cyanobacteria: an ecological and genomic perspective
SCHLEPER Christa (Darmstadt, Germany) Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea
SCHMITZ-STREIT Ruth (Kiel, Germany) Insights into functions of complex communities through metagenomics
TIEDJE Jim (East Lansing, USA) Genomics insights for the species definition for prokaryotes
YOUNG J. Peter W. (York, United Kingdom) Evolution of the core and accessory genomes of bacteria
Deadline for application: March 1, 2007
Registration fee (including board and lodging)
375€ for PhD students
525€ for other participants
Application for registration
The total number of participants is limited to about 115 and all participants are expected to attend for the whole duration of the conference. Selection is made on the basis of the affinity of potential participants with the topics of the conference. Scientists and PhD Students interested in the meeting should send before the deadline:
- their curriculum vitae (students only)
- the list of their main publications for the 3 last years
- the abstract of their presentation
to the following address: eg2007@sb-roscoff.fr
Then the organizers will select the participants. Except in some particular cases approved by the organizers, it is recommended that all selected participants present their work during the conference, either in poster form or by a brief in-session talk. The organizers choose the form in which the presentations are made. No payment will be sent with application. Information on how and when to pay will be mailed in due time to those selected.