Integrative ecological genomics
Roscoff (Brittany), France, October 15-19, 2011
Deadline for application: July 22, 2011
Chairperson: Oded BÉJÀ
Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Phone: +972-4-829-3961 – Fax : +972-4-822-5153
Mail: Beja@tx.technion.ac.il
Vice-Chairperson: Philippe VANDENKOORNHUYSE
CNRS - UMR 6553, Ecobio IFR2116/FR90 CAREN, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu,
35000 Rennes (France)
Phone: +33 2 23 23 50 07 – Fax: +33 2 23 23 68 28
Mail: Philippe.Vandenkoornhuyse@univ-rennes1.fr
Fifteen years have passed since the sequencing of the first bacterial genome . Over the past few years, different large-scale initiatives on individual genomes and on environmental genomes have been launched with the aim of getting a more complete understanding of biodiversity. The deciphering of genomes has also proved to be essential to understand how organisms and communities exploit natural resources within their environments, how they interact and how they adapt to changing environmental conditions. In parallel, these genomic sequences give novel insights on the evolutionary history of organisms and communities. Finally, analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes has revealed the huge variability of gene sets and of genomic structures between and within species.
Integration of these different approaches of structural, functional, population and community genomics at the environmental scale has resulted in the emergence of environmental genomics.
This novel field provides a framework for an integrative vision of the complexity of habitats and biodiversity and for limiting numerous biases of interpretation of ecological processes and ecosystem functioning. The present Jacques Monod Conference “Integrative ecological genomics” will present the latest breakthroughs in the fields of genomics and post-genomics in ecology through a variety of sessions dealing with different approaches, organisms, communities and ecosystems. Hence, the emerging concepts and ideas in functional and evolutionary ecology related to the development of environmental genomics will be emphasized.
Invited speakers
(provisional titles)
BEAUMONT Hubertus (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Exploring evolvability and the experimental evolution of bet-hedging
BÉJÀ Oded (Haifa, Israel)
Metagenomics of viral photosynthetic genes
BOETHIUS Antje (Bremen, Germany)
From the shoreline to the abyss - Scales of microbial biodiversity in marine sediments
DELNERI Daniela (Manchester, UK)
Environmental genomics with yeast
DE VARGAS Colomban (Roscoff, France)
Ocean protistomics: linking genes and phenes in global ecology
FORTERRE Patrick (Paris, France)
Co-evolution of viral, plasmids and cellular genomes in Archaea
GARCZAREK Laurence (Roscoff, France)
Niche adaptation in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus: insights from comparative genomics and metagenomics
KOONIN Eugene (Bethesda, USA)
Genomics Ecology Evolution: The convergence
LEY Ruth (Ithaca, USA)
Host immune system control of microbial diversity in the gut
LOPEZ-GARCIA Purification (Orsay, France)
Metagenomics of deep-sea planktonic archaea
MARTIN Francis (Nancy, France)
The fungal soil communities: from genomes to biomes
MEYER Folker (Argonne, USA)
Reversing the paradigm - The complete genome sequence for Candidatus Sulfuricurvum sp. derived from a complex short-read metagenome enables cultivation and characterization of this novel epsilon-proteobacterium.
MORAN Mary Ann (Athens, USA)
Metatranscriptomics: Eavesdropping on Community Gene Expression
MORAN Nancy (Tucson, USA)
Integrating symbiont and host genomes to exploit new ecological niches
ORPHAN Victoria (Pasadena, USA)
Methane-consuming microbial partnerships in the deep-sea
ROHWER Forest (San Diego, USA)
Microbialization of the world's coral reefs
SCHLEPER Christa (Vienna, Austria)
Physiological diversity of ammonia oxidizing Archaea: Predictions from genomes and metagenomes tested on cultures and metacultures
SOREK Rotem (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Microbial transcriptomics and meta-transcriptomics
TABERLET Pierre (Grenoble, France)
Analysis of environmental samples: high throughput plant and animal identification based on the DNA barcoding concept
VANDENKOORNHUYSE Philippe (Rennes, France)
A 'Noa Arc' effect for microorganisms in isolated ecosystems?
VEKEMANS Xavier (Lille, France)
Genomics of self-incompatibility
VOGEL Timothy (Ecully, France)
Comparative metagenomics: Ecosystem specific functions?
VORHOLT Julia (Zürich, Switzerland)
Microbiology of the phyllosphere: Lessons from metaproteogenomics
WILLERSLEV Eske (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Hunting the Molecular Past
YOUNG Peter (York, UK)
Population genomics of Rhizobium: an exploration of space
ZENGLER Karsten (San Diego, USA)
Deciphering Microbial Interactions: Integration of Systems Biology and Microbial Ecology
Deadline for application: July 22, 2011
Registration fee (including board and lodging)
350 € for PhD students
560 € for other participants
Application for registration
The total number of participants is limited to 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:
- their curriculum vitae
- the list of their main publications for the 3 last years
- the abstract of their presentation
at http://ieg2011.univ-rennes1.fr/news.php a dedicated webpage for application to registration.
After it, the chairman will select the participants. Except in some particular cases approved by the Chairperson, 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.