Microbial and Plant Systems Modulated by Secondary Metabolites Meeting
Monday, May 2 (Walnut Creek Marriott)
| 5:00 – 5:10 PM | Opening Remarks | Host: Susannah Tringe, JGI |
| 5:10 – 6:00 PM | Opening key Note: Niche adaptation of the Arabidopsis leaf microbiota | Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich |
| 6:00 – 9:00 PM | Poster Session and Reception
*Refreshments served |
Tuesday, May 3 (JGI Room 149A)
| 9:00 – 10:10 AM | Overview of the JGI Capabilities
*Will include morning break & working lunch |
Chair: Yasuo Yoshikuni, JGI |
| 9:00 – 9:10 AM | Welcome and Introduction
*Morning refreshments served |
Susannah Tringe JGI |
| 9:10 – 9:25 AM | JGI Synthesis Science | Yasuo Yoshikuni, JGI |
| 9:25 – 9:40 AM | JGI Synthesis Platform | Sam Deutsch, JGI |
| 9:40 – 9:55 AM | JGI IMG-ABC | Michalis Hadjithomas, JGI |
| 9:55 – 10:10 AM | JGI Metabolomics | Trent Northen, JGI |
| 10:10 – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 – 12:05 PM | Session I: Science from the JGI User Communities | |
| 10:30 – 10:35 AM | Introduction | Yasuo Yoshikuni, JGI |
| 10:35 – 11:05 AM | Investigating Plant Terpene Metabolic Diversity for Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Applications | Philipp Zerbe, University of California, Davis |
| 11:05 – 11:35 AM | Volatile Metabolites as Chemical Modulators of Plant-Microbe Interactions | Dorothea Tholl, Virginia Tech University |
| 11:35 – 12:05 PM | Assessing the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Interactions in Determining the Community Composition of the Root Microbiome | Omri Finkel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 12:05 – 1:05 PM | Group Discussion and Picture
*Working lunch served |
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| 1:05 – 2:40 PM | Session II | |
| 1:05 – 1:10 PM | Introduction | Sam Deutsch, JGI |
| 1:10 – 1:40 PM | Chemical Discovery in the Microbial World | Emily Balskus, Harvard |
| 1:40 – 2:10 PM | Biosynthetic Gene Clusters: Nature’s Gift to Discovery and Application | Bradley Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| 2:10 – 2:40 PM | Metabolic Regulation of Community Behavior in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Lars Dietrich, Columbia University |
| 2:40 – 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion | Kellye Eversole, Phytobiome Initiative Randy Verka, Novozymes Daniel Van der Lelie, FMC Steve Evans, Dow AgroScience Dilara Ally, Bayer CropScience Rich Broglie, DuPont Pioneer |
Wednesday, May 4 (JGI Room 149A)
| 9:10 – 10:45 AM | Session III
*Will include morning break & working lunch *Morning refreshments served |
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| 9:10 – 9:15 AM | Introduction | Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University |
| 9:15 – 9:45 AM | Specialized Cell Types and the Rise of Chemical Diversity in Plants | Mark Lange, Washington State University |
| 9:45 – 10:15 AM | Integrated Metabolomics for Triterpenoid Gene Discovery in the Model Legume Medicago truncatula | Lloyd Sumner, University of Missouri |
| 10:15 – 10:45 AM | Botanicals and Experimental Pharmacology in the Post-Genomic Era: New Directions | Larry Walker, University of Mississippi National Center for Natural Products Research University |
| 10:45 – 11:05 AM | Break | |
| 11:05 – 12:40 PM | Session IV | |
| 11:05 – 11:10 AM | Introduction: Secondary Metabolites–Chemical Warfare in Plant-Pathogen-Antagonist Interactions | David Weller |
| 11:10 – 11:40 AM | Rhizosphere Diversity of Fluorescent Pseudomonads and Cyclic Lipopeptides Correlates with Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) Resilience to the Pythium Root Rot Disease | Monica Höfte, Ghent University |
| 11:40 – 12:10 PM | Crossfire: Diterpenoids in the Chemical Warfare Between Rice and a Bacterial Pathogen | Reuben Peters, Iowa State University |
| 12:10 – 12:40 PM | Secondary Metabolites Have Primary Roles in the Lifestyle of the Soil Bacterium Pseudomonas protegens | Joyce Loper, USDA-ARS, Oregon State University |
| 12:40 – 1:40 PM | Group Discussion and Facility Tour
*Working lunch served |
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| 1:40 – 3:15 PM | Session V: Parts, Pathways and Performance: Discovery and Deployment of Plant Specialized Metabolic Pathways | |
| 1:40 – 1:45 PM | Introduction: Parts, Pathways and Performance–Discovery and Deployment of Plant Specialize Metabolic Pathways | Peter Facchini, University of Calgary |
| 1:45 – 2:15 PM | Harnessing Plant Metabolic Diversity | Anne Osbourn, John Innes Centre, UK |
| 2:15 – 2:45 PM | How Do Plants Mediate Crosstalk Between Biochemical Pathways? | Clint Chapple, Purdue University |
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | Gene Centric Discovery of Plant Metabolic Pathways | Elizabeth Sattely, Stanford University |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:55 PM | Session VI | |
| 3:30 – 3:35 PM | Introduction | Eoin Brodie, LBNL |
| 3:35 – 4:05 PM | Exploiting the Role of Secondary Metabolites in Plant-Microbe Interactions for Biotechnology | Gabriele Berg, Graz University of Technology |
| 4:05 – 4:55 PM | Closing key note: TBD | Jos Raaijmakers, NIOO Wageningen |
| 4:55 – 5:00 PM | Closing Remarks | Axel Visel, JGI |
** Note: AM and PM refreshments will be served after the meeting begins, while work is being performed. Attendance is required during these times.