eukaryotes – Jonathan Eisen's Lab

Monday I gave a talk for the SMBE Eukaryotic Omics satellite meeting that has been going on at UC Davis. When Holly Bik, a post doc in my lab asked me to talk at the meeting, I said, basically “Well, OK, but I don’t really do much work on eukaryotes.” And then I came up with an idea – I could make my talk about how it might be good to have a better phylogenetic sampling of eukaryotic genome sequences. I have been a bit obsessed for many many years about phylogenetic sampling of genomes and, well, though I have avoided eukaryotes mostly in most of my genome sequencing work, I figured, I should still get on my soap box about how phylogenetic sampling is a good thing. So, well, I did. And I think we (i.e., the scientific community) really needs a better sampling of eukaryotic genomes.

I have posted my talk to Slideshare and I recorded audio of my talk in synch with the slides and posted that to Youtube. These are below.

I hereby am calling for those people interested in participating in such a phylogeny driven genomic encyclopedia of eukaryotes to make yourselves known. We NEED to do this.

The need for a phylogeny driven genomic encyclopedia of eukaryotes #SMBEEuks from Jonathan Eisen

Going to be good:

Eukaryotes | SMBE Satellite Meeting on Eukaryotic -Omics – April 29 to May 2, UC Davis Conference Center

No bias here – given that it is organized by Holly Bik in my lab and it is at UC Davis. The lineup of speakers is great and the topic is timely. So sign up …

Speakers:

Rachel Adams	UC Berkeley	Groundtruthing next-gen sequencing for microbial ecology: is beta diversity robust to errors in pyrosequencing?
Nicholas A. Bokulich	UC Davis	Regional Patterns in Grape Fungal Consortia Define Wine Fermentation Communities
Sara Branco	UC Berkeley	Fungi at a small-scale: spatial zonation of fungal assemblages around single trees
C. Titus Brown	Michigan State University	Sequencing and assembly of diverse eukaryotes: like metagenomics, but much harder
Peter Countway	Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences	Title TBA
Simon Creer	Bangor University, Wales	Title TBA
Tom Delmont	Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole	Phaeocystis antarctica spatiotemporal diversity, activity and its relation to prokaryotes and viruses using physiological and ‘omic approaches
Jonathan Eisen	UC Davis	The need for a phylogeny driven genomic encyclopedia of eukaryotes
Laura Eme	Dalhousie University	Large scale phylogenomic analyses of Blastocystis subtype 1 reveals a major role for lateral gene transfer in adaptation to parasitism of the human gut
Jack Gilbert	Argonne National Lab	Addressing microbial eukaryotic biogeography in home, hospitals and the world
Jean-David Grattepanche	Smith College	Title TBA
Victor Hanson-Smith	UC San Francisco	Identifying Loci of Functional Evolution in Ancestral Genes
Ian King	University of Guelph	Biomonitoring 2.0: A high-throughput genomics approach for comprehensive biological assessment of environmental change
Andrew Krohn	Northern Arizona University	Rhizosphere microbial community dynamics of drought-stressed pinyon pines (Poster)
Franck Lejzerowicz	University of Geneva	Exploring the deep-sea foraminiferal diversity by multiplexed RNA and DNA-based ultra-deep sequencing and ultra-fast bioinformatic analyses
Matthew Morgan	CSIRO Australia	Next-generation sequencing reveals the impacts of inundation and drought on eukaryote biodiversity in semi-arid floodplain soils
Laura Wegener Parfrey	University of Colorado, Boulder	Incorporating microbial eukaryotes into analyses of the human microbiome
Katherine Pollard	UC San Francisco	Title TBA
Dorota Porazinska	University of Florida	Discrimination of microscopic pests of agricultural importance with NGS
Thomas Richards	NHM London	Title TBA
Surya Saha	Cornell University	Composition of the Maize Endophytic Microbiome is Correlated with Maize Genotype (Poster)
Søren Sørensen	University of Copenhagen	Title TBA
Fabian Staubach	Stanford University	Host species and environmental effects on bacterial communities associated with Drosophila in the laboratory and in the natural environment
Sarah Stephenson	CSIRO Australia	Metagenetic examinations of benthic eukaryl estuarine communities
Joshua Stern	Georgia Institute of Technology	Searching for the Phylogenetic Place of Eukaryotes, Using Data from STORI
W. Kelley Thomas	University of New Hampshire	Title TBA
Xianfa Xie	Virginia State University	Comparative genomic study of the origin and evolution of eukaryotes

Tag: eukaryotes

The need for a phylogeny driven genomic encyclopedia of eukaryotes

Sign up: SMBE Satellite Mtg. on Eukaryotic-Omics 4/29-5/2 at #UCDavis