November 12 (starting at 5pm)

Dr. Jeffrey Bennetzen, Member of National Academy of Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
The Hyperevolution of Artifacts and Realities in the Structure and Function of Higher Plant Genomes

Dr. Jian Ma, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Unraveling the Ancestral Mammalian Genome Yields Insights into the Human Genome

Dr. Igor Jouline (Zhulin), University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
Molecular Evolution of a Complex Signal Transduction System in Prokaryotes

Dr. Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
Large Scale Genomic Data Mining

Dr. Boris Lenhard, University of Bergen, Norway
Long-, Short- and Mid-Range Gene Regulation: Lessons from Genome-Wide Patterns of Sequence Conservation and Transcription Factor Binding

Inaugural Margaret O. Dayhoff lecture

Dr. David Lipman, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Margaret Dayhoff and Molecular Evolution in the 21st Century

Dr. Joanna Masel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
The Origin of New Coding Sequences

Dr. Nick Grishin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA
Evolutionary Classification of Protein Structures

Dr. Eugene Koonin, NCBI/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Systems Biology and the Prospects of a Post-Modern Evolutionary Synthesis

Dr. Nikos Kyrpides, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, USA
The Future of Microbial Genomics

Dr. Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA
USA Integrated Genomic Reconstruction of Metabolic and Regulatory Networks in Bacteria

November 14

Dr. Pierre Rouze, Gent University, Gent, Belgium
From Protists to Plants, Fungi and Animals: Eukaryote Genomes Are Not Born Equal

Dr. Jason Miller, J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
Studies of the Human Microbiome

Dr. Mark Borodovsky, Georgia Tech and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Gene Finding in the Era of Next Generation Sequencing

Dr. John Reinitz, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, USA
When Two Plus Two Doesn't Equal Four: Modeling Non-Modular Enhancer Behavior in the Eve Promoter

Dr. Yael Mandel-Gutfreund, Technion, Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Deciphering the Role of Alternative Splicing in Modulating the Human Gene Regulatory Network

Dr. Andrey Mironov, Moscow State University, Russia
Conserved Intronic RNA Secondary Structures

Dr. Gill Bejerano, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Genomics and the Evolution of Human-Specific Traits

Dr. King Jordan, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
MIR Elements Provide Chromatin Boundaries to the Human Genome

Dr. Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego, USA
Proteogenomics