DOE Joint Genome Institute 8th Annual Meeting on March 26-28, 2013

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Contact: David Gilbert degilbert@lbl.gov 925-296-5643 DOE/Joint Genome Institute

The 8th Annual Genomics of Energy and Environment Meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) will be held at the Marriott in Walnut Creek on March 26-28, 2013. The talks will focus on genomics research in the fields of clean energy generation and the environment. Keynote speeches will be delivered by Eric Karsenti of European Molecular Biology Laboratory on "TARA OCEANS: A global analysis of oceanic plankton ecosystems" and Chris Voigt of MIT on "Part mining for synthetic biology."

For further information about the agenda, visit http://bit.ly/JGI-UM8-agenda. For more details and for free media registration, contact David Gilbert, DOE Joint Genome Institute Public Affairs Manager at degilbert@lbl.gov.

WHO: Researchers working in the fields of genomics, bioenergy, carbon cycling and biogeochemistry WHAT: 8th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting WHERE: Marriott in Walnut Creek (2355 North Main Street, Walnut Creek, California 94596) WHEN: 5 pm, Tuesday, March 26, 2013 to 5 pm, Thursday, March 28, 2013

The annual meeting draws several hundred attendees from around the world. This year's talks and poster presentations will cover a wide range of topics in the fields of metagenomics, plants, microbial genomics and synthetic biology. Among the projects to be discussed are:

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Since 2005, the DOE Joint Genome Institute has focused on the application of genomics to bioenergy and environmental issues. Organisms are selected for sequencing based on their relevance to the DOE missions, judged by an independent peer review process. Many of the projects focus on one of three key aspects: the development of biofuel feedstocks; the identification of enzymes that can effectively break down plant fibers into sugar; and the development of processes to ferment plant-derived sugars into liquid biofuel.

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DOE Joint Genome Institute 8th Annual Meeting on March 26-28, 2013