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Research in Brief 2019

Research in Brief gives an overview of the research and services at EMBL. It introduces all group and team leaders.

13:00	Welcome and opening remarks Edith Heard Director General of EMBL Olli Kallioniemi Director of SciLifeLab
13:10	Introduction and overview of Planetary Biology Detlev Arendt Planetary Biology Co-Chair, Senior Scientist, Group Leader, EMBL Olga Vinnere Pettersson & Stefan Bertilsson Co-Leads Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab
13:30	Session 1: Biodiversity Genomics & Reference Genome Sequencing (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A per speaker in each session) Moderator Peter Harrison, Genome Analysis Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Speakers Fergal Martin, Global biodiversity efforts to sequence, assemble and annotate all eukaryotic life Kerstin Lindblad Toh (remote), Zoonomia: comparative genetics and genomics to understand genome evolution and disease Detlev Arendt, The multimodal cellular atlas of the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii Ove Nilsson, Conifer reference genome and genetic diversity sequencing
14:50	Coffee break
15:10	Session 2: Ecology & Evolution Moderator Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Speakers Love Dalén, Studying evolutionary change in real-time using palaeogenomics Michael Dorrity, Measuring hidden phenotypes with single-cell genomics James Sharpe (remote), SYNTERRA: Studying dryland soil ecosystems in mesocosms Anna Rosling, Unearthing hidden interactions in soil
16:30	Keynote: Chromosomally complete genomes across the Tree of Life Mark Blaxter, Wellcome Sanger Institute
17:15	Coffee break
17:30	Closed presentation and IC tour
18:30	Networking opportunity (speakers, panellists, moderators, and signed up guests only)

09:00	Arrival and Coffee
09:30	Keynote: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of phage-host interactions in the wild + 5mins Q&A Martin Polz, University of Vienna
10:20	Session 3: Biogeochemistry & Ecosystems (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A per speaker in each session) Moderator Stefan Bertilsson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Speakers Michael Zimmermann, Group Leader in Structural and Computational Biology, EMBL Sara Hallin, The nitrogen cycle as a modular network of interconnected microbial assets Flora Vincent, Viral impacts in the marine world: from single-cells to planktonic ecosystems Mark Dopson, Shining a light into the deep dark biosphere reveals core adapted microbial communities
11:40	Networking lunch
12:40	Session 4: Data-driven Planetary Biology Moderator Oliver Stegle, Associate Group Leader in Genome Biology, EMBL Speakers Tomas Roslin (remote), LIFEPLAN – a planetary synthesis of life through DNA, image and audio Peer Bork, Analysing microbes on our planet Anders Andersson, Ecology and evolution of the Baltic Sea microbiome Anna Kreshuk, Analysing all cells in a whole organism
14:00	Summary and Q&A
14:15	Coffee break
14:45	Panel Discussion 1: Technological Infrastructure Needs for PB Research Moderator Stefan Bertilsson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Panelists Yannick Schwab, Team Leader Volume Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility, EMBL Timo Zimmermann, Team Leader Advanced Light Microscopy Technology Development and Service Provision, EMBL Linda Sandblad, Scientific Platform Director Cellular and Molecular Imaging, Umeå University, SciLifeLab Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Project coordinator at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University; Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Annika Johansson, Head of Swedish Metabolomics Centre, Umeå University, SciLifeLab
15:30	Short break
15:40	Panel Discussion 2: Data Collection in PB Research Moderator Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Panelists Rainer Pepperkok, Director of Scientific Core Facilities and Scientific Services, Team Leader Membrane traffic and Organelle Biogenesis, EMBL Stefan Bertilsson, Professor in Functional Ecology of Freshwaters, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Director of the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES); Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Fredrik Ronquist, Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History; Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI)
16:25	Short break
16:35	Panel Discussion 3: Data Management and Processing in PB Research Moderator Fergal Martin, Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Panelists Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Expert in Metagenomics; National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) Johan Rung, Head of Data Center, SciLifeLab Guy Cochrane (remote), Team Leader Data Coordination and Archiving, EMBL-EBI
17:20	Conclusion and Closing Remarks

Background information

Agenda

Speakers & Organizers

About the speakers

Session 1: Biodiversity Genomics & Reference Genome Sequencing

Session 2: Ecology & Evolution

Session 3: Biogeochemistry & Ecosystems

Session 4: Data-driven Planetary Biology

Panel Discussion 1

Panel Discussion 2

Panel Discussion 3

Workshop Organizers

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