Jim Tiedje of Michigan State University on "Tackling Metagenomics' Largest Challenge: The Great Prairie Project" at...

DOE JGI's Zhong Wang on "Massive Discovery of Biomass Degrading Genes and Genomes in Rumen" at the 6th Annual...

Magnus Nordborg of the Gregor Mendel Institute on "How to Lose Half your Genome in 10 Million Years and Live to tell...

Tom Juenger of the University of Texas at Austin on "The Physiological Changes of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass...

Kathy Yelick of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center on "Hardware and Software Trends in...

Chris Scholin of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) on "Remote Detection of Marine Microbes in...

Dan Distel of Ocean Genome Legacy on "How to Eat a Wooden Ship: A Genomic View of Wood-Eating Bacterial Endosymbiosis...

Mary Ann Moran of the University of Georgia on "Metatranscriptomics of Marine Microbial Communities" at the 6th...

Ed Buckler of Cornell University and the USDA-ARS on "Insights from Sequencing the World's Most Diverse Crop: Maize"...

Pam Silver of Harvard University on "Designing Biological Systems for Sustainability and Programmed Environmental...