The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Frank Oliver Glöckner (Max Planck Institute Bremen, Germany).
The Micro B3 Project: Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Linda Amaral-Zettler (MBL, USA).
The promise of 'site-based' research: MIRADA-LTER project.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Jack Gilbert (Argonne National Laboratory, USA).
The L4 Genomic Observatory.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Bharet Patel (Griffith University, Australia).
Microbes thriving in the hot subsurface Australian aquifers.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Neil Davies (Berkeley, USA).
The Moorea Genomic Observatory.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Patrick Wincker (Genoscope, France).
TARA Oceans.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Jacob Parnell (NEON INC, USA).
Cryptic drivers of soil microbial diversity.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

James Tiedje (Michigan State University, USA).
Terragenome and soil microbial metagenomics.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

ack Gilbert (University of Chicago, USA).
The Earth Microbiome Project: A new paradigm in geospatial and temporal studies of microbial ecology.

The 13th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting (GSC 13). Hosted by BGI and held at Kingkey Palace Hotel, Shenzhen, China, March 4-7, 2012 (http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/GSC_13).

Greg Caporaso (University of Northern Arizona, USA).
Ultra high-throughput microbial ecology: software, sequencing and practice for studying tens of thousands of environments.