Jim Tiedje of Michigan State University on "Tackling Metagenomics' Largest Challenge: The Great Prairie Project" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

DOE JGI's Zhong Wang on "Massive Discovery of Biomass Degrading Genes and Genomes in Rumen" at the 6th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Magnus Nordborg of the Gregor Mendel Institute on "How to Lose Half your Genome in 10 Million Years and Live to tell the Tale: Comparative Genomics of Arabidopsis lyrata and A. thaliana" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Tom Juenger of the University of Texas at Austin on "The Physiological Changes of Panicum: Exploring Switchgrass Responses to Climate Change" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Kathy Yelick of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center on "Hardware and Software Trends in Computational Systems for Biology" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Chris Scholin of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) on "Remote Detection of Marine Microbes in Coastal Waters and the Deep Sea using the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP)" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Dan Distel of Ocean Genome Legacy on "How to Eat a Wooden Ship: A Genomic View of Wood-Eating Bacterial Endosymbiosis in the Shipworm Bankia setacea" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Mary Ann Moran of the University of Georgia on "Metatranscriptomics of Marine Microbial Communities" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Ed Buckler of Cornell University and the USDA-ARS on "Insights from Sequencing the World's Most Diverse Crop: Maize" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Pam Silver of Harvard University on "Designing Biological Systems for Sustainability and Programmed Environmental Interface" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 23, 2011.