Aquatic Genomics & Genome Function

Day 1 - October 7 (Thursday) 10AM-12:30PM EST

10:10-10:55AM: Oleg Simakov, University of Vienna (Austria) - Aquatic invertebrate genomes, towards vertebrate (and vertebrate-like) origins

11:00-11:45AM: Camille Berthelot, Institute Pasteur Paris (France) - Building a comparative atlas of teleost genome evolution

11:45AM-12:30PM: Community Discussion on the Current State of Aquatic Genomics - Genome Assembly/Gene Annotation/Comparative Genomics

Day 2 - October 8 (Friday) 10AM-12:30PM EST

10:10-10:55AM: Emily Wong, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute (Australia) – Detecting deeply conserved gene regulatory programs using zebrafish

11:00-11:45AM: Jeffrey Farrell, NIH/NICHD (USA) – Transcriptional trajectories to determine cellular histories: so you want to single-cell sea-quence?

11:45AM-12:30PM: Community Discussion: Current state of Aquatic Genomics - Genome Functional Annotation and Databases