The Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements

Organizers: Jonathan Eisen, Siv Andersson, Claire Fraser, and Jeffrey Gordon
Co-Chairs: Claire Fraser and Jeffrey Gordon
Beckman Center of the National Academies at Irvine, California
December 12-13, 2005

Conference Overview

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Opening Remarks Jeffrey Gordon, Washington University School of Medicine	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Session I: Mechanisms and Experimental Studies of LGT Chair: Abigail Salyers, University of Illinois Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University Global Phage Diversity and the Movement of Genes	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Penny Chisholm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prochlorococcus Diversity: How to Dominate the Oceans with 2000 Genes	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Abigail Salyers, University of Illinois LGT in the Human Colon: How Much and How Important?	Presentation Speaker's Website
Marlene Belfort, Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health Molecular Machinery for Lateral Transfer of Introns	Speaker’s Website
Poster Abstract Presentation: Michael Miller, Stanford University Natural Transformation as a Source of Diversity Among Vibrio Cholerae Isolates	Presentation
Session II: Methods of Detection Chair: Jeffrey Lawrence, University of Pittsburgh Measuring Non-Random LGT Among Bacterial Lineages	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Herve Philippe, University of Montreal Are Horizontal Gene Transfers the Most Disturbing Limitation for Inferring Prokaryotic Phylogeny?	Presentation Speaker's Website
Christos Ouzounis, European Bioinformatics Institute Genome Conservation and the Net of Life	Presentation Speaker's Website
James Lake, University of California, Los Angeles The Ring of Life and the Origin of Eukaryotes	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Poster Abstract Presentation: Kaiyuan Shi, University of Connecticut Parametric Bootstrap Analyses of Bacterial 16SrRNA Mosaicism	Presentation Speaker's Website
Session III: Case Studies Chair: Siv Andersson, University of Uppsala Jeffrey Palmer, Indiana University Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Unexpected Bounties of Lateral Gene Transfer	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Gary Dunny, University of Minnesota Enterococcal Pheromone-Responsive Plasmids: Broad-Host Range Transfer Controlled by Narrow-Host Range Cell-Cell Signaling	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Patrick Keeling, University of British Columbia Impact of Lateral Gene Transfer on the Eukaryotic Nuclear Genome	Presentation Speaker's Website
Siv Andersson, University of Uppsala Alpha-Proteobacterial Gene Transfers and the Origin of Mitochondria	Speaker’s Website
Poster Abstract Presentation: Nicola Patron, University of British Columbia Intracellular Gene Transfer in Endosymbiotic Genome Integration	Presentation
Session IV: Evolutionary Implications of LGT Chair: Jonathan Eisen, The Institute for Genomic Research Environmental Genomics and LGT: Can we Identify Organisms through their DNA if all Organisms are Chimeras?	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Sandra Baldauf, University of York Inferring Eukaryotic Divergences	Presentation Speaker's Website
Patrick Forterre, University of Paris How to Recover the History of the Archaeal Domain, despite Lateral Gene Transfer?	Presentation Speaker’s Website
Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University ”Web of Life”	Speaker’s Website
Poster Abstract Presentation: M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta, University of Maryland-College Park The Plastid Genome of the Haptophyte Emiliania Huxleyi and the Evolution of the Cholorphyll C Containing Plastids	Presentation
Wrap Up: Impact, Applications, and Future Challenges Claire Fraser, The Institute for Genomic Research Comparative Microbial Genomics: Insights Into Evolution and Organismal Diversity	Presentation Speaker’s Website