Wednesday, Dec. 3

Genomes and ORFeomes, session 1
Chair: David Hill, DFCI
Ian Dunham (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute): Human genome and ORFeome

Xavier DeBolle (URBM/FUNDP): Brucella ORFeome

Kevin McKernan (Agencourt): Genome sequencing

Pierre Hilson (VIB-Gent University): Arabidopsis ORFeome, MIAO and the ORF shop

Genomes and ORFeomes, session 2
Chair: Jérôme Reboul, INSERM

Jack Chen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory): C. briggsae sequence and Wormbase

Chaochun Wei (Washington University): Experimental verification of Twinscan predictions on C. elegans

Phil Lamesch (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): The C. elegans ORFeome Project

Structural Genomics
Chair: Jérôme Reboul, INSERM

Tom Acton (Rutgers/UMDNJ): Protein production for the NSGC

Ming Luo (University of Alabama, Birmingham): Progress on structural genomics of C. elegans

Jim Hartley (NCI/SAIC Frederick): Protein expression systems

Keynote Address 1
Steve Elledge(Harvard Medical School ): Gene transfer systems

Thursday, Dec. 4

Phenome Mapping and Biology 1
Chair: Laurie Goodman, Genome Research

Julie Ahringer (Wellcome Trust/CRUK ): Genome-wide functional analyses

Julian Ceron (Harvard Medical School): Use of the ORFeome RNAi library in a synthetic lethal screen

Andy Fraser (Wellcome Trust/CRUK): RNAi screens: the more the merrier

Sarah Jenna (McGill University): C. elegans Ras superfamily of small G proteins

Phenome Mapping and Biology 2
Chair: Kris Gunsalus, NYU

Hannah Nicholas (University of Oxford): Signaling pathways in C. elegans innate immunity

Anita Fernandez (NYU): RNAi analysis of germline-enriched genes using ORFeome clones

Andrey Poznyakovskiy (Max-Planck-Institute, Saarbrücken): Mitosis

Hui Ge (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/HMS): Early embryogenesis

Interactome Mapping 1
Chair: Judy Glaven, Cell Press

Joel Bader (Johns Hopkins University): A D. melanogaster interactome map

Joel Malek (Agencourt): Bacterial two-hybrid maps

Wade Harper (Harvard Medical School): Cell cycle interactome maps

Mark Chance (Albert Einstein College of Medicine): High-throughput screening of DDR proteins

Dan Gallahan (NCI/NIH): New NCI RFAs

Interactome Mapping 2
Chair: David Bentley, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Jim Hu (Texas A&M University): E. coli homodimers

Mike Weiner (The Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases): A large-scale survey of protein interactions in C. elegans

Debra Goldberg (Harvard Medical School): Interactome networks

Chris Armstrong (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): A C. elegans interactome map

Keynote Address 2
Charlie Boone (University of Toronto): Genetic interaction networks: global mapping of functional relationships amongst yeast genes

Friday, Dec. 5

Localizome
Chair: Marian Walhout, UMASS

Ramesh Shivdasani (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): Mammalian transcriptional networks

Bart Deplancke (UMASS Medical School) Mapping C. elegans transcriptional networks

Ian Hope (University of Leeds): Constructing promoter/reporter fusions using MultiSite Gateway

Rock Pulak (Union Biometrica, Inc.): Worm sorter and biology

Denis Dupuy (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute): C. elegans promoterome and localizome

William Mohler (UCONN Health Center ): Digital imaging and the localizome

Technology
Chair: Troy Moore, Open Biosystems

Josh Labear (Harvard Medical School): Recombinational cloning systems

Tom Chappell (Invitrogen): New developments in Gateway

Mike Brasch (ATTO Bioscience): Multisite Gateway

 

We would like to thank Invitrogen Corporation, Open Biosystems, and QIAGEN for their generous contributions that made this year’s ORFeome Meeting possible.