I Brazilian Microbiome Project Workshop
II Brazilian Microbiome Project Meeting
30 September 2013 - Centro de Convenções de Natal - Natal/RN/Brazil
Sponsors:
Scientific and Technical Program
Speakers

Opening Ceremony and Welcome to BMP
BMP Overview and Getting involved
Victor Satler Pylro - UFV/Brazil
13:00 h

Brazilian Microbiome Project: achievements, priorities and future perspectives
Dr. Luiz F. W. Roesch - UNIPAMPA/Brazil
13:10 h

Classical techniques x metagenomics: level of information, labor, costs and applicability of the results - A case study of soils under different managements
Dr. Mariangela Hungria da Cunha - EMBRAPA/Brazil
13:35 h

Bioinformatics infrastructure and pipelines for metagenomics
Dr. Aristóteles Góes-Neto - UEFS and CEBio/FIOCRUZ-MG/Brazil
14:00 h

The Earth Microbiome Project: Generating a database to model global microbial diversity
Dr. Jack Gilbert - Argonne National Lab./USA
14:25 h
14:55 h

Bioinformatics: is it possible to run analysis “during” the project and even “before” it starts, to improve results “after” sequencing?
Dr. J. Miguel Ortega - UFMG/Brazil

Sponsor session - Life Technologies
How Ion Torrent technology can improve your research in microbiology
Raphael Fonseca, M.Sc – Field Applications Scientist
15:20 h

Coffee Break

16:00 h

Metagenomic of Brazilian coral holobionts
Msc. Henrique Fragoso dos Santos - UFRJ/Brazil
16:30 h

Chitin-responsive communities in soil and their relation to soil suppressiveness as assessed by metagenomics
Dr. Jan Dirk van Elsas - University of Groningen/Netherlands
16:55 h

Beyond primers, PCRs and barcodes: Reconstruction of full length SSU rRNA genes from soil DNA/RNA-seq data
Dr. Ulisses Nunes da Rocha - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/USA
17:20 h

Looking for holy graals in microbiome-based metagenomes
Dr. Fernando Dini Andreote - ESALQ/USP/Brazil
17:45 h

BMP General Discussion
Closing ceremony and Acknowledgments
Dr. Marcos Rogério Tótola - UFV/Brazil - BMP General Coordinator