Roscoff (Brittany), France, October 15-19, 2011
The total number of participants is limited to 115 and all participants are expected to attend for the whole duration of the conference. Selection is made on the basis of the affinity of potential participants with the topics of the conference.
Deadline for application: July 22, 2011
Registration fees (including board and lodging)
350 € for PhD students (could be modified)
560 € for other participants (could be modified)
Chairperson: Oded BÉJÀ
Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Phone: +972-4-829-3961 – Fax : +972-4-822-5153
mail
Vice-Chairperson: Philippe VANDENKOORNHUYSE
CNRS - UMR 6553, Ecobio IFR2116/FR90 CAREN, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu,
35000 Rennes (France)
Phone: +33 2 23 23 50 07 – Fax: +33 2 23 23 68 28
mail
Fifteen years have passed since the sequencing of the first bacterial genome . Over the past few years, different large-scale initiatives on individual genomes and on environmental genomes have been launched with the aim of getting a more complete understanding of biodiversity. The deciphering of genomes has also proved to be essential to understand how organisms and communities exploit natural resources within their environments, how they interact and how they adapt to changing environmental conditions. In parallel, these genomic sequences give novel insights on the evolutionary history of organisms and communities. Finally, analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes has revealed the huge variability of gene sets and of genomic structures between and within species.
Integration of these different approaches of structural, functional, population and community genomics at the environmental scale has resulted in the emergence of environmental genomics.
This novel field provides a framework for an integrative vision of the complexity of habitats and biodiversity and for limiting numerous biases of interpretation of ecological processes and ecosystem functioning. The present Jacques Monod Conference “Integrative ecological genomics” will present the latest breakthroughs in the fields of genomics and post-genomics in ecology through a variety of sessions dealing with different approaches, organisms, communities and ecosystems. Hence, the emerging concepts and ideas in functional and evolutionary ecology related to the development of environmental genomics will be emphasized.
Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Phone: +972-4-829-3961 – Fax : +972-4-822-5153
Vice-Chairperson: Philippe VANDENKOORNHUYSE
CNRS - UMR 6553, Ecobio IFR2116/FR90 CAREN, Université de Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu,
35000 Rennes (France)
Phone: +33 2 23 23 50 07 – Fax: +33 2 23 23 68 28
Fifteen years have passed since the sequencing of the first bacterial genome . Over the past few years, different large-scale initiatives on individual genomes and on environmental genomes have been launched with the aim of getting a more complete understanding of biodiversity. The deciphering of genomes has also proved to be essential to understand how organisms and communities exploit natural resources within their environments, how they interact and how they adapt to changing environmental conditions. In parallel, these genomic sequences give novel insights on the evolutionary history of organisms and communities. Finally, analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes has revealed the huge variability of gene sets and of genomic structures between and within species.
Integration of these different approaches of structural, functional, population and community genomics at the environmental scale has resulted in the emergence of environmental genomics.
This novel field provides a framework for an integrative vision of the complexity of habitats and biodiversity and for limiting numerous biases of interpretation of ecological processes and ecosystem functioning. The present Jacques Monod Conference “Integrative ecological genomics” will present the latest breakthroughs in the fields of genomics and post-genomics in ecology through a variety of sessions dealing with different approaches, organisms, communities and ecosystems. Hence, the emerging concepts and ideas in functional and evolutionary ecology related to the development of environmental genomics will be emphasized.
