The US. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is hosting the second Microbial and Plant Systems Modulated by Secondary Metabolite Meeting, July 24-26 in Walnut Creek California.The meeting will bring together a diverse group of investigators interested in the role of secondary metabolites in plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions to exchange strategies for studying and manipulating the impact of secondary metabolites on environmental systems. This venue will also serve as an opportunity for the meeting participants to learn about JGI resources and capabilities available to them.

• Opening Keynote Speaker: Jo Handelsman, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, “Convergence of model systems and the natural world”
• Closing Keynote Speaker: Gerald Tuskan, Oak Ridge National Lab, “Interkingdom signaling: a Populus case study”

PLEASE NOTE:Registration closes on June 23, 2017 at 5:00 pm PST or once we reach our maximum capacity of 200 participants.For more information, including the full list of speakers, go here.The draft agenda can be downloaded here.