[via Teun Boekhout]
This year looks like another great lineup of speakers for the EMBO Comparative Genomics of Microorganisms: ‘Understanding the Complexity of Diversity’ 15-20 Oct 2011 Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
| Andrew Allen | J. Craig Venter Institute | US |
| Anders Blomberg | Göteborg University | SE |
| Chris Bowler | École Normale Supérieure | FR |
| Gertraud Burger | University of Montreal | CA |
| Bernard Dujon | Institut Pasteur | FR |
| Toni Gabaldón | CRG, Barcelona | ES |
| Ursula Goodenough | Washington University | US |
| Michael Gray | Dalhousie University | CA |
| Joseph Heitman | Duke University | US |
| Christiane Hertz-Fowler | University of Liverpool | UK |
| Regine Kahmann | Max Planck Institute | DE |
| Patrick Keeling | University of British Columbia | CA |
| Nicole King | UC, Berkeley | US |
| Edda Klipp | Humboldt University | DE |
| Veronique Leh Louis | University of Strasbourg | FR |
| Jan Pawlowski | University of Geneva | CH |
| Jure Piskur | Lund University | SE |
| Tom Richards | University of Exeter | UK |
| Andrew J. Roger | Dalhousie University | CA |
| David Roos | University of Pennsylvania | US |
| Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo | University of Barcelona | ES |
| Joseph Schacherer | University of Strasbourg | FR |
| Artur Scherf | Institut Pasteur | FR |
| Joey Spatafora | Oregon State University | US |
| Nicholas Talbot | University of Exeter | UK |
| Kevin Verstrepen | University of Leuven | BE |
| Eric Westhof | University of Strasbourg | FR |
| Patrick Wincker | Genoscope | FR |
| Ken Wolfe | Smurfit Institute of Genetics | IE |
| Alexandra Z. Worden | University of California | US |
Some comments from former participants:
Comments from 2009 meeting
Overall rating
Based on responses from 80% of participants:
Excellent 50%; Very Good 44%; Good 6%.
Comments:
It is hard to improve the meeting. It’s a good mixture of conference and workshop with a lot of input from expert of adjacent field.
I strongly support the idea the meeting is organized in the future at a regular basis.
Very high quality, open minded with presentations ranging from pure genomics to implementation in the field of ecology; plenty of novelties. Plenty of time to discuss and to establish potential collaborations
I hope to have the possibility to go in the future to this meeting. We learn a lot, and also the size is well, the students have the possibility to talk of discuss with senior
Great work!
Thanks to the organizers for an extremely interesting and productive meeting.
Great meeting. This is a unique meeting because it brings together a group of scientists that dont normally interact with each other. Thus, great opportunities for cross-interactions. This meeting has the potential to fill a very unique niche. I enjoyed meeting new people from diverse fields. I plan to attend again and encourage my colleagues to do so.
This meeting was a great match to my interests but also challenged me to think outside of my normal sphere. I applaud the organizers and the participants in making this a useful meeting.
The meeting was very well organized and at a very good location. I enjoyed it very much.
I hope this meeting continues as it was a valuable forum for the field of comparative genomics.
This meeting is unique in its broad organism focus. Please keep supporting it.