报告题目：Metagenomics for Function
报告人：James Tiedje院士
报告时间：10月31日（周五）下午2:00
报告地点：紫金港校区农生环大楼B112报告厅
报告简介：
Metagenomics and its namesake, the microbiome, has become a core of new age microbial ecology. Metagenomics is still in its infancy, but now beginning to provide some real returns on investment. But, it has many directions - those determined by the various methods employed, the complexity of the different communities and the resources available. I will illustrate with three different studies, one of the soil and rhizosphere microbiome, another of key functions in the intestinal, i.e. anaerobic microbiome, and the last concerned with antibiotic resistance genes in the environment. Each illustrate different challenges, methods and new and different insights in to key functions of their respective microbiomes.
报告人简介：
Dr. Tiedje is University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, and is Director of the Center for Microbial Ecology, at Michigan State University. He received his B.S. degree from Iowa State University and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Cornell University. His research focuses on microbial ecology, physiology and diversity, especially regarding the nitrogen cycle, biodegradation of environmental pollutants and more recently on the use of genomics and metagenomics to understand speciation, community structure and functions. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Editor of Microbial and Molecular Biology Reviews. He has over 500 refereed publications. He served on the Board on Life Sciences of the National Research Council and Co-Chaired the Committee on the New Science of Metagenomics report. He served on EPA’s Science Advisory Panel 1986-1990 and on DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research Advisory Committee from 1999-2012. He was President of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 2004-2005, President of the International Society of Microbial Ecology (1998-2001), and was Chair of the Soil Biology Division of the International Union of Soil Science, 1998-2002. He shared the 1992 Finley Prize from UNESCO for research contributions in microbiology of international significance and in 2010 was awarded an Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Fellow of the AAAS, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Soil Science Society of America, the Ecological Society of America, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
报告联系人：徐建明 （电话：88982069）