March 1, 2023, 9 am – 12 pm Pacific Time

CyanoCyc (URL: https://cyanocyc.org/) is a new portal to the collection of genomes and metabolic pathways for cyanobacteria in the BioCyc Pathway/Genome database collection with new cyanobacteria-specific features to advance your research.

We invite you to attend an online mini-symposium to hear about some of the exciting cyanobacteria-focused research that has been helped by the use of BioCyc bioinformatics tools and learn how to use them for your own research.

Please register at https://tinyurl.com/z387m7f6.

Time

Topic

Presenter

9:00 – 9:10

Introduction to Symposium

Lisa Moore, SRI International

Plenary talk (30 min)

9:10 – 9:40

Photosynthesis, synthetic biology, and bioinformatics

Danny Ducat, Michigan State University, USA

Lightning research talks (60 min)

9:40 – 9:55

TBD

9:55 – 10:10

Exploring cyanobacterial genomic organization using BioCyc

Alessandro Satta, University of Padua, Italy

10:10 – 10:25

Phylosymbiosis between the cyanobacteriumMicrocystis and its associated bacteria

Nicolas Tromas, McGill University, Canada

10:25 – 10:40

Prochlorococcus-heterotroph interactions during extended periods of darkness

Steve Biller, Wellesley College, USA

Break (5 min)

CyanoCyc tools and tutorial (75 min)

10:45 – 11:15

CyanoCyc and New tools

Peter Karp, SRI International

11:15 – 12:00

General BioCyc tutorial

Lisa Moore