Catalysis Meeting
Cephalopods such as squids and octopuses are voracious marine predators. Their success relies on evolutionary innovations not found in other invertebrates, including large brains, eyes of great acuity and prehensile arms. The gene regulatory mechanisms underlying these innovations are completely unknown and impossible to address without substantial genomic information. The purpose of the proposed Catalysis Meeting is to bring together a diverse group of researchers, some who study cephalopod biology, others who have expertise in genomics and next-generation sequencing methods, to consider the best strategies for cephalopod genomic sequencing to address current and future studies of cephalopod biology, including cephalopod evolution. The objective of the Catalysis Meeting will be to develop a roadmap for moving cephalopod research into the post-genomic age. The goals will include establishing collaborations for sequencing and data sharing, deciding whether the field is best served by a single-species reference genome, and preparing a white
paper to guide cephalopod genomic research.
Paths to Cephalopod Genomics- Strategies, Choices, Organization
| PI(s): | Clifton Ragsdale (University of Chicago (Chicago,IL)) Laure Bonnaud (University Paris Diderot-Paris 7) Leonid Moroz (Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Univ. Florida) |
| Start Date: | 2-Nov-2011 |
| End Date: | 3-Dec-2012 |
| Keywords: | genomics, evolutionary novelty, neurobiology, evo-devo, gene structure and function |
Cephalopods such as squids and octopuses are voracious marine predators. Their success relies on evolutionary innovations not found in other invertebrates, including large brains, eyes of great acuity and prehensile arms. The gene regulatory mechanisms underlying these innovations are completely unknown and impossible to address without substantial genomic information. The purpose of the proposed Catalysis Meeting is to bring together a diverse group of researchers, some who study cephalopod biology, others who have expertise in genomics and next-generation sequencing methods, to consider the best strategies for cephalopod genomic sequencing to address current and future studies of cephalopod biology, including cephalopod evolution. The objective of the Catalysis Meeting will be to develop a roadmap for moving cephalopod research into the post-genomic age. The goals will include establishing collaborations for sequencing and data sharing, deciding whether the field is best served by a single-species reference genome, and preparing a white
paper to guide cephalopod genomic research.
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Publications- Cephalopod genomics: A plan of strategies and organization Caroline B. Albertin, Laure Bonnaud, C. Titus Brown, Wendy J. Crookes-Goodson, Rute R. da Fonseca, Carlo Di Cristo, Brian P. Dilkes, Eric Edsinger-Gonzales, Robert M. Freeman, Roger T. Hanlon, Kristen M. Koenig, Annie R. Lindgren, Mark Q. Martindale, Patrick Minx, Leonid L. Moroz, Marie-Therese Nödl, Spencer V. Nyholm, Atsushi Ogura, Judit R. Pungor, Joshua J. C. Rosenthal, Erich M. Schwarz, Shuichi Shigeno, Jan M. Strugnell, Tim Wollesen, Guojie Zhang and Clifton W. Ragsdale. 2012, Cephalopod genomics: A plan of strategies and organization, Stand. Genomic Sci., volume 7, issue 1, pp. 175-188
