Sunday, April 13^th

10:00-11:30	Dr. Victor Markowitz (LBNL) & Dr. Nikos Kyrpides (JGI)
	IMG Edu Presentation, demonstration and questions + answers
	Rubin auditorium, 2nd floor Forchheimer building
11:30-12:30	Lunch break
12:30-14:00	Meeting of annotators with Dr. Markowitz and Dr. Kyrpides
	PC classroom #306, library building

Monday, April 14^th

8:45	Registration + coffee
9:00	Greetings
	Prof. Mike Young, UK
	Micrococcus luteus: pre-genomics perspectives
	Rubin auditorium, 2nd floor Forchheimer building
Session I	Sequencing, Genomics and Metagenomics
	Rubin auditorium, 2nd floor Forchheimer building
9:30-11:30	Dr. Victor Markowitz (LBNL) and Dr. Nikos Kyrpides (JGI)
	IMG for annotators: Presentation, demonstration and questions+answers
11:30-13:30	Official reception and Lunch
	Student cafeteria - Forchheimer building
Annotation I	Small group work
13:30-15:30	Annotation
	PC classrooms + seminar rooms, Library +Dean +Forchheimer buildings
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	Annotation - continued
17:30	All groups meet for a short summary
	#102 seminar room, library building

Tuesday, April 15^th

Wednesday, April 16^th

Session II	Bacterial Evolution
9:00-12:05	Chair – Prof. Charles Greenblatt, Hebrew University
	Seminar room #102, library building
9:00-9:30	Prof. Keith Chater John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
	Looking sideways, backwards and forward from the Streptomyces genome
9:35-10:20	Professor Margaret Smith University of Aberdeen, UK
	The Evolution of the Bacteriophage
10:25-10:55	Dr. Uri Gophna Tel-Aviv University
	Protein complexity as a barrier for horizontal gene transfer
11:00-11:30	Dr. Johannes Sikorski DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH Braunschweig, Germany
	Adaptation and speciation of bacteria under natural conditions in Evolution Canyon
11:35-12:05	Dr. Oded Beja, Technion
	Metagenomics of bacterial phototrophy in the sea
12:05-13:00	Lunch Break
Annotation II	Small group work
13:00-15:30	Annotation - continued.
	PC classrooms + seminar rooms, Library +Dean +Forchheimer buildings
15:30–16:00	Coffee Break
Session III	Dormancy and Sporulation
	Chair and moderator – Prof. Mike Young, University of Wales, UK
	Seminar room #102, library building
16:00- 16:30	Arseny Kaprelyants Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Russia
	Bacterial dormancy and "non-culturability"
16:35-17:05	Dr. Ariel Kushmaro Ben-Gurion University
	A Glimpse of the Uncultured Microbial Majority
17:10-17:50	Galina Mukamolova University of Leicester, UK
	Resuscitation Promoting Factor (Rpf) – The Wake-up of Dormant Tuberculosis

Thursday, April 17^th