IWEG 2018 Workshop Report
Executive Summary
The third meeting of the International Workshop on Environmental Genomics established the conference as a regular event. Workshop participants from around the world congregated in St. John’s, NL, Canada this spring to share the progress in ecogenomics from their different nations and economic sectors. Members from the oil and gas industry, environmental consulting agencies, academia, and regulatory agencies discussed advances in the field, recent technological innovations, opportunities for applied research, and acceleration of technological readiness. Continuing from previous meetings, the barriers to widespread implementation of this technology and potential solutions were at the core of many talks. Other focal points of the workshop were novel projects applying environmental genomics in the field, advances in bioinformatic analyses, and first steps towards protocol validation and standardization. Notably, the consortium created at the 2017 workshop, ICE-G, presented a research prioritization matrix from which a Joint Industry Program (JIP) will be initiated. This JIP will help formalize and guide collaborations between researchers and industry partners in environmental genomics moving forward.
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Executive Summary
The third meeting of the International Workshop on Environmental Genomics established the conference as a regular event. Workshop participants from around the world congregated in St. John’s, NL, Canada this spring to share the progress in ecogenomics from their different nations and economic sectors. Members from the oil and gas industry, environmental consulting agencies, academia, and regulatory agencies discussed advances in the field, recent technological innovations, opportunities for applied research, and acceleration of technological readiness. Continuing from previous meetings, the barriers to widespread implementation of this technology and potential solutions were at the core of many talks. Other focal points of the workshop were novel projects applying environmental genomics in the field, advances in bioinformatic analyses, and first steps towards protocol validation and standardization. Notably, the consortium created at the 2017 workshop, ICE-G, presented a research prioritization matrix from which a Joint Industry Program (JIP) will be initiated. This JIP will help formalize and guide collaborations between researchers and industry partners in environmental genomics moving forward.
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