SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ENVIRONMENTAL BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY: FROM THE GLOBAL TO THE MOLECULAR SCALE |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Tom Spiro (Princeton University) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Brian Palenik (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
"Using genomic data to understand environmental bioinorganic processes" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | James Penner-Hahn (University of Michigan)
"Metal imaging in tissue and within single cells" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ENVIRONMENTAL BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY OF MANGANESE |
| Discussion Leader: Alan Stone (Johns Hopkins University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Michael J. Daly (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
"Ionizing radiation-driven Mn redox-cycling in Deinococcus radiodurans" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | John Bargar (Stanford University)
"Bacteriogenic Mn oxides: structures and environmental consequences" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Sean Elliot (Boston University)
"Probing the flow of redox equivalents in manganese oxidation and reduction chemistry" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Alexis S. Templeton (University of Colorado)
"Biofilm/mineral interfaces and the formation of ferromanganese crusts" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NITROGEN CYCLING |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: William Sunda (Beaufort Laboratory, NOs, NOAA) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | David Stahl (University of Washington)
"Ammonia-oxidizing archaea" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | David J. Richardson (University of East Anglia)
"Common multi-heme solutions for extracellular mineral iron reduction and short-circuiting the nitrogen cycle" |
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METAL COMPLEXATION BY MICROBES AND IN THE ENVIRONMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Rachel Austin (Bates College) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kenneth N. Raymond (UC Berkeley)
"Microbial iron uptake strategies" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Owen Duckworth (UC Berkeley)
"Mn(III)-Siderophore Complexes: Formation, Stability, and Reactivity" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Amy C. Rosenzweig (Northwestern University)
"The quest for the particulate methane monooxygenase active site" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | David A. Fowle (University of Kansas)
"What is the role of methanobactin in nature?" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EMERGING TECHNIQUES AND APPROACHES |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: James Moffett (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | John F.
Heidelberg (The Institute for Genomic Research)
"Metagenomics of uncultured microorganisms" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Deborah Zamble (University of Toronto)
"Methods for finding metalloproteins" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MARINE BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY |
| Discussion Leader: Francois Morel (Princeton University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Neil M. Price (McGill University)
"Plastocyanin: a cupreous solution to a ferric problem" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Katherine Barbeau (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
"Microbial iron recycling in the ocean: the heme pathway" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Mark Hildebrand (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
"Components and control of diatom silicification" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Mary Ann Moran (University of Georgia)
"Insights into sulfur biogeochemistry from marine bacterial genomes" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Margo G. Haygood (Oregon Health & Science University) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Tamar Barkay (Rutgers University)
"Microbe-mercury interactions in geothermal environments: insights into the evolution and origin of microbial mercury detoxification" |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Ronald S. Oremland (U.S. Geological Survey)
"You call this living?: The microbial arsenic cycle in hypersaline, arsenic-rich soda lakes" |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MICROBE-MINERAL INTERACTIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Susan L. Brantley (Pennsylvania State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thomas DiChristina (Georgia Tech)
"New Insights into the mechanism of bacterial metal respiration" |
9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:15 am | Yuri Gorby (Pacific Northwest National Laboratories)
"Bacterial nanowires: novel structures for extracellular electron transfer and mineral transformation" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Robert A. Scott (University of Georgia)
"Discovery and prediction of prokaryotic transcriptional regulators responding to environmental stress" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Arash Komeili (UC Berkeley)
"To build a magnetosome" |
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TOXIC METALS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Anne O. Summers (University of Georgia) |
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Barry Rosen (Wayne State University School of Medicine)
"New and novel pathways, transporters and modifying enzymes for arsenic" |
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |