SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff and Conference Chair |
7:45 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOINORGANIC CYCLES FROM CELLULAR TO GLOBAL |
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion Leader: Tom Spiro (U. of Washington) |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA) "Between a rock and a hard place: trace element nutrition in Chlamydomonas" |
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Francois Morel (Princeton) "The cadmium carbonic anhydrase of diatoms: from the oceans to the molecule, and now back to the oceans" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | IRON AND SULFUR |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Margo Haygood (Oregon Health & Science University) |
9:20 am - 9:47 am | Alison Butler (UCal-SantaBarbara) "Structure and Reactivity of Marine Siderophores" |
9:47 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:30 am - 10:57 am | Ginger Armbrust (U. of Washington) "Iron nutrition in diatoms, surprising interactions on molecular and global scales" |
10:57 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:37 am | Andy Johnston (East Anglia) "Cloning the smell of the seaside - A bewildering range of ways in which different bacteria make the weather-changing gas dimethyl sulphide" |
11:37 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:17 pm | Jose Moura (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) "Dissimilatory sulfate reduction: A bioinorganic view" |
12:17 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 | IMPORTANT TRACE ELEMENTS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Brad Tebo (Oregon Grad. Inst.) |
7:45 pm - 8:08 pm | Anne Valentine (Yale) "Titanium in organisms: Abundant, bioactive, and surprisingly bioavailable" |
8:08 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:43 pm | Peter Kroneck (U. Konstanz) "It takes tungsten, plus some Fe-S, to breathe acetylene:structure and function of bacterial acetylene hydratase" |
8:43 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:18 pm | Steve Ragsdale (U. Michigan) "Metabolism of greenhouse gases by nickel metalloenzymes" |
9:18 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | LATEST ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES |
9:00 am - 9:20 pm | Discussion Leader: Steve Lippard (MIT) |
9:20 am - 9:47 am | Bridget Bergquist (U. Michigan) "Metal isotopes: New tracers in the environment" |
9:47 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:57 am | Ken Kemner (Argonne Nat. Lab) "Hard X-ray micro(spectro)scopy for bioinorganic chemistry" |
10:57 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:37 am | Joe Caruso (U. Cincinnati) "Environmental trace element analysis - more than just metals" |
11:37 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:17 pm | Bill Burgos (Penn State U.) "Reaction-based modeling of metal-microbe interactions" |
12:17 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 | BIOENERGY AND NANOTECHNOLOGY |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Tom DiChristina (Georgia Tech) |
7:45 pm - 8:08 pm | Ted Betley (Harvard) "A ligand field chemistry of oxygen generation by the oxygen-evolving complex and synthetic active sites" |
8:08 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:43 pm | Elena Shevchenko (Argonne Nat. Lab) "Hybrid structures at nanoscale" |
8:43 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:18 pm | Derek Lovley (U. Mass-Amherst) "Microbe-electrode interactions: Mechanisms of electron transfer and applications for power production and bioremediation" |
9:18 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND EVOLUTION |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Ariel Anbar (Arizona State) |
9:20 am - 9:47 am | Lucia Banci (U Florence) "The Metallome through the three domains of Life" |
9:47 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:57 am | Mak Saito (WHOI) "Was there co-evolution of cyanobacteria and trace metal ocean biogeochemistry during a cyanobacterial era? What we know, what
we need to know, and what is knowable" |
10:57 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:37 am | Felisa Wolfe-Simon (Harvard) "The geobiochemical evolution of the photosynthetic metalloproteome:
physiological proxies, biochemical inertia, and the stalled diversification of algae" |
11:37 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:17 pm | Chris Dupont (U Cal-San Diego) "Diversity and evolution of the metal-binding proteome" |
12:17 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 | TOXICOLOGY AND BIOREMEDIATION |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Jenny Jay (UCLA) |
7:45 pm - 8:08 pm | Ellen Silbergeld (Johns Hopkins) "The unbearable heaviness of metals: Exposures, outcomes,and mechanisms of the toxic metals" |
8:08 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:43 pm | Rich Meagher (U Georgia) "Multigene strategies for the phytoremediation of mercury and arsenic" |
8:43 pm - 9:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:18 pm | John Coates (U Cal - Berkeley) "Between a rock and a hard place - nitrate-dependent Fe(II) oxidation" |
9:18 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MINERAL NUTRITION AND HOMEOSTASIS |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Discussion Leader: Al Crumbliss (Duke) |
9:20 am - 9:47 am | Frithjof Kuepper (Scottish Association for Marine Science) "Iodide in kelp: an inorganic antioxidant in life impacting atmospheric chemistry" |
9:47 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 10:57 am | Leif Pallesen (U Illinois-Chicago) "P-loop NTPases in cytosolic FeS cluster biogenesis" |
10:57 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:37 am | Nigel Robinson (Affiliation) "Allocating the correct metals to proteins in the periplasm" |
11:37 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
11:50 am - 12:17 pm | Anne Kraepiel (Princeton) "The multiple roles of siderophores: from iron bearers to metal custodians" |
12:17 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 - 8:00 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) |
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | BIOINORGANIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND FUTURE FUELS |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion Leader: Francois Morel (Princeton) |
8:20 pm - 9:15 pm | Roger Prince (Exxon-Mobile) "Will we drive on biofuels?" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |