| Saturday |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: Biomineralization Pathways |
| Discussion Leaders: Marie Alberic (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany) and Jose Manuel Delgado-Lopez (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain) |
| 3:15 pm - 3:50 pm | Lia Addadi (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Biomineralization Pathways: From Assembly and Deposition in Soft Tissues to Formation of Skeletal Materials" |
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Fundamental Processes and Regulation of
Biomineralization |
| Discussion Leaders: Alix Deymier (Columbia University, USA) and Michal Shemesh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) |
| 5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Karen DeRocher (Northwestern University, USA)
"Properties of the Amorphous Intergranular Phase in Human Dental Enamel" |
| 5:45 pm - 5:50 pm | Discussion |
| 5:50 pm - 6:05 pm | Amanda You (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Characterisation of Medial Aortic Calcification in Human Aorta Using Raman Spectroscopy" |
| 6:05 pm - 6:10 pm | Discussion |
| 6:10 pm - 6:25 pm | Jennie Kunitake (Cornell University, USA)
"Correlated Pathology and Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Breast Cancer Microcalcifications" |
| 6:25 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
| 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm | Jessica Walker (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"Polymorph Selectivity of Coccolith Associated Polysaccharides" |
| 6:45 pm - 6:50 pm | Discussion |
| 6:50 pm - 7:05 pm | Dimitra Athanasiadou (McGill University, Canada)
"Hierarchical Nanoparticulate Structure of Avian Eggshell" |
| 7:05 pm - 7:10 pm | Discussion |
| 7:10 pm - 7:25 pm | Sebastian Mergelsberg (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA)
"Morphological Dependence of Element Stoichiometry in the H. americanus Exoskeleton" |
| 7:25 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm | Dinner |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Mineral Nucleation, Growth and Control, and Bio-Inspired Mineralization |
| Discussion Leaders: Joe Harris (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) and Giulia Mirabello (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | Katy Olafson (University of Houston, USA)
"Elucidating the Molecular Interactions Between Antimalarial Drugs and Hematin Crystal Surfaces" |
| 9:15 am - 9:20 am | Discussion |
| 9:20 am - 9:35 am | Wenjun Zhang (Huazhong Agricultural University, China)
"Templated Biomineralization on Self-Assembled Protein Nanofibers Buried in Calcium Oxalate Raphides of Musa spp." |
| 9:35 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Sindre Bjørnøy (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
"Correlative Microscopy and Spectroscopy Studies of Calcium Phosphate Mineralization Processes Within Alginate Hydrogels" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am | Chang-Yu Sun (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"Understanding Spherulitic Growth via Crystal Orientation Analysis in Synthetic Aragonite and Biominerals" |
| 10:15 am - 10:20 am | Discussion |
| 10:20 am - 10:35 am | Zhaoyong Zou (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany)
"Golmite: A New Hydrated Calcium Carbonate Formed from Amorphous Calcium Carbonate in the Presence of Magnesium" |
| 10:35 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
| 10:40 am - 10:55 am | Anna Hirsch (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"'Guanigma': The Revised Structure of Biogenic Anhydrous Guanine" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Biomineralization
Mechanisms |
| Discussion Leaders: Michael Pacella (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and Anna Schenk (University of Stuttgart, Germany) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm | Aaron Finney (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
"The Influence of Amino Acids on Calcium Carbonate Nucleation" |
| 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm | Discussion |
| 1:50 pm - 2:20 pm | Adam Wallace (University of Delaware, USA)
"Investigating Mechanisms of Postmortem Soft Tissues Biomineralization in Ancient Sediments with Model Systems" |
| 2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
