SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Metal ions and biogeochemical cycles |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Discussion Leader: Francois Morel (Princeton University) |
7:50 pm - 8:50 pm | Keynote Lecture: Paul Falkowski (Rutgers University) |
8:50 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Metal ion impact on photosynthesis |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Giovanni Finazzi (Institut de Biologie Physico Chimique Paris) "Iron deficiency and impact on photosynthesis" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Devaki Bhaya (Stanford University) "Hot springs cyanobacterial metabolism" |
10:25 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Ron Oremland (U.S. Geological Survey) "Arsenic in photosynthesis" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Heinz Frei (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) "Metal ions in artificial photosynthetic systems" |
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 | Metal ions and nitrogen fixation |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Jen Glass (Arizona State University) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Eric Boyd (Montana State) "Mo-nitrogenase and evolution" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Teresa Thiel (University of Missouri) "Environmental factors that regulate nitrogenase genes" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Luis Rubio (IMDEA Madrid) "Nitrogenase active site metallocluster biosynthesis" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Environmental bioinorganic chemistry and public health |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Partha Basu (Duquesne University) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Jonathan Freedman (NIEHS) "Responses of organisms to toxic metal exposure" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Megan McEvoy (University of Arizona) "Ag and bacterial resistance in the environment" |
10:25 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | David Petering (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) "Heavy metal toxicity and metallothioneins" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Roland K. Strong (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) "Understanding iron sequestration strategies to improve public health" |
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 | Imaging the distribution of metals in cells |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: Shawn Burdette (U Conn) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Chris Chang (University of California at Berkeley) "Copper and hydrogen peroxide sensors" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Jennifer Pett-Ridge (LLNL) "Metals in bacteria imaged by nanoSIMS" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Ben Twining (Bigelow) "Micro X-ray analysis" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bioinorganic chemical oceanography |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Alison Butler (University of California at Santa Barbara) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Kristen Buck (Bermuda Biological Station) "High-throughput studies of Fe speciation" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Martha Gledhill (National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton) "Linking biologically produced iron complexes to oceanic iron chemistry" |
10:25 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | George Luther (University of Delaware) "Iron in extreme environments: iron and cyanobacteria dynamics in a fresh water hot spring and iron sulfur chemistry in focused flow hydrothermal vent waters" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Ken Bruland (University of California at Santa Cruz) "Iron from Continental Shelf Sediments and Rivers - the Role of Strong Fe(III)-Binding Organic Ligands" |
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 | The Bioinorganic Beyond |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: John Peters (Montana State University) |
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm | Jade Bond (University of Arizona) "Exoplanetary work" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:40 pm | Timothy Lyons (University of California at Riverside) "Evolution of oxygen in the ancient ocean - interaction between environment and biology" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | Chris Dupont (J Craig Venter Institute) "Genomic approaches to understanding the evolution of metallomes" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Environmental metallome |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Joseph Caruso (University of Cincinnati) |
9:10 am - 9:40 am | Dave Koppenaal (WR Wiley EMS Laboratory PNNL) "Development of cutting edge technologies for analytical study of the metallome" |
9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
9:55 am - 10:25 am | Mak Saito (WHOI) "Measuring metalloenzymes in sea water" |
10:25 am - 10:40 am | Discussion |
10:40 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | David Salt (Purdue University) "Mechanisms that regulate the elemental composition of plants" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Madeli Castruita (University of California at Los Angeles) "An RNAseq analysis of the global effects of low copper on Chlamydomonas" |
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 | Metal Ions and Toxicology |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Anne Summers (University of Georgia) |
7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Val Culotta (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) "What yeast can tell us about the physiology of environmental metals" |
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |