| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Opening Session |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | David M. Dooley (Montana State University)
"Welcome & Introduction" |
| Chair: Julie A. Kovacs (University of Washington) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | Edward I. Stiefel (Princeton University)
"Microbes as Inorganic Chemists: Harnessing Iron While Avoiding its Dangers" |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm | Chairs Reception / Poster Session |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Conference Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Inorganic Metabolism |
| Chair: Svetlana Lutsenko (Oregon Health Sciences University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Peter M. Kroneck (Universität Konstanz)
"Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Respiration: CuA, CuZ, and More" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Christopher Rensing (University of Arizona)
"Arsenite(III)methyltransferase from Rhodopseudomonas palustris: Characterization of a Novel Arsenite Resistance Mechanism" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Caroline Kisker (SUNY Stony Brook)
"Structural Insights into Sulfite Oxidase Deficiency" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | David C. Richardson (University of East Anglia)
"Multi-heme Cytochromes: Evolutionary Links between the Nitrogen and Iron Cycles" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Inorganic Sensing and Signaling |
| Chair: Ann English (Concordia University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Chuan He (University of Chicago)
"Study of the MerR Proteins: Selective Metal Ion Sensing and Constructing Metal Ion Biosensors" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Judith N. Burstyn (University of Wisconsin)
"Allostery in the CO Sensing Heme Protein, CooA" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | David Benson (Wayne State University)
"Electron Transfer Facilitates Small Molecule Biosensing with Semiconducting Nanoparticles" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mechanistic Bioinorganic Chemistry |
| Chair: Charles Riordan (University of Delaware) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Richard G. Finke (Colorado State University)
"A Coenzyme B12 Test of the Enzyme-Enhanced H-Tunneling Hypothesis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | William Tolman (University of Minnesota)
"Using Synthetic Models to Understand Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Structures in Copper Proteins" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Aimin Liu (University of Mississippi Medical Center)
"Metallocofactor in alpha-Amino-beta-Carboxymuconic-epsilon-Semialdehyde Decarboxylase (ACMSD): Structure, Function, Mechanism" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Justine Roth (Johns Hopkins University)
"Characterizing Activated Oxygen Intermediates in Metalloenzymes" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Metals in Medical Imaging, Therapeutics |
| Chair: Thomas J. Meade (Northwestern University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:55 pm | Jonathan L. Sessler (University of Texas)
"Expanded Porphyrins. A New Approach to Drug Development" |
| 7:55 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Ralph Weissleder (Harvard University)
"Metal based nanoparticles for imaging" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:15 pm | William Bornmann (UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center) |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications of Theory/Computation |
| Chair: Abhik Ghosh (Tromsø University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thomas C. Brunold (University of Wisconsin)
"Spectroscopic/Computational Studies of Coenzyme B12 Structure and Function" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Eric Oldfield (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Theoretical Approaches to Metalloprotein Structure, Function, and Inhibition" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (Pennsylvania State University)
"Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions in Solution and Proteins" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Ulf Ryde (Lund University)
"Combining Quantum Chemical Calculations with EXAFS, Crystallography, and NMR for Accurate Metalloprotein Structures" |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Chairs' Business Meeting (by invitation) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair Elect; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair Elect) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Metalloproteomics/Metallogenomics: Developing Technologies |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: Robert A. Scott (University of Georgia)
"Introduction" |
| 7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Michael W. Crowder (Miami University)
"Probing the Zn(II)-responsive Proteins in E. coli with Proteomic and Genomic Approaches" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:50 pm | Patrick G. Grant (LLNL)
"Quantitative Metalloproteomics in Human Erythrocytes" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Deborah Zamble (University of Toronto)
"New Methods for Finding Metalloproteins" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molybdenum in Biology |
| Chair: John Enemark (University of Arizona) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Martin L. Kirk (University of New Mexico)
"New Insights into the Mechanism of Pyranopterin Molybdenum Enzymes: Electronic Structure Contributions to Catalysis" |
| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Ralf Mendel (Ruhr Universität Bochum)
"Biogenesis of the molybdenum cofactor in plants and humans" |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Markus W. Ribbe (University of California, Irvine)
"Nitrogenase: A Paradigm for Metallocluster Assembly" |
| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | C. Russ Hille (Ohio State University)
"Structure and Function of Xanthine Oxidoreductase" |
| 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 | Joint Poster Session (presented by Gordon Research Seminar) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Joint Session with Gordon Research Seminar |
| Chair: David M. Dooley (Montana State University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern University)
"The Quest for the Particulate Methane Monooxygenase Active Site" |
| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm | Joint Poster Session (presented by Gordon Research Seminar) |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |