Sunday |
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Session: Cryptic Microbial Cycles |
| Discussion Leader: Alexandra Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:50 pm - 8:25 pm | Bo Barker Jorgensen (Aarhus University, Denmark) "Sulfate Reduction in Marine Sediments Revisited" |
8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:15 pm | Orit Sivan (Ben Gurion University, Israel) "The Complex Redox Couplings Between Methane, Iron
and Sulfur in Marine and Lake Sediments" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Group Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Ecology in Surface Environments |
| Discussion Leader: Victoria Orphan (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Gregory Dick (University of Michigan, USA) "Determining Microbial and Geochemical Controls on Oxygen Production in a Modern Analog of Precambrian Cyanobacterias Mats" |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Sara Pruss (Smith College, USA) "Microbial Signatures in Modern Bahamian Ooids" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Eric Boyd (Montana State University, USA) "Oxygen and the Evolution of Acidophiles" |
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 in Marine Environments |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Follows (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Brian Popp (University of Hawaii, USA) "Particle Degradation and the Importance of Sinking Particles to Meso- and Bathypelagic Food Webs in the North Pacific Revealed Though Amino Acid Isotope Analysis" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Julie Granger (University of Connecticut, USA) "The Physiological Bases of N and O Isotope Fractionation During Nitrate Reduction and Implications for Interpretation of Nitrate Isotope Distributions in the Environment" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Ecology and Evolution Through the Lens of Bioinformatics |
| Discussion Leader: John Vollmers (Leibniz-Institut DSMZ, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | Laura Hug (University of Waterloo, Canada) "Uncovering Microbial Diversity Through Genome-Resolved Metagenomics" |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Adam Arkin (University of California, Berkeley, USA) "Characterizing the Genetic Determinants of Survival
and Adaptation in Diverse Microbes and Environments" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Gregory Fournier (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Estimated Divergence Times of Purple and Green Sulfur Bacteria Independently Support a Paleoproterozoic Onset of Marine Euxinia" |
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 | Biosignature Generation: Who, How, and Where |
| Discussion Leader: David Des Marais (NASA, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Ann Pearson (Harvard University, USA) "The Carbon Isotope Record and Microbial Life: Old Paradigms and Emerging Patterns" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Paula Welander (Stanford University, USA) "Sterol Biosynthesis in the Bacterial Domain" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Depositional Constraints on Geobiological Signals |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Aller (Stony Brook University, State University of New York, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | William Berelson (University of Southern California, USA) "Open System - Closed System Behavior in Hemipelagic Sediments: Tales from the Modern and Ancient" |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Itay Halevy (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) "Depositional Controls on Preserved Sulfur Isotope Variability in Modern and Ancient Marine Sediments" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | Rachel Wood (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) "Ediacaran Geobiology: The Present Is Not the Key to
the Deep Past" |
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 | Metals as Biogeochemical Proxies |
| Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Swanner (Iowa State University, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Jeff Catalano (Washington University, USA) "Element Repartitioning During Low-Temperature
Mineral Recrystallization: Implications for Trace Metal Proxies" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Stefan Lalonde (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France) "Modern Insights into Precambrian Metal Cycling" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Deep Time Records |
| Discussion Leader: Lee Kump (Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:10 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:10 am - 9:50 am | David Rowley (University of Chicago, USA) "The Preserved Record of Global Mean Spread Rate
Variability" |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Discussion |
10:10 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Shanan Peters (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Earth Systems Evolution: A Deep-Time View from the Upper Crust" |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 12:15 pm | John Higgins (Princeton University, USA) "What Environmental Information Is Recorded in Ancient Carbonate Sediments? New Insights from Ca and Mg Isotopes" |
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 | Novel Tools and Techniques |
| Discussion Leader: Woodward Fischer (California Institute of Technology, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Alex Gagnon (University of Washington, USA) "What Elements Are Skeletons Made of and How Do They Get There? Can We Solve the Biomineralization Question with SIMS?" |
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Jena Johnson (California Institute of Technology, USA) "Understanding Manganese Reduction Using Time-Resolved Synchrotron-Based Experiments" |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |