Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 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 | Structure and Mechanism in C1 Enzymes |
| Discussion Leader: Stephen Ragsdale (University of Michigan Medical School, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:55 pm - 8:20 pm | Rolf Thauer (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) "Function and Structure of an Electron-Bifurcating Transhydrogenase Involved in Acetogenesis from
CO2" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | John Peters (Montana State University, USA) "New Insights into the Mechanism of Electron Bifurcating NADH-Dependent Reduced Ferredoxin:NADP Oxidoreductase" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Catherine Drennan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Capturing Carbon, One Crystallographic Snapshot at a Time" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Monday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial C1 Metabolism in the Environment |
| Discussion Leader: Harold Drake (University of Bayreuth, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Michael Wagner (University of Vienna, Austria) "Nitrification 2.0: Growth on Cyanate and Complete Nitrification by One Organism" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Marina Kalyuzhnaya (San Diego State University, USA) "A Drop of Water in the Desert" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:55 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 11:15 am | Jennifer Pratscher (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) "Atmospheric Methane Oxidisers and the Soil Methane Sink" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Anne-Marie Delort (Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, Université Blaise Pascal, France) "Microbial C1
Metabolism in Clouds: Potential Impact on Atmospheric Chemistry" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hang Yu (California Institute of Technology, USA) "The Mechanism of
Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Anaerobic Oxidation
of Methane" |
12:20 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 | The Human C1 Microbiome |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Rother (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Ruth Schmitz-Streit (University of Kiel, Germany) "Methanoarchaea as Part of the Human Microbiome: Friends or Foes?" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Emily Balskus (Harvard University, USA) "Chemical Discovery in the Human Microbiota" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm | Tristan Wagner (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) "Crystal Structures of Formyl-Methanofuran Dehydrogenase and Heterodisulfide Reductase: Methanogen's Trick to Couple Methane Formation to CO2 Fixation" |
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | General Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New
C1 Reactions, Pathways and Organisms |
| Discussion Leader: Joseph Krzycki (Ohio State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Ivan Berg (University of Freiburg, Germany) "Autotrophic CO2 Fixation in Thermophilic Bacteria: Surprising Variations on Old Pathways" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Julia Vorholt (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) "From C1 to C35 or the Extended Age of Coenzymes" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 11:15 am | Hiroya Yurimoto (Kyoto University, Japan) "Methanol Sensing and Signaling Pathway in the Methylotrophic Yeast
Pichia pastoris" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Thomas Hanson (University of Delaware, USA) "Insights into the Utilization of Insoluble S(0) to Drive Photosynthetic Growth in Chlorobaculum tepidum" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Xiuzhu Dong (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) "The Archaeal RNA Chaperone TRAM Modulates CO2 Reductive Methanogenesis in Methanococcus maripaludis" |
12:20 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 | C1 Microbiology of Climate Change |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Stein (University of Alberta, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Paul Bodelier (Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands) "An Ecologist's Climate Change Experiments on Microbial
C1 Cycling: Controls, Traits and Life Strategies" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Beth Orcutt (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA) "The Role of Methanotrophs and Methanogens in Methane Flux from Ice-Covered Arctic Lakes" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Patricia Yager (University of Georgia, USA) "Melting Ice and Green Oceans: Climate Sensitive Carbon Cycling in the Amundsen Sea Polynya, Antarctica" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Applications
of Microbial C1 Metabolism |
| Discussion Leader: J. Colin Murrell (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Mike Manefield (University of New South Wales, Australia) "Chloroform Respiration by
Dehalobacter restrictus UNSWDHB, and Subsequent Dichloromethane Fermentation by a New Kid on the Block" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Markus Buchhaupt (DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut (DFI), Germany) "Methanol-Based Biotechnology - Engineering Methylobacterium extorquens
for Production of Dicarboxylic Acids and Terpenes" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 11:15 am | Allison Pieja (Mango Materials, USA) "From Methane to Bioplastic - Challenges of Engineering and Fermentation at Scale" |
11:15 am - 11:25 am | Discussion |
11:25 am - 11:50 am | Michael Koepke (LanzaTech, USA) "Commercial Scale Production of Low Carbon Fuels and Chemicals from Waste Gases by the Acetogen Clostridium
autoethanogenum" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Jung-Kul Lee (Konkuk University, South Korea) "Hybrid Rational Design of Methane Monooxygenase" |
12:20 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 in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Specialized Microbial C1 Metabolism |
| Discussion Leader: Cornelia Welte (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Yin Chen (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) "New Insights on Bacterial Methylated Amine Metabolism - From Ecology to Enzymology" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Huub Op Den Camp (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) "Methanethiol, a Smelly but Exciting C1 Sulfur Compound" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Gary King (Louisiana State University, USA) "Carbon Monoxide as Survival Substrate in Water-Stressed Extreme Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Systems" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Engineering New C1 Metabolisms |
| Discussion Leader: F. Robert Tabita (Ohio State University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:15 am - 9:40 am | Tobias Erb (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) "We Do It Our (Path)way - Bringing Inorganic Carbon to Life" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:15 am | Justin Siegel (University of California, Davis, USA) "Designing Novel Metabolic Pathways and Integrative Genomic Mining" |
10:15 am - 10:25 am | Discussion |
10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
10:55 am - 11:20 am | Jonathan Parquette (Ohio State University, USA) "Immobilization of RubisCO by Self-Assembled Nanotubes" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:50 am | Christopher Marx (University of Idaho, USA) "Towards Engineering (and Evolving) New C1 Metabolisms: The Good, the Bad, and the Toxic" |
11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez (Michigan State University, USA) "Recycling Rare Earths by Biometallurgy" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Microbial C1 Metabolism
in Associations |
| Discussion Leader: Yasuyoshi Sakai (Kyoto University, Japan) |
5:30 pm - 5:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
5:45 pm - 6:10 pm | Andreas Brune (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) "Acetogenesis in Termite Guts - Variations on a Theme" |
6:10 pm - 6:20 pm | Discussion |
6:20 pm - 6:45 pm | Yahai Lu (Peking University, China) "Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer in Methanogenic Syntrophy" |
6:45 pm - 6:55 pm | Discussion |
6:55 pm - 7:20 pm | Ludmila Chistoserdova (University of Washington, USA) "Social Life of Microbes: Who Is Eating Methane?" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |