| SUNDAY, July 24 |
| 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Opening Comments: GERARD MUYZER & KENNETH NEALSON |
| 7:45 pm - 9:00 pm | THE NEED FOR MICROBIAL ECOPHYSIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: JUDY D. WALL (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8.00 pm | JUDY D. WALL (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
Introduction - The Need for Microbial Ecophysiology |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | GIJS KUENEN (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Ecophysiological studies in the chemostat |
| 9:00 pm | Welcoming Mixer |
| MONDAY, July 25 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CULTIVATING THE UNCULTURED |
| Discussion Leader: HAROLD DRAKE (University of Bayreuth, Germany) |
| 9.00 am - 9:15 am | HAROLD DRAKE (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Introduction - Cultivating the Uncultured |
| 9:15 am - 9:55 am | SLAVA EPSTEIN (Northeastern University, USA)
Domestication of "uncultivables", or awakening the dead |
| 9:55 am - 10:35 am | KARSTEN ZENGLER (Diversa Corporation, USA)
High throughput cultivation - putting the "micro" back into microbiology |
| 10:35 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:55 am - 11:35 am | MARTIN HAHN (Institute for Limnology, Austria)
Cultivation of aquatic bacteria: Did we try hard enough? |
| 11:35 am - 12:15 pm | JARED LEADBETTER (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Enrichment of signal molecule-degrading oligotrophs as biofilms |
| 12:15 pm | Group Photo |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster session and discussion |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NOVEL MICROBIAL METABOLISMS |
| Discussion Leader: SVETLANA DEDYSH (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | SVETLANA DEDYSH (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Introduction - Novel Microbial Metabolisms |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | ODED BÉJÀ (Technion, Israël)
Proteorhodopsins everywhere: proteorhodopsin detection in marine and non-marine environments |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | MARC STROUS (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Anammox versus Denitrification: where wastewater treatment meets the oceans |
| 9:30 pm | Posters and evening mixer |
| TUESDAY, July 26 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SUSTAINABLE APPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: CLAUDIA SCHMIDT-DANNERT
(University of Minnesota, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | CLAUDIA SCHMIDT-DANNERT (University of Minnesota, USA)
Introduction - Sustainable Industrial Biotechnology |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | OSKAR ZELDER (BASF, Germany)
Metabolic Engineering - Rational strain improvement for the production of fine chemicals |
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | DOUGLAS CAMERON (Cargill, USA)
Microbial production of 3-hydroxypropionic acid: the development of a new fermentation pathway |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | LONNIE INGRAM (University of Florida, USA)
Redesigning E. coli for renewable fuels and chemicals |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | UWE SAUER (ETH. Swizerland)
What controls metabolic network operation in microbes? |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster session and discussion |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PATTERNS IN MICROBIAL DIVERSITY |
| Discussion Leader: MATTHEW KANE (National Science Foundation, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | MATTHEW KANE (NSF, USA)
Introduction - Patterns in Microbial Diversity |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | LISE ØVREAS (Bergen University, Norway)
Microbial diversity along environmental gradients of salinity and productivity |
| 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm | BRENDAN BOHANNAN (Stanford University, USA)
Are there universal biodiversity patterns? |
| 9:30 pm | Posters and evening mixer |
| WEDNESDAY, July 27 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MICROBIAL CONSORTIA AND SYMBIOSES |
| Discussion Leader: NICOLE DUBILIER (Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | NICOLE DUBILIER (Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)
Introduction - Microbial Consortia and Symbioses |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | EDWARD RUBY (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Global genetic responses of Vibrio fischeri to the symbiotic environment |
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | JÖRG OVERMANN (Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Phototrophic consortia - Model systems for interactions between non-related bacteria |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | SHANA GOFFREDI (CalTech, USA)
Deep-sea invertebrate-microbe interactions: Innovation through symbiosis |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | ANDREAS BRUNE (Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Prokaryotic symbionts of termite gut flagellates: metabolic and evolutionary implications of a tripartite symbiosis |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Annual GRC-AEM Softball Game |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Business Meeting - Election of the Vice-Chair of the GRC-AEM 2007 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC VIRUSES |
| Discussion Leader: JOHN PAUL (University of South Florida, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | JOHN PAUL (University of South Florida, USA)
Introduction - Ecology of Aquatic Viruses |
| 7:45 pm - 8:30 pm | CURTIS SUTTLE (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Viruses, Viruses everywhere, what are we to think? |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | MARKUS WEINBAUER (Laboratoire d'Oceanographie, France)
Prokaryotic diversity and ecosystem functioning - The phage connection |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | CORINA BRUSSAARD (Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands)
Ecological perspectives of virally-induced mortality of phytoplankton |
| 9:30 pm | Posters and evening mixer |
| THURSDAY, July 28 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METAGENOMICS IN APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: JUERGEN ECK (Biotechnology Research And Information Network, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:15 am | JUERGEN ECK (BRAIN, Germany)
Introduction - Metagenomics in Applied and Environmental Microbiology |
| 9:15 am - 10:00 am | TOM ISENBARGER (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Accessing the functional diversity of uncultured soil microorganisms by metagenomics |
| 10:00 am - 10:45 am | GENE TYSON (University of California-Berkeley, USA)
A community genomics-enabled investigation of ecology and evolution in a low complexity system |
| 10:45 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | RACHEL PORETSKY (University of Georgia, USA)
Environmental Transcriptomics: Exploring microbial gene expression in natural samples |
| 11:45 am - 12:05 pm | BONGKEUN SONG (University of North Carolina, USA)
Genomic Analysis of benzoyl-CoA pathways in denitrifying bacteria in sediment communities |
| 12:05 pm - 12:30 pm | SUSANNAH TRINGE (DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA)
Comparative metagenomics of microbial communities |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster session and discussion |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | SPECIAL LECTURE |
| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: KEN NEALSON (University of South California, USA) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:45 pm | CRAIG VENTER (J. Craig Venter Institute, USA)
Metagenomics and the new view of aquatic microbiology |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Closing comments: GERARD MUYZER & KENNETH NEALSON |
| 9:00 pm | Closing mixer and dance |
| FRIDAY, July 29 |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
