| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS / ARCHAEAL VIROLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Patrick Forterre (Université Paris-Sud) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Karl Stetter (University of Regensburg)
"Anaerobic Hyperthermophiles - Cultivating the Unexpected" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Mark Young (Montana State University)
"Archaeal viruses from Yellowstone: Structure, dynamics, and function" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | David Prangishvili (Institut Pasteur)
"First insights into the biology of the Ampullaviridae and Bicaudaviridae - two new families of crenarchaeal viruses" |
| MONDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | RNA SYNTHESIS & DEGRADATION |
| Discussion Leader: Dieter Soll (Yale University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Michael Thomm (University of Regensburg)
"Regulated Gene expression in Pyrococcus" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Tom Santangelo (Ohio State University)
"Archaeal Transcription Termination" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break / Photo |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Mohammed Ouhammouch (University of California-San Diego)
"Promoter architecture and response to an archaeal transcriptional activator" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Felicitas Pfeiffer (Technical Univeristy of Darmstadt)
"Gas vesicle formation and regulation of gvp gene expression in halophilic archaea" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Chuck Daniels (Ohio State University)
"RNA Synthesis in Haloarchaea; Comparison of Three Genomes" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Todd Lowe (University of California-Santa Cruz)
"Full Genome DNA Microarray Studies of Distantly Related Archaea: Pyrococcus furiosus and Pyrobaculum aerophilum" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #1 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | METABOLISM OF ARCHAEA |
| Discussion Leader: Richard Shand (Northern Arizona University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Imke Schroeder (University of California-Los Angeles)
"The Denitrification Pathway in Archaea" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | John Leigh (University of Washington)
"Metabolic regulation in Methanococcus maripaludis" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Mechke Pohlschroder (University of Pennsylvania)
"Characterization of two essential haloarchaeal protein translocation pathways" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Betina Siebers (University of Duisburg-Essen)
"Special features of central carbohydrate metabolism in hyperthermophilic Archaea" |
| TUESDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | BIOMEDICINE & BIOTECHNOLOGY |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Discussion Leader: Bob Kelly (North Carolina State) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | TBA |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Paul Eckburg (Stanford University)
"Archaea in Human-Associated Ecosystems" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Dennis Sprott (Canadian National Research Council-Ottowa)
"Vaccine adjuvant application of archaeal lipids" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Shiladitya DasSarma (University of Maryland)
"Gas vesicle biogenesis and biotechnology" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Robert Kelly (North Carolina State University)
"Comparative functional genomics of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus and hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | William Whitman (University of Georgia)
"Initial steps in the pathway of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in Methanococcus" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #2 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, DEGRADATION & RNA
MODIFICATION |
| Discussion Leader: Patrick Dennis (US National Science Foundation) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Lennart Randau and Anselm Sauerwald (Yale University)
"Aspects of protein biosynthesis unique to Archaea" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Paola Londei (Univeristy of Rome)
"Translation initiation factors in archaea: conserved and unique functional aspects" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Julie Maupin-Furlow (University of Florida)
"Archaeal Proteasomes from Structure to Function" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Arina Omer (University of British Columbia)
"Non-coding RNAs in Archaea" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DNA REPLICATION, REPAIR & RECOMBINATION |
| Discussion Leader: Felicitas Pfeiffer (Technical University of
Darmstadt) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Thorston Allers (University of Nottingham)
"The Mre11-Rad50 complex acts as a chaperone for DNA double-strand breaks in Haloferax volcanii" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Malcolm White (St. Andrews University)
"Defining pathways of archaeal DNA repair" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Takehiko Nohmi (Japanese National Institutes of Health)
"Y-family DNA polymerases in archaea and eubacteria, and their roles in genome maintenance" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Francesca Pisani (Italian National Research Council-Naples)
"The DNA replication machinery of Sulfolobus solfataricus" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Steve Bell (University of Cambridge)
"The DNA replication apparatus of Sulfolobus solfataricus" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #3 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: Donald Ward (Genencor) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Michael Adams (University of Georgia)
"Functional Genomics of Pyrococcus furiosus" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Greg Ferry (Pennsylvania State University)
"Genomics and Proteomics of Methanosarcina acetivorans" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Rolf Bernander (Uppsala University)
"Transcription patterns in Sulfolobus" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Nitin Baliga (Institute for Systems Biology)
"Synthesis of a statistically-learned systems-level predictive model for environmental responses elicited by an extremophile" |
| THURSDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ARCHAEAL ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY |
| Discussion Leader: Karl Stetter (University of Regensburg) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | James Elkin (University of Regensburg)
"First Insights into a 'Korarchaeal' Genome" |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Jose de la Torres (University of Washington)
"Isolation of an ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon implies deep ocean autotrophy and nitrification" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Richard Seifert (Institute Biogeochemistry Marine Chemistry-Hamburg)
"Bioherms from methane fed archaea" |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Reinhard Rachel (University of Regensburg)
"On the interaction of Nanoarchaeum with Ignicoccus" |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Christa Schleper (University of Bergen)
"Energy Metabolism of Uncultured Mesophilic Crenarchaeota: Clues from Metagenomics and Functional Expression Studies" |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Edward Delong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Oceans of Archaea" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session #4 |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS OF ARCHAEA |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Young (Montana State University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | James Lake (University of California-Los Angeles)
"The Ring of Life" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | TBA |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Xu Peng (Copenhagen University)
"Viral variants from the Sulfolobales and an intron-based mechanism of gene/genome evolution" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Patrick Forterre (University of Paris)
"First results from the PACE project (Proteins from Archaea Conserved in Eucarya): a targeted approach for structural genomics" |
| FRIDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
