| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | C-1 Genomes |
| 7:30 | Welcome |
| 7:45 | Discussion Leader: Mary Lidstrom (University of Washington) |
| 7:55 | Caroline Harwood (University of Iowa)
"How C-1 metabolism contributes to the metabolic versatility of Rhodopseudomonas palustris" |
| 8:25 | Dan Arp (Oregon State University)
"A genomics approach to understanding obligate chemolithoautotrophy in the ammonia oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosomonas europaea" |
| 8:55 | Frank Larimer (Oak Ridge National Laboratories)
"Comparative genomics of autotrophic microbes" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Conference Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Methanogenesis |
| 9:00 | Discussion Leader: J. Greg Ferry (Penn State) |
| 9:10 | Michael Rother (University of Illinois, Urbana)
"Physiological and Genetic Analysis of Carbon Monoxide Metabolism in Methanosarcina acetivorans" |
| 9:40 | Evert Duin (Auburn University)
"Properties and reaction mechanism of methyl-coenzyme M reductase" |
| 10:10 | Reiner Hedderich (Max-Planck-Institut fuer terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Marburg)
"How methanogens catalyze energetically unfavorable redox- reactions" |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Uwe Deppenmeier (University of Wisconsin, Milwaulkee)
"DNA microarray analysis of Methanosarcina mazei during growth on methanol and acetate" |
| 11:30 | Poster Speaker 1 (TBA) |
| 11:40 | John Leigh
"Regulation of nitrogen and carbon metabolism in Methanococcus maripaludis" |
| 12:10 | Poster Speaker 2 (TBA) |
| 12:20 | Poster Speaker 3 (TBA) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Rubisco and Rubisco-like proteins |
| 7:30 | Discussion Leader: Botho Bowien (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen) |
| 7:40 | F. Robert Tabita (Ohio State University, Columbus)
"Functional studies of key catalytic and regulator proteins important for CO2 fixation" |
| 8:10 | Robert Spreitzer (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"Structural basis for Rubisco functional divergence" |
| 8:40 | Huiying Li (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Crystal structure of RubisCO-like protein from Chlorobium tepidum" |
| 9:00 | Akiho Yokota (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
"Bacillus Rubisco-like Protein: A possible origin of photosynthetic Rubisco" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Methyl- and Methanotrophy |
| 9:00 | Discussion Leader: Howard Dalton (University of Warwick) |
| 9:10 | Alastair McEwan (The University of Queensland)
"Dimethylsulfide metabolism in Rhodovulum sulfidophilum" |
| 9:40 | Yasuyoshi Sakai (Kyoto University)
"Intracellular homeostasis of yeast methylotrophy" |
| 10:10 | Ludmilla Chistoserdova (University of Washington)
"Environmental genomics of C1 metabolism" |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Poster Speaker 4 (TBA) |
| 11:10 | Julia Vorholt (INRA/CNRS, Toulouse)
"A proteomic view of the cellular adaptation of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 to methylotrophic growth conditions" |
| 11:40 | John Lipscomb (University of Minnesota)
"Specificity and Regulation of Monooxygenase Chemistry: Component Interactions of sMMO" |
| 12:10 | Poster Speaker 5 (TBA) |
| 12:20 | Poster Speaker 6 (TBA) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Anaerobic Methane Oxidation |
| Discussion Leader: Ron Oremland (U.S. Geological Survey) |
| 7:30 | William S. Reeburgh (University of California, Irvine)
"Geochemical Milestones in the Study of Anaerobic Methane Oxidation: 1966 - present" |
| 8:00 | Samantha Joye (University of Georgia, Athens)
"Activity, environmental biogeochemical signatures, and microbiology of the anaerobic oxidation of methane in extreme environments" |
| 8:30 | Steve Hallam (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
"Environmental genomic analysis of methanotrophic archaea, and biochemical pathways of the anaerobic oxidation of methane" |
| 9:00 | Rolf Thauer (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg)
"Two novel cofactors involved in methanogenesis and anaerobic
oxidation of methane" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | C-1 Ecology and Physiology |
| 9:00 | Discussion Leader: Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard) |
| 9:10 | Andreas Brune (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg)
"Methanogens and homoacetogens in termite guts: competition or coexistence?" |
| 9:40 | Peter Dunfield (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology)
"Growth patterns of the facultative methanotroph Methylocella silvestris
on methane and acetate" |
| 10:10 | Gary King (University of Maine, Walpole)
"Distribution, diversity and ecological significance of aerobic CO-oxidizing bacteria" |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Colin Murrell (University of Warwick)
"Detection of active populations of methanotrophs in unusual environments using stable isotope probing" |
| 11:30 | Holger Daims (Universität Wien)
"Ecology and genomics of uncultured autotrophic nitrite-oxidizers and anaerobic ammonium oxidizers" |
| 12:00 | Yuri Trotsenko (IBPM Ras)
"Methanotrophs and methylobacteria as plant symbionts" |
| 12:20 | Poster Speaker 7 (TBA) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session III |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Acetogenesis and CO metabolism |
| Discussion Leader: Ortwin Meyer (University of Bayreuth) |
| 7:30 | Volker Mueller (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
"Bioenergetics of Acetogenesis" |
| 8:00 | Paul Lindahl (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX)
"Acetyl-CoA Synthase: The case for a Ni(0)-Based Mechanism of Catalysis" |
| 8:30 | Stephen Ragsdale (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"Carbon Monoxide synthesis, utilization, and channeling" |
| 9:00 | Vitali Svetlitchnyi (University of Bayreuth)
"CO dependent hydrogenogenesis in Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Autotrophy and Chemolithotrophy |
| 9:00 | Discussion Leader: Cornelius Friedrich (Universität Dortmund) |
| 9:10 | Masaharu Ishii (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo)
"Carboxylation reaction(s) within the reductive TCA cycle" |
| 9:40 | Georg Fuchs (Universitat Freiburg)
"Variations of autotrophic carbon fixation pathways in Crenarchaeota" |
| 10:10 | Nobuo Kato (Kyoto University)
"Formaldehyde fixation in Bacteria and Archaea" |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Ben Berks (University of Oxford)
"A SoxY start to sulfur oxidation" |
| 11:30 | Bärbel Friedrich (Humboldt-Universtaet zu Berlin)
"Lithotrophic growth of Ralstonia eutropha is triggered by hydrogen-sensing kinase complex" |
| 12:00 | Marc Strous and Mike Jetten (Delft University of Technology)
"New visions on anammox biochemistry and lifestyle from the genome of
Kuenenia stuttgartiensis" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Business meeting |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session IV |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | C-1 Perspectives |
| 7:30 | Discussion Leader: Joe Krzycki (Ohio State University) |
| 7:40 | Mary Lidstrom (University of Washington, Seattle)
"Methylotrophy in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1" |
| 8:10 | Howard Dalton: Introduction |
| 8:15 | Special Seminar: Christopher Anthony (University of Southampton)
"Methanol oxidation in methylotrophs (1964-2004)" |
| 8:50 | Volker Müller: Introduction |
| 8:55 | Special Seminar: Gerhard Gottschalk (Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Göttingen)
"Bioenergetics and genomics of one-carbon utilizers" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
