| SUNDAY |
| 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | C-1 GENOMES |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome |
| 7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Dan Arp (Oregon State University) |
| 7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Øivind Larsen (University of Bergen, Norway)
"Insights from the Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) genome"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Barbara A. Methe (Institute for Genomic Research)
"A genomics approach to understanding hydrogen and one-carbon metabolism" |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Stephen Ragsdale (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
"Insights from the Moorella thermoacetica genome" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METHANOGENESIS |
| Discussion Leader: Madeline Rasche (University of Florida, Gainsville) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Joseph Krzycki (Ohio State University, Columbus)
"Genetically encoded pyrrolysine: prepping the message and the messenger" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:55 am | James Gregory Ferry (Pennsylvania State University)
"Pathways for methanogenesis from CO or acetate by Methanosarcina acetivorans reveal novel enzymes and strategies for growth in the marine environment" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Christoph Hagemeier (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany)
"Methylenetetrahydropterin dehydrogenase in methanogenic Archaea and methylotrophic bacteria" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Uwe Deppenmeier (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
"Genomics and transcriptomics in analyzing the metabolism of Methanosarcina mazei" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | David G. Longstaff (Ohio State University, Columbus)
"Site directed mutagenesis of pyrrolysine in monomethylamine methyltransferase" |
| 11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:05 pm | Evert C. Duin (Auburn University)
"Methanogenesis: the methylreductase system" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Michael Rother (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
"Genetic analysis of the carbon monoxide dehydrogenase/acetyl-CoA synthase-system of Methanosarcina acetivorans C2A" |
| 12:25 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 | MECHANISMS AND REGULATION OF CO2-FIXATION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: F. Robert Tabita (Ohio State University, Columbus) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Cheryl Kerfeld (University of California, Los Angeles)
"The emerging structure of the carboxysome" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | William B. Whitman (University of Georgia, Athens)
"The role of the Methanococcus energy conserving hydrogenase in autotrophic CO2 fixation" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | Simona Romagnoli (Ohio State University, Columbus)
"A regulatory twist on an established system to modulate CO2 fixation in Rhodopseudomonas palustris" |
| 9:05 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
| 9:15 pm - 9:25 pm | Hiroya Yurimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
"Physiological role of the ribulose monophosphate pathway enzymes in Archaea: gene-disruption analysis and crystallographic study" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | METHYL- AND METHANOTROPHY |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Howard Dalton (University of Warwick, UK) |
| 9:05 am - 9:30 am | Amy Rosenzweig (Northwestern University, Evanston)
"Structure of particulate methane monooxygenase" |
| 9:30 am - 9:40 am | Discussion |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Christopher J. Marx (Harvard University, Cambridge)
"Experimental evolution of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 bearing a foreign metabolic module" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Sunney I. Chan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"The mechanism of methane hydroxylation by the particulate methane monooxygenase" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Alan A. DiSpirito (Iowa State University, Ames)
"Methanobactin and copper in regulation and activity of methane monooxygenases" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Julia Vorholt (INRA, CNRS, Toulouse, France)
"Phyllospheric life of Methylobacterium" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Colin Murrell (University of Warwick, UK)
"Regulation and genetics of pMMO and sMMO" |
| 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 | ANAEROBIC METHANE OXIDATION |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Gary King (University of Maine, Walpole) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Samantha Joye (University of Georgia, Athens)
"C1-Metabolism in antarctic dry valley lakes" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Antje Boetius (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany)
"The seafloor as natural laboratory for the study of microbial life fuelled by methane turnover" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Introduction by Steve Ragsdale |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Rudolf Thauer (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany)
"Enzymology of reverse methanogenesis" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | C-1 METABOLISM, ECOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Antje Boetius (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany) |
| 9:05 am - 9:25 am | Barbara Campbell (University of Delaware, Lewes)
"Ecology of the rTCA cycle in aphotic, sulfidic habitats" |
| 9:25 am - 9:35 am | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:55 | Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg)
"A new type of sulfite reductase - a novel coenzyme F420-dependent enzyme from the methanearchaeon Methanocaldococcus jannashii" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:40 am | Anne Pohlmann (Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany)
"The genome of Ralstonia eutropha H16: A blueprint for a lithoautotrophic organism" |
| 10:40 am - 10:45 am | Discussion |
| 10:45 am - 11:05 am | Thomas E. Hanson (University of Delaware, Newark)
"RubisCO-like proteins: their diversity and links to energy metabolism in Chlorobium tepidum" |
| 11:05 am - 11:15 am | Discussion |
| 11:15 am - 11:35 am | Robert H. White (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
"Unexpected C-1 metabolism in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii" |
| 11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 11:55 am | Jeremy D. Semrau (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
"Mixed pollutant degradation by Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b expression either soluble or particulate methane monooxygenase: Can the tortoise beat the hare?" |
| 11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Ralf Conrad (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany)
"Global cycling of C1 compounds and molecular hydrogen" |
| 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 out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ACETOGENESIS AND CO METABOLISM |
| Discussion Leader: Ortwin Meyer (University of Bayreuth, Germany) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Holger Dobbek (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
"Structural insights into the CoFeS-protein dependent methyltransfer reactions of the acetyl-CoA pathway" |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Astrid Pelzmann (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
"Post-translational assembly of the catalytic metal site of [CuSMoO2] CO dehydrogenase" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | David Grahame (Uniformed Services University, Bethesda)
"Acetyl-CoA decarboxylase/synthase (ACDS) of methanogens and other Archaea" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Jared Leadbetter (CalTech, Pasadena)
"Genomics and metagenomics of the acetogenesis-dominated termite hindgut microbial community" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | AUTOTROPHY AND CHEMOLITHOTROPHY |
| 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Discussion Leader: Bärbel Friedrich (Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany) |
| 9:05 am - 9:25 am | Masaharu Ishii (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan)
"Metabolism around the rTCA cycle" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:35 pm | Discussion |
| 9:35 am - 9:55 am | Georg Fuchs (University of Freiburg, Germany)
"Variations of autotrophic carbon fixation pathways in Crenarchaeota and Chloroflexaceae" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Oliver Lenz (Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany)
"High effort for a small molecule: sensing and utilization of molecular hydrogen by Ralstonia eutropha" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Martin Klotz (University of Louisville)
"Insights from the new nitrifier genome sequences" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Mike Jetten (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"The bidirectional acetyl-CoA pathway of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Lisa Stein (University of California Riverside)
"NOx metabolism in nitrifiers and methanotrophs" |
| 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 - 9:05 pm | C-1 PERSPECTIVES |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Cornelius Friedrich (University of Dortmund, Germany) |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Ludmilla Chistoserdova (University of Washington, Seattle)
"Evolution and environmental function of one-carbon metabolism" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:35 pm | Hendrik Schaefer (University of Warwick, UK)
"Degradation of methyl halides by marine bacteria" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:10 pm | Christopher Anthony (University of Southhampton, UK)
"The biochemistry of methylotrophs: a historical perspective"
Dedicated to the memory of J. Rod Quayle (1926 - 2006). |
| 9:10 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Summary by Cornelius Friedrich & Stephen Ragsdale |
| FRIDAY |
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
