| Wednesday, August 1, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM | |||
| Centennial F, third level | |||
| Session 29: Environmental Microbiology: Engineering technologies for extremophiles | |||
| The molecular adaptations that extremophiles have evolved to survived harsh environmental conditions are of fundamental interest to understand the general principles that all organisms use in dealing with environmental stresses. The adaptations of those microorganisms are also of great interest in the context of the search for life on other planets and they can also be harnessed to benefit society. We request funding to support a symposium designed to inform the scientific community of the state of the art methods to study and manipulate extremophiles. The objectives of this symposium are (1) to inform scientists of the tremendous progress made in the last 5 years in developing tools for the genetic and genomic of extremophiles and (2) to initiate scientist to specific tools directed to the exploitation of those microorganisms for industrial purposes. Six experts in the field have accepted to present their latest research at the symposium. | |||
| Convener: | Jocelyne DiRuggiero | ||
| 8:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks | ||
| 8:05 AM | S125 | A third alternative for protein expression: the methanogenic Archaea Kevin R. Sowers, Sheridan R. MacAuley | |
| 8:30 AM | S126 | Engineering Hyperthermophilic Archaea and their Viruses for Fun and Profit? Kenneth M. Stedman, Adam J. Clore | |
| 8:55 AM | S127 | Life in the Wrong Places: Microorganisms in Icy Environments John C. Priscu, Christine A. Foreman, James A. Raymond, Brent C. Christner | |
| 9:20 AM | Break | ||
| 9:40 AM | S128 | Synthesis of predictive biological networks for environmental response systems Nitin S. Baliga | |
| 10:05 AM | S129 | Engineering Extremophilic Chaperones for Biocatalysis and Nanobiotechnology Timothy A. Whitehead, Douglas S. Clark | |
| 10:30 AM | S130 | Protein ‘tools' for nano-technology: Sulfolobus' contribution to the next generation of hard drives Jonathan Trent | |
| 10:55 AM | Concluding Remarks | ||
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