Extremophiles 2008 at Cape Town, South Africa

Extremophiles 2008이 열리는데 지금 가야하나 말아야 하나 몇 일째 고민중입니다.

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PROGRAMME

This programme is provisional
SUNDAY 7 September
SESSION 1 : PLENARY SESSION 1
MONDAY 8 September
SESSION 2 : Keynote Presentations
09.00	Mesophilic crenarchaeota are not Crenarchaea but Thaumarchaea: proposal for a third archaeal phylum
K1	Patrick Forterre		Universite Paris-Sud, France
09.30	Contribution of the proteins from hyperthermophilic archaea to structural and functional analyses of DNA replication/repair apparatus
K2	Yoshizumi Ishino		Kyushu University, Japan
10.00	The Sac10b protein family of Archaea
K3	Li Huang		Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing , China
10.30	TEA
SESSION 3A : MICROBIOLOGY & MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
11.00	(parallel with Session 3B)
	A study on actinobacterial diversity in hypersaline environments in western China by using culture-independent and culture-dependent approaches
	Wen-Jun Li	Ministry of Education, PR China
	A 16S rDNA microarray for oil reservoirs – challenges and possibilities
	Odd G. Brakstad	SINTEF, Norway
	Nanoarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences are widely dispersed in hyperthermophilic and mesophilic halophilic environments
	Ana Casanueva	UWC, South Africa
	Stratified microbial communities involving in methane metabolism along the sediment core of Pearl River Estuarine, Southern China
	Lijin Jiang	State Oceanic Administration, China
	Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial evolution in acid mine effluents, La Zarza-Perrunal case (Iberian Pyritic Belt, Spain )
	Elena González-Toril
SESSION 3B : PROTEINS & ENZYMES
11.00	(parallel with Session 3A)
	Defining the genome, proteome and metalloproteome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon, pyrococcus furiosus
	Michael WW Adams	University of Georgia , USA
	Kinetic and structural characterization of the enzymes involved in the synthesis of di-myo-inositol-phosphate in Archaeoglobus fulgidus
	Nuno Borges	Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
	Molecular analysis of the type II molybdo-enzymes from Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Thauera selenatis
	Elizabeth Dridge	University of Exeter , United Kingdom
	Proteolysis in extremophiles: structures, enzymology and possible roles of the archaeal TET proteins
	MA Durà	Institute of Structural Biology , France
	Analysis of secreted proteins and membrane vesicles reveals the presence of endosome sorting complex components in Crenarchaeota
	Albert F Ellen	University of Gronigen , The Netherlands
SESSION 4A : MICROBIOLOGY & MICROBIAL ECOLOGY (parallel with Session 4B)
14.00	Thermo-acidophilic methane oxidation by Verrucomicrobia extends our perception of biological methane oxidation
	Nils-Kåre Birkeland	University of Bergen , Norway
	Diversity of hypolithic communities in the Dry Valley soils of Eastern Antarctica
	Nuraan Khan	University of Western Cape , South Africa
	Presence and activity of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria at deep-sea hydrothermal vents
	Nathalie Byrne	Centre de Brest , France
	Selection and diversity of Thermoacidophilic archaea in mineral sulfide oxidation
	Paul Norris	University of Warwick, United Kingdom
SESSION 4B : PROTEINS & ENZYMES (parallel with Session 4A)
14.00	A versatile small heat shock protein from a eurypsychrophilic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii
	Pongpan Laksanalamai	University of Maryland , USA
	Rational engineering of new DNA specificities in MmeI, a restriction Endonuclease isolated from Methylophilus methylotrophus
	Richard D Morgan	New England Biolabs , USA
	Studies on thermophilic L-haloacid Dehalogenases
	Carrie Rye	University of Exeter, United Kingdom
	Functional characterisation of a putative photolyase from the extreme Haloarchaeon, Haloferax volcanii
	Winnie Wu	University of Bath, United Kingdom
SESSION 5A : ADAPTATIONS TO EXTREMOPHILY (parallel with Session 5B)
15.50	Evolution Adaptation to γ-irradiation in Escherichia coli
	Yuejin Hua	Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, China
	Molecular mechanisms involved in biofilm formation in extremophile biomining bacteria
	Matias Castro	University of Chile, Chile
	How hyper-thermophilic organisms stabilize their Nucleic Acids?
	Henri Grosjean	University of Paris-South, France
	Unique polyamines produced by extreme thermophiles
	Tairo Oshima	Institute of Environmental Microbiology , Japan
SESSION 5B : GENES & NUCLEIC ACIDS (parallel with Session 5A)
15.50	Small RNA in Pyrobaculum
	David L Bernick	University of California , USA
	Master keys to DNA replication, repair, and recombination from the structural biology of macromolecular complexes from Pyrococcus and Sulfolobus
	John A. Tainer	Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
	Analysis of transfer RNA introns and 5’ leading sequence in Hyperthermophilic Pyrobaculum
	Patricia Chan	University of California , USA
	Genetic and biochemical characterization of the poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) synthase in Haloferax mediterranei
	Qiuhe Lu	Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER
SESSION 6 : Keynote Presentations
09.00	Examining microbial diversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mt. Erebus , Antarctica
K4	Craig Cary		University of Waikato, New Zealand
09.30	Mining extreme potential through predictive modeling
K5	Nitin Baliga		Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, USA
10.00	Heat capacity, configurational entropy, and the role of ionic interactions in protein thermostability
K6	Rudolf Ladenstein		Karolinska Institute, Sweden
10.30	TEA
SESSION 7A : MICROBIOLOGY & MICROBIAL ECOLOGY (parallel with Session 7B)
11.00	Thermophilic iron-reducing prokaryotes: recent developments in phylogeny and physiology
	Alexander Slobodkin	Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia
	Environmental genomics studies in the Dead Sea : characterization of a microbial community surviving in an increasingly extreme environment
	Aharon Oren	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel
	Isolation and characterization of the first obligate piezophilic hyperthermophilic Archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
	Zeng Xiang	UMR, Brest , France
	New thermophilic crenarchaeota in Uzon Caldera hot springs (Kamchatka)
	Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya	Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia
	Contrasting microbial communities and geochemical dynamics in subterranean and surface-terrestrial extremely acidic environments
	Owen Rowe	Bangor University , United Kingdom
SESSION 7B: PROTEINS & ENZYMES (parallel with Session 7A)
11.00	Functional analysis of the MCM and Cdc6 proteins from the thermoacidophilic euryarchaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum
	Gyri Teien Haugland	University of Bergen Norway
	Transient-state kinetics of intein-mediated protein splicing in the Methanococcus jannaschii KlbA intein
	Fran Perler	New England Biolabs , USA
	2-Oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes in thermophilic Archaea
	Karl Payne	University of Bath, United Kingdom
	Engineering glycosidases from extremophiles for the synthesis of oligosaccharides
	Beatrice Cobucci-Ponzano	Institute of Biotechnology , Italy
	Functional dissection of archaeal RNA Polymerase using novel robotic approaches
	Robert OJ Weinzierl	Imperial College, United Kingdom
WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
SESSION 8 : Keynote Presentations
09.00	Genomic analysis of extremely halophilic archaea: Survival in multiple extremes
K7	Shil DasSarma		University of Maryland, USA
09.30	Assembly and function of archaeal cell surface structures
K8	Sonja Albers		University of Groningen, The Netherlands
10.00	Life at the Air/Water interface
K9	Peter Rose		Rhodes University, South Africa
10.30	TEA
SESSION 9A : ADAPTATIONS TO EXTREMOPHILY (parallel with Session 9B)
11.00	Environmental adaptation: genomic analysis of the piezotolerant and psychrotolerant deep-sea iron reducing bacterium Shewanella piezotolerans WP3
	Fengping Wang	State Oceanic Administration, China
	Natranaerobius thermophilus: Studies on the mechanisms for thriving under triple extreme growth conditions
	Noha M Mesbah	University of Georgia , USA
	The novel anaerobic halo-alkalithermophile Natranaerobius thermophilus: Studies on the mechanisms for thriving under triple extreme growth conditions
	Ksenia Medvedkova	Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia
	Copper resistance mechanisms of extremophilic bacteria and archaea living under exceptionally high concentrations of metals
	Claudio Navarro	University of Chile, Chile
	Participation of the phenylpropanoid pathway in response to salt excess on extreme plant Deschampsia antarctica
	Pablo Zamora	University of Chile, Chile
SESSION 9B : APPLICATIONS (parallel with Session 9A)
11.00	The development of a novel Thermophilic Bacillus capable of high yield ethanol production
	Kirsten Eley	TMO Renewables, United Kingdom
	Thermostable biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology
	Jenny Littlechild	University of Exeter , United Kingdom
	Biocatalytical conversion of heavy oils - characterizing and screening of a microbial strain collection
	Sidsel Markussen	SINTEF, Norway
	Nitrile hydrolysing enzymes from extremophiles: their role in biocatalysis
	Rohit Sharma	Panjab University , India
	The oxidative environment of bioleaching bioreactors and its effect on extremophile Sulfolobus metallicus
	Gavin Jones	University of Cape Town , South Africa
SESSION 10A : PROTEINS & ENZYMES (parallel with Session 10B)
14.00	Functional analysis of Thermostable Esterases: biochemical properties, crystal structures and applications
	Mark Levisson	TMO Renewables, United Kingdom
	Structure function relationships in archaeal and eukaryotic RNA polymerases
	Michael Thomm	University Regensburg, Germany
	Metabolic promiscuity from Thermus scotoductus SA-01: An extensive investigation of the proteins from this thermophile from the deep subsurface
	Esta van Heerden	University of the Free State, South Africa
	Characterization of a new respiratory supercomplex from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
	Laurence Prunetti	IBSM, France
SESSION 10B : APPLICATIONS (parallel with Session 10A)
14.00	Pyrococcus furiosus a-amylase used within Industrial Food Sterilisation Processes
	Ian Brown	University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
	Sulfolobus – E. coli shuttle vectors
	Silvia Berkner	University of Bayreuth, Germany
	Exploiting extreme environments in search for novel actinomycetes and their oxidative enzymes
	Marilize Le Roes-Hill	University of the Free State, South Africa
	Thermal-stability of Diether C25 liposomes derived from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1
	Dejan Gmajner	IBSM, France
SESSION 11A : PROTEINS & ENZYMES (parallel with Session 11B)
15.50	The Heterodimeric Primase from the Euryarchaeon Pyrococcus abyssi: A multifunctional enzyme for initiation and repair?
	Magali Le Breton	IUEM, Plouzané, France
	Ectoine biosynthesis genes and enzymes of halotolerant and halophilic methylotrophic bacteria
	AS Reshetnikov	RAS Pushchino State University, Russia
	Functional metagenomics- mining and mutagenesis of novel low-temperature-active lipolytic enzymes
	Petter Thureborn	Södertörn University College of Life Sciences, Sweden
	Isolation and characterization of a Sulfolobus solfataricus protease inhibitor homologous with the eukaryotic PEBP members
	Palmieri Gianna	Istituto de Biochimica delle Proteine CNR, Italy
SESSION 11B : METABOLIC PROCESSES (parallel with Session 11A)
15.50	Regulation of hydrogen production of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus
	Karin Willquist	Lund University, Sweden
	Nitric and nitrous oxide production by the haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterranei
	Rosa María Martinez-Espinosa	Universidade de Alicante, Spain
	Non-phosphorylated L-Rhamnose Metabolic Pathway in Thermoplasma acidophilum
	Sun Bok Lee	Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea
	Distinct regulation of carbon monoxide oxidation pathways to carbon fixation and energy conservation in anaerobic bacteria from Kamchatkan Hot Springs
	Stephen Techtmann	University of Maryland, USA
THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
SESSION 12 : Keynote Presentations
09.00	Shedding light on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere in deepest, darkest Africa through metagenomic analyses
K10	Tullis C Onstott		Princeton University, USA
09.30	Novel biotechnological products and processes from alkaliphiles of East African soda lakes
K11	Amare Gessesse		Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
10.00	In vitro evolution of biocatalysts from extremophiles for biotechnological exploitation.
K12	Peter Bergquist		Macquarie University, Australia
10.30	TEA
SESSION 13A : ADAPTATIONS TO EXTREMOPHILY (parallel with Session 13B)
11.00	Insight into the antioxidant system of Sulfolobus solfataricus
	Danila Limauro	Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
	Protein-RNA interactions explain how tRNA is stabilized in Thermotoga maritima
	Daniel Bruggeman	University of North Carolina, USA
	A cold-active enzyme with an unusual high thermal stability: Isocitrate dehydrogenase from the psychrophilic bacterium Desulfotalea psychrophila
	Anita-Elin Fedøy	University of Bergen, Norway
	TET3 protease from P. horikoshii reveals astonishing properties of high pressure and temperature resistance
	Eva Rosenbaum	Institut de Biologie Structurale Laboratoire de Biophysique, Grenoble, France
	On the molecular strategies utilized from Thermus thermophilus for stabilizing the structure of a Trehalose/Maltose-Binding Protein
	Sabato D’Auria	Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Italy
SESSION 13B : GENES & NUCLEIC ACIDS (parallel with Session 13A)
11.00	Complete genome sequence of hyperthermophilic proteolytic archaeon Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis
	Nikolai Ravin	Centre Bioengineering, RAS, Russia
	Construction of environmental DNA libraries from hot spring sediments and enrichment cultures to access chromium reducing genes
	Subrata Pal	Jadavpur University, India
	Clustering of CO dehydrogenase and energy-converting hydrogenase genes is a specific feature of diverse hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs
	Alexander Lebedinsky	Russian Academy of Science, Russia
	Biohydrogen via a new pathway? Formate hydrogenlyase in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus litoralis
	Gabor Rakhely	University of Szeged, Hungary
	Denitrification in Thermus thermophilus: the dual role of the nitrate reductase
	Felipe Cava	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
SESSION 14 : METABOLIC PROCESSES (single session)
14.00	New insights into the iron and the sulfur energetic metabolism of the strict acidophilic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
	Corinne Appia-Ayme	ICNRS, Marseille, France
	Sulfur metabolism in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus
	Marie Cécile Giuliani	BIP, Marseille, France
	Cell cycle characteristics of Crenarchaeota: unity among diversity
	Magnus Lundgren	Wageningen University, The Netherlands
SESSION 15 : APPLICATIONS (single session)
15.50	Biocatalytic conversion of heavy oil by use of extremophiles - effects on reservoir recovery
	Hans Kristian Kotlar	StatoilHydro, Norway
	Immobilisation and use of thermophilic biocatalysts in miniaturised flow reactors
	Anne Marie Hickey	University of Exeter, United Kingdom
	Changes in mineralogy of Galena ore after biohydrometallurgical treatment of various acidophiles
	Sadia Ilyas	NIBGE, Pakistan
	Production of Exopolysaccharide (EPS) by an alkaliphilic bacterial strain of Vagococcus carniphilus MCM B - 1018 isolated from alkaline Lonar Lake, India
	Pradnya Kanekar	Agharkar Research Institute, India
17.10	PLENARY SESSION 2