Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry
February 8, 2013
This interdisciplinary meeting will gather together scientists–structural biologists, chemists, geneticists, chemical and biological oceanographers, geochemists, and other specialist–who study the flows of essential and toxic elements through the environment and living systems, on timescales ranging from femptoseconds to eons. Of particular interest are the molecular mechanisms that govern element acquisition and use in organisms, and the tools and techniques used to study these phenomena. The aim of this community is to use these molecular-scale insights to understand the interconnected biotic and abiotic processes that shape the macroscopic environment and its development and change over a range of time scales.
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2:00 pm – 9:00 pm Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm)
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm – 7:40 pm Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm – 9:30 pm Metal ions and biogeochemical cycles
7:40 pm – 7:50 pm Discussion Leader: Francois Morel (Princeton University)
7:50 pm – 8:50 pm Keynote Lecture: Paul Falkowski (Rutgers University)
8:50 pm – 9:10 pm Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Metal ion impact on photosynthesis
9:00 am – 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA)
9:10 am – 9:40 am Giovanni Finazzi (Institut de Biologie Physico Chimique Paris) “Iron deficiency and impact on photosynthesis”
9:40 am – 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am – 10:25 am Devaki Bhaya (Stanford University) “Hot springs cyanobacterial metabolism”
10:25 am – 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am Group Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am Ron Oremland (U.S. Geological Survey) “Arsenic in photosynthesis”
11:30 am – 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am – 12:15 pm Heinz Frei (Lawrence Berkeley National Labs) “Metal ions in artificial photosynthetic systems”
12:15 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 Metal ions and nitrogen fixation
7:30 pm – 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Jen Glass (Arizona State University)
7:40 pm – 8:05 pm Eric Boyd (Montana State) “Mo-nitrogenase and evolution”
8:05 pm – 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm – 8:40 pm Teresa Thiel (University of Missouri) “Environmental factors that regulate nitrogenase genes”
8:40 pm – 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm – 9:15 pm Luis Rubio (IMDEA Madrid) “Nitrogenase active site metallocluster biosynthesis”
9:15 pm – 9:25 pm Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Environmental bioinorganic chemistry and public health
9:00 am – 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Partha Basu (Duquesne University)
9:10 am – 9:40 am Jonathan Freedman (NIEHS) “Responses of organisms to toxic metal exposure”
9:40 am – 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am – 10:25 am Megan McEvoy (University of Arizona) “Ag and bacterial resistance in the environment”
10:25 am – 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am David Petering (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) “Heavy metal toxicity and metallothioneins”
11:30 am – 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am – 12:15 pm Roland K. Strong (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) “Understanding iron sequestration strategies
to improve public health”
12:15 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 Imaging the distribution of metals in cells
7:30 pm – 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Shawn Burdette (U Conn)
7:40 pm – 8:05 pm Chris Chang (University of California at Berkeley) “Copper and hydrogen peroxide sensors”
8:05 pm – 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm – 8:40 pm Jennifer Pett-Ridge (LLNL) “Metals in bacteria imaged by nanoSIMS”
8:40 pm – 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm – 9:15 pm Ben Twining (Bigelow) “Micro X-ray analysis”
9:15 pm – 9:25 pm Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Bioinorganic chemical oceanography
9:00 am – 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Alison Butler (University of California at Santa Barbara)
9:10 am – 9:40 am Kristen Buck (Bermuda Biological Station) “High-throughput studies of Fe speciation”
9:40 am – 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am – 10:25 am Martha Gledhill (National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton) “Linking biologically produced iron
complexes to oceanic iron chemistry”
10:25 am – 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am George Luther (University of Delaware) “Iron in extreme environments: iron and cyanobacteria dynamics in
a fresh water hot spring and iron sulfur chemistry in focused flow hydrothermal vent waters”
11:30 am – 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am – 12:15 pm Ken Bruland (University of California at Santa Cruz)
12:15 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 The Bioinorganic Beyond
7:30 pm – 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: John Peters (Montana State University)
7:40 pm – 8:05 pm Jade Bond (University of Arizona) “Exoplanetary work”
8:05 pm – 8:15 pm Discussion
8:15 pm – 8:40 pm Timothy Lyons (University of California at Riverside) “Evolution of oxygen in the ancient ocean – interaction
between environment and biology”
8:40 pm – 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm – 9:15 pm Chris Dupont (J Craig Venter Institute) “Genomic approaches to understanding the evolution of metallomes”
9:15 pm – 9:25 pm Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:30 pm Environmental metallome
9:00 am – 9:10 am Discussion Leader: Joseph Caruso (University of Cincinnati)
9:10 am – 9:40 am Dave Koppenaal (WR Wiley EMS Laboratory PNNL) “Development of cutting edge technologies for analytical
study of the metallome”
9:40 am – 9:55 am Discussion
9:55 am – 10:25 am Mak Saito (WHOI) “Measuring metalloenzymes in sea water”
10:25 am – 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am Coffee Break
11:00 am – 11:30 am David Salt (Purdue University) “Mechanisms that regulate the elemental composition of plants”
11:30 am – 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am – 12:15 pm Madeli Castruita (University of California at Los Angeles) “An RNAseq analysis of the global effects of low copper on
Chlamydomonas”
12:15 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 Metal Ions and Toxicology
7:30 pm – 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Anne Summers (University of Georgia)
7:45 pm – 8:45 pm Val Culotta (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) “What yeast can tell us about the physiology
of environmental metals”
8:45 pm – 9:15 pm Discussion
7:30 am – 8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Depart
