Plenary & Keynote Speakers

Plenary Speaker
	Eric Mathur Synthetic Genomics, USA		Extremophiles and biotechnology
Keynote Speakers
	Li Huang IMCAS, Beijing, China		The Sac10b protein family of Archaea
	Amare Gessesse University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia		Novel biotechnological products and processes from alkaliphiles of East African soda lakes
	Craig Cary University of Waikato, New Zealand		Microbial ecology of Antarctic desert soils
	TC Onstott Princeton University, USA		Shedding light on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere in deepest, darkest Africa through metagenomic analyses
	Peter Bergquist Macquarie University, Australia		In vitro evolution of biocatalysts from extremophiles for biotechnological exploitation.
	Yoshizumi Ishino Kyushu University, Japan		Contribution of the proteins from hyperthermophilic archaea to structural and functional analyses of DNA replication/repair apparatus
	Rudolf Ladenstein Karolinska Institute, Sweden		Heat capacity, configurational entropy, and the role of ionic interactions in protein thermostability
	Shil DasSarma University of Maryland, USA		Genomic analysis of extremely halophilic archaea: Survival in multiple extremes
	Sonja-Verena Albers University of Groningen, The Netherlands		Assembly and function of archaeal cell surface structures
	Nitin Baliga University of Washington, USA		Mining extreme potential through predictive modeling
	Peter Rose Rhodes University, South Africa		Life at the Air/Water Interface