This programme is provisional |
| SUNDAY 7 September |
| 16.00 |
Opening Ceremony |
SESSION 1 : PLENARY SESSION 1 |
| 16.30 |
Professor Brian O'Connell |
University of Western Cape, South Africca
|
P1 |
Science education in South Africa: needs and challenges in a new nation |
| 17.30 |
Welcome Function : Buffet drinks and light supper |
MONDAY 8 September |
| SESSION 2 : Keynote Presentations CHAIR: Garo Antranikian |
| 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) : CHAIR: Aharon Oren |
| O1 |
Microbial colonization of lithic niches in arid and hyper-arid deserts |
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Stephen Pointing |
The University of Hong Kong, PR China |
| O2 |
A 16S rDNA microarray for oil reservoirs – challenges and possibilities |
| |
Odd G. Brakstad |
SINTEF, Norway |
| O3 |
Nanoarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences are widely dispersed in hyperthermophilic and mesophilic halophilic environments |
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Ana Casanueva |
UWC, South Africa |
| O4 |
Stratified microbial communities involving in methane metabolism along the sediment core of Pearl River Estuarine, Southern China |
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Lijin Jiang |
State Oceanic Administration, China |
| O5 |
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial evolution in acid mine effluents, La Zarza-Perrunal case (Iberian Pyritic Belt, Spain ) |
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Elena González-Toril |
Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain |
| SESSION 3B : PROTEINS & ENZYMES |
| 11.00 |
(parallel with Session 3A) : CHAIR: Michael Danson |
| O6 |
Defining the genome, proteome and metalloproteome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon, pyrococcus furiosus |
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Michael WW Adams
|
University of Georgia , USA
|
| O7 |
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 |
| O8 |
Molecular analysis of the type II molybdo-enzymes from Archaeoglobus fulgidus and Thauera selenatis |
| |
Elizabeth Dridge
|
University of Exeter , United Kingdom |
| O9 |
Proteolysis in extremophiles: structures, enzymology and possible roles of the archaeal TET proteins
|
| |
B Franzetti |
Institute of Structural Biology , France
|
| O10 |
Analysis of secreted proteins and membrane vesicles reveals the presence of endosome sorting complex components in Crenarchaeota |
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Arnold Driessen |
University of Gronigen , The Netherlands
|
| SESSION 4A : MICROBIOLOGY & MICROBIAL ECOLOGY |
| 14.00 |
(parallel with Session 4B) CHAIR: Steve Pointing |
| O11 |
Thermo-acidophilic methane oxidation by Verrucomicrobia extends our perception of biological methane oxidation |
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Nils-Kåre Birkeland |
University of Bergen , Norway |
| O12 |
Diversity of hypolithic communities in the Dry Valley soils of Eastern Antarctica
|
| |
Nuraan Khan |
University of Western Cape , South Africa
|
| O13 |
Presence and activity of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria at deep-sea hydrothermal vents |
| |
N Byrne |
Centre de Brest , France |
| O14 |
Selection and diversity of Thermoacidophilic archaea in mineral sulfide oxidation |
| |
Paul Norris |
University of Warwick, United Kingdom |
| SESSION 4B : PROTEINS & ENZYMES |
| 14.00 |
(parallel with Session 4A) CHAIR: Mike Adams |
| O15 |
A versatile small heat shock protein from a eurypsychrophilic archaeon, Methanococcoides burtonii |
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Pongpan Laksanalamai
|
University of Maryland , USA
|
| O16 |
Rational engineering of new DNA specificities in MmeI, a restriction Endonuclease isolated from Methylophilus methylotrophus |
| |
Richard D Morgan
|
New England Biolabs , USA |
| O17 |
Studies on thermophilic L-haloacid Dehalogenases |
| |
Carrie Rye
|
University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| O18 |
Functional characterisation of a putative photolyase from the extreme Haloarchaeon, Haloferax volcanii
|
| |
Winnie Wu
|
University of Bath, United Kingdom |
| SESSION 5A : ADAPTATIONS TO EXTREMOPHILY |
| 15.50 |
(parallel with Session 5B) CHAIR: Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya |
| O19 |
Evolution Adaptation to γ-irradiation in Escherichia coli |
| |
Yuejin Hua |
Institute of Nuclear-Agricultural Sciences, China |
| O20 |
Molecular mechanisms involved in biofilm formation in extremophile biomining bacteria
|
| |
Nicolas Guiliani |
University of Chile, Chile
|
| O21 |
How hyper-thermophilic organisms stabilize their Nucleic Acids?
|
| |
Henri Grosjean |
University of Paris-South, France
|
| O22 |
Unique polyamines produced by extreme thermophiles |
| |
Tairo Oshima |
Institute of Environmental Microbiology , Japan
|
| SESSION 5B : GENES & NUCLEIC ACIDS |
| 15.50 |
(parallel with Session 5A) CHAIR: Frank Robb |
| O23 |
Small RNA in Pyrobaculum |
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David L Bernick
|
University of California , USA
|
| O24 |
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 |
| O25 |
Analysis of transfer RNA introns and 5’ leading sequence in hyperthermophilic Pyrobaculum |
| |
Patricia Chan
|
University of California , USA |
| O26 |
Genetic and biochemical characterization of the poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) synthase in Haloferax mediterranei
|
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Hu Xiang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences , China |
|
17.10 - 19.00 |
FORMAL POSTER SESSION A (1-80) |
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER |
SESSION 6 : Keynote Presentations
|
| |
CHAIR: Helena Santos |
| 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 |
| 11.00 |
(parallel with Session 7B) CHAIR: Juergen Wiegel |
| O27 |
Thermophilic iron-reducing prokaryotes: recent developments in phylogeny and physiology
|
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Alexander Slobodkin |
Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia |
| O28 |
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
|
| O29 |
Isolation and characterization of the first obligate piezophilic hyperthermophilic Archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
|
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Daniel Prieur |
IFREMER, Brest , France
|
| O30 |
New thermophilic crenarchaeota in Uzon Caldera hot springs (Kamchatka) |
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Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya |
Academy of Sciences , Russia
|
| O31 |
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 |
(parallel with Session 7A) CHAIR: Roy Daniel |
| O32 |
Functional analysis of the MCM and Cdc6 proteins from the thermoacidophilic euryarchaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum |
| |
Gyri Teien Haugland
|
University of Bergen, Norway
|
| O33 |
Transient-state kinetics of intein-mediated protein splicing in the Methanococcus jannaschii KlbA intein |
| |
Fran Perler |
New England Biolabs , USA |
| O34 |
2-Oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes in thermophilic Archaea |
| |
Karl Payne
|
University of Bath, United Kingdom |
| O35 |
Engineering glycosidases from extremophiles for the synthesis of oligosaccharides
|
| |
Marco Moracci |
Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Italy |
| O36 |
Functional dissection of archaeal RNA Polymerase using novel robotic approaches |
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Robert OJ Weinzierl |
Imperial College, United Kingdom |
WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER |
SESSION 8 : Keynote Presentations
|
| |
CHAIR: Mosé Rossi |
| 09.00 |
Genomic analysis of extremely halophilic archaea: Survival in multiple extremes |
| K7 |
James A Coker |
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 |
| 11.00 |
(parallel with Session 9B) : CHAIR: Derek Litthauer |
| O37 |
Environmental adaptation: genomic analysis of the piezotolerant and psychrotolerant deep-sea iron reducing bacterium Shewanella piezotolerans WP3
|
| |
Fengping Wang |
State Oceanic Administration, China |
| O38 |
The novel anaerobic halo-alkalithermophile Natranaerobius thermophilus: Studies on the mechanisms for thriving under triple extreme growth conditions |
| |
Juergen Wiegel |
University of Georgia , USA
|
| O39 |
Temperature-induced adaptive responses of thermophilic and thermotolerant obligate methantrophs |
| |
Ksenia Medvedkova |
Russian Academy of Sciences , Russia
|
| O40 |
Copper resistance mechanisms of extremophilic bacteria and archaea living under exceptionally high concentrations of metals |
| |
Carlos Jerez |
University of Chile, Chile |
| O41 |
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 |
(parallel with Session 9A) : CHAIR: Hans Kotlar |
| O42 |
The development of a novel Thermophilic Bacillus capable of high yield ethanol production |
| |
Kirsten Eley
|
TMO Renewables Ltd, United Kingdom |
| O43 |
Thermostable biocatalysts for industrial biotechnology |
| |
Jenny Littlechild
|
University of Exeter , United Kingdom |
| O44 |
Biocatalytical conversion of heavy oils - characterizing and screening of a microbial strain collection |
| |
Sidsel Markussen
|
SINTEF, Norway |
| O45 |
Nitrile hydrolysing enzymes from extremophiles: their role in biocatalysis
|
| |
Rohit Sharma
|
Panjab University , India |
| O46 |
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 |
| 14.00 |
(parallel with Session 10B) CHAIR: Jenny Blamey |
| O47 |
Functional analysis of Thermostable Esterases: biochemical properties, crystal structures and applications
|
| |
Mark Levisson |
Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
| O48 |
Structure function relationships in archaeal and eukaryotic RNA polymerases
|
| |
Michael Thomm |
University Regensburg, Germany
|
| O49 |
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
|
| O50 |
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 |
(parallel with Session 10A) CHAIR: Brian Jones |
| O51 |
Pyrococcus furiosus a-amylase used within Industrial Food Sterilisation Processes |
| |
Ian Brown |
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| O52 |
Applications of a thermostable nitrilase superfamily amidase with unusual substrate selctivity |
| |
Stephanie Burton |
University of Cape Toen, South Africa |
| O53 |
Exploiting extreme environments in search for novel actinomycetes and their oxidative enzymes |
| |
Marilize Le Roes-Hill
|
University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| O54 |
Thermal-stability of Diether C25 liposomes derived from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Aeropyrum pernix K1
|
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Natasa Poklar Ulrih |
University of Lublijana, Slovenia |
| SESSION 11A : PROTEINS & ENZYMES |
| 15.50 |
(parallel with Session 11B) CHAIR: Esta cvan Heerden |
| O55 |
The Heterodimeric Primase from the Euryarchaeon Pyrococcus abyssi: A multifunctional enzyme for initiation and repair?
|
| |
Jöel Querellou |
IUEM, Plouzané, France |
| O56 |
Ectoine biosynthesis genes and enzymes of halotolerant and halophilic methylotrophic bacteria |
| |
AS Reshetnikov |
RAS Pushchino State University, Russia |
| O57 |
Functional metagenomics- mining and mutagenesis of novel low-temperature-active lipolytic enzymes
|
| |
Petter Thureborn |
Södertörn University College of Life Sciences, Sweden |
| O58 |
Isolation and characterization of a Sulfolobus solfataricus protease inhibitor homologous with the eukaryotic PEBP members |
| |
Mosé Rossi |
Istituto de Biochimica delle Proteine CNR, Italy
|
| SESSION 11B : METABOLIC PROCESSES (parallel with Session 11A) |
| 15.50 |
(parallel with Session 11B) CHAIR: Peter Schoenheit |
| O59 |
Regulation of hydrogen production of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus |
| |
Karin Willquist |
Lund University, Sweden |
| O60 |
Nitric and nitrous oxide production by the haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterranei |
| |
Maria José Bonete |
Universidade de Alicante, Spain |
| O61 |
Non-phosphorylated L-Rhamnose Metabolic Pathway in Thermoplasma acidophilum |
| |
Sun Bok Lee
|
Pohang University of Science & Technology, Korea |
| O62 |
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 |
|
17.10 - 19.30 |
FORMAL POSTER SESSION B (81-165) |
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THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER |
SESSION 12 : Keynote Presentations
|
| |
CHAIR: Don Cowan |
| 09.00 |
Shedding light on the terrestrial subsurface biosphere in deepest, darkest Africa through metagenomic analyses |
| K10 |
tba |
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 |
| 11.00 |
(parallel with Session 13B) CHAIR: Jenny Litlechild |
| O63 |
Insight into the antioxidant system of Sulfolobus solfataricus |
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Simonetta Bartolucci |
Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy |
| O64 |
Protein-RNA interactions explain how tRNA is stabilized in Thermotoga maritima |
| |
Walter Holmes |
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
|
| O65 |
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 |
| O66 |
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 |
| O67 |
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 |
| 11.00 |
parallel with Session 13A) CHAIR: Michael Thomm |
| O68 |
Complete genome sequence of hyperthermophilic proteolytic archaeon Desulfurococcus kamchatkensis |
| |
Nikolai Ravin |
Centre Bioengineering, RAS, Russia |
| O69 |
Construction of environmental DNA libraries from hot spring sediments and enrichment cultures to access chromium reducing genes |
| |
Subrata Pal
|
Jadavpur University, India |
| O70 |
Clustering of CO dehydrogenase and energy-converting hydrogenase genes is a specific feature of diverse hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs |
| |
Alexander Lebedinsky
|
Russian Academy of Science, Russia |
| O71 |
Biohydrogen via a new pathway? Formate hydrogenlyase in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus litoralis
|
| |
Gabor Rakhely
|
University of Szeged, Hungary |
| O72 |
Denitrification in Thermus thermophilus: the dual role of the nitrate reductase |
| |
José Berengeur |
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| SESSION 14 :
METABOLIC PROCESSES (single session) |
| 14.00 |
CHAIR: Henri Grosjean |
| O73 |
New insights into the iron and the sulfur energetic metabolism of the strict acidophilic bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans |
| |
Corinne Appia-Ayme
|
ICNRS, Marseille, France
|
| O74 |
Sulfur metabolism in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus |
| |
Marie-Thérèse Giudici-Orticoni |
IBSM-CNRS, Marseille, France
|
| O75 |
Cell cycle characteristics of Crenarchaeota: unity among diversity
|
| |
Magnus Lundgren |
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
|
| O76 |
Regulation of protein folding activity during normal growth and heat shock in the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus |
| |
Frank Robb |
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, USA |
| SESSION 15 : APPLICATIONS (single session) |
| 15.50 |
CHAIR: Simonetta Bartolucci |
| O77 |
Biocatalytic conversion of heavy oil by use of extremophiles - effects on reservoir recovery
|
| |
Hans Kristian Kotlar |
StatoilHydro, Norway |
| O78 |
Immobilisation and use of thermophilic biocatalysts in miniaturised flow reactors |
| |
Anne Marie Hickey
|
University of Exeter, United Kingdom |
| O79 |
Changes in mineralogy of Galena ore after biohydrometallurgical treatment of various acidophiles |
| |
Sadia Ilyas |
NIBGE, Pakistan |
| O80 |
Production of Exopolysaccharide (EPS) by an alkaliphilic bacterial strain of Vagococcus carniphilus MCM B - 1018 isolated from alkaline Lonar Lake, India |
| |
Amaraj Joshi |
Agharkar Research Institute, India |
| 17.10 |
PLENARY SESSION 2 |
| -18.20 |
CHAIR: Stephanie Burton |
| P2 |
21st Century trends in molecular ecology and biotechnology of extremophiles |
| |
Eric Mathur |
Synthetic Genomics, Inc., California , USA |
| 18.20 |
CLOSING CEREMONY |
| 19.30 |
CONFERENCE BANQUET |
