Program

Below is the schedule of events at the colloquium. There is also a PDF version available.

FRIDAY	May 30

	8:00- 8:45	REGISTRATION/COFFEE


	8:45 - 9:00	WELCOME & LOGISTICS	Zackary	Johnson
			Penny	Chisholm

	9:00-9:30		Penny	Chisholm	Emerging from the Noise: The Prochlorococcus Story
	9:30-10:00		Ron	Milo	Energy optimization and the design of photosynthesis
	10:00-10:30		Tuo	Shi	Frozen Metabolic Accidents Constrain Evolution of the Cyanobacterial Genome Core
	10:30 - 11:00	BREAK
	11:00 - 11:30		Claire	Ting	Probing the Structure and Function of Prochlorococcus: From Genome to Three-Dimensional Cellular Architecture
	11:30-12:00		Maureen	Coleman	Prochlorococcus population genomics in the subtropical Pacific

	12:00-2:00	POSTER SET UP AND LUNCH

	2:00-2:30		Frederic	Partensky	Marine Synechococcus adapt to new light niches by lateral transfer of phycobilisome rod gene clusters
	2:30-3:00		Erik	Zinser	Temperature and reactive oxygen species as ecological determinants for Prochlorococcus
	3:00-3:30	BREAK
	3:30-4:00		David	Kirchman	Photoheterotrophy by Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus in the North Atlantic Ocean
	4:00-4:30		Ben	Van Mooy	The glycerolipid composition of Prochlorococcus reflects niche adaptation in the upper ocean
	4:30-5:00		Nathan	Ahlgren	Changes in picocyanobacterial community structure across transitions from oligotrophic to upwelling regions off of Costa Rica

	5:00 - 7:00	RECEPTION AND POSTERS
	7:00 - 9:00	DINNER


SATURDAY	May 31


	8:00-8:30	COFFEE
	8:30-9:00		Anton	Post	Nitrogen stress responses in the marine cyanobacteria Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus spp.
	9:00-9:30		Wolfgang	Hess	Regulatory RNA in cyanobacteria
	9:30-10:00		Claudia	Steglich	A systematic microarray screen for ncRNAs in Prochlorococcus
	10:00-10:30	BREAK
	10:30 - 11:00		Matthew	Sullivan	Virus-encoded cyanobacterial metabolic genes: What can we learn from the expanding databases?
	11:00 - 11:30		Debbie	Lindell	Cyanobacteria-Cyanophage Interactions: Impacts on Genome Evolution and Genome Expression
	11:30-12:00		Ferdi	Hellweger	A Systems bioecology modeling analysis of how photosynthesis genes affect the ecological fitness of viruses

	12:00-2:00	LUNCH / POSTERS
	2:00-2:30		Karen	Selph	Grazing dynamics of Prochlorococcus
	2:30-3:00		Alex	Worden	Picophytoplankon community dynamics at a tropically influenced time-series transect
	3:00-3:30	BREAK
	3:30-4:00		Mick	Follows	Modeling Prochlorococcus Ecotypes: From Genome to Biomes
	4:00-4:30		Zackary	Johnson	Prochlorococcus undiscovered
	4:30-5:00	OPEN DISCUSSION	Zackary	Johnson	The Challenges Ahead
			Penny	Chisholm

Poster Presentations (poster boards are ~4ft x ~8ft)

Sarah	Bagby	Characterization of Prochlorococcus carbon dioxide and oxygen physiology
Franz	Baumdicker	Estimating the supra genome of marine picocyanobacteria
Brian	Binder	Regulation of Growth Rate and Abundance in Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Populations in the Sargasso Sea
Brad	Blythe	A Critical Analysis of the Cell Cycle Method for Calculating in-situ Growth Rates in Prochlorococcus Populations
Jason	Bragg	Modeling selective pressures on picocyanobacterial nitrogen use abilities in the global ocean
Jeremy	Chandler	Prochlorococcus Ecotype Abundances of the Western Pacific Ocean elucidated by Quantitative PCR Methods
Allison	Coe	Introducing the Mini-Illuminator: Culturing photosynthetic microbes on a small scale with high throughput
Katherine	Huang	A database portal for Prochlorococcus
Gregory	Kettler	Impact of gene content on Prochlorococcus eNATL adaptation: beyond high light and low light
Veronica	Lance	Primary Productivity and the contribution by a “Prochlorococcus size-fraction” in the Western Pacific
Liz	Mann	Conversational pieces: Prochlorococcus responses to arsenic toxicity and iron limitation
Lisa	Moore	Physiological response of Prochlorococcus in P-limited chemostats and on-deck nutrient enrichment experiments
J. Jeffrey	Morris	Heterotrophic bacteria “help” Prochlorococcus survive oxidative stress
Marcia	Osburne	The effects of UV radiation on Prochlorococcus ecotypes
Anna	Ritchie	Prochlorococcus abundances in the Western Tropical Pacific
Adam	Rivers	Light and the acquisition of Fe from strong ligands by Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus
Sebastien	Rodrigue	Single-Cell Genomics of Prochlorococcus
Doug	Rusch	Prochlorococcus variants from the GOS metagenome
Daniel	Sher	A Marine Heterotrophic Bacterium that Inhibits the Growth of Prochlorococcus in Co-culture
Heidi	Sosik	Seasonality and temperature regulation of Synechococcus : New insights from submersible flow cytometry emphasize differences between shelf and open ocean ecotypes
Vera	Tai	Dominance of Synechococcus clades I and IV during a coastal marine time-series
Anne	Thompson	Prochlorococcus and iron
Luke	Thompson	Transaldolase in viruses infecting Prochlorococcus : Hijacking host carbon metabolism with a non-cyanobacterial enzyme
Jacob	Waldbauer	Biochemical stoichiometry of Prochlorococcus cells
Rory	Welsh	The application of flow cytometry to enumeration and sizing of marine phytoplankton populations

The ASM General Meeting starts on June 1 at 1700.

Last updated: April 27, 2008