Microbial Diversity 2014 LECTURE SCHEDULE Mon, 7 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Where We’ve Been 9:15 AM Mon, 7 July Dianne Newman, Caltech Where We’re Going 10:30 AM Tues, 8 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Layered Communities 9:15 AM Wed, 9 July Kurt Hanselmann, ETH Zurich Unifying Concepts in Ecosystems 9:15 AM Microbiology Wed, 9 July Scott Dawson, Univ. of California, Davis Zen and the Art of Molecular 10:30 AM Systematics Thurs, 10 July Dianne Newman, Caltech Basics of Fermentation and Respiration 9:15 AM Thurs, 10 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Anaerobic Food Webs 10:30 AM Fri, 11 July Kurt Hanselmann, ETH Zurich Diversity and Biochemistry of 9:15 AM Phototrophs Fri, 11 July Rob Phillips, Caltech The Boltzmann Genome 10:30 AM Mon, 14 July Dianne Newman, Caltech My Grandfather’s Advice: Things to 9:15 AM Keep in Mind When Selecting a Model Organism Mon, 14 July Bill Metcalf, University of Illinois at Urbana - Genetic and Genomic Analyses of 10:30 AM Champaign Methanogenesis by Methanosarcina Species Tues, 15 July Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School Germ Stories – History of Microbial 9:15 AM Genetics Wed, 16 July Bill Metcalf, University of Illinois at Urbana - Identifying a Significant Source of 9:15 AM Champaign Methane in the Aerobic Ocean by Searching for Novel Antibiotics Wed, 16 July Robert Haselkorn, University of Chicago Differentiation of Nitrogen-Fixing 10:30 AM Heterocysts from Photosynthesizing Vegetative Cells in Filamentous Cyanobacteria Thurs, 17 July Bill Reznikoff, MBL Mobile Genetic Elements as Genetic 9:15 AM Tools Thurs, 17 July George O’Toole, Dartmouth University Why Genetics? 10:30 AM All lectures to be held in Loeb 263 unless otherwise noted. Microbial Diversity 2014 LECTURE SCHEDULE Fri, 18 July Scott Dawson, Univ. of California, Davis Insights into Eukaryotic Evolution Using 9:15 AM Protistan Comparative Genomics Fri, 18 July Norm Pace, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder Following Carl Woese into the Natural 10:30 AM Microbial World: the Beginnings of Metagenomics Mon, 21 July Bernhard Schink, Univ. of Konstanz Competition and Coorperation in 9:15 AM Microbial Communities Mon, 21 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Introduction to the Symbiosis Between 10:30 AM Termites and Their Gut Microbiota Tues, 22 July Bernhard Schink, Univ. of Konstanz Energy Sharing in Syntrophic Microbial 9:15 AM Communities Tues, 22 July Niles Pierce, Caltech Multiplexed in situ Hybridization Using 10:30 AM HCR Wed, 23 July Martin Polz, MIT Ecology and Evolution of Bacterial 9:15 AM Populations Wed, 23 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech HCR-FISH and New Insights into the 10:30 AM Termite Gut Microbiota Thurs, 24 July Colleen Cavanaugh, Harvard Univ. Title TBA 9:15 AM Thurs, 24 July Shana Goffredi, Occidental College Two Miles Deep and Five Million bp 10:30 AM Long: Microbial Symbiony Genomics of Deep-Sea Bone-Eating Worms Fri, 25 July Scott Dawson, Univ. of California, Davis Archaeal Symbionts of Anaerobic Rumen 9:15 AM Ciliates: On the Path to Organelles? Fri, 25 July Victoria Orphan, Caltech Title TBA 10:30 AM Mon, 28 July Ethan Garner, Harvard Univ. Learning How Bacteria Grow in Rod 9:15 AM Shapes: How the Motions of Independent Machines Build Long Range Order Tues, 29 July Dianne Newman, Caltech Hopanoids in Bacteria: Opportunities for 9:15 AM Physiologists Presented by Ancient, Globally-Significant Lipids Wed, 30 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Motility 9:15 AM Wed, 30 July Chris Kempes, SETI Institute, NASA Ames From Microbes to Trees: Predictive 10:30 AM Interspecific Laws in Biology All lectures to be held in Loeb 263 unless otherwise noted. Microbial Diversity 2014 LECTURE SCHEDULE Thurs, 31 July Jared Leadbetter, Caltech Ultrastructure 9:15 AM Thurs, 31 July Andy Larrea, Pacific Biosciences Automated Finished Microbial Genomes 10:30 AM and Epigenomes Fri, 1 August Joshua Weitz, Georgia Tech Statistical Thinking (and Fallacies) with 9:15 AM Applications to Microbial Ecology Fri, 1 August Joshua Weitz, Georgia Tech Games! (that Some Microbes Play) and 10:30 AM Game Theory! (that Can Help Make Sense of Why They Do) Mon, 4 August Margaret McFall-Ngai, Univ. of Getting a Symbiosis Underway: Early 9:15 AM Wisconsin, Madison Events in the Squid-Vibrio Association Mon, 4 August Ned Ruby, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison Balancing Act: Maintaining a Symbiosis 10:30 AM through Metabolic Rhythms Tues, 5 August Joerg Graf, Univ. of Connecticut Insights into Host Specificity through 9:15 AM Comparative Genomics Wed, 6 August Mak Saito, WHOI Exploring Marine Microbial Proteomes 9:15 AM and Metalloenzyme Use Thurs, 7 August Pete Girguis, Harvard Univ. Title TBA 9:15 AM Fri, 8 August Wiebke Ziebis, Univ. of Southern Scale Matters: Application of 9:15 AM California Microsensors in Microbial Ecology Mon, 11 August Lihini Aluwihare, UC San Diego Organic Matter Accumulation in Aquatic 9:15 AM Environments Tues, 12 August Alex Petroff, The Rockefellar Univ. Hydrodynamics and Collective Behavior 9:15 AM of Tethered Microbes Wed, 13 August Alison Butler, UC Santa Barbara Title TBA 9:15 AM Thurs, 14 August Mecky Pohlschröder, Univ. of Novel Insights into the Biosynthesis and 9:15 AM Pennsylvania Regulation of Prokaryotic Cell Surface Structures Fri, 15 August Emily Balskus, Harvard Univ. Discovering and Understanding Microbial 9:15 AM Chemistry All lectures to be held in Loeb 263 unless otherwise noted. .