Week of Monday, June 13, 2011 Friday, June 17 2:00 PM Course Overview: Microbe-Environment Interactions and Microbial Diversity, Introduction to Vibrio Population Genetics Experiment, Microbial mats 4:00 pm Safety Training (Boat Works) Chris Patton, HMS 5:00 pm BBQ Saturday, June 18 7:00 AM Introduction to the Elkhorn Slough & Field trip Chris, all 1:30 PM Microscopy Alfred, all Start enrichments Sunday, June 19 7:00 AM Field trip to Pt Lobos & Hopkins Marine Station sites All 10:00 AM Thermodynamics and Mechanisms of Energy Conservation Alfred
Week of Monday, June 20, 2011 Monday June 20 8:30 AM Microbial Life and Metabolic Pathways Alfred 10:00 AM Isolation of Microorganisms (Growth, and Selection) Alfred 1:00 PM Microbial Life as a Phototroph Alfred evening 5 min student chalk board talks Tuesday, June 21 8:30 AM Coral Reef Microbiology Forest Rohwer, CSSD 10:00 AM Physiology and Ecology of Microbes of the Sulfur Cycle Alfred evening Large Scale Fermentation Experiment Wednesday, June 22 8:30 AM Cyanobacteria and Marine Photosynthesis Arthur Grossman, Stanford & Carnegie Institution 10:00 AM Genomics of Phototrophic Microbial Mats Devaki Bhaya, Stanford & Carnegie Institution 2:00 PM Microbial Metal Cycling Chris Thursday, June 23 8:30 AM Fermenters Alfred 10:00 AM Syntrophs Alfred 11:30 AM Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Chris Friday, June 24 8:30 AM Methanogens Rolf Thauer, MPI Marburg 10:00 AM Food from the Fire: How the Host Response Feeds Salmonella Andreas Bäumler, UC Davis Saturday, June 25 MiniSymposium 8:30 AM Flavin-based Electron Bifurcation: A Novel Mechanism of Energy Conservation in Anaerobes Rolf Thauer, MPI Marburg Catalytic Promiscuity and Serendipitous Metabolic Pathways Genetics and Genomics of Oceanic N 2 -fixing Cyanobacteria Shelley Copley, University of Colorado Jonathan Zehr, UC Santa Cruz
Week of Monday, June 27, 2011 Monday, June 27 8:30 AM Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Chris 10:00 AM Marine Crenarchaeota Chris Tuesday, June 28 8:30 AM Biology of Marine Vibrios Ned Ruby, UW Madison 10:00 AM Molecular Interactions in Vibrio fisheri-euprymna Symbiosis Wednesday, June 29 8:30 AM Fe(III) and Mn(IV)-reducing Bacteria Alfred 10:00 AM Life in a Dry World Mary Firestone, UC Berkeley 4:00 PM Molecular Probe Technologies and Ocean Observatories Chris Scholin, MBARI Thursday, June 30 8:30 AM Isotopic Signals of Microbial Processes John Hayes, WHOI, Woods Hole 10:00 AM Dehalococcoides and Reductively Dehalogenating Microbes Alfred Friday, July 1 8:30 AM Changing Views on Marine Microbes Jed Fuhrman, USC 10:00 AM Anaerobic Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Chris Saturday, July 2 8:00 AM depart Microfluidics experiment and single cell genome amplification Paul Blainey, Stanford (Field trip to Stanford)
Week of Monday, July 4, 2011 Monday, July 4 8:30 AM Evolution and Population Genetics Paul 10:30 AM Biological Diversity through the Eyes of an Ecologist Tadashi Fukami Stanford University Tuesday, July 5 8:30 AM Population Genetics and Genomics Jeffrey Lawrence, U. Pittsburgh 7:30 PM The Origin of Bacterial Species Jeffrey Lawrence, U. Pittsburgh Wednesday, July 6 8:30 AM Evolution in Bacterial Populations Paul 10:00 AM Evolution in Bacterial Populations Paul Thursday, July 7 8:30 AM Origin and Maintenance of Diversity Paul 2:00 PM Origins of Life John, Paul, Alfred 7:30 PM Origins of Life Student discussion Friday, July 8 8:30 AM Testing Spatially and Temporarily Explicit Hypotheses about Microbial Community Structure Rob Knight, U Colorado 10:00 AM Combining Graphs, Trees and Distances for Complex Communities Susan Holmes, Stanford 1:00 PM Selection, Mutation and Bacterial Growth John Roth, UC Davis Saturday, July 9 MiniSymposium 8:30 AM The within-host Population and Evolutionary Dynamics of Antibiotic Treatment Bruce Levin, Emory University Tracking the Units of Microbial Communities with Metagenomics A Species Concept for Asexual Organisms Kostas Konstantinidis Georgia Tech John Roth, UC Davis
Week of Monday, July 11, 2011 Monday, July 11 8:30 AM Comparative Genomics and Pathway Tools Tutorial (computer room) Kostas Konstantinidis, Georgia Tech, Ian 5:00 PM General Group meeting All Tuesday, July 12 8:30 AM Pathway Tools Tutorial (computer room) Ian, Kostas 2:00 PM Behind the Scene, Tour through Monterey Bay Aquarium Chris Harrold Monterey Bay Aquarium 5:00 PM General Group meeting All Wednesday, July 13 8:30 AM The Biogeochemistry of the Monterey Bay Ken Johnson, MBARI 7:00 PM General Group meeting All Thursday, July 14 PM Packing the lab Evening Student presentations Enrichments All Friday, July 15 8:30 AM Student project presentations Clone library, Vibrio population genetics, Vibrio genomics, Experimental Evolution 1PM continuing into Course evaluations, packing the truck Graduation and Farewell Party