PROGRAMME

The programme will consist of six sessions.
Each session will consist of invited lectures and selected oral presentations.
There will be no parallel sessions.
Two poster sessions will be scheduled.

DETAILED PROGRAMME
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SOCIAL PROGRAMME
Tuesday April 17, 2012 18.00 hrs: Symposium dinner during evening boat tour through Rotterdam harbour area

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS

James Farquhar - University of Maryland, USA
The evolution and future of the Earth's sulfur cycle

Session 1 - Geochemistry and evolution

Timothy Ferdelman - MPI for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Biogeochemistry of sulfur in marine sediments: known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns

Alexander Loy - University of Vienna, Austria
Ecology of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in wetlands - fame-less actors in carbon cycling and climate change

Session 2 - Physiology, biochemistry and genomics of sulfur bacteria

Christiane Dahl - University of Bonn, Germany
Genomic, proteomic and transcriptomic insights into oxidative sulfur metabolism in the purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum

Donald Bryant - Penn State University, USA
The phylum Chlorobi: unexpected diversity among green chlorophotorophic bacteria revealed by genomic, metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic analyses

Session 3 - Sulfur bacteria and their niches

Jörg Overmann - DSMZ-Braunschweig, Germany
Molecular determinants of bacterial symbiosis in phototrophic consortia

Hendrik Schäfer - University of Warwick Conventry, UK
Functional diversity of (volatile) organosulfur compound degrading microorganisms in terrestrial and marine environments

Session 4 - Novel sulfur biotransformations

Dimitry Sorokin - Winogradsky Institute Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Natronophilic sulfidogens in soda lakes

Session 5 - Biotechnology of sulfur bacteria

Mark Dopson - Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
Towards green mining: exploiting pshychrotolerant acidophiles in bioremediation of inorganic sulfur compounds

Session 6 - Microbial interactions and symbiosis

Dave Stahl - University of Washington, USA
Adaptive evolution of a Desulfovibrio - Methanogen mutualism

Nicole Dubilier - Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Metagenomics and metaproteomics of chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing symbionts

Gerrit Voordouw - University of Calgary, Canada
Fundamental and applied aspects of the sulfur cycle: from Desulfovibrio to oil fields