Thursday
Plant Sciences Lecture Hall, ISU, Pocatello |
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9:00am |
Edwin
House
Chief Research Officer
Frank Harmon
Director, Idaho Accelerator Center
Opening Remarks |
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9:15am |
Douglas
P. Wells
Idaho Accelerator Center, Idaho State University
Radiation Research Opportunities at the Idaho Accelerator Center
|
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10:00am |
Lynn
Rothschild
NASA Ames Research Center
Astrobiology: The strange case of Radiation |
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11:00am |
Break |
|
11:15am |
Keith Shockley North Carolina State University
Microarray-based transcriptional analysis of thermal stress
response and sugar utilization in the hyperthermophiles Pyrococcus
furiosus and Thermotoga maritime |
|
12:15pm |
Lunch Break |
|
1:30pm |
John Battista
Louisiana State University
Microarray studies provide new insights into the reasons for
D.radiodurans ionizing radiation resistance |
|
2:30pm |
Vanya Miteva
Pennsylvania State University
Microbial life at low temperatures: A diverse bacterial population
from a 120,000 year old Greenland Ice core |
Friday
Center for Higher Education, Idaho Falls, Rm 211 |
|
9:00am |
Frank Roberto
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory Life
at low pH:Exploiting acidophilic bacteria and archaea in the
mining industry |
|
10:00am |
Jamie Snyder
Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University
Novel Viruses from high temperature acidic environments |
|
11:00am |
Break |
|
11:30am |
Shiladitya DasSarma
Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology
Institute Genomic Analysis of Haloarchaea |
|
12:30pm |
Lunch Break |
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2:00pm |
Linda Amaral Zettler
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Eukaryotic diversity at pH extremes |
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3:00pm |
Duane Moser
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2.9 Billion Years from Daylight: Searching for Indigenous Microbial
Life via the World's Deepest Mines |
