Program

Friday, November 2nd

Saturday, November 3rd

Sunday, November 4th

Friday, November 2nd

PUBLIC LECTURE - 7:30 PM

Norman Pace

The Emerging View of Life's Diversity and Evolution: Into the Natural Microbial World

Knight Auditorium,
UIUC Spurlock Museum

Saturday, November 3rd
9:00 am	Ralph Wolfe Discovery of the Archaea--- a Personal Overview
9:45 am	George Fox Archaea Ribosomes and the Early History of the Translation Machinery
10:45 am	Jan Sapp Archaea: the making of new paradigm
11:30 am	Carl Woese Archaea: Man's Place in Nature
1:15 pm	Karl Stetter The Hyperthermophiles
2:00 pm	Rolf Thauer Methanogenic and methanotrophic archaea: two sides of the same medal?
2:45 pm	Rolf Bernander The cell cycle of archaea
3:45 pm	Roger Garrett A Journey Through the Molecular Biology of the Archaea
4:30 pm	Jorge Escalante-Semerena How archaea and bacteria assemble coenzyme B12
6:30 pm	BANQUET - Alice Campbell Alumni Center Historical Reflections on the Discovery of the Archaea by Professor Karl Stetter Remarks by Professor Carl Woese

Sunday, November 4th
9:00 am	Norman Pace Archaeal Phylogeny and Environmental Sequences
9:45 am	Ed DeLong Molecular phylogeny, genomics, and ecology - new world views.
10:45 am	William Whitman The number of prokaryotes on earth (and why we care)
11:30 am	Mitchell Sogin Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: an underexplored "rare biosphere"
1:15 pm	William Balch On Folding Energetics and Evolution
2:00 pm	Günter Wächtershäuser Chemical predetermination from the origin of life to the origin of Archaea and Bacteria
2:45 pm	David Prangishvili Viruses of the Archaea
3:30 pm	Patrick Forterre Building upon the three domains concept: pending questions on the origin and early evolution of modern life