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Workshop Agenda
Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-Level Learning
from Natural Systems
January 6-7, 2011
The Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center
3800 Reservoir Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20057
DAY 1
8:15 a.m. Welcome and Overview
8:30 a.m. Opening Plenary Speaker:
Time scales and energy in biological systems
Leslie Dutton, University of Pennsylvania
9:10 a.m. Q&A
SESSION 1: ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS
Covers: respiration, metabolism, chemical bonds, and molecules
9:30 a.m. Origins of life and life in extreme environments
Penelope Boston, New Mexico Tech
9:50 a.m. Q&A
10:00 a.m. Progress toward synthetic metabolisms
Steven Benner, Foundation for Applied Molecular
Evolution
10:20 a.m. Q&A
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10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Breakout sessions
12:30 p.m. Report back
1:30 p.m. Lunch break
SESSION 2: ENERGY CAPTURE
Covers: antennae, membranes, ion channels
2:30 p.m. Ion translocation across biological membranes
Janos Lanyi, University of California, Irvine
2:50 p.m. Q&A
3:00 p.m. Novel mechanisms of anaerobic methane oxidation with
sulfate
Rudolf Thauer, Max Planck Institute
3:20 p.m. Q&A
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Breakout sessions
5:30 p.m. Report back
6:30 p.m. Dinner break
7:15 p.m. Evening Plenary Speaker:
Solar energy harvesting in the epicuticle of the oriental
hornet
Marian Plotkin, National University of Singapore (remote)
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DAY 2
SESSION 3: BIOINSPIRED ENERGY SYSTEMS
Covers: devices, engineered systems
8:00 a.m. Energy production in biofuel cells
Kenneth Nealson, J. Craig Venter Institute
8:20 a.m. Q&A
8:30 a.m. Microbes and the four basic strategies for life on Earth:
What we can learn from what we know (and how to look
for what we don’t know)
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA and U.S. Geological Survey
8:50 a.m. Q&A
9:00 a.m. Breakout sessions
11:00 a.m. Report back
12:00 p.m. Lunch break
1:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Speaker:
Controlling nanoscale structure in 3D with an
informational biopolymer: DNA
Nadrian Seeman, New York University
1:40 p.m. Q&A
2:00 p.m. Closing remarks
2:30 p.m. Adjourn
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