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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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-Level Learning from Natural Systems: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13258.
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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)
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-Level Learning from Natural Systems: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13258.
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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
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy: Molecular-Level Learning from Natural Systems: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13258.
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In May 2007, the National Academies Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a public workshop on the topic of Bioinspired Chemistry for Energy, where government, academic, and industry representatives discussed promising research developments in solar-generated fuels, hydrogen-processing enzymes, artificial photosynthetic systems, and biological-based fuel cells. Workshop participants identified the need for a follow-up activity that would explore bioinspired energy processes in more depth and involve a wider array of disciplines as speakers and participants. Particularly, workshop participants stressed the importance of holding a workshop that would include more researchers from the biological sciences and engineering, as well as those involved in technological advances that enable progress in understanding these systems.

Building upon the 2007 workshop, the National Academies Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology convened the Committee on Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy to organize a second workshop in 2011 which, according to the statement of task, would explore the molecular-level frontiers of energy processes in nature through an interactive, multidisciplinary, and public format. Specifically, the committee was charged to feature invited presentations and include discussion of key biological energy capture, storage, and transformation processes; gaps in knowledge and barriers to transitioning the current state of knowledge into applications; and underdeveloped research opportunities that might exist beyond disciplinary boundaries.

Research Frontiers in Bioinspired Energy is an account of what occurred at the 2011 workshop, and does not attempt to present any consensus findings or recommendations of the workshop participants. It summarizes the views expressed by workshop participants, and while the committee is responsible for the overall quality and accuracy of the report as a record of what transpired at the workshop, the views contained in the report are not necessarily those of the committee.

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