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Appendix C Workshop Agenda
Thursday, October 22, 1998
General Session
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Andrew Knoll, Co-chair
Harvard University
8:40 a.m.
E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer
National Research Council
9:00 a.m.
Edward Weiler, Associate Administrator (acting)
Office of Space Science, NASA
9:20 a.m.
Rita R. Colwell, Director
National Science Foundation
9:40 a.m.
Overview of the Workshop
Mary Jane Osborn, Co-chair
University of Connecticut Health Center
Panel Sessions
9:50 a.m.
PANEL 1
Christian de Duve, Moderator
Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology
What features of biology characterize microorganisms at or near nanometer scale?
Is there a theoretical size limit below which free-living organisms cannot be viable?
If we relax the requirement that cells have the biochemical complexity of modern cells, can we model primordial cells well enough to estimate their likely sizes?
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Appendix C
Workshop Agenda
Thursday, October 22, 1998
General Session
8:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Andrew Knoll, Co-chair
Harvard University
8:40 a.m.
E. William Colglazier, Executive Officer
National Research Council
9:00 a.m.
Edward Weiler, Associate Administrator (acting)
Office of Space Science, NASA
9:20 a.m.
Rita R. Colwell, Director
National Science Foundation
9:40 a.m.
Overview of the Workshop
Mary Jane Osborn, Co-chair
University of Connecticut Health Center
Panel Sessions
9:50 a.m.
PANEL 1
Christian de Duve, Moderator
Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology
What features of biology characterize microorganisms at or near nanometer scale?
Is there a theoretical size limit below which free-living organisms cannot be viable?
If we relax the requirement that cells have the biochemical complexity of modern cells, can we model primordial cells well enough to estimate their likely sizes?
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10:00 a.m.
Dan Fraenkel, Harvard Medical School
10:20 a.m.
Jeffrey Lawrence, University of Pittsburgh
10:40 a.m.
Break
Lecture Room
10:55 a.m.
Monica Riley, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory
11:10 a.m.
David Boal, Simon Fraser University
11:30 a.m.
Peter Moore, Yale University
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
Panel 1 Discussion
Christian de Dave, Moderator
Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology
2:30 p.m.
Concluding Remarks for Panel 1
Christian de Dave, Moderator
2:40 p.m.
Break
Lecture Room
2:50 p.m.
PANEL 2
Ken Nealson, Moderator
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Is there a relationship between minimum size and environment?
Is there a continuum of size and complexity that links conventional bacteria to viruses?
What is the phylogenetic distribution of very small bacteria?
3:00 p.m.
James Van Etten, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
3:20 p.m.
Olavi Kajander, University of Kuopio
3:40 p.m.
Don Button, University of Alaska at Fairbanks
4:10 p.m.
James Staley, University of Washington
4:30 p.m.
Karl Stetter, Universität Regensburg
Friday, October 23, 1998
General Session
8:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Andrew Knoll, Moderator
Harvard University
Panel Sessions
8:40 a.m.
PANEL 2
Ken Nealson, Moderator
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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8:50 a.m.
Michael Adams, University of Georgia
9:10 a.m.
Edward DeLong, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
9:30 a.m.
Panel 2 Discussion
Ken Nealson, Moderator
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
10:30 a.m.
Break
Lecture Room
10:45 a.m.
Panel 2 Discussion
Ken Nealson, Moderator
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
11:50 a.m.
Concluding Remarks for Panel 2
Ken Nealson, Moderator
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:00 p.m.
PANEL 3
Andrew Knoll, Moderator
Harvard University
Can we understand the processes of fossilization and inorganic chemistry sufficiently well to differentiate fossils from artifacts in a sample?
1:10 p.m.
William Schopf, University of California at Los Angeles
1:30 p.m.
Jack Farmer, Arizona State University
1:50 p.m.
John Bradley, MVA, Inc.
2:10 p.m.
Panel 3 Discussion
Andrew Knoll, Moderator
Harvard University
3:10 p.m.
Concluding Remarks for Panel 3
Andrew Knoll, Moderator
3:20 p.m.
Break
3:30 p.m.
PANEL 4
Leslie Orgel, Moderator
Salk Institute
Does our current understanding of the processes that led from chemical to biological evolution place constraints on the size of early organisms?
If size is not constrained, are there chemical signatures that might record the transition to living systems?
3:50 p.m.
James Ferris, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4:10 p.m.
Jack Szostak, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4:30 p.m.
Steven Benner, University of Florida
4:50 p.m.
Panel 4 Discussion
Leslie Orgel, Moderator
Salk Institute
5:50 p.m.
Concluding Remarks for Panel 4
Leslie Orgel, Moderator
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General Session
6:00 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Andrew Knoll, Co-chair
Harvard University
Mary Jane Osborn, Co-chair
University of Connecticut Health Center
6:10 p.m.
Adjourn
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