Agenda
| Objective: To provide an annual update of research results, discuss significant research issues, and identify opportunities to interact with other research efforts and make use of new capabilities. | |
| Sunday April 2, 2006 | |
| All day Arrival of ERSD PIs, Co-PIs, ERSD program staff and guest speakers. | |
| Monday April 3, 2006 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast (all meals served at the Airlie Center) |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome and Opening Remarks (Paul Bayer, ERSD Program Manager) |
| 8:10 AM | BER Programs (David Thomassen, Acting Director, BER) |
| 8:20 AM | Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD) Update (Mike Kuperberg, Acting Director, ERSD/BER) ppt file |
| Biomolecular Studies of Metal/Radionuclide Reduction | |
| 8:45 AM | Enzyme Design for Cr(VI) and U(VI) Reduction (A.C. Matin, Stanford University) ppt file |
| 9:10 AM | Membrane Proteome of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 (Carol Giometti, ANL) ppt file |
| 9:35 AM | Biomolecular Mechanisms of Metal/Radionuclide Transformations in Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans (Alex Beliaev, PNNL) ppt file |
| 10:00 AM | Genes Involved in Microbial Survival in Aquifer Sediments (Lee Krumholz, University of Oklahoma) ppt file |
| 10:25 AM | Break |
| Latest Findings from Microbial Community Dynamics Studies | |
| 10:40 AM | Natural Gene Transfer to Develop Resistance to Metal Toxicity in Bacterial Strains and Communities (Jeffrey Fitts, BNL) ppt file |
| 11:05 AM | Adaptation of Subsurface Microbial Communities to Mercury (Soren Sorenson, University of Copenhagen) ppt file |
| 11:30 AM | Community Structure in Contaminated Habitats: The Dynamic Tension between Selective Forces and Environmental Heterogeneity (Alan Konopka, Purdue University) pdf file |
| 11:55 AM | Uranium Immobilization through Microbial Phosphatases (Patricia Sobecky, Georgia Tech) |
| 12:20 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM | Introduction of the Genomics:GTL Roadmap (Roland Hirsch, BER) ppt file |
| 2:10 PM | Overview of NRC Review of the Genomics: GTL Roadmap (Jennie Hunter-Cevera, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute) ppt file |
| 2:40 PM | Breakout Sessions |
| 1) Genomics: GTL Roadmap: Overview and Opportunities (Roland Hirsch, BER and Jim Fredrickson, PNNL) | |
| 2) Coupling Physical, Chemical and Biological Processes (Scott Fendorf, Stanford, George Redden, INL and Carl Steefel, LBNL) | |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | Poster Session |
| Microbial Ecology, Integrative Studies, Students | |
| 9:00 PM | Adjourn |
| Tuesday April 4, 2006 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | Announcements and Other Logistics (Paul Bayer, ERSD |
| Reduction of Metals/Radionuclides | |
| 8:10 AM | Influence of Geochemistry and Microbial Community Structure on Metal Reduction Rates (Anthony Palumbo, ORNL) ppt file |
| 8:35 AM | Influence of Mass Transfer on U(VI) Reduction (Chongxuan Liu, PNNL) ppt file |
| 9:00 AM | Stimulating the Microbial Reduction of Chromium (Terry Hazen, LBNL) ppt file |
| 9:25 AM | Aqueous Complexation Reactions and Biogeochemical U(VI) Reduction (Scott Brooks, ORNL) pdf file |
| 9:50 AM | Break |
| 10:05 AM | Transformation of U(VI) Under Iron Reducing Conditions (Edward O’Loughlin, ANL) pdf file |
| 10:30 AM | Chromate Bioremediation: Formation and Fate of Organo-Cr(III) Complexes (Luying Xun, Washington State University) ppt file |
| Grand Challenge in Biogeochemistry | |
| 10:55 AM | Overview of the Biogeochemistry Grand Challenge at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (Jim Fredrickson, PNNL) ppt file |
| 11:20 AM | Mechanisms of Bacterial Metal Reduction (Tom DiChristina, Georgia Tech) ppt file |
| 11:45 AM | Electron Transfer at Mineral Surfaces (Kevin Rosso, PNNL) ppt file |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch |
| 2:15 PM | Breakout Sessions |
| 1) Relating –Omic Approaches to Other Field Data (Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma and Matthew Fields, Miami of Ohio) doc file | |
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2) Identifying New Science Opportunities in Biogeochemistry for DOE Sites (John Zachara, PNNL and Eric Roden, University of Wisconsin) pdf file |
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| Breakout Summary, Zhou & Fields Lipton, Hazen, Kerkhof, Konopka (pdf files) |
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| 5:00 PM | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | Poster Session |
| Biogeochemistry/Biotransformation, Biomolecular Sciences | |
| 9:00 PM | Adjourn |
| Wednesday April 5, 2006 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:00 AM | Announcements and Other Logistics (Paul Bayer, ERSD) |
| Reduction and other (Bio)Geochemical Processes | |
| 8:10 AM | Uranium Reduction by Clostridia (A.J. Francis, BNL) ppt file |
| 8:35 AM | Behavior of Sorbed 90Sr in Contaminated Subsurface Sediments (John Zachara, PNNL) pdf file |
| 9:00 AM | Heterogeneity Impacts on Contaminant and Microbial Dynamics (Scott Fendorf, Stanford University) ppt file |
| 9:25 AM | Reductive Immobilization of Metals by H2S Treatment (Baolin Deng, University of Missouri) ppt file |
| 9:50 AM | Use of Isotopic Tracers at the Hanford Site (Don DePaolo, LBNL) ppt file |
| 10:15 AM | Break |
| Coupled Physical, Chemical and Biological Processe | |
| 10:30 AM | The Biogeochemistry of Pu Mobilization and Retention (Bruce Honeyman, CSM) ppt file |
| 10:55 AM | Upscaling Coupled Pore-Scale Reactive Transport Processes to the Continuum Scale (Peter Lichtner, LANL) pdf file |
| 11:20 AM | Coupled Flow and Reactivity in Variably Saturated Porous Media (Carl Palmer, INL) ppt file |
| 11:45 PM | Breakout Session Summary Presentations (Breakout group leads) |
| 12:30 PM | Adjourn & Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | UMTRA Group Meeting |
| 5:00 PM | All meetings adjourn |
