19 th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation October 4 9, 2015 Pacific Grove, California

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1 19 th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation October 4 9, 2015 Pacific Grove, California

2 PROGRAM SUNDAY, October 4, :00 pm 5:00 pm Registration 6:30 pm 7:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm 8:00 pm Opening Ceremonies 8:00pm 8:30 pm Keynote Address: Peter Vitousek, Ecological Regulation of Biological N Fixation 8:30pm Welcome Reception MONDAY, October 5, 2015 THURSDAY, October 8, 2015 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 7:30am 9:00 am Breakfast Morning Keynote: Morning Keynote: Morning Keynote: 9:00 am 9:45 am Dennis Dean Claire Gough Jens Stougaard Session A Session C Session E Biochemistry Regulation & Genetics & 9:50 am 10:30 am Physiology Genomics of Legume Symbiosis 10:30 am 11:00 am Coffee Break Session A Biochemistry 11:00 am 12:30 pm 2:00 pm 6:00 pm (afternoon sessions run concurrently) Session C Regulation & Physiology 12:30 pm 2:00pm Lunch Session B1 Chemistry & Theory Session B2 Technology & Business Session D1 Nodule Development & Differentiation Session D2 Global Aspects, Evolution & Ecology Session E Genetics & Genomics of Legume Symbiosis Morning Keynote: Jeff Ehlers Session F Real World & Food Security Session F Real World & Food Security Excursions Session G1 Microbiology & Synthetic Biology Session G2 Non Legume Systems 6:00pm 6:30 pm Coffee / Posters Available 6:30 pm 7:00 pm Dinner 7:00pm 8:00pm 8:00 pm 10:00 pm Poster Session I Poster Session II Special Dinner Available at Monterey Aquarium Coffee / Posters Available Closing Lecture Banquet & Farewell Dinner FRIDAY, October 9, :30 am 9:00 am Breakfast 9:00 am Departure / Post meeting excursions 2

3 Session Details Keynote Address Peter Vitousek Stanford Ecological Regulation of Biological Nitrogen Fixation Session A: Biochemistry Dennis Dean Virginia Tech Chasing the Nitrogenase Catalytic Mechanism Yuichi Fujita Max Planck Institute Reaction mechanism of nitrogenase like protochlorophyllide reductase Markus Ribbe UC Irvine Assembly of Nitrogenase Cofactor Oliver Einsle Freiburg, Germany Ligand binding to the FeMo cofactor Luis Rubio Madrid, Spain Nitrogenase assembly in eukaryotes Lance Seefeldt Utah State Insights into the Nitrogenase Mechanism Session B1: Chemistry & Theory Dayle Smith Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Mechanism of N2 reduction by [Fe Mo] nitrogenase: structure and thermodynamics of reductive elimination intermediates Ian Dance University of NSW Australia Density functional simulations of intermediates & steps in the mechanism at FeMo co Vladimir Pelmentschikov Technische Universität Berlin CO Inhibited FeMo Cofactor of Nitrogenase: Insights by Experiment and Theory Serena DeBeer Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany X ray Spectroscopic and Computational Investigations of Vanadium and Molybdenum Nitrogenases Jonas Peters California Institute of Technology Catalytic N2 reduction by Fe Doug Rees California Institute of Technology Ironing out the nitrogenase mechanism Zhaomin Hou RIKEN, Japan Dinitrogen Activation and Transformation over a Multinuclear Titanium Framework Patrick Holland Yale University Details of N N cleavage and N H bond formation at synthetic compounds with multiple iron atoms Michael Fryzuk U. British Columbia, Canada Using Organometallic Complexes to Fix Nitrogen Yasuhiro Ohki Nagoya University, Japan bio mimetic metal sulfur compounds Bryan Hoffman Northwestern The Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase Session B2: Technology & Business Mike Stephens Monsanto TBD John Howieson Murdock University, Australia The Nitrogen crisis in real world agriculture why legumes are being removed from farming systems Mariangela Hungria EMBRAPA, Brazil A successful business story: Inoculants for the soybean crop Don Smith McGill University, Canada Commercializing new novel biologicals: N fixation and beyond Sung Hwan Cho University of Missouri Effect of lipo chitooligosaccharide on early growth of C4 grass seedlings Stewart Smith Novozymes Recent advances in inoculant technology and use Session C: Regulation & Physiology Claire Gough LIPM, Auzeville, France Symbiotic signalling in the Rhizobium legume symbiosis Graham Walker MIT molecular mechanisms underlying the Rhizobium legume symbiosis Sharon Long Stanford Rhizobium legume symbiosis Emanuel Souza UFPR, Brazil gene regulation in endophytic bacteria Ray Dixon John Innes Center Azotobacter gene regulation Anke Becker Marburg U. comparative genomics regulatory networks Phil Poole Oxford Energisation and redox balance in nitrogen fixing bacteroids Teresa Thiel U. Missouri Transcriptional and post transcriptional regulation of multiple N2ase gene clusters in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis Session D1: Nodule Development & Differentiation Katharina Pawlowski Stockholm University The symbioses of the uncultured Frankia clade Ton Bisseling Wageningen U. Netherlands The fate map of M. truncatula nodules 3

4 Peter Gresshoff CILR, U. Queensland, Australia Systemic regulation of nodule formation in legumes: closing the circuit Makoto Hayashi RIKEN Ctr. for Sustainable Resource NIN and nodule organogenesis Science Andreas Niebel LIPM, INRA, France NF YA TFs as key regulators of nodule development Krzysztof Szczyglowski Agriculture & Agri Food Canada Cytokinin signalling and nodule differentiation Session D2: Global Aspects, Evolution, & Ecology Lucas Stal NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute The role of temperature in cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation Rachel Foster Stockholm University N2 fixing planktonic symbioses: distribution, diversity, and activity Anne Dekas LLNL Deep Sea Benthic Nitrogen Fixation at Methane Seeps and Beyond Anne Morel Kraepiel Princeton TBD Devaki Bhaya Carnegie Institution, Stanford Nitrogen fixation in thermophilic unicellular cyanobacteria N. A. Provorov Russia Microevolution of N2 fixing plant microbe symbioses: is inter species altruism involved Session E: Genetics & Genomics of Legume Biosynthesis Jens Stougaard Aarhus University, Denmark Sweet talking; plant recognition of microbial carbohydrates Stig Uggerhøj Andersen Aarhus University, Denmark Identification of nodulation mutants using the LORE1 insertion mutant resource Jeremy Murrey John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Defining the core regulons controlling rhizobial infection: Single cell type transcriptomics of nin and ern1. Martin Parniske MCPMI, LMU Munch, Germany TBD Shin Okazaki Tokyo University of Agriculture & Rhizobial type III secretion system controls host dependent nodulation on Technology soybean Session F: Real World & Food Security Mariangela Hungria Embrapa, Brazil A successful business story: Inoculants for the soybean crop Vladimir Chebotar ARRIM, St. Petersburg, Russia Microbial inoculants: essential and beneficial tool for modern agriculture Doug Cook UC Davis Prospecting for nitrogen fixation traits in Mesopotamia, agriculture¹s center of origin Session G1: Microbiology & Synthetic Biology Chris Voigt MIT Optimization of nitrogenase gene clusters Giles Oldroyd John Ines Center, UK Engineering symbiotic signaling in cereals Dominique Loque Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Syn promoters of mod plant N responses James B. McKinlay Indiana University Control of electron flux for N2ase mediated H2 production Jim Golden UCSD Heterocyst development Louis Sherman Purdue University Nitrogen fixation in Cyanothece John Peters Montana State University Evolution of Mo N2ase during Transition from Anaerobic to Aerobic Metabolism Yi Ping Wang Peking University, Beijing, China Genetics of FeFe nitrogenase Session G2: Non Legume Systems Sharon Doty University of Washington Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Poplar Trees: Applications for Bioenergy and Agriculture Fernanda do Amaral University of Missouri Robust biological nitrogen fixation in a model grass bacteria association Fabio Pedrosa University of Parana New Developments in plant diazotrophic bacteria interctions Flora Pule Meulenberg Botswana College of Agriculture TBD Pilar Martinez Hildalgo UCLA Genome features of root associated Gram positive PGPR Paulina Estrada de los IPN, Mexico City Association of nitrogen fixing Burkholderia species with non legume plants Santos Jonathan Zehr UC Santa Cruz Mono et mono: Nitrogen fixing symbiosis between single cells, lessons from the marine environment Barbara Reinhold Hurek University of Bremen Plant hormone control of endophytic infection 4

5 Closing Lecture Hauke Hennecke ETH Zürich Evolution of nitrogen fixation research 5