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Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program (EBME)

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The Evolution of Aquatic Photoautotrophs

Hosted by Paul G. Falkowski and Andrew H. Knoll

11-13 January 2006

* The symposium will take place at Trayes Hall in the Douglass College Center on Cook Campus at Rutgers.

Parking is available for all at the Douglass Deck, right next to the Douglass College Center. You do not need a parking permit.

For information on how to get there, and a map, visit this website: http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=110

For detailed driving directions, go here: http://maps.rutgers.edu/directions.aspx?id=110

* Parking for the Geology Museum Reception is available in Lot 1 (go directly inside the gates of the Old Queens Campus) or, if the lot is full, in Lot 8 (corner of Hamilton and College Avenue). The Geology Museum is located inside Geology Hall, which is to the left of the Old Queens building (Kilpatrick Chapel is to the right of the Old Queens building).

* Download the updated symposium schedule here! (Microsoft Word)

* The symposium will begin at 8:30 am on Wednesday, January 11th.
The last talk will be over on Friday, January 13th at 12:30 pm. (Allow some time for wrap-up)
Please make your travel arrangements accordingly.

* Poster size is limited to 3 by 4 feet

* For guidance on how to get from Newark Airport or New York Penn Station to New Brunswick, download this word document.

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Agouron Foundation

This symposium is designed to examine our present state of knowledge of the evolution of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms in the ocean, as well as the influence that these organisms have exerted on the biological and geochemical history of Earth.

Speakers are by invitation only, however, there will be a poster session for anyone who wishes to participate.

LOCATION:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Douglass College Center, Trayes Hall

100 George Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Directions

REGISTRATION FEE:

$200 USD Before 15 October 2005

$250 USD 15 October 2005 or later

REGISTRATION FORM

Send completed registration form to

Symposium Registration

Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

71 Dudley Road, Room 318

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

or fax to 732-932-4083

CONTACT INFORMATION:

phone: 732-932-6555 x244

fax: 732-932-4083

APPLY FOR TRAVEL SUPPORT

(Graduate Students and Post-doctorates only)

TRAVEL ARRANGEMENT REQUEST FORM

(For speakers and support awardees only)

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Rutgers University Inn

(limited number of rooms reserved under group name Biocomplexity Symposium)

Hyatt

ATTRACTIONS:

Rutgers University

New Brunswick

Princeton

New York City

Symposium Titles

1. An introduction to primary producers in the sea: Who they are, what they do, and when they evolved — Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University and Andrew Knoll, Harvard University.
2. The Precambrian and Paleozoic record of phytoplankton evolution: What the fossil record tells us — Andrew Knoll, Harvard University and Roger Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
3. How photosynthetic bacteria became oxygenic — Robert Blankenship, Arizona State University.
4. The evolution of the eukaryote host cells: Common origins, different paths — Sandie Baldauf and Johanna Fehling, University of York.
5. Endosymbioses and the evolution of mitochondria and plastids: When, why, and how — Bill Martin, Heinrich Heine Universitat Dusseldorf.
6. Plastid inheritance in eukaryotic phytoplankton: Who dunit and how many times? — Debashish Bhattacharya, University of Iowa.
7. Evolution of light-harvesting in an oxygen world" –— Beverley Green, University of British Columbia.
8. Ocean redox chemistry and selection of elements and cofactors in the early stages of life — David Mauzerall, Rockefeller University.
9. Ocean life in the Triassic — Jonathan Payne, Harvard University and Bas van de Schootbrugge, Frankfurt University.
10. The origin and evolution of dinoflagellates — Charles Delwiche, University of Maryland.
11. The origin and evolution of diatoms - Wiebe Kooistra, Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Linda Medlin, Rainer Gersonde, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, and David Mann, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
12. The origin and evolution of coccolithophorids — Colomban de Vargas, Ian Probert, Algobank and University of Caen, France; Marie-Pierre Aubry, Rutgers University, and Jeremy Young, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
13. The origin and early evolution of green plants — Charley O’Kelly, Bigelow Laboratory.
14. Armor: Why, when and how? — Christian Hamm and Victor Smetacek, Alfred Wegener Institute.
15. Does size matter? The evolution of modern marine food webs — Zoe Finkel, Mount Allison University.
16. Resource competition and ecological success of phytoplankton — Elena Litchman, Michigan State University.
17. Weathering – connecting cratons to oceans and vice versa — Fred T. MacKenzie, Michael Guidry, and Rolf S. Arvidson, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
18. Geochemical and biological consequences of phytoplankton evolution — Miriam Katz, Katja Fennel and Paul Falkowski, Rutgers University.

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