Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Workshop B: "Probing the Interface between Biological Systems and the Environment"
Organizers: Stefan Vogt (XSD), Tijana Rajh (CNM), and Ed O'Loughlin (BIO)
Location: Building 402, Rooms E1100/E1200
The diverse and complementary imaging and spectroscopic capabilities at the APS, CNM, and EMC provide unique tools to probe the highly complex interactions between biological systems and their environment. This workshop highlights cutting-edge applications of multiple spectroscopic and imaging approaches to examine biological systems in the context of both environmental processes. This could include, for example, microbial respiration on insoluble electron acceptors, microbial interactions with and transformations of contaminants, biofilm development, and biomineralization processes, among others. The workshop also is expected to feature intrinsic and direct interactions with the environment such as interactions with and uptake of contaminants, phytoremediation, etc.
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| 08:45 -- 09:00 |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
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| 09:00 -- 09:40 |
Matthew Marshall (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Towards High-resolution Chemical Imaging of Microbial Biofilms: Integration of Synchrotron Imaging and Electron Microscopy
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| 09:40 -- 10:20 |
Catherine Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Noble Metal Nanoparticles: A Platform For Studying Nano-Bio-Eco Interfaces at the Molecular Level
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| 10:20 -- 10:50 |
Break
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| 10:50 -- 11:30 |
Jason Unrine (University of Kentucky)
Exploring the Transformations, Bioavailability, Trophic Transfer, and Toxicity of Metal Nanoparticles in Soil
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| 11:30 -- 12:10 |
Ka Yee Lee (University of Chicago)
Mechanism of Structural Transformations Indcued by Antimicrobial Peptides in Lipid Membranes
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| 12:10 -- 01:30 |
Lunch
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| 01:30 -- 02:10 |
Ryan Tappero (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Probing the Mechanisms of Metal Tolerance in a Ni/Co Hyperaccumulator Plant
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| 02:10 -- 02:50 |
Maxim I. Boyanov (Argonne National Laboratory)
Elucidating Bacteria-mineral-contaminant Interactions Using Electron and X-ray Microspectroscopy Approaches
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| 02:50 -- 03:20 |
Break
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| 03:20 -- 04:00 |
Mark Jensen (Argonne National Laboratory)
Protein-mediated Plutonium Uptake by Living Cells
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| 04:00 -- 04:40 |
Chantel C. Tester (Northwestern University)
Amorphous Calcium Carbonate in Biomineralization - From Model Systems to Probing Structural Transformation in Cryo-Frozen Sea Urchin Embryos |
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