Read "Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms: Proceedings of a Workshop" at NAP.edu

Page 143 Cite Bookmark

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 1999. Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9638.

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?

Page 144 Cite Bookmark

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

Page 145 Cite Bookmark

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