Registration

Welcome Mixer

Buffet Breakfast, Dining Room; Set up Poster Session A

Late Registration

Welcome and opening remarks, Max Bell Auditorium, Julia Foght

Session 1: Big Ideas: Biodiversity in the cold

CHAIR: Charles Greer

Keynote Speaker: Bob Pappalardo, NASA JPL, USA.
The Habitability of Icy Worlds in the Outer Solar System

David Caron, Univ. S. California, USA.
Earth’s cold oceans: protist diversity and constraints in Antarctic coastal waters

John Priscu, Montana State U., USA.
Earth's Icy Biosphere

Coffee break

Eske Willerslev, U. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ancient Bacteria

Dirk Wagner, Alfred Wegener Inst. Germany.
Global warming and carbon dynamics in permafrost ecosystems: methane production and oxidation

Buffet lunch and Poster Session A

Session 2: Alpine Microbiology
CHAIR: Mark Skidmore

Rosa Margesin, U. Innsbruck, Austria.
Microbial activities and communities in alpine soils

Isabelle Reche, U. Granada, Spain,
Remote aquatic ECOsystems as SENSORs of global change and models to establish microbial biodiversity patterns: the role of atmospheric aerosols (ECOSENSOR)

Anna Lazzaro, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
Seasonal effects on bacterial communities of Alpine glacier forefields

Mark Skidmore, Montana State U. USA.
Microbially driven chemical weathering in glaciated systems

Coffee break

Session 3: Extreme Aquatic Microbiology
CHAIR: Takeshi Naganuma

Alison Murray, Desert Res. Inst., USA.
Seasonal dynamics in Antarctic marine bacterioplankton community composition reveal adaptations to polar winter

Connie Lovejoy, U. Laval, Canada.
Arctic Marine eukaryotes: evolution, ecology or happenstance?

Takeshi Naganuma, Hiroshima U. Japan.
16S rRNA-based analysis of microflora from an Antarctic moss pillar

Poster Session A

Buffet Breakfast, Dining Room; Set up Poster Session B

Session 4: Polar genomics, proteomics and diversity
CHAIR: John Bowman

Curtis Suttle, U. British Columbia, Canada.
Viruses in Arctic Sea

Peter Bergholz, Michigan State U., USA.
Insights into adaptations for microbial life in permafrost

SangHoon Lee, Korea Polar Res. Inst., Korea.
Metagenomic analyses on ancient microbes preserved frozen in Antarctic glacier

John Bowman, U. Tasmania, Australia.
Microbial communities of alkaline epiglacial lakes of the Framnes Mountains, Antarctica

Coffee break

Session 4: continued
CHAIR: Nina Gunde-Cimermann

Tatiana Vishnivetskaya, Oak Ridge Natl Lab, USA.
Psychrophilic vs thermophilic lifestyles

Lily Ting, U. New South Wales, Australia.
Proteomics of cold adaptation in an oligotrophic marine bacterium

Vivian Pellizari, U Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Diversity of alkane monooxygenase genes and aromatic ring hydroxylation dioxygenase genes in Antarctic Peninsula

Étienne Yergeau, Netherlands Inst. Ecology, Netherlands.
Changes in Antarctic soil microbial communities associated with warming

Buffet lunch and Poster Session B

Session 5: Polar and Alpine Mycology
CHAIR: Randy Currah

John Hobbie, Marine Biol. Lab., Woods Hole, USA.
Mycorrhizal Fungi Provide Important Amounts of Nitrogen to Host Plants in the Arctic: 15N is the Key Signal

Sarah Hambleton, Agriculture Agri-Foods Canada, Canada.
Phylogeny of polar and alpine isolates of Geomyces

Keith Egger, U. Northern British Columbia, Canada.
Characterization of root-associated fungi from High Arctic tundra and similarity to Antarctic fungal

Nina Gunde-Cimermann, U. Ljubljani, Slovenia.
Multilocus analysis of Arctic black yeast Aureobasidum sp. isolates suggests accelerated evolution

Coffee break

Session 6: Diversity and Bioprospecting
CHAIR: Jackie Aislabie

Max Haggblom, Rutgers U., USA/Finnish Forest Res. Inst., Finland.
Metabolic fingerprinting of dominant soil bacteria active in Arctic tundra and forest soils

Craig Cary, U of Waikato, New Zealand.
Examining microbial diversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

Jackie Aislabie, Landcare Res. New Zealand.
Bacterial diversity of ornithogenic soil from Seabee Hook, Cape Hallett, Antarctica

Poster Session B

Buffet Breakfast, Dining Room; Set up Poster Session C

Session 7: Astrobiology and Cryobiology
CHAIR: Lyle Whyte

Jody Deming, U. Washington, USA.
Microbes, exopolymers and unusual forms of ice

Sergey Bulat, LGGE CNRS-UJF, France/Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst., Russia.
Hidden life in extreme subglacial Lake Vostok, East Antarctica

Buford Price, UC Berkeley, USA.
Microbial Life in Ice: Implications for a Cold Origin of Life

David Gilichinsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
Viable Microorganisms in Antarctic Permafrost: How old are they and how old might they be?

Coffee break

Session 7: continued
CHAIR: Jody Deming

Dominic Burg, U. New South Wales, Australia.
Expanding Knowledge of Cold Adaptation in Archaea: Comprehensive Analysis of the Methanococcoides burtonii Hydrophobic Proteome

Thomas Niederberger, McGill U., Canada.
Filamentous sulfur-oxidizing communities inhabiting a unique cryo-environment of the high Arctic

Nicolai Panikov, Dartmouth College, USA.
Bioenergetics and kinetics of subzero microbial growth

Takeshi Naganuma, Hiroshima U. Japan.
Polar and Alpine Microbiology in the International Polar Year

Buffet lunch and Poster Session C

Session 8: Climate Effects and Polar Microbiology
CHAIR: Warwick Vincent

Johanna Laybourn-Parry, U. Tasmania, Australia.
Unravelling the story - carbon cycling and long term trends in Antarctic lakes

David Kirchman, U. Delaware, USA.
The response of microbes and lower trophic level dynamics to climate change in the Arctic Ocean

David Pearce, British Antarctic Survey, UK
Climate change and the microbiology of the Antarctic Peninsula region

Coffee break

Session 9: Cold Microbial Processes
CHAIR: Rosa Margesin

Julie Deslippe, U. British Columbia, Canada.
Long term warming alters Arctic soil microbial community structure

Steven Siciliano, U. Saskatchewan, Canada.
Nitrifier dominance of Arctic soil nitrous oxide emissions arises due to fungal competition with denitrifiers for nitrate

Carsten Jacobsen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark
Biodegradation of 2,4-D and benzoate at low temperatures in surface icecap and permafrost soil samples from Greenland

Poster Session C

Optional Banquet: Banff Springs Hotel Golf Clubhouse

Buffet Breakfast, Dining Room

Session 10: Cold Enzymes and Physiology
CHAIR: Max Haggblom

Rachel Morgan-Kiss, Miami U., USA.
Differential acclimatory abilities and adaptive strategies between two Antarctic photopsychrophiles

Vincent O'Flaherty, Natl. U. Ireland, Ireland.
Cold methanogenic consortia: the microbial ecology and ecophysiology of low-temperature anaerobic digestion

Luisa Tutino, U. Naples, Italy.
Protein secretion secrets: the "cold" case of a-amylase

Nobuyoshi Esaki, Inst. Chem. Res., Kyoto U., Japan.
Physiological role of eicosapentaenoic acid in a psychrotroph Shewanella livingstoensis Ac10

Coffee break

Session 10: continued
CHAIR: Julia Foght

Sisinthy Shivaji, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India.
Psychrophilic bacteria from Antarctica: biodiversity and genes required for survival

Brent Christner, Louisiana State U., USA.
Physiological and molecular adaptations to frozen conditions

Plenary Speaker, Charles Gerday, U. Liège, Belgium.
One life in the cold: approximations and mistakes

Closing remarks and information about next conference

Optional Half-day Excursion "Fire and Ice"

Optional Full-Day Excursion "Ancient Ice" Columbia Ice Field