abstracts book 1 EXTREMOphiles_2012 - Universidad de Sevilla

MONDAY, 10 September
12:00-18:00 h. Registration
18:00 h. Opening ceremony (Salón Andalucía)
Antonio Ventosa, Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Milton da Costa, Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS)
Helena Santos, President of the International Society of Extremophiles (ISE)
Antonio Ramírez de Arellano, Rector of the University of Sevilla
OL1. 19:00 h. Opening lecture (Salón Andalucía)
Chairperson: Antonio Ventosa
Using genomes to track the evolution of life on Earth
James A. Lake, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
20:00 h. Welcome cocktail
TUESDAY, 11 September
Symposium 1. Astrobiology and analogs of other planets (Salón Andalucía)
Chairperson: W. D. Grant
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S1.1. 9:00-9:30 h.
Life in extreme environments–what does it tell us about the prospects for life elsewhere?
Charles Cockell, University of Edinburg, UK
S1.2. 9:30-10:00 h.
Subsurface geomicrobiology of the Iberian Pyrite Belt
Ricardo Amils, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
S1.3. 10:00-10:30 h.
Atacama desert–a Mars analog inhabited by polyextremophiles
Fred A. Rainey, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
S1.4. 10:30- 11:00 h.
Evolutionary relationships between membrane vesicles, plasmids and viruses
Patrick Forterre, University Paris-Sud and Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
11:00-11:30 h. Coffee-break and poster viewing
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