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           |  | Scientific Program
 
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           |  | Wednesday, June 21, 2006   |  
           |  | 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome address
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           |  | Functional genomics I Chair: Michael Hecker
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           |  | 09:30 – 10:15 |  Amann, R., Bremen,
               GermanyExploring unknown microbial diversity by environmental genomics
 
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           |  | 10:15 – 10:50 | Piel, J., Butzke, D., Bonn,
               Germany,             Fieseler, L., Hentschel, U., Würzburg,
               Germany, Wen, G., Platzer,
             M., Jena, Germany Exploring natural product pathways in invertebrate metagenomes
 
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           |  | 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee break
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           |  | Metagenomics I Chair: Thomas Schweder
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           |  | 11:20 – 11:50 | Eck, J., Meurer, G., Schulze, R.,
               Lorenz, P., Zwingenberg, GermanyAccessing metagenomes for industrial applications
 
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           |  | 11:50 – 12:20 | Schüler, D., Bremen, Germany Making magnets by microbes: New insights into magnetosome formation
           in magnetotactic bacteria
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           |  | 12:20 – 12:40 | Long, P., London, UK Universal gene cloning and heterologous expression of marine natural product
  biosynthetic pathways
 
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           |  | 12:40 – 14:15 | Lunch
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           |  | Natural products I Chair: Peter Proksch
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           |  | 14:15 – 15:00 | Fusetani, N., Hakodate, Japan Antitumor leads from Japanese marine invertebrates
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           |  | 15:00 – 15:30 | König, G., Müller, D., Nett,
             M., Seibert, S., Bonn, Germany Marine and “marine-like" natural
           products from microorganisms
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           |  | 15:30 – 16:00 | de la Calle, F., Madrid, Spain Drug discovery of marine microorganisms as source of new antitumor compounds
  at PharmaMar
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           |  | 16:00 – 16:20 | Maas, E., Kilbirnie, New Zealand Screening for cytotoxic compounds from marine bacteria
 
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           |  | 16:20 – 16:50 | Coffee break
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           |  | Symbiosis IChair: Rolf Müller
 
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           |  | 16:50 – 17:20 | Müller, W.E.G., Mainz,
               Germany,             Ushijima, H., Tokyo,
               Japan, Belikov, S.I., Irkutsk, Russia, Müller,
             I.M., Schröder, H.C. Porifera a reference phylum for evolution and bioprospecting: Or - the power
of marine genomics
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           |  | 17:20 – 17:50 | Hentschel, U., Würzburg, Germany,             Piel, J., Bonn,
               Germany, Grozdanov, L., Scheuermayer, M., Würzburg,
             Germany Characterizing microbial diversity and function of marine-sponge associated microbial
consortia
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           |  | 17:50 – 18:10 | Felbeck, H., San Diego, USA Riftia pachyptila: The poster child for symbiosis with chemoautotrophic bacteria
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           |  | 18:10 – 18:30 | Markert, S., Greifswald,
               Germany, Arndt,
             C., Berlin, Germany, Felbeck, H., San
             Diego, USA, Becher, D., Albrecht,
             D., Hecker, M., Schweder, T., Greifswald, Germany Functional genome analysis of the bacterial endosymbiont from the deep sea tube
worm Riftia pachyptila
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           |  | 18:30 – 18:50 | Lalk, M., Kuhn, M., Teich, C., Methling, K., Greifswald,
               Germany Pharmacological screening of Riftia pachyptila
 
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           |  | 19:00 – 21:00 | Poster session / Cheese & Wine   |  
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           |  | Thursday, June 22, 2006
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           |  | Natural products II Chair: Nobuhiro Fusetani
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           |  | 09:00 – 09:30 | Proksch, P., Ebel, R., Düsseldorf, GermanySponge-derived fungi – a prolific
               source for new natural products
 
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           |  | 09:30 – 10:00 | Schulz, B., Braunschweig, Germany Secondary metabolites of fungi isolated
           from algae, sponges and plants from marine habitats
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           |  | 10:00 – 10:20 | Kelman, D., Berman-Frank, I., Bar-Ilan, Israel Antioxidant chemical defense by the bloom-forming
           marine cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium spp.
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           |  | 10:20 – 10:40 | Dobretsov, S., Kiel, Germany, Qian, P.Y., Dahms,
               H.-U., Kowloon, Hong KongComparison of antifouling activity and microbial diversity of congeneric
             sponges from different geographic regions
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           |  | 10:40 – 11:00 | König, T., Walter C. Erlangen, Germany Screening and biosynthesis of microalgae
               compounds with activities towards human pathogen viruses
 
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           |  | 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break 
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           |  | Chair: Gabriele König |  
           |  | 11:30 – 12:00 | Hill, R.T., Peraud, O., Baltimore,
                 USA, Kasanah,
               N., University, USA, Anderson, M. A., Enticknap, J.J., Baltimore,
               USA, Hamann, M.T., University, USA,Microbial sources for pharmaceutically important
             compounds derived from marine invertebrates
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           |  | 12:00 – 12:20 | Hertweck, C., Jena, Germany Biosynthesis of Toxins by Endofungal Bacteria
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           |  | 12:20 – 12:40 | Hagemann, M., Rostock, Germany Salt acclimation of cyanobacteria - molecular biology and possible application
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           |  | 12:40 – 13:00 | Lukowski, G., Greifswald, Germany Micro particles for controlled release of natural products
 
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           |  | 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch (sponsored by Brucker)Spraul, Bruker
 Coupling of LC-MS/NMR and statistical approaches
             for the analysis of metabolites in complex mixtures
 
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           |  | Metagenomics II Chair: Jörn Piel
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           |  | 14:00 – 14:30 | Müller, R., Saarbrücken,
             Germany From terrestrial genome analysis to marine
             natural product producers?
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           |  | 14:30 – 15:00 | Streit, W., Hamburg, Germany Metagenomes of biofilms: an intriguing resource for the isolation of novel biocatalysts
  and other bioactive molecules
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           |  | 15:00 – 15:30 | Golyshin, P.N., Braunschweig,
               Germany, Ferrer, M.,
               Madrid, Spain, Yakimov, M.M., Messina,
               Italy, Timmis, K.N., Braunschweig,
             Germany New proteins from (meta)genomes of marine hydrocarbon-degrading organisms and
their consortia
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           |  | 15:30 – 15:50 | Hong, K., Chengxi, China Exploiting bioactive genes from mangrove
               soil by metagenome approach
 
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           |  | 15:50 – 16:20 | Coffee break
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           |  | Functional genomics II Chair: Michael Hecker
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           |  | 16:20 – 16:50 |  Glöckner, F.O., Bauer, M., Teeling,
               H., Lombardot, T., Würdemann, C., Wecker, P., Ellrott, A.,
               Bremen, GermanyGenome analysis of environmentally relevant
               marine bacteria – Lessons
               from the Rhodopirellula baltica SH1T genome
 
 
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           |  | 16:50 – 17:10 | Bauer, M., Teeling, H., Richter, M., Lombardot, T.,
             Quast, C., Würdemann, C., Simonato, F., Wecker, P., Ellrott,
             A., Amann, R., Glöckner, F.O., Bremen, Germany Functional genome analysis of the marine
             bacterium ‘Gramella forsetii’,
a predicted specialist for degradation of polymeric organic matter
 
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           |  | International affairs Chair: Ulrike Lindequist
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           |  | 17:10 – 17:30 |  Schories, D., Bonn, GermanyStimulation of biotechnology and knowledge transfer by the International
                 Bureau (IB) of the BMBF
 
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           |  | 17:30 – 18:00 | Olafsen, J., Tromso, Norway Marine Biotechnology Networks: A web of
             knowledge to promote open communication and innovation?
 
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           |  | 18:30 – 19:30 | A short introduction to more than 5 centuries of
           the University history in Greifswald |  
           |  | 20:00 | Conference diner   |  
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           |  | Friday, June 23, 2006
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           |  | Enzymes Chair: Thomas Schweder
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           |  | 09:00 – 9:30 | Feller, G., Liège-Sart
               Tilman, Belgium Biocatalysis at low temperatures: a challenge for life
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           |  | 9:30 – 9:50 | Lange, S., Karpouchova, A., Kabaoglu, F., Brümmer,
             F., Schmid, R.D., Stuttgart, Germany Accessing novel enzymes from associated bacteria of the marine sponge Aplysina
aerophoba
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           |  | 9:50 – 10:10 | Damare, S.R., Raghukumar, C., India Deep-sea Fungi as a source of cold-tolerant proteases
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           |  | 10:10 – 10:40 | Coffee break
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           |  | 10:40 – 11:10 | Liebl, W., Göttingen, Germany Extremophiles: from genomes to enzymes
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           |  | 11:10 – 11:40 | Bornscheuer, U.T., Greifswald, Germany Tools for high-throughput screening and optimization of biocatalysts
 
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           |  | Marine Proteomics Chair: Werner Müller
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           |  | 11:40 – 12:00 | Voigt, B., Greifswald, Germany Marine proteomics
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           |  | 12:00 – 12:20 | Bert, M., Greifswald, Germany A marine proteome database
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           |  | 12:20 – 12:30 | Closing remarks 
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           |  | End of Symposium   |  
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           |  | Saturday, June 24, 2006
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           |  | Excursion to the Island Usedom |  
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