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September 2009 NAI Executive Council in-person Meeting Agenda
Last Updated: 9/8/2009
Yellowstone Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Cabins
Meeting Location: Map Room
1 Grand Loop, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190 • (307) 344-5600Thursday, Sept 10
07:30 Breakfast
08:30–09:00 Welcome and Introductions/ meeting overview
09:00–09:30 Update from HQ (Mary Voytek)
09:30–10:30 NAI Strategic Science Planning – Part 1
10:30–10:50 BREAK
10:50–11:00 NAI Postdoctoral Program overview (Ed Goolish/Melissa Kirven-Brooks)
11:00–12:20 NAI Postdoctoral Fellows invited talks (20 minutes each, including Q&A)- Oleg Abramov
- Jennifer Biddle
- Dina Bower
- Eric Boyd
12:30 – 01:30 LUNCH (PI in camera session)
01:30 – 02:00 Report from PI in camera session
02:00 – 3:00 NAI Postdoctoral Fellows invited talks (~20 minutes each, including Q&A)- Daiki Horikawa
- Brant Jones
- Steven Mielke
03:00–03:30 BREAK
03:30–05:00 Montana State University science presentations- 03:30–04:10 PM – Controlled creation of reduced iron-sulfur surfaces
relevant to prebiotic chemistry (Martin Schoonen, Tim Minton, & Robert
Szilagyi) - 04:10–04:35 PM – The “rocks” are “alive”: biomineralization and
catalysis at the atomic scale (Craig Jolley – Douglas/Young groups) - 04:35–05:00 PM – Radical solutions to iron sulfur cluster biosynthesis
(Eric Shepard & David Mulder – Broderick/Peters groups)
Friday, Sept 11
07:30–08:00 Breakfast
08:00-08:20 NAI Collaborative Technologies
08:20–09:00 NAI Strategic Science Planning – Part 2
09:00–09:15 NAI Annual Report submission (Wendy Dolci)
09:15–09:30 Virtual Field Trip to Ediacara (Malcolm Walter)
09:30–09:45 Break
09:45–11:15 Astrobiology at Yellowstone (Mark Young)
11:15–12:00 Dates for upcoming EC meetings and other business
12:00–07:00 Yellowstone field trip (optional) Note: Box lunches will be provided prior to departure.September 8, 2009
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