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Opening Symposium, 2008 Microbial Diversity Course
All seminars are held in the Meigs Room, Swope Center.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

9:30 AM Dr. David Des Marais, NASA Ames Research Center - “Photosynthetic microbial mats offer insights into Earth’s Early Biosphere (and Mars?)”

10:30 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM Dr. Carl Bauer, Indiana University - “The Microbial Origin of Photosynthesis”

11:45 AM Lunch break

1:00 PM Dr. Norman Pace, University of Colorado - “Into the Natural Microbial World - from Hot Springs to Human Health”

2:00 PM Coffee break

2:15 PM Dr. Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University - “What is Real and what is Not: prokaryotes, eukaryotes, Bacteria, Archaea, whatever”