Course Schedule
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The following is a tentative schedule of courses and events.
Sunday, May 24th
• Arrival & Check in with Joseph Suflita &
Kathleen Duncan
• Housing office open 7am to 10pm Monday, May 25th Noon - Welcome/Introductions with Suflita
& Duncan Afternoon - Student Poster session Evening - Picnic Tuesday, May 26th Morning - Landfill sampling w/ Jason
Masoner, USGS Afternoon - Anaerobic culture and media:
Drs. Mike McInerney and Ralph Tanner.
(One group begins with DNA extraction, the other
with anaerobic culture.)
Evening - Guest speaker Jim Tiedje (Michigan State University, USA) Microbial
Ecology Wednesday, May 27th Morning - Tanner lecture, PCR for cloning
(early), run gel, set up SRB MPNs Afternoon - Cloning, DNA extraction, run
gel to check products Thursday, May 28th Morning - Anaerobic media, PCR for
cloning, run gel Afternoon - Set up SRB MPNs and cloning Evening - Guest Speakers Jurgen Wiegel
(University of Georgia, USA)
and Juan Ramos (The National Center of Biotechnology
of the Spanish Research Council, Spain) Friday, May 29th: All-day field
trip to the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve.
Obtain samples from oil-field facilities on the Preserve. Lunch
speaker - Dr. Kerry Sublette (University of Tulsa, USA) Dr.
Bob Hamilton (TNC): Restoration of the Tallgrass prairie through controlled
burns and grazing by bison. Tour
the Preserve, photo ops of bison and Tallgrass prairie.
Dinner - Bad Brad's BBQ
(Pawhuska, OK). Authentic western-style BBQ. Saturday, May 30th Late Morning - Count clone plates, pick
colonies to 96 well plates, set up MPNs from prairie samples Afternoon - DNA extraction from prairie
samples for functional gene PCR and real-time PCR Sunday, May 31st Morning/Afternoon - Functional gene PCR
on landfill and prairie samples
Speakers Boris Wawrick and Amy Callaghan Monday, June 1st
Stephenson Building; Institute for Environmental
Genomics
Director: Dr. Jizhong Zhou Morning - Geochip and microarrays,
Geochip DNA extraction Afternoon - Geochip hybridization and
analysis Dinner Evening - Guest speakers: Lawrence
Wackett (University of Minnesota, USA)
and Victor de Lorenzo (The National Center of
Biotechnology of the Spanish Research Council, Spain)
New concepts in microbial biodegradation. Tuesday, June 2nd Morning - Environmental metabolite
profiling with Suflita Afternoon - Consequences of microbial
metabolism and how to measure with Irene Davidova and Mike McInerney Wednesday, June 3rd Morning - New methods in analytical
chemistry for metabolite analysis with Mark Nanny Afternoon - Continuation of metabolite
profiling and microbial metabolism Evening - Guest speakers: Judy Wall
(University of Missouri, USA) and Inês Cardoso Pereira (Universidade Nova de
Lisboa)
Biochemistry of sulfate reduction Thursday, June 4th Morning/Afternoon - Bioinformatics with
Brad Stevenson Friday, June 5th Morning - Sequence and other data
analysis with Stevenson and Duncan Afternoon - Student presentations
Evening - Christos Ouzounis (Centre for Bioinformatics at King's College)
and Barbara Methe (The Institute for Genomic Research, USA)
From bioinformatics to new insights. Saturday, June 6th Morning (tentative) - Explore the
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Afternoon -
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and
Western Heritage Museum Guest speaker: Iwona Beech
(University of Portsmouth, UK) Evening -
Red Earth Native American
Cultural Festival Sunday, June 7th
Departure
