Moh El-Naggar (University of Southern California): Far, Fast, and Surprising: Length, Time, and Energy Scales of Microbial Electron Transport
Jack Middelburg (University Utrecht): Controls on organic matter degradation rates
Doug LaRowe (University of Southern California): The energetics of anabolism in natural environments
Alexis Templeton(University of Colorado, Boulder): Generation of energy sources in rock-hosted ecosystems
Hans Røy (Aarhus University): Bulk microbial respiration in the buried biosphere
Bente Lomstein (Aarhus University): D:L amino acids and the turnover of microbial biomass
Victoria Orphan (CalTec): A single cell perspective of cooperation between methanotrophic archaea and their sulfate-reducing bacterial partners
Peter van Bodegom (Leiden University): Microbial maintenance energy as linked to microbial ecological strategies and ecosystem fluxes
Caroline Plugge (Wageningen University): Minimum energy quantum of anaerobic microbial catabolism: hydrogen-formate interconversion
Qusheng Jin (University of Oregon): Biogeochemical metabolic modeling: Linking thermodynamics and kinetics of subsurface microbial processes
Volker Müller (Goethe University Frankfurt): Archaeal adaptations to extreme energy limitation
Karen Lloyd (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Abundance and function of archaea and bacteria in the seabed
Mark Lever (ETH Zürich): Optimizing substrate utilization on a mixed diet
Slava Epstein (Northeastern University): Microbial life cycle: differentiation in growth and de-programming in dormancy
Charles William Keevil (University of Southampton): Life signs in apparently dead bacteria
Nicolai S. Panikov (Harvard University): Near-zero growth of microorganisms under deep nutrient limitation
Andreas Schramm (Aarhus University): Evolution in the deep biosphere
Steve Finkel (University of Southern California): Mechanisms of long-term survival and evolution in laboratory microcosms
