Monday, June 1

 arrival at Seminaris SeeHotel
 19:00 - Icebreaker Reception at Hotel Bar

Tuesday, June 2

8:45 - Welcome Notes by Todd Dawson (BASIN) and Pascal Boeckx (MOLTER)

9:15 - Introductory Lecture: John M. Hayes, WHOI – On the history and future of natural isotopic signals in biomarkers

10:00 - Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:00 SESSION 1: Recent Methodological Improvements in the Analysis of C, H, N, O Stable Isotopes on Individual Organic Compounds

• 10:30 - Eric Crosson, Picarro Inc. – High-precision optical measurements of 13C/12C in inorganic, bulk organic and individual organic compounds
• 11:00 - Andreas Hilkert, ThermoFisher Scientific – Improvements in irm-GC/MS Technology
• 11:30 - Arndt Schimmelmann, Indiana University – Development of H, C, N, O stable isotope reference materials at Indiana University

12:00 – Lunch Break

14:00 – 17:30 SESSION 2: Tracing Biosynthetic Processes and the Stable Isotope Composition of Biomarkers

• 14:00 – Lucas A. Cernusak, Charles Darwin University – Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally 13C enriched compared to leaves in C3 plants? Review of current hypotheses and opportunities for compound-specific isotopic analyses
• 14:30 – Frank Keppler, Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry – Tracing Methane production by plants using compound-specific stable isotope ratios
• 15:00 – Andrew Merchant, University of Sydney – Isotopic composition of organic compounds in phloem sap

15:30 - Coffee Break

• 16:00 - Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt, Technische Universität München, isolab GmbH - Systematics of in-vivo hydrogen isotope fractionations, basis of the deuterium patterns of natural plant compounds
• 16:30 – Yoshito Chikaraishi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology – Tracing lipid biosynthesis in higher plants with carbon and hydrogen isotope analysis
• 17:00 – Stefan Schouten, NOIZ – The effect of biosynthetic pathways on the stable isotopic composition of lipids in algae, bacteria and archaea

17:30 – 18:45 POSTER SESSION I

18:45 – Evening Lecture: James Ehleringer, University of Utah – Forensics interest in stable isotope ratios of different compounds

19:30 – Dinner

Wednesday, June 3

9:00 – 12:30 SESSION 3: Compound Specific Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Ecosystem and Soil Sciences

• 9:00 - Brian Popp, University of Hawaii – Compound specific nitrogen isotope analyses of amino acids in marine organisms and their use in marine food webs
• 9:30 - Ann Pearson, Harvard University – Insights into modern and past marine nutrient cycles – Nitrogen stable isotope analyses of chlorins and porphyrins
• 10:00 – Egbert Schwartz, Northern Arizona University – δ13C and δ15N of DNA extracted from soils; a new approach to investigate microbial control of C and N cycling

10:30 – Coffee Break

• 11:00 - Timothy Filley, University of Illinois – Using plant biopolymer isotopic composition to track litter and soil organic matter dynamics
• 11:30 - Gerd Gleixner, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry – Microbial fingerprints in terrestrial carbon cycling
• 12:00 – Richard P. Evershed, University of Bristol – Stable isotope probing of the physical and biological controls on the fate and isotopic composition of carbon derived from the terrestrial methane sink

12:30 – Lunch Break

14:00 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION II

16:00 – 17:30 SPECIAL SESSION: Oral Presentations by the Recipients of the Young Investigator Award

• 16:00 - Samuel Bodé, Ghent University – Determination of residence time of amino sugars precursors in soils by HPLC-IRMS
• 16:15 – Lori A. Ziolkowski, University of California, Irvine – Compound specific radiocarbon analysis of black carbon in marine dissolved organic matter
• 16:30 - Stephanie Kusch, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - Synthesis, degradation and depositional dynamics of chloro- and pheopigments from the Western Black Sea: insights from combined δ13C, δ15N and Δ14C analysis
• 16:45 – Clayton R. Magill, Pennsylvania State University – Environmental variability in the ‘Cradle of Mankind’ at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary
• 17:00 - Kyungcheol Choy, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Investigation of single amino acid δ13C signatures from human and faunal bone collagen using LC-IRMS: Implications for reconstructing human paleodiets in Korean prehistory
• 17:15 - Maria L.L. Calleja, University of California, Santa Cruz – Compound specific δ13C and δ15N amino acid signatures in dissolved organic matter exudates from different autotrophic oceanic organisms: initial results

17:30 – 18:30 BREAKOUT SESSION

18:30 – Evening Lecture: Susan Trumbore, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry – Turnover of organic matter in soils – 14C analysis of individual compounds

19:30 – Conference Dinner (BBQ at SeeHotel‘s lakeside beach)

Thursday, June 4

9:00 – 13:00 SESSION 4: Paleo-Environmental Applications of Compound Specific Stable Isotope Analysis

• 9:00 – Katherine H. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University – Ancient climate encoded in molecular records of C and N isotope abundances
• 9:30 – Timothy Eglinton, WHOI – Exploring the links between climate and the stable isotopic compositions and radiocarbon ages of terrestrial biomarkers in marine sediments
• 10:00 – Yongsong Huang, Brown University – Driven by the ice and sun: Understanding the abrupt and high frequency climate changes in New England during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene

10:30 – Coffee Break

• 11:00 – Julian P. Sachs, University of Washington, Seattle – Tropical pacific hydrologic changes during the Holocene from lipid D/H ratios on remote islands
• 11:30 – Mark Pagani, Yale University – Arctic hydrology during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: recent updates and revelations
• 12:00 - Jürgen Rullkötter, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg – Reconstruction of continental climate using the molecular and isotopic composition of land-plant biomarkers in deep-sea sediments of the Atlantic Ocean
• 12:30 – Enno Schefuß, University of Bremen – Testing the validity of continental paleo-climatic reconstructions from marine sediments by isotopic analyses of plant waxes in African soils and lakes

13:00 – Lunch Break

14:00 – Social Event: Potsdam Castles

19:30 – Dinner

Friday, June 5:

departure