4th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-based Ecosystems (4th CBE); June 29-July 3, 2009, Okinawa, Japan

本项目支持将于2009年6月29日至7月3日在日本冲绳举行的第四届国际化学合成生态系统研讨会。本专题讨论会的重点是新的代谢和适应的宏观和微生物的环境与浓度升高的减少化学品。在这些化学物质的生物氧化过程中利用的能量（例如，S，CH4）在原核细菌固定CO2的过程中最终以细胞有机碳的形式储存，原核细菌可能以自由生命形式或大型底栖动物的共生体形式存在。研讨会由一个国际科学家小组协调，其中包括来自斯克里普斯海洋学研究所和夏威夷大学的组织委员会成员。研讨会将有来自美国众多机构的研究人员参加，这些机构的学科领域包括地球化学、微生物学、分子生物学、生态学和地理学。

This project supports the 4th international symposia on Chemosynthetically-based ecosystems to be held in Okinawa Japan June 29 to July 3rd, 2009. This symposia focuses on the novel metabolism and adaptations of macro- and micro-organisms to environments with elevated concentrations of reduced chemicals. The energy harnessed during the biological oxidation of these chemicals (eg., S, CH4) is ultimately stored as cellular organic carbon during CO2 fixation by prokaryotic bacteria, which may occur as free living forms or as symbionts of macrofauna. The symposia is being coordinated by an international team of scientists, including members of the organizational committee from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Hawaii. The symposia will be attended by researchers from numerous US institutions with diverse fields of discipline including geochemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, ecology and biogeography.