Schedule and Program
Arrivals, registration, and the icebreaker will begin at 6pm on May 20th at High Rollers.
The talks will officially begin at 9am on May 21st, in the auditorium.
Lightning Talks schedule will be confirmed closer to the conference, along with the official conference program booklet. Each delegate will have a day and time to present their 3 minute lightning talk, then there will be a discussion room after all talks are completed each day.
Scheduled coffee breaks and lunch will be provided by Banff Park Lodge. Evenings will be free to explore restaurants in Banff.
Please find the updated schedule below:
| Tuesday 20th May Arrivals | Wednesday 21st May The Archaeal and Bacterial Biosphere [Archean Geobiology] | Thursday 22nd May The Origin & Flourishing of Nucleated Cells [Proterozoic Geobiology] | Friday 23rd May The Rise of Complex Life [Ediacaran & Phanerozoic Geobiology] | Saturday 24th May Farewells & Departures | |
| 08:45 | Introduction to conference | ||||
| 08:55 | Introduction to Day 1 (student led) | Introduction to Day 2 (student led) | Introduction to Day 3 (student led) | ||
| 09:00 | Joanne Boden (St. Andrews University) Microbial phosphorous cycling in the Precambrian | Zachary Adam (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Did Iron Suppress Eukaryote Emergence and Early Radiation? | Frankie Dunn (Oxford University Museum of Natural History) The early evolution of animal life & the generation of form | ||
| 09:30 | Aya Klos (University of Wisconsin at Madison) The Archaeal and Bacterial Biosphere | Heda Agić (Durham University) New insights into Palaeoproterozoic microbial ecosystems | Lidya Tarhan (Yale University, Yale Peabody Museum) The evolution of the marine silica cycle and the exceptional fossilization of Earth’s earliest animal communities | ||
| 10:00 | Elliott Mueller (University of Colorado at Boulder) Microbial fermentation: The hidden metabolism of Precambrian biogeochemistry and its imprint on carbon isotope records of lipids biomarkers | Daniel Mills (University of Munich) The origin and earliest evolution of eukaryotes in the Proterozoic biosphere | Katie Maloney (Royal Ontario Museum) The Untold Story of the Burgess Shale: Searching for a Seaweed Revolution | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee break | Coffee break | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Manuel Schad (University of Alberta) Tracing early primary production – What do trace metals tell us? | Christina Woltz (Imperial College London) Preserving the eukaryotic fossil record: the impact of fossilisation processes on our view of early eukaryotes | Brandt Gibson (University of Tennessee) Exploring archaeocyaths in virtual environments | ||
| 11:30 | Nadja Drabon (Harvard University) Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life | Nabil Shawwa (University of Regina) Earth’s oldest terrestrial red beds as direct evidence for the Great Oxidation Event ca. 2.3 Ga | Silvina Slagter (Universidad de O’Higgins) Arsenic preservation in silica-rich deposits: insights from modern and Jurassic hydrothermal systems | ||
| 12:00 | Chadlin Ostrander (University of Utah) The Archean sedimentary thallium isotope record: what is it trying to tell us? | Maxwell Lechte (University of Melbourne) Sedimentary zinc deposition in the Palaeoproterozoic: implications for the evolution of the oceans and biosphere | Anna Waldeck (Pennsylvania State University) Marine sulphate captures a Paleozoic transition to a modern terrestrial weathering environment | ||
| 12:30 | Question period for all speakers | Question period for all speakers | Question period for all speakers | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch Tiffany Lancaster NSERC Presentation | Lunch Tiffany Lancaster NSERC Presentation | Lunch Tiffany Lancaster NSERC Presentation | ||
| 14:00 | Pemberton Medal Talk 1 – Eva Stüeken (University of St. Andrews) | Beveridge Medal Talk 1 – David Johnston (Harvard University) | Garrels Medal Talk 1 – Timothy Lyons (University of California at Riverside) | ||
| 14:30 | Pemberton Medal Talk 2 – Benjamin Mills (University of Leeds) | Beveridge Medal Talk 2 – Tanja Bosak (Massechusetts Institute of Technology) | Garrels Medal Talk 2 – Andrew Knoll (Harvard University) | ||
| 15:00 | Nature Geoscience and Nature Communications Editors Q&A | Frank Corsetti “How not to blow the most important talk of your life” | Erik Sperling (Stanford University) The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project (SGP) | ||
| 15:45 | Lighting Talks | Lighting Talks | Lighting Talks | ||
| 16:45-18:00 | Lightning Talk Discussion Session | Lightning Talk Discussion Session | Lightning Talk Discussion Session | ||
| Evening Events | Icebreaker – Bowling, High Rollers | Guided Evening Walks/Free time (weather dependent) | Guided Evening Walks/Free time (weather dependent) | Banff Town Pub Crawl |