Conference Venue: Lecture Hall 2, Main Building on Xiang'an Campus of Xiamen University
 
Day Timings Titles Chairs/
Presenters
7-Oct-19 2:00PM-5:30PM Registration (Lobby, Center for International Academic Exchanges) 　
8-Oct-19 9:00AM-4:30PM Registration (Lobby, 2nd floor, Main Building on Xiang'an Campus of Xiamen University) 　
Early Career & Graduate Student Workshop
9:00AM-9:10AM Introduction Ping Han, Xinxin Li
9:10AM-9:55AM Career planning: the road to success Muhammad Aamer Mehmood
9:55AM-10:15AM Biotic interactions primarily affect the long-term bacterial assemblage in activated sludge of municipal sewage treatment plants performing biological nutrient removal Yanping Mao
10:15AM-10:35AM What do we know about ‘oxygenic denitrifiers' so far? Baoli Zhu
10:35AM-10:55AM Coffee Break
10:55AM-11:10AM Impact of Diel Zooplankton Vertical Migration on The Euphotic Nitrification Process Xifan Tian
11:10AM-11:25AM Copper Limitation in the Ammonia Oxidizing Archaeon Nitrososphaera viennensis Logan Hodgskiss 
11:25AM-11:40AM Metabolic interactions between autotrophs and heterotrophs in Anammox reactors Rui Xiao
11:40AM-11:55AM Orthophosphate enhances N2O production from aerobic hydroxylamine decomposition: implications to N2O emissions from ornithogenic soils and manure-fertilized agricultural soils Song Min Joon
11:55PM-12:10PM Activity and metabolic versatility of complete ammonia oxidizers in full-scale wastewater treatment systems Yuchun Yang
12:10PM-12:25PM Prevalence of comammox Nitrospira in surface water-fed drinking water treatment plants Jiajie Hu
12:25PM-2:00PM Lunch Break
2:00PM-2:15PM Sequence-specific endoribonucleolytic toxin, MazF, conserved in nitrifying bacteria Rie Aoi
2:15PM-2:30PM Who are helpers to facilitate Anammox bacteria become dominant in a mangrove-derived enrichment system without ammonium addition Yangmei Zhang
2:30PM-2:45PM Study on Mechanism of 17α-ethynylestradiol Cometabolism by Ammonia Oxidizing Bacteria Nitrosomonas europaea Qi Sheng
2:45PM-3:00PM Ubiquity, diversity, and nitrification potentials of comammox Nitrospira in agricultural soils Shaoyi Xu
3:00PM-3:20PM Enhanced elemental sulfur reclaiming through Pseudomonas denitrification cooperating with Kuenenia anammox bacteria Jia Yan
3:20PM-5:00PM Coffee break and Meet up
5:00PM-5:02PM Welcoming Session Hongyue Dang 
5:02PM-5:10PM Welcome Speech Minhan Dai
5:10PM-6:00PM  Welcoming Keynote Bess Ward
(Keynote)
6:00PM-6:50PM  Welcoming Keynote Holger Daims 
(Keynote)
6:50PM-7:00PM Meeting Announcement Local organizing committee
7:00PM-9:00PM Welcome Reception
9-Oct-19 New Physiologies, New Organisms, New Interactions
8:30AM-8:40AM Introduction Sukhwan Yoon, Annette Bollmann
8:40AM-9:30AM (Keynote) Thermophilic nitrite oxidation: A complex community of novel bacteria Eva Spieck 
9:30AM-10:00AM (Plenary) Rhizobia as sinks or sources for N2O Asa Frostegard
10:00AM-10:35AM (Plenary) Carbon metabolism of versatile anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria resolved by systems-level 13C metabolic flux analysis Christopher Lawson
10:35AM:10:55AM Coffee Break
10:55AM-11:25AM (Plenary) Ammonia oxidizers and their heterotrophic friends Annette Bollmann 
11:25AM-11:40AM Multimodal influence of methanotrophic community on nitrous oxide emissions from soil denitrification Jin Chang
11:40AM-11:55AM Physiological and Genomic Characteristics of a New "Candidatus Nitrotoga" Isolate Ishii Kento
11:55AM-12:10PM Genomic and Physiological Characteristics of a New Complete Ammonia Oxidizer (Comammox) Enriched from Drinking Water Zhe-Xue Quan 
12:10PM-12:25PM Anaerobic Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria in Marine Sediments Rui Zhao 
12:25PM-2:00PM Lunch Break
Biochemistry and Biomarkers
2:00PM-2:10PM Introduction Kyle M. Lancaster,  Sara Hallin, Satoshi Okabe
2:10PM-3:00PM (Keynote) Interrogating the function and activity of N-cycle transformations in mixed community black-boxes Kartik Chandran
3:00PM-3:35PM (Plenary) Controlling a Burn: Second-Sphere Control over Hydroxylamine Redox and Product Selectivity at Heme P460 Cofactors Kyle Lancaster
3:35PM-3:55PM Coffee Break
3:55PM-4:10PM Resource Concentration Drives Pathway Selection between Denitrification and Ammonification in a Dual-Pathway Actinobacterium David Vuono
4:10PM-4:25PM Production of Nitric Oxide, Nitrous Oxide, and Hydroxylamine by the Comammox Organism Nitrospira inopinata at Low pH Shurong Liu
4:25PM-4:40PM Transcriptomic response of Nitrosomonas europaea transitioned from ammonia- to oxygen-limited steady-state growth Andrew Giguere 
4:40PM-4:55PM Dual nitrogen and oxygen isotope effects during anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) Kobayashi Kanae
4:55PM-5:10PM Mechanistic insights into stress response and metabolic activity resilience of Nitrosomonas europaea cultures to CeO2 nanoparticle Junkang Wu
5:10PM-5:25PM Cytochrome c'beta-Met is a Variant in the P460 Superfamily Lacking the Heme-Lysyl Crosslink: A Peroxidase Mimic Generating a Ferryl Intermediate.  Hyung Kim
5:25PM-7:00PM Dinner
10-Oct-19 Engineered Systems
8:30AM-8:40AM Introduction Akihiko Terada, Ameet Pinto 
8:40AM-9:30AM (Keynote) Abundance, diversity, and activity of comammox Nitrospira in the groundwater-fed biofilters Barth F. Smets 
9:30AM-10:00AM (Plenary) Comammox bacteria prevalence influenced by long solid retention times and biofilms in wastewater treatment plants. Ameet Pinto
10:00AM-10:20AM Nitrate-limiting condition stimulates acetate and ammonium production by anaerobic methanotrophic archaeon Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens Chen Cai
10:20AM-11:00AM Coffee Break & Group Photo
11:00AM-11:30AM (Plenary) Phylogeny, physiological traits, and activity of nitrous oxide-producing and -reducing bacteria in anammox bioreactors Akihiko Terada 
11:30AM-11:50AM Optimizing of operation strategies on a single-stage partial nitrification-anammox process Guangjiao Chen
11:50AM-12:10PM Development of Archaeon-Anammox Granular Sludge using Activated Carbon Kathryn Cogert 
12:10PM-12:15PM Enrichment of comammox Nitrospira from nitrifying granules by using fixed-bed continuous feeding bioreactors Satoshi Tsuneda 
12:15PM-12:20PM Copper complexation by organic matter constrains archaeal ammonia oxidation in municipal wastewater treatment plants Joo-Han Gwak
12:20AM-12:25PM Responses of synthetic nitrifying communities to ammonium concentrations Xueqin Yang
12:25PM-2:00PM Lunch Break
Poster Presentations and Evaluation
2:00PM-4:00PM Poster presentations & evaluations Session Chairs and SAC
4:00PM-6:00PM Xiamen University Main Campus Tour Local organizing committee
6:00PM-7:00PM Conference Dinner
11-Oct-19 Sustainability and the N-cycle
8:30AM-8:35AM Introduction Jeanette M Norton, Zhongjun Jia
8:35AM-9:00AM (Plenary) Rewiring the microbial controls of loss or retention of nitrogen in arable soil by management Sara Hallin                                                           
9:00AM-9:25AM (Plenary) Natural selection in action: globally distributed and locally shaped Thaumarchaeota Zhong-jun Jia
9:25AM-9:40AM The hydrodynamic control of high potential greenhouse gas release from a subtropical reservoir Sung-Yun Hsiao
9:40AM-9:55AM Urbanization increased river nitrogen export to western Taiwan Strait despite increased retention by nitrification and denitrification Jingjie Lin
9:55AM-10:10AM Incorporation of Microbial Functional Traits in Biogeochemistry Models Provides Better Estimations of Benthic Denitrification and Anammox Rates in Coastal Oceans Xiaoli Zhang
10:10AM-10:25AM Kinetics , community and rates of nitrification in a Utah agricultural soil Jeanette Norton
10:25AM-10:40AM Mineralizability of organics determine communities of active nitrifiers in paddy soils Yong Li
10:40AM-11:00AM Coffee Break
Sustainability and the N-cycle
11:00AM-11:25AM (Plenary) Insights into Soil N Mineralization and Assimilation David Myrold 
11:25AM-11:40AM Nitrifiers influence atmospheric chemistry by releasing reactive nitrogen gases Dianming Wu
11:40AM-11:55AM Responses of synthetic nitrifying communities to ammonium concentrations Xueqin Yang
11:55AM-12:10PM Divergent Response of Canonical AOB and Comammox Under Nutrient-limited Conditions Chenghua Long
12:10PM-12:25PM Responses of comammox Nitrospira and canonical ammonia oxidizers to N deposition in subtropical forest soils Xiuzhen Shi
12:25PM-2:00PM Lunch Break
Evolution & Ecology I
2:00PM-2:10PM Introduction Hannah Marchant, Sebastian Lücker
2:10PM-3:00PM (Keynote) Nitrification 2.0. Where do we go from here? Chris Sedlacek (for keynote speaker Prof. Michael Wagner)
3:00PM-3:30PM (Plenary) Activated sludge microbiome: Novel bacteria and new biological process Shuang-Jiang Liu 
3:30PM-3:55PM Anaerobic Nitrite Oxidation: a Missing Component in the Marine Nitrogen Budget Xin Sun
3:55PM-4:15PM Coffee Break
4:15PM-4:50PM (Plenary) Duplication as a key evolutionary mechanism of terrestrial Thaumarchaeota Cecile Gubry-Rangin
4:50PM-5:15PM Explore the Ecological Mechanisms and Carbon-cycling Role of Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria in Oxic Waters of the Northern South China Sea Dongmei Lian
5:15PM-7:30PM Dinner
12-Oct-19 Evolution & Ecology II
8:30AM-8:40AM Introduction Cecile Gubry-Rangin, Christopher Lawson
8:40AM-9:30AM (Keynote) Half a century of nitrification research: advances, revolutions, mistakes and lessons James Prosser
9:30AM-10:00AM (Plenary) Microbial ecology and nitrogen cycling in permeable sands Hannah Marchant
10:00AM-10:25AM Genomic and physiological characterization of two novel Nitrospinae genera obtained using single-cell sorting Anna Julia Mueller
10:25AM-10:45AM Coffee Break
10:45AM-11:15AM (Plenary) Identification and characterization of novel nitrifiers Sebastian Lücker
11:15AM-11:40AM Diversity, ecological success, and habitat preference of comammox Nitrospira revealed by metagenomics profiling Alejandro Palomo
11:40AM-12:05PM Genomic census of the biogeography of globally abundant marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea Wei Qin
12:05PM-12:30PM Understanding the relative contribution of comammox bacteria to ammonia oxidation in agricultural soil Graeme Nicol
12:30PM-2:00PM Lunch Break
Closing Session and Invitation to ICoN7
2:00PM-2:10PM Closing Session Hongyue Dang
2:10PM-3:00PM (Keynote) Influence of nitrogen on carbon sequestration in the ocean Nianzhi Jiao
3:00PM-3:20PM Award distribution ceremony Xinxin Li, Ping Han
3:20PM-4:00PM Invitation to ICoN7 Jeanette Norton, Bess Ward
5:30PM-7:30PM Dinner
 

Poster Session Time Slots: 2:00PM-4:00PM, Oct. 10
Venue: Lobby, Main Building (2nd floor)
 
No. Presenter Poster Title
P-EC-01-S Yu-Tzu Chou Characterization of Complete Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria from Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Metagenomic and Isolation Approaches
P-EC-02-S Mingyue Li Nitrous Oxide Production in Marine Sediment: Exploring the Contribution of Aerobic Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria
P-EC-03-S Wanyu Zhu Screening and identification of high-efficiency simultaneous nitrogen and phosphorus removal bacteria 
P-EC-04-S Wei Zhao  Distribution characteristics and influencing factors of bacterioplankton community with offshore distance variation in the surface seawater of Bohai Bay 
P-EC-05-S Shaoyi Xu  Ubiquity, diversity, and nitrification potentials of comammox Nitrospira in agricultural soils 
P-EC-06-S Yangmei Zhang Who are helpers to facilitate Anammox bacteria become dominant in a mangrove-derived enrichment system without ammonium addition 
P-N-01-S Emi Nissato  Observation of membrane vesicle-like particle of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria by transmission electron microscope
P-N-02-S Chiharu Umezawa Enriching soil ammonia-oxidizing archaea using newly designed medium supplemented with soil extract
P-N-03-S Yu Takahashi Enrichment of comammox and canonical Nitrospira from acidic soil: Insights into niche differentiation and adaptation to low pH
P-N-04-S Anna J. Mueller Genomic and physiological characterization of two novel Nitrospinae genera obtained using single-cell sorting
P-N-05-S Rino Isshiki A flexible survival strategy of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria by growth heterogeneity at a single cell level
P-N-06 Hirotsugu Fujitani Characterization of a bacterium representing a previously unrecognized clade of the Nitrosomonas group; physiology, genomics, and distribution of a missing ammonia-oxidizer
P-N-07-S Kniaziuk Margarita Nitrate- and nitrite-dependent methane oxidation in the Namibian oxygen minimum zone
P-N-08 Graeme Nicol Exploring the Ecological Mechanisms and Carbon-fixing Role of Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria in Oxic Waters of the Northern South China Sea
P-N-09 Jong-Geol Kim Novel archaeal virus infecting marine ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea 
P-N-10 Bram Vekeman   Anammox enrichment from coastal sandy sediment 
P-N-11-S Sabita Ghimire Ecophysiological characterization of Complete ammonia oxidizers (Comammox) 
P-N-12 Halil Kurt Whole Genome Sequencing-Informed Interpretation of a New Anammox Population Enriched in a Mainstream Anammox Process in Bursa, Turkey 
P-N-13 Niek Stortenbeker Enrichment of nitrous oxide converting microorganisms in a continuous bioreactor
P-B-01 Jing Zhu Nitrification pathways and nitrogen gaseous production in forest soils along a climatic gradient of China
P-B-02 Rongjun Shi Influence of Suspended Mariculture on Vertical Distribution Profiles of Bacteria in Sediment from Daya Bay, Southern China
P-B-03-S Zhujun Wang NcycFunGen, a database for primer design and evaluation for N cycling genes
P-B-04 Hyung J. Kim Cytochrome c'beta-Met is a Variant in the P460 Superfamily Lacking the Heme-Lysyl Crosslink
P-B-05 Jie Su Distribution and diversity of bacterial resistance genes in bathing beaches
P-EN-01-S Joo-Han Gwak Copper complexation by organic matter constrains archaeal ammonia oxidation in municipal wastewater treatment plants
P-EN-02 Jer-Horng Wu Use of Hierarchical Oligonucleotide Primer Extension to Study Dynamics of Nitrifying and Anammox Populations in a Single-Stage Ammonia Removal Bioreactor
P-EN-03 Shufeng Liu Comprehensive insights into metabolic potentials and engineered applications of two novel simultaneous aerobic denitrification and phosphorus removal bacteria, Achromobacter sp. GAD3 and Agrobacterium sp. LAD9
P-EN-04-S Xueqin Yang Responses of synthetic nitrifying communities to ammonium concentrations
P-EN-05-S Jiyun Li Comammox performed high acitivity under low pH
P-EN-06-S Yuxiang Zhao The Enrichment of Comammox in Different Reactor Configurations and Activities of Different Ammonia Oxidizing Microorganisms
P-EN-07 Satoshi Tsuneda Enrichment of comammox Nitrospira from nitrifying granules by using fixed-bed continuous feeding bioreactors
P-S-01-S Xuejing Li Distribution and expression difference of nifH gene in attached and free-living bacteria of Northern South China Sea
P-S-02-S Xiaohan Liu nirS-type denitrifying bacterial assemblages contribute to the major nitrogen loss in the sediments of eutrophicated Jiaozhou Bay
P-S-03 Li Cui Cultivation-free single-cell Raman spectroscopy for probing functional bacteria driving N cycle in environmental communities
P-S-04-S Bing Han Abundance and diversity of thaumarchaeal-nirK gene across various habitats along the coastal to inland paddy soils in China
P-S-05-S Mengyue Zhao A further study of the specific micropollutant biotransformation pattern by the comammox bacterium Nitrospira inopinata
P-S-06-S Dongyao Sun Towards a more detailed study of the nitrous oxide and NOy emission mediated by ammonia oxidizers
P-S-07 Ping Li Distribution and diversity of ammonia/ammonium oxidizing microorganisms in high arsenic groundwater
P-S-08 Xiaoying Rong Biocrusts impact niche separation of nitrifying Archaea and Bacteria in the Gurbantunggut Desert, northwestern China
P-S-09-S Yanran Wei  Utilization of D-amino acids by marine Thaumarchaeota Nitrosopumilus maritimus SCM1 
P-S-10 Jupei Shen  DNA-stable isotope probing revealed no incorporation of 13CO2 into comammox Nitrospira in subtropical acid soils in Yunnan, Southwest China 
P-S-11 Kanako Tago   Unique characteristics of tea field soils which allows coexistence of various ammonia-oxidizers
P-S-12 Silas Vick Anaerobic digestate biofertilizers: mitigation of N20 emissions through enrichment with N2O reducing microbes 
P-S-13-S Bin Zou  A complete comammox Nitrospira genome from drinking water enrichment
P-S-14-S Fabian Beeckman Towards enhanced nitrification inhibition in agricultural soils
P-S-15 Tatsunori Nakagawa Whole-genome analysis of the ammonia-oxidizing bacterium Nitrosomonas stercoris KYUHI-S and its production of nitrous oxide 
P-E1-01-S Lei Hou Niche differentiation of ammonia and nitrite oxidizers along a salinity gradient from the Pearl River estuary to the South China Sea
P-E1-02-S Yufang Li Comparative metatranscriptome analyses in the water column of a shallow-water hydrothermal ecosystem off Kueishantao Islet, Taiwan
P-E1-03-S Sibo Zhang Ammonia oxidizers in rivers of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their adaptations to high-elevation conditions
P-E1-04-S Jiapeng Wu Vertical Stratification of Sediment Microbial Communities Along Geochemical Gradients of a Subterranean Estuary Located at the Gloucester Beach of Virginia, United States
P-E1-05-S Dongmei Lian Exploring the Ecological Mechanisms and Carbon-fixing Role of Nitrite-oxidizing Bacteria in Oxic Waters of the Northern South China Sea
P-E1-06-S Bifu Gan  Phosphonates-utilizing Microorganisms are Wide-distributed in Coastal Marine Waters
P-E1-07 Baozhan Wang  Archaea as Global Explorers: Let`s Exchange ATPase and Occupy More Extreme Habitats!
P-E1-08-S Linnea Kop   Uncultured Nitrospina-like species are major nitrite oxidizing bacteria in oxygen minimum zones
P-E2-01-S Yu Xiang Nitrogen removal pathways in enhanced simultaneous nitrification and denitrification
P-E2-02-S Dayu Zou Genomic adaptation to eutrophication of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the Pearl River estuary
P-E2-03-S WoonJong Yu   Nitrosocosmicus oleophilus-like archaea are abundant in plant rhizosphere 
P-E2-04 Haoxin Fan The optimum temperature of soil microbial nitrification: patterns and controls

Note: IDs that end with -S are posters presented by graduate students.