From: Robert Hazen Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 08:37 To: moore Cc: Dimitri Sverjensky; Jihua Hao; Daniel Hummer; Paul Falkowski; Beatrice Birrer; Meyer, Michael; Ben Jelen; Chao Liu; Drew Muscente; Peter Fox; Sophie Kolankowski; Hao Zhong; Shaunna Morrison; Beatrice Birrer; Marshall X Ma; Joshua Golden; Grethe Hystad Subject: Re: Thanks Everyone for Great Meeting, and Co investigators Flag Status: Flagged Dear Eli, Thanks for this. I'm thrilled that the Co work will incorporate the biochemical aspects, and hopefully some of the geochemical insights from Dimitri and Jihua. I'm still processing many good/new ideas that are emerging from the boot camp. As I mentioned, my next and immediate task is to complete the Co mineral ecology paper. I go to Tucson tomorrow and will meet with Josh Golden to consolidate the last data. Will then have to get one final revision of the LNRE statistics from Grethe Hystad and it should be good to go. More soon, and thanks again, Bob On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:09 PM, moore wrote: Dear Colleagues and Innovators, Thanks everyone who organized and participated in the protein bootcamp, It was a great event with lots of exciting scientific discussions. Also, thanks to those who participated in the cobalt discussions, we have new direction and ideas for publications. Bob, it sounds like we can add some Co biology discussion to your Co mineral evolution paper since Co utilization appears to have changed in response to availability in deep time. Also, I think there could be a Co-speciation/Co-biology synthesis paper that we could work on. Jihua and Dimitri have some real cutting edge modeling techniques that we could employ to look at Co speciation in the Archean ocean which we could use to synthesize ideas on how Co was incorporated into biology. For example Co in vitamin B12 is very useful in producing reactive carbon radical ions (Fig 2 of attached summary, pg 2), so methyl-Co species could be interesting in biological selection. Also, methylated vitamin B12 can fix carbon monoxide in the presence of UV radation (Fig 3 of summary, pg 7-8) - this carbonylation pathway has potential relevance with respect to acetate biosynthesis in anaerobic bacteria (Krautler, 1984; Thauer, 1988). The figures in the summary are taken from other papers, which we could adapt for a future paper. For those who are interested a word file that summarizes a lot of info on Co in biology and a spreadsheet with info on Co biomolecules are attached. Thanks again! Cheers, Eli On 2016-01-28 23:20, Marshall X Ma wrote: Thanks to Paul for initiating the bootcamp and all for organizing and making it a successful event. The RPI guys just arrived at Troy. Hope to see you again soon. Have a good night. Best, Marshall On Jan 28, 2016, at 10:12 PM, Paul Falkowski wrote: Dear Bea, You did an incredible job today! Many many thanks for all your behind the scenes support for this meeting! Cordially, Paul -- Robert M. Hazen Senior Staff Scientist, Geophysical Laboratory Executive Director, Deep Carbon Observatory 5251 Broad Branch Road NW Washington, DC 20015 phone: 202-478-8962 e-mail: rhazen@ciw.edu Personal web site: http://hazen.gl.ciw.edu DCO website: deepcarbon.net Keck Deep-Time Project website: http://dtdi.carnegiescience.edu