Symposium in Honor of the great Juergen Wiegel: Extremophiles: Key to Bioenergy? UGA 9/19-20

Well, this symposium announcement gets an extra few lines here from me so not just going to twitter:

Extremophiles Symposium. This symposium is in honor of my friend and colleague Juergen Wiegel, a professor at University of Georgia. He is one of my favorite people in all of microbiology: serious about his science, fun to be around, interested in a wide diversity of topics, and all around good guy. He has written some really fascinating and excellent papers including these relatively recent ones

• Extremophiles: from abyssal to terrestrial ecosystems and possibly beyond.
• Temperature and pH optima of extremely halophilic archaea: a mini-review.
• Biodiversity of poly-extremophilic Bacteria: does combining the extremes of high salt, alkaline pH and elevated temperature approach a physico-chemical boundary for life?
• Thermoanaerobacter uzonensis sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring within the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Far East Russia.
• Life at extreme limits: the anaerobic halophilic alkalithermophiles.
• Sporulation genes in members of the low G+C Gram-type-positive phylogenetic branch ( Firmicutes).

Anyway - just wanted to make a little post here to say how much I appreciate him and his contributions.