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The physiological challengeHeribert Cypionka, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of OldenburgWill we ever harness microbes to supply energy and essential elements?Paul Falkowski, Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Program, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, and Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers UniversityWhere are all the species?Tom Fenchel, Marine Biological Laboratory, University of CopenhagenBetween a rock and a hard place: geomicrobial electron transferJim K. Fredrickson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WAThe shape of microbial diversitySteve Giovannoni, Department of Microbiology, Oregon State UniversityThe roots of the ‘species’ concept must be quantifiedJ. Gijs Kuenen, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of TechnologyThe second coming of physics into (micro)biologyVíctor de Lorenzo, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, MadridIn silico biology meets in situ phenomenologyDerek R. Lovley, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, AmherstGetting a better picture of evolutionWilliam Martin, University of DüsseldorfWith oceans of new data, to sink or to swim?Karin A. Remington, The J. Craig Venter InstituteThe viriosphere: the greatest biological diversity on Earth and driver of global processesCurtis Suttle, Earth & Ocean Sciences, Microbiology & Immunology, and Botany, University of British ColumbiaSystems biology: in the broadest sense of the wordDavid W. Ussery, Ulrik de Lichtenberg, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of DenmarkLars Juhl Jensen, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, HeidelbergThe community level: physiology and interactions of prokaryotes in the wildernessMichael Wagner, Department of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna