1. Helge Larsen (1922-2005) and his contributions to the study of halophilic microorganisms
Aharon Oren, Antonio Ventosa and Yanhe Ma
2. The halophilic world of Lourens Baas Becking
Aharon Oren
3. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biotechnological interest of the family Halomonadaceae
Rafael R. de la Haba, Cristina Sánchez-Porro and Antonio Ventosa
4. The hypersaline lakes of Inner Mongolia - the MGAtech project
William D. Grant, Eulyn Pagaling, M. Carmen Márquez, M. Carmen Gutiérrez, Don A. Cowan, Yanhe Ma, Brian E. Jones, Antonio Ventosa and Shaun Heaphy
5. From genomics to microevolution and ecology: the case of Salinibacter ruber
Arantxa Peña, Hanno Teeling, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Fernando Santos, Inmaculada Meseguer, Marianna Lucio, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Joaquín Dopazo, Ramon Rosselló-Móra, Margarete Schüler, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Rudolf Amann, Toni Gabaldón and Josefa Antón
6. Impact of lipidomics on the microbial world of hypersaline environments
Patrizia Lopalco, Simona Lobasso, Maristella Baronio, Roberto Angelini and Angela Corcelli
7. Molecular mechanisms of adaptations to high salt concentration in the extremely halotolerant black yeast Hortaea werneckii
Ana Plemenitas and Nina Gunde-Cimerman
8. Viruses from the hypersaline environment
Elina Roine and Hanna M. Oksanen
9. Haloviruses of Great Salt Lake: a model for understanding viral diversity
Bonnie K. Baxter, Mihnea R. Mangalea, Smaranda Willcox, Shereen Sabet, Miriam-Nirvana Nagoulat and Jack D. Griffith
10. Initiation and regulation of translation in halophilic Archaea
Jörg Soppa
11. Protein transport into and across haloarchaeal cytoplasmic membranes
Kieran Dilks, Maria Ines Gimenez, Manuela Tripepi and Mecky Pohlschröder
12. Salty and sweet - Protein glycosylation in Haloferax volcanii
Jerry Eichler, Doron Calo, Lina Kaminski, Lina Kandiba, Zvia Konrad, Hilla Magidovich, Shai Naparstek and Sophie Yurist-Doutsch
13. Effect of anoxic conditions and temperature on gas vesicle formation in Halobacterium salinarum
Felicitas Pfeifer, Regina Frommherz, Karin Faist, Torsten Hechler, Katharina Teufel and Larissa Marschaus
14. Halophiles exposed concomitantly to multiple stressors: adaptive mechanisms of halophilic alkalithermophiles
Noha M. Mesbah and Juergen Wiegel
15. Cellular adjustments of Bacillus subtilis and other Bacilli to fluctuating salinities
Marco Pittelkow and Erhard Bremer
16. The nature and function of carotenoids in the moderately halophilic bacterium Halobacillus halophilus
Saskia Köcher and Volker Müller
17. Xanthorhodopsin
Janos K. Lanyi and Sergei P. Balashov
18. Enzymatic biomass degradation by halophilic microorganisms
Matthew B. Begemann, Melanie R. Mormile, Varun G. Paul and Daniel J. Vidt
19. Enzymes from halophilic Archaea: open questions
María José Bonete and Rosa María Martínez-Espinosa
20. A short history of the symposia on halophilic microorganisms: from Rehovot 1978 to Beijing 2010
Aharon Oren
