Session: Microbial Ecology (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

1:30 PM

COS 74-1

Links between soil microbial metagenomics and biogeochemical functions in afforested grasslands in southern South America
Sean T. Berthrong, Cornell University; Christopher W. Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Rob Jackson, Stanford and Duke universities

1:50 PM

COS 74-2

Seasonal responses of soil microbial biomass, extracellular enzyme activity, and fungal: Bacterial ratios to warming and N treatments in a temperate old field grassland
Terrence H. Bell, Université de Montréal; Hugh Henry, University of Western Ontario

2:10 PM

COS 74-3

Simulated chronic NO₃^- deposition alters fungal community composition in organic and mineral horizons of northern hardwood forests
John E. Hassett, University of Michigan; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan

2:30 PM

COS 74-4

Soil microbial temperature acclimation through changes in enzyme activity
J. Megan Steinweg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Jessica G Ernakovich, Colorado State University; John Prucha, Colorado State University; Richard T. Conant, Queensland University of Technology; Matthew D. Wallenstein, Colorado State University

2:50 PM

COS 74-5

Arbuscular mycorrhizae interaction with roots of prairie dock (Silphium terebenthinaceum), wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium), and smooth blue aster (Aster laevis)
Mary Carrington, Governors State University; R. Michael Miller, Argonne National Laboratory; Chevon Marsh, Governors State University; Rita Richardson, Governors State University

3:10 PM

COS 74-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 74-6

Spatial characterization of the prokaryotic community within the gut of the patent-leather beetle, Odontotaenius disjunctus, using 16S rRNA PhyloChips
Nhu H. Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley; Eoin L. Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Todd Z. DeSantis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kate Goldfarb, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Stephanie Gross, Louisiana State Univeristy; James B. Nardi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Thomas D. Bruns, University of California; Meredith Blackwell, Louisiana State Univeristy; Gary L. Andersen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

3:40 PM

COS 74-7

Labile associations between fungus-growing ant cultivars and their garden pathogens
Nicole M. Gerardo, Emory University; Eric Caldera, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4:00 PM

COS 74-8

Superbugs are everywhere! Antibiotic resistant bacteria in farms, forests, and front yards
Debra L. Wohl, Elizabethtown College; David R. Bowne, Elizabethtown College

4:20 PM

COS 74-9

Bacterial use of membrane lipids: A sustainable source of phosphate for the aquatic microbial community?
Michael J. Lemke, University of Illinois at Springfield; Sara F. Paver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4:40 PM

COS 74-10

A keystone predator controls bacterial diversity in the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) microecosystem
Celeste Peterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stephanie Day, Yale University; Benjamin E. Wolfe, Harvard University; Aaron Ellison, Harvard University; Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School; Anne Pringle, Harvard University

COS 74 - Microbial Ecology