Session: Microbial Ecology I (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

8:00 AM

COS 41-1

Increased methane flux from wetlands due to differential toxicity of silver nanoparticle pollution
Benjamin P. Colman, University of Montana; Curtis Richardson, Duke University; Gregory V. Lowry, Carnegie Mellon University; Brian K. Reinsch, Carnegie Mellon University; Benjamin Espinasse, Duke University; Mark R. Wiesner, Duke University; Jason M. Unrine, University of Kentucky; Emily Bernhardt, Duke University

8:20 AM

COS 41-2

Evolutionary and spatial controls on bacterial enzyme production
Steven Allison, University of California, Irvine; Ying Lu, University of California, Irvine

8:40 AM

COS 41-3

Increased fire incidence in California annual grasslands can alter soil microbial responses to multi-factor global change
Kathryn Docherty, Western Michigan University; Jessica LM Gutknecht, Helmoltz- Centre for Environmental Research- UFZ

9:00 AM

COS 41-4

Post-fire changes in soil microbial communities constrain heterotrophic respiration following wildfires
Sandra R. Holden, University of California, Irvine; Kathleen K. Treseder, University of California, Irvine

9:20 AM

COS 41-5

Contrasting fungal communities in asymptomatic vs. symptomatic forest seedlings within the context of Janzen - Connell hypothesis
Maria Soledad Benitez, Duke University; Michelle H. Hersh, Eastern Michigan University; Brantlee Spakes Richter, University of Florida; Rytas Vilgalys, Duke University; James Clark, Duke University

9:40 AM

COS 41-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 41-6

Assessing the relative importance of soil properties, tree type and distance on soil microbial community composition at multiple spatial scales
William J. Landesman, Green Mountain College; David M. Nelson, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

10:10 AM

COS 41-7

Eco-evolutionary feedback in cooperatively growing yeast populations
Alvaro Sanchez, MIT; Jeff Gore, MIT

10:30 AM

COS 41-8

Modeling the effects of increasing anthropogenic nitrogen on soil microbial decomposition
Kelly Sierra Ramirez, Colorado State University; Noah Fierer, University of Colorado

10:50 AM

COS 41-9

Factors affecting microbial community assembly during succession on the egg surface of the Lake Sturgeon and the effect of microbial succession processes on host life history traits
Masanori Fujimoto, Michigan State University; Kim T. Scribner, Michigan State University; Terence L. Marsh, Michigan State University

11:10 AM

COS 41-10

Experimental warming increases old carbon decomposition through shifting functional microbial communities in a tallgrass prairie
Lei Cheng, Zhejiang University; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma; Liyou Wu, University of Oklahoma; Ye Deng, University of Oklahoma; Yujia Qin, University of Oklahoma; Joy Van Nostrand, University of Oklahoma; Zhili He, Sun Yat-sen University; Mary Beth Leigh, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Edward A. G. Schuur, University of Florida; James Tiedje, Michigan State University; Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma

COS 41 - Microbial Ecology I