Session: Microbial Ecology I (98th ESA Annual Meeting (August 4 -- 9, 2013))

1:30 PM

Factors affecting the distribution and community structure of fungi in a mixed temperate forest
Barbara D. Bahnmann, Institute of Microbiology, ASCR; Petr Baldrian, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

1:50 PM

COS 109-2

A metagenomic study of soil microbial communities under various vegetation types and soil depths
Emily E. Curd, University of California, Los Angeles; Thomas B. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles; Huiying Li, University of California, Los Angeles

2:10 PM

COS 109-3

Changes in extracellular enzyme activities and kinetics with depth across contrasting parent materials in the Luquillo Critical Zone
Madeleine M. Stone, University of Pennsylvania; Alain F. Plante, University of Pennsylvania

2:30 PM

COS 109-4

Ecology and genetic analysis of Katablepharis CRE, a heterotrophic flagellate that ‘blooms’ in the Columbia River estuary during the spring
Peter Kahn, Oregon Health and Science University; Lydie Herfort, Oregon Health and Science University; Tawnya D. Peterson, Oregon Health and Science University; Peter Zuber, Oregon Health and Science University

2:50 PM

COS 109-5

Endophytic fungi associated with wild lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) and sympatric plant species in Southern Mexico
J. Erik Neill, Portland State University; Stefanie Kautz, Field Museum of Natural History; Daniel J. Ballhorn, Portland State University

3:10 PM

COS 109-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 109-6

The community recovery dynamics of commensal gut microbiota in fish (Fundulus heteroclitus)
Caitlin N. Ryan, Texas Tech University; Stephen B. Cox, Texas Tech University; Greg Mayer, Texas Tech University

3:40 PM

COS 109-7

Linking microbial metagenomes to biogeochemical cycles in biofuel cropping systems
Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Iowa State University; Adina C. Howe, Iowa State University; Ryan J. Williams, Iowa State University; Fan Yang, Iowa State University; Elizabeth M. Bach, Iowa State University; Sarah K. Hargreaves, Iowa State University; Kevin Keegan, Argonne National Laboratory; Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory

4:00 PM

COS 109-8

The genomic signature of viral predation in free living bacteria
Joshua A. Livermore, University of Notre Dame

4:20 PM

COS 109-9

Resource availability effects on prairie soil bacterial richness and diversity
Pamela Weisenhorn, University of Minnesota; Chris S. Henry, Argonne National Laboratory; Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota; Sarah E. Hobbie, University of Minnesota

4:40 PM

COS 109-10

Opening up the algal biofuels black box: Understanding N and P uptake strategies to enhance biodiesel production
Lee F. Stanish, University of Colorado

COS 109 - Microbial Ecology I