2020 ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 - 6)

OOS 29 - Harnessing Microbiome Data Towards Mechanistic and Predictive Ecology

Thursday, August 6, 2020: 1:00 PM-1:30 PM
Organizer:
Gangsheng Wang
Co-organizer:
Colin Bates
Moderator:
Gangsheng Wang
Plant and soil microbiomes maintain healthy functions of these ecosystems and influence agricultural productivity and carbon-climate feedbacks. For example, plant microbiome research aims to learn how crop (including bioenergy crop) productivity and quality can be influenced; soil microbiome research attempts to optimize the nutrient cycle and prevents soil degradation and enhances sustainability. The new generation of omics-based microbiome study is providing valuable information about the taxonomic, genetic, and functional properties of microbial communities in the plant-soil system. Metagenomic-based insights have provided strong evidence that microbial community composition responds significantly to land use change, management practices and environmental changes. However, it remains challenging how ecosystem functions can be linked with the massive, rich taxonomic, phylogenetic and/or functional data for microbial communities. Therefore, we propose to organize a session at the 2020 ESA Annual Meeting by inviting ecologists and microbiologists to discuss the following topics: (1) microbial community responses to climate and environmental change; (2) translating and incorporating multi-source microbial and omics data into ecosystem modeling; and (3) harnessing microbiome data towards mechanistic and predictive understanding of the soil-microbe-plant biome.
1:00 PM
Temperature regulates continental-scale community assembly processes in forest soils
Daliang Ning, University of Oklahoma; Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma
1:15 PM
Multi-omic insights into soil microbiome functional capacity
Kirsten S. Hofmockel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Iowa State University; Dan Naylor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Janet K. Jansson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Ryan Mcclure, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1:45 PM
High carbon losses from oxygen-limited soils challenge biogeochemical models: A role for microbial acclimation?
Steven Hall, Iowa State University; Wenjuan Huang, Iowa State University; Kefeng Wang, Northwest University; Stephanie Napieralski, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Eric Roden, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma
2:00 PM
Detection of stress functional responses in bacterial populations under dry soil conditions show potential microbial mechanisms to resist drought conditions
Soumyadev Sarkar, Kansas State University; Kaitlyn Ward, Kansas State University; Qinghong Ran, Kansas State University; Janet K. Jansson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Sonny Lee, Kansas State University