COS 152 - Microbial ecology II

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Willow Glen I, San Jose Marriott
8:00 AM
 Soil microbes and biogeography: Are communities from differing environments functionally equivalent?
Michael S. Strickland, Virginia Tech; Ernest D. Osburn, University of Georgia-Athens; Mark A. Bradford, Yale University; Noah Fierer, University of Colorado
8:20 AM
 Microbial ecology of anthrosols: Assessing soil community diversity of bacteria, archaea, and fungi in Amazonian dark earths of Brazil
Julie M. Grossman, Cornell University; Brendan E. O'Neill, Cornell University; Lauren E. McPhillips, Cornell University; Siu Mui Tsai, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA); Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University; Janice E. Thies, Cornell University
8:40 AM
 Diversity, community assembly, and population dynamics of symbiotic bacterial communities of three flea species
Ryan T. Jones, University of Colorado-Boulder; Andrew P. Martin, University of Colorado-Boulder
9:00 AM
 Microbial ecology and evolution of the mammalian gut ecosystem
Ruth E. Ley, Washington University School of Medicine; Peter J. Turnbaugh, Washington University School of Medicine; Jeffrey I. Gordon, Washington University School of Medicine
9:20 AM
 New insights into microbial community functional response to stress using environmental proteomics
Matthew D. Wallenstein, Colorado State University; Carla Lacerda, Colorado State University; Kenneth F. Reardon, Colorado State University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Fungal viruses associated with a parasitic plant and its plant host
Tracy S. Feldman, The University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point; Marilyn Roossinck, Pennsylvania State University
10:10 AM
 Streptomycin may interfere with muramic acid assay
Chao Liang, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Harry R. Read, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Teri C. Balser, University of Florida-Gainesville
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