Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
202 D, Midwest Airlines Center
OOS 11 - Frontiers in the Ecology of Plant-Fungal Interactions
Fungal ecology is a growing, dynamic, and multifaceted field at the interface of systematics, bioinformatics, evolutionary biology, technical innovation, molecular biology, and the ecology of populations, communities, and landscapes. The Fungal Environmental Sampling and Informatics Network (FESIN), a research coordination network supported by the National Science Foundation, seeks to coordinate the development of new linkages between ecologists and mycologists as a means to expand our understanding of the diversity, phylogenetic structure, and ecological roles of fungal communities, to improve our ability to capture and interpret data regarding fungi in environmental settings, and to train a new generation of fungal ecologists through educational innovation. This session will bring together mycologists and ecologists who work at the forefront of fungal ecology. We seek to encompass perspectives on several frontiers in the ecology of plant-fungal interactions: from pathogens to mutualists, from global change to the local effects of microbial symbionts that in turn inhabit fungal symbionts of plants, we hope to capture the energy and dynamism of fungal ecology. This session will complement the FESIN workshop that will be held in conjunction with ESA (immediately preceding the ESA meeting).
Organizer:Elizabeth Arnold, University of Arizona
Moderator:Jeri L. Parrent, University of Guelph
1:30 PMOOS 11-1Testing the hypothesis of mushroom mimicry for Dracula felix orchids
Bitty A. Roy, University of Oregon, Bryn T.M. Dentinger, Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto, Tobias Policha, University of Oregon, Tommy Jenkinson, San Francisco State University, Rocio Manobanda, National Herbarium, Quito, Ecuador
1:50 PMOOS 11-2Fungal endophytes from leaves to landscapes: Alpha, beta, and gamma diversity of foliar symbionts of plants
Elizabeth Arnold, University of Arizona, Barbara Klein, Dine College, Mary Shimabukuro, Dine College
2:10 PMOOS 11-3Biogeographic patterns in the body size and phenology of an introduced ectomycorrhizal fungus
Anne Pringle, Harvard University, Hugh B. Cross, Harvard University, Benjamin E. Wolfe, Harvard University, Franck Richard, Harvard University
2:30 PMOOS 11-4Testing models to generate a unified hypothesis of mycorrhizal function
Nancy C. Johnson, Northern Arizona University, Gail W.T. Wilson, Oklahoma State University, R. Michael Miller, Argonne National Laboratory, Catherine A. Gehring, Northern Arizona University, Matthew A. Bowker, Northern Arizona University
2:50 PMOOS 11-5The importance of soil biota in driving negative plant-soil feedback in a tropical forest
Scott A. Mangan, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMOOS 11-6Plant pathogen protection by AMF is determined by both root system architecture and fungal identity
Benjamin A. Sikes, University of Guelph, John Klironomos, University of Guelph
3:40 PMOOS 11-7Tropics change the rule! Heterotrophic plants using carbon from soil fungi (myco-heterotrophy): Contrasting strategies in fungal association and carbon source between temperate and tropical regions
Marc-André Selosse, CEFE CNRS, Mélanie H. Roy, CEFE CNRS, Florent Martos, Université de La Réunion, marie-Pierre Dubois, CEFE CNRS, Maguy Dulormne, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Santi Watthana, Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden, Thierry Pailler, Université de La Réunion
4:00 PMOOS 11-8The spatial ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi
Ian Alexander, University of Aberdeen, Brian J Pickles, University of Aberdeen, Ian C. Anderson, Macaulay Institute
4:20 PMOOS 11-9What does rRNA teach us about fungal ecology?
Ari Jumpponen, Kansas State University
4:40 PMOOS 11-10Variation in response by grasses to soil communities varies with introduced status: A mycorrhizal perspective
Alison E. Bennett, University of Michigan, Sharon Y. Strauss, University of California, Davis
5:00 PMOOS 11-11Sequencing the boreal forest: What do 70,000 new sequences tell us about fungal ecology?
D. Lee Taylor, University of Alaska, Jack W. McFarland, Institute of Arctic Biology, Michael G. Booth, Institute of Arctic Biology, Ian C. Herriott, Institute of Arctic Biology, Teresa N. Hollingsworth, Institute of Arctic Biology, Niall J. Lennon, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, Chad Nusbaum, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

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