COS 121 - Microbial Ecology

Friday, August 7, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Picuris, Albuquerque Convention Center
8:00 AM
 The ecology of leaf-associated bacterial communities
Noah Fierer, University of Colorado; Amanda J. Redford, University of Colorado-Boulder; Robert Bowers, University of Colorado-Boulder; Yan Linhart, University of Colorado-Boulder
8:20 AM
 Sorting of bacterial communities in a productivity and dispersal gradient
Katleen Van der Gucht, University of Gent; Dino Verreydt, K.U.Leuven; Steven Declerck, K.U.Leuven; Luc De Meester, KU Leuven; Wim Vyverman, University of Gent
8:40 AM
 The responses of soil microbial communities to long-term anthropogenic nitrogen additions
Kelly Sierra Ramirez, Colorado State University; Noah Fierer, University of Colorado; Christian L. Lauber, University of Colorado
9:00 AM
 The role of local and regional factors structuring bacterial communities in patchy ecosystems
Vinicius F. Farjalla, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Fernanda D. Azevedo, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro; Alexandre S. Rosado, University Federal of Rio de Janeiro
9:20 AM
 Investigating microbially-mediated nitrogen cycling processes during early floodplain development
Ariane L. Peralta, Indiana University; Jeffrey W. Matthews, Illinois Natural History Survey; Angela D. Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 The effect of rhizospheric communities on nutrient availability during the colonization and growth phase of Lupinus diffusus
Hadiya D. White, Governors State University; Mary Carrington, Governors State University; Timothy C. Gsell, Governors State University
10:10 AM
 Presence doesn’t equal activity: Domain-dependent responses of microbial communities along environmental gradients
Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University; Stuart E. Jones, University of Notre Dame
10:30 AM
 The impact of serpentine soil on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities
Michael S. Fitzsimons, Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:50 AM
 Legacy and selection effects on soil communities differ between both microbial taxa and selective environments
Emily Wheeler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Richard A. Lankau, University of Wisconsin
11:10 AM
 Temporal and spatial differentiation of coastal marine viruses
China A. Hanson, University of California, Irvine; Yazeed Ibrahim, University of California, Irvine; Marcia F. Marston, Roger Williams University; Jennifer B. H. Martiny, University of California, Irvine
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