COS 125
Microbial Ecology II

Friday, August 9, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
L100F, Minneapolis Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Temperature and endophytes controlled competition of wood-degrading fungi and patterns of decay
Zewei Song, University of Minnesota; Jonathan Schilling, University of Minnesota
8:20 AM
 How do warming and grazing affect bacterial diversity in the Mongolian steppe?
Aurora MacRae-Crerar, University of Pennsylvania, PIRE Mongolia Project; Pierre Liancourt, Institute of Botany; Laura A. Spence, University of Pennsylvania, PIRE Mongolia Project (http://mongolia.bio.upenn.edu/); Bazartseren Boldgiv, National University of Mongolia; Daniel S. Song, University of Pennsylvania; Jack A. Gilbert, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratories; Sarah M. Owens, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory; Jarrad Hampton-Marcell, Argonne National Laboratory; Peter S. Petraitis, University of Pennsylvania; Brenda B. Casper, University of Pennsylvania
8:40 AM
 Shrub encroachment on hill prairies alters soil microbial community composition
Sarah Menning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Alyssa Magnetta, University of Illinois; Anthony C. Yannarell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:00 AM
 The relationship between metal contamination, ectomycorrhizal diversity and plant biomass in an urban brownfield
Jessica Marta Evans, Montclair State University; Jennifer Adams Krumins, Montclair State University; Frank J. Gallagher, Rutgers University
9:20 AM
 Alder influences microbial community composition within its rhizosphere
Alyssa Magnetta, University of Illinois; Jeffrey O. Dawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anthony C. Yannarell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Long term changes in organic matter content drive microbial community structure in soils
Sean T. Berthrong, Cornell University; Daniel H. Buckley, Cornell University; Laurie E. Drinkwater, Cornell University
10:10 AM
 Within and between pond variation in symbiotic microbial assemblages on the skin of bullfrogs and eastern newts
Jenifer B. Walke, Virginia Tech; Matthew H. Becker, Virginia Tech; Stephen C. Loftus, Virginia Tech; Leanna L. House, Virginia Tech; Guy Cormier, Virginia Tech; Roderick V. Jensen, Virginia Tech; Lisa K. Belden, Virginia Tech
10:30 AM
 Temporal patterns in aquatic bacterial communities: what do phytoplankton have to do with it?
Sara F. Paver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Angela Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:50 AM
 Effect of drought-rewetting cycles on the diversity and functioning of bacterial metacommunities
Silke Langenheder, Uppsala University; Anna J. Szekely, Uppsala University
11:10 AM
 Patterns of disease and microbial diversity in an amphibian (Pseudacris crucifer) from the eastern United States
Myra C. Hughey, Virginia Tech; Meredith C. Swartwout, Virginia Tech; Matthew H. Becker, Virginia Tech; Jenifer B. Walke, Virginia Tech; Lisa K. Belden, Virginia Tech