Microbiology and Molecular Ecology



MM001
Coupling meta’omics and biochemical measurements to understand trophic strategies or physiological adaptations among marine organisms (micro- to macro-)
Primary Chair:  Brook L Nunn, University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, United States
Co-chairs:  Alexis Pasulka, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Department of Biological Sciences, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States and Emma Timmins-Schiffman, University of Washington, Department of Genome Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sarah K Hu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States


MM002
Fungi in the Marine Environment
Primary Chair:  Xuefeng Peng, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Brandon Hassett, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Gaetan Burgaud, University of Brest, LUBEM (Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology), Plouzané, France
Primary Liaison:  Xuefeng Peng, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


MM003
Living on the edge:Ecotones as aquatic transition zones for microbial communities
Primary Chair:  Sergio Morales, University of Otago, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dunedin, New Zealand
Co-Chair:  Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Dept. of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Sergio Morales, University of Otago, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Dunedin, New Zealand


MM004
Marine microbes in the omics epoch: Unveiling their critical roles in the pelagic and benthic environments
Primary Chair:  Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Linda Wegley Kelly, San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States, Craig Nelson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Shady A Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi, Biology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Primary Liaison:  Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States


MM005
Microbial Genomics to Improve Predictive Understanding of Disturbance in the Global Ocean System
Primary Chair:  Joel E Kostka, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Co-chairs:  Samantha B Joye, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, Casey RJ Hubert, University of Calgary, Biological Sciences, Calgary, AB, Canada and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Centre for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joel E Kostka, Do Not Wish to Give out, Atlanta, GA, United States


MM006
The microbial phosphorus cycle
Primary Chair:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Chair:  Julia Diaz, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


CP006
Human Populations and Influences in the Coastal Zone: Effects on Ocean and Human Health (OHH)
Primary Chair:  Frederick L Tyson, National Insitute of Environmental Health Sciences, Genes Environment and Health Branch, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
Co-chairs:  Joshua A Steele, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Microbiology, Costa Mesa, CA, United States, Rachel T Noble, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Henrietta N Edmonds, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joshua A Steele, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Microbiology, Costa Mesa, CA, United States


CT002
Biogeochemistry of DOM and DOM-Microbe Interactions
Primary Chair:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States
Co-chairs:  Sinikka Lennartz, University of Oldenburg, ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany, Bryndan Paige Durham, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Helena Osterholz, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Sasha Wagner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Troy, NY, United States


ME011
Microbial Interactions at the Single-Cell Level and their Relevance in Oceanic Biogeochemical Cycles
Primary Chair:  Francisco Miguel Cornejo-Castillo, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Ana Maria Cabello Perez, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Nestor Arandia-Gorostidi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Francisco Miguel Cornejo-Castillo, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States


MG003
Oceanography Beyond Earth: A Frontier in Ocean Sciences
Primary Chair:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Alison E Murray, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Britney E Schmidt, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States


MM006
The microbial phosphorus cycle
Primary Chair:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Co-Chair:  Julia Diaz, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Solange Duhamel, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States


OB001
Approaches to study marine oxygen deficient zones from macro to micro scales
Primary Chair:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States
Co-chairs:  Andreas Haas, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Marine Microbiology & Biogeochemistry, Den Burg, Netherlands, Mark A Altabet, Univ Massachusetts Darmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States and Brett Walker, University of Ottawa, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Annie Bourbonnais, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA, United States


OB004
Beyond just discovery in the ocean’s midwater: novel and mechanistic approaches to understanding meso- and bathypelagic ecosystems
Primary Chair:  Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-chairs:  Annette Govindarajan1, Christopher Bassett2 and Peter H Wiebe1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States(2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Joel Llopiz, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States


OB013
Life, material transport and element cycling in the hadal realm
Primary Chair:  Ronnie N Glud, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Biology, Odense, Denmark
Co-chairs:  Frank Wenzhofer, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremerhaven, Germany, Matthias Zabel, Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany and Doug Bartlett, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ronnie N Glud, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Biology, Odense, Denmark


OB015
Linking the biology, geochemistry, and circulation of the Gulf of Mexico
Primary Chair:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Co-chairs:  Alan M Shiller, University of Southern Mississippi, Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Heather M Benway, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States and Juan Carlos Herguera, Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada, Ensenada, Mexico
Primary Liaison:  Angela N Knapp, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States


OB020
New Tools and Approaches to Constrain the Marine Nitrogen Cycle: From the Surface to the Sediments
Primary Chair:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-chairs:  Mar Benavides, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, Angela Landolfi, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Carolin R. Löscher, Univ Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Primary Liaison:  Christopher J Somes, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany


OB024
Quantifying Carbon Export Pathways in the Global Ocean
Primary Chair:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Deborah K Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Biological Sciences, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Ivona Cetinic, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Stephanie Henson, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  David Siegel, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States


OB027
Structure, function and biogeochemical role of plankton communities in the nutrient limited open ocean
Primary Chair:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  Adam Martiny, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Bethany D. Jenkins, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology, Kingstown, RI, United States and Robert T Letscher, University of New Hampshire, Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tatiana A Rynearson, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States


OB028
The role of cell size and plankton community structure as drivers of ocean metabolism
Primary Chair:  Angelicque E White, University of Hawaii, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States
Co-Chair:  Laurie W Juranek, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Angelicque E White, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States


OB030
Towards BioGeoSCAPES: Exploring molecular drivers of ocean metabolism and biogeochemistry
Primary Chair:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Co-chairs:  Erin Marie Bertrand, Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada, Martha Gledhill, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany and Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin S Twining, Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States


OB031
Understanding structure and function of benthic meiofaunal communities across ocean basin scales
Primary Chair:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
Co-chairs:  Jeroen Ingels, Florida State University, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St Teresa, FL, United States and Anwesha Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences, Kolkata, India
Primary Liaison:  Punyasloke Bhadury, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Climate and Environmental Studies, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India


OD005
Creating Data Synchronicity Across Ocean Microbiome Research
Primary Chair:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  Bonnie L Hurwitz, University of Arizona, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elisha M Wood-Charlson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


SI013
The Ocean and Carbon Dioxide: Duplicating Hydrothermal Vents and Other Ocean Systems to Manufacture Complex Hydrocarbons from Industrial CO2 Emissions
Primary Chair:  Gaurav Rajen, Green Fire Technologies LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Co-Chair:  Gautam Thor, Consultant, San Diego, United States
Primary Liaison:  Gaurav Rajen, Green Fire Technologies LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States


T001
A Moveable Feast: The Role of Microbes in the Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Primary Presenter:  Joel E Kostka, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States