MM002
Fungi in the Marine Environment
Session ID#: 76592
Session Description:
Fungi are globally distributed in the marine environment and inhabit diverse environments from sea ice to the deep biosphere. Within these environments, fungi interface a wide range of lifestyles, e.g. top-down control on phytoplankton (parasitism), organic matter recycling (saprophytism). Marine fungi also harbor a rich potential for natural product discovery, with >300 novel marine fungal natural products described annually, or for bioremediation processes of recalcitrant pollutants. Secondary metabolisms of marine fungi generate nitrous oxide which is a strong greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting agent. Nevertheless, marine fungi have been largely overlooked compared to their terrestrial counterparts and compared to other members of marine microbial communities. Little is known about their diversity, ecology, and their contribution to global biogeochemical cycles. In this session, we aim to bring together microbial ecologists, cell biologists, bioinformaticians, geochemists, and all other scientists who are interested in advancing our understanding of novel roles played by marine fungi in the marine environment and/or their application for biotechnology. Interdisciplinary studies using innovative culturing, ‘omics’ approaches, isotope techniques, and novel bioinformatics methodologies are particularly welcome.
Index Terms:
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4843 Natural products chemistry [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
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
Characterization of the mycobiome of the seagrass, Zostera marina, reveals putative associations with marine chytrids and dark septate endophytes (635406)
Cassie Ettinger1,2 and Jonathan Eisen2,3, (1)University of California, Davis, Genome Center, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, Department of Evolution and Ecology, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Davis, United States
Fungal contribution to marine nitrogen cycling (641851)
Xuefeng Peng, University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and David L Valentine, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Hydrothermal Vent Fungal Communities and Their Putative Roles in Hydrocarbon Degradation at Guaymas Basin (644202)
Paraskevi Mara1, Gaetan Burgaud2, Gustavo A Ramirez3, Christopher M Reddy4, Sean Sylva5, David J. Beaudoin1, Andreas Teske6 and Virginia P Edgcomb7, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Brest, LUBEM (Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology), Plouzané, France, (3)University of North Carolina, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Woods Hole Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Univ of North Carolina, Marine Science, Chapel Hill, United States, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Deciphering the fungal communities occurring in the lower oceanic crust using metabarcoding and culturomics (646124)
Maxence Quemener1, Georges Barbier1, Virginia P Edgcomb2 and Gaetan Burgaud1, (1)University of Brest, LUBEM (Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology), Plouzané, France, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Geology and Geophysics Department, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Unconventional Cell Division Cycles from Marine-derived Yeasts (658243)
Christine Field, Harvard Medical School, Systems Biology, Boston, MA, United States; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Lorna Mitchison-Field, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Biology, Chapel Hill, NC, United States; Marine Biological Laboratory, NC, United States, Jose Vargas-Muniz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Biology, Chapel Hill, United States, Benjamin Stormo, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Biology, Chapel Hill, United States, Ellysa Vogt, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Biology, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Amy Gladfelter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States; Marine Biological Laboratory, United States
