OB023
Quantifying and Linking Omics, Physiology & Models in Marine Microbiology

Session ID#: 259765

Session Description:
Microbial communities govern ocean ecology and biogeochemistry, yet a major gap persists between knowing who is present and understanding how fast they transform energy and matter. This session seeks to address this by uniting two complementary approaches:

  1. Linking omics and physiology. We invite studies that connect -omics data with measurements of microbial traits and rates, such as nutrient uptake, photosynthesis, respiration, etc. to reveal functional drivers of ecosystem processes.
  1. Making it quantitative. We also welcome work that provides numerical estimates on reaction kinetics, cellular resource-allocation budgets (C, N, P, Fe, energy), whole-community fluxes, and the uncertainties around them. Experimental, field, and in silico approaches that translate molecular information into parameterizable rates for ecological models are encouraged.

We are keen on contributions that quantify marine microbial processes and their impacts on the environment, compare “omics-inferred” activity with rate measurements, and benchmark emerging proxies and workflows. We are also interested in studies that integrate laboratory manipulations, time-series observations, and/or mechanistic or statistical models. This session aims to catalyze inter-methodological dialogue between experimentalists and modelers, paving the path from cellular machinery to ecosystem functioning, which is a major goal of the international working groups PRIMO (https://primoscorwg.org/) and BioGeoSCAPES (https://biogeoscapes.org).

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • Marine Ecology and Biodiversity -
  • Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry -
  • Ocean Technologies and Observatories -
Index Terms:

4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4845 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Student/Early Career Chair:  Michiel Perneel, VIB-Ugent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
Primary Chair:  Zhen Wu, Peking University, Beijing, China
Co-chairs:  Keisuke Inomura, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, Kai Ziervogel, University of New Hampshire, Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, Durnham, United States and Dr. Xin Sun, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Statistical inference for mechanistic microbial systems ecology models (2020746)
Gregory L. Britten, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States
 
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Julia Baer, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States and Raphael Martin Kudela, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
 
Transcriptome-resolved diel metabolism of a coastal Phaeocystis bloom links cellular physiology to carbon cycling (2025691)
Michiel Perneel1, Jens H. Dujardin2, Nerissa Fisher3, Rune Lagaisse4, Naia Larrinoa2, Jonas Mortelmans2, Hannelore Theetaert2, Silke Verbrugge2, Thanos Gkritzalis5, Maarten De Rijcke2, Steven Maere6 and Pascal Hablützel5, (1)VIB-Ugent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend, Belgium, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, (4)Ghent University, Department of Biology, Gent, Belgium, (5)Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Ostend, Belgium, (6)VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
 
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Niche participation of Prochlorococcus ecotypes driven by distinct macromolecular allocations (2030345)
Keisuke Inomura1, Kristina Felcmanová2, Yosuke Nishimura3, Martin Lukeš2, Eva Kotabová2, Jiří Šetlík2, Meng Gao4, Ms. Gabrielle Armin, PhD5, Judith Camps-Castella6, Susumu Yoshizawa7, Kimberly Halsey8 and Ondřej Ondřej Prášile9, (1)Universiy of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (2)Institute of Microbiology, Třeboň, Czech Republic, (3)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (4)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (5)University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (6)Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, (7)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (8)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (9)Center Algatech, Institute of Microbiology, Trebon, Czech Republic
 
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Elaine Luo1, Ngoc Dung Pham2, TJ Rogers2, Bayleigh Benner3, Joseph John Vallino4, Dr. Gareth George Trubl, PhD5 and Julie A Huber6, (1)University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Biological Sciences, Charlotte, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Ecosystems Ctr, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Linking Phytoplankton Physiology to Ocean Biogeochemistry via Macromolecular Resource Allocation Modeling (2032748)
Megan Sullivan and Keisuke Inomura, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
 
Robust Circadian Gene Expression Supports High Functionality in Intertidal Diatom Biofilms (2036805)
Yeseren Kayacan1, Rita Bogorad2, Willem Stock2, Gust Bilcke3, Cédric Hubas4, Julie Gaubert-Boussarie4, Bruno Jesus5, Vona Méléder6, Klaas Vandepoele7, Wim Vyverman2 and Koen Sabbe2, (1)Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Dpt. of Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (2)Laboratory of Protistology and Aquatic Ecology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (3)VIB-UGhent, Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, (5)Institute of sea substances and organisms (ISOMER), Nantes Université, Nantes, France, (6)Nantes Université, ISOMer, UR 21 60, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes, France, Nantes, France, (7)VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
 
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Fadime Stemmer, M.Sc.1, Daniella Asturias2, Loay Jabre3, Matthew R McIlvin2, Elizabeth B Kujawinski4 and Mak A Saito5, (1)The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences / Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Cambridge and Woods Hole, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Dalhousie University, Department of Biology, Halifax, NS, Canada, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (5)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Resolving the Elemental Stoichiometry and Macromolecular Allocation of Phytoplankton in a Coastal Ocean Simulation (2038538)
Margaret Bernish, Keisuke Inomura, Christopher Kincaid and Mingxi Zhou, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States
 
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Andrew D Steen, University of Southern California, Biological Sciences and Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Iyanu Oduwole, University of Tennessee, Genome Science and Technology, Knoxville, United States, Kambiz Kalhor, University of Southern California, Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Jacob T Perez, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
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