Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 A , Midwest Airlines Center
COS 74 - Microbial Ecology
1:30 PM	COS 74-1		Links between soil microbial metagenomics and biogeochemical functions in afforested grasslands in southern South America Sean T. Berthrong, Duke University, Christopher W. Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Robert B. Jackson, Duke University
1:50 PM	COS 74-2		Seasonal responses of soil microbial biomass, extracellular enzyme activity, and fungal: Bacterial ratios to warming and N treatments in a temperate old field grassland Terrence H. Bell, University of Western Ontario, Hugh A.L. Henry, University of Western Ontario
2:10 PM	COS 74-3		Simulated chronic NO3- deposition alters fungal community composition in organic and mineral horizons of northern hardwood forests John E. Hassett, University of Michigan, Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
2:30 PM	COS 74-4		Soil microbial temperature acclimation through changes in enzyme activity J. Megan Steinweg, Colorado State University, Jessica G Ernakovich, Colorado State University, John Prucha, Colorado State University, Richard T Conant, Colorado State University, Matthew D Wallenstein, Colorado State University
2:50 PM	COS 74-5		Arbuscular mycorrhizae interaction with roots of prairie dock (Silphium terebenthinaceum), wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium), and smooth blue aster (Aster laevis) Mary Carrington, Governors State University, R. Michael Miller, Argonne National Laboratory, Chevon Marsh, Governors State University, Rita Richardson, Governors State University
3:10 PM			Break
3:20 PM	COS 74-6		Spatial characterization of the prokaryotic community within the gut of the patent-leather beetle, Odontotaenius disjunctus, using 16S rRNA PhyloChips Nhu H. Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, Eoin L. Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Todd Z. DeSantis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Kate Goldfarb, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Stephanie Gross, Louisiana State Univeristy, James B. Nardi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Thomas D. Bruns, University of California, Berkeley, Meredith Blackwell, Louisiana State Univeristy, Gary L. Andersen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3:40 PM	COS 74-7		Labile associations between fungus-growing ant cultivars and their garden pathogens Nicole Gerardo, Emory University, Eric Caldera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:00 PM	COS 74-8		Superbugs are everywhere! Antibiotic resistant bacteria in farms, forests, and front yards Debra L. Wohl, Elizabethtown College, David R. Bowne, Franklin and Marshall College
4:20 PM	COS 74-9		Bacterial use of membrane lipids:  A sustainable source of phosphate for the aquatic microbial community? Michael J. Lemke, University of Illinois at Springfield, Sara F. Paver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4:40 PM	COS 74-10		A keystone predator controls bacterial diversity in the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) microecosystem Celeste Peterson, Harvard University, Stephanie Day, Yale University, Benjamin E. Wolfe, Harvard University, Aaron M. Ellison, Harvard University, Roberto Kolter, Harvard Medical School, Anne Pringle, Harvard University

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