Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 13, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
Marine microbes include representatives from all three kingdoms of life and collectively carry out virtually all forms of metabolisms found on the planet. Because of this metabolic and genetic diversity, these microbes mediate many of the reactions making up global biogeochemical cycles which govern the flow of energy and material in the biosphere. The goal of this conference is to bring together approaches and concepts from studies of microbial evolution, genomics, ecology, and oceanography in order to gain new insights into marine microbes and their biogeochemical functions. The integration of scales, from genes to global cycles, will result in a better understanding of marine microbes and of their contribution to the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical processes.
A list of preliminary session topics and speakers is displayed below (discussion leaders are noted in italics). The detailed program is currently being developed by the Conference Chair and will be available by March 4, 2010. Please check back for updates.
- Ecological Genomics I
(Julie Huber / Edward DeLong / Mary Ann Moran)
- Global Change
(David Caron / Adam Martiny / Sinead Collins / David Hutchins)
- Protistan Progress
(Raffaella Casotti / Alexandra Worden / Emily Roberts)
- Ecological Genomics II
(Gabrielle Rocap / Tatiana Rynearson / Thomas Richards / Frank Oliver Gloeckner)
- Ecological Principles
(Suzanne Strom / Katherine McMahon / Claire Horner-Devine)
- Carbon Cycle
(Toshi Nagata / Ingrid Obernosterer / Josef Gasol / Gerhard Herndl)
- Marine Archaea
(Phyllis Lam / Christopher Francis / Anitra Ingalls)
- New in the N Cycle
(Doug Capone / Matthew Church / Bess Ward / Marcel Kuypers)
- Global Models and Views
(Nianzhi Jiao / Scott Doney / Hugh Ducklow)