Wednesday, 9 November 2005: 7:55 AM
Convention Center,, Ballroom H, Lower Level
274: Symposium--Molecular Based Approaches to Soil Microbiology
Sponsor:S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Presidings:James Entry, USDA Agricultural Research Service
Deetta Mills, Florida International University
Tom Moorman, USDA-ARS
Krish Jayachandran, Florida International University
7:55 AM Introductory Remarks
8:00 AM274-1Soil Microbial Community Analysis Using PCR of rDNA and DGGE.
Cindy Nakatsu, Purdue University
8:30 AM274-2Assessing Microbial Community Diversity Using Amplicon Length Heterogeneity Pcr.
Deetta Mills, Florida International University, Kalai Mathee, Florida International University, Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, Florida International University, James Entry, USDA Agricultural Research Service
9:00 AM274-3Soil Microbial Community Analysis Using Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms: Separating Signals from the Noise.
Janice Thies, Cornell University
9:30 AM274-4Microbial Community Analysis using Microarrays: Potential and Challenges. 
Syed A. Hashsham, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Center for Microbial Ecology, Robert D. Stedtfeld, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Center for Microbial Ecology, Herzog B. Amanda, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Center for Microbial Ecology, Dieter M. Tourlousse, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Center for Microbial Ecology, Sam W. Basuhke, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Center for Microbial Ecology, Ruifang Xu, Depatment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Center for Microbial Ecology, Lukas M. Wick, Food Safety ad Toxicology, Erdogan Gulari, University of Michigan, James M. Tiedje, Center for Microbial Ecology
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM274-5Ribosomal Database Project: Tools and Data for High Throughput rRNA Analysis 
James Cole, Michigan State University
10:45 AM274-6Bioinformatics Support for Microbial Community Analysis.
Patrick M. Gillevet, George Mason University, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, George Mason University
11:15 AM274-7Computational Methods That Use Variability in Microbial Community Profiling and Physico-Chemical Properties to Understand Different Soil Environments.
Ron Corstanje, Environmetrics Group, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Division, Rothamsted Research, Giri Narasimhan, Florida International University, R. Murray Lark, Environmetrics Group, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics Division, Rothamsted Research
11:45 AM274-8Real-time PCR for Quantitative and Qualitative Detection of Bacterial Pathogens.
Jeffrey Karns, Room 100, Bldg. 050 BARC-WEST
12:15 PM Lunch
12:45 PM274-9Approaches to Cloning Soil DNA.
Andrew Ogram, University of Florida, Hector F. Castro, University of Florida
1:15 PM274-10Sequencing DNA from Soil: Strategies for Microbial Ecology.
Michele D. Zwolinski, Weber State University
1:45 PM274-11Molecular Analysis of Ectomycorrhizal Communities.
Kendall Martin, Univ. of West Forida
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM274-12Stable Isotope Ratios as Tracers in Soil Microbe Communities.
Helen W. Kreuzer-Martin, University of Utah
3:00 PM274-13Application of Fish and Microautoradiography to Determine Microbial Community Structure and Activity in Soil. 
Shane W. Rogers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Say Kee Ong, Iowa State University, Thomas Moorman, USDA-ARS
3:30 PM274-14Alice Asks: Molecular Soil Ecology in 2015?.
James M. Tiedje, Michigan State University
4:00 PM Concluding Remarks
4:10 PM Adjourn

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