Tuesday, November 6, 2007: 9:25 AM
Convention Center, Room 228, Second Floor
188: Assessing and Comparing Microbial Communities
Sponsor:S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Presiding:Shiping Deng, Oklahoma State University
9:25 AMIntroductory Remarks
9:30 AMOptimization and Validation of Community-Level Physiological Profiling Based on Oxygen Consumption for Determining Soil Microbial Respiration.
Jay L. Garland, Dynamac Corporation, Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire, Cheryl Mackowiak, University of Florida - Agricultural Research Center, María Celina Zabaloy, Soil Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Agronomy, Universidad Nacional del Sur
9:45 AMVolatile Organic Metabolites as Indicators of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Activity.
Karen McNeal, Mississippi State University - Geosicences, Bruce Herbert, Texas A&M University
10:00 AMBioavailability of Xenobiotics in Unsaturated Soils – Implications for Nucleic Acid Based Stable Isotope Probing.
Gerald Sims, USDA-ARS
10:15 AMRichness-area Relationships across Various Functional and Phylogenetic Taxa.
Sanghoon Kang, University of Oklahoma, Christopher W. Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Charles Garten, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma
10:30 AMSize and Diversity of Fungal Cellulolytic Community in Forest Soils revealed by PCR Isolation and Cloning of Cellobiohydrolase Genes.
Ivan Edwards, University of Michigan, Donald Zak, University of Michigan
10:45 AMInvestigation of Silver Chemicals for Wood Preservation and Soil Biology – An Exploratory Research.
Krishnaswamy Jayachandran, Florida International University, Seema Sah, Florida International University, Jeffrey Ellis, Chemicals and Plastics Technology
11:00 AMBreak
11:15 AMGenetic Relatedness of Escherichia coli Isolates in Surface Water and Sediment from an Urban Watershed.
Abasiofiok Ibekwe, USDA-ARS
11:30 AMSeasonality of Arctic Soil Microbial Communities.
Shawna McMahon, University of California-Santa Barbara, Matthew Wallenstein, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Joshua Schimel, University of California-Santa Barbara
11:45 AMA Comparison of Soil Microbial Community Structures in Different Cultivars of Switchgrass.
Vanessa Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Lab., Sarah Fansler, Battelle Pacific NW Lab., Jeffrey Smith, USDA-ARS, Harvey Bolton, Battelle Pacific NW Lab.
12:00 PMDifferences in Growth Form between Soil Bacteria and Filamentous Fungi Mediate Their Response to Elevated Atmospheric CO2.
Christopher Blackwood, Kent State University, Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan
12:15 PMThe Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated with Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) Is Dependent on Stand Age.
Zhanbei Liang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Rhae Drijber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
12:30 PMAdjourn

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