B13J:
Exploring Microbial Mat Communities: Functions, Interaction, and Signatures I

Session ID#: 2986

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Co-conveners:  Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental and Molecular Sciences, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Index Terms:

0448 Geomicrobiology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B13J-01
Stromatolites, Metals, Statistics and Microbial Mats: A Complex Interplay (Invited) (28638)
John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and International GeoBiology Course
B13J-02
Studying Microbial Mat Functioning Amidst “Unexpected Diversity”: Methodological Approaches and Initial Results from Metatranscriptomes of Mats Over Diel cycles, iTags from Long Term Manipulations, and Biogeochemical Cycling in Simplified Microbial Mats Constructed from Cultures (Invited) (15676)
Brad Bebout1, Leslie E. Bebout1, Angela Detweiler1, R. Craig Everroad1, Jackson Lee1, Jennifer Pett-Ridge2 and Peter K Weber3, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States
B13J-03
Diel Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics of Elkhorn Slough Hypersaline Microbial Mat (31952)
Jackson Lee1, Angela M Detweiler1, R. Craig Everroad1, Leslie E. Bebout1, Peter K Weber2, Jennifer Pett-Ridge3 and Brad Bebout1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
B13J-04
The Extracellular Matrix in Photosynthetic Mats: A Cyanobacterial Gingerbread House (18025)
Rhona Stuart1, Whitney Stannard1, Brad Bebout2, Jennifer Pett-Ridge1, Xavier Mayali1, Peter K Weber3, Mary Suzanne Lipton4, Jackson Lee2, R. Craig Everroad2 and Michael P Thelen1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental and Molecular Sciences, Richland, WA, United States
B13J-05
Linking Microbial Dynamics and Physicochemical Processes in High-temperature Acidic Fe(III)- Mineralizing Systems (30378)
William Inskeep, Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Hot-Spring Chemosynthetic Team
B13J-06
Geochemical Constraints on the Distribution and Function of Thermoproteales Populations in Yellowstone National Park (26849)
Zackary Jay1, Douglas Rusch2, Margaret Romine3, Jacob Beam1 and William Inskeep4, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)Indiana University Bloomington, The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bloomington, IN, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Microbiology Group, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
B13J-07
Formation of Microbial Streamers by Flow-Induced Shear and Their Hydrodynamic Effects (29727)
Jian Gong1, Kyle Anthony Olsen1, Thu Nguyen1, Michael M Tice2 and Geobiology Course 2012 & 20133, (1)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (3)University of Southern California, Earth Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States
B13J-08
Investigation of Biological Soil Crusts Metabolic Webs Using Exometabolomic Analysis (Invited) (6461)
Trent Northen1, Ulas Karaoz2, Stefan Jenkins3, Rebecca Lau4, Benjamin Bowen5, Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz6, Ferran Garcia-Pichel6, Eoin Brodie7 and Baran Richard3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, United States, (6)Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States
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