B22D:
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Microbes in the Subsurface III

Session ID#: 4737

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States and Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Biddle, Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-Convener:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evidence for Methyl-Compound-Activated Life in Coal Bed System 2 km Below Sea Floor (Invited) (2846)
Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert1, Yuki Morono2, Katherine Dawson3, Greg Wanger4, Marshall Wayne Bowles5, Verena Heuer6, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs6, Fumio Inagaki7 and Victoria J Orphan8, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, United States, (6)MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (8)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
Exploring Genomic Diversity Using Metagenomics of Deep-Sea Subsurface Microbes from the Louisville Seamount and the South Pacific Gyre (Invited) (4021)
Benjamin J Tully, University of Southern California, Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States; USC-Biological Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jason B Sylvan, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States, John F Heidelberg, University of Southern California, Marine Environmental Biology, Los Angeles, United States and Julie A Huber, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Adapt or Die on the Highway To Hell: Metagenomic Insights into Altered Genomes of Firmicutes from the Deep Biosphere (22850)
Brandon R Briggs, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States and Frederick S Colwell, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
A Quiet Riot: Furthering the discussion on aerobic heterotrophy in deep sediments (30967)
Joseph A. Russell III, College of Marine and Earth Studies, Lewes, DE, United States and Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States
Is the rare biosphere real or a technical artifact? A case study involving a multi-year deep subsurface time series (27975)
Cara Magnabosco1, Maggie Lau2, Melody Lindsay3, Rose Alleva4, Ramunas Stepanauskas5, Steven Shivambu6,7, Sihle Maphanga6,7, Esta van Heerden8 and Tullis C Onstott2, (1)Simons Foundation, New York, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, (6)Sibanye Gold Ltd., Welkom, South Africa, (7)Gold Fields Ltd., Welkom, South Africa, (8)University of the Free State, Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Hallelujah! The in situ nitrogen cycle within the subterranean crust (29690)
Chui Yim Maggie Lau Vetter1, Cara Magnabosco2, Rose Alleva3, Wei Wang3, David Perlman3, Saw Kyin3, Sihle Maphanga4, Steven Shivambu4, Esta van Heerden5 and Tullis C Onstott1, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Simons Foundation, New York, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Sibanye Gold Limited, Westonaria, South Africa, (5)University of the Free State, Department of Microbial, Biochemical and Food Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Lipids biomarkers of the deep terrestrial subsurface biosphere (27079)
Magdalena R Osburn, Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States, Lily M Momper, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Florence Schubotz, Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, United States, Roger E Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jan Amend, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Metatranscriptomic Evidence of Chemolithoautotrophy in the Rifle (CO) Subsurface Relevant to C, S, N, and Fe Cycling (14665)
Harry R Beller1, Talia N. M. Jewell1, Ulas Karaoz1, Brian C Thomas2, Jillian F Banfield3, Eoin Brodie4 and Kenneth Hurst Williams5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States
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