B23A:
Exploring Microbial Mat Communities: Functions, Interaction, and Signatures II Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States and Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Biomediated Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate and Sulfur in a Faintly Acidic Hot Spring
Lei Jiang1, Xiaotong Peng1 and Haijun Qiao2, (1)Sanya Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China, (2)School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
 
Growing Rocks: Implications of Lithification for Microbial Communities and Nutrient Cycling
Jessica R Corman, Amisha T Poret-Peterson and James J Elser, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
The microbial mats of Pavilion Lake microbialites: examining the relationship between photosynthesis and carbonate precipitation
Darlene Sze Shien Lim1, Ian Hawes2, Tyler J Mackey3, Allyson L Brady4, Jennifer Biddle5, Dale T Andersen6, Mark Belan4, Greg Franklin Slater4, Andrew Abercromby7, Steven W Squyres8, Mike Delaney9, Christopher William Haberle10 and Zena Cardman11,12, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Aquatic Research Solutions, Christchurch, New Zealand, (3)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (4)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (5)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (6)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (7)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (9)Marrella Underwater Services, Calgary, Canada, (10)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (11)Pennsylvania State University Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, United States, (12)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, PA, State College, United States
 
Early diagenetic processes of saline meromictic Lake Kai-ike, southwest Japan: III. Sulfur speciation and isotopes
Nozomi Sakai, Toho University, Chiba, Japan, Kosei E Yamaguchi, Toho University, Department of Chemistry, Chiba, Japan and Kazumasa Oguri, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Phosphorus and iron cycles during early diagenesis of Lake Kai-ike sediments, Kami-koshiki Island, southwest Japan
Hajime Iida, Toho University, Chiba, Japan, Kosei E Yamaguchi, Toho University, Department of Chemistry, Chiba, Japan and Kazumasa Oguri, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Timecourse analysis of photosynthetic microbial communities that degrade cellulose and fix nitrogen
Anna Knapp1, Radmer van der Heyde1, Michael Sheets1, Lin Zhang2,3, Yazhou Wang4, Xiao Liu4, Beth Slikas5, Linda A Amaral-Zettler5 and Jean Huang1, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, United States, (5)Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Combined stable isotope, proteomic, metabolomics, and spatial specific analysis to track carbon flow through a hypersaline phototrophic microbial mat
James Moran, Alexandra Cory, Krystin M Riha, Eric L Huang, Marina A Gritsenko, Young-Mo Kim, Thomas O Metz and Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
Spatial and Temporal Variations of Microbial Biodiversity at Hypersaline Microbial Mats
Yasemin Gulecal, Nuran Unsal and Mustafa Temel, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
 
Optimal Biofilm Featues: metabolic and geometric response to multiple oxidants
Chris Kempes1,2, Chinweike Okegbe3, Zwoisaint Mears-Clarke3, Michael J Follows4 and Lars Dietrich3, (1)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Microbial Precipitation and Diagenesis in Salt Ponds from Little Darby Island, Exumas, Bahamas.
Alan M Piggot, James Klaus, Peter K Swart and Pamela Reid, University of Miami, Department of Marine Geosciences - RSMAS, Miami, FL, United States
 
Stress-Survival Gene Identification From an Acid Mine Drainage Algal Mat Community
Jesica Urbina-Navarrete1,2, Kosuke Fujishima1, Ivan G Paulino-Lima1, Brooke Rothschild-Mancinelli3 and Lynn J Rothschild1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Brance, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
In situ ecophysiology of Aigarchaeota from an oxic, hot-spring filamentous ‘streamer’ community
Jacob Beam1, Zackary Jay1, Susannah G Tringe2, Tijana Glavina del Rio2, Douglas Rusch3, Markus Schmid4, Michael Wagner4 and William Inskeep1, (1)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)University of Vienna, Divison of Microbial Ecology, Vienna, Austria
 
Minerals as Ecosystems in the Nutrient-Limited Subsurface
Aaron Alexander Jones, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Philip Bennett, Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States
 
Ecological genomics of the newly discovered diazotrophic filamentous cyanobacterium ESFC-1
Craig Everroad1, Brad Bebout1, Leslie E. Bebout1, Angela M Detweiler1, Jackson Lee1, Xavier Mayali2, Steven W Singer3, Rhona Stuart2, Peter K Weber2, Dagmar Woebken4 and Jennifer Pett-Ridge5, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (5)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States
 
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