B53C:
Geomicrobiology of Extreme Environments: Scarcity is the Mother of Invention II Posters

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Session ID#: 12747

Session Description:
The session will focus on geomicrobiology of extreme environments. Microbial communities in extreme environments display an intricate network of resource scouring and sharing. Highlighting survival processes and ecosystem functions performed by these microbes, this session will focus on microbial community structure, function, and resilience strategies employed by the microorganisms in the face of scarcity, and explore novel links between geochemistry, geomorphology, and microbiology. We expect abstracts from researchers who study life in extreme environments including arid and semi-arid regions, permafrost, deep-sea vents, mine-tailings, hypersaline environments, and sub-surface sediments to name a few. Talks can range from '-omics' related findings, microbial modeling of extreme environments to better predict response to climate change scenarios, function of these microorganisms in providing soil stability and landscape evolution, and interactions at the geochemistry-microbiology interface.
Primary Convener:  Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Aditi Sengupta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Laura K Meredith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • DI - Study of the Earth's Deep Interior
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0448 Geomicrobiology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0463 Microbe/mineral interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the anaerobic oxidation of methane in the active mud volcanoes of the Canadian Beaufort Sea (133290)
Yung Mi Lee1, Dong-Hun Lee2, Kyuin Hwang1, Soon Gyu Hong1 and Young Keun Jin1, (1)Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Division of Earth and Environment al System Sciences, PukyungNational University, Busan, South Korea
Microbial Ecology of Sediment-Groundwater Interface in the Lake Lucero Playa at the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico (135223)
Steven Ramirez1, Mihaela Glamoclija2, Inoka H Widanagamage1, Mousa Zeidan1 and Steve Potochniak1, (1)Rutgers University Newark, Newark, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States
SPaMOB eat atmospheric methane in Antarctica (137348)
Chui Yim Maggie Lau Vetter, Collin R Edwards and Tullis C Onstott, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Genomic Insights into Geothermal Spring Community Members using a 16S Agnostic Single-Cell Approach (141571)
Robert Michael Bowers, Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
Gypsum Formation during the Messinian Salinity Crisis: an Alternative Model (158861)
Arjen Grothe1, Wout Krijgsman2, Francesca Sangiorgi1, Iuliana Vasiliev3, Chris van Baak1, Mariette Wolthers4, Marius Stoica5, Gert-Jan Reichart1,6 and Gareth Davies7, (1)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Paleomagnetic Laboratory “Fort Hoofddijk”, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (4)Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of Bucharest, Department of Geology, Bucharest, Romania, (6)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, (7)VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Extremophiles in Household Water Heaters (159447)
Regina Wilpiszeski, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Christopher H House, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, PA, United States
Life Underneath the Deccan Trap: New Insights from Stable C, O and Clumped Isotopes from the Cretaceous Stromatolites Underneath the Amba Dongar Carbonatite Body, Gujarat, Western India (163039)
Yogaraj Banerjee, Indian Institute of Science, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Bangalore, India, Prosenjit Ghosh, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences; Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Bangalore, India, Benjamin R Fosu, Indian Institute of Science, Centre for Earth Sciences, Bangalore, India and Shrinivas Viladkar, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Bhopal, India
Enabling environmental metagenomics and extremophile discovery through SCODA DNA purification (166506)
Thomas Lum and Jason Maydan, Boreal Genomics, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Adaptive evolution of Escherichia coli to Ciprofloxacin in controlled stress environments: emergence of tolerance in spatial and temporal gradients (180381)
Jinzi Deng1, Robert A. Sanford1,2, Yiran Dong3, Lauren A Shechtman4, Lang Zhou5, Reinaldo E Alcalde5, Charles J Werth6 and Bruce W Fouke7,8, (1)Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Institute for Genomic Biology, Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Chemistry, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Mineral-Microbe Interaction and Methanogenesis: The Role of Mineral Type (180444)
Patrick Bond Lazzarino, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States and Omar Richard Harvey, Texas Christian University, Geological Sciences, Fort Worth, TX, United States
Electrode Cultivation and Interfacial Electron Transport in Subsurface Microorganisms (191377)
Amruta Anand Karbelkar1, Yamini Jangir1, Brandi Kiel Reese2, Greg Wanger1, Cynthia Anderson3, Moh El-Naggar1 and Jan Amend4, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Department of Life Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (3)Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Mineral Enhanced Archaea-mediated co-production of CH4 and N2O: A missing link in interactions between Earth’s Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle (195642)
Omar Richard Harvey, Texas Christian University, Geological Sciences, Fort Worth, TX, United States, Patrick Bond Lazzarino, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States, William B Whitman, University of Georgia, Microbiology, Athens, GA, United States and Nikolla P Qafoku, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Geosciences, Richland, WA, United States

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