MM24B:
Molecular Ecology Approaches and Cyberinfrastructure for Marine Microbial 'Omics I Posters


Session ID#: 37943

Session Description:
Biological oceanography is increasingly reliant on molecular, ‘omics research tools, which range in their application from sub-cellular to planetary scales. The rapidly increasing scope and complexity of omics studies presents major opportunities and challenges in their integration with other oceanographic measurements, computational analyses, and cyber-infrastructure. Participants will be called upon to highlight the promise and challenge of using molecular approaches across all domains of life, focusing on applications in diverse disciplines such as planktonic and benthic ecology, biological oceanography, and computer science. We aim to catalyze cross-disciplinary interactions, facilitating discussions on how the ocean sciences can adapt to continued, rapid advances in laboratory ‘omics tools and bioinformatics. This session will focus on solutions to the challenges facing the management and analysis of ‘omics data, as well as on current ‘omics studies aimed at exploring the diversity, structure, and function of eukaryotes, bacteria, archaea, and viruses in marine ecosystems.
Primary Chair:  Holly Bik, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, United States
Co-chairs:  Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States, Paul Berube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Sarah M Hardy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Moderators:  Holly Bik, University of Georgia, Department of Marine Sciences, Athens, United States and Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Paul Berube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Sarah M Hardy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Index Terms:

1908 Cyberinfrastructure [INFORMATICS]
1914 Data mining [INFORMATICS]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4858 Population dynamics and ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • OD - Ocean Data Management

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Metatranscriptome Analysis of Plastid Targeted Genes in Iron-Limited Southern Ocean Diatoms (321841)
Kristofer M Gomes, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology, Kingston, RI, United States, Laura Z. Holland, University of Rhode Island, Cell and Molecular Biology and Graduate School of Oceanography, Kingston, RI, United States, Shannon Burns, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, United States, Randie M Bundy, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Kristen N Buck, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, United States, Phoebe Dreux Chappell, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersberg, United States and Bethany D. Jenkins, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
Diatom community composition shifts in the nitrogen-limited Mid-Atlantic Bight (318098)
Zuzanna M Abdala1, Sveinn V Einarsson2, Kimberly Powell1, Peter W Bernhardt3, Brittany Widner4 and Phoebe Dreux Chappell5, (1)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (2)Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, United States, (5)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersberg, United States

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