MM42A:
Molecular Ecology Approaches and Cyberinfrastructure for Marine Microbial 'Omics II


Session ID#: 37949

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 M Bik, University of California, Riverside, Department of Nematology, Riverside, CA, 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 M Bik, University of California, Riverside, Department of Nematology, Riverside, CA, United States and Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Sarah M Hardy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Paul Berube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Index Terms:

1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [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:

No submissions have been made yet.

See more of: Microbiology and Molecular Ecology