MM52A:
Fungi in the Marine Environment eLightning
MM52A:
Fungi in the Marine Environment eLightning
Fungi in the Marine Environment eLightning
Session ID#: 76592
Session Description:
Fungi are globally distributed in the marine environment and inhabit diverse environments from sea ice to the deep biosphere. Within these environments, fungi interface a wide range of lifestyles, e.g. top-down control on phytoplankton (parasitism), organic matter recycling (saprophytism). Marine fungi also harbor a rich potential for natural product discovery, with >300 novel marine fungal natural products described annually, or for bioremediation processes of recalcitrant pollutants. Secondary metabolisms of marine fungi generate nitrous oxide which is a strong greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting agent. Nevertheless, marine fungi have been largely overlooked compared to their terrestrial counterparts and compared to other members of marine microbial communities. Little is known about their diversity, ecology, and their contribution to global biogeochemical cycles. In this session, we aim to bring together microbial ecologists, cell biologists, bioinformaticians, geochemists, and all other scientists who are interested in advancing our understanding of novel roles played by marine fungi in the marine environment and/or their application for biotechnology. Interdisciplinary studies using innovative culturing, ‘omics’ approaches, isotope techniques, and novel bioinformatics methodologies are particularly welcome.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- ME - Marine Ecology and Biodiversity
- OB - Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry
Index Terms:
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4840 Microbiology and microbial ecology [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL]
4843 Natural products chemistry [OCEANOGRAPHY: CHEMICAL]
Primary Chair: Xuefeng Peng, University of South Carolina, School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States
Co-chairs: Brandon Hassett, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Gaetan Burgaud, University of Brest, LUBEM (Laboratory of Biodiversity and Microbial Ecology), Plouzané, France
Primary Liaison: Xuefeng Peng, University of South Carolina, School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States
Moderators: Brandon Hassett, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway and Xuefeng Peng, University of South Carolina, School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, Columbia, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Gaetan Burgaud, Somerville, MA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
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