MM12A:
Marine Microbes in the Omics Epoch: Unveiling Their Critical Roles in the Pelagic and Benthic Environments II
Session ID#: 92936
Session Description:
Marine microorganisms - bacteria, viruses, phytoplankton, and protists have diverse interactions that define large-scale processes, such as nutrient cycling, gas fluxes with the atmosphere, and energy flow through marine food webs. The complexity of microbial communities in ocean habitats, including planktonic, benthic and host-associated environments demands deeper exploration in order to unveil the critical roles that microbes play in shaping marine ecosystems. Symbiosis (i.e., mutualism, parasitism, commensalism), predation, mixotrophy, allelopathy and competition are some of the complex biological interactions that can significantly drive the ecology and evolution of these important microbial players. Advances in molecular technologies (genomics, metabolomics, genetic engineering), cutting-edge methods in microbiology (microfluidics, microscopy), laboratory model systems development, time series studies and modeling offer new ways to describe the linkages between specific microbial players and their surrounding environment. We invite studies that investigate these wide-ranging interactions, from microbe-microbe, microbe-organic matter to host-microbe interactions, to further explore microbial impacts on trophic transfer of chemical compounds, atmospheric gas fluxes, transformations of organic matter and nutrients, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem health. Studies that develop emerging technologies and models that shed light to these cryptic interactions are also encouraged.
Primary Chair: Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Co-chairs: Linda Wegley Kelly, San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States, Craig Nelson, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Shady A Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi, Biology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Primary Liaison: Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Moderators: Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Linda Wegley Kelly, San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States, Craig Nelson, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean, Earth Science, and Technology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Shady A Amin, New York University Abu Dhabi, Biology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Student Paper Review Liaison: Marilou Sison-Mangus, University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Global Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) microbiome: regional taxonomic flexibility and functional stability (656362)
Elizabeth A Dinsdale1, Michael P Doane2, Abbigail Turnland3, Taylor Dillion4, Lais Lima5, Asha Goodman5, Meredith Peterson4, Simon Peirce6, CHris Rohner6, Deni Ramírez7, Gonzalo Araujo8, Richard Pillans9, Robert Edwards3 and Megan Morris10, (1)San Diego State University, Ecology, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)SDSU, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)SDSU, San Diego, United States, (5)San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, (6)Marine Megafauna Foundation, Truckee, United States, (7)Tiburón Ballena México, BJ, Mexico, (8)Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute, Philippines, (9)CSIRO, QLD, Australia, (10)Standford, CA, United States
Holobiont Variability and the ecosystem impact of coral bleaching: lessons learned from a molecular time series (647471)
Andrew Thurber, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Sarah Seabrook, Oregon State University, CEOAS, Corvallis, OR, United States, Kaitlin McConnell, Oregon State University, Microbiology, OR, United States, Emily Schmeltzer, Oregon State University, Microbiology, Corvallis, CA, United States, Adrienne Correa, Rice University, BioSciences, Houston, United States and Rebecca Vega Thurber, Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States
Protist plankton seasonality and community structure in the epi- and mesopelagic at BATS (644461)
Leocadio Blanco Bercial1, Rachel Jane Parsons2, Luis Manuel Bolanos3, Natasha McDonald4, Stephen J Giovannoni3 and Ruth Curry5, (1)Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St Georges, Bermuda, (2)Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences, St. George's, Bermuda, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Microbiology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)BIOS, St. George''S, Bermuda, (5)Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, Bermuda
Defining seasonal patterns of SAR11 viruses in the Western English Channel via long-read sequencing and viral isolation (643006)
Ben Temperton1, Joanna Louisa Warwick-Dugdale2, Holger Buchholz1, Michelle Michelsen1, Natalie Solonenko3, Ann C Gregory4, Mike Allen2 and Matthew B Sullivan5, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Ohio State University, Microbiology, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Ohio State University Main Campus, Microbiology, Columbus, United States
Osmolyte synthesis and utilization in the marine bacterium Vibrio natriegens (654611)
Winifred Johnson1, Erin E. Kelly2, Gregory A. Ellis3, Dagmar H. Leary3 and Gary J. Vora3, (1)National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, United States
A marine bacterium produces three different factors that stimulate animal metamorphosis (635946)
Amanda Therese Alker1, Nathalie Delherbe2, Trevor Purdy3, Bradley S Moore4 and Nicholas Shikuma1, (1)San Diego State University, Cell and Molecular Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Population dynamics of SAR11 marine bacteria across a temporally-sampled nearshore to open ocean transect (637900)
Sarah J Tucker1, Kelle C Freel2, Elizabeth A. Monaghan3, Clarisse E.S. Sullivan3,4, Oscar Ramfelt3,4, Evelyn GE Hoffman5, Yoshimi M Rii3,6 and Michael S Rappe2, (1)NOAA, Silver Spring, United States, (2)Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, United States, (3)Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States, (4)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Smith College, Biological Sciences, Northampton, MA, United States, (6)He‘eia National Estuarine Research Reserve, Kāneʻohe, HI, United States
Diel Gene Expression of Eukaryotic Microplankton in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Metatranscriptomic Windows into Temporal Function, Ecology, and Evolution of Uncultured Microbes (653626)
Ryan D Groussman1, Sacha Coesel1, Bryndan Paige Durham2, Rhonda Morales3 and Virginia Armbrust3, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, (2)University of Florida, Department of Biology & Genetics Institute, Gainesville, United States, (3)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States
De novo-assisted peptidomics helps in the study of marine carbon flux and protein degradation (654780)
Megan E Duffy1, Jamee Adams2, Jacquelyn A Neibauer1, Clara A Fuchsman3 and Richard G Keil1, (1)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States
Prophages in Host-Associated Microbes: The Most Abundant Symbiosis on Earth and Its Relevance in Marine Holobionts (648214)
Mark Little, SDSU, San Diego, CA, United States, Maria Isabel Rojas, SDSU, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States and Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States
