February 1 - Todd DeSantis (Andersen Lab, LBL)

           Managing large 16S rRNA gene projects using Greengenes

 

February 8 - Victor Kunin (Hugenholtz Lab, JGI) 

              Evolutionary conservation of sequence and secondary                         structures in CRISPR repeats

            and

            Millimeter-scale functional gradients and molecular                                 convergence in Gurrero Negro hypersaline mat
 

February 15 - Kelly Wrighton (Coates Lab)

          Microbial ecology of electricity generating thermophilic microbial            fuel cells

 

February 22 - no meeting 

 

February 29 - Sheri Simmons (Banfield Lab)

            Strain variation in a natural microbial community
 

March 7 - Morgan Price (Arkin Lab)

            Evolution of Gene Regulation in Bacteria

March 14 - Karrie Weber (Coates  Lab)

             Anaerobic, Nitrate-dependent Metal Bio-oxidation

 

March 21 - Erin Nuccio (Firestone Lab)

             The impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on microbial                          communites in decomposing root litter

 

March 28 - no meeting, spring break

 

April 4 - David Soergel (Brenner Lab)

            Computational approaches to evaluating microbial diversity

 

April 11 - Greg Dick (Banfield Lab)

            Not so simple: Insights into community and genomic diversity                 in acid mine drainage

 

April 18 - Dylan Chivian (Arkin Lab)

            "Metagenomics" of a South African gold mine: the genome of                 Desulforudis audaxviator
 

April 25 - Paul Wilmes (Banfield Lab)

             Natural assemblages reflect distinct organismal and functional              organisation

May 2 - Chris Francis (Stanford) 

            Diversity and abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and                 Bacteria in Marine and Estuarine Environments

May 9 - Eric Dubinsky (Firestone/LBL) 

            The importance of microbial iron cycling in upland tropical                     forest soils