Hello, Please consider submitting an abstract to the session “Geomicrobiology of extreme environments: Scarcity is the mother of invention” at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (12-16 December 2016 in San Francisco, California). Co-convened with Dr. Laura Meredith (also at U of A), the session will emphasize microbial community dynamics in extreme environments. Microbial communities in extreme environments display an intricate network of resource scouring and sharing. By highlighting survival processes and ecosystem functions performed by these microbes, the session will focus on microbial community structure, function, and resilience strategies employed by the microorganisms in the face of scarcity, and explore novel links between geochemistry, geomorphology, and microbiology.
We expect abstracts from researchers who study life in extreme environments including arid and semi-arid regions, permafrost, deep-sea vents, mine-tailings, hypersaline environments, and sub-surface sediments to name a few. Talks can range from '-omics' related findings, microbial modeling of extreme environments to better predict response to climate change scenarios, function of these microorganisms in providing soil stability and landscape evolution, and interactions at the geochemistry-microbiology interface. The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday , 3 August 2016. Abstracts can be submitted at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12747.html Feel free to contact me ([email protected]) or Laura Meredith ([email protected]) if you have questions or need more information. Thanks, Aditi Sengupta, Ph. D. Postdoctoral Research Associate Landscape Evolution Observatory Biosphere 2 University of Arizona
