USGS Interdisciplinary Microbiology Workshop Agenda
October 15 – 17, 2008, Estes Park, Colorado
October 15
8:30 AM Opening: Welcome, House Keeping, Short explanation of how the workshop came to be and introductions of committee members
8:45 AM Plenary: The Ecology of Arsenic: A Lurid Tale of Murder, Mayhem, Microbes, Malodorous Mono Muds, and Mars
9:25 AM BREAK (15 minutes)
I. Ecology of Wildlife and Fish Disease
9:40 AM David Blehert: Molecular Epidemiology of Avian Cholera
10:10 AM Gael Kurath: Epidemiology and evolution of rhabdoviruses in fish
10:40 AM Hon Ip: North American Avian Flu Surveillance
11:10 AM Carter Atkinson: Ecology and pathogenicity of Avipoxvirus and malaria in Pacific Island Birds
11:40 AM LUNCH-ON SITE
II. Mechanisms of Fish & Wildlife Disease
12:30 PM Paul Hershberger: Disease Impacts on Wild Marine Fish
1:00 PM Chris Ottinger: Mycobacteriosis in Chesapeake Bay
1:30 PM Toni Rocke: Studies on plague pathogenesis in rodents using in vivo imaging
2:00 PM Chad Johnson: Role of Wild Rodents in Environmental Transport of Prions
2:30 PM Thierry Work: Microbiology in Marine Wildlife Disease
3:00 PM BREAK (30 minutes)
III. Microbial Ecology
3:30 PM Christina Kellogg: Microbiology of Deep Sea Corals
4:00 PM Andrea Foster: Chromatography for Microbial Analysis
4:30 PM Jayne Belnap: Soil Crusts and Importance to Prevention of Desertification
5:30 PM DINNER-ON SITE
7:00 PM Poster Session and Reception
October 16
III. Microbial Ecology (continued)
8:30 AM Rusty Rodriguez: Endosymbiotic Fungi in Plants: Ecology and Implications for Climate Change
9:00 AM Nicole DeCrappeo: Soil Community Dynamics in Sagebrush Steppe and Cheatgrass-invaded Areas of the Northern Great Basin
IV. Geographic Patterns/Visualization
9:30 AM Steve Guptill: Microbial Mapping: Stimulating Hypothesis and Informing the Public
10:00 AM Lee De Cola: Medical Geography: Multiscale insights on the health of regions
10:30 AM BREAK (30 minutes)
11:00 AM Joseph Bunnell: Public Health and Geospatial Distribution
11:30 AM Wm. Steve Helterbrand: Identification of Human Plague Risk: the Importance of Habitat Diversity Measures
12:00 PM LUNCH-ON SITE
V. Public Health and Water Quality
1:00 PM Muruleedhara Byappanahalli: QPCR for Development of Beach Health Models
1:30 PM Jennifer Graham: Harmful Algal Blooms
2:00 PM Lisa Reynolds Fogarty: Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in the Environment
2:30 PM Don Stoeckel: Bacterial Source Tracking
3:00 PM BREAK (30 minutes)
3:30 PM Ron Harvey: Transport of Microbes in the Subsurface/physical Interaction of Microbes and Particles
4:00 PM Bane Schill: Flow Cytometry in Microbiology
5:00 PM DINNER-ON SITE
7:00 PM Break-out Working Groups - There will be several topics the groups will be divided into to address. The notebook you receive upon registration will have your working group assignment.
October 17
VI. Geomicrobiology
8:30 AM Ronald Oremland: Geomicrobiology/Nanoscience of Toxic Elements As, Se, Te
9:00 AM JoAnn Holloway: Geomicrobiology of Weathering
9:30 AM Chris Mills: Using Natural Abundance d13C and D14C Values of Phospholipid Fatty Acids to Characterize Bacterial Carbon Cycling Pathways in Deep Aquifers
10:00 AM William Orem: Geochemical Controls on Microbial Methylation of Mercury in the Florida Everglades
10:30 AM BREAK (15 minutes)
10:45AM Mark Stanton: Microbial Influence on Sulfide and Weathering
11:15 AM Mark Marvin-DiPasquale: Microbial Methylation of Mercury
11:45 AM LUNCH-ON SITE
VII. Ecosystem Function
12:45 PM A Tale of Disappearing Toads: The Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in the Rocky Mountains, special guest Dr. Erin Muths
15 minute presentation followed by a Field Walk on site highlighting the habitats and life history of the Boreal Toad and its interactions with the Chytrid Fungus
2:00 PM BREAK (30 minutes)
2:30 PM Richard “Dick” L. Smith: Natural and Enhanced Bioremediation of Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater
3:00 PM Mark Waldrop: Microbial communities and carbon cycling in response to global change
3:30 PM Jill Baron: Biogeochemistry of Mountain Watersheds
4:00 PM Matthew Bachmann: Microbial Genetics in Groundwater Models
4:30 PM Julie Kirshtein: Evaluating Ecosystem Function with Integrated Approaches in Environmental Microbiology
5:00 PM Closing Comments, Next Steps |
