Session: Symbiosis and Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems (2010 GSA Denver Annual Meeting (31 October

P1. Symbiosis and Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems

Geochemical Society; Paleontological Society; GSA Geomicrobiology & Geobiology Division

Laurie Anderson and Annette Summers Engel, Conveners

Paper #

Start Time

8:00 AM

Introductory Remarks

8:15 AM

ORIGIN OF EVOLUTIONARY NOVELTY IN THE PROTEROZOIC EON

MARGULIS, Lynn, Department of Geosciences, UMASS Amherst, 611 North Pleasant Street, Morrill Science Center, Amherst, MA 01003, lynn@sagantechnology.com, lynn@sagantechnology.com

8:40 AM

Questions & Discussion

8:45 AM

CHLOROPLASTS, MITOCHONDRIA, AND THE EUKARYOTIC PRESENCE IN PROTEROZOIC OCEANS

KNOLL, Andrew H., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, aknoll@oeb.harvard.edu, aknoll@oeb.harvard.edu

9:10 AM

Questions & Discussion

9:15 AM

THE EVOLUTION OF SYMBIOTIC NITROGEN FIXATION IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS

FALKOWSKI, Paul G., Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, 71 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, falko@marine.rutgers.edu, falko@marine.rutgers.edu

9:40 AM

Questions & Discussion

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

PROTIST-PROKARYOTE AND ANIMAL-PROKARYOTE SYMBIOSES IN MODERN SULFIDIC SEDIMENTS

BERNHARD, Joan M. and EDGCOMB, Virginia P., Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, jbernhard@whoi.edu, jbernhard@whoi.edu

10:25 AM

Questions & Discussion

10:30 AM

REPEATED LOSS OF COLONIALITY AND SYMBIOSIS IN SCLERACTINIAN CORALS

BARBEITOS, Marcos, Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, 79 st and Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, msbarbeitos@gmail.com, msbarbeitos@gmail.com

10:55 AM

Questions & Discussion

11:00 AM

TRANSFORMATIONS AND BIOWEATHERING OF METALS AND MINERALS BY FREE-LIVING AND SYMBIOTIC FUNGI

GADD, Geoffrey Michael, University of Dundee, Division of Molecular Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Dundee, DD15EH, United Kingdom, g.m.gadd@dundee.ac.uk, g.m.gadd@dundee.ac.uk

11:25 AM

Questions & Discussion

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