Southeastern Section - 67th Annual Meeting - 2018

Session No. 23
Friday, 13 April 2018: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 301 A (Knoxville Convention Center)

T8. Geomicrobiology of Microbes and Minerals: Influence across Ecosystem Scales

 

Jill Mikucki and Caleb Schuler, Advocates
Paper #
Start Time
8:00 AM
DELAWARE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE HONORS PROJECT: ANALYZING FLUID AND CRYSTALS IN FLUID FILLED AGATES
WIEDMAN, Nicholas1, SINGBE, Dorothy1 and CHILDERS, Daniel2, (1)Math/Science, Delaware County Community College, 901 South Media Line Road, Media, PA 19063, (2)Earth and Space Science Department, Delaware County Community College, 901 S. Media Line Rd., Media, PA 19063
8:20 AM
AN ANALYSIS OF THE MINERAL, CHEMICAL, AND MICROBIAL COMPOSITION OF FLUID-FILLED AGATES
LUCAS, Kaitlyn A., Math/Science Department, Delaware County Community College, 901 South Media Line Road, Media, PA 19063 and CHILDERS, Daniel, Earth and Space Science Department, Delaware County Community College, 901 S. Media Line Rd., Media, PA 19063
8:40 AM
SEM IMAGING OF ELUSIVE GRID-WORK TEXTURES WITHIN PROTEROZOIC EARLY DIAGENETIC CHERT
DUNHAM, J.I. and KAH, L.C., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
9:00 AM
GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF 1.1 GA MICROBIAL MATS IN EARLY DIAGENETIC CHERT OF THE ANGMAAT FORMATION, BYLOT SUPERGROUP NORTHERN BAFFIN ISLAND
MANNING-BERG, A.R.1, TUITE Jr., M.L.2, WILLIFORD, K.H.2 and KAH, L.C.1, (1)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109
9:20 AM
CHARACTERIZATION OF EPS PRODUCING MICROORGANISMS IN ANTARCTIC SUBGLACIAL SYSTEMS
VANCLEAVE, Samantha Ashley, Microbiology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, M313 Walters Life Sciences, Knoxville, TN 37996
9:40 AM
POTENTIAL ACTIVITIES OF FRESHWATER EXO- AND ENDO-ACTING EXTRACELLULAR PEPTIDASES IN EAST TENNESSEE AND THE POCONO MOUNTAINS
MULLEN, Lauren Ashley1, SHABAZZ, Malcolm X.1, BOERRIGTER, Kim2, FERRIERO, Nicholas1, ROSALSKY, Jeff3, MURRAY, Patrick James4 and STEEN, Andrew D.5, (1)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 2014 Sutters Mill Ln, Knoxville, TN 37909, (2)Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 02138, (3)Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry, PA 18328, (4)Newark, NJ 07108, (5)Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 602 Strong Hall, 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996
 
10:00 AM
Break
10:20 AM
EVALUATING THE SENSITIVITY OF SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL METAGENOME ASSEMBLED GENOME PROPERTIES AS A FUNCTION OF METAGENOMIC SHOTGUN SEQUENCING DEPTH
ROYALTY, Taylor Michael, Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996 and STEEN, Andrew D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 602 Strong Hall, 1621 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37996
10:40 AM
MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DATA SUPPORTS BIOLOGICALLY MEDIATED CRYPTIC SULFUR CYCLING IN ARCTIC SEDIMENTS, VAN KEULENFJORDEN, SVALBARD (79°N)
BUONGIORNO, Joy1, LLOYD, Karen Grayson1, HERBERT, Lisa2, WEHRMANN, Laura2, FAIIA, Anthony M.3 and SZYNKIEWICZ, Anna3, (1)Microbiology, University of Tennessee, M409 Walters Life Sciences, Knoxville, TN 37996, (2)School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, 145 Endeavour Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, (3)Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, 602 Strong Hall, 1621 Cumberland Ave, Knoxville, TN 37996
11:00 AM
CRITICAL IMPACTS OF VITAMINS ON THE BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING AND FATE OF CHLORINATED ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
JIANG, Nannan, Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 443 Greve Hall, 821 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996, YAN, Jun, Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China and LÖFFLER, Frank E., Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996
11:20 AM
IN SITU CONTAMINATION OF MELT PROBES: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE SUBGLACIAL MICROBIOLOGICAL SAMPLING AND ICY WORLDS LIFE DETECTION MISSIONS
SCHULER, Caleb G.1, WINEBRENNER, Dale P.2, ELAM, W.T.2, BURNETT, Justin2, BOLES, Bruce W.1 and MIKUCKI, Jill A.1, (1)Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, 1013 NE 40th Street, Box 355640, seattle, WA 98105-6698
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