Isme14 - Invited Oral Sessions

 Invited Oral Sessions*

  * please note that all information below is preliminary and subject to change

• Microbial origin and evolution
  Convenors: Eric Alm, MIT, USA, and Donald Canfield, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
   
• Microbial community diversity: 16S and beyond
  Convenors: Philip Hugenholtz, University of Queensland, Australia, and Laurent Philippot, INRA, France
   
• Archaea: important players in diverse microbial ecosystems
  Convenors: Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Portland State University, USA,  and Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois, USA
   
• The unknowns: rare ones and unculturables
  Convenors: Yoshiteru Aoi, Waseda University, Japan, and Jay Lennon, Michigan State University, USA
   
• Light and microbial life
  Convenors: Donald Bryant, Penn State University, USA, and Michael Kühl, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
   
• Microbial interactions and behavior
  Convenors: Michael Givskov, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Roman Stocker, MIT, USA
   
• Microbial life in extreme environments
  Convenors: Aharon Oren, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and Warwick Vincent, Laval University, Canada
   
• Bioinformatics in microbial ecology
  Convenors: Jonathan Eisen, University of California Davis, USA,  and Jeroen Raes, VIB, Belgium
   
• Genetic potential and expression: key functions in microbial communities
  Convenors: Jill Banfield, University of California Berkeley, USA, and Michael Schloter, Helmholtz Center München, Germany
   
• Mobility of genes and the species concept
  Convenors: Tal Dagan, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Søren J. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
   
• Syntrophy and electron flow in microbial communities
  Convenors: Yuri Gorby, University of Southern California, USA, and Lars Peter Nielsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
   
• Microbial element cycling: from genes to turnover
  Convenors: Jim Fredrickson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, and Marcel Kuypers, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany
   
• Pathways and Physiology
  Convenors: Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts, USA, and Marc Strous, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany
   
• Microbial dispersion and biogeography - is everything everywhere?
  Convenors: Noah Fierer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and Jessica Green, University of Oregon, USA
   
• Single cell microbiology
  Convenors: Rudolf Amann, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and Ramunas Stepanauskas, Bigalow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Maine, USA
   
• Novel high-resolution technologies
  Convenors: Victoria Orphan, CalTech, USA, and Andrew Whiteley, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
   
• Protistan ecology: beyond diversity
  Convenors: Scott Dawson, University of California Davis, USA, and Tom Fenchel, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
   
• Microbial symbioses
  Convenors: Nancy Moran, Yale University, USA and Forest Rohwer, San Diego State University, USA
   
• Virus-bacteria interactions
  Convenors: Angus Buckling, University of Oxford, UK, and Mathias Middelboe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
   
• Microbial gradient communities
  Convenors: Staffan Kjelleberg, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Niels Peter Revsbech, University of Aarhus, Denmark
   
• Microbes in a changing ocean
  Convenors: Stephen Giovannoni, Oregon State University, USA and Osvaldo Ulloa, University of Conceptión, Chile
   
• Soil microbiology and heterogeneity
  Convenors: Jens Aamand, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark, and Jim Prosser, University of Aberdeen, UK
   
• Plant-microbe interactions
  Convenors: Gwyn Beattie, Iowa State University, USA, and Angela Sessitsch, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
   
• Microbial disease ecology
  Convenors: Søren Molin, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, and David Relman, Stanford University, USA
   
• Putting microbes to work
  Convenors: Martin Keller, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, and Willy Verstraete, Ghent University, Belgium
   
• Managing microbial communities
  Convenors: Ian Head, Newcastle University, UK and Per Halkjær Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
   
• Predictive models of microbial communities
  Convenors: Jef Huisman, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Barth Smets, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
   
• The starving majority: life at low energy flux
  Convenors: Bo Barker Jørgensen, University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Rainer Meckenstock, Helmholtz Center München, Germany