Isme14 - Scientific Program

 Preliminary session topics at ISME14 are:

• Microbial origin and evolution
• Microbial community diversity
• Archaea: important players in diverse microbial ecosystems
• The unknowns: rare ones and unculturables
• Light and microbial life
• Microbial interactions and behaviour
• Microbial life in extreme environments
• Bioinformatics in microbial ecology
• Genetic potential and expression: key functions in microbial communities
• Mobility of genes and the species concept
• Syntrophy and electron flow in microbial communities
• Microbial element cycles
• Pathways and physiology
• Microbial dispersion and biogeography 
• Single-cell techniques in microbial ecology
• Novel high-resolution technologies 
• Protist ecology 
• Microbial symbioses
• Virus-bacteria interactions
• Microbial gradient communities
• Marine microbiology under climate change
• Soil microbiology and heterogeneity
• Plant-microbe interactions
• The human microbiome
• Putting microbes to work
• Managing microbial communities
• Modelling microbial ecology 
• The starving majority: life at low energy flux 

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