Inspire Session
Elsa Abs
UC Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
Moira Hough
Michigan Technological University, United States
Adriana Romero-Olivares, PhD
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Elsa Abs
UC Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
Microbes play an essential role in mediating ecosystem processes such as the carbon cycle. Therefore predicting how climate change will impact ecosystem processes depends on improving understanding of how microbes respond and adapt to change. However, assessment and modelling of the adaptive responses of microbes remains a major scientific challenge due to a lack of understanding of basic microbial eco-evolutionary processes. The goal of this session is to inspire new ideas and spark discussion around next steps to integrating microbial adaptation into our understanding of ecosystem processes, especially models of carbon cycling. To accomplish this, we have invited insight from researchers with diverse scientific backgrounds who have studied microbial adaptation and impacts on the carbon cycle from different angles and at different times in the last several decades. In this session, we will first share new ideas related to microbial evolution and adaptive traits from an omics and culture-based perspective. We will then explore how to incorporate these perspectives into ecosystem models, and discuss how incorporating them can help us underpin ecosystem-scale responses, such as decomposition and plant-soil feedbacks, under global change. And finally, we will discuss how this integrative framework will allow us to better predict the future of microbially mediated biogeochemical processes.
Presenting Author: Sarah Bagby – Case Western Reserve University
Co-author: Jiarong Guo – Ohio State University
Co-author: Dean Vik – Ohio State University
Co-author: Simon Roux – DOE Joint Genome Institute
Co-author: Matthew B. Sullivan – Ohio State University
Presenting Author: Mallory J. Choudoir – UMass Amherst
Co-author: Achala Narayanan – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-author: Damayanti Rodriguez-Ramos – University of Wisconsin madison
Co-author: Alon Efroni – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-author: Rachel Simoes – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Co-author: Kristen M. DeAngelis – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Presenting Author: Serita Frey – University of New Hampshire
Presenting Author: Emily Boak – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Co-Author: Marie Kroeger – Los Alamos National Laboratory
Presenting Author: Gianna L. Marschmann – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-author: Gianna L. Marschmann – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-author: Jinyun Tang – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-author: Ulas Karaoz – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Co-author: Jenna Israel – University of California Berkeley
Co-author: Eoin L. Brodie – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Presenting Author: Angela Oliverio – Yale university
Presenting Author: Casey terHorst, PhD. – Cal State Northridge