February 1 - Todd DeSantis (Andersen Lab, LBL)
Managing large 16S rRNA gene projects using Greengenes
February 8 - Victor Kunin (Hugenholtz Lab, JGI)
Evolutionary conservation of sequence and secondary structures in CRISPR repeats
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Millimeter-scale functional gradients and molecular convergence in Gurrero Negro hypersaline mat
February 15 - Kelly Wrighton (Coates Lab)
Microbial ecology of electricity generating thermophilic microbial fuel cells
February 22 - no meeting
February 29 - Sheri Simmons (Banfield Lab)
Strain variation in a natural microbial community
March 7 - Morgan Price (Arkin Lab)
Evolution of Gene Regulation in Bacteria
March 14 - Karrie Weber (Coates Lab)
Anaerobic, Nitrate-dependent Metal Bio-oxidation
March 21 - Erin Nuccio (Firestone Lab)
The impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on microbial communites in decomposing root litter
March 28 - no meeting, spring break
April 4 - David Soergel (Brenner Lab)
Computational approaches to evaluating microbial diversity
April 11 - Greg Dick (Banfield Lab)
Not so simple: Insights into community and genomic diversity in acid mine drainage
April 18 - Dylan Chivian (Arkin Lab)
"Metagenomics" of a South African gold mine: the genome of Desulforudis audaxviator
April 25 - Paul Wilmes (Banfield Lab)
Natural assemblages reflect distinct organismal and functional organisation
May 2 - Chris Francis (Stanford)
Diversity and abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Marine and Estuarine Environments
May 9 - Eric Dubinsky (Firestone/LBL)
The importance of microbial iron cycling in upland tropical forest soils