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• 3rd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes

  • Start
    October 25, 2010
  • End
    October 29, 2010
  • Location
    Miami, FL

  3rd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes

  October 25 - 29, 2010
  Miami, Florida

  The abstract submission deadline is 11:59 PM CST, August 6, 2010. 
  

  Student travel grants are available, with awardees selected based on geographic diversity and abstract quality.
  

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  Biologists and biomedical scientists are becoming increasingly aware that animals and plants have coevolved with diverse assemblages of microorganisms that are required for normal health and development. Not surprisingly, the activity of these symbiont communities is also likely to profoundly affect all aspects of the host’s physiology and immunology. In addition, a more sophisticated grasp of these normal host-microbe associations is essential if we are to understand what goes wrong when pathogenic ‘interlopers’ disrupt the dynamic stability of the symbiont communities of hosts, including humans. Progress in these areas of investigation requires the application not only of the traditional approaches of biochemistry and genetics, but also of new conceptual models arising from bioinformatics and systems biology.  For example, advances in techniques such as metagenomics and metabolomics have been crucial in predicting the ecology of complex symbiotic communities, the role of metabolic “guilds” in creating community robustness, and the mechanisms underlying the symbionts’ role in disease resistance.  Similarly, the unraveling of the complex networks of metabolic and immune interactions between the microbial community and its host, is only now yielding to the successful application of systems-level analysis and modeling. An understanding of these complex interactions requires contributions from a diverse, multidisciplinary group of researchers, including microbial ecologists and geneticists, immunologists, systems biologists, and clinicians. The goal of this conference is to bring together a wide array of scientific expertise to foster the development of this rapidly expanding field of biology.

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• Geological Society of America

  • Start
    October 30, 2010
  • End
    November 03, 2010
  • Location
    Denver, Colorado

  Conference        Geological Society of America

  Session                 Topic Session # T114 - Symbiosis as a Driver of Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems (Posters)

   

  Conference Start             October 30, 2010

  Conference End               November 3, 2010

   

  Session Summary: Symbiosis has profoundly impacted Earth's biosphere and geosphere. Contributions are welcome that deal with ancient to modern symbiosis in the context of biological, geological, and geochemical evolution, including chemosymbiosis and environmental genomics.

   

  Related topics: Paleontology, Diversity, Extinction, Origination; Geomicrobiology; Geochemistry

   

  Abstract deadline August 10, 2010           Wesbite - http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2010/techprog.htm

   

  Also, during the same conference, there is a special Pardee Keynote session, Symbiosis and Global Change in Ancient and Modern Earth Systems, Tues. Nov. 2, starting at 8am. There will be 5 renowned invited lecturers who will speak to modern to ancient symbiosis, including chemosymbiosis, in the context of past and future biological, geological, and geochemical evolution.

   

  Sponsored by the Geochemical Society, Paleontological Society, GSA Geomicrobiology & Geobiology Division

   

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• 2nd NEMASYM workshop

  • Start
    November 11, 2010
  • End
    November 14, 2010
  • Location
    Tucson, AZ

  For more information please visit the NEMASYM website
  

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• ASLO

  • Start
    February 13, 2011
  • End
    February 18, 2011
  • Location
    San Juan, Puerto Rico

  ASLO meeting
  
  *Interactions Between Aquatic Microbial Eukaryotes: Intracellular to Community Processes* Session # 27
  
  Matthew Johnson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fabrice Not, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS, Université Paris 06
  
  Aquatic microbial eukaryotes exhibit a wide array of interactions that influence community diversity, trophic structure, and ultimately biogeochemical cycles. These interactions, which include competition, allelopathy, predation, parasitism, and symbiosis, are complex phenomena that can be difficult to assess. Aquatic protists in particular are extremely phylogenetically diverse, span a wide spectrum in cell size and encompass a broad range of nutritional modes from phototrophy to heterotrophy. Mixotrophy plays an important nutritional role in many protist groups, and represents a wide array of microbial interactions. In this session we encourage investigators from both laboratory and field settings, in either marine or freshwater systems, to present their research on interactions between aquatic microbial eukaryotes. Research emphasizing the ecological role of cellular interactions, and involving aspects of diversity, cellular biology, functional genomics, cell-cell signaling, or biochemical and physiological processes are welcomed.

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• 7th Congress of the International Symbiosis Society

  • Start
    July 22, 2012
  • End
    July 28, 2012
  • Location
    Krakow, Poland

  Every three years the Congress of the International Symbiosis Society is held where researchers present recent research, exchange information and meet each other.
  
  More information will be provided on this website:
  http://www.eko.uj.edu.pl/mycorrhiza/symbiosis2012/
  

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