Nenun Workshop Reykjavik 2011
Wednesday September 7th
Day of arrivel and dinner at the hotel at 19.00, Steering group meeting from 17.00-19.00. If you have any thing the steering group should discuss, please contact a member of the steering group.
Thursday September 8th
| 8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Introduction to 2. workshop – What have happened since last workshop
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| 9.30-12.00 |
Session 1: Analysis of single cells and specific populations |
| 9.30-9.50 |
Tackeling microbial communities in Siberian Arctic tundra soil and permafrost. By Antje Gittel |
| 9.50-10.10 |
Using single cell genomics to unravel the microbial ecology of marine sediments. By Lars Schreiber |
| 10.10-10.30 |
Isolation of single microbial cells using a laser microdissection microscope (LMD). By Dorthe Groth Petersen |
| 10.30-10.45 |
Break |
| 10.45-11.05 |
Analysis of norovirus in raw water using filtration techniques. By Fredrik Nyström |
| 11.05-11.25 |
Ph.D. courses – Update |
| 11.25-12.00 |
Session discussion |
| 12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
| 13.00-16.00 |
Session 2: Active microbes in the environment |
| 13.00-13.20 |
Physiological fingerprinting of herbicide-degrading microbial communities in response to different herbicide concentrations. By Erkin Gözdereliler |
| 13.20-13.40 |
Microbial activity in iron-manganese concretions. By Kirsten Jørgensen |
| 13.40-14.00 |
Sequencing ikaite columns from Greenland: Diversity studies and genome mining for enzymes. By Peter Stougaard |
| 14.00-14.15 |
Break |
| 14.15-14.30 |
Effect of atrazine application history on degradation gene occurrence and natural degradation potential in different soils. By Aura Nousiainen |
| 14.30-14.50 |
The old problem – how to extract DNA and RNA from clay soil. By Carsten Suhr Jacobsen |
| 14.50-15.10 |
Nitrogenase gene amplicons from global marine surface waters are dominated by genes of Non-Cyanobacteria. By Hanna Farnelid |
| 15.10-15-30 |
Methanogenic archaea communities in hollow/hummock gradients in peatlands receiving different levels of nitrogen deposition. By Magalí Marti |
| 15.30-16.00 |
Break |
| 16.30–18.30 |
Boat trip |
| 18.30–22.00 |
Dinner at Restaurant Kolabrautin |
Friday September 9th
| 8.00-9.00 |
Breakfast |
| 9.00-12.00 |
Session 2: Active microbes in the environment. Continues |
| 9.00-9.20 |
Identification of active denitrifiers by high-throughput amplicon sequencing of functional genes and transcripts. By Binbin Liu |
| 9.20-9.40 |
Investigating effects of antibiotic contamination on population and resistance gene diversity of bacteria in experimental wetlands. By Björn Berglund |
| 9.40-10.00 |
Pan-thermus, classification and evolutionary analysis of the thermophilic microbial genus of Thermus. By Sigmar Karl Stefánsson |
| 10.00-10.20 |
Activity of arctic soil microbes by comparing pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes and rRNA end-sequencing (RES). By Marja Tiirola |
| 10.20-10.35 |
Break |
| 10.35-10.55 |
Molecular investigation and quantification of microbes in Rapid Sand Filters. By Sanin Musovic |
| 10.55-11.15 |
Using hyphosphere bacteria for biological control of Rhizoctonia solani in Vietnamese rice cultivation. By Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen |
| 11.15-11.35 |
Microcosm incubations to study the microbial response to oil after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. By Jacob Bælum |
| 11.35-12.00 |
Session dicussion |
| 12.00-13.00 |
Lunch |
| 13.00-14.30 |
Session 3: Functional diversity of microorganisms in different ecosystems |
| 13.00-13.20 |
Characterization of structural and functional microbial communities in oil polluted Populus rhizosphere. By Shinjini Mukherjee |
| 13.20-13.40 |
Functional gene analysis of methanogen and methanotroph communities in natural and restored peatland buffer areas. By Heli Juottonen
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| 13.40-14.00 |
Break Diversity and Gene Expression of Methane Oxidizing Bacteria in Palsa Wetlands. By Erin Seybold |
| 14.00-14.20 |
Session discussion |
| 14.20-14.30 |
Break |
| 14.30-17.00 |
Session 4: Making ecological sense out of sequence data |
| 14.30-14.50 |
Determining the Diversity and Species abundance Patterns in Arctic Soils using Rational Methods for exploring Microbial Diversity. By Lise Øvreås |
| 14.50-15.10 |
Changes in microbial community composition across geochemical zones in a coastal marine sediment core spanning 8000 years of holocene deposition. By Kasper Urup Kjeldsen |
| 15.10-15.30 |
Recruitment of members from the rare biosphere of marine bacterioplankton communities after environmental disturbance. By Johanna Sjöstedt |
| 15.30-15.45 |
Break |
| 15.45-16.05 |
Examples on how graph theory can help us to interpret sequence data in microbial ecology? By Alexander Eiler |
| 16.05-16.25 |
Session discussion |
| 16.25-16.40 |
Break |
| 16.40-19.00 |
Final discussion – What’s next??? |
Saturday September 10th
