MBL MICRO-ECO DISCUSSION GROUP

Meets Thursdays, 2:30-3:30 PM, Lillie 103, unless otherwise stated


MBL Micro-Eco Discussion Group, Spring 2019

 

Jan. 24: Jessica Mark Welch

(Discuss Annual Review she's writing, to be sent around to local email group)

 

Jan. 31: Emil Ruff

Discuss local project begun in the Trunk River as part of the Microbial Diversity course - Ranatra fusca (water scorpian) and its surprising epibionts

 

February 7: Zoe Cardon

Discuss funding opportunities at DOE, focusing as an example on currently open DE-FOA-0002041, "New Bioimaging Approaches for Bioenergy"

Info about DOE Bioenergy Centers:

Overview --https://genomicscience.energy.gov/centers/

PDF about four new Bioenergy Centers: https://genomicscience.energy.gov/centers/BRCs_2018LR.pdf

Powerpoint used during the hour: DOEFundingPresentation.pptx (The powerpoint shows you the general landscape of the BER organizational structure and where info is on the website)

One year old "Systems Biology of Bioenergy Relevant Microbes...." FOA brought up during conversation

 

February 14: Ken Kemner - developing QDs for work with microbes in soil aggregates

https://microbiome.uchicago.edu/directory/kenneth-m-kemner

from his MBC web page: Recently, [Kenmer] has been a co-PI on a multifaceted bioimaging effort at Argonne (“Small Worlds”) that utilizes quantum dots as a multi-modal tag for imaging bacteria in environmental systems.

 

February 21: ___School Break - no official meeting________

 

February 28: ___(MC2MC meeting)________

 

March 7: ___Zoe Cardon - NSF SitS project________

 

March 21: ________Elena Lopez Peredo_

Li F-W et al. (2018) Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses.  Nature Plants. 4:460-472.

 

April 18:____ Kristen Hunter-Cevera____Congratulations new Simons Early Career Fellow!____

Discussion of work Kristen is doing now and planning as a new Simons Early Career Fellow focused on Synechococcus strains and their potential microbial partners in the ocean.

 

May 2: __Joe Vallino_________