Call for Session Abstracts
Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018
11-16 February
Portland, Oregon
Abstract submission deadline:
11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Wednesday, 6 September 2017
For further information about the meeting and abstract submission, go to:
http://osm.agu.org/2018/
The American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and the Oceanography Society are currently accepting abstract submissions for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting. The meeting will be held 11-16 February 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
Conveners of the following session invite abstract submissions:
SESSSION 28338: Discoveries in Viral Ecology and Microbial Adaptation to Extreme Environments
Session Chairs: Jody W. Deming, Matt Sullivan, Jodi N. Young, and Hajo Eiken.
Recent findings on the high incidence of viruses or lysogeny in marine habitats characterized by extreme conditions, from environments as diverse as sea ice, brines in frozen soils, oxygen deficient zones, deep-sea sediments, and hydrothermal vents, suggest the potential for enhanced gene flow between organisms in such environments. The adaptive traits of marine organisms and how they acquire those traits is of fundamental interest across environments, but of particular interest in environments that may be extreme on long time scales, periodically exposed to extreme conditions, or subject to exposure to extremes in future. To foster comparative analyses and mechanistic understanding, organizers seek contributions on any aspect of viral ecology and genetic adaptation to extremes of temperature, pressure, salinity, or energy/nutrient availability, from the role of viruses in lateral gene transfers to the role of geochemical constraints and physical confinement on gene exchange between organisms.
For more information and to submit an abstract to this session, go to:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session28338
For questions, contact:
Jody Deming
Email: jdeming [at] uw.edu
Matt Sulivan
Email: mbsulli [at] gmail.com
Hajo Eiken:
Email: heicken [at] alaska.edu
Jodi Young
Email: youngjn [at] uw.edu