Meeting Program

Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium 2021 Schedule
*All times in Eastern Standard Time*

8:30-9 AM: Coffee Social (and Gatherly Q&A)

9-9:15 AM: Introductions

9:15-10:45 AM: Talks Session #1

9:15 AM: Holly Westbrook, Dissolved nitrogen cycling in the Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago from isotopic data
9:30 AM: TJ Rogers, Microbial distribution patterns of a convergent margin’s subsurface landscape
9:45 AM: Simin Zhao, Effects of mineral substrate on authigenic clay formation in the reverse weathering process
10 AM Jennifer Baily, Microbial population dynamics of aerobic methane oxidizing and methanogenic communities in the hypolimnion of a methane-rich lake
10:15 AM: Estefania Garcia, Arsenic (As) and Selenium (Se) Speciation in Coal Fly Ash

10:45-11:00 AM: BREAK

11 AM-12 PM: Poster Session

12-1 PM: Lunch 

1-2:30 PM: Talks Session #2 

1 PM: Anthony Boever, Redox oscillations in stream sediments control uranium biogeochemical cycling
1:15 PM: Alexis Gillmore, Finding biodegradable plastic in a soil profile – toward a plastic cycle
1:30 PM: Abigail Johnson, Deep subsurface bacterial proteins bind and modify clathrate
1:45 PM: Aaron Mau, Novel Characterization Of Dissolved Organic Carbon At The Mid-Cayman Rise
2 PM: Rachel Weisend, Co-location of Oxidizing and Reducing Microbial Communities within Wetland Sediments

2:30-2:45 PM*: BREAK
*People’s Choice Voting ends at 2:45! 

2:45-3:45 PM: Rika Anderson Keynote Presentation

3:45-4:45 PM: Awards! 

List of Poster Presentations

1. Bruce Boles, The case for using bacteria from the genus Shewanellaas test subjects of exobiological experiments
2. Claire Elbon, Distinct Cell Morphologies and Nitrite Drawdown Observed in Enrichment Cultures from Oxygen Minimum Zones
3. Rebecca Guth-Metzler, RNA and the Goldilocks zone: when Mg²⁺ concentration is just right
4. Thomas Hyde, Antarctic Microbes Exhibit Ability to Colonize Plant Tissue
5. Erin Kelly, Cone Penetrometer 3-D Characterization of DOE Legacy Site for Hydrological, Geological and Biogeochemistry Subsurface Observatories
6. Raegan Paul, Fluorescent enzymatic assay commonly used for bulk soil was applied to broth cultured isolated to get single cell activity rates
7. Darcy Perin, Constraining denitrification from dissolved N₂/Ar measurements in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean
8. Elise Phillips, A Potential Role for Cell Cycle in Plastic Degradation
9. Jessica Rodgers, Comparing carbon sources of microbes in the chimneys of the Lost City Hydrothermal Vent Field: Does Location Matter?
10. Caleb Schuler, In situ contamination of melt probes: implications for future subglacial microbiological sampling and Icy Worlds life detection missions
11. Eric Smith, Assessing Environmental Processes Contributing to Sulfate Formation on Mars Using Antarctic Analogs
12. Melissa Shugart, N₂O cycling in the Gulf of Mexico from concentration and stable isotopic data
13. Katie Sipes, Carbon utilization through enzymatic microbial activity in Svalbard active layer permafrost
14. Yael Toporek, Enhancement of the microbially-driven Fenton reaction via genetic manipulation of Shewanella genes involved in oxidative stress response
15. Manlin Xu, Clathrate-binding proteins in deep subsurface sediments detected with metagenomic assembly methods