MBL Micro-Eco Discussion Group, Spring 2010
January 14 Julie Huber
Casey Hubert, Alexander Loy, Maren Nickel, Carol Arnosti, Christian Baranyi, Volker Brüchert, Timothy Ferdelman, Kai Finster, Flemming Mønsted Christensen, Júlia Rosa de Rezende, Verona Vandieken, Bo Barker Jørgensen. 2009.
A Constant Flux of Diverse Thermophilic Bacteria into the Cold Arctic Seabed. Science. 325: 1541-1544.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5947/1541
January 21, Michele Bahr
William J. Brazelton, Kristin A. Ludwig, Mitchell L. Sogin, Ekaterina N. Andreishcheva, Deborah S. Kelley,
Chuan-Chou Shen, R. Lawrence Edwards, and John A. Baross. (2010) Archaea and bacteria with surprising microdiversity show shifts in dominance over 1,000-year time scales in hydrothermal chimneys
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0905369107
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0905369107/DCSupplemental
January 28 Stefan Sievert (and roundtable)
Ana Beloqui, María-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Florencio Pazos, José M. Vieites, Marta Godoy, Olga V. Golyshina, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Agnes Waliczek, Rafael Silva-Rocha, Yamal Al-ramahi, Violetta La Cono, Carmen Mendez, José A. Salas, Roberto Solano, Michail M. Yakimov, Kenneth N. Timmis, Peter N. Golyshin, Manuel Ferrer. (2009) Reactome Array: Forging a Link Between Metabolome and Genome. Science 326: 252-257
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/326/5950/252.pdf (text)
Science editorial expression of concern
F1000 comments
Discussion of the concern at ACS.org
February 4, Jessica Mark Welch
Andrew L. Goodman, Nathan P. McNulty, Yue Zhao, Douglas Leip, Robi D. Mitra, Catherine A. Lozupone,
Rob Knight, and Jeffrey I. Gordon. (2009) Identifying Genetic Determinants Needed to Establish a Human Gut Symbiont in Its Habitat. Cell Host & Microbe 6: 279–289
February 11 -- Ecosystems retreat, so no MicroEco this week
February 18 -- School Break and Falmouth Science Fair Judging, so no MicroEco this week
February 25 -- Zoe Cardon, Sheri Simmons, and Jessica Mark Welch
Discussion of DOE grant submitted last fall exploring carbon sequestration in soils, using genomic, combinatorial imaging (FISH), X-ray tomography (soil microstructure), and ecosystem (C-sequestration) "process" measures.
March 4, Julie Smith
Kristina L. Hillesland and David A. Stahl. (2010) Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism. PNAS 107(5): 2129
March 11, John Hobbie
M. Bue´e, M. Reich, C. Murat, E. Morin, R. H. Nilsson, S. Uroz and F. Martin. (2009) 454 Pyrosequencing analyses of forest soils reveal an unexpectedly high fungal diversity. New Phytologist 184: 449-456.
(Supplementary document with tables)
March 18, Angus Angermeyer
Qin et al. (2010) A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 464, 59-65| doi:10.1038/nature08821
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7285/full/nature08821.html
March 25 -- No meeting (conflict with WHOI event)
April 1, Joe Vallino
Fuhrman, J. (2009) Microbial community structure and its functional implications. Nature 459:193-199.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08058
April 8, Jeremy Rich
Ettwig et al. (2010) Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria. Nature, 543-550.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/full/nature08883.html
April 15, Emelia DeForce
See e-mail for link to manuscript draft!
Effect of land-use on potential ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeal communities in Costa Rican tropical soils
Emelia A. DeForce, Doris Nabikejje, Cornelia Wuchter, Stefan M. Sievert, Michael P. Shiaris
To be submitted to FEMS Microbiology Ecology
April 22, Zoe Cardon
Gage, D.J., Herron, P.M., Arango Pinedo, C., and Cardon, Z.G. (2008) Live reports from the soil grain – the promise and challenge of microbiosensors. Functional Ecology 22: 983-989.
April 29, Julie Huber
Tamames et al. (2010) Environmental distribution of prokaryotic taxa. BMC Microbiology 10:85
May 6, Yuko Hasigawa
Louis et al. (2010) Diversity of human colonic butyrate-producing bacteria revealed by analysis of the butyryl-CoA:acetate CoA-transferase gene. Environmental Microbiology (2010) 12(2), 304–314
May 13, Sheri Simmons
Zhou JZ, Kang S, Schadt CW, et al. (2008) Spatial scaling of functional gene diversity across various microbial taxa. PNAS 105: 7768-7773
Available here http://www.pnas.org/content/105/22/7768.full.pdf+html
