Aquatic habitats are rich environments for microbial life and have a global impact on the carbon and nitrogen cycles. The behaviour of microbes in response to changes in these environments can have a huge influence on ecology across the world.

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Date: Thursday 15th October 2020
Time: 10am EDT / 3pm BST / 4pm CEST

Join us for a webinar on Aquatic Microbial Ecology, featuring an introduction by Editor Martin Hahn and the authors of recent papers in FEMS Microbiology Ecology with:

Moderator: Max Häggblom, Editor-in-Chief of FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Introduction: Microbial ecology of freshwater systems

Speaker 1: Martin W. Hahn, Research Department for Limnology, University of Innsbruck, Mondsee, Austria, Editor, FEMS Microbiology Ecology 

Microhabitats are associated with diversity–productivity relationships in freshwater bacterial communities

Speaker 2: Marian Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX USA

Author of: Marian L Schmidt, Bopaiah A Biddanda, Anthony D Weinke, Edna Chiang, Fallon Januska, Ruben Props, Vincent J Denef. Microhabitats are associated with diversity–productivity relationships in freshwater bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 2020, 96:fiaa029, https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/96/4/fiaa029/5762669

Benthic microbial mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica

Speaker 3: Megan Dillon, Novozymes, Davis, CA, USA

Author of: Energetic and Environmental Constraints on the Community Structure of Benthic Microbial Mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. ML Dillon, I Hawes, AD Jungblut, TJ Mackey, JA Eisen, PT Doran, DY Sumner. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020, 96:fiz207, https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/96/2/fiz207/5697196

Salinity reduces bacterial diversity, but increases network complexity in Tibetan Plateau lakes

Speaker 4: Weidong Kong, Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Author of: Mukan Ji, Weidong Kong, Linyan Yue, Junbo Wang, Ye Deng, Liping Zhu. Salinity reduces bacterial diversity, but increases network complexity in Tibetan Plateau lakes. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2019, 95:fiz190, https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article/95/12/fiz190/5645230

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This event is part of a series of webinars by FEMS with Oxford University Press.