The 7th Annual SBS will take place ONLINE as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus.
SBS program book with abstracts
G-Suite Instructions (for poster presenters using Google Suite)
Oral Sessions: tiny.cc/sbs2020talks
Poster Sessions: tiny.cc/sbs2020posters
Saturday March 14, 2020
9-9:10am Introduction/Welcome by Conference Organizers and GT College of Sciences Dean Susan Lozier
9:10-9:15am Keynote speaker introduction, Tianze Song
9:15-10am Keynote, Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
10-11:30am Geochemistry Oral Session (chairs: Erin Castorina and Abigail Johnson)
10-10:15am Josh Thedford, University of Georgia
“Identifying Patterns In Soil Carbon Dioxide And Reduced Iron Production During Shifts In Atmospheric Oxygen Content”
10:15-10:30am Nadia Szeinbaum, Georgia Tech
“A Synthetic Microbial Consortium to Explore Cooperation on Early Earth”
10:30-10:45am Chad Lloyd, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Particle-associated Bacteria Use A Versatile Array Of Extracellular Enzymes In The Water Column Of The Western North Atlantic”
10:45-11am Faisal Adams, Georgia State University
“Developing A Surface Complexation Model To Account For Substitution In Minerals: An Analysis Of The Aluminum Substituted Ferrihydrite Structure”
11-11:15am Alireza Merikhi, Florida State University
“Three oxygen sensor eddy covariance instrument to measure benthic fluxes with minimum error”
11:15am-11:30pm Jessica Frankle, University of South Carolina
“Remarkably concentrated activity of short-lived radium in two hydrothermal systems”
11:30am-1:30pm Break
1:30-2:30pm Pollutant Oral Session (chair: Pan Liu)
1:30-1:45pm Qian Wang, Georgia Tech
“The Coupled Speciation Transformation of Iron and Phosphorous during Anaerobic Digestion with Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Sewage Sludge”
1:45-2pm Lizbeth Davila-Santiago, Georgia Tech
“Diversity of Airborne Bacteria In The Air Of Metro Atlanta Year-Round”
2-2:15pm Si-Yu Zhang, Georgia Tech
“Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics Analysis of Paddy Soils with Different Levels of Arsenic”
2:15-2:30pm Claire Elbon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Planctomycete Diversity and the Potential for Anammox in Tennessee Aquarium Exhibits”
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4pm Weird Life Oral Session (Chair: Drake Lee-Patterson)
2:45-3pm Victoria Frazier, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Characterization of Cave Subaerial Biofilm Carbon Sources Using Stable Isotope Analysis”
3-3:15pm Ipsita Mohanty, Georgia Tech
“Multi-omic Profiling Of Melophlus Sponges Reveals Diverse Metabolomic And Microbiome Architectures That Are Non-overlapping With Ecological Neighbors”
3:15-3:30pm Aaron Pital, Georgia Tech
“Boundaries on Abiotic Geochemical Complexity for Earth and Elsewhere”
3:30-3:45pm Xiaojia He, University of Georgia
“Spatially Resolved Electron Transport through Anode-Respiring Geobacter sulfurreducens Biofilms: Controls and Constraints”
3:45-4pm Abigail Johnson, Georgia Tech
“The search for novel gas hydrate inhibitors”
4:00-6:00pm Virtual Poster Session
Sunday March 15, 2020
9:00-10:15am Land Use and Climate Oral Session (chair: Tianze Song)
9:00-9:15am Jack Miklaucic, Emory University
“Measuring Soil Ammonia Flux From Corn Fields In The U.S., Rwanda, And China”
9:15-9:30am Yanyu Wang, Emory University
“Agricultural GHG Emissions and Potential Methane Sinks Under Different Cover Crop Systems”
9:30-9:45am Sydney Bear, Appalachian State University
“Methanogen Community Analysis of Peatlands in North America”
9:45-10:00am Katie Sipes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Metagenomic Data from Svalbard Permafrost helps to Infer Microbial Presence”
10:00-10:15am Sarah Andrew, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Differences In The Carbon Fixation Properties Of Southern Ocean Diatoms”
10:15-10:30am Break for Point Tallying
10:30-11am Award Announcements