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Monday 20 August PS01 – Empowered by Microbes 351A Chromium (VI) reduction by bacterial cells: optimal conditions for the development of an industrial wastewater treatment system Mauricio Alessandrello, Diana Vullo* Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina 352A Degradation of methyl ter-butyl ether by bacterial consortia obtained from hydrocarbon contaminated soils 1 2 Guadalupe Alfonso Gordillo* , Diego Zaragoza Contreras , César Hugo Hernández 1 1 Rodriguez , Janet Jan Roblero 1 2 Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas-IPN, Mexico, Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo, Mexico 353A Marine benthic microbial fuel cells: electrochemical and microbiological laboratory / field data 1 1 1 1 2 Y. Meriah Arias-Thode* , Lewis Hsu , Adriane Wotawa-Bergen , Jeff Kagan , Jinjun Kan 1 2 SPAWAR, Pacific, United States, Stroud Water Research Institute, United States 354A Functional compartmentalization in a lab-scale anaerobic baffled reactor for in situ biogas upgrading 1 1 2 3 3 Babett Arnold* , Jana Seifert , Ayrat M. Ziganshin , Martina Carstensen , Holger Schneider , 3 1 Jens Born , Sabine Kleinsteuber 1 2 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany, Kazan (Volga Region) 3 Federal University, Russia, Flensburg University of Applied Science, Germany 355A Fungal mechanisms in phosphate solubilization 1 1 2 Jaleh Bahri-Esfahani* , Tim George , Geoff Gadd 1 2 The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom, University of Dundee, United Kingdom 356A In-situ and Laboratory Enriched Microbial Community Composition and Function Associated with Coal-bed Methane from Powder River Basin Coals 1 2 3 4 4 Elliott Barnhart* , Elizabeth Meredith , Jennifer McIntosh , Arthur Clark , William Orem , Alfred 5 5 Cunningham , Matthew Fields 1 2 3 Montana State University, USA, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, USA, University of 4 5 Arizona, USA, USGS, USA, Montana State University/Center for Biofilm Engineering, USA 357A Growth promotion of maize by plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria isolated from guarana, a native tropical crop 1 1 1 1 Bruna Batista , Maria Letícia Bonatelli* , Maria Carolina Quecine , Sarina Tsui , Fernanda 2 1 1 Damasceno , João Lúcio Azevedo , Aline Aparecida Pizzirani-Kleiner 1 2 ESALQ/USP, Brazil, UNIFAL-MG, Brazil 358A The microbial community ecology of an algal biofuel raceway pond 1 1 1 2 Tisza Bell* , Brent Peyton , Matthew Fields , Brad Wahlen 1 2 Montana State University, USA, Utah State University, USA 359A The effect of absorbent materials on the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons Brian Bicknell*, Pre De Silva, Lisa Brodie Australian Catholic University, Australia 360A The role of cyclic lipopeptide biosurfactants of Pseudomonas sp. in improvement of solubilisation and biodegradation of phenanthrene Lise Bonnichsen*, Niels O. G. Jørgensen, Jan Sørensen, Ole Nybroe Section of Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 5 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 361A Memory effect in biofiltration ecosystems: impact of disturbance history on nitrifying population and activity 1 2 3 3 4 Léa Cabrol* , Luc Malhautier , Franck Poly , Xavier Le Roux , Anne Sophie Lepeuple , Jean 2 Louis Fanlo 1 2 Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Laboratoire Génie de l'Environnement Industriel, 3 Ecole des Mines d'Ales, France, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, University Lyon I, UMR 4 CNRS 5557, France, Veolia Environnement Recherche et Innovation, France 362A Environmental bacteria involved in antibiotic and heavy metal resistance co-selection: from the wastewater treatment plant to the river ecosystem 1 2 2 2 Serena Caucci* , Hauke Harms , Bärbel Kiesel , Antonis Chatzinotas , Thomas U. 1 Berendonk 1 2 Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Germany 363A An in silico analysis of 1087 completed microbial genomes reveals 54 new putative O2 tolerant Nickel Iron (Ni-Fe) hydrogenases Jillian Couto*, Joanne Schroder, William Sloan University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 364A Genetic fingerprinting of Brettanomyces yeast strains 1 1 2 1 3 Sam Crauwels , Annelies Justé , Fatemeh Bajoulkakahi , Pieter Busschaert , Jan Steensels , 2 4 5 3 1 Guy Derdelinckx , Gorik De Samblanx , Kathleen Marchal , Kevin Verstrepen , Kris Willems , 1 Bart Lievens* 1 Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Consortium for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (CIMB), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), LFoRCe, KU Leuven Association, Lessius Mechelen, Campus 2 De Nayer, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, KULeuven -FBIW-M2S-LFoRCe - LIBR: 3 site MBS, Kasteelpark Arenberg, 33 PO box 2463 B -3001 - HEVERLEE - Belgium, VIB Lab for Systems Biology and CMPG Lab for Genetics and Genomics, M2S, KU Leuven, B-3001 4 Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), Consortium for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (CIMB), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), LFoRCe, KU Leuven Association, Lessius Mechelen, Campus De Nayer, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium and Department of Computer 5 Science, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics (CMPG), M2S, KU Leuven, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium 365A Evaluation of the potential of micro-organisms originated from oil reservoirs for bioremediation 1 2 3 Bruna Martins Dellagnezze* , Geogiana F. da Cruz , Suzan P. Vasconcellos , Valéria M. 1 Oliveira 1 2 Campinas University (UNICAMP), Brazil, State Univesity of North of Rio de Janeiro Darcy 3 Ribeiro (UENF), Brazil, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil 366A The influence of anode potential on microbial diversity in bioelectrochemical systems 1 2 3 4 4 Paul Dennis* , Korneel Rabaey , Bernardino Virdis , Michael Imelfort , Inka Vanwonterghem , 3 5 4 Paul Jensen , Philip Hugenholtz , Gene Tyson 1 2 The University of Queensland , Australia, Ghent University / Laboratory of Microbial Ecology 3 and Technology, Belgium, University of Queensland / Advanced Water Management Center, 4 Australia, University of Queensland / Australian Center for Ecogenomics and Advanced 5 Water Management Center, Australia, University of Queensland / Australian Center for Ecogenomics, Australia 367A Eubacteria and archaea diversity in two-steps psychrotroph anaerobic fermenter Pascal Drouin*, Pierre Rivard Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada 6 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 368A The anaerobic fungal isolate Orpinomyces sp. strain C1A is an efficient plant biomass degrader under anaerobic conditions Mostafa Elshahed*, Chris Struchtemeyer, Hasan Atiyeh, Mark Wilkins, Audra Liggenstoffer Oklahoma State University, United States 369A Optimization of EPS and siderophore production in Pseudomonas veronii 2E for the application in wastewater biotreatments Maria Ferreira, Silvana Ramirez, Diana Vullo* Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina 370A Oil spill impact assessment and bioremediation in reef environment utilizing the coral Mussismilia harttii (cnidaria, scleractinia) 1 2 3 Henrique Fragoso dos Santos* , Flávia Lima do Carmo , Gustavo Duarte , Emiliano 3 4 4 5 3 Calderon , Laura Marangoni , Adalto Bianchini , Ricardo Chaloub , Débora Pires , Clovis 3 2 2 Castro , Alexandre Rosado , Raquel Peixoto 1 2 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Institute of 3 Microbiology Professor Paulo de Góes, Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/ 4 Department of Invertebrates, Brazil, Federal University of Rio Grande / Institute of Biological 5 Sciences, Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / Institute of Chemistry, Brazil 371A Isolation of a novel Clostridium species from the gastro-intestinal tract of rats and characterization of its intestinal functionality 1 1 1 2 3 Jacoline Gerritsen* , Susana Fuentes , Wieke Grievink , Laura van Nifrik , Sytze de Roock , 3 3 1 Harro M. Timmerman , Ger T. Rijkers , Hauke Smidt 1 2 3 Wageningen University, Netherlands, Radboud University, Netherlands, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands 372A Investigation of the bacterial community of a biofilm from novel Horizontal Flow Biofilm Reactors (HFBRs) treating methane contaminated air at low temperature 1 2 2 2 2 Sean Gerrity* , Colm Kennelly , Cindy Smith , Richard Walsh , Edmund O'Reilly , Eoghan 2 2 Clifford , Gavin Collins 1 2 National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland, NUI Galway, Ireland 373A Enrichment of microbial community generating electricity using a lab-scale sediment fuel cell 1 1 2 Tai-Lee Hu* , Hsin-Yu Hou , Chenfang Lin 1 2 Feng Chia University/Dept. Environmental Engineering & Science, Taiwan, National Chung Hsing University/ Dept. Soil & Environment Sciences, Taiwan 374A Fungal treatment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-contaminated soil in field scale: bacteria or fungi at work? 1 1 1 1 2 2 Kirsten S. Jørgensen* , K. Björklöf , L. Häkkinen , E. Schultz , M. Räsänen , E. Winquist , M. 3 Tuomela 1 2 3 Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, Aalto University, Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland 375A Using Soybean Curd Whey as Substrate for Vinegar Production 1 1 2 Jirapat Kanklai* , Sakunnee Bovonsombut , Sittisin Bovonsombut 1 2 Chiangmai University, Thailand, Maejo University, Thailand 376A The influence of biotic and abiotic factors on degradation of the compostable plastic packaging material polylactic acid Mehlika Karamanlioglu*, Geoff Robson the University of Manchester, United Kingdom 7 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 377A Trichloroethylene biodegradation by benzene, toluene and xylene oxidizing bacteria in aerobic condition 1 2 3 Hyun-Sook Kim* , Taek Hyun You , Sang-Seob Lee 1 2 Kyonggi University, Department of Bioengineering, South Korea, Campbell University, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, United States, Kyonggi University, Department of Life Science, College of Natural Science, South Korea 378A Biological corrosion protection Nardy Kip*, Hans van Veen NIOO, Netherlands 379A Monitoring microbial population dynamics using community flow cytometry 1 2 2 2 2 Christin Koch* , Ingo Fetzer , Thomas Hübschmann , Hauke Harms , Susann Müller 1 UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Bioenergy, Germany, 2 UFZ-Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Germany 380A Potential of micromycetes in biofuel production from waste biomass of higher water plants Svetlana Kukanova*, Lyudmila Zaynitdinova, Munira Bakhtiyorova, Javlon Tashpulatov Institute of microbiology, Uzbekistan 381A Complete carbon tetrachloride dechlorination by combining a novel Dehalobacter population with abiotic processes Matthew Lee*, Joanna Koenig, Eliza Wells, Mike Manefield University of New South Wales, Australia 382A Hydrogen sulfide oxidation in an air-treating biofilter 1 2 2 2 Claus Lunde Pedersen* , Dezhao Liu , Michael Jørgen Hansen , Anders Feilberg , Louise 3 4 1 1 Helene Soegaard Jensen , Lise Bonne Guldberg , Andreas Schramm , Lars Peter Nielsen 1 2 Aarhus University - Department of Bioscience, Denmark, Aarhus University - Department of 3 Engineering, Denmark, Technical University of Denmark, Centre for Electron Nanoscopy, 4 Denmark, Department of Research and Development, SKOV A/S, Denmark 383A Metatranscriptomic analysis of a nitrate-reducing benzene-degrading culture Fei Luo*, Roya Gitiafroz, Cheryl Devine, Yunchen Gong, Elizabeth Edwards University of Toronto, Canada 384A Co-Production of Acetate and Methane by an Electrosynthetic Autotrophic Microbial Community 1 2 2 2 3 Chris Marshall* , Dan Ross , Erin Fichot , Sean Norman , Harold May 1 2 3 Medical University of South Carolina, USA, USC, USA, MUSC, USA 385A Microbial diversity associated with the endemic South Africa sponge, Tsitsikamma favus, producing biologically active compounds Gwynneth Matcher*, Tara Walmsley, Mike Davies-Coleman, Rosemary Dorrington Rhodes University, South Africa 386A Dynamics of bacterial biofilms formation on granular activated carbon in aquatic sediments polluted with PCBs 1 1 1 1 1 Anne Mercier , Jennifer Harris-Hellal , Guillaume Wille* , Caroline Michel , Laurence Amalric , 2 1 Catherine Morlay , Fabienne Battagli-Brunet 1 2 French geological survey (BRGM), France, MATEIS (MATEriaux : Ingénierie & Science), UMR INSA-Lyon - UCBLyon 1 - CNRS, France 8 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 387A Coal seam microbiology: metagenomic insights from a methanogenic, coal-degrading enrichment culture 1 1 2 1 1 David Midgley* , Paul Greenfield , Liam DH Elbourne , Nai Tran-Dinh , Dongmei Li , Ian T 2 1 Paulsen , Philip Hendry 1 2 CSIRO, Australia, Macquarie University, Australia 388A Comparison of the efficiency of different biomass, marine algae and tropical climbing vines, for the anaerobic bioconversion to a renewable energy source Karla Márquez* University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico 389A Shifting microbial respiration patterns in soils and sediments with benthic snorkels Kelly Nevin*, Jaclyn Izbicki, Oona Snoeyenbos-West, Derek Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States 390A Atrazine bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater at low temperatures 1 1 2 2 1 Aura Nousiainen* , Katarina Björklöf , Sneha Sagarkar , Atya Kapley , Kirsten S. Jørgensen 1 2 Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, India 391A Use of in situ aerobic microbial activity in evaluating and operating effective biosparge treatment of hydrocarbon contamination in groundwater 1 2 2 3 Michael O'Hare* , Pete Everds , Mark Losi , Mary Parker 1 2 3 San Diego State University, USA, Tetra Tech EC, Inc., USA, United States Navy, USA 392A A comparative approach to bacterial flagellar motor as reciprocating internal combustion engine 1 2 2 1 Mert Oktem* , Alp Uzunoglu , Imdat Taymaz , Benan Dincturk 1 2 Sakarya University, Department of Biology, Turkey, Sakarya University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Turkey 393A Potential use of Cupriavidus necator for production of biodegradable plastics from captured carbon dioxide under varying valeric acid concentration Inseon Park, Eun Hea Jho, Kyoungphile Nam* Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea 394A Potential use of Cupriavidus necator for production of biocompatible plastics from captured carbon dioxide under varying valeric acid concentration Inseon Park, Eun Hea Jho, Kyoungphile Nam* Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea 395A Improving the electrochemical communication between Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and electrodes with different approaches 1 1 1 2 1 1 Sunil Patil* , Kamrul Hasan , Kamil Górecki , Dónal Leech , Cecilia Hägerhäll , Lo Gorton 1 2 Lund University, Sweden, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland 396A Enrichment of lignocellulolytic microorganisms from a Hungarian thermal lake and their application for biogas process enhancement 1 1 1 2 2 Katharina Porsch* , Jennifer Breuer , Marcus Kohlhase , Márton Palatinszky , Balázs Wirth , 2 1 Erika M. Tóth , Marcell Nikolausz 1 2 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 397A Electrochemical Properties and Dynamics of Microbial Community Structure of Lactate – fed Microbial Fuel Cells under Differerent External Resistances Owen Rubaba*, Yutaka Kato, Kei Suzuki, Hiroki Mochihara, Nozomi Yoshida, Hiroyuki Futamata Shizuoka University, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Japan 9 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 398A Transfer of ionic liquid tolerance from the rain forest to E. coli through functional screening of a DNA-library Thomas Ruegg*, Blake Simmons, Steve Singer, Michael Thelen Joint Bioenergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States 399A Co-selection and persistence of heavy metal and antibiotic resistance in a metal contaminated river ecosystem 1 1 2 1 Claudia Seiler* , Agnese Lupo , Wolf von Tümpling , Thomas U. Berendonk 1 2 Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany 400A Oxygen scavangers and enhancing electromethanogenesis in microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) Michael Siegert*, Douglas Call, Bruce Logan Pennsylvania State University, USA 401A The impact of greywater diversion on domestic septic tank systems 1 2 2 2 2 Alma Siggins* , Wendy Williamson , Virginia Baker , Louise Weaver , Andrew van Schiak , 3 3 4 5 2 Hamish Lowe , Katie Beecroft , Steven Roberts , Ben Thompson , Jacqui Horswell 1 2 Institute for Environmental Science and Research Ltd., New Zealand, Institute of 3 Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand, Lowe Environmental Impact, New 4 5 Zealand, Watersmart, New Zealand, Kapiti Coast District Council, New Zealand 402A Ecologically diverse fungi as workhorses in (pre)treating lignocellulosic feedstock for biogas production Sukhwinder Singh*, Dietmar Schlosser The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 403A Immobilization of microbial cells within microchannels by means of magnetite nanoparticles Gorazd Stojkovič*, Polona Žnidaršič-Plazl University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 404A Application of biomineralized particles to self-organized bioelectrode in microbial fuel cell Kei Suzuki*, Hiroki Mochihara, Nozomi Yoshida, Rubaba Owen, Hiroyuki Futamata Shizuoka University, Japan 405A Cleansing of industrial sewage with consortium of microorganisms and higher water plants Javlon Tashpulatov*, Djumaniyaz Kutliev, Svetlana Kukanova, Lyudmila Zaynitdinova Institute of microbiology, Uzbekistan 406A Isolation of an extreme thermophile from a waste-sourced inoculum and its use for the production of second generation bio-ethanol 1 1 2 1 Ana Tomás* , Davide De Francisci , Dimitar Karakashev , Irini Angelidaki 1 2 DTU Environment, Denmark, DTU Environment, Czech Republic 407A Characterization and evolution of microbial communities in olive mill wastewater degrading microbial fuel cells Mehmet Sefa Ulutas*, Meltem Tatlı, Mert Kumru, Halil Kurt, Salih Süha Akan, Hakan Bermek, Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı Istanbul technical university MOBGAM, Turkey 10 PS01 – Empowered by Microbes Monday 20 August 408A Transcriptomic analysis demonstrates the importance of multiple carbon fixation pathways during depletion of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous and bio-oil accumulation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum Jacob Valenzuela*, Matthew Fields, Aurilien Mazurie Montana State University, United States 409A Prospection of enzymes of biotechnological interest from microorganisms associated with coral species Mussismilia braziliensis, Millepora alcicornis and Porites astreoides 1 1 1 2 Carem Vilela , Flávia Lima do Carmo , Henrique Fragoso dos Santos , Gustavo Duarte* , 2 2 1 1 Débora Pires , Clovis Castro , Alexandre Rosado , Raquel Peixoto 1 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / Institute of Microbiology Professor Paulo de Góes, 2 Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro / Department of Invertebrates, Brazil 410A Development of probiotic products for aquaculture Barbara Weber*, Goncalo A Santos, Michaela Mohnl, Viviana Klose, Gerd Schatzmayr 1 Biomin Research Center, Austria 411A Biofilm as a production platform for biochemicals using alternative feedstocks Vinoth Wigneswaran*, Anders Folkesson, Peter Ruhdal Jensen, Lars Jelsbak Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 412A Methane production from waste biomass of higher water plants Lyudmila Zaynitdinova*, Svetlana Kukanova, Olga Verushkina, Javlon Tashpulatov Institute of microbiology, Uzbekistan 413A Influence of antibiotic treatment of sows on intestinal microbiota in their offspring 1 1 2 1 Jing Zhang* , Odette Peréz , Jean-Paul Lallès , Hauke Smidt 1 2 Wageningen University, Netherlands, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique France PS02 – Light and Microbial Life 421A Differential regulation of proteorhodopsin gene expression in the marine bacterium Vibrio sp. AND4 1 1 1 2 1 Neelam Akram* , Joakim Palovaara , Jeremy Forsberg , José M González , Jarone Pinhassi 1 2 Linnaeus University, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden, University of La Laguna, ES-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 422A Genome mining revealed coding genes belonging to the photolyase-cryptochrome family in UV-resistant bacteria isolated from High-Altitude Andean Lakes 1 2 2 2 Virginia Helena Albarracin* , Daniel Kurth , Gabriela Ferrer , Omar Federico Ordoñez , 3 3 3 3 Santiago Revale , Estefania Mancini , Soledad Romero , Martin Vazquez , Wolfgang 1 2 Gärtner , Maria Eugenia Farias 1 2 Max-Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Germany, Lab of Microbial Research on 3 Andean Lakes(LIMLA), PROIMI-CCT-CONICET, Argentina, Rosario Agrobiotechnological Institute (INDEAR) – CONICET, CCT-CONICET, Argentina 423A Reactive oxygen production induced by visible and near-infrared radiation in chlorophyll-d containing cyanobacteria 1 1 2 2 3 Lars Behrendt* , Marc Staal , Simona M. Cristescu , Frans J.M. Harren , Martin Schliep , 3 1 Anthony W. D. Larkum , Michael Kühl 1 2 3 Copenhagen University, Denmark, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 11 PS02 – Light and Microbial Life Monday 20 August 424A Oxygenic photosynthesis as a defense mechanism against iron-oxide encrustation 1 1 2 1 1 Bettina Buchmann , Lubos Polerecky , Christine Heim , Dirk de Beer , Danny Lonescu* 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, University of Goettingen, Germany 425A Surface Plasmon Resonance assays indicate that NtcA binds several L-amino acids Laura Calvo, Taís Mayumi Kuniyoshi*, María del Mar Pascual, Andrés González, María Fillat, Maria Luisa Peleato Universidad de Zaragoza/Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Spain, 426A Response of Prochlorococcus to extended darkness Allison Coe*, Stephen Biller, Sara Roggensack, Sallie Chisholm MIT, United States 427A The phyllosphere: a phototrophic niche? 1 2 2 3 1 Omri Finkel* , Nof Atamna-Ismaeel , Fabian Glaser , Itai Sharon , Ron Schneider , Anton F. 4 5 6 7 8 2 Post , John L. Spudich , Christian von Mering , Julia A. Vofholt , David Iluz , Oded Béjà , 1 Shimshon Belkin 1 2 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, 3 4 University of California, United States, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative 5 Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biology Laboratory, United States, University of 6 Texas-Houston Medical School, United States, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences and Swiss 7 Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology, 8 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Switzerland, Bar Ilan University, Israel 428A The Roseobacter clade affiliated (RCA) cluster: Do these microbes conduct aerobic anoxygenic photosynthesis? 1 2 3 4 Helge-Ansgar Giebel* , Bernd Wemheuer , Sonja Voget , Meinhard Simon 1 University Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment 2 (ICBM), Germany, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Department of Genomic and 3 Applied Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Germany, Georg-August University of Goettingen, Goettingen Genomics Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology and 4 Genetics, Germany, University Oldenburg / Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Germany 429A Inhibition of heterotrophic bacteria by solar radiation in a humic lake 1 1 2 2 2 Jens Glaeser* , Stefanie Glaeser , Franziska Leunert , Ivette Salka , Hans-Peter Grossart 1 2 Justus-Liebig-University, Germany, Leibniz-Institut of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany 430A Diel cycles of dissolved B-Vitamins in the coastal ocean 1 1 1 1 Laura Gómez-Consarnau* , Lynda Cutter , Jacob A. Cram , David Needham , Guillem 2 1 2 1 Salazar , Jed A. Fuhrman , Josep M. Gasol , Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy 1 2 University of Southern California, USA, Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Spain 431A Comparative proteomics of a green and a purple sulfur bacterium through the light gradient in the water column of Lake Cadagno, Switzerland Kirsten S. Habicht*, Lasse G. Falkenby Univeristy of Southern Denmark, Denmark 432A Light dependent oxygen consumption in a green sulfur bacteria biofilm from the Dead Sea 1 1 2 2 1 Stefan Haeusler* , Danny Ionescu , Christian Lott , Miriam Weber , Dirk de Beer 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences, Italy 12 PS02 – Light and Microbial Life Monday 20 August 433A Summer Solar Radiation effects on autotrophic activity in a high anathalassohaline evaporitic basin: Salar de Huasco-Chilean Altiplano 1 2 3 4 5 Klaudia Hernandez* , Lasse Olsen , Verónica Molina , Martha Hengst , Chris Harrod , 6 Cristina Dorador 1 2 Universidad Austral de Chile/CIEN Austral, Chile, Norwegian University of Science and 3 4 Technology, Norway, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, Centro de Bioinovación/Facultad de 5 Recursos del Mar/Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, Queen's University Belfast, United 6 Kingdom, Facultad de Recursos del Mar/Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile 434A Summer community structure of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in the western Arctic Ocean 1 1 2 2 Christian Jeanthon* , Dominique Boeuf , Matthew Cottrell , David Kirchman , Philippe 3 Lebaron 1 2 3 Station Biologique, France, University of Delaware, USA, Observatoire de Banyuls, France 435A Combination of nanoscale zero valent iron and organochlorine respiring bacteria for the remediation of 1,1,2-trichloroethane and 1,2-dichloroethane mixtures 1 1 1 2 2 Joanna Koenig* , Adrian Low , Matthew Lee , Hardiljeet Boparai , Denis O'Carroll , Michael 1 Manefield 1 2 University of New South Wales, Australia, University of Western Ontario, Canada 436A Phosphate availability in N:P 40:1 affects mcyD expression and microcystin synthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806 Taís Mayumi Kuniyoshi*, Emma Sevilla, Maria Teresa Bes, María F. Fillat, Maria luisa Peleato University of São Paulo- USP/ICB2, Universidad de Zaragoza/Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias, Spain 437A Functional proteomics of marine cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6906 1 1 1 1 2 Yeon Ju Kwak* , Soo Jung Kim , Jung Ha Choi , Yeol Gyun Lee , Jong Hyun Kim , Jang Ryol 2 1 1 Liu , Seung Il Kim , Young Ho Chung 1 2 Division of Life Sciences, Korea Basic Science Institute, South Korea, Plant Genomics Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea 438A Widespread occurrence of a novel class of rhodopsins 1 2 2 3 Soon-Kyeong Kwon* , Byung Kwon Kim , Ju Yeon Song , Min-Jung Kwak , Choong Hoon 2 1 4 1 2 Lee , Dae-Hee Lee , Jung-Hoon Yoon , Tae Kwang Oh , Jihyun F. Kim 1 2 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea, Yonsei University, 3 4 South Korea, University of Science and Technology, South Korea, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea 4390A Influence of Ultraviolet light protectants on Persistence of Bacillus sp. BS-99 Ching Piao Liu*, Pei Haw Lin China University of Science and Technology, Dep. Biological Science and Technology, Taiwan 440A Metagenomic analysis of aerobic and anaerobic phototrophic communities in a stratified lake 1 2 3 2 Julia Maresca* , Sean Crowe , Edward DeLong , Donald Canfield 1 2 3 University of Delaware, USA, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 13 PS02 – Light and Microbial Life Monday 20 August 441A Redox proteomics: A new approach to identifying carbonylated proteins as biomarkers of UVB radiation in the marine bacterium Photobacterium angustum S14 1 1 1 2 Sabine Matallana-Surget* , Charles Fauconnier , Fabien Joux , Ruddy Wattiez , Philippe 1 Lebaron 1 2 Université Pierre et Marie Curie - CNRS - UMR7621, France, Department of Proteomics and Microbiology, Interdisciplinary Mass Spectrometry Center (CISMa) University of Mons Belgium 442A Metabolic flexibility and substrate preference by the phototrophic freshwater Fe(II)oxidizer Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 1 1 2 1 Emily Denise Melton* , Caroline Schmidt , Kirsten Oswald , Sebastian Behrens , Andreas 1 Kappler 1 2 University of Tübingen, Germany, Eawag, Switzerland 443A Glycogen metabolism of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 1 1 1 2 Klaus Benedikt Möllers* , Thomas Grochalski , Jacob H. Jacobsen , David Cannella , 2 1 Henning Jørgensen , Niels Ulrik Frigaard 1 2 Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 444A Orientation of Mayan monuments as a major determinant in spatial distribution of aeroterrestrial biofilms 1 2 1 Benjamin Otto Ortega-Morales* , Christine Claire Gaylarde , Manuelita Reyes-Estebanez , 1 1 1 Armando Anaya-Hernández , Manuel Jesús Chan-Bacab , Susana De la Rosa-García , Diana 1 Arano-Recio 1 Universidad Autónoma de Campeche. Departamento de Microbiologia Ambiental y 2 Biotecnologia, Mexico, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 445A A xanthorhodopsin-like second bacterial rhodopsin is expressed in the flavobacterium Dokdonia donghaensis PRO95 1 2 1 1 Thomas Riedel* , Laura Gómez-Consarnau , Jürgen Tomasch , Michael Jarek , Madeleine 1 3 2 1 Martin , Thorsten Brinkhoff , Jed Fuhrman , Irene Wagner-Döbler 1 2 Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Germany, University of Southern California, USA, 3 University of Oldenburg, Germany 446A Development of lux-based biosensors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 9027 for preservative efficacy testing Niksha Shah*, David Naseby University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 447A Metabolic and physiologic effects on Okenone and Bacteriochlorophyll a production in purple sulfur bacteria 1 2 1 1 1 Derek Smith* , James Scott , Andrew Steele , George Cody , Shohei Ohara , Roxane 1 1 Bowden , Marilyn Fogel 1 2 Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA, Dartmouth College, USA 448A Photoautotrophic production and heterotrophic decomposition of climate-relevant halocarbons in Baltic and North Sea surface waters Christian Stolle*, Anna Orlikowska, Falk Pollehne, Detlef Schulz-Bull, Klaus Jürgens Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende, Germany 449A Is it all light? Mechanisms of virus removal in waste stabilisation ponds Louise Weaver, Judith Webber, Naveena Karki, Kate Thomas, Margaret MacKenzie, Susan Lin, Wendy Williamson* Institute of Environmental Science & Research Ltd, New Zealand 14 PS02 – Light and Microbial Life Monday 20 August PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean 297A Health aspects of dry sand of the beaches in the state of Paraná-Brazil in terms of mechanical revolving 1 2 2 Sumaia Andraus* , Jair Alves Dionisio , Ida Chapaval Pimentel 1 2 Instituto Ambiental do Paraná, Brazil, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil 298A Microbial buffering: protecting The Great Barrier Reef against anthropogenic impacts 1 1 2 2 3 Florent Angly* , Candice Heath , Matthew Sullivan , Virginia Rich , Britta Schaffelke , David 3 1 Bourne , Gene Tyson 1 2 3 Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Australia, University of Arizona, USA, Australian Institute for Marine Science, Australia 299A Halotolerant proteases from a marine bacterium: mechanism of halotolerance and tools for evaluating marine microbial ecology 1 2 Kenji Aoki* , Shinji Takenaka 1 2 Sagami Women's University, Japan, Kobe Univerisity, Japan 300A Implementation of next-generation sequencing using Nextera on the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus 1 2 3 1 Cecilia Batmalle* , Sam Hsin-I , Michael Lomas , Adam Martiny 1 2 University of California Irvine, United States, University of California San Diego, United 3 States, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda 301A Identification, characterization and partial purification of a novel unmodified bacteriocin from an Algerian extremely halotorant Oceanobacillus sp. strain 1 2 3 4 Nadia Bouktit* , Pierre Stocker , Michel Fons , Said Benallaoua 1 2 Université A.MIRA, Targa Ouzemour, Béjaia, Algeria, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, Equipe sonde moléculaire en biologie et stress oxydant (ICR-SMBSO) service 522, Université Aix-Marseille, Pôle de l'Etoile, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Marseille, 3 France, ISM2 UMR 7313, Equipe BiosCiences case 342, Université Aix-Marseille, Pôle de 4 l'Etoile, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Marseille, France, Laboratoire de Microbiologie Appliquée, Département de Microbiologie, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université A.MIRA, Targa Ouzemour, Béjaia, Algeria 302A Are potentially pathogenic Vibrio species in German coastal waters and sediments influenced by climate change? 1 2 2 1 Nicole Brennholt* , Katrin Luden , Ernst-August Heinemeyer , Georg Reifferscheid , Simone 1 Böer 1 2 Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany, Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony, Germany 303A Elucidating the impacts of hypoxia on the active microbes that drive nitrogen fixation in estuarine sediments 1 1 1 2 Shelley Brown* , Andraya Ehrlich , Annaliesa Jones , Christopher Deacutis , Bethany 1 Jenkins 1 2 University of Rhode Island, United States, Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, United States 304A The relationship between bacterial abundance, activity and growth in marine environments Barbara Campbell*, David Kirchman University of Delaware, United States 15 PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean Monday 20 August 305A Communities of Nosz-type denitrifiers in low-oxygen waters of the Colombian Pacific 1 2 3 Maribeb Castro-González* , Efraín Rodríguez-Rubio , Gesche Braker 1 2 Universidad del Tolima, Colombia, Centro de Investigaciones Oceanográficas e 3 Hidrográficas del Pacífico-CCCP, Colombia, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 306A Inferring the trophic state of the Baltic Sea bacterial communities 1 1 2 2 2 Narin Celepli* , John Larsson , Christopher Dupont , Shibu Yooseph , Johannes Goll , 2 1 1 1 Mathangi Thiagarajan , Johannes Asplund Samulesson , Björn Brindefalk , Birgitta Bergman , 1 Karolina Ininbergs 1 2 Stockholm University, Sweden, J Craig Venter Institute, USA 307A Cold endured, low light adapted and diverse picocyanobacteria isolated from the winter season of Chesapeake estuary 1 2 2 Feng Chen* , Yongle Xu , Nianzhi Jiao 1 2 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States, Xiamen University, China 308A Mixing of water masses caused by a drifting iceberg affects substrate utilization and community composition of bacterioplankton in the Southern Ocean 1 2 3 4 5 Julie Dinasquet* , Inga Richert , Ramiro Logares , Stefan Bertilsson , Lasse Riemann 1 2 Linnaeus University - Copenhagen University, Denmark, Uppsala University - Helmholtz 3 Centre for Environmental Research, Sweden, Institure of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Spain, 4 5 Uppsala University, Sweden, Copenhagen University, Denmark 309A Evidence for complex lifestyles among aquatic bacteria: Switching microhabitats reversibly changes metabolic capacity of aggregate-associated microbial communities 1 1 2 2 Fred C. Dobbs* , M.M. Lyons , X. Zhao , R.E. Hicks 1 2 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota, USA 310A Diversity and seasonal dynamics of haptophytes in outer Oslo fjorden as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing 1 1 1 1 2 Elianne Egge* , Wenche Eikrem , Tom Andersen , Vladyslave Hostyeva , Lucie Bittner , Torill 3 3 1 Johannesen , Ruth-Anne Sandaa , Bente Edvardsen 1 2 University of Oslo, Department of biology, Norway, University of Kaiserslautern, Department 3 of ecology, Germany, University of Bergen, Department of biology, Norway 311A Microbial degradation of organic matter under elevated pCO2: an offshore mesocosm study Sonja Endres*, Luisa Galgani, Anja Engel Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany 312A The mystery of the unknown: patterns in the global deep ocean heterotrophic bacterioplankton activity 1 2 1 Ana Gomes* , Xosé Anxelu G. Morán , Josep M. Gasol 1 2 Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CMIMA - CSIC, Spain, Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Spain 313A Occurrence of antibiotic resistance in marine sediments and fauna along an exposure gradient in Arctic Greenland Maria Granberg*, Ingela Dahllöf University of Gothenburg/Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, Sweden 314A Bromodeoxyuridine incorporation techniques reveal actively growing bacteria in a temperate coastal water of Hiroshima Bay, western Japan 1 1 2 Koji Hamasaki* , Yuya Tada , Akito Taniguchi 1 2 Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Japan, Kinki University, Japan 16 PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean Monday 20 August 315A Temperature dependence of prokaryotic autotrophy in the meso- and bathypelagic Atlantic Ocean Roberta Hansman*, Gerhard Herndl University of Vienna, Austria 316A Comparative community genomics of the Northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean Niels Hanson*, Jody J. Wright, Kishori M. Konwar, Steven J. Hallam University of British Columbia, Canada 317A Characterization of microbial communities through space and time after oil spill in Bohai bay Xiaoke Hu*, Hui Wang, Jialong Yang Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 318A Characterization of sulfate-reducing communities using dissimilatory sulfite reductase (dsr) gene in the finfish (Rock fish and Seabream) aquaculture farm in the southern coast of Korea 1 1 1 1 1 2 Jung-Ho Hyun* , Ayeon Choi , Hye-Yeon Cho , Bomina Kim , Sunguk An , Won-Chan Lee 1 2 Hanyang University, South Korea, National Fisheries R&D Institute, South Korea 319A Geographical differentiation of the genome content of the marine cyanobacterium prochlorococcus Alyssa Kent*, Adam Martiny University of California, Irvine, USA 320A The Baltic Sea microbiome exposed by large-scale environmental sequencing 1 1 1 1 2 John Larsson* , Karolina Ininbergs , Johan Nylander , Narin Celepli , Jarone Pinhassi , Chris 3 3 3 3 1 Dupont , Shibu Yooseph , Johannes Goll , Mathangi Thiagarajan , Birgitta Bergman 1 2 3 Stockholm University, Sweden, University of Kalmar, Sweden, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA 321A High frequency sampling of bacterioplankton communities reveals seasonal dynamics in the baltic sea – implications for long-term shifts in climate 1 2 1 1 Markus V. Lindh* , Anders F. Andersson , Emmelie Nilsson , Federico Baltar , Catherine 1 1 Legrand , Jarone Pinhassi 1 2 Marine Microbiology, School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Sweden 322A Abundance, expression, and diversity of nitrite reductase genes in Gulf of California and eastern tropical North Pacific oxygen minimum zones Marie Lund*, Jason M Smith, Jassica A Lee, Christopher A Francis Stanford University, United States 323A Dissolved organic matter and sea ice dynamics may explain changes in microbial community structure along the Western Antarctic Peninsula 1 2 3 4 1 Catherine Luria , Linda Amaral-Zettler , Hugh Ducklow , Daniel Repeta , Jeremy Rich* 1 2 Brown University, USA, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, 3 4 Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA 324A High viral impact on picoeukaryotic phytoplankton despite phosphate limitation Douwe Maat*, Corina Brussaard Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands 17 PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean Monday 20 August 325A Bacterial hydrolysis of marine particles: identifying temporal breakdown patterns and species-specific carbon substrate assimilation using stable isotope labeling, microarrays and nanosims Xavier Mayali*, Benjamin J. Stewart, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Peter K. Weber Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA 326A The impact of enhanced stratification on the structuring of marine food webs Kristina Mojica*, Corina Brussaard Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands 327A Natural ammonium oxidizers' response to chemical changes in the permanent and seasonal oxygen minimum zones of Chile 1 2 3 3 4 Veronica Molina* , Camila Fernández , Hector Levipan , Osvaldo Ulloa , Tage Dalsgaard , Bo 5 4 Thamdrup , Niels Peter Revsbech 1 2 3 Universidad Andres Bello, Chile, CNRS UMR-7621 Banyuls-Sur-Mer, France, Universidad 4 5 de Concepción Chile, Aarhus University Denmark, University of Southern Denmark Denmark 328A Metabolic versatility of dominant planktonic sulfur-oxidizing γ-Proteobacteria in a costal oxygen minimum zone 1 1 2 1 Alejandro Murillo* , Salvador Ramírez-Flandes , Edward DeLong , Osvaldo Ulloa 1 2 Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA 329A Plastic pollution and marine microbes: Identifying the plastic colonising community in the ocean Sonja Oberbeckmann*, A. Mark Osborn University of Hull, United Kingdom 330A Transcrioptome Analysis of Light-utilizing Strain Candidatus Puniceispirillum marinum IMCC1322, a Member of SAR116 Group Bacteria 1 1 2 2 3 Hyun-Myung Oh* , Kaekyoung Kwon , Ahyoung Choi , Dongmin Kang , Yong Hak Kim , 2 Jang-Cheon Cho 1 2 Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, South Korea, Inha University, South Korea, 3 Catholic University of Daegu, South Korea 331A Effect of Oxygen Minimum Zone formation on communities of marine protists 1 2 2 2 2 William Orsi* , Young Song , Alyse Hawley , Monica Torres Beltran , Steven Hallam , Virginia 1 Edgcomb 1 2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, University of British Columbia, Canada 332A Fungal diversity associated with Brazilian marine sponge Dragmacidon reticulata 1 2 Michel Passarini* , Lara Sette 1 2 Unicamp - Campinas State University, Brazil, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology UNESP, Brazil 333A Molecular and culturable analysis of microbial diversity present in highly-coppercontaminated Chilean marine sediments 1 1 2 1 2 Laurent Quillet* , Besaury Ludovic , Marty Florence , Buquet Sylvaine , Muyzer Gerald 1 2 UMR CNRS 6143 Université de Rouen, France, University of Delft, Netherlands 334A 454 pyrosequencing analysis of microbial communities and qPCR detection of cyanotoxin genes in a marine system in Singapore 1 1 2 3 4 Damien Raingeard , Charmaine Ng* , Peter Steinberg , Ole Larsen , Diane McDougald 1 Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Research Water 2 Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, 3 Chowder Bay, NSW, Australia, 4DHI-NTU Water & Environment Research Centre and 4 Education Hub, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 18 PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean Monday 20 August 335A Comparative Genomics within a Coastal SAR11 Population Michael Rappe*, Jana Grote, Megan Huggett University of Hawaii, USA 336A Ocean acidification affects benthic microbial communities along natural pCO2 gradients associated with shallow tropical gas vents 1 2 2 1 3 1 Felix Raulf* , Katharina Fabricius , Sven Uthicke , Dirk de Beer , Raeid Abed , Antje Boetius , 1 Alban Ramette 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Australian Institute of Marine 3 Science, Australia, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 337A A microcosm study on oil degrading bacteria of the Archipelago Sea in South-West Finland 1 2 3 1 Anna Reunamo* , Lasse Riemann , Piia Leskinen , Kirsten S. Jørgensen 1 2 3 Finnish Environment Institute, Finland, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Turku, Finland 338A Generalist bacteria colonizing the water masses of the amundsen sea polynya 1 2 3 2 4 Inga Richert* , Julie Dinasquet , Ramiro Logares , Lasse Riemann , Annelie Wendeberg , 5 Bertilsson Stefan 1 2 Uppsala University, Sweden, Marine Biological Section, University of Copenhagen, 3 4 Denmark, Institute of Marine Sciences, CSIC, Spain, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental 5 Research – UFZ, Germany, Uppsala University, Department of Ecology & Genetics, Limnology, Sweden 339A Strongly stratified functional capacities of microbial communities in the Landsort Deep, Baltic Sea Sara Sjöling*, Petter Thureborn Sodertorn University, Sweden 340A Isolation of anaerobic nitrogen fixers from sediments of Narragansett Bay, RI, USA Rodrigue Spinette*, Shelley Brown, Annaliese Jones, Bethany Jenkins University of Rhode Island, USA 341A Assessing copper stress response in natural communities of marine Synechococcus 1 2 1 1 1 Rhona Stuart* , Kristen Buck , Randelle Bundy , Bianca Brahamsha , Brian Palenik 1 2 Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UC San Diego, USA, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, Bermuda 342A Effects of light on the proteorhodopsin-containing marine gammaproteobacterium Photobacterium angustum S14 under batch and chemostat conditions Marcelino Suzuki, Alicia Courties*, Philippe Lebaron University Paris 6 - Observatory of Banyuls - LOMIC, France 343A Ecosystem-specific adaptation of Prochlorococcus, SAR11, and viruses in the Red Sea 1 1 2 1 1 1 Luke Thompson* , Matt Cahill , Chris Field , Ali Awami , Markus Hadwiger , Ulrich Stingl 1 2 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Dalhousie University, Canada 344A Genome characterization of bacterial strains isolated from the biofilm of a denitrification reactor treating seawater Richard Villemur*, Céline Villeneuve, Christine Martineau, Florian Mauffrey INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Canada 345A Comparative community proteogenomics of estuarine and coastal ocean ecosystems 1 1 1 1 2 2 David Walsh* , Anna Georges , Ting Ting Cui , Heba El Swais , Susanne Craig , William Li 1 2 Concordia University, Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada 19 PS03 – Microbes in a Changing Ocean Monday 20 August 346A Biogeographic partitioning of Southern Ocean picoplankton David Wilkins*, Federico M Lauro, Timothy J Williams, Ricardo Cavicchioli University of New South Wales, Australia 347A Interactive climate change and runoff consequences alter O2 fluxes and bacterial community composition of coastal biofilms from the Great Barrier Reef 1 2 3 Verena Witt* , Christian Wild , Sven Uthicke 1 Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)/Leibniz Center of Tropical Ecology (ZMT), 2 3 Germany, Leibniz Center of Tropical Ecology (ZMT), Germany, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), Australia 348A Metagenomic insights on virioplankton biology through nucleic acid and protein synthesis genes 1 1 2 1 K. Eric Wommack* , Shawn Polson , Shannon J. Williamson , Eric Sakowski , Helen 1 1 1 1 Schmidt , Mara Hyatt , Jeff Wray , Rachel Marine 1 2 University of Delaware, USA, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper, USA 349A Biodiversity and phylogenetic analysis of culturable bacteria of five brine pools of the Red Sea Guishan Zhang*, André Antunes, Yue Guan, Tyas Hikmawan, Uli Stingl 1 Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 350A Response of bacterioplankton to glucose gradient without lysis and grazing: who is the winner in the competition for organic carbon? 1 2 3 Rui Zhang* , Markus Weinbauer , Pei-Yuan Qian 1 2 3 Xiamen University, China, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, France, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity: 16S and Beyond - Main Authors A – C 248A Investigation of microbial structure and diversity in the sediment of Mariana trench by 454-pyrosequencing 1 1 1 1 Waleed Abu Al-Soud* , Asker Brejnrod , Martin A. Hansen , Lars H. Hansen , Anders 1 2 3 4 2 Priemé , Mathias Middelboe , Ronnie N. Glud , Hiroshi Kitazato , Søren J. Sørensen 1 2 University of Copenhagen/Department of Biology, Denmark, University of Copenhagen/ 3 Marine Biological Section, Denmark, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 4 Denmark, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan 249A Diversity of picoeukaryotes at an oligotrophic site off the northern Red Sea coast Francisco Acosta Espinosa*, David Ngugi, Ulrich Stingl King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 250A Aromatic biodegradation potential of the anaerobic microbial community from oilpolluted subtidal sediments affected by the Prestige oil spill 1 2 1 Alejandro Acosta González* , Ramón Rosselló-Móra , Silvia Marqués 1 2 Estación Experimental del Zaidín - CSIC, Spain, Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, IMEDEA, Spain 251A Vibriospecies in biofloc aquaculture systems and their potential as probiotic elements in shrimp farming Diana Aguilera-Rivera, Karla Susana Escalante-Herrera, Martha Gabriela Gaxiola-Cortés, Alejandra Prieto-Davó* Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico 20 PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity Monday 20 August 252A Microbiological and Physio-chemical attributes of Hot Springs Water of Jazan City at the Southern region in Saudi Arabia Majed Albokari, Ibrahim M. Mashhour* Atomic Energy Research Institute (AERI), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia 253A The evolutionary space of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene. Ver 1.0 1 2 2 1 3 Evgeny Andronov* , Alexander Dolnik , Gayk Tamazyan , Elizabeth Pershina , Kira Vyatkina , 4 1 Yury Porozov , Alexander Pinaev 1 2 3 4 ARRIAM, Russia, SPbGU, Russia, SPAU, Russia, ITMO, Russia 254A Isolation of Haloarchaea from Salt Marsh Environments Roshena Arevalo*, Terry McGenity School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, United Kingdom 255A Soil microbial diversity and greenhouse gas emissions in a California grassland under precipitation and N deposition manipulation Emma Aronson*, Anthony Amend, Steven Allison 1 University of California, Irvine, USA 256A Impact of fish diet on spatial and temporal structure of bacterial populations in recirculating aquaculture systems, characterised by Ion Torrent sequencing 1 2 3 3 2 Marc Auffret* , Étienne Yergeau , Alexandre Pilote , Émilie Proulx , Charles Greer , Grant 2 1 Vandenberg , Richard Villemur 1 2 INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Canada, National Research Council of Canada, 3 Biotechnology Research Institute, Canada, Département des sciences animales, Université Laval, Canada 257A Heterotrophic bacteria in a consortium with the bichlorophyllous cyanobacterium Prochlothrix hollandica 1 1 1 1 Svetlana Averina , Yuliya Chernomorskaya , Alexander Pinevich , Nataliya Velichko* , 2 Natuschka M. Lee 1 2 Saint Petersburg University, Russia, Technical University of Munich, Germany 258A Characterization of the virome of raw sewage by Illumina deep sequencing technology Tiong Gim Aw*, Adina Howe, Joan Rose Michigan State University, United States 259A Short-term inhibition impact of antimicrobials on the homoacetogenic and methanogenic activities of an enriched culture Sevcan Aydın*, Orhan Ince, E.gozde Ozbayram, Zeynep Cetecioglu, Osman Arıkan, Bahar Ince Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 260A Linking microbial community phylogenetic structure to beta-glucosidic function in soil aggregates Vanessa Bailey*, Sarah Fansler, James Stegen, Lee Ann McCue Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States 261A Differential effects of biochar amendments on microbial communities of agricultural soils 1 2 2 2 Andrea K Bartram* , Rachel G M Backer , Inna Teshler , Ricardo Fontoura , Hongyuan 2 2 2 1 Deng , Donald L Smith , Joann K Whalen , Josh D Neufeld 1 2 University of Waterloo, Canada, McGill University, Canada 21 PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity Monday 20 August 262A Bacterial adaptive response to changing herbicide discharge rates in the streambed sediments impacted by a landfill 1 2 3 3 Meriç Batıoğlu-Pazarbaşı* , Jacob Bælum , Giovanni Pilloni , Micheal Larentis , Carsten S. 4 3 5 4 Jacobsen , Tillmann Lueders , Lars H. Hansen , Jens Aamand 1 2 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, Technical University of Denmark/ 3 Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Denmark, Helmholtz ZentrumMunchenGerman Research Center for Environmental Health/Institute of Groundwater Ecology, 4 Germany, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland/Department of Geochemistry, 5 Denmark, University of Copenhagen/Department of Biology, Denmark 263A Pyrosequencing analyses of Synechococcus ecological species inhabiting hot spring microbial mats 1 2 1 3 1 Eric Becraft* , Fred Cohan , Jason Wood , Doug Rusch , Dave Ward 1 2 3 Montana State, United States, Wesleyan, United States, JCVI, United States 264A Phylogentic analysis of 16S rRNA and nosZ genes from denitrifying bacteria in groundwater Maria Ines Bellini*, Ana Fernandez-Scavino, Silvana Tarlera Facultad de Quimica, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay 265A Microbial diversity in anoxic marine lakes of Palau revealed by pyrosequencing J. Michael Beman*, Michael Dawson, Matthew Meyerhof University of California, Merced, United States 266A "Next-base" effect on PCR amplification 1 2 2 Eitan Ben-Dov* , Orr H. Shapiro , Ariel Kushmaro 1 2 Ahva Academic College, Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 267A High-throughput diversity analysis and quality control of environmental data derived from next-generation sequencing studies 1 2 3 3 Johan Bengtsson* , Martin Hartmann , K. Martin Eriksson , R. Henrik Nilsson 1 2 University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART 3 and Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland, Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 268A Variations in bacterial communities in the Vaal River, South Africa as assessed by high through-put sequencing Carlos Bezuidenhout*, Karen Jordaan North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa 269A Diversity of microbial communities decreases as biofilm develops in moving bed biofilm reactor systems treating wastewater Kristi Biswas*, Susan Turner The University of Auckland, New Zealand 270A Free living and particle associated microbial communities in the north Adriatic Sea along a transect from Rovinj to the Po river delta 1 2 2 2 2 Mina Bizic-Ionescu , Michael Zeder , Danny Ionescu , John Marshall , Rudolf Amann , 2 3 3 Bernard M. Fuchs , Mirjana Najdek , Sandi Orlić* 1 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and 2 3 Inland Fisheries, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Ruđer Bošković Institute Center for Marine Research, Croatia 271A Prokaryotic diversity in manganese nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean Marco Blöthe*, Axel Schippers Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany 22 PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity Monday 20 August 272A Effect of Colletotrichum spp. on endophytic bacterial communities associated to Amazon guarana revealed by 16S rRNA gene clone libraries 1 1 1 Andréa Cristina Bogas* , Almir José Ferreira , Welington Luiz de Araújo , Francisco André 1 1 2 Ossamu Tanaka , Elliot Watanabe Kitajima , Spartaco Astolfi Filho , Aline Aparecida Pizzirani1 1 Kleiner , João Lúcio de Azevedo 1 2 University of São Paulo, Brazil, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil 273A Microbial diversity in coastal microbial mats Henk Bolhuis*, Lucas Stal NIOZ-Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands 274A Analysing small genetic elements in metagenomics data Ida Bonde*, Agnieszka Sierakowska Juncker, Damian Rafal Plichta, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 275A OPC method – a simple absolute quantification method correcting for quantitative PCR efficiency 1 2 1 3 Robert Brankatschk , Natacha Bodenhausen , Josef Zeyer , Helmut Bürgmann* 1 2 Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Institute of 3 Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Surface Waters – Research and Management, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology Switzerland 276A Microbiome similarity within villages and across social networks Ilana Brito*, Eric Alm Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States 277A Bacterial composition of an efficient methanogenic system for treatment of dairy wastewater assessed by 454-pyrosequencing Angela Cabezas*, Patricia Bovio, Claudia Etchebehere Facultad de Ciencias/IIBCE, Uruguay 278A Bacterial diversity in terrestrial microbial mats from maritime Antarctica by pyrosequencing: a summer snapshot in an extreme environment Cecilia Callejas*, Angela Cabezas, Sivia Batista, Claudia Etchebehere IIBCE, Uruguay 279A Bacterial consortium for lignocellulose degradation and ethanol production Lucia Maria Carareto Alves*, Maria Luisa M Almeida, Joice Mariá B Alves, Eliana G M Lemos Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Brazil 280A Bacterial community structure in the phyllosphere of apple and pear trees Marc Carrasquilla*, Marc Lliros, Núria Gaju, Maira Martínez-Alonso Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 281A Molecular ecological studies on microbial community of ginseng soil using pyrosequencing Chang-Jun Cha, Jung-Hye Choi*, Sang-Min Lee, Sung-Joon Park Chung-Ang University, South Korea 282A Bacteria associated with pre-released larvae and ovarian fluid of ovoviviparous china rockfish Sebastes nebulosus 1 2 3 2 Sage Chaiyapechara , Carolyn S. Friedman , Mike B. Rust , Russell P. Herwig* 1 2 National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand, University of 3 Washington, USA, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, USA 23 PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity Monday 20 August 283A Removal of toxic chemicals from wastewater sludge using alginate microcapsules Bea-Ven Chang*, Zen-Yi Wang Department of Microbiology, Soochow University, Taiwan 284A Enrichment of iron-reducing and iron-oxidizing bacteria in natural uranium ores as demonstrated by DGGE and pyrosequencing analyses of 16S rRNA genes 1 2 3 4 5 Virginie Chapon* , Laure Mondani , Karim Benzerara , Marie Carrière , Richard Christen , 6 2 7 2 Laureline Fevrier , Wafa Achouak , Pascal Nardoux , Catherine Berthomieu 1 2 3 CEA/IBEB, France, CEA-CNRS-Université d’Aix Marseille/IBEB, France, CNRS/IMPMC, 4 5 France, CEA/INAC, France, CNRS-Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis/Centre de Biochimie, 6 7 France, IRSN/SECRE, France, AREVA, France 285A Community and merA gene diversities of indigenous soil bacterial communities in industrially mercury polluted areas in the USA and Taiwan 1 2 1 Aspa D. Chatziefthimiou* , Mei-Fang Chien , Tamar Barkay 1 2 Rutgers University/ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, USA, Tohoku-Gakuin University/ Faculty of Engineering and Ehime University/ Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Japan 286A Exploring the metagenomic diversity of polyhydroxyalkanoate genes from oilcontaminated soil 1 2 1 1 2 Simrita Cheema* , Monica Bassas-Galia , Priyangshu Sarma , Banwari Lal , Sagrario Arias 1 2 The Energy and Resources Institute, India, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany 287A Pyrosequencing analysis of 16S rRNA gene amplicons of soil microbial communitie shows a low reproducibility Lei Cheng* University of Oklahoma, United States 288A Application of DGGE technique for bacterial population from oil reservoir of Northern Petroleum Development Center 1 2 1 Paweena Choochuay* , Pinan Dawkrajai , Sakunnee Bovonsombut 1 2 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Northern Petroleum Development Center, Thailand 289A Rumen microbiome profile during cold stress/adaptation in cattle fed low protein diets supplemented with dried distillers grain with solubles (DDGS) 1 2 3 1 1 Kane Christiuk* , Riley Hartmann , Jessica D. Forbes , Kim H. Ominski , J. C. Plaizier , Ehsan 1 Khafipour 1 2 Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Canada, Department of Chemistry, 3 University of Manitoba, Canada, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Canada 290A Shifts in archaeal and bacterial community structures of upland soils as affected by cattle overwintering 1 2 3 1 1 Alica Chronakova* , Brigitte Hai , Christopher Quince , Dana Elhottova , Miloslav Simek , 2 Michael Schloter 1 2 Biology Centre AS CR, Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Republic, Helmholtz Zentrum 3 München, Research Unit for Environmental Genetics, Germany, University of Glasgow, Department of Civil Engineering, United Kingdom 291A Community dynamics of the mouse gut microbiota under dietary intervention 1 1 1 2 3 Feyza Colakoglu* , Yi Vee Chew , Andrew J. Holmes , Samantha Solon , Aisling McMahon , 3 4 2 David Le Couter , David Raubenheimer , Steve Simpson 1 2 School of Molecular Bioscience, University of Sydney, Australia, Biological Sciences, 3 University of Sydney, Australia, ANZAC Research Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, 4 Massey University, New Zealand 24 PS04 – Microbial Community Diversity Monday 20 August 292A Evidence for N2 fixation-mediated methane production in oil sands tailings C.E. Victoria Collins*, Julia Foght, Tariq Siddique University of Alberta, Canada 293A Temporal dynamics of microbial communities in the rhizosphere of two genetically modified (GM) maize hybrids in tropical agrosystems 1 2 3 3 4 Simone Cotta* , Armando Dias , Ivanildo Marriel , Eliane Gomes , Jan Dirk van Elsas , Lucy 1 Seldin 1 2 3 4 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, USP, Brazil, EMBRAPA, Brazil, University of Groningen, Netherlands 294A High-resolution temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial community composition and function revealed though time-series metagenomics in Trout Bog Lake, WI 1 2 3 2 Benjamin Crary* , Leong-Keat Chan , Ramunas Stepanauskas , Rex Malmstrom , Stefan 4 5 6 7 Bertilsson , Ashley Shade , Jack Gilbert , Katherine McMahon 1 2 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA, 3 4 Bigelow Laboratory Single Cell Genomics Center, USA, Department of Ecology & Genetics, 5 Limnology, Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Molecular Cellular and 6 Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA, Argonne National Laboratory and the 7 University of Chicago, IL, USA, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 295A Oral biofilms: What you do not know can come back and bite you Richard Crout*, Tiffany Ngan, Chris Cuff West Virginia University School of Dentistry, United States PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography - is everything everywhere? 001A Biogeography of soil microbial communities in Indonesian pine forest soils 1 2 3 4 Rully Adi Nugroho* , Wilfred FM Roling , Nico M van Straalen , Kris H Timotius 1 2 Faculty of Biology, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia, Department of Molecular 3 Cell Physiology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Netherlands, Institute of 4 Ecological Science, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University, Netherlands, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia 002A Genetic basis of endophyte community on aspen (Populus tremula) is altered after introduction of a specialist beetle (Chrysomela tremula) Benedicte Albrectsen* Umeå University, Sweden 003A Distribution patterns of free-living microorganisms in a groundwater ecosystem Stefano Amalfitano*, Stefano Fazi, Elisabetta Preziosi, Stefano Ghergo, Andrea Del Bon, Patrizia Casella, Annamaria Zoppini Water Research Institute - CNR, Italy 26 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 004A The viable microorganisms of clouds 1 2 3 2 3 Pierre Amato* , Mickaël Vaïtilingom , Eleonore Attard , Muriel Joly , Martine Sancelme , 4 3 Laurent Deguillaume , Anne-Marie Delort 1 2 CNRS - Blaise Pascal University, France, CNRS - Blaise Pascal University - ICCF/OPGC, 3 4 France, CNRS - Blaise Pascal University - ICCF, France, CNRS - Blaise Pascal University OPGC, France 005A Naphthalene degrading prokaryotic communities of Arctic and Temperate seas as discovered by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis and pyrosequencing 1 2 1 1 Andrea Bagi* , Anders Lanzén , Torleiv Bilstad , Roald Kommedal 1 2 University of Stavanger, Norway, University of Bergen, Norway 006A Spatial distribution of methanogenic archaea communities in a tropical lake 1 2 3 1 Davi Barreto , Ralf Conrad , Angela Manzolillo Sanseverino , Alex Enrich-Prast* 1 2 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial 3 Microbiology, Germany, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 007A Large-scale spatial pattern of soil bacterial diversity over monitored with a high-density microarray 1 2 3 4 Jean-Sebastien Beaulne* , Sebastien Cecillon , Saliou Fall , Elisabeth Navarro , Pascal 5 1 Simonet , Timothy Vogel 1 2 3 4 Université de Lyon, France, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, Senegal, IRD, France, 5 CNRS, France 008A Spatio-temporal evolution of Bradyrhizobium populations associated with the legume tree Acacia mangium 1 2 2 3 4 Gilles Bena* , Marie-Mathilde Perrineau , Yves Prin , Aliou Faye , Sergio de Faria , Antoine 2 2 5 6 Galiana , Christine Leroux , Paul Redell , Doreen Goh 1 2 3 4 5 IRD, Morocco, CIRAD-LSTM, France, ISRA, Senegal, EMBRAPA, Brazil, Ecobiotics, 6 Australia, Innoprise, Malaysia 009A The role of predation and dispersal for bacterialmetacommunity dynamics 1 2 3 3 Merce Berga* , Örjan Östman , Eva S. Lindström , Silke Langenheder 1 2 Uppsala University, Sweden, Uppsala Universtiy. Dept. of Ecology and Genetics/ Populaition 3 biology and conservation biology, Sweden, Uppsala University. Dept. of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Sweden 010A Prokaryotic community composition across the oceanic provinces in the Atlantic 1 2 2 2 2 Kristin Bergauer* , Beate Husain , Claudia Sulzer , Juan A. Garcia , Harald Gruber - Vodicka , 2 Gerhard J. Herndl 1 2 University of Vienna/Department of Marine BIology, Austria, University of Vienna / Faculty of Life Sciences, Austria 011A Exhaustive biogeographical survey of Cryptophytes diversity in 20 open-oceans ecosystems using Illumina sequencing 1 2 2 2 3 Lucie Bittner* , Fabrice Not , Stephane Audic , Colomban de Vargas , Julie Poulain , Patrick 3 1 Wincker , Thorsten Stoeck 1 2 University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Station Biologique de 3 Roscoff, France, Genoscope, France 012A Comparison between particle-associated bacteria in limnic and marine systems 1 2 3 4 1 Mina Bižić-Ionescu* , Michael Zeder , John Marshall , Sandi Orlic , Rudolf Amann , Bernhard 1 5 M. Fuchs , Hans-Peter Grossart 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 3 4 5 University of Bremen, Germany, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany 27 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 013A Growth response of lake water bacterial communities to different pH Erland Bååth*, Emma Kritzberg, Daniel Laster Grip Lund University, Dep. Biology/Aquatic Ecology, Sweden 014A Seasonality in the main dispersal routes of bacteria to lakes Jérôme Comte, Ina Severin, Eva Lindström* Uppsala University, Sweden 015A Recruitment of marine taxa from seed-banks in freshwater ecosystems Jérôme Comte, Eva Lindström, Alexander Eiler, Silke Langenheder* Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics/Limnology, Sweden 016A Bacterial community variability across ten years and five depths at the San Pedro Ocean Time Series (SPOTS) 1 1 1 1 2 1 Jacob Cram* , Rohan Sachdeva , Cheryl Chow , Li Xia , Joshua Steele , David Needham , 1 1 Alma Parada , Jed Fuhrman 1 2 University of Southern California, USA, California Institute of Technology, USA 017A Microbial community structure and metagenomics across the river-to-ocean continuum of the Amazon River 1 1 1 2 3 Byron Crump* , Mary Doherty , Caroline Fortunato , Alex Krusche , Daímio Brito , Alan 3 4 5 6 5 Cunha , Marcelo Fernandez , Brandon Satinsky , Brian Zielinski , Christa Smith , Nicholas 7 7 5 Ward , Jeffrey Richey , Patricia Yager 1 2 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA, CENA-USP, Brazil, 3 4 5 Universidade Federal do Amapá, Brazil, Embrapa Tabuleiros Costeiros, Brazil, University of 6 7 Georgia, USA, University of South Florida, United States, University of Washington, USA 018A Phototrophic protist communities in Gulf of Maine unveiled by way of 18srRNA and psbA transcripts 1 1 2 Cindy Dasilva* , Connie Lovejoy , W.k.w. Li 1 2 Laval University, Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada 019A Molecular ecology of Penicillium species recovered from indoor environment Domenico Davolos*, Biancamaria Pietrangeli INAIL, Department of Productive Plants and Interaction with the Environment (DIPIA), Italy 020A Microbial engineers in the Chesapeake Bay Estuary: dynamically shifting communities with changing metabolic capacities Mary Doherty*, Byron Crump, Jeffrey Cornwell, Dong Y. Lee University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USA 021A Starting to unravel the layer of life on surfaces in the sea - metagenomics of complex marine biofilm communities Karl Martin Eriksson*, Kemal Sanli, Johan Bengtsson, R. Henrik Nilsson, Magnus Alm Rosenblad, Hans Blanck University of Gothenburg, Sweden 022A Database search bias and undersampling may significantly influence the observed distribution of microorgansisms - a case study of the form genus Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria) 1 2 3 1 2 Tamas Felfoldi* , Boglarka Somogyi , Zsolt Gyula Keresztes , Anna Hegyi , Lajos Voros , 1 Karoly Marialigeti 1 2 Department of Microbiology, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary, Balaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecology Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 3 Department of Experimental Biology, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania 28 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 023A Distance-decay diversity patterns of phyllosphere bacteria on Tamarisk trees across the Sonoran Desert 1 2 1 3 2 Omri Finkel* , Adrien Y. Burch , Tal Elad , Susan M. Huse , Steven E. Lindow , Anton F. 3 1 Post , Shimshon Belkin 1 2 3 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, University of California, USA, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biology Laboratory, USA 024A Seasonal variation of indoor microbial exposures and their relations to air temperature, relative humidity and air exchange rates 1 2 3 2 3 Mika Frankel* , Sine Gustavsen , Michael Timm , Gabriel Bekö , Erik Hansen , Anne Mette 1 Madsen 1 2 National Research Center for the working environment, Denmark, Technical University of 3 Denmark, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 025A Factors affecting microbial community assembly during succession on the egg surface of the Lake Sturgeon: the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic processes Masanori Fujimoto*, Kim Scribner, Terence Marsh Michigan State University, USA 026A Human microbiota drives indoor air microbes 1 1 2 2 1 Carole Gaüzère* , Marina Moletta , Jérôme Hamelin , Jean Jacques Godon , Enric Robine 1 2 CSTB, France, INRA, France 027A Microbial biogeography across the seven seas 1 2 3 1 Sean Gibbons* , J. Gregory Caporaso , Rob Knight , Jack Gilbert 1 2 3 Argonne National Laboratory, United States, Northern Arizona University, United States, UC Boulder, United States 028A Comparative analysis of marine bacterial communities from Arctic and Antarctic 1 1 1 2 3 Lea Hansen* , Peter Holmsgaard , Lars Hansen , Anders Norman , Simon Rasmussen , 3 3 1 4 Nikolaj Blom , Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten , Lasse Riemann , Russell Neches , Jonathan 4 5 1 Eisen , Jeff Bowman , Søren Sørensen 1 2 3 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, UC Berkley, Denmark, Technical University of 4 5 Denmark, Denmark, UC Davis, Denmark, University of Washington, United States 029A Biogeography of the attached-living planctomycete Rhodopirellula spp. in European coastal sediments Jens Harder*, Marina Zure Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 030A Driving force behind speciation of thermophilic cyanobacteria in hot spring microbial mats Shin Haruta*, Mizuki Kawai, Katsumi Matsuura Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 031A New insights into diversity and biogeography of marine actinobacteria Ying Huang*, Lijun Xi, Limin Zhang, Jisheng Ruan Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 032A Evidence demonstrating substrate supply and presence of possible inhibitory substance may determine habitat for anammox population in a shallow eutrophic lake 1 2 2 3 4 Takuya Ikeda* , Ryuji Kondo , Yumi Mori , Takao Yamagishi , Chie Katsuyama , Shingo 5 6 4 Ueda , Ikuo Yoshinaga , Yuichi Suwa 1 2 Chuo University, Japan, Department of Marine Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University, 3 Japan, Research Institute for Environmental Management Technology, National Institute of 4 Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Department of Biological Sciences, 5 Faculty of Science and Technology, Chuo University, Japan, College of Bio-Resource 6 Sciences, Nihon University, Japan, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan 29 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 033A Soil microbial communities from single aggregates distributed at the millimeter scale 1 2 Sarah Jennings* , George Kowalchuk 1 2 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 034A Diversity and metabolic potential of microbes in air 1 1 1 2 1 Valdis Krumins* , Gediminas Mainelis , Lee Kerkhof , Valarae Partee , Donna Fennell 1 2 Rutgers, United States, University of Georgia, United States 035A High throughput sequencing of Ethiopian soda lakes reveals contrasting microbial communities Anders Lanzén*, Lise Øvreås University of Bergen, Norway 036A The biogeography of stream bacteria 1 2 3 1 1 2 Gavin Lear* , Vidya Washington , Martin Neale , Brad Case , Hannah Buckley , Gillian Lewis 1 2 3 Lincoln University, New Zealand, Auckland University, New Zealand, Auckland Council, New Zealand 037A Metagenomic and metaproteomic analyses of marine biofilms 1 1 2 1 1 Dagmar Leary* , W. Judson Hervey , Robert W. Li , Nikolai Lebedev , Leila J. Hamdan , 1 1 1 Jeffrey R. Deschamps , Anne W. Kusterbeck , Gary J. Vora 1 2 Naval Research Laboratory, USA, Bovine Functional Laboratory, USDA, USA 038A Dynamics of freshwater microbial communities in two different rivers exposed to sewage effluent in novel in situ mesocosms 1 2 3 4 5 3 Katja Lehmann , Thomas Bell* , Michael Bowes , William Gaze , David Bass , Dawn Field , 3 Andrew Singer 1 2 3 University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, NERC 4 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom, European Centre for Environment and 5 Human Health, United Kingdom, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom 039A Distance decay of similarity in microbial communities in the floral nectar of the beepollinated forest herb Pulmonaria officinalis 1 1 2 2 1 Marijke Lenaerts , Bart Lievens* , Rein Brys , Olivier Honnay , Kris Willems , Hans 2 Jacquemyn 1 Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management-Consortium for 2 Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (CIMB)- KU Leuven Association, Belgium, Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KU Leuven, Belgium 040A Assessment of the ecological factors governing the bioconversion of coal to methane 1 2 3 1 Christopher N. Lyles* , Victoria A. Parisi , William H. Beasley , Joy D. Van Nostrand , Jizhong 1 1 Zhou , Joseph M. Suflita 1 2 University of Oklahoma, United States, ConocoPhillips, Geological Technology, United 3 States, Howard Live Oak, LLC, United States 041A Bacterial communities in the Baltic Sea basin reflect its history 1 1 1 1 2 Christina Lyra* , Hanna Sinkko , Matias Rantanen , Lars Paulin , Aarno Kotilainen 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, Geological Survey of Finland, Finland 042A Dynamics of microbial community assembly in a novel model system: the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis thaliana Loïs Maignien*, Emelia DeForce, Meghan Chafee, Sheri Simmons Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA 043A Investigation of microorganisms causing malodor of laundry 1 1 1 1 2 Asako Mitani* , Hiromi Kubota , Kohei Takeuchi , Yuu Niwano , Yoshiaki Kawamura , Noriko 1 1 Yamaguchi , Jun Hitomi 1 2 Kao corporation, Japan, Aichigakuin University, Japan 30 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 044A Microbial diversity along a terrestrial-aquatic continuum 1 2 3 4 5 Cécile Monard* , Stephan Gantner , Sara Hallin , Stefan Bertilsson , Jan Stenlid 1 2 3 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, SLU, Sweden, SLU - Department of 4 5 Microbiology, Sweden, Uppsala University, Sweden, SLU - Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Sweden 045A Phylogeography of thermophilic bacterial spores in marine sediments: bioindicators for microbe dispersal in the oceans 1 2 3 2 Albert Müller* , Júlia Rosa de Rezende , Casey Hubert , Kaspar Urup Kjeldsen , Michael 1 2 1 Wagner , Bo Barker Jørgensen , Alexander Loy 1 Department of Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria, 2 Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, 3 School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 046A Buildings as metacommunities Timothy O'Connor*, Jessica Green, Brendan Bohannan, Charlie Brown, Steven Kembel, Jeff Kline, Maxwell Moriyama, Ann Womack University of Oregon, United States 047A Spatial and temporal scaling for studying long-term continental microbial ecology Jacob Parnell* National Ecological Observatory Network, USA 048A Wastewaters, a source of highly diversified Pseudomonas aeruginosa leading to an outdoor dissemination of clinical lineages showing recent DNA rearrangements 1 1 1 2 3 3 1 Stephanie Petit* , R Lavenir , C Colinon , G Fantino , P Cholley , X Bertrand , J Freney , A 1 1 4 1 5 1 Doléans-Jordheim , S Nazaret , L Schmitt , B Moulin , P Breil , B Cournoyer 1 2 University of Lyon, UMR CNRS 5557, France, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - CNRS, 3 4 5 France, University of Besançon, France, University of Strasbourg- CNRS, France, IRSTEA, France 049A Effects of tidal resuspension on benthic microalgal community structure and the applicability of neutral community models 1 2 1 Craig Plante* , Virginia Fleer , Martin Jones 1 2 College of Charleston, USA, Northwest Missouri State University, USA 050A Relative abundance data are essential to accurately reflect beta-diversity in microbial communities Jeff Powell* University of Western Sydney / Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Australia 051A Distinct colonization patterns for prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes during epilithic biofilm formation 1 2 1 1 Marie Ragon* , Gwendal Restoux , David Moreira , Purificación López-García 1 2 CNRS, France, University Paris Sud, France 052A Soil microbial communities in grasslands - spatial and temporal patterns at the local scale 1 2 1 1 3 Kathleen Regan* , Markus Steffens , Doreen Berner , Runa Boeddinghaus , Daniel Prati , 3 3 1 1 Barbara Schmitt , Steffen Boch , Ellen Kandeler , Sven Marhan 1 2 University of Hohenheim/Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Germany, Technical 3 University Munich/Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Germany, University of Bern/Institute of Plant Sciences, Switzerland 053A Spatial and temporal characterization of bacterial metapopulations reveals dispersal and habitat limitations in interconnected freshwater ecosystems Luis M Rodriguez-R*, Despina Tsementzi, Chengwei Luo, Konstantinos Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology, United States 31 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 054A Investigation of neutrophilic iron bacteria communities in Tierra del Fuego wetlands 1 2 3 1 2 Bertram Schmidt* , Leandro Sánchez , Gastón Kreps , Till Fretschner , Marcela Ferrero , 2 1 Faustino Sineriz , Ulrich Szewzyk 1 2 Berlin Institute of Technology / Environmental Ecology, Germany, Planta Piloto de Procesos 3 Industrials Microbiologicos (PROIMI), Argentina, Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Argentina 055A Dispersal and the association between community composition and functioning Ina Severin*, Örjan Östman, Eva Lindström Uppsala University, Sweden 056A Evidence for interactions between surface water and periphyton biofilms in artificial streams 1 1 1 1 2 Orin Shanks* , Peed Lindsay , Catherine Kelty , Mano Sivaganesan , Thomas Mooney , 1 Christopher Nietch 1 2 U.S. EPA, United States, University of Cincinnati, United States 057A Microbial community diversity across vertical and geographic gradients in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes Cody Sheik*, Karthik Anantharaman, Gregory Dick University of Michigan, United States 058A Distribution and composition of bacterial communities in relation to water mass characteristics in the Sargasso Sea 1 2 3 Johanna Sjöstedt* , Peter Munk , Lasse Riemann 1 2 3 Linnaeus University, Sweden, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 060A Genegeography of N2O potential emissions across land-use intensification gradient in subtropical soils of Southern Brazil 1 1 1 2 1 Dennis Souza* , Clovis Borges , Lina Wong , Dilmar Baretta , Siu Mui Tsai 1 2 Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Brazil, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina UDESC, Brazil 061A Quantifying the influences of ecological drift, selection and dispersal in subsurface meta-communities James Stegen*, Xueju Lin, Jim Fredrickson, Xingyuan Chen, David Kennedy, Christopher Murray, Mark Rockhold, Allan Konopka Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States 062A Biogeography of soil Burkholderia populations Nejc Stopnisek*, Leo Eberl, Laure Weisskopf Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 063A Revisiting the microbial biogeography debate: evidence for bipolarity in marine bacteria 1 2 1 1 1 Woo Jun Sul* , Thomas Oliver , Hugh Ducklow , Linda Amaral-Zettler , Mitchell Sogin 1 2 Marine Biological Laboratory, United States, University of Hawaii, United States 064A Mechanisms determining the fate of dispersed bacterial communities: how can dispersal lead the way towards generalists' supremacy? Anna J Szekely*, Merce Berga, Silke Langenheder Uppsala University, Sweden 065A Pyrosequencing reveals regional differences in vine-associated yeast communities Mike Taylor*, Nicole Anfang, Amali Thrimawithana, Peter Tsai, Howard Ross, Matthew Goddard University of Auckland, New Zealand 32 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August 066A Statistical mathematics of geophysical constraints on subseafloor microbial biomass and community structure Taishi Tsubouchi*, Yuki Morono, Tadashi Maruyama, Yuji Hatada, Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan 067A A longitudinal asessment of microbial exposures in schools in relation to moisture damage and dampness 1 2 3 2 1 Martin Täubel* , José Jacobs , Alicia Borras , Esmeralda Krop , Juha Pekkanen , Jan-Paul 3 2 1 Zock , Dick Heederik , Anne Hyvärinen 1 National Institute for Health and Welfare, Department Environmental Health, Finland, 2 Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Division Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht 3 University, Netherlannds Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) Spain 068A Biofilm microbial communities of two man-made lakes at Lokpa, Umuchieze Abia State Nigeria Ositadinma Ugbogu*, Reginald Onyeagba, Victor Nwaugo Abia State University, Nigeria 069A Spatial scaling of functional gene diversity in wastewater treatment plants 1 1 2 2 Xiaohui Wang* , Xianghua Wen , Ye Deng , Jizhong Zhou 1 2 Tsinghua University, China, University of Oklahoma, USA 070A Factor analysis of soil microbial community structure in introduced species Pinus elliottiiplantation in red soil in Southern China Yun Wang*, Zhiyun Ouyang, Hua Zheng, Falin Chen Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 071A Biogeographical patterns of bacterial communities of paddy soils in Korea Hang-Yeon Weon*, Jae-Hyung Ahn, Byung-Yong Kim, Jaekyeong Song National Academy of Agricultural Science, South Korea 072A Putting social microbes on the map: a genomics approach 1 2 1 Sébastien Wielgoss* , Hansrainer Peitz , Gregory Velicer 1 2 ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Indiana University, USA 073A Global dispersion of bacterial cells on Asian dust 1 1 2 1 1 Nobuyasu Yamaguchi* , Tomoaki Ichijo , Akiko Sakotani , Takashi Baba , Masao Nasu 1 2 Osaka University, Japan, Osaka Ohtani University, Japan 074A Effects of diversity and dispersal on bacterial community composition and ecosystem functioning Yinghua Zha*, Mercè Berga, Jérôme Comte, Silke Langenheder Uppsala University, Sweden 33 PS05 – Microbial Dispersion and Biogeography Monday 20 August PS06 – Microbial Gradient Communities 183A Role and distribution of benthic prokaryotes in nitrogen cycle in two sites of the bay of Marennes-Oleron (France) differing in particle size: comparison between sandy and muddy tidal flats 1 2 2 1 1 Helene Agogue* , Jun Gong , Xiaoli Zhang , Vanessa Becquet , Christine Dupuy 1 2 UMR LIENSs (CNRS - La Rochelle University), France, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China 184A Microbial communities related to methane cycle in Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee, Israel) sediment 1 1 1 2 1 Itay Bar Or* , Orit Sivan , Eitan Ben Dov , Werner Eckert , Ariel Kushmaro 1 2 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Israel 185A Posttranslational modification of proteins by nitric oxide is linked to induction of superinfective phage and seeding dispsersal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 1 1 2 1 Nicolas Barraud* , Anne Mai-Prochnow , Janice Hui , Alain Filloux , Scott Rice , Staffan 1 Kjelleberg 1 2 University of New South Wales, Australia, Imperial College, United Kingdom 186A Competition between denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in marine sediments Anna Behrendt*, Dirk de Beer, Peter Stief Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 187A Primary succession of bacteria on kelp surfaces 1 2 2 2 Mia M. Bengtsson* , Kjersti Sjøtun , Anders Lanzén , Lise Øvreås 1 2 University of Vienna, Austria, University of Bergen, Norway 188A A multi-scale in situ analysis of oxygen transport and consumption in thermophilic, archaeal dominated acid iron-oxide mats 1 2 3 1 Hans Bernstein* , Jacob Beam , William Inskeep , Ross Carlson 1 2 Montana State University; Center for Biofilm Engineering, United States, Montana State 3 University, United States, Montana State University; Thermal Biology Institute, United States 189A Sedimentary microorganism response to a sediment re-suspension event: a laboratory study Paula Carpintero de Moraes*, Paulo Sumida, Ana Carolina Godoi, Vivian Helena Pellizari Universidade de São Paulo/Oceanographic Institute, Brazil 190A N-related prokaryotic communities diversity among depthgradient in an Atlantic intertidal mudflat Lavergne Céline*, Agogué Hélène, Beaugeard Laureen, Dupuy Christine LIENSS La Rochelle University, France 191A Anaerobic denitrifying methane oxidation in a deep oligotrophic freshwater lake 1 2 1 Jörg Deutzmann* , Peter Stief , Bernhard Schink 1 2 Universität Konstanz, Germany, Max Plank Institut Bremen, Germany 192A Dynamic microbial niches structured by sulfur and oxygen gradients during the degradation of marine sunken wood Sonja Fagervold*, Dimitri Kalenitchenko, Mustafa Yucel, Nadine Lebris, Pierre E. Galand Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls - UPMC, France 33 PS06 – Microbial Gradient Communities Monday 20 August 193A Stream-bed microbial community structure and function during experimental stream ecosystem succession 1 2 2 1 Aline Frossard* , Linda Gerull , Michael Mutz , Mark O. Gessner 1 2 Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany 194A The important role of heavy metals in shaping the dynamics and distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbes in estuarine sediments 1 1 2 2 Jun Gong* , Xiaoli Zhang , Hélène Agogué , Christine Dupuy 1 2 Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSS) UMR 7266 CNRS – Université de La Rochelle, France 195A Neutrophilic iron oxidizers adapted to highly oxic environments Arda Gülay*, Sanin Musaovic, Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen, Barth F. Smets Denmark Technical University, Denmark 196A Effects of chemical contamination on sediment microbial diversity 1 2 3 4 Assia Kaci-Benaicha* , Dominique Boust , Patrick Lesueur , Céline Roose-Amasaleg , 5 1 1 Sébastien Cécillon , Fabienne Petit , Thierry Berthe 1 2 3 Université de Rouen, France, IRSN Cherbourg, France, Université de Caen, France, 4 5 Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France 197A Biofilm formation at the oxic-anoxic interface of liquid manure Rikke Markfoged*, Lars Peter Nielsen, Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University / Department of Bioscience, Denmark 198A Microbe-Mineral Interaction: How Indigenous Microbial Communities in Deep Karst Sinkholes (Cenotes) Respond to Minerals that are Lacking from these Systems 1 1 1 1 Anni Moore* , Melissa Lenczewski , Melvin Duvall , Andrew Krmenec , Rosamaria Leal 2 Bautista 1 2 Northern Illinois University, USA, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán A.C., Mexico 199A The role of microbes in TĀLER: Terrestrial Aquatic Linkages for Ecosystem Recovery 1 2 2 3 Nadia Mykytczuk* , Caroline Sadlier , Erik Szkokan-Emilson , David Kreutzweiser , John 2 Gunn 1 2 McGill University, Canada, Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University, Canada, 3 Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Canada 200A Dramatic shifts in bacterial taxonomy and function driven by riverine input and salinity 1 1 2 2 1 Kelly Newton* , Renee Smith , Thomas Jeffries , Justin Seymour , Laurent Seuront , James 1 Mitchell 1 2 Flinders University, Australia, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 201A Characterising the earthworm microbiome in an extreme arsenic environment 1 1 2 1 Daniel Pass* , Andrew Weightman , Dawn Field , Peter Kille 1 2 Cardiff University, United Kingdom, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom 202A Impact of copper on the abundance and diversity of sulfate reducing microorganism in two Chilean marine sediments 1 1 2 1 1 Laurent Quillet* , Besaury Ludovic , Ouddane Baghdad , Bruneau Carole , Mesnage Valerie 1 2 UMR CNRS 6143 Université de Rouen, France, Université de Lille Equipe Chimie Analytique et Marine, France 34 PS06 – Microbial Gradient Communities Monday 20 August 203A Development and succession of electrogenic microbial communities in marine sediment 1 1 2 1 2 Regina Schauer* , Steffen Larsen , Kasper U. Kjeldsen , Jesper J. Bjerg , Lars Schreiber , 2 1 1 Nils Risgaard-Petersen , Lars Peter Nielsen , Andreas Schramm 1 2 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Denmark, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Denmark 204A Anaerobic transformation of monochlorobenzene in a model constructed wetland Marie Schmidt*, Diana Wolfram, Barbara Sophia Klein, Sameer Devakota, Jan Birkigt, HansH. Richnow, Ivonne Nijenhuis 1 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 205A Phylogenetic analysis of a microbialite-forming microbial mat from a hypersaline lake on the atoll of Kiritimati, Central Pacific 1 2 3 2 1 Dominik Schneider* , Andreas Reimer , Danny Ionescu , Gernot Arp , Rolf Daniel 1 Georg-August University of Göttingen / Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Germany, 2 3 University of Göttingen / Geoscience Centre, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 206A In-depth survey of the Bacteria diversity in oxic and anoxic peat layers of northern wetlands 1 2 1 Yulia Serkebaeva* , Werner Liesack , Svetlana Dedysh 1 2 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, RAS, Moscow, Russia, Max-Planck-Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany 207A Microbiology of South African fynbos riparian ecotones invaded by non-indigenous Acacias Etienne Slabbert*, Karin Jacobs, Shayne Jacobs 1 Stellenbosch University, South Africa 208A Effect of ocean dumping on benthic microbial communities - Fine scale investigations in the German Bight Rebecca Störmer*, Antje Wichels, Gunnar Gerdts Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany 209A Comparison of oxygen uptake kinetics of planktonic communities in Oxygen Minimum Zones Laura Tiano*, Tage Dalsgaard, Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University, Denmark 210A Photosynthetic activity and community structure in coastal microbial mats: stableisotope probing combined with magnetic-bead capture of taxon-specific SSU rRNA 1 2 2 Akiko Tomitani* , Henricus T. S. Boschker , Lucas J. Stal 1 Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology 2 (JAMSTEC), Japan, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Netherlands 211A Immigration effects and recovery through a time-series distrubance gradient in a fullscale sequencing batch-membrane bioreactor David Vuono*, Lee Stanish, Jan Benecke, Jochen Henkel, Junko Munakata-Marr, John Spear, Jörg Drewes Colorado School of Mines, United States 212A Exploring the microbial community structure of iron ochre clogging technical systems Juanjuan Wang*, Maren Sickinger, Shipeng Lu, Kirsten Küsel Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany 35 PS06 – Microbial Gradient Communities Monday 20 August PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior 076A Syntrophic communities of clostridia and sulfate reducing deltaproteobacteria responsible for sulfide production in marine system Zainab Abdulrahman Beiruti*, Jeanine Geelhoed, Marc Strous 1 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiolgy, Germany 077A The use of indigenous microorganisms as potential biobeneficiation agents for iron ore minerals Rasheed Adeleke*, Mphekgo Maila 1 Agricultural Research Council (Institute for Soil Water and Climate), South Africa 078A Surface active compound from marine microorganisms 1 2 Laith Issa Yassin Al-Araji* , R. H. J. Kadum 1 2 IIUM, Malaysia, UPM, Iraq 079A A possible self-control in the bacterial community of the Caribbean octocoral Eunicia succinea by inhibition of communication or antagonistic activities Catalina Arevalo-Ferro*, Pamela Zorro-Mateus, Annie Cardenas Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia 080A Phenotypic heterogeneity in bacterial stress responses Markus Arnoldini* ETH Zürich/Eawag, Switzerland 081A Using functional metagenomics and C. elegans genetics to investigate bacteriaeukaryote antagonistic activities 1 2 3 4 Francesco Ballestriero* , Anahit Penesyan , Malak Daim , Elia Di Schiavi , Paolo 4 3 3 3 Bazzicalupo , Staffan Kjelleberg , Torsten Thomas , Suhelen Egan 1 2 University of New South Wales, Australia, Macquarie University/Department of Chemistry 3 and Biomolecular Sciences, Australia, University of New South Wales/School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, Australia, 4 National Research Council/Institute of Genetics and Biophysics , Italy 082A Quorum quenching factors in Delftia acidovorans AR, an autochthonous bacterium from Reconquista River, Buenos Aires, Argentina Matias Barrionuevo, Diana Vullo* Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina 083A Metabolic coupling and carbon flux regulation in phototroph-heterotroph associations Alexander Beliaev* Pacific Northwest National Labopratory, United States 084A Fluorescence lectin-binding analysis combined with CARD-FISH to visualise interactions of Bacteroidetes with extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) 1 2 1 1 Christin M. Bennke* , Thomas R. Neu , Bernhard M. Fuchs , Rudolf Amann 1 2 Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 085A Nitrogen as a driver of cyanobacterial population dynamics and cyanotoxin production in eutrophic lakes 1 2 1 Lucas Beversdorf* , Todd Miller , Katherine McMahon 1 2 University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA 36 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 086A Fungal endophytes as competitors against Dutch elm disease pathogen 1 2 3 4 Kathrin Blumenstein* , Johanna Witzell , Thomas DeLuca , Benedicte Albrectsen , Juan A. 5 6 Martín , Malin Hultberg 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Sweden, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences / Faculty of Forest Sciences / Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, Sweden, 3 Bangor University / School of Environment, Natural Resources and Geography, United 4 Kingdom, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / Umeå Plant Science Centre / 5 6 Department of Plant Physiology, Sweden, Technical University of Madrid, Spain, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences / Department of Horticulture, Sweden 087A Tolerance of S. cerevisiae biofilm to systemic antifungals 1 2 1 Rasmus Bojsen* , Birgitte Regenberg , Anders Folkesson 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 088A Exploring the role of bacteria during colonization of oyster mushroom substrate 1 2 2 Renáta Bánfi* , Balázs Vajna , Károly Márialigeti 1 2 Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University / Department of Microbiology, Hungary 089A Enrichment of manganese oxidizing bacteria coupling with nitrification by down-flow hanging sponge reactor 1 1 1 2 3 Linh Cao Thi Thuy* , Daisuke Komizo , Kenichi Abe , Masashi Hatamoto , Hiroyuki Imachi , 1 1 1 Tomonori Kindaichi , Noriatsu Ozaki , Akiyoshi Ohashi 1 2 3 Hiroshima University, Japan, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan 090A Dynamic of C cellulose biodegradation in batch digesters co-inoculated with rumen content and anaerobic sludge Olivier Chapleur*, Ariane Bize, Thibaut Serain, Laurent Mazeas, Théodore Bouchez Irstea, France 091A The Gac Regulon of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 Xu Cheng*, Irene de Bruijn, Ester Dekkers, Menno van der Voort, Jos M. Raaijmakers Wageningen University, Netherlands 092A Large extracellular proteins of marine bacteria detected by high-throughput proteomics infer different functions in niche adaptation and community interactions 1 1 2 Joseph A. Christie-Oleza* , David J. Scanlan , Jean Armengaud 1 2 University of Warwick, United Kingdom, CEA Marcoule, France 093A Unraveling interactions, and directing behaviour, of syntroph-led functional groups in methanogenic consortia 1 2 1 1 Gavin Collins* , Stephanie Connelly , Cesare Morciano , Vincent O'Flaherty , Gerard 1 3 2 4 2 Fleming , Elise Cartmell , Shin Seung Gu , Catherine A. Biggs , William T. Sloan , Christopher 2 Quince 1 2 3 NUI Galway, Ireland, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Cranfield University, United 4 Kingdom, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 094A Soil bacterial community complexity versus production of fungistatic volatiles Wietse de Boer*, Paolina Garbeva, Eiko Kuramae, Gera Hol Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands 095A Functional ecological networks to reveal the succession of microbial interactions during uranium bioremediation 1 1 1 2 1 Ye Deng* , Zhili He , Ping Zhang , Wei-Min Wu , Jizhong Zhou 1 2 University of Oklahoma, United States, Stanford Univeristy, United States 13 37 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 096A Characterisation of a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase cluster linked to anti-diatom activity in the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata Suhelen Egan*, Vipra Kumar, Peter Nguyen, John Kalaitzis The University of New South Wales, Australia 097A Biofilms as bioindicators of urban contamination: assessing the impacts of metallic exposure using natural microbial communities Lise Fechner*, Gourlay-Francé Catherine Irstea HBAN, France 098A Biofilms as bioindicators of urban contamination: linking community tolerance to the presence of microbial metal resistance genes 1 1 1 2 Lise Fechner* , Piriyanthini Peter , Catherine Gourlay-Francé , Thierry Berthe , Fabienne 2 Petit 1 2 Irstea HBAN, France, Université de Rouen, France 099A Disrupting pathogenesis: chemical interference of quorum sensing by Australian alcyonacea 1 1 2 3 Marnie Freckelton* , Bruce Bowden , Nete Bernbom , Lone Hoj 1 2 James Cook University, Australia, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, 3 Denmark, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia 100A Identification of biofilm associated traits through proteomic analysis of the marine macroalgal pathogen Nautella sp. R11 and a LuxR-type quorum sensing regulator mutant 1 1 1 1 Melissa Gardiner* , Dennis Nowakowski , Neil Fernandes , Staffan Kjelleberg , Torsten 1 2 1 Thomas , Ling Zhong , Suhelen Egan 1 Centre for Marine BioInnovation and School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, 2 University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia, Australia, Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia, Australia 101A Behavior and interaction mechanisms of a marine pathogen 1 2 3 1 Melissa Garren* , Orr H. Shapiro , Justin Seymour , Roman Stocker 1 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, MIT/ Weizmann Institute of Science, United 3 States, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 102A Predation-prey evidence on biostimulated diesel-degrading bacterial communities 1 1 2 3 Jean-Francois Ghiglione* , Caroline Sauret , Daniela Bottjer , Agathe Tallarmin , Pascal 1 1 3 3 Conan , Mireille Pujo-Pay , Catherine Guigue , Madeleine Goutx 1 2 3 Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne, France, University of Hawaii, USA, University Marseille, France 103A Effects of bioturbation on ammonia oxidising microbial communities in marine sediments William Gilbertson*, Martin Solan, James Prosser University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom 104A Cross-feeding interactions shape the spatial arrangement of denitrifying microbial communities Felix Goldschmidt*, David Johnson ETH Zurich, Switzerland 105A Marine experimental life support system for microbial communities 1 1 1 1 1 Newton Gomes* , Francisco Coelho , Rui Rocha , Ana Pires , Bruno Ladeiro , José 1 2 1 1 1 Castanheira , Rodrigo Costa , Adelaide Almeida , Ângela Cunha , Ricardo Calado , Daniel 1 Cleary 1 2 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Centro de Ciências do Mar (CCMAR), Portugal 38 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 106A Carbon subsidies affect planktonic niche partitioning and recruitment of bacteria to marine biofilms 1 2 3 Ed Hall* , Chuck Pepe-Ranney , Jay T. Lennon 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey, USA, Colorado School of Mines, USA, Michigan State University, USA 107A Vibrio cholerae is a pathogen of chironomids Malka Halpern* Univ. of Haifa, Israel 108A Bacterial diversity associated with mushrooms of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Joshua Halsey*, Fernando Dini Andreote USP/ESALQ, Brazil 109A Interspecies interactions for triggering the hydrogen fermentative metabolism in mixed cultures: biotic factors can stabilize or improve production 1 1 1 1 Jerome Hamelin* , Yan Rafrafi , Marianne Quéméneur , Eric Latrille , Isabelle Meynial2 1 3 1 Salles , Jean-Philippe Steyer , Marie-Thérèse Guidici-Orticoni , Eric Trably 1 2 3 INRA, France, INSA, France, CNRS, France 110A Free-living amoebae, a cozy shuttle for bacteria Yann Hechard* University of Poitiers, France 111A Tropodithietic acid producing bacteria - A novel tool for improving food safety of molluscan shellfish Cisse Hedegaard Porsby*, Lone Gram Technical University of Denmark, National Food Institute, Denmark 112A Bacterial antifouling substances, regulating the dynamic of the epiphytic bacterial community of a benthic microalgae Nitzschia ovalis arnott 1 1 2 1 Martha Hengst* , Vilma Perez , Claudia Infante , Carlos Riquelme 1 2 Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, Universidad de antofagasta, Chile 113A Cell density-dependent anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) activity of Candidatus 'Brocadia sinica' Haruna Hiraizumi*, Mamoru Oshiki, Satoshi Okabe Hokkaido University, Japan 114A Cooperative dissolved organic carbon metabolism by a linuron degrading bacterial consortium Benjamin Horemans*, Johanna Vandermaesen, Erik Smolders, Dirk Springael Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium 115A Isolation of a phenanthrene-degrading and acyl homoserine lactone producing soil bacterium Erythrobacter sp. 303: a candidate strain to study the relationship between quorum sensing and biodegradation Yili Huang* zhejiang univ., China 116A Investigation of genes and regulatory elements involved in production of novel antifungal compounds in Burkholderia cenocepacia H111 Christian Jenul*, Aurelien Carlier, Leo Eberl University of Zurich / Institute of Plant Biology, Switzerland 39 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 117A A close-up on bacterial networking in aquatic habitats 1 2 1 Torsten Jeske* , Annelie Wendeberg , Stefan Bertilsson 1 2 Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Environmental Microbiology Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 118A Microbiological and morphological characterization of cyanobacterial coniform structures 1 1 1 1 1 Hope Johnson* , Kristina Reyes , Nicolas Gonzalez , Joshua Stewart , Frank Ospino , Dickie 1 1 1 2 Nguyen , David Cho , Nahal Ghahremani , John Spear 1 2 California State University Fullerton, USA, Colorado School of Mines, USA 119A Helicobacter pylori antibody value investigation in chronic patients with ELISA Abdolmajid Khosravani*, Asghar Sharifi, Reza Cheragh Zadeh, Bahman Sharifi, Hamid Rezam Mohammadi Yasouj University of Medical Sciences, Iran 120A Intraspecies competition by antibiotics in Rhodococcus erythropolis strains Wataru Kitagawa, Yoshiaki Yasutake*, Tomohiro Tamura National Insutitute of Advanced Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 121A Grazing impact on the Cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa by the heterotrophic flagellate Collodictyon Triciliatum in an experimental pond Yuki Kobayashi*, Yoshikuni Hodoki, Kako Ohbayashi, Noboru Okuda, Shin-ichi Nakano Kyoto University, Japan 122A Environmental friendly remediation technology for reuse of coastal dredged materials 1 1 1 1 Sung-Cheol Koh* , Shin-Young Ha , Kyung-Chul Jeong , Kalu Ibe Ekpeghere , Soo-Hyeon 1 2 3 1 Kim , Soo-Gon Kim , Hong-Gi Kim , In-Soo Kim 1 2 3 Korea Maritime University, South Korea, Sindaeyang Co., Ltd., South Korea, BM Company, South Korea 123A A metagenome analysis of photobioreactor associated biofilms reveals key elements of bacterial-algae interactions 1 1 2 3 Ines Krohn-Molt* , Andreas Pommerening-Röser , Malik Alawi , Markus Schillhabel , Dieter 4 1 Hanelt , Wolfgang R. Streit 1 University Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Microbiology and Biotechnology, Germany, 2 3 University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, Christian Alberts University to 4 Kiel, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Germany, University Hamburg, Biocenter Klein Flottbek, Cell Biology and Phycology, Germany 124A The novel quorum-quenching N-acylhomoserine lactone acylase from Acidovorax sp. S7 represents beta-lactamase activity 1 2 3 3 1 Hiroyuki Kusada* , Yu Zhang , Nobutada Kimura , Yoichi Kamagata , Satoshi Hanada 1 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), University of 2 Tsukuba, Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 3 Chinese Academy of Science, China, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 125A Rhodobacteraceae are involved in promoting marine biofilm initiation and development 1 2 Igor Kviatkovski , Dror Minz* 1 2 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Institute for Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences ARO, Volcani Research Center, Israel 126A Aeromonas prevalence in chironomid egg masses and characterization of Aeromonas aquariorum secreted factor that degrades the egg masses Sivan Laviad*, Tamar Shaked, Malka Halpern, Elah Pick University of Haifa, Israel 40 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 127A Reactivity of deep biota following CO2 injection into basalts: the case study of the Icelandic pilot site 1 1 1 2 Paul Le Campion* , Bénédicte Ménez , Maria Chiara Marinozzi , Sigurður Reynirgíslason , 2 2 3 Helgi Arnaralfreðsson , Kiflom G. Mesfin Mesfin , Hólmfríður Sigurðardóttir , Edda Sif 3 1 Aradóttir , Emmanuelle Gérard 1 Equipe Géobiosphère actuelle et Primitive, IPGP, UMR 7154 CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France & Centre de Recherches sur le Stockage Géologique du 2 CO2 (IPGP/TOTAL/SCHLUMBERGER/ADEME), France, Institute of Earth Sciences, 3 University of Iceland, Iceland, Reykjavik Energy, Iceland 128A Xylanases secreted by Penicillium chrysogenum and enzymatic treatment of banana (Musa sp.) fibers 1 1 1 Luciana de Campos Leite , Ana Paula de Souza Pallu , Maria Beatriz Calderan Rodrigues , 1 2 1 Ana Carolina Murad Lima , Andréa Cristina Bogas* , Rafael Nora Tannus 1 Tamoios Tecnologia e Consultoria, São Paulo – SP and Genetics Department, ESALQ2 USP, Brazil, University of São Paulo, Genetics Department, ESALQ-USP, Brazil 129A Interaction between Cry1Ia and Vip3Aa proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis towards larvae of Spodoptera spp (Lepidoptera) Manoel V F Lemos*, Vivian B Bergamasco, Deise R P Mendes, Odair A Fernandes, Janete A Desidério UNESP/Campus de Jaboticabal, Brazil 130A Self-adaption of methane-producing communities to acetate-pH-inducing acid crisis by shifting pathways and population interaction Fan Lu, Liping Hao*, Pinjing He, Jianglin Cao, Liming Shao Tongji University / College of Environmental Science & Engineering, China 131A Cheater-producer interactions in protease-producing populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens Ying (Lucy) Lu*, Steven D. Allison University of California, Irvine, USA 132A Using plant ecological models to provide a framework for understanding bacterial predation defence against protozoan grazing 1 2 3 1 Carla Lutz* , Staffan Kjelleberg , Peter D. Steinberg , Diane McDougald 1 The Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular 2 Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia, Singapore Centre on Life Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637551, Australia, 3 School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman 2088, Australia 133A Study of the competence of a PAH-degrading strain to establish and promote the phenanthrene degradation by a native Phenanthrene-degrading consortium 1 1 2 1 Marianela Macchi , Sabrina Festa , Irma Morelli , Bibiana Coppotelli* 1 2 CINDEFI (UNLP; CCT-La Plata, CONICET), Argentina, CINDEFI (UNLP; CCT-La Plata, CONICET) and Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina 134A When it makes sense to socialize whilst being on the move: a small EAL-domain containing protein, encoded on natural biofilm-promoting plasmids, triggers motility Jonas Stenløkke Madsen*, Lise Riber, Mette Burmølle, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Søren Johannes Sørensen Department of Biology, Section for Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 135A Does spatial structure select for enhanced metabolite secretion between interacting cell types? Marie Marchal*, David Johnson, Martin Ackermann EAWAG / Ethz, Switzerland 41 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 136A Role of the Type VI secretion system of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf29Arp in biofilm process Muriel Marchi*, Marie Hervé, Anne-Yvonne Guillerm-Erckelboudt, Kévin Gazengel, Morgane Boutin, Lionel Lebreton, Stéphanie Daval, Alain Sarniguet INRA - UMR 1349 IGEPP, France 137A Living together or alone? Tracking relations among bacterial, archaeal and protozoa communities in activated sludge systems 1 2 2 Marta Martins Neto* , Sandra Chaves , Ana Nicolau 1 2 University of Minho - IBB/CEB, Portugal, University of Lisbon/BioFIG, Portugal 138A Assessing interactions between human gut enterotype communities in an in vitro model of the human distal colon Julie McDonald*, Kathleen Schroeter, Emma Allen-Vercoe University of Guelph, Canada 139A The influence of natural bacteria competitors on the cost of sex in Saccharomyces paradoxus Eric Miller*, Duncan Greig Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany 140A Multi-species biofilm communities: from close proximity to enhanced cross-genus sexuality Pauline Modrie*, Olivier Henriet, Thomas Vanzieleghem, Jacques Mahillon Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 141A Exogenous protease promoted cell aggregation of a filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aggregans Sho Morohoshi*, Shin Haruta, Katsumi Matsuura Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan 142A Analysis of the dynamic of N-acyl-homoserine lactone production in continuous cultures of Pseudomonas putida IsoF by chemical analysis and immunoassay 1 2 2 1 Marlene Muehlbauer , Maria Barbarossa , Christina Kuttler , Juliano Fonseca , Katharina 1 1 1 1 Buddrus-Schiemann , Petra Kraemer , Burkhard Hense* , Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin , Anton 1 1 Hartmann , Martin Rieger 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany, Technical University Munich, Germany 143A Environment shift the interaction between Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Kaori Ono*, Hiromu Oura, Masanori Toyofuku, Masakaze Hamada, Toshiaki NakajimaKambe, Hiroo Uchiyama, Nobuhiko Nomura University of Tsukuba, Japan 144A Cellulolytic screening of mesophilic and thermophilic fungi from the composting process of São Paulo Zoo – Brazil 1 1 Suzan Pantaroto de Vasconcellos* , Leonardo André dos Santos , Geomarcia Feitosa da 1 1 1 1 Cruz Ramos , Vitor Batista Ferrari , Leonardo Jun Otuyama , Bruna Nunes Buscariollo , 1 1 2 Rafael Costa Santos Rocha , Patricia Locosque Ramos , João Batista Cruz , Luiz Juliano 1 Neto 1 2 Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil, São Paulo Zoo Foundation Park, Brazil 145A Accumulation of Cs by different isolates of microorganisms, collected from radionuclide contaminated soils 1 2 3 1 Olena Pareniuk* , Moshynets Olena , Levchuk Svyatoslav , Gudkov Igor 1 2 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine, Institute of 3 Molecular Biology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology, Ukraine 137 42 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 146A Indigenous microbial community dynamics during reductive dechlorination of groundwater at a chloroethene contaminated site in Victoria, Australia 1 1 2 2 Sayali Patil* , Dr Eric Adetutu , Dr Arturo Aburto , Prof Andrew Ball 1 2 Flinders University of South Australia, Australia, Royal Melbourne Institute of technology, Australia 147A Seasonal and spatial changes in three taxon microbial communities present at different vegetation types on Brazilian Cerrado soil Alinne Pereira de Castro, Maria Regina Sartori Silva*, Ricardo Kruger University of Brasilia, Brazil 148A Differential characterization of bacterial and organic fractions of biofilms fouling the reverse osmosis membranes 1 1 2 Jean-Jacques Pernelle* , Anne Goubet , Nicolas Boudaud 1 2 Irstea, France, Veolia Environnement Recherche et Innovation, France 149A Identification of quorum sensing genes in the halophilic archaea; Halococcus hamelinensis Eva Preisner*, R. Sean Norman University of South Carolina, United States 150A Phaeobacter gallaeciensis cell-to-cell signalling does not influence its antagonism of a pathogenic vibrio sp. in cultures of microalgae Maria Prol-Garcia, Paul D'Alvise*, Lone Gram Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 151A Abundance and diversity of copper resistance genes cusA and copA in microbial communities regarding copper impact on marine Chilean sediments Laurent Quillet*, Besaury Ludovic, Bodilis Josselin UMR CNRS 6143 Université de Rouen, France 152A Influence of surface properties and ionic strength on eDNA mediated adhesion of Staphylococcus xylosus to abiotic surface Viduthalai R. Regina*, Lokanathan R. Arcot, Jakub Modrzynski, Rikke Meyer Aarhus University, Denmark 153A Differential processing of Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by a free-living protozoan (Colpoda sp.) Rethish Raghu Nadhanan*, Connor Thomas The University of Adelaide, Australia 154A Production of Vesicles Containing Live Listeria monocytogenes by the Ciliate Colpoda sp. Rethish Raghu Nadhanan*, Connor Thomas The University of Adelaide, Australia 155A Phagosome-lysosome fusion, vacuolar acidification and proteases are necessary for the inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes within the ciliated protozoan Colpoda sp. Rethish Raghu Nadhanan*, Connor Thomas The University of Adelaide, Australia 156A Delineating the differences in microbiological and molecular responses of bacteria exposed to varying ionizing radiation dose rates and source energies Anne-Sophie Rambo*, Palmy Jesudhasan, Suresh Pillai Texas A&M University, USA 43 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 157A Potential Role of GGDEF Domain-Containing Proteins in the Red Algal-Associated Marine Bacterium, Nautella italica sp R11 1 2 2 2 2 Raymond Regalia* , Nicolas Barraud , Tilmann Harder , Torsten Thomas , Staffan Kjelleberg 1 2 Center for Marine Bio-Innovation, Australia, Center for Marine Bio-Innovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Australia 158A Cooperation in multispecies biofilms results in enhanced levels of biofilm formation and is prevalent within natural soil bacteria Dawei Ren*, Jonas Madsen, Søren Sørensen, Mette Burmølle University of Cophenhagen, Department of Biology, Denmark 159A Love hurts: bacterial handling of copper by the cus system Christopher Rensing* University of Copenhagen, Denmark 160A The impact of the conjugative IncP-1 plasmid pKJK5 on multispecies biofilm formation is highly dependent on the identity of the plasmid host Henriette Lyng Røder*, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Søren Johannes Sørensen, Mette Burmølle University of Copenhagen, Department of biology, Denmark 161A Individuality in bacteria under grazing influence Anja Scherwass*, Johann Cesarz, Andre Schieffer, Hartmut Arndt University of Cologne, Germany 162A Occurrence of Listeria in surface waters and its growth properties under environmental and defined nutritional conditions Rudolf Schneebeli*, Andreas Elmer, Thomas Egli Eawag, Switzerland 163A Production of fungal and bacterial growth modulating secondary metabolites is widespread among mycorrhiza-associated streptomycetes 1 1 1 1 2 Silvia Schrey* , Erkenbrack Erik , Elisabeth Frueh , Svenja Fengler , Kerstin Hommel , Nadine 3 3 1 3 3 Horlacher , Dirk Schulz , Margret Ecke , Andreas Kulik , Hans-Peter Fiedler , Ruediger 1 2 Hampp , Mika Tarkka 1 2 University of Tuebingen, IMIT-Physiological Ecology of Plants, Germany, UFZ-Helmholtz3 Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Soil Ecology, Germany, University of Tuebingen, IMIT-Microbiology/Antibiotics, Germany 164A Chemotaxis by aquatic microbes: behavioural links to the environment 1 1 1 2 3 Justin Seymour* , Thomas Jeffries , Jessica Tout , Roman Stocker , Gene Tyson , Paul 3 Dennis 1 2 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United 3 States, University of Queensland, Australia 165A The existence of Roseobacter clade bacteria in concert with phytoplankton Nannochloropsis oculata enhances the inhibition effect against fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum Noor Emilia Sharifah*, Mitsuru Eguchi Kinki University, Japan 166A Systemic Staphylococcus aureus infection mediated by Candida albicans hyphal invasion in oral co-infection Mark Shirtliff* University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States 167A Social life of an opportunistic bacterial fish pathogen Lotta-Riina Sundberg*, Tarmo Ketola, Elina Laanto, Jaana Bamford University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 44 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 168A Effect of chemical signaling on the swimming behavior of Vibrio fischeri Srinivasa Sandeep Suravajhala*, Prabhu Nott Indian Institute of Science, India 169A Variations of microbial community structures during seawater desalination process by reverse osmosis under different conditions 1 1 1 2 2 Yui Takahashi* , Hiroshi X. Chiura , Minoru Ijichi , Yohito Ito , Shigehisa Hanada , Kazuhiro 1 Kogure 1 2 The University of Tokyo, Atomosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Japan, Toray Industries, Inc., Global Environmental Research Laboratories, Japan 170A Reduction of folate synthesis represses biofilm formation by decreasing curli synthesis in Escherichia coli Yosuke Tashiro*, Satoshi Okabe Hokkaido University, Japan 171A Quorum sensing controls population heterogeneity in the marine bacterium dinoroseobacter shibae 1 1 1 2 1 Jürgen Tomasch* , Diana Patzelt , Hui Wang , Ina Buchholz , Lothar Gröbe , Heinrich 1 1 Lünsdorf , Irene Wagner-Döbler 1 2 Helmholtz-Centre for Infection Research, Germany, Labor L+S AG, Germany 172A Membrane vesicle production under anaerobic conditions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Masanori Toyofuku*, Hiroo Uchiyama, Nobuhiko Nomura University of Tsukuba, Japan 173A Bacterial cis-2-unsaturated fatty acids found in the cystic fibrosis airway play a role in bacterial interspecies signalling during polymicrobial infection of the CF lung 1 2 2 1 1 Kate Twomey* , Oisin J. O' Connell , Mike J. Harrison , Yvonne McCarthy , J. Maxwell Dow , 2 1 Barry J. Plant , Robert P. Ryan 1 2 University College Cork, Ireland, Cork Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Dept of. Respiratory Medicine, Cork University Hospital, University College Cork, Ireland 174A Effects of natural microbial communities on the corrosion rate of steel buried in soil Kayley Usher*, Anna Kaksonen, Donavan Marney CSIRO, Australia 175A Genome mining of the rhizosphere bacterium Pseudomonas sp. SH-C52 1 2 3 4 Menno van der Voort* , Yvonne Schmidt , Jeramie Watrous , Rodrigo Mendes , Harald 2 3 1 Gross , Pieter C. Dorrestein , Jos M. Raaijmakers 1 2 3 Wageningen University, Netherlands, University of Bonn, Germany, University of California 4 at San Diego, USA, Embrapa Environment, Brazil 176A Foul play: the role of the microbial community in bore fouling 1 1 2 Elizabeth Watkin* , Christopher Bryan , Luke Zappia 1 2 Curtin University, Australia, Water Corporation, Australia 177A Characterizing co-contaminant effects and cross-inhibition in dechlorinating enrichment cultures Kai Wei*, Elizabeth Edwards University of Toronto, Canada 45 PS07 – Microbial Interactions and Behavior Monday 20 August 178A Signaling factor-induced metabolic exchange in interactions of Actinobacteria analyzed by novel imaging mass spectrometry methods 1 2 3 4 3 Roland Wenter* , Eric Helfrich , Jeramie Watrous , Jörn Piel , Pieter Dorrestein , Bradley 2 Moore 1 2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA, University of California San Diego, Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of 3 Oceanography, USA, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry and 4 Biochemistry, USA, University of Bonn, Kekulé Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Germany 179A Effects of electron acceptors on microbial reductive debromination of Polybrominated diphenyl ethers 1 1 1 1 1 1 Meiying Xu* , Yonggang Yang , Xingjuan Chen , Guilan Chen , Guoping Sun , Jun Guo , Jian 2 3 3 4 Xu , Jizhong Zhou , Zhili He , Bixian Mai 1 2 Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, China, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess 3 Technology, China, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, USA, 4 Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, China PS08 – Microbial Symbioses 513A Microbial community typing of deep sea corals from the Red Sea Till Bayer*, Cornelia M Roder, Christian R Voolstra King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 514A Hidden bacterial diversity support the lichen symbiosis 1 1 2 3 Gabriele Berg* , Massimiliano Cardinale , Katharina Riedel , Martin Grube 1 2 3 Graz University of Technology, Austria, University of Greifswald, Germany, KFU Graz, Austria 515A Synthetic escherichia coli consortia engineered for syntrophy demonstrate enhanced biomass productivity 1 2 1 Hans Bernstein* , Steven Paulson , Ross Carlson 1 2 Montana State University; Center for Biofilm Engineering, USA, Montana State University, USA 516A Nodulation and nitrogen-fixation in South African Burkholderia have unique evolutionary origins 1 1 2 1 Chrizelle Beukes , Stephanus Venter* , Ian Law , Emma Steenkamp 1 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology 2 Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, South Africa, Agricultural Research Council Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa 517A The genus Pseudovibrio contains metabolically versatile and symbiotically interacting bacteria 1 1 2 1 1 Vladimir Bondarev* , Michael Richter , Jörn Piel , Stefano Romano , Anne Schwedt , Heide 1 Schulz-Vogt 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, University of Bonn, Kekulé-Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Germany 518A The eroded genome of a Psychotria leaf symbiont: hypotheses about lifestyle and interactions with its host Aurelien Carlier*, Leo Eberl University of Zürich, Switzerland 46 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 519A Intestinal bacterial community of Black Tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon: diversity among different farms and distribution along the digestive tract 1 1 2 Sage Chaiyapechara* , Wanilada Rungrassamee , Phayungsak Mongkol , Amornpan 1 1 1 Klanchui , Nitsara Karoonthaisiri , Pikul Jiravanichpaisal 1 2 National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Thailand, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 520A Microbial symbiosis yielding the emission of the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane by earthworms: functional links to taxa 1 1 1 2 3 Peter Depkat-Jakob* , Sindy Hunger , Kristin Schulz , George Brown , Siu Tsai , Harold 1 Drake 1 2 3 University of Bayreuth, Germany, Embrapa Florestas, Brazil, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Brazil 521A A role for small RNAs in human-microbe molecular cross talk? 1 1 2 2 1 Mahesh S Desai* , Jakub Porzuczek , Kai Wang , David Galas , Paul Wilmes 1 2 Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Luxembourg, Institute for Systems Biology, USA 522A Illuminating the Enigmatic: Bacterial symbionts of the marine worm Xenoturbella bocki 1 1 1 1 2 Daryl Domman* , Thomas Wienmaier , Dmitrij Turaev , Thomas Rattei , Albert Poustka , 1 Matthias Horn 1 2 University of Vienna, Austria, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany 523A Dynamics of the gut-microbial communities in arctic ground squirrels: effects of development and hiberrnation Khrys Duddleston*, Tim Stevenson, C. Loren Buck University of Alaska Anchorage, USA 524A Symbionts in aquatic ciliates are involved in nitrogen cycling 1 1 2 Claudia Dziallas* , Lasse Riemann , Hans-Peter Grossart 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany 525A Comparative genomics of Wolbachia and the bacterial species concept 1 1 1 2 1 Kirsten Ellegaard* , Lisa Klasson , Kristina Näslund , Kostas Bourtzis , Siv Andersson 1 2 Uppsala University, Sweden, University of Western Greece, Greece 526A Metagenomic and single-cell genomic analysis of the gut microbiota of honey bees 1 1 2 1 Philipp Engel* , Vincent G. Martinson , Ramunas Stepanauskas , Nancy A. Moran 1 2 Yale University, USA, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA 527A Cellulolytic microbes isolated from the earthworm gut Katsuhiko Fujii*, Kana Ikeda, Seo Yoshida Yamaguchi University, Japan 528A Characterization of the bacterial community inhabiting the digestive tube of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus Isabelle F. George*, Benoît Bergk Pinto, Mathieu Bauwens, Chantal De Ridder Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 529A First expressed genes inventory of the endomycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita as revealed by RNA-seq transcriptomeanalysis 1 2 1 3 1 Stefano Ghignone* , Alessandra Salvioli , Luisa Lanfranco , Nicolas Corradi , Paola Bonfante 1 2 Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante, UOS Torino, C.N.R., Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze 3 della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada 47 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 530A Influence of pH and maize genotypes contrasting for phosphorus efficiency on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities in a Cerrado soil in Brazil Eliane Gomes*, Francisco de Souza, Christiane Oliveira, Ubiraci Lana, Roberto Noda, Ivanildo Marriel Embrapa Maize and Sorghum, Brazil 531A Endogenic bacteria facilitate chironomids survival in polluted habitats Malka Halpern*, Yigal Senderovich University of Haifa, Israel 532A Characterization of the bacterial community structure in Cecropia-obligate Azteca ants using 454 pyrosequencing Alissa Hanshew*, Cameron Currie University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States 533A Bacterial community structures differ in spatially close Irciniidae sponge species 1 1 2 3 Cristiane C.P. Hardoim* , Ana I. S. Esteves , Francisco R. Pires , Jorge M. S. Gonçalves , 4 5 1 Cymon Cox , Joana B.T. Xavier , Rodrigo Costa 1 Microbial Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Centre of Marine Sciences, University of 2 Algrave, Portugal, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Biology 3 Department, University of the Azores, Portugal, Fisheries, Biodiversity and Conservation 4 Research Group, Centre of Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal, Plant Systematics and Bioinformatics, Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMar), University of 5 Algarve, Portugal, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Biology Department, University of the Azores and Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Spain 534A Pyrosequencing elucidates degrees of specificity, effects of sample handling and the extent of cultivation bias for bacterial communities in marine sponges of the family Irciniidae 1 1 2 3 Cristiane C.P. Hardoim* , Ana I. S. Esteves , Cymon Cox , Joana B.T. Xavier , Rodrigo 1 Costa 1 Microbial Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Centre of Marine Sciences, University of 2 Algarve, Portugal, Plant Systematics and Bioinformatics, Centre of Marine Sciences, 3 University of Algarve, Portugal, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, Biology Department, University of the Azores, Portugal and Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Spain., Portugal 535A Bacterial landscapes in keratose sponges: insights gained by in-tube fluorescent in situ hybridization 1 1 2 2 Cristiane C.P. Hardoim* , Rodrigo Costa , Gabriele Berg , Massimiliano Cardinale 1 Microbial Ecology and Evolution Research Group, Centre of Marine Sciences, University of 2 Algarve, Portugal, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Austria 536A Frankia in-planta sporulation: a unique model of endophyte dormancy inside host cells in the context of symbiotic relationships 1 1 1 1 1 Aude Herrera-Belaroussi* , A. Pozzi , H.h. Bautista-Guerrero , I. Nouioui , L. Cotin , R. 1 1 2 1 Pépin , P. Fournier , F. Menu , M. Fernandez 1 2 Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5557, Ecologie Microbienne, France, Université Lyon 1, CNRS, UMR 5558, Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive, France 537A Establishment of artificial symbiotic system between Escherichia coli and an insect Yoshiko Ishii*, Takahiro Hosokawa, Yoshitomo Kikuchi, Takema Fukatsu National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 48 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 538A Microbial landscapes on the external tissue surfaces of three reef-building corals, Porites compressa, Montipora capitata and Pocillopora damicornis, as revealed by scanning electron microscopy 1 2 Ian Johnston* , Forest Rohwer 1 2 Bethel University, United States, San Diego State University, United States 539A Analysis of six poribacterial single-cell genomes reflects key features of spongemicrobe interactions 1 2 3 2 Janine Kamke* , Tanja Woyke , Alexander Sczyrba , Konstantinos Mavromatis , Natalia 2 4 Ivanova , Ute Hentschel 1 2 3 University of Wuerzburg, Germany, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA, University of 4 Bielefeld, Center for Biotechnology, Germany, University of Wuerzburg, Julius von Sachs Institute for Biological Sciences, Germany 540A Bacterial communities in the guts of honey bees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera in Korea Byung-Yong Kim*, Jae-Hyung Ahn, Jaekyeong Song, Hang-Yeon Weon National Academy of Agricultural Science, South Korea 541A Marine epibiotic bacteria isolated from the surface of different jellyfish species Maja Kos*, Valentina Turk National institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Slovenia 542A Isolation, characterization, and genomic analysis of the symbiotic gut bacteria of honeybees and bumblebees Waldan Kwong*, Nancy Moran Yale University, USA 543A Chlamydia as cure: Protochlamydia amoebophila increases amoebal survival in the face of Legionella pneumophila infection 1 1 1 2 1 Lena König* , Frederik Schulz , David M. Berry , Michele S. Swanson , Matthias Horn 1 2 University of Vienna, Austria, University of Michigan Medical School, USA 544A Diversity of gorgonian-associated bacterial communities in Northwestern Mediterranean Sea 1 1 2 1 Marie La Riviere* , Marie Roumagnac , Joaquim Garrabou , Marc Bally 1 2 Mediterranean Insitute of Oceanography (UMR 7294 MIO), France, Institut de Ciències de la Mar (ICM-CSIC),, Spain 545A Biodiversity of prokaryotic communities associated with the ectoderm of Ectopleura crocea (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) 1 2 2 2 Gian Marco Luna* , Cristina Gioia Di Camillo , Marzia Bo , Giuseppe Giordano , Cinzia 2 3 Corinaldesi , Giorgio Bavestrello 1 2 National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR-CNR), Italy, DiSVA, 3 Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy, DIPTERIS, Università di Genova, Italy 546A The role of oil-degraders in survival of corals in oil contaminated environments Huda Mahmoud*, Lulwa Al-Dahash Kuwait University, Kuwait 547A Rhizosphere and gut common microbial ecology Esperanza Martinez-Romero*, Luis Servin, Tabita Ramírez-Puebla, Luis Bolaños, Arturo Vera, Julio Martinez-Romero, Marco A. Rogel, Mónica Rosenblueth Genomics Science Center, UNAM, Mexico 49 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 548A Lignocellulose digestion in the hindgut of higher termites: Specific association of Spirochaetes, Fibrobacteres and TG3 with the fiber fraction 1 1 2 1 Aram Mikaelyan* , Jürgen Strassert , Gaku Tokuda , Andreas Brune 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany, University of the Ryukyus, Japan 549A Transfer of atmospheric fixed nitrogen from cyanobacteria to feather moss - an investigation using SIMS technique Nurun Nahar*, Ulla Rasmussen Stockholm University/Department of Botany, Sweden 550A Whole genome sequence of the defensive beewolf symbiont 'Candidatus Streptomyces philanthi' reveals piericidin biosynthesis cluster 1 1 1 2 2 3 Taras Nechitaylo , Tobias Engle* , Sabrina Köhler , Robert Weiss , Diane Dunn , Colin Dale , 1 Martin Kaltenpoth 1 Research Group Insect Symbiosis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, 2 3 Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, USA, Department of Biology, University of Utah, USA 551A Illumina RNASeq analysis of the hindgut microbiome in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes Michael Nelson*, Pascal LaPierre, Charles Bridges, Daniel Gage, Joerg Graf University of Connecticut, United States 552A Diversity and distribution of methanogens in higher termites James Nonoh*, Kristina Paul, Andreas Brune MPI for Terrestrial microbiology, Germany 553A Bacterial flagellar motility plays a pivotal role in an insect-microbe gut symbiosis 1 2 3 2 Tsubasa Ohbayashi* , Wataru Kitagawa , Takema Fukatsu , Yoshitomo Kikuchi 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, Hokkaido University and National Institute of Advanced 3 Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 554A Enrichment of a novel lineage of methanogenic archaea distantly related to the Thermoplasmatales from the intestinal tract of termites Kristina Paul*, James Nonoh, Andreas Brune Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 555A A quest for microbial indicators of the Tuber melanosporum production using an environmental genomics approach 1 1 1 1 1 Alessandra Pontiroli* , Hervé Sanguin , Marc Ducousso , Antoine Galiana , Christine Leroux , 2 3 4 1 4 Odile Domergue , Daniel Mousain , Robin Duponnois , Yves Prin , Ezékiel Baudoin 1 2 3 LSTM-CIRAD, France, LSTM-INRA, France, Société d’Horticulture et d’Histoire Naturelle de 4 l’Hérault/INRA, France, LSTM-IRD, France 556A Description of a new AMF strain from Ecuador, a potential epitype for Rhizophagus invermaius (Glomus invermaium) 1 2 2 2 Valentine Potten* , Carolina Senés Guerrero , Gloria Torres Cortés , Arthur Schüßler , 3 1 1 Christopher Walker , Stephan Declerck , Sylvie Cranenbrouck 1 2 Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Ludwig Maximilian University of 3 Munich, Germany, n/a, United Kingdom 557A Identification of antimicrobial compounds produced by coral-associated bacteria 1 2 2 3 2 Jean-Baptiste Raina* , Dianne Tapiolas , Cherie Motti , Bette Willis , David Bourne 1 2 James Cook University/Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia, Australian Institute 3 of Marine Science, Australia, James Cook University, Australia 50 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 558A Effect of thermal stress on coral-associated bacterial communities 1 2 3 4 4 Jean-Baptiste Raina* , Adrian Lutz , Francois Seneca , Dianne Tapiolas , Cherie Motti , Bette 2 4 Willis , David Bourne 1 2 James Cook University/Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia, James Cook 3 4 University, Australia, Stanford University, United States, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia 559A Understanding host-symbiont associations in relation to the environment in closely related sponge species 1 1 1 2 Julie Reveillaud* , Loïs Maignien , Mitchell L. Sogin , Ann Vanreusel 1 2 Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, Marine Biology Section, Ghent University, Belgium 560A Bacterial community structure in the Nod-deficient intestinal environment Susan Robertson*, Heidi Mascarenhas, Jun Yu Zhou, Dana Philpott University of Toronto, Canada 561A Germ free models (zebrafish and rainbow trout) reveal difference in the responses of the innate immune system to bacteria from salmonid microbiota 2 Jaime Romero*, Paola Navarrete, Rafael Opazo , Maria Jimenez Universidad de Chile, INTA, Chile 562A Genome evolution in the horizontally-transmitted chemoautotrophic symbiont of a deep-sea Bathymodiolius mussel 1 1 1 1 2 Lizbeth Sayavedra* , Jillian M. Petersen , Silke Wetzel , Michael Richter , Eric Pelletier , 2 1 Valerie Barbe , Nicole Dubilier 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique/Genoscope, France 563A Phylogeny and physiology of tunicate symbionts affiliated with the gammaproteobacterial Endozoicomonas-clade 1 1 2 3 2 Lars Schreiber* , Kasper U. Kjeldsen , Jeppe Jensen , Matthias Obst , Peter Funch , Andreas 2 Schramm 1 Aarhus University / Department of Bioscience, Center for Geomicrobiology, Denmark, 2 3 Aarhus University / Department of Bioscience, Denmark, Göteborg University / Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Sweden 564A Steps towards establishing probiotics in the distal colon: characterizing the primary colonizers of in vitro colonic biofilms Kathleen Schroeter*, Julie McDonald, Cezar Khursigara, Emma Allen-Vercoe University of Guelph, Canada 565A An Enigmatic Bacterial Symbiont Residing in the Nucleus of Amoebae 1 2 1 Frederik Schulz* , Rok Kostanjšek , Matthias Horn 1 2 University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, Austria, Univerza v Ljubljani, Oddelek za biologijo, Slovenia 566A Arbuscular mycorrhizal Fungi associated with Saffron (Crocus sativus) in Iran 1 2 2 2 Ebrahim Sedaghati* , Pejman Khodaygan , Mina Kolahnamadi , Samare Aminizadeh 1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of 2 Rafsanjan, Iran, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran 567A Coral mucus-associated Pseudoalteromonas demonstrating antibacterial activity Maya Shnit-Orland*, Alex Sivan, Ariel Kushmaro Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 51 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 568A The non-phototrophic microbiota of halophilic seashore lichens 1 2 1 Margrét Auður Sigurbjörnsdóttir* , Starri Heiðmarsson , Anna Rut Jónsdóttir , Oddur 1 Vilhelmsson 1 2 University of Akureyri, Iceland, The Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Iceland 569A Freshwater cyanobacterial bloom is connected to the grazing food chain via fungal parasitism Télesphore Sime-Ngando*, Mélanie Gerphagnon, Delphine LATOUR, Jonathan Colombet UMR CNRS 6023 Université Blaise Pascal, 63171 Aubière, France 570A Factors affecting microbial community structure in Mediterranean dictyoceratid sponge species; host phylogeny versus biogeography 1 1 1 1 Katerina Skaraki* , Thanos Dailianis , Panagiotis Kasapidis , Elena Sarropoulou , Jacques 1 2 1 1 Lagnel , Adriani Pantazidou , Antonios Magoulas , Georgios Kotoulas 1 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Greece, 2 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Biology, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Greece 571A Distribution and phylogeny of the Sponge-Symbiont 'Candidatus Entotheonella palauensis' in selected sponges from Micronesia Georg Steinert*, Peter J. Schupp Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany 572A 'Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae', a novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinobacteria in termite gut flagellates of the genus Trichonympha 1 1 2 1 Jürgen F. H. Strassert* , Tim Köhler , Renate Radek , Andreas Brune 1 2 MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany, Free University of Berlin, Institute of Biology/Zoology, Germany 573A Reductive genome evolution in chemolithotrophic intracellular symbionts of deep-sea Calyptogena clams Yoshihiro Takaki*, Mamiko Nishino, Takeru Koshi-ishi, Shigeru Shimamura, Takao Yoshida, Miwako Tsuda, Chiaki Kato, Tadashi Maruyama Japan Agency for Marine -Earth Science and Technology, Japan 574A Detection and determination of algal-polysaccharide-degrading bacteria in the digestive tract of abalone Haliotis gigantea through a year 1 1 2 3 Reiji Tanaka* , Hiromitsu Miyawaki , Shunpei Iehata , Hiroto Maeda 1 2 3 Mie University, Japan, Antofagasta University, Chile, Kagoshima University, Japan 575A Redefining 'Candidatus Arthromitus': segmented filamentous bacteria in arthropod guts are members of Lachnospiraceae Claire Thompson*, Rahel Vier, Aram Mikaelyan, Tobias Wienemann, Andreas Brune Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 576A Novel bacteriocyte-associate symbionts of Pineus strobi (Insecta: Hemiptera: Adelgidae) Elena Toenshoff, Gitta Szabo*, Daniela Gruber, Matthias Horn University of Vienna, Austria 577A In vivo expression screening for genes of Marinobacter adhaerens HP15 essential for its interaction with the marine diatom Thalassosira weissflogii Ingrid Torres-Monroy*, Matthias Ullrich Jacobs University Bremen, Germany 52 PS08 – Microbial Symbioses Monday 20 August 578A The infection cycle of the intracellular Acanthamoeba symbiont Amoebophilus asiaticus 1 1 2 1 Han-Fei Tsao* , Thomas Penz , Rok Kostanjšek , Matthias Horn 1 2 University of Vienna / Department of Microbial Ecology, Austria, Univerza v Ljubljani / Oddelek za biologijo, Slovenia 579A Outer membrane protein A of Vibrio cholerae suppresses its survival time in presence or absence of Acanthamoeba castellanii Soni Priya Valeru* Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 580A Microdiversity and footprints of recombination in populations of Verminephrobacter, the heritable symbiont of earthworms 1 1 2 1 Flávia Viana* , Michael Macey , Kasper Kjeldsen , Andreas Schramm 1 2 Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark 581A Detection of an active nitrogen-fixing population in the gastrointestinal tract of the wood-eating catfish Panaque nigrolineatus 1 2 3 4 Joy Watts* , Ryan McDonald , Fan Zhang , Harold Schreier 1 2 3 University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, Towson University, USA, University of Maryland 4 Center for Environmental Science, USA, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 582A Gut microbiota contributing to the growth of fast-growing transgenic fish is similar to that in obese mammals Qingyun Yan*, Yuhe Yu, Xuemei Li Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 583A The genome of an intracellur symbiont of deep sea clam, Calyptogena phaseoliformis, is still in an early phase of reductive genome evolution 1 1 1 2 Takao Yoshida* , Yoshihiro Takaki , Shigeru Shimamura , Masatoshi Tsukahara , Maiko 2 3 3 4 1 Nezuo , Makiko Shimoji , Kazuhito Satou , Morimi Teruya , Tadashi Maruyama 1 2 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, BioJet 3 4 Co.,LTD, Japan, OIAS, Japan, OITC, Japan PS09 – Pathways and Physiology 453A Biodegradation of C7 and C8 iso-alkanes under methanogenic and sulfate-reducing conditions Nidal Abu Laban*, Kathy Semple, Rozlyn Young, Anh Dao, Julia Foght University of Alberta/Department Biological Sciences, Canada 454A Are microorganisms involved in freshwater humic matter degradation? A metagenomics approach 1 2 2 Martin Allgaier* , Ivette Salka , Hans-Peter Grossart 1 2 Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany 455A Microbial influences on arsenic release from Japanese paddy soils 1 1 1 1 2 Seigo Amachi* , Keitaro Kudo , Eri Honma , Diantao Dong , Tomoyuki Makino , Noriko 2 Yamaguchi 1 2 Chiba University, Japan, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan 53 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 456A Caspase homologs in prokaryotic genomes and metagenomes 1 1 2 2 Johannes Asplund Samuelsson* , John Larsson , Chris L Dupont , Shibu Yooseph , 2 2 1 1 1 Johannes Goll , Mathangi Thiagarajan , Karolina Ininbergs , Narin Celepli , Björn Brindefalk , 1 Birgitta Bergman 1 2 Stockholm University, Sweden, The J. Craig Venter Institute, United States 457A Physiological characteristics of marine anammox bacteria enriched from sea sediments, Hiroshima, Japan 1 1 1 1 2 Takanori Awata* , Tomonori Kindaichi , Noriatsu Ozaki , Akiyoshi Ohashi , Mamoru Oshiki , 2 Satoshi Okabe 1 2 Hiroshima University, Japan, Hokkaido University, Japan 458A Novel findings on degradation metabolic pathways of endocrine disrupters, persistent organic pollutants and pharmaceuticals by ligninolytic fungi 1 2 2 2 2 Tomas Cajthaml* , Zdena Kresinova , Monika Cvancarova , Alena Filipova , Stefano Covino , 3 4 Tatiana Stella , Monika Moeder 1 2 Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences , Czech Republic, Institute of Microbiology, 3 v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Università degli Studi 4 della Tuscia, Italy, UFZ-Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Germany 459A Genome characterization of Pelosinus fermentans JBW45 isolated during in situ stimulation for Cr(VI) reduction 1 1 1 2 3 Laura Camilleri* , Kara De Leon , Mary Young , Steven Brown , Jeffrey Skerker , Morgan 3 3 3 1 Price , Adam Deutschbauer , Adam Arkin , Matthew Fields 1 2 Montana State University, United States, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States, 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States 460A Proteomic, physiological, and in silico testing of economic tradeoffs in metabolic networks Ross Carlson*, Reed Taffs, James Folsom Montana State University, United States 461A Proteome analyses of hydrogen producing hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 in different one-carbon substrate culture conditions 1 1 1 1 1 Young-Ho Chung , Yoon-Jung Moon* , Joseph Kwon , Sung-Ho Yun , Hye Li Lim , Min-Sik 2 2 2 1 1 Kim , Sung Gyun Kang , Jung-Hyun Lee , Jong -Soon Choi , Seung Il Kim 1 2 Korea Basic Science Institute, South Korea, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, South Korea 462A Genes to phenotype: establishing a physiological and metabolic basis of mixotrophy in model marine bacteria Michael Cunliffe* Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom 463A Bacterial amyloids are abundant and have multiple functions in biofilms 1 2 2 3 Morten Simonsen Dueholm* , Poul Larsen , Mads Toft Søndergård , Daniel Otzen , Per 2 Halkjær Nielsen 1 2 Aalborg University, Denmark, Aalborg University, Section of 3 Biotechnology, Denmark, Aarhus University, iNANO, Denmark 464A The dark way of making oxygen Katharina Ettwig*, Daan R Speth, Joachim Reimann, Ming Liang Wu, Mike S.M. Jetten, Jan T.M. Keltjens Radboud University, Dept. of Microbiology, Netherlands 54 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 465A The overlapping gene pair htgA/yaaW in Escherichia coli O157:H7 EDL933 1 2 2 3 3 Lea Fellner* , Niklas Bechtel , Richard Landstorfer , Svenja Simon , Daniela Oelke , Siegfried 2 2 Scherer , Klaus Neuhaus 1 2 Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, Lehrstuhl für mikrobielle Oekologie, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, 3 Lehrstuhl für Datenanalyse und Visualisierung, Fachbereich Informatik und Informationswissenschaft, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany 466A Ecology and evolution of a hybrid isoprenoid-producing actinomycete lineage Kelley Gallagher*, Paul Jensen Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States 467A Reduction of methacrylate by Geobacter sulfurreducens AM-1 - new property relevant for industrial wastewater treatment 1 2 3 3 Alexander Galushko* , Anna Obraztsova , Kestas Laurinavichius , Oxana Arkhipova , Galina 4 5 6 Mikoulinskaia , Fred Rainey , Vasilii Akimenko 1 2 3 Vienna University, Austria, Synthetic Genomics, USA, Institute Biochemistry Physiology 4 5 Microorganisms RAS, Russia, Institute Bioorganic Chemistry RAS, Russia, University of 6 Alaska, USA, Institute Biochemistry Physiology Microorganisms RAS, USA 468A The role of C4 metabolism in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum 1 1 2 3 Maya Haimovich-Dayan* , Nitsan Garfinkel , Daniela Ewe , Yehouda Marcus , Ansgar 2 2 1 Gruber , Peter G. Kroth , Aaron Kaplan 1 2 3 Hebrew University, Israel, Universität Konstanz, Germany, Tel Aviv University, Israel 469A Polyphosphate storage in response to nitrogen limitation in Beggiatoa alba Sandra Havemeyer*, Heide Schulz-Vogt Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 470A Characterization of novel sulfate-reducing bacteria isolated from tidal flat sediment 1 2 2 2 Yuriko Higashioka* , Hisaya Kojima , Miho Watanabe , Manabu Fukui 1 2 Kochi National College of Technology, Japan, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan 471A Salmonella Stn regulates membrane composition and integrity Toshiya Hirayama*, Masayuki Nakano Nagasaki University, Japan 472A The poly(ethylene succinate) (PES)degradation of thermophilic actinomycetes 06174T-1 in soil 1 2 Kim Chi Hoang* , Min Tseng 1 2 Ta Hwa Institute of Technology, Taiwan, Bioresource Collection and Research Center, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, Taiwan 473A Bacterial degradation of steroid compounds - new insights into the side chain degradation pathway 1 2 2 1 Johannes Holert* , Onur Yücel , Žarko Kulić , Bodo Philipp 1 2 University of Muenster, Germany, University of Konstanz, Germany 474A Expression of genes involved in aerobic degradation of dichloromethane by Xanthobacter autotrophicus under different nutritional conditions Akifumi Hosoda*, Hiroto Tamura Meijo University, Japan 475A Characterization of tert-butyl-alcohol-hydroxylase, a Rieske oxygenase in MTBE degradation pathway of Methylibium petroleiphilum PM1 1 1 2 Krassimira Hristova* , Anthony Kappell , Jian Sun 1 2 Marquette University, United States, China Agricultural University, China 55 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 476A Metabolic adaptations in microbial communities in the Baltic Sea region 1 1 2 2 2 Karolina Ininbergs* , John Larsson , Christoper L Dupont , Shibu Yooseph , Johannes Goll , 2 1 1 1 Mathangi Thiagarajan , Narin Celepli , Johannes Asplund-Samulesson , Björn Brindefalk , 1 Birgitta Bergman 1 2 Stockholm University, Sweden, J. Craig Venter Institute, USA 477A Comparative genomic analysis and BTEX degradation pathways of Pseudoxanthomonas spadix BD-a59 Che Ok Jeon, Eun Jin Choi*, Hyun Mi Jin, Renukaradhya K. Math Chung-Ang University, South Korea 478A Involvement of the anaerobic respiration of Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1 in the stability of extracellular U(VI) nanowires Shenghua Jiang, Sunhwa Park*, Hor-Gil Hur Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea 479A Dichloromethane degradation in sediments and identification of a dichloromethanefermenting Dehalobacter sp. 1 2 3 Shandra D. Justicia-Leon* , E. Erin Mack , Frank E. Löffler 1 2 Georgia Institute of Technology, United States, DuPont Corporate Remediation Group, 3 United States, University of Tennessee, United States 480A Optimization of culture conditions for the production of butanol from sweet sorghum juice by Clostridium beijerinckii SBP2-HB 1 2 2 3 Miho Kanemoto* , Manami Akiyama , M. Habibur Rahman , Yoshinori Sato , Shigeru 2 2 2 2 Chohnan , Youji Nitta , Yasurou Kurusu , Hiroyuki Ohta 1 2 3 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Ibaraki University, Japan, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan 481A Evidence of hybrid N2O production from NH2OH and NO2 in cell suspension of 15 oligotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacterial strain Nitrosomonas sp. AL212 using a N 18 and O tracer technique 1 2 1 Chie Katsuyama* , Keisuke Koba , Yuichi Suwa 1 2 Chuo University, Japan, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan 482A Proteomic characterization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon(PAHs) - utilizing marine bacterium, Novosphingobium pentaromativorans US6-1 1 1 1 2 Seung Il Kim* , Sungho Yun , Young Ho Chung , Kae Kyoung Kwon 1 2 Korea Basic Science Institute, South Korea, Korea Ocean Research & Development Institute, South Korea 483A Early lessons from sequencing the Desulfitobacterium pangenome, from carbon to silicon and back again 1 2 2 3 4 5 Thomas Kruse* , Julien Maillard , Christof Holliger , Nico Boon , Jan Gerritse , Ute Lechner , 6 7 8 1 1 Lynne Goodwin , Patrick Chain , Betty Lobos , Willem de Vos , Hauke Smidt 1 2 Wageningen University, Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands, Ecole Polytechnique 3 Fédérale de Lausanne / Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Switzerland, Ghent University, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Belgium, 4 5 Deltares, Netherlands, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Institute of Biology/Microbiology, 6 7 Germany, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA, Los Alamos National Laboratory / Bioscience 8 Division, USA, Washington University School of Medicine, Genome Sequencing Center, USA 484A Peptidolytic systems of Synergistetes bacteria, with an emphasis on a novel fluoroacetate-degrading bacterium, Synergistes sp. strain MFA1 1 1 1 2 1 Lex Leong* , Stuart Denman , Carl Davis , Phil Hugenholtz , Chris McSweeney 1 2 CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Australia - 56 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 485A Metaproteomic study of functional microbial community in thermophilic anaerobic digestion Yi-Wen Lin, Yi -Chia Chang, Shir-Ly Huang* National Central University, Taiwan 486A A protein exclusive of filamentous cyanobacteria involved in determination of cell division plane 1 1 2 2 1 Dinka Mandakovic* , Carla Trigo , José Enrique Frías , Enrique Flores , Luz Mónica Vásquez 1 2 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas y Universidad de Sevilla, Espana 487A Genomic investigation of the filamentous foam forming Candidatus 'Microthrix parvicella' isolated from activated sludge 1 1 1 1 2 Simon McIlroy* , Rikke Kristiansen , Mads Albertsen , Søren Karst , Simona Rossetti , Valter 2 1 3 3 1 Tandoi , Jeppe Nielsen , Steve Petrovski , Robert Seviour , Per Nielsen 1 2 3 Aalborg University, Denmark, Water Research Institute, CNR, Italy, La Trobe University, Australia 488A Changes in the metabolic profile of Streptomyces coelicolor under heavy metal ion stress 1 2 3 Anne Morgenstern* , Anne Behrend , Dieter Spiteller 1 2 Max-Planck Institute For Chemical Ecology, Germany, Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and 3 Ornamental Crops, Germany, University of Konstanz, Germany 489A A new way of activating non-substituted aromatic hydrocarbons: Identification of direct carboxylation of naphthalene Housna Mouttaki*, Jörg Johannes, Rainer U. Meckenstock Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 490A The role of dehydroascorbate as surveillance molecule of oxidative stress and programmed cell death Omer Murik*, Aaron Kaplan Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 491A Insight into the sulfur metabolism of Thioalkalivibrio sulfidiphilus HL-EbGr7 with quantitative proteomics 1 2 3 4 4 Gerard Muyzer* , Dimitry Yu. Sorokin , Peter Schaap , Peter Verhaert , Martijn Pinkse 1 2 Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Netherlands, Winogradsky Institute for 3 4 Microbiology, Russia, Wageningen University, Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 492A Benzene degradation under anaerobic conditions Kerstin Nicolaisen*, Rainer U. Meckenstock Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 493A Study of a novel oxygen-sensitive, denitrifying Bacillus abundant in soil Maja Nielsen*, Vincenzo Cerciello, Kasper U. Kjeldsen, Eline P. Hansen, Lars Schreiber, Andreas Schramm, Kai Finster Aarhus University, Denmark 494A Oxidation kinetics of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from activated sludge 1 2 1 Boris Nowka* , Holger Daims , Eva Spieck 1 2 University of Hamburg/Microbiology, Germany, University of Vienna/Microbial Ecology, Austria 57 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 495A The mechanism of heterocyst development in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120 under nitrogen deprived conditions Masayuki Ohmori*, Shigeki Ehira Chuo University, Japan 496A Meta-genomic analysis for the elucidation of physiology of an anammox bacterium, Candidatus 'Brocadia sinica' 1 2 1 1 Mamoru Oshiki* , Kaori Shinyako , Hisashi Satoh , Satoshi Okabe 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, Tokyo Engineering Consultants Co. LTD, Japan 497A A bacterium representing marine agarolytic novel genus in the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from seawater 1 1 1 1 2 Seong Chan Park* , Yeoung Min Hwang , Han Na Choe , Keun Sik Baik , Ye-Seul Hwang , 2 1 Duwoon Kim , Chi Nam Seong 1 2 Sunchon National University, South Korea, Chonnam National University, South Korea 498A Constraining the nitrogen metabolism of deep-sea vent chemosynthetic microbes using stable nitrogen isotopic analyses: An experimental study at in situ seafloor pressures 1 2 1 1 Ileana Perez-Rodriguez* , Stefan Sievert , Marilyn Fogel , Dionysis Foustoukos 1 2 Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA 499A Relative importance of chemosynthesis in a polluted tropical estuary Alex Prast*, Camila Signori, Giselle Parno, Bruno Rego, Ricardo Pollery, Angela Sanseverino University Federal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 500A Different ecophysiologies of two Dehalococcoides isolates from the Bitterfeld region of germany 1 1 2 3 3 Marlén Pöritz* , Ulrike Heinemann , Lorenz Adrian , Tesfaye Wubet , Mika Tarkka , Ivonne 2 1 Nijenhuis , Ute Lechner 1 Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Microbiology, Germany, 2 Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Isotope 3 Biogeochemistry, Germany, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Soil Ecology, Germany 501A Genome of Lactococcus piscium strain MKFS47 from modified atmosphere packaged meat 1 1 2 2 2 Riitta Rahkila* , Per Johansson , Margarita Andreevskaya , Pia Laine , Lars Paulin , Petri 2 1 Auvinen , Johanna Björkroth 1 Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2 Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland 502A Response to phosphorus limitation by the chemoheterotrophic strain Pseudovibrio sp. FO-BEG1 Stefano Romano*, Vladimir Bondarev, Thorsten Dittmar, Heide Schulz-Vogt Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 503A Medium optimization and production of the wild type pesticide degrader strain Aminobacter MSH1 in a Bioreactor 1 2 3 2 Nadja Schultz-Jensen* , Berith Elkær Knudsen , Zuzanna Frkova , Jens Aamand , Jette 4 2 Thykaer , Sebastian Reinhold Sørensen 1 2 National Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark (GEUS), Denmark, National 3 geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark (GEUS), Denmark, Department of Environment 4 Science, Denmark Department of Systems Biology Technical University of Denmark Denmark 504A The inhibitory potential of silver-zinc nanoparticles on Aspergillus parasiticus 1 1 1 2 Ebrahim Sedaghati* , Saied Mollayi , Fatemeh Rostami , Nader Doraki 1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Vali-e-Asr University of 2 Rafsanjan, Iran, Rafsanjan Food Control Laboratory (RFCL), Iran 58 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August 505A Key aromatic dioxygenases are involved in the catabolism of hydroxylated- benzoates and -phenylacetates in Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 Michael Seeger*, Romero Maria Jose Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile 506A Molecular insights into anaerobic biological dehalogenation - An important environmental process unraveled by combined genomic, biochemical and physiological studies 1 2 3 4 5 3 Jana Seifert , Goris Tobias , Adrian Lorenz , Boll Matthias , Lechner Ute , Nijenhuis Ivonne , 5 2 3 3 3 Sawers Gary , Schubert Torsten , Seifert Jana* , Tarkka Mika , von Bergen Martin , Wubet 3 2 Tesfaye , Diekert Gabriele 1 2 UFZ-Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research GmbH, Germany, Friedrich Schiller 3 University Jena, Germany, UFZ-Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Germany, 4 5 University Leipzig, Germany, Martin-Luther-University Halle, Germany 507A Organohalide respiring Firmicutes – from dedicated degraders to all-rounders Hauke Smidt*, Thomas Kruse, Farai Maphosa, Tian Ye Wageningen University, Netherlands 508A Identification of a robust bacterial haloacid uptake system Jimmy Tsang*, Xianbin Su School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 509A Casting a net: filaments produced by Microcystis sp. in field and laboratory populations 1 1 1 1 2 2 Gad Weiss* , Moshe Harel , Einat Daniel , Avraham Wilenz , Ora Hadas , Assaf Sukenik , 3 4 1 1 Bojan Sedmak , Elke Dittmann , Sergei Braun , Aaron Kaplan 1 2 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological 3 4 Research, Israel, National Institute of Biology, Slovenia, University of Potsdam, Germany 510A Mercury methylation by sulfate reducers: assessment of a high-throughput method for isolation and physiological characterisation Colin Yannick*, Marisol Goñi-Urriza, Jérome Gury, Pierre Caumette, Rémy Guyoneaud Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France 511A Physiological and genomic characterization of a newly isolated Geobacter sp. strain AY that detoxify 1,2-dichloroethane to ethylene 1 2 3 Naoko Yoshida* , Kiyotoshi Asahi , Arata Katayama 1 2 Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, Environmental Science Institute of Nagoya 3 city, Japan, EcoTopia Institute, Nagoya University, Japan 512A Isolation of an L-amino acid oxidase-producing marine bacteria and analysis of its physiological and biochemical properties Zhiliang Yu*, Hua Qiao, Ning Zhou College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, China 59 PS09 – Pathways and Physiology Monday 20 August PS10 – Single Cell Microbiology 214A Improvements of geneFISH method to enable a broader application 1 1 2 2 Jimena Barrero Canosa* , Cristina Moraru , Elke Allers , Melissa Duhaime , Matthew 2 1 Sullivan , Rudolf Amann 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, University of Arizona, United States 215A Flow cytometric fingerprinting – methods and controls for monitoring dynamics in complex microbial communities Birke Brumme*, Christin Koch, Susann Müller UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany 216A Identification of living ammonia-oxidizing archaea by Raman microspectroscopy - a first step towards targeted sorting Christoph Böhm, David Berry, Markus Schmid*, Michael Wagner, Michael Wozak University of Vienna, Austria 217A Development of a bioreporter assay for the detection of methyl halides Muhammad Farhan Ul Haque*, Thierry Nadalig, Françoise Bringel, Hubert Schaller, Stéphane Vuilleumier University of Strasbourg, France 218A Destabilized GFP allows making the distinction between short-term and long-term effect of nutrient status in process-related conditions 1 2 2 1 1 Shanshan Han* , Frank Delvigne , Alison Brognaux , Gitte Charbon , Søren Sørensen 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Institute of Biology, Denmark, Univesité de Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Belgium 219A Use of FISH in difficult environments: application to hydrolysed wheat straw Jennifer Harris-Hellal*, Hafida Tris, Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet, Catherine Joulian French geological survey (BRGM), France 220A Acquiring Reference Genomes from Uncultured Microbes by Micromanipulation and Low-complexity Metagenomics Søren M. Karst*, Mads Albertsen, Jeppe L. Nielsen, Kåre L. Nielsen, Per H. Nielsen Aalborg University/Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering, Denmark 221A Improving robustness in batch cultures by investigating heterogeneity at single cell level 1 2 2 3 4 Luisa Lundin* , Shanshan Han , Inês Nunes , Anna-Lena Heins , Rita Lencastre Fernandes , 2 2 3 4 Gitte Charbron , Waleed Abu Al-Soud , Anna Eliasson Lantz , Krist Gernaey , Søren J. 2 Sørensen 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, University of Copenhagen/Department of Biology, 3 Denmark, Technical University of Denmark/Department of Systems Biology, Denmark, 4 Technical University of Denmark/Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Denmark 222A History-dependence in bacterial signaling Roland Mathis*, Martin Ackermann ETHZ/Eawag, Switzerland 223A Tracking sources and dynamics of bacterial communities in homes Marzia Miletto*, Steven E. Lindow University of California, Berkeley, United States 60 PS10 – Single Cell Microbiology Monday 20 August 224A Stochastic noise on RpoS expression determines cellular permissiveness for horizontal gene transfer of an Integrative and Conjugative Element Ryo Miyazaki*, Marco Minoia, Nicolas Pradervand, Sandra Sulser, Jan Roelof van der Meer University of Lausanne, Switzerland 225A High resolution single cell analytics to follow microbial community dynamics in natural ecosystems Susann Muller*, Thomas Hübschmann, Bärbel Kiesel, Ingo Fetzer, Sabine Kleinsteuber, Carsten Vogt, Hauke Harms Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany 226A Evaluation of the effect of sample preparation, chemical fixation and hybridization on 13 15 isotopic composition of C- and N-labelled microbial cells using NanoSIMS 1 1 1 1 Niculina Musat* , Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk , Lorenz Adrian , Petra Bombach , Jean-Nicolas 2 1 Audinot , Hans Hermann Richnow 1 2 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany, Centre de Recherche Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourg 227A Single-cell level based approach to investigate bacterial metabolism during batch industrial fermentation Marta Nierychlo*, Poul Larsen, Niels Thomas Eriksen, Per Halkjær Nielsen Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering; Aalborg University, Denmark 228A Single-cell activity of SAR86 differs from other gammaproteobacterial subgroups in waters off the west Antarctic Peninsula in summer and fall Mrinalini Nikrad*, Matthew T. Cottrell, David L. Kirchman University of Delaware, United States 229A Single cell genomics of segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) 1 2 2 2 Sünje Johanna Pamp* , Paul Blainey , Eoghan Harrington , Stephen R. Quake , David A. 2 Relman 1 2 Stanford University School of Medicine / Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, USA, Stanford University, USA 230A A single cell approach for revealing the phylogenetic identity of unknown sulfatereducing microbes in a marine sediment 1 1 2 1 Dorthe G. Petersen* , Karen G. Lloyd , Lars Schreiber , Kasper U. Kjeldsen , Bo B. 1 2 Jørgensen , Andreas Schramm 1 2 Aarhus University/Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Denmark, Aarhus University/Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Denmark 231A Linking emulsion PCR 1 2 1 1 Leena Pitkänen* , Manu Tamminen , Christina Lyra , Marko Virta 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States 232A Uncovering the dark matter of the human microbiota through high throughput single cell genomics and targeted pangenomics 1 2 2 3 3 Mircea Podar* , Alisha Campbell , James Campbell , Tanja Woyke , Alexander Sczyrba , 3 4 4 Susannah Tringe , Ann Griffen , Eugene Leys 1 2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, USA, Oak Ridge National 3 4 Laboratory, USA, Joint Genome Institute, USA, Ohio State University, USA 233A Detection of bacterial gene expression by mRNA PNA FISH - a new user friendly and rapid molecular test 1 2 3 2 Anne K I Rasmussen , Tine Yding Wolff , Trine Rolighed Thomsen* , Jan Lorenzen 1 2 3 AdvanDx, Denmark, The Danish Technological Inst., Life Sci. Div., Denmark, Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg Univ., Denmark 61 PS10 – Single Cell Microbiology Monday 20 August 234A Insights into microbial functioning using Raman Stable Isotope Probing (RSIP) at the single cell level 1 2 3 1 Daniel Read* , Rich Boden , Colin Murrell , Andrew Whiteley 1 2 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom, Plymouth University, United Kingdom, 3 University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 235A Single cell protein production and growth rates of natural marine bacterial populations measured with the methionine analog homopropargylglycine 1 2 1 Ty Samo* , Steve Smriga , Farooq Azam 1 2 UC San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States 236A Reads2Type: an online tool for rapid bacterial typing Dhany Saputra*, Thomas Sicheritz Pontén, Ole Lund Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark 237A Solid-phase cytometry as a tool for sensitive and rapid quantification of Vibrio cholerae/Vibrio mimicus in environmental water samples 1 1 2 1 Sonja Schauer* , Regina Sommer , Andreas Farnleitner , Alexander Kirschner 1 2 Medical University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 238A Nitrogen fixation in the presence of ammonium: a role for phenotypic heterogeneity and bet hedging 1 2 3 3 2 Frank Schreiber* , Niculina Musat , Mathias Kirf , Carsten Schubert , Marcel Kuypers , Martin 1 Ackermann 1 2 ETH Zurich and Eawag, Switzerland, Max Planck Institute for marine Microbiology, 3 Germany, Eawag, Switzerland 239A First core facility for microbial single cell genomics R. Stepanauskas*, B. Thompson, N. Poulton, B. Swan, E. Dmitrieff, B. Tupper, W. Bellows, E. Field, M. Sieracki Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, United States 240A Regulation of ICEclc transfer in Pseudomonas knackmussii B13 Sandra Sulser*, Veronica Bellini, Jan Roelof van der Meer University of Lausanne, Switzerland 241A Miniaturizing genomics: single genome barcoding and sequencing 1 2 3 1 Manu Tamminen* , Francois Vigneault , Marko Virta , Eric Alm 1 2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Harvard Medical School, USA, University of Helsinki, Finland 242A Analysing bioavailability of different molecules with microbial bioreporters Marko Virta* University of Helsinki, Finland 62 PS10 – Single Cell Microbiology Tuesday 21 August PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems 001B Methanogenic and methanotrophic archaeon communities in Antarctic permafrost samples differed in biogenic methane content 1 2 3 3 Irina Alekhina* , Ilya Stepanov , Andrey Abramov , Ekaterina Karavaevskaya , Elizaveta 3 3 4 2 Rivkina , David Gilichinsky , Jean Robert Petit , Sergey Bulat 1 2 Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Federation, Petersburg Nuclear Physics 3 Institute RAS, Russian Federation, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in 4 Soil Science RAS, Russian Federation, LGGE CNRS-UJF, France 389B Temporal patterns in the abundance and diversity of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria in aquarium biofilters 1 2 3 3 2 Samik Bagchi* , Siegfried E. Vlaeminck , Laura Sauder , Josh D. Neufeld , Willy Verstraete , 2 Nico Boon 1 2 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, Laboratory of 3 Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Ghent University, Belgium, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Canada 002B The distribution and ecophysiology of novel thermophilic, non-ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea in Yellowstone National Park Jacob Beam*, Zackary Jay, Mark Kozubal, William Inskeep Montana State University, USA 003B Archaeal abundance across a pH gradient in an arable soil and its relationship with bacterial and fungal growth rates Per Bengtson, Anna Sterngren*, Johannes Rousk Lund University, Sweden 004B Abundance and diversity of Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Lake Superior and Erie 1 2 2 Annette Bollmann* , Robert Michael McKay , George Bullerjahn 1 2 Miami University, United States, Bowling Green State University, United States 005B Archaeal community structure and diversity of Charcoal from Amazonian dark earth Fabiana Cannavan*, Amanda Lima, Maria Brossi, Acácio Navarrete, Lucas Mendes, Mariana Germano, Siu Tsai University of São Paulo - Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Brazil 006B Abundance and diversity of nitrifying prokaryotes in drinking water treatment plants 1 1 2 2 1 Mei-Chun Chen* , Toshikazu Fukushima , Sin-Ming Liu , Pei-Chu Chen , Liang-Ming Whang 1 2 National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Taiwan Water Corporation, Taiwan 007B Archaeal and Bacterial Abundance Patterns in Sediments of Aarhus Bay, Denmark Xihan Chen*, Mark Lever, Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University, Denmark 008B Representatives of the uncultured Euryarchaeota Clade LDS prevail among filterable Archaea in northern freshwater habitats 1 2 Anna Fedotova* , Svetlana Dedysh 1 2 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russia, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 009B Enrichment and characterization of three freshwater ammonia-oxidizing archaea 1 2 1 Elizabeth French* , Jessica Kozlowski , Annette Bollmann 1 2 Miami University, USA, University of Alberta, Canada 63 PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems Tuesday 21 August 010B Methanogenic archaea in a Sub-Arctic acidic palsa peatland 1 2 1 3 1 Lars Ganzert* , Andrea Kiss , Susanne Liebner , Dirk Wagner , Mette Svenning 1 2 Universtiy of Tromsø, Arctic and Marine Biology, Norway, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar 3 and Marine Research, Periglacial Research, Germany, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, German Centre for Geosciences, Germany 011B Towards understanding geomicrobiology of an extreme environment: characterization of a novel Acidianus species involved in iron a sulphur cycles isolated from CopahueCaviahue acidic geothermal area 1 2 1 3 Alejandra Giaveno* , María Sofía Urbieta , Ricardo Ulloa , Elena González Toril , Edgardo 2 Donati 1 2 IDEPA (CCT Comahue-CONICET- UNCo), Argentina, CINDEFI Universidad Nacional de La 3 Plata, Argentina, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA CSIC), Espana 012B Niche specialization of terrestrial thaumarchaea 1 2 3 4 Cecile Gubry-Rangin* , Christopher Quince , Robert Griffiths , Michael Schloter , James 1 1 Prosser , Graeme Nicol 1 2 3 University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Centre for 4 Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom, Helmholtz Zentrum München, United Kingdom 013B Archaea diversity and their roles on nitrogen cycling at extreme lake 1 2 Yasemin Gulecal* , Yildirim Dilek 1 2 Istanbul University, Turkey, University of Miami, USA 014B Archaeal versus bacterial ammonia oxidation in oligotrophic and eutrophic freshwater sediments 1 2 1 Martina Herrmann* , Oliver Spott , Kirsten Küsel 1 2 Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Ecology, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department Soil Physics, Germany 015B Ammonium oxidation kinetics of a natural microbial population dominated by Archaea Rachel Horak, Allan Devol*, Wei Qin, David Stahl, Anitra Ingalls, Virginia Armbrust University of Washington, USA 286B Niche partitioning of marine group i crenarchaeota in the euphotic and upper mesopelagic zones of the east china sea 1 2 2 2 Anyi Hu* , Nianzhi Jiao , Rui Zhang , Yang Zao 1 2 Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Xiamen University, China 016B Archaeal nitrification in acidic forest soils receiving high atmospheric N deposition 1 2 3 2 2 4 Kazuo Isobe* , Junko Ikutani , Yuichi Suwa , Yu Takebayashi , Muneoki Yoh , Yunting Fang , 4 1 1 2 Jiangming Mo , Keishi Senoo , Shigeto Otsuka , Keisuke Koba 1 2 The University of Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, 3 4 Chuo University, Japan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 017B Enrichment and characterization of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing thaumarchaea from an agricultural soil 1 2 1 3 4 Man-Young Jung* , Jong-Geol Kim , Soo-Je Park , Jaap Damsté , Eugene Madsen , Sung1 Keun Rhee 1 2 Chungbuk National University, South Korea, Chungbuk national university, South Korea, 3 4 NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands, Cornell University, USA 018B Methanogenesis in deep warm groundwater 1 1 2 1 3 Kenji Kato* , Kazuyo Nagaosa , Urumu Tsunogai , Hiroaki Nashimoto , Hideki Yoshikawa , 3 3 3 Yoshito Sasaki , Takahiro Asano , Kazuhiro Aoki 1 2 3 Shizuoka University, Japan, Nagoya University, Japan, JAEA, Japan 64 PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems Tuesday 21 August 019B Prevalence and diversity of ammonia-oxidising archaea and bacteria during composting of municipal waste Nabla Kennedy*, David Dowling, David Ryan Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland 020B Archaea of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group (MCG) are abundant, diverse, and widespread in marine sediments 1 2 3 4 5 Kyoko Kubo* , Karen G. Lloyd , Jennifer Biddle , Rudolf Amann , Andreas Teske , Katrin 4 Knittel 1 2 Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan, Aarhus University, 3 4 Denmark, University of Delaware, USA, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 5 Germany, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 021B Effect of carbon source on microbial community structure in a high cell density anaerobic reactor Kankana Kundu*, Shilpi Sharma, T R Sreekrishnan Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India 022B The existence of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in wastewater treatment plants 1 2 1 1 Halil Kurt* , Özgür melih Çelik , Mert Kumru , Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı 1 2 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charite, Germany 023B Acidophilic ammonia oxidising archaea: explaining high rates of nitrification in low pH soils? Laura Lehtovirta*, James Prosser, Graeme Nicol University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom 024B Opening the archaeal box in an oligotrophic freshwater environment 1 2 3 4 Marc Lliros* , Tamara García-Armisen , Sean A Crowe , François Darchambeau , Cedric 5 2 6 6 6 Morana , Céline Michiels , Melodie Scmitz , Kathleen de Saedeleer , Laetitia Montante , 4 5 5 4 2 Floeur Roland , Wim Thiery , Steven Bouillon , Alberto V Borges , Pierre Servais , Jean Pierre 6 Descy 1 2 Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 3 4 5 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, Université de Liège, Belgium, Katholieke 6 Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, University of Namur, Belgium 025B Emergent macrophytes alter the composition of the archaeal community in freshwater and saline wetlands 1 2 2 2 2 Marc Lliros* , Rosalia Trias , Olaya Ruiz-Rueda , Carles Borrego , Lluis Bañeras 1 2 Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, University of Girona / Molecular Microbial Ecology Group, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Spain 026B Inter-domain horizontal gene transfer, a major role in the adaptation of archaea to mesophilic lifestyles? 1 2 3 2 Purificacion Lopez-Garcia* , Philippe Deschamps , Yvan Zivanovic , David Moreira 1 2 3 CNRS & University Paris-Sud, France, ESE, CNRS & University Paris-Sud, France, IGM, CNRS & University Paris-Sud, France 027B Archaeal abundance and diversity in tidal flats, Northern Arabian Gulf Huda Mahmoud, Anwar Al-Qattan* Kuwait University, Kuwait 028B Archaea in canopy wetlands Guntars Martinson*, Franziska Brandt, Ralph Conrad Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 65 PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems Tuesday 21 August 029B Photoinhibition of archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidizers: insights from laboratory cultures and natural stream biofilms 1 1 2 3 Stephanie N Merbt* , Jean-Christophe Auguet , Dave A. Stahl , Greame W. Nicol , Jim I. 3 1 1 Prosser , Eugenia Martí , Emilio O. Casamayor 1 2 3 Ceab.CSIC, Spain, University of Washington, United States, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 030B Methanogenic diversity and activity in a high-temperature biodegraded oil field Hanako Mochimaru*, Daisuke Mayumi, Hideyoshi Yoshioka, Susumu Sakata, Hideyuki Tamaki, Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 031B The uncultivated SM1 euryarchaeon- uncovering its mystery Christine Moissl-Eichinger*, Alexander Probst Institute for Microbiology and Archaea Center, University of Regensburg, Germany 032B Archaeal ammonia oxidizers are the predominant players along the salinity gradient of the evaporitic high-altitude wetland, Salar de Huasco - Chile 1 2 2 3 2 Veronica Molina* , Cristina Dorador , Carolina Cubillos , Klaudia Hernández , Martha Hengst , 4 5 6 Lasse Olsen , Laura Bristow , Camila Fernández 1 2 3 Universidad Andres Bello, Chile, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, Centro de 4 Investigación y Desarrollo de la Región de Los Lagos, Chile, Norweigan University of Science 5 6 and Technology, Norway, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, CNRS UMR-7621 Banyuls-Sur-Mer, France 033B Influence of Ammonium Concentration on amoA mRNA Levels of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea within Sand of an Eelgrass Zone (Shimoda, Japan) Tatsunori Nakagawa*, Yoshifumi Ando, Ryou Ishii, Reiji Takahashi Nihon University, Japan 034B Microbial assemblages linked to the methanecycle in Arctic thaw ponds 1 2 3 4 1 Karita Negandhi* , Connie Lovejoy , Michael J. Whiticar , Pierre E. Galand , Isabelle Laurion 1 Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Centre for 2 northern studies (CEN), Canada, Université Laval, , Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des 3 4 Systèmes, Canada, University of Victoria, Canada, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls, UPMC-CNRS, Benthic Ecogeochemistry Laboratory (LECOB), France 035B Abundances and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms associated with granular activated carbon in different full-scale drinking water purification plants in Japan Jia Niu*, Ikuro Kasuga, Futoshi Kurisu, Hiroaki Furumai The University of Tokyo, Japan 036B Comparative genomic analysis of the transport systems in Thaumarchaeota 1 1 1 2 1 Pierre Offre* , Anja Spang , Michaela Stieglmeier , Michael Wagner , Christa Schleper 1 2 University of Vienna / Department of Genetics in Ecology, Austria, University of Vienna / Department of Microbial Ecology, Austria 037B Determination of the Synergistic Acute Effects of Antibiotics on Acetoclastic Methanogens 1 2 1 1 1 Gozde Ozbayram* , Bahar Ince , Sevcan Aydin , Zeynep Cetecioglu , Osman Arikan , Orhan 1 Ince 1 2 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Bogazici University, Turkey 66 PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems Tuesday 21 August 038B Metagenomic analysis of sedimentary ammonia-oxidizing archaea co-cultured with sulfur-oxidizing bacteria 1 2 2 2 Soo-Je Park* , Rohit Ghai , Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado , Francisco Rodriguez-Valera , Sung1 Keun Rhee 1 2 Chungbuk National University, South Korea, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain 039B AmoA-based consensus phylogeny of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions 1 1 1 2 3 Michael Pester* , Thomas Rattei , Andreas Richter , Alexander Gröngröft , Jörg Overmann , 4 1 1 Barbara Reinhold-Hurek , Alexander Loy , Michael Wagner 1 2 3 University of Vienna, Austria, University of Hamburg, Germany, DSMZ, Germany, 4 University of Bremen, Germany 040B Novel methylotrophic methanogenic archaea implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen 1 2 1 1 2 Morten Poulsen , Clarissa Schwab , Bent Borg Jensen , Ricarda M. Engberg , Anja Spang , 1 2 3 1 2 Ole Højberg , Gabriel Milinovich , Andreas Schramm , Peter Lund , Tim Urich* 1 2 Aarhus University / Department of Animal Science, Denmark, University of Vienna 3 /Department of Genetics in Ecology, Austria, Aarhus University / Department of Bioscience, Denmark 041B Metagenomic analysis of an Archaea-dominated subsurface biofilm 1 2 1 Alexander Probst* , Thomas Rattei , Christine Moissl-Eichinger 1 2 University of Regensburg, Germany, University of Vienna, Austria 042B Low-ammonia niche of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in a municipal wastewater treatment plant 1 2 3 1 Laura Sauder* , Francien Peterse , Stefan Schouten , Josh D. Neufeld 1 2 3 University of Waterloo, Canada, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands 043B The genome of the ammonia-oxidizing archaeon Nitrososphaera gargensis reveals unexpected metabolic versatility and unique adaptations to an extreme environment 1 2 1 3 4 Anja Spang* , Anja Poehlein , Pierre Offre , Sabine Zumbrägel , Susanne Haider , Elena V. 5 6 4 4 4 Lebedeva , Thomas Rattei , Christoph Böhm , Markus Schmid , Alexander Galushko , Rolf 2 1 3 3 4 Daniel , Christa Schleper , Eva Spieck , Wolfgang Streit , Michael Wagner 1 Department of Genetics in Ecology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria, 2 Laboratorium für Genomanalyse, Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany, 3 Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Abteilung für Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, Universität 4 Hamburg, Ohnhorststrasse 18, 22609 Hamburg, Germany, Department of Microbial Ecology 5 University of Vienna Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospect 60-let Oktyabrya 7/2, Moscow, 6 117312, Russia Department of Computational Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstr., 14, 1090, Austria 044B Methane production in hydrolectric reservoirs: methanogenic activity potential in brazilian river 1 1 Adriana Maria Torres Ballesteros* , Diego Armando Castillo Franco , Cristina Rossi 2 3 1 Nakayama , Artur Luiz da Costa da Silva , Vivian Helena Pellizari 1 2 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, 3 Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil 045B Distribution of metabolically active Archaea in the Guaymas basin cold seep sediments: evidence for anaerobic methanotrophic communities Adrien Vigneron*, Cruaud Perrine, Pignet Patricia, Caprais Jean-Claude, Godfroy Anne, Toffin Laurent IFREMER, France 67 PS11 – Archaea: Important players in diverse microbial ecosystems Tuesday 21 August 046B Intact polar lipids and gene expression to trace archaeal populations in the environment 1 2 2 2 3 Laura Villanueva* , Nicole Bale , Yvonne Lipsewers , Angela Pitcher , Laura Buckles , Johan 3 2 4 4 Weijers , Ellen Hopmans , Stefan Schouten , Jaap Sinninghe Damsté 1 2 Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands, Royal NIOZ, Netherlands, 3 4 University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Royal NIOZ/University of Utrecht, Netherlands 047B Archaea: important dwellers in a dark, oligotrophic karst cave, central China Hongmei Wang* China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China 048B Revealing the physiology, function and evolution of important archaeal groups in deepsea ecosystems Xiang Xiao*, Yu Zhang, Fengping Wang, Ying He, Jun Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 049B Systematic investigation on the environmental adaptation mechanism of the piezophilic and hyperthermophilic archaean Pyrococcus yayanosii CH1 Jun Xu*, Xuegong Li, Xinwei Yang, Lupeng Liu, Ying He, Fengping Wang, Xiang Xiao Shanghai JiaoTong University, China PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression: key functions in microbial communities 490B Insights into the nutritional ecology of gut microbes operating in a wild carnivore 1 2 3 4 5 María Alcaide López* , Enzo Messina , Jörg Peplies , Miguel A. Simón , Guillermo López , 6 7 Michail M. Yakimov , Manuel Ferrer 1 2 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain, Institute for Coastal Marine 3 4 Environment (IAMC), Italy, Ribocon GmbH, Germany, Environmental Council of the Regional 5 6 Government of Andalusia, Spain, Egmasa-Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Spain, Institute 7 for Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC) - CNR, Ireland, CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, Spain 491B Identification of novel glycoside hydrolases involved in lignocellulosic biomass degradation from a sugarcane field soil metagenome 1 1 1 Thabata Maria Alvarez* , Douglas Antônio Alvaredo Paixão , João Paulo Franco Cairo , 1 1 1 2 1 Fernanda Buchli , Isabela de Oliveira Pereira , Roberto Ruller , Rolf Prade , Fabio Squina 1 2 Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Brazil, Oklahoma State University, USA 492B Dynamic genomic content and expression of H2 oxidation genes in ubiquitous sulphuroxidizing bacteria in the deep sea 1 2 1 1 Karthik Anantharaman* , John Breier , Cody Sheik , Gregory Dick 1 2 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States 493B Changes in the Vibrio harveyi outer membrane subproteome and transcriptome during adaptation to cold seawater 1 1 1 1 1 Inés Arana* , Maite Orruño , Idoia Garaizabal , Claudia Parada , Itxaso Montánchez , 2 1 Vladimir Kaberdin , Isabel Barcina 1 2 Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Spain, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) and Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science), Spain 68 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 494B Bacterial laccases: from bioinformatics to function Luka Ausec*, Miha Črnigoj, Levin Pal, Vesna Jerman, Ines Mandic-Mulec University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Food Science and Technology, Slovenia 495B Genomic investigation of the ecological functioning of bacterial chitinases Yani Bai*, Eiko Kuramae, Wietse de Boer, Hans van Veen NIOO-KNAW, Netherlands 496B Bacterial response to antibiotics in experimental wetlands: fate of antibiotics, abundance and expression of resistance genes 1 2 2 1 Björn Berglund* , Ghazanfar Ali Khan , Jerker Fick , Per-Eric Lindgren 1 2 Linköping University, Sweden, Umeå University, Sweden 497B Investigation of a metagenomic library for aerobic toluene degradation genes 1 2 3 1 Emna Bouhajja* , George Isabelle , Mark R. Liles , Spirodon Agathos 1 2 3 Earth and Life Institute, Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Auburn University, United States 498B Analysis of the microbial nitrogen cycle in the Okavango basin of southern Africa for sustainable land use management Claudia Sofía Burbano*, Jann Lasse Grönemeyer, Thomas Hurek, Barbara Reinhold-Hurek Department of Microbe-Plant Interactions, University of Bremen, Germany 499B Fungal peroxidases and soil organic matter decomposition: are ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius species the key players? 1 1 2 1 1 Inga Bödeker* , Karina Clemmensen , Wietse deBoer , Åke Olson , Björn Lindahl 1 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/Department of Forest Mycology and Plant 2 Pathology, Sweden, NIOO-KNAW/Microbial Ecology, Netherlands 500B Function based screening of CO2 reducing enzymes by using metagenomic libraries from hydrothermal deep-sea systems Stefanie Böhnke*, Mirjam Perner University of Hamburg, Germany 501B Microbial ecology of Antarctic aquatic ecosystems determined using metagenomics and metaproteomics Ricardo Cavicchioli*, Federico M. Lauro, Matthew Z. DeMaere, Timothy Williams J., Mark V. Brown, Sheree Yau, David Wilkins The University of New South Wales, Australia 502B Antibiotic resistance in sedimentary denitrifying communities 1 1 1 1 2 Thibaut Cazier* , Chen Yan , Roose-Amsaleg Celine , Josette Garnier , Fabienne Petit , 2 1 Thierry Berthe , Anniet Laverman 1 2 UMR 7619 Sisyphe, University Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, France, UMR 6143 M2C, Université de Rouen, France 503B Chronic effect of sulfamethoxazole on methanogenic pathway 1 2 1 1 Zeynep Cetecioglu* , Bahar Ince , Derin Orhon , Orhan Ince 1 2 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Bogazici University, Turkey 504B Strategies for screening metagenomic libraries in multiple surrogate hosts Trevor Charles*, Jiujun Cheng, Kathy Lam, Katja Engel, Tanya Romantsov, Josh Neufeld University of Waterloo, Canada 69 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 505B Deciphering Functional Microbial Communities: From Community Omics to Single Organism Physiology Ludmila Chistoserdova*, Marina Kalyuzhnaya, Alexey Vorobev, David Beck, Ildar Mustakhimov, Janet Matsen, Nicole Smalley, Usanisa Setboonsarng, Mary Lidstrom University of Washington, United States 506B Gene expression and preservative efficacy studies of five lux-based E.coli biosensor strains using novel bioluminescent method Melissa Choong*, David Naseby University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 507B Responses of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers to copper stress in fluvo-aquic soil Jiulan Dai, Hua Liu, Xuekun Li*, Tianlin Shen, Lianxin Zhu, Renqing Wang Shandong University, China 508B Complete genome sequence of Methylocystis sp. strain SC2 and a comparative study among methanotroph genomes Bomba Dam, Somasri Dam, Werner Liesack* MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 509B Transcriptomic landscape of the coral holobiont in White Plague Disease Camille Daniels*, Manuel Aranda, Cornelia Roder, Chatchanit Arif, Christian Voolstra King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 510B Sequencing the active soil metagenome for assessing soil microbial functions using an integrated "Omics" approach 1 2 3 3 4 Maude M. David* , Emmanuel Prestat , Lydia Zeglin , Peter Bottomley , Robert Hettich , Ari 2 2 4 5 5 Jumpponen , Charles Rice , Manesh Shah , Susannah Tringe , Tijana Glavina del Rio , 4 3 1 Nathan Verberkmoes , David Myrold , Janet K. Jansson 1 2 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, Kansas State University, USA, Oregon State 4 5 University, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States, Joint Genome Institute, USA 511B Nitrogen fixation by symbiotic and biofilm-forming chemoautotrophs in dark, sulfidic caves Mahesh S Desai*, Karoline Assig, Sharmishtha Dattagupta University of Göttingen, Germany 512B Characterization of a new biosurfactant produced by a microorganism isolated from hydrocarbon-contaminated mangrove sediments 1 2 3 4 Daniela Domingos* , Bruna Dellagnezze , Suzan Vasconcellos , Itamar Melo , Valéria 2 Oliveira 1 2 Campinas State University , Brazil, Campinas State University - UNICAMP / Division of 3 4 Microbial Resources, Brazil, São Paulo Federal University - Unifesp, Brazil, Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research - EMBRAPA, Brazil 513B Metatranscriptome of the methanotrophic community in lake sediment obtained using RNA stable isotope probing 1 1 2 Marc Dumont* , Bianca Pommerenke , Peter Casper 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany 514B Comparative analysis of functional diversity along nutrient gradients in freshwater lakes and a comparison with marine environments 1 1 1 1 Alexander Eiler* , Katarzyna Zaremba , Siv GE Andersson , Stefan Bertilsson , Katherine D 2 3 McMahon , Ramunas Stepanauskas 1 2 3 Uppsala University, Sweden, University of Wisconsin, USA, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA 70 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 515B The integrase of Vibrio rotiferianus DAT722 is required for defence against protozoan grazing 1 2 1 2 1 Martina Erken , Rita Rapa , Peter D. Steinberg , Maurizio Labbate , Diane McDougald* 1 2 University of New South Wales, Australia, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 516B Active nitrogen fixing heterotrophic bacteria at and below the oxic-anoxic interface in the Baltic Sea 1 2 3 4 Hanna Farnelid* , Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia , Anders F. Andersson , Stefan Bertilsson , Günter 5 5 5 2 Jost , Matthias Labrenz , Klaus Jürgens , Lasse Riemann 1 2 3 Linnaeus University, Sweden, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, KTH Royal Institute of 4 5 Technology, Sweden, Uppsala University, Sweden, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Germany 517B Phylogenetic and functional analysis of a lignocellulose-degrading bacterial enrichment culture Babu Fathepure*, Madhu Prabhakaran, Brian Couger, Patricia Canaan, Rolf Prade Oklahoma State University, United States 518B Quantification of amoA transcriptional activity from bacterial and archaeal nitrificants in response to pesticide treatment 1 1 1 2 Louise Feld* , Morten Schostag Nielsen , Anders Risbjerg Johnsen , Regin Rønn , Carsten 1 Suhr Jacobsen 1 2 Geological survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 519B Mining the rumen microbiome for new lignocellulolytic bioactivities - a phage display approach 1 2 3 3 3 Dragana Gagic* , Ciric Milica , Christina Moon , Graeme Attwood , Sinead Leahy , Chris 4 5 Creevey , Jasna Rakonjac 1 2 AgResearch Limited, Grasslands Research Centre, New Zealand, Massey University/ 3 AgResearch Ltd, Grasslands Research Centre, New Zealand, AgResearch Ltd, Grasslands 4 Research Centre, New Zealand, Teagasc, Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation 5 Centre, Ireland, Massey University, Institute of Molecular BioSciences, New Zealand 520B Fast adaptive response of sediment microbial communities to an oil input Marisol Goni Urriza*, Sandrine Païssé, Thibault Stalder, Alicia Courtiès, Robert Duran Equipe Environnement et Microbiologie EEM-IPREM UMR 5254, Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France 521B Quantitative Detection of pcrA gene in Perchlorate Degradation with Different Actived Sludge System Xiangyu Guan*, Yuxuan Xie, Fei Liu China University of Geoscience, China 522B Diversity and functional capability of free-living N fixing bacteria in Southern Australian soils Vadakattu Gupta* CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia 523B Culturability and ecophysiology of marine microorganisms associated with a phytoplankton bloom Richard Hahnke*, Alexander Mann, Hanno Teeling, Christin Bennke, Bernhard Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Jens Harder Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 71 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 524B Deep branching monooxygenases in methanotrophic bacteria: function and diversity Stephanie Hainbuch*, Claudia Lüke, Peter Frenzel MPI for terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 525B Analysis of the amino acid residues in dockerin modules responsible for selective cohesin-dockerin interaction from Clostridium cellulovorans Sung Ok Han*, Sang Duck Jeon, Ji Eun Lee, Su Jung Kim, Ji Eun Joo Korea University, South Korea 526B In situ visualization and targeted identification of de novo synthesized proteins in uncultured microbes 1 1 1 1 Roland Hatzenpichler* , Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert , Brett Babin , John Bagert , Karuna 2 1 2 1 1 Chourey , Grayson Chadwick , Robert Hettich , David Tirrell , Victoria Orphan 1 2 California Institute of Technology, USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA 527B Genetic properties and antibiotic resistance of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from diarrhea patients Eun Seon Hur*, Po Hyun Park, Jong Hwa Kim, Jong Sung Son, Hee Jeong Yun, Yea Eun Lee, Yun Sook Choi, Mi Hye Yoon, Jong Bok Lee Gyeonggi Institute of Health and Environment, South Korea 528B DNA sorption blocker "G2" increase DNA recovery from subsoil clay sediment >1.000 times 1 2 Carsten Suhr Jacobsen , Jacob Bælum* 1 2 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, DTU, Novo-Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Denmark 529B Functional and taxonomic drivers of metagenome partitioning by substrate type 1 1 2 2 Thomas Jeffries* , Justin Seymour , Kelly Newton , Jim Mitchell 1 2 University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Flinders University, Australia 530B Analysis of the amino acid residues in dockerin modules responsible for selective cohesin-dockerin interaction from Clostridium cellulovorans Sangduck Jeon, Ji Eun Lee, Su Jung Kim, Ji Eun Joo, Sung Ok Han* Korea university, South Korea 531B Cellobiose-consuming microbes as a key to explaining variation of anaerobic end products in peatlands 1 2 1 3 Heli Juottonen* , Eeva-Stiina Tuittila , Kim Yrjälä , Hannu Fritze 1 2 3 University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Finland, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland 532B Quantification of resistance genes for last resort antibiotics from wastewater treatment plants Antti Karkman*, Susanna Pussila, Marko Virta University of Helsinki, Finland 533B Insight into norfloxacin resistance of Acinetobacter oleivorans DR1: target gene mutation, persister and RNA-seq analyses Jisun Kim*, Hoon Jung, Jaemin Noh, Woojun Park Korea University, South Korea 72 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 534B Fungal assimilatory nitrate reductases in agricultural soils 1 2 3 4 Sylvia Klaubauf* , Markus Gorfer , Marzena Blumhoff , Alexander Urban , Erich 5 6 6 6 5 Inselsbacher , Dragana Bandian , Birgit Mitter , Angela Sessitsch , Wolfgang Wanek , Joseph 2 Strauss 1 2 CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands, Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit 3 and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria, University of Natural 4 Resources and Life Sciences, Austria, Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, 5 Faculty Center for Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Austria, Department of Chemical Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Faculty Center for Ecology, University of 6 Vienna, Austria, Fungal Genetics and Genomics Unit, Bioresources Unit, AIT- Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria 535B Functional diversity in saline and hypersaline marine and freshwater environments 1 1 1 1 2 Alvaro Lafraya* , Mónica Martínez , María Alcalde , Rafael Bargiela , Tatyana N. Chernikova , 3 2 3 2 Violetta LaCono , Olga V. Golyshina , Michail M. Yakimov , Peter N. Golyshin , Manuel 1 Ferrer 1 2 CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, Spain, School of Biological Sciences, Bangor University, Wales, 3 Institute for Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC), Italy 536B From phylogeography to genetic determinism - attempts to link geographical origin of cowpea Bradyrhizobium populations with pedo-eco-climatic parameters and genetic potential 1 2 3 4 1 Antoine Le Quéré* , Marc Neyra , Jean-Paul Ambrosi , Diégane Diouf , Ibrahima Ndoye , 1 1 Elisabeth Navarro , Tatiana Krasova-Wade 1 Institut de Recherche pour le 2 3 4 Développement, France, Irstea, France, CNRS, France, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal 537B Amino acid substitutions in naphthalene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas sp. strain NCIB 9816-4 result in regio- and stereo-specific hydroxylation of flavanone and isoflavanone 1 1 2 3 4 Hyunji Lee* , Jiyoung Seo , Jaehong Han , Joong-Hoon Ahn , Michael J. Sadowsky , 3 1 Youhoon Chong , Hor-Gil Hur 1 2 Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), South Korea, Department of 3 Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, and Bio/Molecular Informatics Center, Konkuk University, South Korea, 4 Department of Soil, Water, and Climate; and BioTechnology Institute, University of Minnesota, USA 538B Effect of specific epm gene mutations on mature biofilm formation by Pseudomonas alkylphenolia Kyoung Lee*, Keun Soo Kim, Jin Il Sung Changwon National University, South Korea 539B Quantification and high-throughput sequencing of denitrification genes and transcripts from soils reveal active groups of denitrifiers and contribute to the understanding of high N2O emissions from low pH soils Binbin Liu*, Lars Bakken, Åsa Frostegård Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway 540B Shotgun sequencing of metatranscriptomes to analyze complex functional communities involved in waste valorization bioprocesses 1 2 3 3 Gregory Marandat* , Hugues Carlei , Sebastien Lacroix , Anne-Sophie Lepeuple , Jean4 4 Jacques Pernelle , Theodore Bouchez 1 2 AgroParisTech / IRSTEA-ANRT-VERI, France, AgroParisTech / IRSTEA-ADEME-VERI, 3 4 France, VERI, France, IRSTEA, France 73 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 541B Identification of new microbial enzymes from forest and marine ecosystems by a metagenomic approach Martin Marjolaine*, Vandenbol Micheline Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Belgium 542B Life on human surfaces: skin metagenomics 1 2 2 3 3 Alban Mathieu* , Tom C. Delmont , Timothy M. Vogel , Patrick Robe , Renaud Nalin , Pascal 2 Simonet 1 2 Environmental Microbial Genomics, Université de Lyon, France, Ecole Centrale of Lyon, 3 France, LibraGen, France 543B Diversification within major lineages of freshwater bacteria revealed by single cell comparative genomics and time-series metagenomics 1 1 1 2 Katherine McMahon* , Benjamin Crary , Trevor Ghylin , Leong-Keat Chan , Ramunas 3 2 4 4 Stepanauskas , Rex Malmstrom , Stefan Bertilsson , Siv Andersson 1 2 3 University of Wisconsin Madison, USA, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA, Bigelow 4 Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA, Uppsala University, Sweden 544B Detection of halometabolite producers in sponge-associated bacteria by a genetic approach Mohd Azrul Naim Mohamad*, Shaonan Zhou, Anne van Zon, Hauke Smidt, Sipkema Detmer Wageningen University, Netherlands 545B Deducing the role of reductive dehalogenase enzymes in mixed microbial cultures used for bioremediation of 1,1,2,2-terachloroethane Olivia Molenda*, Laura Hug, Marie Manchester University of Toronto, Canada 546B What About High Andean Forest Soils? Taxonomic and functional assignment of cloned sequences fron a metagenome Jose Salvador Montana Lara*, Diego Javier Jimenez Avella, Monica Hernandez, Tatiana Angel, Sandra Baena Garzon Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia 547B Rapid turnover and high variability of functional gene and transcript abundance in soils 1 2 Sergio Morales* , William Holben 1 2 University of Otago, New Zealand, University of Montana, United States 548B Assessing the gastrointestinal microbiome through metatranscriptomics in a large prospective cohort 1 1 1 2 2 Xochitl Morgan* , Nicola Segata , Joshua Reyes , Ashlee Earl , Georgia Giannoukos , Dawn 2 3 1 4 4 Ciulla , Jacques Izard , Wendy Garrett , Matthew Boylan , Andrew Chan , Curtis 1 Huttenhower 1 2 3 Harvard School of Public Health, USA, The Broad Institute, USA, The Forsythe Institute, 4 USA, Harvard Medical School, USA 549B A putative cognate long chain flavodoxin protects Pseudomonas aeruginosa from oxidative stress and plays an antimutator role 1 1 1 2 2 Alejandro Moyano , Yanina Rizzi , Romina Tobares , Adriana Krapp , Néstor Carrillo , Andrea 1 Smania* 1 CIQUIBIC-CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, 2 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, IBR-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina 550B Linking mixed microbial community phenotype to individual genotypes 1 2 1 1 1 Emilie Muller* , Nicolás Pinel , Patrick May , Hugo Roume , Paul Wilmes 1 2 LCSB / University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Institute for Systems Biology, United States 74 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 551B Growth and transcriptomic analysis of inorganic sulphur oxidation in the heterotrophic marine Roseobacter sp. MED193 Sarala Devi Muthusamy*, Federico Baltar, Jarone Pinhassi Linnaeus University, Sweden 552B Insights in the proteomics of triclosan degrading isolate Sphingopyxis sp. from activated sludge 1 1 1 2 1 Jeppe Lund Nielsen* , Ihab Lolas , Henrik Kjeldal , Heidi Gough , Allan Stensballe 1 2 Aalborg University, Denmark, University of Washington, United States 553B Genetic potential and expression dynamics during a pulsed-activity event (wet-up) in desert biological soil crust 1 1 1 1 1 Ulisses Nunes da Rocha , Niels J. Klitgord* , Lara Rajeev , Julyan Fortney , Seth Axen , 1 1 1 1 Nicholas J. Bouskill , Benjamin Bowen , Cheryl Kerfeld , Aindrila Mukhopadhyay , Ferran 2 1 1 Garcia-Pichel , Eoin L. Brodie , Trent R. Northen 1 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, Arizona State University, United States 554B Dissecting the functionality of the human microbiome: a "metaparental mating" approach for the facile recovery of genetically competent bacteria from the human gut 1 1 2 1 Paraic O Cuiv* , Wendy Smith , Charmaine Chew , Mark Morrison 1 2 CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia, University of Queensland, Australia 555B Horizontally acquired genes in marine Synechococcus confer a selective advantage during copper/oxidative stress 1 1 1 2 Brian Palenik* , Rhona Stuart , Bianca Brahamsha , Kayla Busby 1 2 University of California, San Diego-SIO, USA, University of California San Diego, USA 556B ATP-dependent RecG helicase functions in bacterial transcription Woojun Park* Korea University, South Korea 557B Responses of microbial functional groups to land use changes in Amazon Rainforest soils 1 2 3 4 4 4 Fabiana Paula , Jorge Rodrigues , Rebecca Mueller , Liyou Wu , Tong Yuan , Ye Deng , 4 3 5 6 1 Jizhong Zhou , Brendan Bohannan , Klaus Nusslein , James Tiedje , Vivian Pellizari* 1 2 Universidade de Sao Paulo/ Instituto Oceanografico, Brazil, University of Texas at Arlington/ 3 4 Department of Biology, USA, University of Oregon/ Department of Biology, USA, University 5 of Oklahoma/ Institute for Environmental Genomics, USA, University of Massachusetts 6 Amherst/ Department of Microbiology, USA, Michigan State University/ Center for Microbial Ecology, USA 558B A revised RNA and DNA co-extraction protocol for quantification of microbial gene expression from problematic soils and sediments 1 2 3 4 Mélanie M Paulin* , Mette H Nicolaisen , Carsten S Jacobsen , Anne Louise Gimsing , Jan 2 3 Sørensen , Jacob Bælum 1 2 Université de Moncton, Canada, Section of Genetics and Microbiology, Department of 3 Agriculture and Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, The 4 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, The Danish Environmental protection agency, Denmark 559B Nitrogen fixation in the unicellular chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris sp. HICR111A 1 1 1 2 1 Ulrike Pfreundt* , Remus Mohr , Björn Voß , Lucas J. Stal , Wolfgang R. Hess 1 2 Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institute for Biology, Germany, Department of Marine Microbiology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Netherlands 75 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 560B Growth efficiency and genome content distinguish the ecological strategies of bacteria Benjamin R. Roller*, Brian D. Klahn, Thomas M. Schmidt Michigan State University, United States 561B Effects of sediments, water, and land use patterns in shaping microbial community composition and functioning in urban freshwater system 1 1 1 1 Gourvendu Saxena* , Sheela Reuben , Kalyan Chakravarthy Mynampati , Niyang Nyi Nyi , 2 3 3 2 4 Yuting Liang , Daniela Drautz , Rohan Williams , Jizhong Zhou , Peter Steinberg , Staffan 3 5 6 7 1 Kjelleberg , Phanikumar Mantha , Stephan Schuster , Gary Andersen , Sanjay Swarup 1 2 3 National University of Singapore, Singapore, University of Oklahoma, USA, Nanyang 4 5 Technological University, Singapore, University of New South Wales, Australia, Michigan 6 7 State University, USA, Penn University, USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 562B Novel organization of hydrocarbon degradation pathways genes revealed in microbial community derived from Brazilian petroleum reservoirs through metagenomic analysis 1 1 2 Isabel Natalia Sierra García* , Javier Correa Alvarez , Suzan Pantaroto Vasconcellos , 3 1 1 Eugenio Vaz Santos Neto , Anete Pereira de Souza , Valéria Maia de Oliveira 1 2 3 Campinas State University, Brazil, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, PETROBRAS R&D Center, Brazil 563B Genome sequence of Lactobacillus pentosus KCA1 reveals novel genes for vaginal adaptation 1 2 2 1 Roland J. Siezen* , Jean M Macklaim , Gregory B Gloor , Jos Boekhorst , Sacha A.F.T. van 1 2 3 Hijum , Gregor Reid , Kingsley C. Anukam 1 Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Centre, 2 Netherlands, Canadian Research&Development Centre for Probiotics, Lawson Health 3 Research Institute, Canada, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, University of Benin, Nigeria 564B Prospecting new metagenomic carbohydrases for second generation bioethanol Elisângela Soares Gomes*, Gisele Regina Rodrigues, Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos State University of São Paulo “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Jaboticabal Campus (FCAV), Brazil 565B Cellulose expression by brown blotch-causing pseudomonads provides a fitness advantage during colonisation of Agaricus bisporus mushroom caps and under waterlimiting conditions Andrew Spiers*, Koza Anna University of Abertay Dundee, United Kingdom 566B Metatranscriptomic survey of a New Zealand geothermal spring identifies ecosystem functionality 1 2 3 2 Matthew Stott* , Jeff Lyford , Xochitl Morgan , Maqsudal Alam 1 2 3 GNS Science, New Zealand, University of Hawaii at Manoa, United States, Harvard University, United States 567B Screening of clones from the soil of Caatinga as producers of cellulolytic enzymes 1 2 1 2 3 Mírian Sáber , Daniela Domingos* , Vanessa Kavamura , Valéria Oliveira , Itamar Melo 1 2 São Paulo University - USP / ESALQ, Brazil, Campinas State University - UNICAMP / 3 Division of Microbial Resources, Brazil, Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research EMBRAPA, Brazil 568B Anaerobic biodegradation of aliphatic hydrocarbons by a methanogenic culture enriched from oil sands tailings Boonfei Tan*, Kathleen Semple, Julia Foght University of Alberta, Canada 76 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 569B Evaluation of metatranscriptomic protocols and application to the study of planktonic freshwater microbial communities Despina Tsementzi*, Rachel Poretsky, Luis M Rodriguez-R, Alex Luo, Konstantinos Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 570B Transcriptome analysis of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Paxillus involutus provide insights into the mechanisms of organic matter degradation 1 1 2 1 3 1 Anders Tunlid* , Francois Rineau , Doris Roth , Firoz Shah , Mark Smits , Tomas Johansson , 1 4 5 2 Björn Canbäck , Peter Bjarke Olsen , Per Persson , Morten Nedergaard Grell , Erika 6 6 2 Lindquist , Igor V. Grigoriev , Lene Lange 1 2 Lund University, Department of Biology, Sweden, Aalborg University, Department of 3 Biotechnology and Chemistry, Denmark, Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental 4 5 Sciences, Belgium, Novozymes, Denmark, Umeå University, Department of Chemistry, 6 Sweden, Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute, USA 571B One-year monitoring of subfamily I.2.C catechol 2,3-dioxygenase gene expression and microbial community dynamics in hypoxic, aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated groundwater 1 1 1 1 1 András Táncsics* , Milán Farkas , Balázs Kovács , Sándor Szoboszlay , István Szabó , 1 2 1 József Kukolya , Balázs Vajna , Balázs Kriszt 1 2 Szent István University, Hungary, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 572B Comparison of three genes encoders lipoxygenases from Shewanella woodyi strain DSM 12036 1 2 Silvana Pompeia Val-Moraes* , Eliamar Aparecida Nascimbém Pedrinho , Eliana Gertrudes 2 3 3 4 Macedo Lemos , Ignacio Fita , Xavi Carpena , Maria Angeles Manresa 1 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP FCAV), 3 4 Brazil, Institute de Biologia Molecular (IBMB-CSIC), Espana, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Espana 573B Methane oxidizing bacteria are adaptable to increasing ammonium load David van der Ha, Dorien Gorteman, Adrian Ho*, Nico Boon Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Belgium 574B Functional screening of the Zenne river: discovery of a new β-lactamase 1 2 1 Ken Vercammen* , Tamara Garcia-Armisen , Pierre Cornelis 1 2 Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, ULB, Belgium 575B Uncovering the diversity and structure of anaerobic hydrocarbon degrader communities with enhanced assays for fumarate-adding enzymes 1 1 2 3 Frederick von Netzer* , Giovanni Pilloni , Friederike Gründger , Sara Kleindienst , Martin 2 3 1 Krüger , Katrin Knittel , Tillmann Lueders 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Germany, Federal Institute 3 for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Geomicrobiology, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Dept. Molecular Ecology, Germany 576B Distribution of a sulfur oxidizing bacterium Sulfuricella denitrificans and proteomic insights into cold adaptation Tomohiro Watanabe*, Hisaya Kojima, Manabu Fukui The Institute of Low temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan 577B Effect of antibiotic use in dairy production on antibiotic resistance levels and microbial communities in manure 1 2 1 Fabienne Wichmann* , Sheila Andrew , Jo Handelsman 1 2 Yale University, USA, University of Connecticut, USA 77 PS12 – Genetic Potential and Expression Tuesday 21 August 578B Community proteomic analysis of syntrophic terephthalate-degrading biofilm using two dimensional HPLC-high resolution mass spectrometry Jer-Horng Wu*, Feng-Yau Wu, Yun-Chiao Chou, Shu-Hui Chen, Hung-Jen Huang National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 579B Interactive effects of clipping and warming on functional genes of soil microbial communities involved in carbon and nitrogen cycles in a tallgrass prairie 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Kai Xue* , Jianping Xie , Ye Deng , Liyou Wu , Zhili He , Joy Nostrand , Yiqi Luo , Jizhong 1 Zhou 1 2 Institue for environmental genomics, United States, University of Oklahoma, United States 580B Impacts of CO2 concentration, N deposition and plant diversity on soil microbial community 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 Kai Xue* , Zhili He , Liyou Wu , Ye Deng , Joy Nostrand , Sarah Hobbie , Peter Reich , 1 Jizhong Zhou 1 2 Institue for environmental genomics, United States, University of Minnesota, United States 581B Cloning of specific genes involved in the biodegradation of aromatic compounds through classical and innovative metagenomic approaches 1 1 1 1 1 Jun Yuan* , Laure Franqueville , Samuel Jacquiod , Nathalie Lombard , Tom Delmont , 2 3 4 1 Xiaojun Zhang , Laurent Philippot , Jean-Claude Lazzaroni , Pascal Simonet 1 2 3 Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China, INRA/University of 4 Burgundy, France, Université de Lyon, France 582B DNA-SIP to characterize microbial community involved in toluene degradation in oil sand tailings enrichment cultures Saima Zamir, Julia Foght, Tariq Siddique* University of Alberta, Canada 583B Competitive gene regulation model for XylR/DmpR regulator of the NtrC family Dayi Zhang*, Wei E. Huang The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 584B Feedback mechanisms of carbon-cycle to climate warming mediated by microbes 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Jizhong Zhou* , Kai Xue , Jianping Xie , Ye Deng , Liyou Wu , Zhili He , Joy Nosstrand , Yiqi 2 Luo 1 2 Institute for environmental genomics, United States, University of Oklahoma, United States PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities 386B Enrichment culture of bacteria to cleanup perchlorate-contaminated alluvial aquifer in estuary Yeonghee Ahn*, Tae-hee Kim Dong-A Univ., South Korea 387B Investigation of bacteria from composting of "Fundação Parque Zoológicode São Paulo", using octanoic acid as carbon source for produce PHAmcl Vitor B. Ferrari, Leonardo Jun Otuayama, Bruna N. Buscariollo*, Marília Tâmisa Araújo Quintino, Alyne Marrem, Maria Aparecida Juliano, Luiz Juliano Neto, Patrícia Locosque Ramos, Suzan Pantaroto Vasconcellos, Rafael C. S. Rocha Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP, Brazil 78 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 388B The impact of solid retention time on bacterial community diversity in laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors: revealed by 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing Samik Bagchi*, Berenice Garcia Tellez, Hari Anandarao, Pascal Saikaly King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 390B Metaproteomic and metagenomic characterisation of floccular and granular phosphorus removal biofilms 1 2 3 4 5 Jeremy Barr* , Bas Dutilh , Andrew Cook , Toshikazu Fukushima , Marcus Hastie , Jeffery 5 6 6 3 3 Gorman , Chongle Pan , Robert Hettich , Gene Tyson , Philip Bond 1 2 San Diego State University, United States, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen 3 Medical Centre, Netherlands, The University of Queensland, Advanced Water Management 4 Centre (AWMC), Australia, Division of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, 5 Japan, Protein Discovery Centre, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), 6 Australia, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, United States 391B Acetoclastic methanogenesis in a microbial community associated with a subbituminous coal seam in NSW, Australia Sabrina Beckmann*, John Webster, Torsten Thomas, Michael Manefield University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia 392B Interactions between autochthonous microbial community and invading microbial strains in biofilm Micol Bellucci*, Kim Milferstedt, Renaud Escudié, Gaëlle Gévaudan, Nicolas Bernet, JeanJacques Godon, Jean-Philippe Steyer, Jérôme Harmand INRA-Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, France 393B Efficient nitrifying bioreactors operated at extremely low dissolved oxygen concentrations produce low N2O emissions 1 2 2 2 2 Micol Bellucci* , Tomoko Yamamoto , Shohei Riya , Shohei Mizuma , Ryo Kanai , Kohei 2 2 3 2 2 Kamimura , Keisuke Hojo , Thomas Peter Curtis , Masaaki Hosomi , Akihiko Terada 1 2 INRA-Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, France, Tokyo University of 3 Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 394B Correlation of enterococci community structure to microbial and physico-chemical parameters in surface water in the North West Province, South Africa Carlos Bezuidenhout, Lesego Molale* North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa 395B Anaerobic microbial community response to crude oil spill in the marsh sediments of southeast Louisiana Raj Boopathy* Nicholls State University, United States 396B Microbial population dynamics in groundwater and surrogate sediments during HRC biostimulation for Cr(VI)-reduction 1 1 2 3 4 Kara Bowen De Leon* , B. D. Ramsay , D. R. Newcomer , B. Faybishenko , T. C. Hazen , M. 1 W. Fields 1 2 Montana State University, United States, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United 3 4 States, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States 397B Insights into the diversity of iron depositing biofilms in technical water systems Burga Braun*, Josephin Schröder, Ulrich Szewzyk Berlin University of Technology, Germany ® 79 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 398B Similar organic micropollutants fate in anaerobic mesophilic digesters fed with the same contaminated sludge but exhibiting different microbial populations and different metabolisms Florence Braun*, Jerome Hamelin, Anais Bonnafous, Jean-philippe Steyer, Dominique Patureau INRA, France 399B Marine biofilm communities colonizing antifouling paints in the Mediterranean Sea 1 2 3 4 5 Jean-François Briand* , Mercedes Camps , Gérald Gregori , Agnès Bouchez , Aude Barani , 4 2 2 Brigitte Le Berre , Christine Bressy , Yves Blache 1 2 3 MAPIEM - Universite Sud-Toulon Var, France, Universite Sud-Toulon Var, France, CNRS, 4 5 France, INRA, France, Aix-Marseille University, France 400B Isolation and identification of microbial species native to an oil sands tailings pond and capable of degrading oil sands process-affected water acid-extractable organics Lisa Brown*, Elena Dlusskaya, Ania Ulrich University of Alberta, Canada 401B Seasonal variability of microorganisms in different sources and water storage areas in the same town M. Angeles Calvo*, Esteban Leonardo Arosemena, Judith Pérez, Laura Corbella, Alex Rodríguez, Gisela Girmé, Eduard Grau, Jana Cantavella, Judit Fuentes, Montserrat Mora Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain 402B Selective enrichment of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria producing storage compounds of biotechnological relevance 1 2 2 2 2 Rita Castro* , Paulo Castro , Madalena Alves , Isabel Rocha , Maria Alcina Pereira 1 2 University of Minho, Portugal, University of Minho / Institute for Biotechnology and Bioegineering, Portugal 403B Microbial communities involved in the corrosion of concrete sewer infrastructure 1 2 2 1 Barry Cayford* , Paul Dennis , Gene Tyson , Phil Bond 1 2 Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia, Australian Centre for Ecogenomics and Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia 404B Tracking the survival of bacteria exposed to monochloramine disinfection in drinking water treated by a biologically active filter Tara Clancy*, Tzu-Hsin Chiao, Ameet Pinto, Chuanwu Xi, Lutgarde Raskin University of Michigan, United States 405B Response of the bacteria community and the IncP1 mobilome to linuron in on farm biopurification systems treating pesticide contaminated wastewater 1 1 1 2 2 Simone Dealtry* , Viola Weichelt , Holger Heuer , Vincent Dunon , Dirk Springael , Kornelia 1 Smalla 1 2 Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany, KU Leuven, Belgium 406B Gut microbiota dominated by Enterobacter spp. in a morbidly obese patient Na Fei*, Shuiming Xiao, Jian Shen, Xiaoyan Pang, Linghua Wang, Menghui Zhang, Xiaojun Zhang, Liping Zhao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 407B Use of an aerobic selector to overcome filamentous bulking in activated sludge Vânia Ferreira*, Catarina Martins, Maria Olívia Pereira, Ana Nicolau University of Minho / IBB, Portugal 80 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 408B Characterising the physical structure and microbial community structure of drinking water biofilms 1 1 2 1 Katherine Fish* , Isabel Douterelo , A. Mark Osborn , Joby Boxall 1 2 The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, The University of Hull, United Kingdom 409B Study of encystment and resistance to disinfection treatments of Hartmannella, a freeliving amoebae 1 2 2 3 Emilie Fouque* , Marie-Cécile Trouilhé , Philippe Humeau , Philippe Hartemann , Vincent 4 5 Thomas , Yann Héchard 1 2 3 CSTB, France, Centre scientifique et technique du bâtiment, France, University of 4 5 Lorraine, France, STERIS R&D, France, University of Poitiers, France 410B Impact of an inoculation step on the start-up phase of a novel MBBR autotrophic N removal process Gilberte Gaval* Veolia Environment Research and Innovation, France 411B Chloroflexi in methanogenic crude oil degrading systems 1 2 2 2 2 2 Russell Grant* , A. Sherry , C. M. Aitken , D. M. Jones , N. D. Gray , B. F. J Bowler , S. R. 3 2 Larter , I. M. Head 1 2 3 University of York, United Kingdom, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, University of Calgary, Canada 412B Use of microorganisms in sustainable water treatment for horticultural production: the case of constructed wetlands 1 2 3 4 Nicolas Gruyer* , Martine Dorais , Gérald J. Zagury , Beatrix W. Alsanius 1 2 Agriculture and Agrifood Canada / Laval University, Canada, Agriculture and Agrifood, 3 Canada, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, École Polytechnique de 4 Montréal, Canada, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Horticulture, Microbial Horticulture Laboratory, Sweden 413B Stability assessment of the microbial community in a wastewater treatment plant via correlation analysis 1 1 1 2 Susanne Günther* , Christin Koch , Thomas Hübschmann , Isolde Röske , Roland Arno 1 2 1 1 Müller , Thomas Bley , Hauke Harms , Susann Müller 1 2 Helmhotz-Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, University of Technology, Germany 414B Long-term preservation of key players of nitrogen and carbon cycles 1 1 2 3 2 Kim Heylen* , Sven Hoefman , Eva Spieck , Boran Kartal , Andreas Pommerening-Roeser , 3 1 1 Katharina Ettwig , Bram Vekeman , Paul De Vos 1 2 3 Ghent University, Belgium, Hamburg University, Germany, Radboud University, Netherlands 415B Optimisation of total protein extraction and sample preparation for the metaproteomic analysis of complex microbial communities by tandem mass spectrometry Susan Hove Jensen*, Per Halkjær Nielsen, Allan Stensballe Aalborg University, Denmark 416B Effect of a hyperthermophilic pre-treatment on nitrous oxide emission - pattern and population dynamics of nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria during composting of swine waste Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo*, Erika Shindo, Keisuke Miyauchi, Ginro Endo Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan 417B Managing microbial life by a novel bioreactor equipped with a microbubble generator by an oscillating porous board 1 1 2 1 Tsukasa Ito* , Tomo Kubota , Seichin Kinuta , Kenji Amagai 1 2 Gunma University, Japan, Optnics Precision Co.,ltd., Japan 81 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 418B Limitation of short solid retention time operation in an inclined plate membrane bioreactor and effect on microbial community and activity Suda Ittisupornrat*, Tomohiro Tobino, Kyoungjin An, Kazuo Yamamoto The University of Tokyo, Japan 419B Assessment of methods for measuring biocorrosion of carbon steel and comparison of corrosion capabilities between two species Desulfovibrio Crystal Johnson*, Heather Drilling, Bradley Stevenson, Paul Lawson Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and OU Biocorrosion Center, University of Oklahoma, USA 420B Large-scale production of a mixed culture of sulfate reducing bacteria for bioremediation of acid mine drainage Carl Johnston, Douglas Schell*, Daniel Lisko Youngstown State University, USA 421B Detection of aquatic Streptomyces by quantitative PCR for monitoring of taste-andodour episodes in water reservoirs 1 1 1 2 Niels O. G. Jorgensen* , Jeanette E. Lylloff , Maria H. Mogensen , Michele Burford , Louise 3 Schlüter 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Department of Agriculture & Ecology, Denmark, Australian 3 Riverine Institute, Griffith University, Australia, Carbon 14 Agency, DHI Group, Denmark 422B Physico-chemical and microbiological monitoring of three biotrickling filters dedicated for the treatment of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) Marc Jovic*, Nathalie Brack, Cécile Rouillon, Isabelle Charron, Philippe Zozor, Christophe Renner, Anne-Sophie Lepeuple Veolia Environnement Recherche & Innovation, France 423B Role of Hyphomicrobium-like bacteria associated with granular activated carbon filter in drinking water purification process in the removal of assimilable organic carbon Ikuro Kasuga*, Suwat Soonglerdsongpha, Yukihiro Osaka, Futoshi Kurisu, Hiroaki Furumai The University of Tokyo, Japan 424B Hydrolytic community development in low temperature anaerobic bioreactors treating synthetic sewage Ciara Keating*, Denise Cysneiros, Dermot Hughes, Therese Mahony, Vincent O'Flaherty National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 425B Quantitative proteomic analysis of ibuprofen-degrading Patulibacter sp. strain I11 1 2 1 1 2 Henrik Kjeldal* , Barbara Almeida , Ihab Lolas , Anders Dahl Knudsen , Gilda Carvalho , Kåre 1 2 1 Lehmann Nielsen , Maria Teresa Barreto Crespo , Jeppe Lund Nielsen 1 2 Aalborg University, Denmark, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal 426B Bacterial biofilm communities enhance the degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediment 1 1 1 1 2 Birthe Venoe Kjellerup* , Sarah Edwards , Chiara Draghi , Emily Balbier , Kevin Sowers 1 2 Goucher College, United States, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States 427B Impact of temperature variations on bacterial population involved in MBBR autotrophic N-removal process 1 1 1 1 1 Sébastien Lacroix* , Gilberte Gaval , Régis Gagneux , Mickael Samspon , Estelle Gonidec , 2 1 1 Romain LEMAIRE , Juan-Carlos Ochoa , Anne-Sophie LEPEUPLE 1 2 Veolia Environnement Research and Innovation, France, Veolia Water, France 82 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 428B Molecular Characterization of PHA-Storing Microorganisms in Feast and Famine Selection Sébastien Lacroix, Aude Fourçans*, Elise Blanchet, Maria Albuquerque, Olivier Ropars, Nathalie Brack, Cécile Rouillon, Nassima Bouabida, Dores Cirne, Anne-Sophie Lepeuple Veolia Environnement Recherche et Innovation, France 429B Biostimulation of pesticide degradation in groundwater aquifers with addition of oxygen at different concentrations Suzi Levi*, Pou L. Bjerg, Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen Technical University of Denmark, Environment, Denmark 430B T-RFLP and Pyrosequencing Approach to Clarify Bacterial Groups that Affects Dewaterability of Activated Sludge Ning Li*, Hiroyasu Satoh, Takashi Mino Department of Socio-cultural and Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan 431B Strategies for the management of surface microbial communities based on volatile compounds and visible light 1 1 2 3 Stefan Liebminger* , Tomislav Cernava , Lisa Oberauner , Michael Fürnkranz , Massimiliano 3 3 Cardinale , Gabriele Berg 1 2 3 RCPE GmbH, Austria, ACIB GmbH, Austria, Graz, University of Technology / Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Austria 432B Long-term microbial community dynamics in a full scale biogas plant Rico Lucas*, Daniel Beyer, Anne Brandt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Germany 433B The bacterial and archaeal demographics of farm wastes bioreactors 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 Terence Marsh* , F. Yang , R. Rossi , Z. Yue , R. Chen , J. M. MacLellan , W. Liao 1 2 Michigan State University, USA, Hefei University of Technology, China 434B Synthetic ecosystem engineering for improved microbial consortia design 1 2 1 Michael Mee* , Harris Wang , George Church 1 2 Harvard Medical School, United States, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, USA 435B Disturbances as lever for managing biofilm morphology and community structure Kim Milferstedt*, Gaëlle Santa-Catalina, Renaud Escudié, Jean-Jacques Godon, Nicolas Bernet INRA-LBE, France 436B How to choose the best inoculum for starting an anaerobic digester? Kim Milferstedt*, Aline Sandré, Jérôme Hamelin, Jean-Jacques Godon INRA-LBE, France 437B Biopolymers productions by mixed aerobic cultures using crude glycerol as feedstock Rita Moita Fidalgo*, Paulo Costa Lemos Requimte, FCT/UNL, Portugal 83 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 438B Distinct and complex microbial communities in water-phase and biofilms of a wastewater bioreactor as revealed by barcoded 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing 1 2 3 3 Jose A. Morillo-Perez* , Desiree Villahermosa , Juan M. González , Maximino Piñeiro-Vidal , 2 4 5 5 Emilio García-Robledo , Sokratis Papaspyrou , Waleed A. Al-Soud , Søren J. Sørensen , 1 6 2 Jesus González-López , Hauke Smidt , Alfonso Corzo 1 Water Research Institute, Department of Microbiology, University of Granada, Spain, 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cadiz, 3 4 Spain, Institute for Natural Resources and Agrobiology, IRNAS-CSIC, Spain, Institute for 5 Marine Science of Andalusia, ICMAN-CSIC, Spain, Department of Biology, Unversity of 6 Copenhagen, Denmark, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Netherlands 439B Architecture evolution of biomass aggregates in single stage nitritation/anammox reactors 1 2 3 3 A. Gizem Mutlu* , Anna Katrine Vangsgaard , Marlene Mark Jensen , Barth F. Smets 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, DTU Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 3 Denmark, DTU Environmental Engineering, Denmark 440B Monitoring the changes in marine aquaculture environment associated with the emergence of antibiotic resistance genes 1 1 2 3 4 Windi Muziasari* , Äntti Karkman , Manu Tamminen , Satoshi Managaki , Ogo Mitsuko , 4 1 Satoru Suzuki , Marko Virta 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of 3 4 Technology, USA, Yokohama National University, Japan, Ehime University, Japan 441B Optimization of the attachment of bacteria on inert or biodegradable supports for environmental applications Vizma Nikolajeva*, Zaiga Petrina, Tatjana Griba, Katrina Potapova, Andrejs Berzins, Olga Muter University of Latvia, Latvia 442B Evaluation of the microbial diversity in the São Paulo´s Zoo Park Foundation to obtain polyhydroxyalkanoates 1 1 1 2 Bruna Nunes Buscariollo* , Vitor Ferrari , Leonardo Jun Otuyama , João Batista Cruz , José 3 1 1 1 G. C. Gomez , Suzan P. Vasconcellos , Patrícia L. Ramos , Luiz Juliano Neto , Rafael C. S. 1 Rocha 1 2 Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP, Brazil, São Paulo´s Zoo Park Foundation, 3 Brazil, University of São Paulo - USP, Brazil 443B Comparative community genomics of San Juan basin coal beds 1 1 1 1 1 Antoine Pagé* , Young Song , Charles Howes , Eugene Kuatsjah , Nicole Sukdeo , Brad 2 3 1 Huizinga , Dariusz Strapoc , Steven Hallam 1 2 3 University of British Columbia, Canada, ConocoPhillips Corporation, USA, Dariusz BioGeoChem LLC, USA 444B Proteolytic screening of isolated microorganisms from the composting process adopted at São Paulo Zoo Park Foundation 1 2 2 Suzan Pantaroto de Vasconcellos* , Marghuel A. Silveira , Rafael Costa Santos Rocha , 2 3 2 2 Débora Okamoto , João Batista Cruz , Maria Helena S. Cezari , Luiz Juliano Neto , 1 2 3 Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil, UNIFESP, Brazil, São Paulo Zoo Park Foundation, Brazil 445B In-situ microbial activity in membrane-aerated biofilms performing autotrophic nitrogen conversion Carles Pellicer*, Carlos Domingo, Barth F. Smets DTU Environment, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 84 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 446B Response of pig slurry sulphate-reducing community to additions of sulphate and volatile fatty acids Pascal Peu*, Anne-Marie Pourcher, Patrick Dabert IRSTEA, France 447B Enhanced natural attenuation of contaminated aquifers with iron oxide nanoparticles 1 1 2 1 3 Giovanni Pilloni* , Carolin Meyer , Armin Meyer , Julian Bosch , Sebastian Höss , Heinrich 2 1 1 Eisenmann , Rainer Meckenstock , Tillmann Lueders 1 2 3 Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany, Isodetect GmbH, Germany, Ecossa, Germany 448B Rpf protein from Tomitella biformata AHU 1821 increase the number of cultivable bacteria from permafrost ice wedge 1 1 2 1 1 Indun Dewi Puspita* , Moe Uehara , Taiki Katayama , Michiko Tanaka , Wataru Kitagawa , 3 1 1 Cindy H. Nakatsu , Yoichi Kamagata , Kozo Asano 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and 3 Technology, Japan, Purdue University, United States 449B Evaluation of the lipolytic activity of isolated microorganisms arising from composting process of the São Paulo Zoo 1 2 2 Patricia Locosque Ramos , Bruna Carolina Borim , Marghuel A. Silveira , Rafael Costa 2 2 3 2 Santos Rocha , Bruna Nunes Buscariollo , João Batista Cruz , Luiz Juliano Neto , Suzan 2 Pantaroto de Vasconcellos* 1 2 3 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, Unifesp, Brazil, SPZFP, Brazil 450B Functional microbial communities involved in glucose and xylose fermentation: influence of pH 1 1 1 1 1 Charlotte Richard* , Thomas Labatut , Angeline Guenne , Celine Madigou , Laurent Mazeas , 2 1 Marielle Bouix , Theodore Bouchez 1 2 Irstea, France, AgroParisTech, France 451B Methanotrophic bacteria in oilsands tailings ponds of northern Alberta Ali Saidi-Mehrabad, Zhiguo He, Ivica Tamas, Christine Sharp*, Allyson Brady, Peter Dunfield University of Calgary, Canada 452B Metaproteogenomic insights beyond bacterial response to naphthalene exposure and bio-stimulation 1 2 1 3 4 3 Jana Seifert* , M.e. Guazzaroni , F.a. Herbst , I. Lores , J. Tamames , A.i. Peláez , M. 2 2 1 5 2 6 Alcaide , M.v. del Pozo , M. von Bergen , J.l.r. Gallego , R. Bargiela , D.h. Pieper , R. 7 3 2 Rosselló-Móra , J. Sánchez , M. Ferrer 1 2 UFZ-Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Germany, CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, 3 4 Spain, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, CSIC, Centro Nacional de 5 Biotecnología, Spain, Área de Prospección e Investigación Minera, Universidad de 6 7 Oviedo, Spain, HZI-Helmholtz Center for Infection Disease, Germany, CSIC-UIB, Spain 453B How immigration might alleviate the effects of an influenza pandemic: a freshwater microbiology story 1 2 3 1 4 1 Andrew Singer* , Katja Lehmann , Thomas Bell , Michael Bowes , David Bass , Dawn Field 1 2 NERC - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, United 3 4 Kingdom, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom 454B Bioremediation of petrolium contaminated soil Dr. Padma Singh*, Richa Saini, Shreyasri Dutta Gurukul Kangri University, India T 85 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 455B Microbiomics towards improved intestinal health and function in monogastric farm animals Hauke Smidt* Wageningen University, Netherlands 456B Variance calculations for quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction experiments with multiple levels of replication 1 1 2 1 Susana Soto Rojo* , Gary Glonek , Cecilia Demergasso , Patricia Solomon 1 2 The University of Adelaide, Australia, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile 457B A novel direct rRNA quantitative detection method using molecular weight cut-off membrane 1 2 1 1 Yasuyuki Takemura* , Yuji Sekiguchi , Hideki Harada , Kengo Kubota 1 2 Tohoku University, Japan, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 458B Egalitarianism in biofilms Yu Tao*, Dawen Gao, Yuan Fu, Haoyu Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, China 459B A novel method to characterize biodegradable organic matter in reclaimed water using bacterial growth fingerprint Parinda Thayanukul*, Futoshi Kurisu, Ikuro Kasuga, Hiroaki Furumai The University of Tokyo, Japan 460B Seasonal variation of fecal indicators in a drinking water reservoir 1 1 1 2 1 Hsin-hsin Tung* , Chia-Chen Wu , Hao-Yu Lo , Yung-Hao Ching , Pei-Te Chiueh 1 2 National Taiwan University / Inst Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan 461B Impacts of Oxytetracycline on Performance of Thermophilic Anaerobic Manure Digesters and Active Microbial Population 1 2 2 1 1 Gokhan Turker* , Orhan Ince , Fulya Suzen , Emine Ertekin , Bahar Ince 1 2 Bogazici University, Turkey, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 462B Biofilm based bioaugmentation strategies for the treatment of pesticide waste streams Pieter Verhagen*, Leen De Gelder, Nico Boon University College Ghent, Belgium 463B Changes of gut microbiota associated with obesity, insulin resistance and inflammation in high fat diet-fed mice 1 2 2 3 3 3 Jingjing Wang* , Hang Tang , Chenhong Zhang , Yufeng Zhao , Liping Zhao , Jian Shen 1 State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Key Laboratory of MOE for Microbial metabolism and 3 School of Life Science & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 464B A gut microbiota-targeted, dietary intervention for amelioration of chronic inflammation underlying metabolic syndrome Shuiming Xiao*, Na Fei, Xiaoyan Pang, Jian Shen, Linghua Wang, Baorang Zhang, Menghui Zhang, Xiaojun Zhang, Chenhong Zhang, Min Li, Zhengsheng Xue, Jingjing Wang, Jie Feng, Jiaqi Liu, Wenmin Long, Liping Zhao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 465B Elucidating nitrous oxide formation pathways in a nitrifying bioreactor towards nitrification: the effect of dissolved oxygen 1 1 1 1 1 Tomoko Yamamoto* , Keisuke Hojo , Micil Bellucci , Megumi Kuroiwa , Kazuo Isobe , Chie 2 1 1 2 1 1 Katsuyama , Sheng Zhou , Masaaki Hosomi , Yuichi Suwa , Keisuke Koba , Akihiko Terada 1 2 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, Chuo University, Japan 86 PS13 – Managing Microbial Communities Tuesday 21 August 466B Convergent development of anodic bacterial communities in microbial fuel cells 1 1 1 2 2 Matthew Yates* , Patrick Kiely , Douglas Call , Hamid Rismani-Yadzi , Kyle Bibby , Jordan 2 1 1 Peccia , John Regan , Bruce Logan 1 2 Pennsylvania State University, United States, Yale University, United States 467B Enhanced rate of fungal biodegradation of polyurethane and a study of fungal colonial succession under composting conditions 1 2 1 Urooj Zafar* , Alan Heyworth , Geoff Robson 1 2 University of Manchester, United Kingdom, The TEG Group plc, Westmarch House, 42 Eaton Avenue, Buckshaw Village, Chorley, United Kingdom 468B Structural changes of gut microbiota during berberine-mediated prevention of obesity and insulin resistance in high-fat diet-fed rats 1 2 1 1 1 2 Xu Zhang* , Yufeng Zhao , Menghui Zhang , Xiaoyan Pang , Jia Xu , Chaoying Kang , Meng 2 1 3 3 3 3 1 Li , Chenhong Zhang , Zhiguo Zhang , Yifei Zhang , Xiaoying Li , Guang Ning , Liping Zhao 1 State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai 3 Jiao Tong University, China, Shanghai Clinical Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases and Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Rui Jin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity: 16S and Beyond - Main Authors D – M 248B Analyzing microbial diversity using the metagenomics tools of BioNumerics® Katrien De Bruyne, Johan Goris, Katleen Vranckx*, Hannes Pousseele, Koen Janssens Applied Maths NV, Belgium 249B Metagenomics for practical management of microbial drinking water quality Aleida de Vos van Steenwijk*, Janneke Krooneman, Bert Geurkink, Gijs Faber, Inez Dinkla Bioclear, Netherlands 250B Microbiome of Brazilian mangrove sediments as revealed by metagenomics 1 2 2 3 Armando Dias* , Diego Javier Jiménez , Diego Chaves , Danice Mazzer Luvizotto , Francisco 3 3 3 4 Dini-Andreote , Cristiane Cipola Fasanella , Maryeimy Varon Lopez , Sandra Baena , Rodrigo 5 5 3 Gouvêa Taketani , Itamar Soares Melo , Fernando Dini Andreote 1 2 University São Paulo - USP, Brazil, Colombian Corporation of Agricultural Research 3 (CORPOICA), Colombia, Department of Soil Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of 4 Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Colombian Center for Genomic and 5 Bioinformatics from Extreme Environments (GeBiX), Colombia, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, EMBRAPA Environment, Brazil, Brazil 251B Consequences of agricultural land use in semi-arid ecosystems for soil bacterial diversity revealed by genetic profiling of 16S rRNA genes 1 2 1 1 3 Guo-chun Ding* , Yvette Piceno , Nicole Weinert , Holger Heuer , Anja Dohrmann , Angel 4 4 3 1 Carrillo , Thema Castellanos , Christoph Tebbe , Kornelia Smalla 1 2 3 Julius Kühn-Institut, Germany, Earth Sciences Division, USA, Biodiversity, Johann Heinrich 4 von Thünen Institute, Germany, Centro de Investigaciones biologicas del Noroeste, Mexico 252B Restoration process of a coal mining soil influences microbial community diversity, abundance, and composition 1 2 2 2 Patricia Dorr de Quadros* , Kateryna Zhalnina , Austin Davis-Richardson , Jennie Fagen , 1 2 Flavio Camargo , Eric Triplett 1 2 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, University of Florida, United States 87 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 253B Pyrosequencing analysis of bacterial community structure in an experimental drinking water distribution system Isabel Douterelo*, Rebecca Sharpe, Katherine Fish, Joby Boxall The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom 254B Microbial methane oxidation in livestock slurry surface crusts: community structure and inhibition by N species 1 2 1 1 Yunfeng Duan* , Nico Boon , Lars Elsgaard , Søren O. Petersen 1 2 Aarhus University, Denmark, Ghent University, Belgium 255B Deep into the bacterial communities living in soils cultivated with sugarcane in Brazil 1 1 1 2 Ademir Durrer* , Thiago Gumiere , Mayra C A Costa , Rodrigo G Taketani , Fernando D 1 Andreote 1 2 University of São Paulo, ESALQ, Brazil, Embrapa Environment, Brazil 256B NCMA: A bioresource center for marine microorganisms David Emerson*, Willie Wilson, Michael Preston Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, United States 257B Effects of extremely short sludge retention time and short hydraulic retention time on microbial community in an external membrane bioreactor Ipek Ergal*, Mert Kumru, Halil Kurt, Senem Teksoy Başaran, Seval Sözen, Derin Orhon, Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı Istanbul Technical University, Turkey 258B Molecular characterization of partial nitrification followed by anammox process 1 2 1 1 2 Elif Esen* , Duygu Dityapak , Halil Kurt , Mert Kumru , Bilge Alpaslan Kocamemi , Neslihan 2 1 Semerci , Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı 1 2 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Marmara University, Turkey 259B Culture independent analysis of the colonic bacteriota during a long term probiotic feeding study 1 1 1 2 2 James Evans* , Julian Marchesi , Eshwar Mahenthiralingam , Sue Plummer , Iveta Garaiova 1 2 Cardiff University, United Kingdom, Cultech, United Kingdom 260B Stable isotope probing and metagenomics of active DMS degraders from terrestrial environments Ozge Eyice*, Moto Namura, Yin Chen, Hendrik Schäfer University of Warwick, United Kingdom 261B Are microbial communities of subsoils influenced by agricultural management? 1 2 2 3 4 Doreen Fischer* , Timo Kautz , Ulrich Köpke , Jean Charles Munch , Michael Schloter 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen , Germany, University of Bonn/ Institute of Organic 3 Agriculture, Germany, Technical University Munich/Chair for Soil Ecology, Germany, 4 Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen/Environmental Genomics, Germany 262B Short-term temporal changes in community structure overwhelm changes from phosphorus addition in bacterioplankton communities of the Eastern Mediterranean 1 2 3 3 Stelios Fodelianakis* , Tron Frede Thingstad , Panagiotis Kasapidis , Paraskeyi Pitta , Ioannis 1 1 Karakassis , Emmanuel Ladoukakis 1 2 Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece, University of Bergen, Department of 3 biology, Norway, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece 88 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 263B Metagenomic analysis of water supply in geographically defined areas of low and high incidence rates of inflammatory bowel disease in Manitoba, Canada 1 2 3 4 Jessica Forbes* , Gary Van Domselaar , Charles Bernstein , Denis Krause , Ehsan 4 Khafipour 1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Canada 2 3 National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada, Department of 4 Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada, Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Canada 264B Gut microbiome analysis of infected calves with low or high doses of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) at different ages identifies specific bacteria associated with the outcome 1 2 2 2 3 Jessica Forbes , Jeroen De Buck , Rienske Mortier , Herman Barkema , Steve Hendrick , 4 5 5 Gary Van Domselaar , Denis Krause , Ehsan Khafipour* 1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, 2 Canada, Department of Production Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University 3 of Calgary, Canada, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 4 Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada, 5 Department of Animal Science, University of Manitoba, Canada 265B Effects of an ecological engineered oxygenation event on the microbial community structure in an anoxic fjord in western Sweden 1 2 2 3 1 Michael Forth* , Bengt Liljebladh , Anders Stigebrandt , Per Hall , Alexander Treusch 1 2 University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Biology, Denmark, University of Gothenburg, 3 Department of Earth Science, Sweden, University of Gothenburg, Department of Chemistry, Sweden 266B Bacterial endophytes of forest conifers: specificity and adaptive potential of an unexplored symbiosis Carolin Frank*, Alyssa Carrell, Emily Wilson University of California, Merced, United States 267B Development of rapid technologies for the assessment of biodegradation potential in contaminated groundwater using gene array technologies 1 2 2 2 2 3 Alessandra Frau* , M. J. Larkin , L. Kulakov , C. Allen , A. Kulakova , B. Mc Polin , R. 3 Doherty 1 2 Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, Queen's University Belfast - School of 3 Biological Sciences, United Kingdom, Queen's University Belfast - School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, United Kingdom 268B Pyrosequencing based assessment of bacterial and fungal community compositions in compacted forest soils 1 1 2 1 Beat Frey* , Stefan Schmutz , Franco Widmer , Martin Hartmann 1 2 Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland, Agroscope Reckenholz Taenikon ART, Switzerland 269B Spatial and temporal variations of bacterial community in a sewage polluted urban river: the Zenne River (Belgium) 1 1 2 1 1 Tamara Garcia-Armisen* , Ozgul Inceoglu , Natacha Brion , Adriana Anzil , Pierre Servais 1 2 Ecologie des Systèmes Aquatiques / Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Analytische en Milieu Chemie/Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 270B Variations of microbial abundance and diversity along a 260cm long peat core indicative of flooding in the earliest holocene in central China Linfeng Gong*, Wang Hongmei, Liu Qiao China University of Geosciences, China 89 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 271B Deconstructing the Microbial Community Degrading Plant Material in a Wet, Tropical Forest 1 2 3 Dara Goodheart* , T.C. Hazen , M.K. Firestone 1 2 3 UC Berkeley, USA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, UC Berkeley 272B Integrated assessment of freshwater streams associated with wastewater treatment plant discharge: microbiological and ecotoxicological approaches Adrienne Gregg*, Hai Doan, Anupama Kumar CSIRO Land and Water, Australia 273B Gut bacterial communities in the giant land snail Achatina fulica and their modification by sugarcane-based diet 1 2 2 3 M. Angela B. Grieco* , Alexander M. Cardoso , Janaína J.V. Cavalcante , Ricardo P. Vieira , 3 4 5 2 Joyce L. Lima , Maysa , M. Clementino , Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos , Eloi S. Garcia , 2 6 3 Wanderley de Souza , Rodolpho M. Albano , Orlando B. Martins 1 2 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia, Brazil, Diretoria de Programas, 3 Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia, Brazil, Instituto de Bioquímica 4 Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Instituto Nacional de Controle da 5 Qualidade em Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil, Laboratório Nacional de Computação 6 Científica, Brazil, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 274B Microbial activity and profile of bacterial communities in soil grown with sugarcane as affected by straw cover and soil moisture 1 1 2 2 2 Régia Gualter* , Vitor Vargas , Thiago Gumiere , Pedro Andrade , Fernando Andreote , 3 3 Heitor Cantarella , Adriana Silveira 1 2 Pós-Graduação em Agricultura Tropical e Subtropical, IAC, Brazil, Escola Superior de 3 Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Brazil, Instituto Agronômico-IAC, Centro de Solos e Recursos Agroambientais, Brazil 275B Abundance and diversity of boxB, a diagnostic gene for aerobic benzoate catabolism, in a coastal norwegian fjord and computational diversity predictions in other metagenomes 1 1 2 1 Christopher Gulvik* , T. Chad Effler , Reantha Pillay , Alison Buchan 1 2 The University of Tennessee, United States, Farragut High School, United States 276B Using shotgun metagenomic data for less biased 16S rRNA gene community analysis Jiarong Guo*, James Cole, Titus Brown, James Tiedje Michigan State University, United States 277B Bacterial community of the fresh volcanic deposits on barren land, grassland, and woodland in the Island of Miyake, Japan, as revealed by pyrosequencing-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes 1 2 3 4 4 Yong Guo* , Reiko Fujimura , Yoshinori Sato , Wataru Suda , Kenshiro Oshima , Masahira 4 5 2 Hattori , Takashi Kamijo , Hiroyuki Ohta 1 United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and 2 3 Technology, Japan, Ibaraki University, Japan, Independent Administrative Institution 4 National Research Institute for Cultural Properties Tokyo, Japan, The University of 5 Tokyo, Japan, University of Tsukuba, Japan 90 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 278B Microbial communities in soils from different agricultural management systems revisited: A comparison of traditional and next-generation molecular tools 1 2 1 2 Martin Hartmann , Salome Schneider , Beat Frey , Franco Widmer* 1 2 Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Switzerland 279B Characterization of microbial communities in a UASB reactor treating municipal sewage using sulfur-redox reaction process 1 1 1 1 Masashi Hatamoto* , Aida Azrina Azmi , Shinya Ono , Akinobu Nakamura , Masanobu 2 1 Takahashi , Takashi Yamaguchi 1 2 Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, Tohoku University, Japan 280B Comparative analysis of microbial diversity of Pockmark sediments of the Oslo Fjord 1 2 3 Thomas Haverkamp* , Øyvind Hammer , Kjetill S. Jakobsen 1 2 3 University of Oslo, Norway, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Dept. of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway 281B Metabolic classification of "functional gene" amplicon libraries using HMM-denoising and filtering: Finding fhs from homoacetogens in next generation sequencing datasets Gemma Henderson*, Eric Altermann, Peter H. Janssen AgResearch Ltd., New Zealand 282B "High precision melting curve": a novel method for fast screening of environmental samples for changes in bacterial phylogenetic composition prior to deep sequencing 1 2 3 4 Mathis Hjort Hjelmsø , Louise Feld , Lars Hestbjerg Hansen , Carsten Suhr Jacobsen* 1 University of Copenhagen / Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of 2 Geochemistry, Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of 3 Geochemistry, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department 4 of Biology, Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry / Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen / University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Environment, Denmark 283B Endophytic bacteria within the green siphonous seaweed Bryopsis: exploration of a partnership Joke Hollants*, Frederik Leliaert, Olivier De Clerck, Anne Willems Ghent University, Belgium 284B Simultaneous detection of diversity of bacterial 16S and IncP plasmids and merA genes in soil samples by amplicon pyrosequencing Peter Nikolai Holmsgaard*, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Søren Johannes Søren University of Copenhagen, Denmark 285B Comparison of bacterial community structures in 13 wastewater treatment plants from two geographically distant cites in China using 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing Anyi Hu*, Jibing He, Chang-Ping Yu Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 287B Systematic design of 18S rDNA primers for assessing eukaryotic diversity 1 2 3 3 3 3 Luisa Hugerth* , Daniel Lundin , Emilie Muller , Laura Lebrung , Hugo Roume , Paul Wilmes , 2 Anders Andersson 1 2 3 Science for Life Laboratory, Sweden, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden, University of Luxemburg, Luxembourg 91 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 288B The Structure of Microbial Community in the Artificial and Natural Wetland Using Pyrosequencing Data Yeoung Min Hwang*, Keun Sik Baik, Seong Chan Park, Han Na Choe, Sonny Ramos, Ju Sik Cho, Dong Cheol Seo, Chi Nam Seong Sunchon National University, South Korea 289B Studying the gut microbiota using rainbow trout as a model: the dynamics of the microbiota changes after first feeding Hans-Christian Ingerslev*, Mette Boye, Inger Dalsgaard, Lone Madsen Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute, Denmark 290B Microbial structure change in the groundwater samples from two boreholes at depths of -250m in Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory 1 1 1 1 1 2 Kotaro Ise* , Isao Nanjo , Hiroki Amamiya , Yuki Amano , Teruki Iwatsuki , Takahiro Asano , 3 1 1 Koji Kageyama , Yoshito Sasaki , Hideki Yoshikawa 1 2 3 Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, CHUGAI TECHNOS Corporation, Japan, Gifu University, Japan 291B Similarity and composition of the bovine rumen bacterial community Elie Jami, Itzhak Mizrahi* Agricultural research organization, Volcani, Israel 292B Comparative analysis of microplankton from the surrounding seawater of two deepwater coral reefs in the Norwegian Sea 1 1 2 2 1 Sigmund Jensen* , Jessica Ray , Michael D. J. Lynch , Josh D. Neufeld , Martin Hovland 1 2 University of Bergen, Norway, University of Waterloo, Canada 293B Changes in bacterial community degrading chlorinated compounds by Fenton reagent 1 2 2 1 Eun Hea Jho , Naresh Singhal , Susan Turner , Kyoungphile Nam* 1 2 Seoul National University, South Korea, University of Auckland, New Zealand 294B Comparisons of red pepper effects on kimchi fermentation using pyrosequencing and H-NMR Hyun Mi Jin, Sang Hyeon Jeong*, Che Ok Jeon Chung-Ang University, South Korea 295B Seasonal dynamics of microbial communities in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated sediments 1 2 2 2 Gloria Johnston* , Linda Farnham , Daniel Lisko , Carl Johnston 1 2 Kent State University, United States, Youngstown State University 296B Zooming in on Lactic Acid Bacteria during industrial malting 1 2 1 1 2 Annelies Justé , Sofie Malfliet , Pieter Busschaert , Sam Crauwels , Luc De Cooman , Guido 2 1 1 Aerts , Kris Willems , Bart Lievens* 1 Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management (PME&BIM), KU Leuven Association, Lessius Mechelen, Campus De Nayer, Belgium and Scientia Terrae 2 Research Institute, B-2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, Laboratory of Enzyme, Fermentation and Brewing Technology (EFBT), Consortium for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (CIMB), Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems (M2S), LFoRCe, K.U.Leuven Association, KaHo Sint-Lieven, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium 297B Molecular analysis of microbial communities in the hydrocarbon-bearing sediments of Lake Baikal 1 1 2 1 Vitaly Kadnikov* , Andrey Mardanov , Tamara Zemskaya , Nikolay Ravin 1 2 Centre “Bioengineering” RAS, Russian Federation, Limnological Institute, SB RAS, Russian Federation 1 92 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 298B Temporal dynamics of the microbial comunity structure in dark ocean of the western north pacific 1 1 1 1 1 Ryo Kaneko* , Mario Uchimiya , Hideki Fukuda , Shoutaro Suzuki , Hiroshi Ogawa , Toshi 1 2 1 Nagata , Makio Honda , Koji Hamasaki 1 2 The University of Tokyo / Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Japan, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan 299B Microbial diversity and spatial distribution in deep subseafloor sediments of the Izena Cauldron, Okinawa Trough 1 2 1 2 2 Sanae Kano* , Yosuke Onishi , Takashi Yoshida , Hiroshi Ishida , Nobuhiro Maeda , Manabu 3 3 4 5 1 Tatsuta , Tetsuya Miwa , Nobuhiro Goto , Nobuyuki Okamoto , Yoshihiko Sako 1 2 3 Kyoto University, Japan, The General Environmental Technos Co., Ltd, Japan, Japan 4 Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan, Deep Ocean Resources 5 Development Co., Ltd, Japan, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National, Japan 300B Hydrazine synthase: a unique functional gene to study the biodiversity of anammox bacteria 1 1 1 1 2 Boran Kartal* , Harry R. Harhangi , Mathilde Le Roy , Theo van Alen , Bao-lan Hu , Susannah 3 4 1 1 G. Tringe , Zhe-Xue Quan , Mike S.M. Jetten , Huub J.M. Op den Camp 1 2 3 Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, Zhejiang University, China, JGI, United 4 States, Fudan University, China 301B Cryopreservation techniques applied to the analysis of oceanic picoplankton diversity Masanobu Kawachi*, Mary-Helene Noel, Mikihide Demura National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan 302B Microbial community changes in response to chloramine residues in a lab-scale system 1 1 2 Bal KC , Arumugam Sathasivan , Maneesha Ginige* 1 2 Curtin University, Australia, CSIRO, Australia 303B Discovery of cellulose-disrupting enzymes from an avicel-adapted forest soil eukaryotic community by a metatranscriptomic approach Nobutada Kimura*, Kazuto Takasaki, Manabu Kanno, Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 304B Investigating the etiology of bovine digital dermatitis by a combination of 16S rRNA gene analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization 1 2 3 2 2 Kirstine Klitgaard* , Marianne Rasmussen , Nynne Capion , Mette Boye , Tim K Jensen 1 2 National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, Technical 3 University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Science, Department of Large Animal Science, Denmark 305B Analysis of microbial community functions involved in effective and eco-friendly industrial tannery wastewater treatment 1 1 1 1 2 Sung-Cheol Koh* , Kalu Ibe Ekpeghere , Shin-Young Ha , Soo-Hyeon Kim , Hong-Gi Kim , In1 3 Soo Kim , Bong-Keun Song 1 2 3 Korea Maritime University, South Korea, BM Company, South Korea, University of North Carolina, South Korea 306B Deep Ocean microbial communities in the South Adriatic Pit 1 2 1 1 2 Marino Korlević* , Danny Ionescu , Paolo Paliaga , Tina Šilović , Rudolf Amann , Mirjana 1 1 Najdek , Sandi Orlić 1 2 Ruđer Bošković Institute Center for Marine Research, Croatia, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 93 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 307B The biodegradation of para-nitrophenol by river water biofilms: a functional marker approach 1 2 2 2 1 Agnieszka Kowalczyk* , Roger van Egmond , Chris Finnegan , Oliver Price , Gary Bending , 1 Hendrik Schafer 1 2 The University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre, Unilever, United Kingdom 308B Effects of commercially available enzymes and antimicrobial peptides on bacteria communities in sydney harbour, Australia 1 2 3 2 Agnete Krabbe Katholm* , Henrik T. Jespersen , Annemette Palmqvist , Kjeld Schaumburg , 4 3 Eva Wallström , Benni W. Hansen 1 2 3 Roskilde University, Denmark, Roskilde University, CISMI/FiBaC, Denmark, Roskilde 4 University, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Denmark, EnPro ApS, Denmark 309B Phylogenetic diversity of planktonic bacterial communities of Lake Hévíz Gergely Krett*, Katalin Jáger, Judit Makk, Károly Márialigeti, Andrea K. Borsodi Eötvös Loránd University; Department of Microbiology, Hungary 310B Monitoring microbial species and total elemental of urban air particulate in Istanbul 1 2 3 1 1 Mert Kumru* , Melih Özgür Çelik , Kerem Uzel , Aslı Baysal , Süleyman Akman , Alper Tunga 1 Akarsubaşı 1 2 Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Charité - Universitätsmedizin 3 Berlin, Germany, Bogazici University, Turkey 311B Microbial community dynamics of İSTAÇ landfill leachate wastewater treatment plant in İstanbul, Turkey 1 2 1 1 Halil Kurt , Aslıhan Demircan , Mert Kumru , Alper Tunga Akarsubaşı* 1 Istanbul Technical University Molecular Biology, Biotechnology & Genetics Research 2 Centre, Turkey Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Bioengineering Department, Turkey 312B Distribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria along an ammonia gradient in oceanic sediment 1 1 1 2 3 Lorenzo Lagostina* , Lars Schreiber , Mark Lever , Thomas Evans , Tobias Goldhammer , 4 1 Andreas Schramm , Dorthe Groth Petersen 1 Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2 3 Department of Geoscience, University of Bremen, Germany, Center for Marine 4 Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany, Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Aarhus University, Denmark 313B Archaeal and bacterial communities in the potential gas hydrate bearing sediments at offshore SW Taiwan 1 1 1 1 1 Mei-Chin Lai* , Chuan-Chuan Hung , Shu-Yao Wu , Shu-Jung Lai , Jiun-Yan Ding , Saulwood 2 3 4 Lin , Tsanyao Frank Yang , Po-Chun Chen 1 2 National Chung Hsing University/Department of Life Sciences, Taiwan, National Taiwan 3 Univ/Institute of Oceanography, Taiwan, National Taiwan Univ/Dept. of 4 Geosciences, Taiwan, Central Geological Survey, Taiwan 314B Assessing biodiversity of thermophilic fungal species in composts using conventional and molecular techniques Adrian Langarica Fuentes*, Geoff D. Robson, Pauline S. Handley University of Manchester, United Kingdom 315B Isolation and characterization of Cr(VI)-reducing bacteria from a chromium contaminated aquifer in Guanajuato, México with potential application in bioremediation Paloma Lara*, Enrique Morett, Katy Juárez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/ Instituto de Biotecnología, Mexico 94 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 316B Paenibacillus hankukensis sp. nov., isolated from soil 1 1 2 1 2 Geon-Hyoung Lee , Sung-Jun Cho* , Sung-Heun Cho , Suhk-Hwan Park , Seung Bum Kim 1 2 Kunsan National University/Dept. of Biology, South Korea, Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Biology, Chungnam National University, South Korea 317B Phylogenetic Characterization of Actinobacteria in a Bamboo (Sasa boreali) Forest Soil by Using Pyrosequencing Hyojin Lee*, Kyungsook Whang Department of Microbial & Nano Materials, Mokwon University, South Korea 318B Rhizosphere bacterial communities of bacterial wilt resistant or susceptible tomato cultivars and a non-host baechu cultivar 1 2 1 1 1 Hyoung Ju Lee* , Byung Kwon Kim , Myung Hwan Lee , Hyun Gi Kong , Eun Joo Jung , Hae 1 2 1 Jin Joo , Jihyun F. Kim , Seon-Woo Lee 1 2 Dong-A University, South Korea, Yonsei University, South Korea 319B The malodor deodorizing effect of Effective Microorganism (EM) in food garbage Young Ok Lee*, Hong-Jae Choi Daegu University, South Korea 320B Microbial ecology surrounding methylated sulfur and selenium compound formation in freshwater 1 1 2 3 3 Celine Lesaulnier* , Gabriel Singer , Jutta Niggemann , Cédric Gerard , Xavier LeCoz , Claus 1 2 1 Pelikan , Thorsten Dittmar , Alexander Loy 1 2 3 University of Vienna, Austria, Max Planck Institute, Germany, Nestlé Research Center, Switzerland 321B Abundance and diversity of Sphingomonas in Shenfu petroleum-wastewater irrigation zone, China Hui Li*, Lisha Zhou, Ying Zhang, Siqin Han, Hui Xu Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, China 322B Identification of novel bacterial copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMO) related to C1-C4 alkane oxidation in a natural hydrocarbon plume Meng Li*, Sunit Jain, Brett Baker, Chris Taylor, Gregory Dick University of Michigan, USA 323B Identification of bacteria and T4-type bacteriophages that assimilate carbon from root cap cells under aerobic and anaerobic soil conditions using a DNA-SIP approach Yong Li*, Takeshi Watanabe, Jun Murase, Susumu Asakawa, Makoto Kimura Nagoya University, Japan 324B Bacterial and archaeal diversity in soil from Atlantic forest of Sao Paulo State 1 2 1 Julia Elidia Lima* , Armando Cavalcante Franco Dias , Emiliana Manesco Romagnoli , Ademir 1 1 Durrer , Fernando Dini Andreote 1 2 ESALQ - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, CENA - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 325B Microarray and N isotope analyses of denitrifying communities in New River Estuary, USA 1 2 3 1 2 Jessica Lisa* , Amal Jayakumar , Craig Tobias , Bongkeun Song , Bess Ward 1 2 3 UNC Wilmington, USA, Princeton University, USA, University of Connecticut, USA 326B Polyphasic approach for assessing changes in marine microbial community under the double stress of UV and diesel oil Shiu-Mei Liu*, Chi-Yuen Yen, Hung-Hsuan Chien Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan 15 95 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 327B The effect of whey permeate additions on growth performance, gastrointestinal morphology, and colonic microbiota of postweaned piglets 1 1 2 3 Sarmauli Manurung* , Tim Kare Jensen , Bent Borg Jensen , Lars Mølbak 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute, Denmark, University of Århus, 3 Department of Animal health, Welfare, and Nutrition, Denmark, Chr Hansen A/S, Animal Health and Nutrition, Denmark 328B Sulfur-cycling bacteria dominate marine harbour structures with past evidence of accelerated low water corrosion (ALWC) 1 2 3 4 Florence Marty* , Sandrine Païsse , Jean-François Ghiglione , José M. Sánchez-Amaya , 5 2 1 1 Hervé Gueuné , Laurent Quillet , Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht , Gerard Muyzer 1 2 Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, Université de Rouen, UFR des Sciences/2M2C, 3 UMR CNRS 6143, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)/ Laboratoire 4 d'Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls, France, Universidad de Cádiz/ Laboratorio de 5 Corrosión, Spain, CORRODYS, Centre de Corrosion Marine et Biologique, France 329B Finding microbial species: taxonomic unit discovery using SSU ribosomal RNA sequences at a global scale João Frederico Matias Rodrigues*, Christian von Mering University of Zürich, Switzerland 330B Microbial community structure based on 16S rRNA and pmoA genes in the dissolved methane treatment reactors receiving UASB effluents 1 2 2 1 Norihisa Matsuura* , Masashi Hatamoto , Takashi Yamaguchi , Akiyoshi Ohashi 1 2 Hiroshima University, Japan, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan 331B Bacterial community diversity increases with soil organic matter decomposition: insights from a dual-stable isotope probing method 1 1 1 1 1 2 Rebecca Mau* , Cindy Liu , Michael Dwan , Egbert Schwartz , Paul Dijkstra , Lance Price , 1 Bruce Hungate 1 2 Northern Arizona University, USA, Translational Genomics Research Institute, USA 332B A novel fine-scale approach for sampling deep-sea Fe oxide-dominated hydrothermal vent microbial mats at Loihi Seamount 1 2 3 3 2 Sean McAllister* , Nam Siu , Richard Davis , Bradley Tebo , Craig Moyer 1 2 3 University of Delaware, USA, Western Washington University, USA, Oregon Health & Science University, USA 333B Deep sequencing of evolving populations in bacterial biofilms Kerensa McElroy*, Jerry Woo, Marwan Majzoub, Janice Hui, Staffan Kjelleberg, Scott Rice, Suhelen Egan, Torsten Thomas University of New South Wales, Australia 334B Analysis of the bacterial diversity in the fecal material of the endangered Yangtze finless porpoise, Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis 1 2 2 2 2 Richard McLaughlin* , Q. Zhao , M. Chen , J. Zheng , D. Wang 1 2 Gateway Technical College, United States, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 335B The Microbial Database for Danish Wastewater Treatment Plants Artur Mielczarek*, Poul Larsen, Jeppe Lund Nielsen, Per Halkjær Nielsen Aalborg University, Denmark 336B Molecular diversity of the giant symbiotic bacterium Epulopiscium fishelsoni in fish from the Red Sea Sou Miyake*, Uli Stingl KAUST, Saudi Arabia 96 PS14 – Microbial Community Diversity Tuesday 21 August 337B Microplanktonic community structure in a coastal system relative to a Phaeocystis bloom inferred from morphological and Tag pyrosequencing methods 1 1 1 2 Sébastien Monchy , Jean-David Grattepanche , Elsa Breton , Dionigia Meloni , Giovanna 2 2 2 2 3 Sanciu , Magali Chabé , Laurence Delhaes , Eric Viscogliosi* , Télesphore Sime-Ngando , 1 Urania Christaki 1 2 LOG, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, France, CIIL, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France, 3 LMGE, Université Blaise Pascal, France 338B Dynamics changes in soil microbial community inoculated with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria (PSB) for enhancing Cd removal efficiency in phytoremediation Hee Sun Moon*, Seulki Jeong, Kyoungphile Nam Seoul National University, South Korea 339B Microbial diversity in the frass of an endemic New Zealand wood boring beetle larvae, the Huhu grub (Prionoplus reticularis, Coleoptera; Cerambycidae) Hugh Morgan*, Ian McDonald, Jay Viswam University of Waikato, New Zealand 340B Community compositions in swine manure biogas plants Freya Mosbæk*, Piotr Starnawski, Jeppe Lund Nielsen Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark 341B Microbial diversity pattern during the cheese ripening: study on traditional Croatian cheeses 1 2 2 1 Mirna Mrkonjic Fuka* , Marion Engel , Stefanie Wallisch , Andrea Skelin , Sulejman 1 2 Redžepović , Michael Schloter 1 2 University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Croatia, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 342B Investigation of microbial diversity of aerosols at a saline playa in Victoria, Australia using culturing and 454 sequencing 1 1 2 1 Chris Munday* , Patrick De Deckker , Nigel Tapper , Gwen Allison 1 2 Australian National University, Australia, Monash University, Australia PS15 – Mobility of Genes and the Species Concept 469B Insights into the Rumen Plasmidome 1 2 1 2 3 Aya Brown Kav , Goor Sasson* , Elie Jami , Adi Doron-Faigenboim , Itai Benhar , Itzhak 2 Mizrahi 1 2 3 ARO / Tel Aviv University, Israel, ARO, Israel, Tel Aviv University, Israel 470B Identification of an arsenic resistance transposon nested in a TnMERI1-like class II mercury resistance transposon of Bacillus sp. MB24 1 2 2 3 1 Mei-Fang Chien* , Hui-Erh Yang , Fan-Fan Chen , Masaru Narita , Keisuke Miyauchi , Ginro 1 2 Endo , Chieh-Chen Huang 1 2 Tohoku Gakuin University/Faculty of Engineering, Japan, National Chung Hsing University 3 Department of Life Sciences, Taiwan, Tohoku Afforestation and Environmental Protection Ltd., Japan 471B Metagenomic recovery and analysis of accessory genes present on mobile genetic elements 1 2 3 1 Vincent Dunon* , Rob Lavigne , Eva Top , Dirk Springael 1 2 Division of Soil and Water Management, KU Leuven, Belgium, Division of Gene Technology, 3 KU Leuven, Belgium, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, United States 97 PS15 – Mobility of Genes and the Species Concept Tuesday 21 August 472B Bioinformatic evidence and characterization of novel putative large conjugative transposons from genera Bacteroides and Prevotella Katja Gorenc*, Tomaž Accetto, Gorazd Avguštin University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical faculty, Slovenia 473B Secondary metabolism as a driving force in species evolution Paul Jensen*, Kevin Penn, Natalie Millan, Kelle Freel University of California San Diego, United States 474B Complete nucleotide sequence of self-transmissible plasmid pD2RT provides new insight into diversity and distribution of toluene-catabolic plasmids 1 2 2 2 1 Jekaterina Jutkina* , Lars Hestbjerg Hansen , Lili Li , Anders Norman , Eeva Heinaru , Eve 1 1 Vedler , Ain Heinaru 1 2 University of Tartu, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Estonia, University of Copenhagen, Institute of Biology, Denmark 475B Strain-level genomic variation in natural populations of Lebetimonas from an erupting deep sea volcano Julie Meyer*, Julie Huber Marine Biological Laboratory, United States 476B A multilocus sequence analysis of the genus Salinispora Natalie Millan*, Kelle Freel, Paul Jensen Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States 477B Origin and fate of an IncP-1 plasmid, pKJK10 Jochen Mueller*, Paula Martínez-Lavanchy, Matthias Kästner, Hermann Heipieper Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 478B Tracing host-plasmid dynamics within the deeply sequenced Acid Mine Drainage model system 1 1 2 3 1 Anders Norman* , Brian Thomas , Christopher Miller , Vincent Denef , Jillian Banfield 1 2 3 University of California Berkeley, USA, University of Colorado, USA, University of Michigan, USA 479B Disinterring ecologically distinct populations of Candidatus Accumulibacter phosphatis Ben Oyserman*, Katherine McMahon University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 480B Limiting the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance through targeted interventions directed at plasmid stability 1 1 1 2 2 Leise Riber* , Mette Burmølle , Stefan Morbjerg , Martin Alm , Peter Thomsen , Lars 1 1 Hestbjerg Hansen , Søren Johannes Sørensen 1 2 Institute of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, BioModics ApS, Denmark 481B Bacterial strains isolated from marine aquaculture environments harbor SXT/R391-like integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) encoding resistance to antibiotics, mercury and quaternary ammonium compounds Arturo Rodríguez-Blanco*, Manuel L. Lemos, Carlos R. Osorio University of Santiago de Compostela CIF:Q1518001A, Spain 482B Transformation and conjugal transfer of foreign genes into the filamentous multicellular cyanobacteria (Subsection V) Fischerella and Chlorogloeopsis 1 1 2 1 2 Karina Stucken* , Judith Ilhan , Mayo Roettger , Tal Dagan , William F. Martin 1 Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf/ Institute of Genomic Microbiology, Germany, 2 Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf/ Institute of Molecular Evolution, Germany 98 PS15 – Mobility of Genes and the Species Concept Tuesday 21 August 483B An environmental multiresistance plasmid can be transferred to foodborne pathogens 1 2 3 3 Eva Van Meervenne* , Els Van Coillie , Frederiek - Maarten Kerckhof , Frank Devlieghere , 2 4 5 3 Lieve Herman , Leen De Gelder , Eva Top , Nico Boon 1 2 Ghent University / Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Belgium, Institute for 3 4 Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Belgium, Ghent University, Belgium, University College 5 Ghent, Belgium, University of Idaho, United States 484B Integron characterization and typing of Belgian isolates of Shiga toxin-Producing Escherichia coli 1 2 3 2 3 Eva Van Meervenne* , Nico Boon , Karen Verstraete , Frank Devlieghere , Koen De Reu , 3 4 4 3 Lieve Herman , Glenn Buvens , Denis Piérard , Els Van Coillie 1 2 Ghent University / Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Belgium, Ghent 3 4 University, Belgium, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Belgium, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium 485B ODoSE: a webserver for genome-wide calculation of adaptive divergence in prokaryotes 1 2 2 3 4 Michiel Vos* , Tim te Beek , Marc van Driel , Martijn Huynen , Adam Eyre-Walker , Mark van 5 Passel 1 2 University of Exeter, United Kingdom, Netherlands Bioinformatics 3 4 Centre, Netherlands, Radboud University, Netherlands, University of Sussex, United 5 Kingdom, Wageningen University, Netherlands PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity 076B Soil persistent Escherichia coli 1 1 1 2 2 Florence Abram* , Nicole Clarke , John Murphy , Emma Moynihan , Fiona Brennan 1 2 NUI, Galway, Ireland, Teagasc, Ireland 077B Diversity and composition of nitrogen fixing communities in Argentinean soils as affected by agricultural practices 1 2 3 2 4 O. Mario Aguilar* , Monica Collavino , James Tripp , Priscila Calderoli , María Laura Vidoz , 5 3 Mariano Donato , Jonathan P. Zehr 1 IBBM-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad Ciencias Exactas, Argentina, 2 3 Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad Ciencias Exactas, Argentina, University of 4 5 California, USA, Universidad del Nordeste, Argentina, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Argentina 078B Application of quantitative PCR methods for the analysis of a BTEX contaminated plume Christopher Allen*, Paul Flanagan, Anna Kulakova, Leonid Kulakov, Michael J Larkin Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom 079B Bacterial nitrifying and denitrifying communities in soils with organic and conventional agricultural practices Celine Amsaleg*, Mehdi Zerarka, Anniet M Laverman, Josette Garnier University Pierre and Marie Curie, France 080B Effect of conversion of conventional pasture to intensive silvopastoral systems on soil bacterial communities 1 1 1 1 Ziv Arbeli* , Ana María Cubillos Cárdenas , Victoria E. Vallejo , Wilson Teran , Richard P. 2 1 Dick , Fabio Roldan 1 2 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, The Ohio State University, Colombia 99 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 081B The Effect of carbon input on the evolution of the soil microbial community in the central hyper-arid Namib Desert 1 1 1 2 Alacia Armstrong , Jean-Baptiste Ramond* , Marla I. Tuffin , Don A. Cowan 1 Institute for Microbial Biotechnlogy and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western 2 Cape, South Africa, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, South Africa 082B Diversity of methane-oxidizing bacteria in rice paddy field ecosystem: investigation by cultivation method and fluorescence in situ hybridization 1 2 1 1 1 Susumu Asakawa* , Dayéri Dianou , Chihoko Ueno , Takuya Ogiso , Tran Van Huy , Arata 1 1 Katayama , Makoto Kimura 1 2 Nagoya University, Japan, Centre National de la recherche Scientifique et technologique, Burkina Faso 083B The microbial community structure of soil samples enriched with methanol at different pH and temperature 1 2 3 3 Rozelin Aydin* , Francien Peterse , Stefan Schouten , Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté , Hauke 4 4 Smidt , Alfons JM Stams 1 2 3 Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands, ETH Zurich, Switserland, NIOZ, Netherlands, 4 Wageningen University/Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands 084B Microbial characterization of angled core samples of a zerovalent iron barrier in Belgium 1 2 3 4 3 3 3 Rozelin Aydin* , F Maphosa , Q Simons , H Sapion , S van Roy , N Hermans , L Bastiaens , 2 H Smidt 1 2 Laboratory of Microbiology, Netherlands, Wageningen University/Laboratory of Microbiology, 3 4 Netherlands, VITO, Belgium, SAPION, Belgium 085B The mineral composition and presence of charcoal in artificial soils determine microbial community structure and the response to spiked phenanthrene 1 2 3 2 3 Doreen Babin* , Guo-Chun Ding , Geertje Johanna Pronk , Holger Heuer , Katja Heister , 3 2 Ingrid Kögel-Knabner , Kornelia Smalla 1 2 Julius-Kühn Institut, Germany, Julius-Kühn Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated 3 Plants, Germany, Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Germany 086B Hydraulically active biopores stimulate pesticide mineralization in agricultural subsoil 1 1 2 2 1 Nora Badawi* , Anders R. Johnsen , Kristian K. Brandt , Jan Sørensen , Jens Aamand 1 2 GEUS, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Agriculture and Ecology, Denmark 087B Exploring the structure and function of fungal communities in forest soils: challenges and limitations of current methodologies Petr Baldrian*, Tomáš Větrovský, Jana Voříšková, Ivana Eichlerová, Jaroslav Šnajdr, Lucia Žifčáková, Martina Štursová Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Czech Republic 088B Microbial communities in ephemeral streams and the impact of saline mine discharge 1 2 1 Janina Beyer-Robson* , Philip Bond , Sue Vink 1 2 Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia, Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia 089B Characteristics of metal-tolerant bacteria and their plasmids isolated from a platinum mine tailings dam in South Africa Carlos Bezuidenhout*, Tladi Mahlatsi, Laurette Marais, Mark Maboeta North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa 100 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 090B Impact of nutrient addition on microbial community decomposition of wheat residues 13 and carbon sequestration assessed with C labelled wheat 1 1 2 2 1 Andrew Bissett* , Clive Kirkby , Maria Luisa Gutierrez Zamora , Mark Brwon , Peter Thrall , 1 Richardson Alan 1 2 CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia 091B Carbon isotope fractionation of Italian rice field soil under H2/CO2 and different temperature regimes Martin Blaser*, Ralf Conrad Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 092B Extracellular enzyme activity assay as indicator of soil microbial functional diversity and activity Niels Bohse Hendriksen, Anne Winding* Aarhus University, Dept. of Environmental Science, Denmark 093B Degradation of fungal mycelia in soil: decomposition rate and microbial community analysis Vendula Brabcova*, Monika Nováková, Anna Davidová, Petr Baldrian Institute of Microbiology, ASCR, Czech Republic 094B Functional diversity and quantification of catabolic genes (BPH) in "Amazonian dark earth" and its adjacent soils 1 1 1 2 1 Maria Brossi* , Mariana Germano , Lucas Mendes , Shoko Iwai , Siu Tsai 1 2 University of São Paulo - Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Brazil University of California, USA 095B Enzyme kinetics and temperature sensitivity in Arctic permafrost soils 1 1 1 1 1 Jiří Bárta* , Markéta Applová , Iva Lacmanová , Petr Čapek , Kateřina Diáková , Hana 1 2 Šantrůčková , Andreas Richter 1 Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2 Department Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna, Austria 096B Factors influencing the bacterial community structure and distribution in northern peatlands 1 2 2 Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz* , Stephen Zinder , Joseph Yavitt 1 2 Arizona State University, USA, Cornell University, USA 097B Effects of plants materials on the dissipation of herbicide pendimethalin in soil and its microbial communities Bing-Sheng Chen*, Fang-Yu Hsu, Jui-Hung Yen Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 098B Changes in soil microbial community structure and metabolic activity following the convertion from the native Pinus massoniana plantations to the exotic Eucalyptus urophylla × grandis plantations Falin Chen*, Kai Zhang, Yifeng Li, Hua Zheng State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 101 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 099B Plasmid isolation and characterization from a biofilter system used for pesticide removal 1 2 2 2 2 2 María Del Papa* , María Martini , María Salas , Jose López , Ileana Salto , María Giusti , 2 2 2 3 Mauricio Lozano , Gonzalo Torres Tejerizo , Mariano Pistorio , Andreas Schlüter , Alfred 3 2 Pühler , Antonio Lagares 1 2 Universidad Nacional de La Plata-UNLP, Argentina, Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología 3 Molecular-IBBM-CONICET-UNLP, Argentina, Lehrstuhl für Genetik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany 100B Influence of management practices on microbial consortia in paddy soils Thilo Eickhorst*, Hannes Schmidt, Stefan Knauth, Rolf Tippkötter University of Bremen, Soil Science, Germany 101B Microbial diversity and physicochemical properties of soil in the lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn) mining area of Ishiagu, Nigeria Uchechi Ekwenye*, Chiedozie Nwachukwu Michael Okpara University of Agriculture,Umudike, Nigeria 102B Changes of soil microbiome due to repeated addition of manure from oxytetracyclinetreated dairy cow 1 1 2 3 1 Dana Elhottova* , Martina Kyselkova , Robert Bradley , Heike Schmitt , Jiri Jirout , Nadezda 4 2 1 Vrchotova , Nancy Allard , Havlickova Petra 1 2 Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Soil Biology, Czech Republic, Sherbrooke University, 3 Faculty of Science, Canada, Utrecht University, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, 4 Netherlands, Global Change Research Centre ASCR, Lab Metabol & Isotop Anal, Czech Republic 103B Transport of BAM degrading bacteria facilitated by fungal hyphae increases BAM mineralization in sand 1 2 1 2 Berith Elkær Knudsen* , Lea Ellegaard-Jensen , Christian Nyrop Albers , Søren Rosendahl , 1 Jens Aamand 1 2 GEUS, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 104B Degradation of the herbicide diuron by different Mortierella strains 1 2 1 Lea Ellegaard-Jensen* , Jens Aamand , Søren Rosendahl 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark 105B The effects of light, fertilization, plant density on Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in root of Compositae poisonous herb Ligularia virgaurea Huyuan Feng*, Guoxi Shi, Yongjun Liu, Shengjing Jiang, Lin Mao, Gang Cheng, Guozhen Du, Lizhe An School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China 106B Bacterial and Biochemical indicators of agricultural management for soil under no-till crop production 1 1 2 1 1 Eva Figuerola , Leandro Guerrero , Alejandro Ferrari , Silvina Rosa , Leonardo Erijman , Luis 2 Wall* 1 Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular (INGEBI2 CONICET), Argentina, LBMIBS - DCyT - University of Quilmes, Argentina 107B Bacterial Mobilization of Sulfur and Phosphorous in Biochar Amended Soils 1 1 2 1 Aaron Fox , Ruth Cullen , Witold Kwapinski , Achim Schmalenberger* 1 2 University of Limerick, Life Sciences, Ireland, University of Limerick, Chemical and Environmental Sciences, Ireland 102 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 108B How does the disruption of Pleurozium and Sphagnum moss carpets effect the microbial communities of black spruce in boreal forested peatlands Mark Fox*, Yves Bergeron, Pascal Drouin University of Quebec, Canada 109B Microbial activity and plant community recovery from grazing may be mediated by nutrient availability in low Arctic meadows 1 1 2 3 Gaia Francini* , Minna-Maarit Kytöviita , Sari Stark , Minna Männistö 1 2 3 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University of Lapland, Finland, METLA, Finland 110B Treated waste water irrigation affects the soil microbiome seasonal dynamics 1 2 1 Sammy Frenk* , Yitzhak Hadar , Dror Minz 1 2 Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Center, Israel, The Hebrew University, Israel 111B Soil bacterial community composition, activity and size disruption by metal oxide nanoparticles 1 2 2 2 1 Sammy Frenk* , Tal Ben-Moshe , Ishai Dror , Brian Berkowitz , Dror Minz 1 2 Agricultural Research Organization - Volcani Center, Israel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 112B Succession of nitrogen-cycling microbes in early volcanic environment on the island of Miyake (Japan) revealed by metagenomics 1 2 3 2 1 Reiko Fujimura* , Seok-Won Kim , Yoshinori Sato , Wataru Suda , Tomoyasu Nishizawa , 2 2 4 1 Kenshiro Oshima , Masahira Hattori , Takashi Kamijo , Hiroyuki Ohta 1 2 3 Ibaraki University, Japan, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Center for Conservation and 4 Restoration Techniques National Research Institute for Cultural Properities, Japan, University of Tsukuba, Japan 113B Diversity of Desulfonating Bacteria in the Mycorrhizosphere Jacinta Gahan*, Achim Schmalenberger University of Limerick, Life Sciences, Ireland 114B Pseudomonas putida constructs for buried landmine detection Shany Gefen-Treves*, Sharon Yagur-Kroll, Shimshon Belkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 115B Eukariotic metatranscriptomes from two contrasted alpine meadows Roberto Geremia*, Tarfa Mustafa, Lucie Zinger, Philippe Choler, Eric Coissac, Jean-Marc Bonneville Université Grenoble 1, CNRS, France 116B Comparison of bacterial numbers and carbon usage patterns in tree root zones between copper mine tailing sites and control sites in the keweenaw peninsula of michigan Timothy Gsell* Governors State University, USA 117B Is alginate the only "super-star" among the Pseudomonas putida exopolysaccharides under water stress? 1 1 2 1 Gamze Gulez* , Arnaud Dechesne , Tim Tolker-Nielsen , Barth F. Smets 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark 118B The role of sugarcane managements on the structuring of fungal communities in soils 1 2 3 Thiago Gumiere* , Ademir Durrer Bigaton , Mayra Camargo Andrade Costa , Fernando Dini 3 Andreote 1 2 ESALQ/USP, Brazil, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture/University of São Paulo, Brazil, 3 Queiroz ”College of Agriculture/University of São Paulo, Brazil 103 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 119B Seeping volcanic CO2 and its effects on freshwater environments 1 1 2 1 Simone Gwosdz* , Ingo Möller , Hans Richnow , Martin Krueger 1 2 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany 120B Impact of simulated climate change scenarios on extracellular enzyme activity of soil microbes 1 2 2 2 3 Verena Hammerl* , Kerstin Grant , Jürgen Kreyling , Anke Jentsch , Karin Pritsch , Michael 3 Schloter 1 2 3 TU München, Germany, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 121B Soil fungal and bacterial communities respond differently to long-term climate change and their responses are consistent despite seasonal variations in temperature and water availability Merian Haugwitz*, Lasse Bergmark, Anders Michelsen, Anders Priemé University of Copenhagen, Denmark 122B Effects of free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) and soil warming on ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in flooded paddy soil Masahito Hayatsu*, Kanako Tago, Takeshi Tokida, Hirofumi Nakamura, Hidemitsu Sakai, Yasuhiro Usui, Kentaro Hayashi, Toshihiro Hasegawa National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan 123B Sub-arctic alpine heath tundra has a more open and bacterial-dominated N cycle than adjacent mountain birch forest 1 1 2 1 Maria Hellman* , Karina Clemmensen , Anders Michelsen , Sara Hallin 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 124B Microbial communities associated with root-knot nematodes in soil Holger Heuer*, Mohamed Adam, Johannes Hallmann Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany 125B Effect of three fungicides on degradation of diuron in tea field soil and impacts on soil Yu-hua Hsiao*, Zhi-Zhan Li, Jui-Hung Yen Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 126B Diversity of acidophilic actinobacteria in red soils, and genomic characterization of a novel Streptomyces lineage 1 1 1 2 2 1 Ying Huang , Xiaoxuan Guo* , Xiaoying Rong , Xiaomin Li , Yongsheng Gao , Jisheng Ruan 1 2 Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, Jiangxi Agricultural University, China 127B Metagenomic analysis uncovered novel structure of microbial communities involved in denitrification in paddy soil 1 1 2 1 1 Hideomi Itoh* , Satoshi Ishii , Yutaka Shiratori , Kenshiro Oshima , Shigeto Otsuka , Masahira 1 1 Hattori , Keishi Senoo 1 2 The University of Tokyo, Japan, Niigata Agricultural Research Institute, Japan 104 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 128B Shifts in bacterial community structures along xenobiotic contamination gradients in soils of cold and temperate climates 1 2 3 3 4 Irena Ivshina , Victor Bezel , Tatyana Zhuykova , Valentina Zhuykova , Ludmila Kostina , 4 1 1 5 Tatyana Kamenskikh , Anastasiya Krivoruchko* , Maria Kuyukina , Lyubov Ogurtsova , 5 6 Andrey Soromotin , Tatyana Moiseenko 1 Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms / Perm State National Research 2 3 University, Russia, Institute of Ecology of Plants and Animals, Russia, Nighny Tagil State 4 Social-Pegagogical Academy, Russia, Institute of Ecology and Genetics of Microorganisms, 5 Russia, Research Institute of Ecology and Natural Resources Managment of Tyumen State 6 University, Russia, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russia 129B Drying and rewetting events affecting the fate of sulfadiazine in rhizosphere soil and its effects on sul gene abundance 1 2 3 2 4 Sven Jechalke* , Ingrid Rosendahl , Joost Groeneweg , Jan Siemens , Viviane Radl , Holger 1 1 Heuer , Kornelia Smalla 1 2 Julius Kühn-Institut-Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI), Germany, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of 3 Bonn, Germany, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich 4 GmbH, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany 130B Towards defining bio-indicateurs of arsenic mobility in soils Catherine Joulian*, Jennifer Harris-Hellal, Anne Mercier, Valerie Laperche, Francis Garrido, Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet French geological survey (BRGM), France 131B Diversity and abundance of nitrous oxide reductase genes associated with Bacteroidetes in organic compound-rich soils 1 1 1 1 2 1 Jaejoon Jung* , Jaemin Noh , Sungjong Choi , Hoon Jung , Kate Scow , Woojun Park 1 2 Korea University, South Korea, University of California, Davis, United States 132B Effect of aeration and high efficiency microorganisms in controlling emissions and pathogen outbreak from mortality disposal system: a bench-scale study of in-vessel stabilization of carcass digestion 1 1 2 3 Md. ANirban Jyoti* , Sang-Seob Lee , Weon-Wha Jeong , John J. Bang 1 2 Kyonggi University, South Korea, Environmental Infrastructure Research Department Water Supply & Sewerage Research Division, National institute of Environmental Research, South 3 Korea, Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Science, North Carolina Central University, USA 133B Soil fungal communities and enzyme activities in a sandy, highly weathered tropical soil treated with biochemically contrasting organic residues 1 1 1 2 Bhanudacha Kamolmanit , Patma Vityakon , Wanwipa Kaewpradit , Georg Cadisch , Frank 2 Rasche* 1 Khon Kaen University/Department of Plant Science and Agricultural Resources, Thailand, 2 University of Hohenheim/Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany 134B Response of soil microbial community against pulse perturbation by aromatic pollutants 1 2 3 4 1 Hiromi Kato* , Hiroshi Mori , Fumito Maruyama , Atsushi Toyoda , Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo , Genki 1 1 2 5 1 6 Fuchu , Ryo Endo , Ayumi Dozono , Masatoshi Miyakoshi , Yuji Nagata , Asao Fujiyama , 2 1 Ken Kurokawa , Masataka Tsuda 1 2 3 Tohoku University, Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Tokyo Medical and Dental 4 5 University, Japan, National Institute of Genetics, Japan, University of Würzburg, Germany, 6 National Institute of Informatics, Japan 105 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 135B The soil metaproteome of two different soil samples - a comparison of protein extraction protocols 1 2 3 3 Katharina Maria Keiblinger* , Ines C Wilhartitz , Thomas Schneider , Leo Eberl , Katharina 4 5 Riedel , Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern 1 2 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria, Eawag, Department of 3 Environmental Microbiology, Switzerland, University of Zurich, Institute of Plant Biology, 4 5 Switzerland, Institute of Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Germany, Institute for Soil Research, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria 136B Controls on the function and genetic diversity of the coupled processes of nitrification and denitrification in tributary sediments 1 2 2 2 Haryun Kim* , A. Ogram , K. R. Reddy , H. Bae 1 2 BioEMCo, CNRS, France, University of Florida, United States 137B Metatranscriptome analysis of microbial community in flooded rice microcosm Yongkyu Kim*, Werner Liesack Max Planck Institute for terrestrial microbiology, Germany 138B Methanol consumption by methylotrophs is correlated with vegetation type, pH, and substrate concentration in aerated soils Steffen Kolb*, Astrid Stacheter, Harold L. Drake University of Bayreuth, Germany 139B Organic matter decomposition: feedbacks on plant and microbial community structure Jan Kopecky*, Veronika Hrdinkova, Marketa Sagova-Mareckova Crop Research Institute, Czech Republic 140B Metabolic potential of pesticide-contaminated soils revealed with deep sequencing and metagenomic analysis 1 2 2 1 Pawel Krawczyk* , Marcin Golebiewski , Marcin Ostajewski , Dorota Tokarska , Michal 3 1 3 1 1 Kaminski , Adamska Dorota , Marta Blaszkiewicz , Adam Sobczak , Leszek Lipinski , Andrzej 1 Dziembowski 1 2 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland, Department of Biotechnology, 3 Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Warsaw, Poland 141B Effects of quality and quantity of plant-derived organic substrates on the fungal communities present in an arable soil Dirk Krüger*, Julia Moll, Björn Hoppe, Kezia Goldmann, François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 142B Phytase producing bacteria from Himalayan soil and their tricalcium phosphate solubilizing abilities 1 1 2 1 1 Vinod Kumar* , Prashant Singh , Punesh Sangwan , A. K. Verma , Sanjeev Agrawal 1 2 G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India, C.C.S. Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, India 143B Characterization of Microbial communitites in sub-surface flow constructed wetlands of United Arab Emirates Rajkumari Kumaraswamy*, Rahsed Algaoud, Jorge Rodríguez Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates 144B Combined impacts of climate changes and anthropogenic activities on dryland soil microbiota of the Southwest United States 1 1 1 2 2 Cheryl Kuske* , Blaire Steven , Chris Yeager , Jayne Belnap , Sasha Reed 1 2 Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, United States Geological Survey, USA 106 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 145B Cell abundance and microbial community composition over a complete oil sand mining and recultivation process Michael Lappé*, Beate Schneider, Jens Kallmeyer University of Potsdam / Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Germany 146B A comparative study of the microbial ecology of burnt and unaffected soil in a firedamaged upland heath Michael Larkin*, Christopher Allen, Leonid Kulakov, Anna Kulakova, Alessandra Frau, Roisin Grimes, Holly Clements, Prasanna Pentlvalli Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom 147B Combination of culture-independent and dependent approach reveals positive correlation between abundance of Beta-proteobacteria and mineral weathering in nutrient-poor forest soil 1 2 3 4 Cendrella Lepleux* , Marie-Pierre Turpault , Philippe Oger , Pascale Frey-Klett , Stéphane 4 Uroz 1 2 INRA - UMR 1136 - IAM team, France, INRA - UR 1138 - Biogeochemistry of Forest 3 4 Ecosystems, France, CNRS - UMR5570 - Earth Science Laboratory, France, INRA UMR1136 - Tree microbes Interactions, France 148B Dissolved organic carbon influences microbial community composition and diversity in managed aquifer recharge systems 1 2 3 1 Dong Li* , Jörg Drewes , Jonathan Sharp , Mazahirali Alidina 1 2 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Water Reuse and Desalination Center (WDRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi 3 Arabia, NSF Engineering Research Center ReNUWIt, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA 149B Combined effects of hypoxia and polybrominated diphenyl ethers on microbial communities in surface marine sediment Laam Li*, Singaram Gopalakrishnan, Yuki Y.K. Chan, Jill M.Y. Chiu, Rudolf S.S. Wu The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 150B Molecular cloning, expression, and biochemical characterization of a cellulase from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) 1 1 1 1 1 Ju Hyeon Lim* , Da Yeon Park , Xuemei Jin , Won-Jae Chi , Jae Seon Park , Yong-Keun 2 1 Chang , Soon-Kwang Hong 1 2 Department of Biological Science, Myongji University, South Korea, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, South Korea 151B Effect of amending green manures and herbicide pendimethalin on soil microbial communities Chien-Liang Liu*, Fang-Yu Hsu, Jui-Hung Yen Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 152B Abundance and community composition of sulfate-reducing prokaryotes in paddy soils around a Chinese mercury mining area Yu-Rong Liu*, Li-Mei Zhang, Yuan-Ming Zheng, Ji-Zheng He Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 107 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 153B Autothermal thermophilic sludge addition modifies soil bacterial communities and promotes plant development 1 1 1 2 2 Eva Lloret* , Marta Goberna , Josefa Blaya , Nicholas J, Bouskill , Ulas Karaoz , José A. 1 2 Pascual , Eoin L. Brodie 1 2 CEBAS-CSIC, Spain, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 154B Microbial communities in organically farmed rice fields: the influence of the crop rotation stage 1 2 2 2 Ana Lopes* , Diana Bello , Ángeles Prieto-Fernández , Carmen Trasar-Cepeda , Fernando 3 3 4 1 Gil-Sotres , Maria Leirós , Célia Manaia , Olga Nunes 1 2 Universidade do Porto - Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal, Dpto Bioquímica del Suelo, 3 IIAG-CSIC, Spain, Dpto Edafoloxía e Química Agrícola, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade 4 de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal 155B Diversity of soil fungi in the north slope forest of Changbai Mountain Natural Reserve 1 1 1 1 2 2 Guozhong Lu* , Xiaodong Sun , Zhihui Zhao , Hong Yang , Wenshuang Xiu , Shuyuan Lu , 2 Hua Jiang 1 2 Dalian Nationalities University, China, Liaoning Normal University, China 156B Soil microbial community responses to elevated temperatures as revealed by comparative metagenomics 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 Chengwei Luo , Liyou Wu , Lei Cheng , Kai Xue , Qichao Tu , Ye Deng , Sherry Rebecca , 2 2 2 3 4 5 2 Dejun Li , Zhili He , Yiqi Luo , Edward Schuur , Patrick Chain , James Tiedje , Jizhong Zhou , 1 Konstantinos Konstantinidis* 1 2 3 Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, University of Oklahoma, USA, University of Florida, 4 5 USA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, Michigan State University, USA 157B Physiological and molecular responses to water stress of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degrading bacteria isolated from Patagonian soil 1 1 1 2 Laura Madueño* , Bibiana Coppotelli , Irma Morelli , Hector Alvarez 1 2 Universidad Nacional de la Plata / CINDEFI, Argentina, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco / CRIDECIT, Argentina 158B Diversity of populations of P-solubilising bacteria is related to soil P status 1 1 1 2 1 Carolyn Mander* , Sandra Young , Steve Wakelin , Leo Condron , Maureen O'Callaghan 1 2 AgResearch Ltd, New Zealand, Lincoln University, New Zealand 159B Evaluation of temporal changes in soil quality indicators in Table grape (Thompson seedless) under organic amendment applications using Chilean natural ecosystems as base line 1 2 3 Maria Mercedes Martinez –Salgado* , Marc Ortega , Janssens Marc 1 University Federico Santa Maria, Chile- CATA/ University of Bonn/ Horticulture Institute, 2 3 Germany, Federico Santa Maria University / CATA, Chile, University of Bonn, Germany 160B Methanogenic archaea communities in microtopographic gradients in three Scandinavian peatlands receiving different levels of nitrogen deposition and its relation with the above ground vegetation 1 2 1 1 Magalí Martí Generó* , Bjorn J.M. Robroek , Per-Eric Lindgren , Bo H Svensson 1 2 Linköpings Universitet, Sweden, Utrecht University, Netherlands 161B Real Time Quantification of 16SrRNA gene copies in Brazilian Spodosols Elisa Matos*, Emiliana Romagnoli, Marcio Lambais Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiróz - USP, Brazil 108 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 162B The use of natural Mn oxide-coated sands as a remediation amendment for Pb contaminated soils: effects on soil microbial activity and community structure 1 1 1 1 2 Clare McCann* , Matthew Wade , Neil Gray , Russell Davenport , Karen Hudson-Edwards , 3 Karen Johnson 1 2 3 Newcastle University, United Kingdom, University of London, United Kingdom, Durham University, United Kingdom 163B The rhizosphere effect on the bacterial taxonomic and metabolic diversity in soybean crop field from Brazilian Amazonian region 1 2 1 Lucas William Mendes* , Eiko Eurya Kuramae , Acácio Aparecido Navarrete , Johannes A 2 1 van Veen , Siu Mui Tsai 1 2 Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO-KNAW, Netherlands 164B Investigating the response of soil nitrifiers to organic and inorganic ammonia sources Yiyu Meng*, Graeme Nicol, James Prosser University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom 165B Exploring the microbe-mediated soil H2 sink: A lab-based study of the physiology and related H2 consumption of isolates from Harvard Forest 1 1 1 1 1 2 Laura Meredith* , Deepa Rao , Kelden Pehr , Tanja Bosak , Shuhei Ono , Colleen Hansel , 1 Ronald Prinn 1 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Harvard University, USA 166B Combined rRNA versus rRNA gene approach in the evaluation of long-term soil contamination effects on prokaryotic communities Anu Mikkonen*, Minna Santalahti, Kaisa Lappi, Anni-Mari Pulkkinen, Leone Montonen, Leena Suominen University of Helsinki, Finland 167B Novel micro-scale [ H]leucine incorporation assay reveals heterogeneous distribution of co-selected antibiotic resistance in Cu contaminated soil Jakub Modrzynski*, Kristian Brandt, Jeanette Berg, Ole Nybroe University of Copenhagen, Denmark 168B Impact of soil bioturbation by earthworms on Aphanomyces oospore spreading and colonisation power 1 2 3 Cécile Monard* , Jan Lagerlöf , Jan Stenlid 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, SLU - Department of Ecology, 3 Sweden, SLU - Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Sweden 169B Phenanthrene's degradation in latosol: effect of contaminant's concentration and the addition of surfactin Daniel Morais*, Julia Barros, Marcos Tótola Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Brazil 170B Mitigation of N2O emission from agricultural soil by utilizing N2O-reducing denitrifiers (I): screening of potent N2O-mitigating strains 1 1 2 3 1 Tomoyasu Nishizawa* , Aihua Quan , Kanako Tago , Satoshi Ishii , Kazuo Isobe , Shigeto 1 1 Otsuka , Keishi Senoo 1 2 Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan, National 3 Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan, School of Engineering Hokkaido University, Japan 171B The detection of benzene-assimilating bacteria in methanogenic enrichment culture originated from river sediment using Stable Isotope Probing Mana Noguchi*, Futoshi Kurisu, Ikuro Kasuga, Hiroaki Furumai The University of Tokyo, Japan 3 109 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 172B Development of molecular tools to study denitrifying fungi from soil 1 2 2 3 2 Amy Novinscak* , Claudia Goyer , Bernie Zebarth , David Burton , Martin Chantigny , Martin 1 Filion 1 2 3 Université de Moncton, Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Canada 173B Impact of MCPA in nitrogen mineralization and urease activity in andisoil soil 1 1 1 1 1 Evelyn Padilla* , Graciela Palma , Paula Cartes , Rolando Demanet , Milko Jorquera , María 1 de la Luz Mora 1 Universidad de La Frontera, Chile 174B In situ nitrate, pH, and temperature control denitrifier community composition and N2O emissions from northern peatlands Katharina Palmer*, Marcus Horn University of Bayreuth, Department of Ecological Microbiology, Germany 175B Purification and biochemical characterization of a novel xylanase produced by Bacillus sp. MX47, a soil-borne isolate 1 1 1 2 1 Da Yeon Park* , Ju-hyeon Lim , Won-Jae Chi , Yong-Keun Chang , Soon-Kwang Hong 1 2 Department of Biological Science, Myongji University, South Korea, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, KAIST, South Korea 176B Seasonal changes of nitrogen-cycle genes abundances and bacterial communities in acidic forest soils Woojun Park*, Jaejoon Jung, Jinki Yeom, Jiwon Han, Jisun Kim Korea University, South Korea 177B Assessing the soil fungal diversity using Illumina sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer region 1 2 3 2 1 Eric Pinto* , Erika Yashiro , Helene Hirzel , Jan Roelof van der Meer , Antoine Guisan 1 2 University of Lausanne / Department of Ecology and Evolution, Switzerland, University of 3 Lausanne / Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Switzerland, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Switzerland 178B Evaluation of the ISO standard 11063 "Soil DNA extraction procedure" for assessing microbial abundance and community structure 1 1 2 2 1 Pierre Plassart* , Sébastien Terrat , Robert Griffiths , Bruce Thomson , Samuel Dequiedt , 1 1 2 1 3 Mélanie Lelièvre , Tiffanie Régnier , Mark Bailey , Laurent Philippot , Antonio Bispo , Pierre1 1 1 1 Alain Maron , Christophe Mougel , Philippe Lemanceau , Lionel Ranjard 1 2 3 INRA - UMR1347 Agroecologie, France, CEH, United Kingdom, ADEME, France 179B Are plant biodiversity and microbial diversities tightly linked? A case study of grassland manipulated plots and denitrifying bacteria Thomas Pommier*, Lamia El Moujahid, Xavier Le Roux, Floriant Bellvert, Michalet Serge, Franck Poly UMR5557 CNRS - USC INRA 1193, France 180B The biofumigation effect of Brassica napus on soil microbial communities Clarissa Potgieter, Misha de Beer, Sarina Claassens* North-West University, South Africa 181B Microbiological indicators of restoration succession of forestry-drained peatlands 1 2 3 1 1 Anuliina Putkinen* , Heli Juottonen , Eeva-Stiina Tuittila , Krista Peltoniemi , Anne Tolvanen , 1 2 1 Tero Tuomivirta , Kim Yrjälä , Hannu Fritze 1 2 3 Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Eastern Finland, Finland 110 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 182B Bioprospecting of biosurfactant-producing bacteria in Trindade Island soils Victor Pylro*, Fábio da Silva, Gisely Barcelos, Carlos Schaefer, Marcos Tótola Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil 183B A comparative study of microbial responses to an aromatic pollutant (anthracene) in Pinus halepensis litters from Mediterranean coastal and inland areas Leila Qasemian*, Daniel Guiral, Anne-Marie Farnet Mediterranean Institute of marine and terreastrial Biodiversity and Ecology, UMR CNRS 7263IRD 273, Marseille France, France 184B Selection of highly specialized microbial communities in Biological Sand Filters treating Acid Mine Drainage 1 2 3 4 Jean-Baptiste Ramond* , Pamela J Welz , Don A Cowan , Stephanie G Burton , Marla I 1 Tuffin 1 Institute for Microbial Biotechnlogy and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western 2 Cape, South Africa, Biocatalysis and Technical Biology Research Group, Cape Peninsula 3 University of Technology, South Africa, Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, South 4 Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa 185B Impact of crop rotation and fertilization on free-living diazotrophs in wheat rotations Kate Reardon*, Hero Gollany USDA-ARS, United States 186B Changes in soil microbial activities under conservation agricultural practices in South African maize production 1 1 2 Owen Rhode , Andre Nel* , Carlos Bezuidenhout 1 2 Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops Institute, South Africa, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Unit of Environmental Sciences and Management, North–West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa 187B Selection of enzymes for the development and validation of multi-enzymatic indicators of agricultural soil quality 1 1 2 2 3 4 1 5 Wassila Riah* , J Trap , N Cheviron , C Mougin , S Criquet , S Houot , M Legras , J. F Vian , 6 6 6 7 1 1 A Bispo , C Grand , L Galsomies , G Peres , K Laval , I Trinsoutrot-Gattin 1 2 Engineering school in agriculture esitpa, biosol, France, PESSAC, INRA de Versailles3 4 Grignon, France, IMEP UMR CNRS 6116, France, UMR Environnement et Grandes 5 6 7 Cultures, INRA de Versailles, France ISARA-Lyon, France ADEME, France University Rennes, UMR CNRS France 188B Metagenomic investigation of metal and antimicrobial co-resistance of prolonged copper exposed soil Michael Roggenbuck*, Lars H Hansen, Søren J. Sørensen University of Copenhagen, Denmark 189B Action of antimicrobial substances produced by Streptomyces sp. 235 against a biofilm of Desulfovibrio alaskensis NCIMB 13491 Juliana Rosa, Elisa Korenblum, Fernanda Abreu, Ulysses Lins, Lucy Seldin, Rosalie Coelho* Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 190B Warming altered the effects of grazing on nitrogen-associated functional gene abundance in an alpine meadow of the Tibet Plateau, China 1 1 2 3 1 Yichao Rui* , Zhihong Xu , Yanfen Wang , Shiping Wang , Chengrong Chen 1 2 Griffith University, Australia, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 China, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 111 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 191B Mineralogy contributes to heterogeneous bacterial sediment communities 1 2 1 Wilfred Röling* , Egija Zaura , Susana Direito 1 2 VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), Netherlands 192B Nitrifying community in permafrost-affected soils on Samoylov Island in the Lena River Delta, Siberia 1 2 2 3 Tina Sanders* , Claudia Fiencke , Eva Maria Pfeiffer , Eva Spieck 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany, University of Hamburg, Institute for soil sience, 3 Germany, University of Hamburg, Germany 193B Interactions of the herbicide simazine and microbial communities in agricultural soils 1 1 1 1 1 2 Michael Seeger* , Marcela Hernandez , V Morgante , C Flores , M González , Z Jia , R 2 Conrad 1 2 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile, Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg 194B Improvement of the detection of alkane monooxygenase AlKB genes in cultivated bacteria and in environmental samples using a combination of alkB primers Lucy Seldin, Diogo Jurelevicius*, Vanessa Alvarez, Raquel Peixoto, Alexandre Rosado Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil 195B Comparison of DNA extraction methods for soil Actinobacteria 1 2 3 Angelica Serrano Vázquez* , Horacio Pérez-Juárez , Salvador Rodríguez-Zaragoza , Víctor 3 3 Manuel Rivera-Aguilar , Jesus Bazán-Cuenca 1 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, 3 UNAM. Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala, UNAM, Mexico 196B Biological soil crusts from Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, Mexico 1 2 2 Angelica Serrano Vázquez* , Salvador Rodríguez-Zaragoza , Hector Godinez , Angélica 3 4 2 Serrano-Vázquez , Horacio Pérez-Juárez , Jesús Bazán-Cuenca 1 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores3 Iztacala, UNAM, Mexico, Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, UNAM. Facultad de Estudios 4 Superiores-Iztacala, UNAM, Mexico, Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, UNAM. Intituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico 197B Genetic and physiological structures of bacterial communities in agricultural soil irrigated with untreated wastewater for more than 40 years Tianlin Shen*, Jiulan Dai, Renqing Wang Shandong University, China 198B Impact of soil fertilization with "alpeorujo" transformed by Coriolopsis rigida on culturable bacterial communities 1 2 2 Jose Antonio Siles Martos* , Javier Pascual , Victor González-Menéndez , Inmaculada 1 1 2 Sampedro , Inmaculada García-Romera , Gerald Bills 1 2 Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Spain, Fundación MEDINA, Spain 199B The role of diversity in microbial degradation of pentachlorophenol 1 2 2 1 Aki Sinkkonen* , Tomasz Płociniczak , Magdalena Pacwa-Plociniczak , Sara Ollila , Martin 1 Romantschuk 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Silesia, Poland 200B Site, soil depth or management - what matters for arable soil microbial communities? 1 1 2 3 Timo Sipilä , Kim Yrjälä , Laura Alakukku , Ansa Palojärvi* 1 2 University of Helsinki, Department of Biosciences, Finland, University of Helsinki, 3 Department of Agricultural Sciences, Finland, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Finland 112 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 201B Barley root exudates influence community structure of ammonia oxidisers and nitrification rates in soil 1 1 2 1 Marcin Skiba* , Timothy George , Elizabeth Baggs , Tim Daniell 1 2 The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom 202B Rainfall events rapidly affect extracellular enzyme production and microbial biomass in forest soil Jaroslav Snajdr* Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, Czech Republic 203B Changes of soil microbial communities in Rhizosphere of GM and wild type corn Hong-Gyu Song*, Hwa-Young Lee Kangwon National University, South Korea 204B Comparison of soil microbial communities in Rhizosphere of GM and wild type corn by DGGE Hong-Gyu Song*, Nam-Mi Park Kangwon National University, South Korea 205B Microbial community From Deep Soil Volatile Organic Compound Contaminated Site, Rayong province Manatsawat Sriwichai*, Sakunnee Bovonsombut Dept. of Biology, Thailand 206B Study of bacterial diversity in an agricultural soil Aurore Stroobants*, Bernard Bodson, Daniel Portetelle, Micheline Vandenbol Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech - ULg, Belgium 207B Impact of depth and soil compaction on bacterial diversity in soil 1 1 2 2 1 Aurore Stroobants* , Florine Degrune , Claire Olivier , Christian Roisin , Bernard Bodson , 1 1 Daniel Portetelle , Micheline Vandenbol 1 2 Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech - ULg, Belgium, Centre wallon de Recherches agronomiques, Belgium 208B Quantification of metal resistance genes in sedimentary bacterial populations 1 2 1 1 Roosa Stéphanie* , Gabriel Billon , Ruddy Wattiez , David Gillan 1 2 University of Mons, Belgium, Laboratoire de géosystèmes, France 209B Consequences of tree dieback caused by bark beetle outbreak on the structure and function of soil fungal community in a coniferous forest soil Martina Štursová*, Jaroslav Šnajdr, Petr Baldrian Institute of Microbiology AS CR, v.v.i., Czech Republic 210B Inhibition effect of aluminum complex on soil bacteria at neutral pH condition 1 1 1 2 2 Koichi Suto* , Yasuyuki Namioka , Chihiro Inoue , Shinichi Miura , Masato Yamaguchi 1 2 Tohoku University, Japan, Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd, Japan 211B Diversity of insecticide-degrading Burkholderia in sugarcane field soils - The Burkholderia symbionts which confer insecticide resistance on stinkbugs live in soil 1 2 3 2 1 Kanako Tago* , Yoshitomo Kikuchi , Atsushi Nagayama , Tomoyuki Hori , Masahito Hayatsu 1 2 National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan, National Institute of Advanced 3 Industrial Science and Technology, Japan, Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, Japan 212B Bioremediation of multicontaminated soil in microcosm and batch bioreactor: a bacterial community study 1 2 1 3 4 1 Natalia Taketani* , Rodrigo Taketani , Andrea Rizzo , Siu Tsai , Selma Leite , Claudia Cunha 1 2 3 4 CETEM / MCT, Brazil, EMBRAPA, Brazil, CENA / USP, Brazil, EQ / UFRJ, Brazil 113 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 213B Carbon biosequestration potential and microbial stimulation by pyrolized carbon (Biochar) in soil Neslihan Tas*, Cristina Castanha, Ken Reichl, Marc Fischer, Margaret Torn, Janet Jansson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, JGI, JBEI, United States 214B Changes in soil microbial community and nitrogen cycling in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus urograndis and Acacia mangium culminates in soil nitrate increase 1 2 1 Caio Tavora Coelho da Costa Rachid* , Fabiano de Carvalho Balieiro , Raquel Silva Peixoto , 3 2 1 Marisa de Cassia Piccolo , Guilherme Montandon Chaer , Alexandre Soares Rosado 1 2 3 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Embrapa, Brazil, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil 215B Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degradation and effects on soil microbial communities 1 1 1 1 Isabelle Trinsoutrot Gattin* , Nadia Laurent , Caroline Dubois , Lisa Castel , Marthe Akpa2 1 3 1 2 Vinceslas , Christophe Gangneux , Florence Portet-Koltalo , Isabelle Gattin , Fabrice Bureau , 1 Marc Legras 1 Unité Agri'Terr laboratoire BioSol, Esitpa- Ecole d'ingénieurs en 2 3 Agriculture, France, Laboratoire d'écologie Upres-Ea Ecodiv, France, UMR 6014 COBRA, France 216B Microbial biomass and enzyme activities in soils along a chronosequence in temperate rainforest of New Zealand 1 2 2 1 Stephanie Turner* , Robert Mikutta , Georg Guggenberger , Axel Schippers 1 2 Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Germany, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Bodenkunde, Germany 217B The effect of seven different vegetation types on the composition of the litter and soil microbial community Michaela Urbanova*, Jaroslav Snajdr, Petr Baldrian Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic 218B Microbial functional diversity and stability of soil decomposition activity 1 2 3 Masayuki Ushio* , Takeshi Miki , Teri C. Balser 1 2 3 Kyoto University, Japan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, The University of Florida, USA 219B A survey on the occurrence of dermatophytes in recreational beach sand 1 2 1 2 A. Velegraki , M.A. Efstratiou , M. Arabatzis , Panayiota Prodromou* 1 2 Mycology Lab, Dept of Microbiology, Medical School, Univ of Athens, Greece, University of Aegean 220B Role of the Agr communication system in adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes populations to soil Anne-Laure Vivant* INRA, France 221B Transformation of polysaccharides and phenolic compounds by soil actinobacteria 1 2 1 Tomáš Větrovský* , Kari Steffen , Petr Baldrian 1 2 Institute of Microbiology AS CR, Czech Republic, University of Helsinki, Finland 222B Iron-oxidizers in bacterial colonies formed on surface of paddy soil 1 1 2 3 1 Takeshi Watanabe* , Susumu Asakawa , Hiroaki Sumida , Do Minh Nhut , Katsuya Yano , 4 Makoto Kimura 1 2 3 Nagoya University, Japan, Nihon University, Japan, Kien Giang Agriculture Extension 4 Center, Viet Nam, Northeast Institue of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 114 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August 223B Microbial community structure of reintroduced native foraging animal pits in arid Australia 1 2 1 1 Ivan Wong* , David Eldridge , Mark Brown , Brett Neilan 1 Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South 2 Wales, Australia, Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia 224B Isolation and characterization of octachlorinated dibenzofuran-degrading bacteria from dioxins-contaminated soil Jer-Horng Wu, Wei-Yu Chen* National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan 225B The impacts of vinclozolin on soil microbial population Yun-Hsuan Wu*, Chung-Ting Lu, Yu-Kai Chin, Jui-Hung Yen Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan 226B Examination of the biases in soil bacterial and archaeal community analysis using paired-end Illumina sequencing Erika Yashiro*, Eric Pinto, Jan van der Meer University of Lausanne, Switzerland 227B Differential responses of experimental warming on soil microbial communities between two ecosystems 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Mengting Yuan* , Lei Cheng , Liyou Wu , Zhili He , Ye Deng , Kai Xue , Tong Yuan , Joy Van 1 2 1 3 1 Nostrand , Edward Schuur , Yiqi Luo , James Tiedje , Jizhong Zhou 1 Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Science, 2 3 University of Oklahoma, USA, Department of Biology, University of Florida, USA, Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, USA 228B Partitioning of methane production in rice field soil into rice straw, soil and rice root organic matter Quan Yuan*, Judith Pump, Ralf Conrad Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 229B Microorganisms’ characterizarion from four mine tailings 1 1 2 Gisela Yupanqui* , Alvarino Bustamante , Miryam More 1 2 Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, Peru, San Martin de Porres University, Peru 230B Tolerance evaluations of rhizospheric actinomycetes to lead growing in vitro Francisco Javier Zavala Diaz de la Serna*, Rosario Peralta-Perez, Pamela E. Silva-Escalante, Guadalupe Virginia Nevarez-Moorillon, Quintin Rascón-Cruz Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua/Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Mexico 231B Degradation and detoxification of trichothecene mycotoxins by soil bacteria Ting Zhou* Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada -Guelph Food Research Center, Canada 232B Anaerobic methane oxidization in peat ecosystems: enrichment and characterization of new nitrite dependent methane-oxidizing bacteria 1 2 2 2 3 3 Baoli Zhu* , Gijs van Dijk , Christian Fritz , Fons Smolders , Mike Jetten , Katharina Ettwig 1 2 Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, Department of Ecology, Radboud University 3 Nijmegen, Netherlands, Department of Microbiology, Department of Ecology, Netherlands 115 PS16 – Soil Microbiology and Heterogeneity Tuesday 21 August PS17 – The Starving Majority; life at low energy flux 233B Quantification of total microbial activity in subsurface sediments using a tritium-based hydrogenase enzyme assay Rishi Ram Adhikari*, Jens Kallmeyer University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Germany 234B 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid concentration and additional carbon source determine the measured centimetre-scale vertical variability of mineralization potential around the groundwater table Meriç Batıoğlu-Pazarbaşı*, Sebastian R. Sørensen, Jens Aamand Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland / Department of Geochemistry, Denmark 235B Microbiology of deep stratified sediments on the New Jersey shallow shelf (IODP Exp. 313) Anja Breuker, Susanne Stadler, Axel Schippers* Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany 236B Identification of organisms involved in methanogenic toluene biodegradation using stable isotope probing 1 2 1 1 Jane Fowler* , Maria-Luisa Gutierrez-Zamora , Xiaoli Dong , Christoph W. Sensen , Mike 2 1 Manefield , Lisa Gieg 1 2 University of Calgary, Canada, Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, UNSW, Australia 237B In Caulobacter crescentus, the artificial production of the alarmone (p)ppGpp retards cell differenciation and initiation of chromosome replication Diego Gonzalez*, Justine Collier Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Switzerland 238B Enrichment and characterization of high- and low-affinity herbicide-degrading bacteria from a groundwater aquifer 1 2 1 2 3 Erkin Gozdereliler* , Nico Boon , Jens Aamand , Karen De Roy , Michael Granitsiotis , Hans4 1 Jørgen Albrechtsen , Sebastian Reinhold Sørensen 1 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry, Denmark, 2 3 Ghent University, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Belgium, Helmotz Zentrum Munchen, 4 Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Germany, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, Denmark 240B Microbial response of dedicated pesticide degraders to low and poorly bio-available concentrations of pesticides 1 1 1 1 Steffi Herrmann* , Aswini Sekhar , Oanh Thi Phi Nguyen , Benjamin Horemans , Jens 2 1 Aamand , Dirk Springael 1 Division of Soil and Water Management, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2 KU Leuven, Belgium, Geological Survey of Greenland and Denmark, Denmark 241B Enrichment and characterization of sulfate reducing bacteria from subseafloor sediments of the Nankai Trough seismogenic zone 1 2 2 1 Anna Kaksonen* , Stephanie Austin , Timothy McCredden , Christina Morris , Elizabeth 2 3 Watkin , Fumio Inagaki 1 2 CSIRO Land and Water, Australia, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, 3 Australia, Geomicrobiology Group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 242B What controls microbial cell abundance and distribution in deep subseafloor sediments? Jens Kallmeyer* University of Potsdam, Germany 116 PS17 – The Starving Majority Tuesday 21 August 243B Vertical profiling of genetic trait in the ocean drilling sediments up to 100 m depth 1 2 1 1 1 Mikihiko Kawai* , Atsushi Toyoda , Yoshihiro Takaki , Shinro Nishi , Wataru Arai , Ikuo 3 4 1 1 1 1 Uchiyama , Takehiko Itoh , Taishi Tsubouchi , Yuki Morono , Kan Aoike , Ken Takai , Asao 2 1 1 Fujiyama , Fumio Inagaki , Hideto Takami 1 2 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan, National 3 Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan, National 4 Institute of Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 244B Estimating bacterial activity and turnover of vegetative cells, bacterial necromass and TOC in Aarhus Bay sediment 1 1 1 2 2 Alice Langerhuus* , Hans Røy , Mark Lever , Fumio Inagaki , Yuki Morono , Bo B. 1 3 Jørgensen , Bente Aa. Lomstein 1 Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2 Geomicrobiology group, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine3 Earth Science and Technology, Japan, Section for Microbiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark 245B Insights into the physiology of Geobacter metallireducens at low growth rates 1 2 3 4 3 Sviatlana Marozava* , Wilfred Röling , Jana Seifert , Robert Küffner , Martin von Bergen , 1 Rainer Meckenstock 1 Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Germany, 2 Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands, Department Proteomics, Helmholtz Center for Environmental 4 Research GmbH – UFZ, Germany, Lehr- und Forschungseinheit Bioinformatik, Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany 246B Active microbial eukaryotes amidst a marine subsurface RNA paleome 1 2 1 William Orsi* , Jennifer Biddle , Virginia Edgcomb 1 2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, University of Delaware, USA 247B Biofilm formation of the 2, 6-dichlorobenzamide (BAM) degrading Aminobacter sp. strain MSH1 at macropollutant and micropollutant BAM concentrations 1 1 2 1 Aswini Sekhar* , Benjamin Horemans , Jens Aamand , Dirk Springael 1 2 Katholic University (KU) Leuven, Belgium, GEUS, Denmark PS18 – The Unknowns: rare ones and unculturables 050B Entrapment of single cell anaerobic microorganisms in alginate microbeads - towards cultivation of the "un-culturable" 1 2 1 Rosa Maria Aragão Peralta* , Maria Teresa Alvarez Aliaga , Bo Mattiasson 1 2 Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, Sweden, Instituto de Investigaciones Fármaco Bioquímicas, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia 051B Single cell genomics of uncultured oral Chloroflexi, Deltaproteobacteria and Synergistes 1 1 1 2 2 Alisha Campbell* , James Campbell , Steve Allman , Tanja Woyke , Alexander Sczyrba , Cliff 3 3 3 1 Beall , Ann Griffen , Eugene Leys , Mircea Podar 1 2 University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States, DOE Joint Genome 3 Institute, United States, Ohio State University, United States 117 PS18 – The Unknowns: rare ones and unculturables Tuesday 21 August 052B Single-cell genomic characterization of human oral representatives of the uncultured SR1 and TM7 bacterial phyla 1 1 1 1 2 James Campbell* , Alisha G. Campbell , Steve Allman , James G. Elkins , Tanja Woyke , 2 2 1 Patrick Schwientek , Alexander Sczyrba , Mircea Podar 1 2 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA 053B New culturing methods to observe microbial population growth at low concentrations of environmental pollutants 1 1 2 Kamila Czechowska-Kusio* , Barbara Kazmierczak , Jan van der Meer 1 2 Yale University, USA, Lausanne University, Switzerland 054B Gammaproteobacterial methanotrophs are rare biosphere members in acidic wetlands of Northern Russia Olga Danilova*, Svetlana Dedysh Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Russian Federation 055B Detection of novel microbes correlated with ammonia concentration in soil Austin Davis-Richardson*, Kateryna Zhalnina, Eric Triplett University of Florida, United States 056B Stories from the rare biosphere: thermophilic endospore-forming bacteria in Aarhus Bay sediment 1 2 1 1 1 Julia R. de Rezende* , Casey Hubert , Kasper Kjeldsen , Alice Langerhuus , Bente Lomstein , 1 1 Hans Røy , Bo Barker Jørgensen 1 2 Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 057B Managing microbial communities for reconstructing complex metagenomes 1 2 3 3 1 Tom Delmont* , Emmanuel Prestat , Eric Pelletier , Denis LePaslier , Pascal Simonet , 1 Timothy Vogel 1 2 3 Ecole centrale de Lyon, France, LBNL, USA, Genoscope, France 058B Aggregate scale distribution and cultivation of Gemmatimonadetesfrom agricultural soil Mariam Fawaz*, Jennifer DeBruyn, Chelsea DeLay, Sean Schaeffer, Mark Radosevich University of Tennessee, United States 239B Isolation of 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid degrading bacteria from groundwater sediments using a novel low substrate flux approach 1 2 3 1 Erkin Gozdereliler* , Arnaud Dechesne , Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen , Rebecca Emilie Sharp , 1 2 2 1 Jens Aamand , Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen , Barth Smets , Sebastian Reinhold Sørensen 1 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry, Denmark, 2 Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, Denmark, 3 University of Copenhagen, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Denmark 059B Rarity and diversity of human-associated Archaea revisited - evidence of uncultured organisms related to Thermoplasmatales in human periodontal biofilms Hans-Peter Horz*, Ilse Seyfarth, Georg Conrads RWTH Aachen University; Division of Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Germany 060B Isolation and characterization of the OCS116 alpha-proteobacterial clade from the Red Sea Francy Jimenez*, Ulrich Stingl, David Kamanda Ngugi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia 118 PS18 – The Unknowns: rare ones and unculturables Tuesday 21 August 061B Microbial community structure and ecophysiology of candidate division TM7 in activated sludge 1 1 1 1 Tomonori Kindaichi* , Shiro Yamaoka , Noriatsu Ozaki , Akiyoshi Ohashi , Jeppe Lund 2 2 Nielsen , Per Halkjær Nielsen 1 2 Hiroshima University, Japan, Aalborg University, Denmark 062B Enigmatic dendriform planctomycetes from northern wetlands: isolation and characterization 1 1 2 1 Irina Kulichevskaya* , Yulia Serkebaeva , Werner Liesack , Svetlana Dedysh 1 2 S.N. Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, MaxPlanck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany 063B Unculturable state of Ralstonia solanacearum by copper treatment showed distinct phenotypic changes Seon-Woo Lee*, Hyun Gi Kong, Hae Young Um, Hyoung Ju Lee, Eunsook Chung, Jai-Heon Lee Dong-A University, South Korea 064B Selective cultivation of nitrifying bacteria present in drinking water treatment plants 1 1 1 2 1 Kengo Momiuchi* , Hirotsugu Fujitani , Norisuke Ushiki , Yoshiteru Aoi , Satoshi Tsuneda 1 2 Waseda University, Japan, Hiroshima University, Japan 065B Mesotoga lineages: important bacterial constituents of the 'rare biosphere' in polluted environments 1 1 2 2 1 3 Camilla Nesbo* , Nidal A. Laban , Jane Fowler , Lisa Gieg , Julia Foght , Olga Zhaxybayeva 1 2 3 University of Alberta, Canada, University of Calgary, Canada, West Virginia University, United States 066B Functional and structural characteristics of a new esterase isolated from oil diesel contaminated soil 1 2 1 3 Mariana Pereira* , Thaís Maester , Andrea Fernandes , Eliana Lemos 1 2 3 Brazilian Laboratory of Biosciences LNBio, Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, University of Sao Paulo State, Brazil 067B Investigating the effect of methane mitigating diets on rumen microbiota using untargeted massively parallel sequencing 1 2 1 Elizabeth Ross* , Peter Moate , Ben Hayes 1 2 BioSciences Research - Department of Primary Industries, Australia, Department of Primary Industries, Australia 068B Development of Diffusion Growth chambers for the isolation of novel spongeassociated bacteria 1 2 3 Peter Schupp* , Susanna Whitfield , Carsten Thoms 1 2 3 University of Oldenburg, Germany, University of Guam Marine Laboratory, Guam, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany 069B Inability of even deep genome sequencing to detect a rare variant in a "pure culture" Pravin Shrestha*, Derek R Lovley University of Massachusetts, United States 070B The activated sludge bulking filamentous organism Eikelboom morphotype 0803 embraces two distinct phylotypes within the Chloroflexi 1 2 1 1 Lachlan Speirs* , Tadashi Nittami , Joseph Tucci , Robert Seviour 1 2 Latrobe University, Australia, Yokohama National University, Japan 071B Screening of verrucomicrobia from soil using metabolic characteristics Taku Suenaga*, Shigeto Otsuka, Hideomi Itoh, Kazuo Isobe, Keishi Senoo The University of Tokyo, Japan 119 PS18 – The Unknowns: rare ones and unculturables Tuesday 21 August 072B Characteristics of a 4-chlorophenol degrading, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a river sediment contaminated with chlorinated solvents 1 2 1 3 1 Daisuke Suzuki* , Xinxin Cui , Zhiling Li , Chunfang Zhang , Arata Katayama 1 2 EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Japan, Department of Civil Engineering and 3 Architecture, Nagoya University, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan 073B Comparative physiological analysis of previously uncultured Nitrospira strains isolated from wastewater treatment plants 1 1 2 1 Norisuke Ushiki* , Hirotsugu Fujitani , Yoshiteru Aoi , Satoshi Tsuneda 1 2 Waseda university, Japan, Hiroshima university, Japan 074B Abundance and novel lineages of Thraustochytrids in Hawaiian waters 1 2 3 2 David Wang* , Qian Li , Xin Wang , Nianzhi Jiao 1 2 3 Peking University, China, Xiamen University, China, University of Hawaii, USA 075B Genome comparision between culturable and nonculturable Methanococcus maripaludis strains 1 2 3 4 4 5 Xiaoyi Wang* , Paul Greenfield , Paul Monis , Dongmei Li , Phil Hendry , Tara Sutherland 1 2 CSIRO Land and Water, Australia, CSIRO Mathematics Informatics and Statistics, Australia, 3 4 Australian Water Quality Centre, SA Water, Australia, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences, 5 Australia, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia PS19 – Virus-Bacteria Interactions 351B Single cell perspective of phage infection of marine Pseudoalteromonas using phageFISH - a novel method for gene specific detection of both intracellular and free viruses 1 2 1 1 1 Elke Allers , Cristina Moraru* , Melissa Duhaime , Erica Beneze , Natalie Solonenko , Jimena 2 2 1 Barrero Canosa , Rudolf Amann , Matthew B. Sullivan 1 2 University of Arizona, USA, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 352B Viral manipulation of the genetic landscape of hydrothermal vent microbial communities 1 2 1 Rika Anderson* , William Brazelton , John Baross 1 2 University of Washington, United States, East Carolina University, United States 353B Prochlorococcus strains resistant to phage continue evolving toward an improved growth rate and reduced resistance range Sarit Avrani*, Daniel A Schwartz, Debbie Lindell Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 354B Employing UV and filtration systems in the treatment and removal of the pathogenic noroviruses from sewage waste 1 2 3 4 2 5 6 Maria Barrett , K. Fitzhenry , V. O'Flaherty , W. Dore , M. Cormican , G. Collins* , E. Clifford 1 Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, School of Natural Science, 2 3 National University of Ireland, Ireland, Medical Microbiology, UHG, Ireland, College of 4 5 Engineering and Informatics, Ireland, Marine Institute, Ireland, Microbial Ecophysiology 6 Laboratory, School of Natural Sciences, Ireland, Ryan Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, Ireland 120 PS19 – Virus-Bacteria Interactions Tuesday 21 August 355B Interaction between viruses and prokaryotes throughout the water column in the Atlantic Ocean 1 1 2 1 1 Daniele De Corte* , Eva Sintes , Taichi Yokokawa , Thomas Reinthaler , Gerhard J Herndl 1 2 University of Vienna, Austria, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands 356B Control of the biofilm-forming bacteria by phages isolates of activated sludge from refinery wastewater treatment systems 1 1 1 1 2 Sergio De Paula* , Roberto D Sousa , Vinicius D Silva , Livia C Fidelis , Cynthia C Silva , 3 3 3 2 Maira O Sousa , Rodrigo S Sousa , Ana Paula Torres , Valeria M Oliveira 1 2 Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, Campinas University 3 UNICAMP, Brazil, Petrobras, Brazil 357B Quantification of temperate Rhizobiophages and associated host populations in subsurface sediments of ODP Leg 201 Tim Engelhardt*, Heribert Cypionka, Bert Engelen Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres, Germany 358B Abundance and morphology of thermophilic phages in Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park 1 1 2 Hallgerd Eydal* , John R Spear , Lise Øvreås 1 2 Colorado School of Mines, United States, University of Bergen, Norway 359B A metagenomic survey of viral communities in four perennial ponds of the Mauritanian Sahara Laura Fancello* Université d'Aix-Marseille, France 360B Metagenomic comparison of the viral communities in the deep Atlantic and Mediterranean waters Juan Antonio Garcia*, Gerhard J. Herndl, Christian Winter University of Vienna, Austria 361B Tectivirus preying on the Bacillus cereus group: prevalence, phage-host interactions and host life-traits changes Annika Gillis*, Jacques Mahillon Universite catholique de Louvain-ELIM, Belgium 362B Mutations in porin-like genes in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8109 confer resistance to T7-like podoviruses Eyal Greengrass*, Debbie Lindell Technion, Israel 363B Sequential and simultaneous application of bacteriophages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro and in waxmoth larvae 1 2 3 2 4 Alex Hall* , Daniel De Vos , Ville-Petri Friman , Jean-Paul Pirnay , Angus Buckling 1 2 ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Laboratory for Molecular and Cellular Technology, Brussels, 3 4 Belgium, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, University of Exeter, United Kingdom 364B Dynamics of bacteriophages in supernatant of wastewater treatment processes Yang He*, Satoh Hiroyasu, Mino Takashi The University of Tokyo, Japan 365B Viral impacts on bacterioplankton community gene transcription in the central Gulf of Maine Ian Hewson*, Erin Eggleston Cornell University, United States 121 PS19 – Virus-Bacteria Interactions Tuesday 21 August 366B Bacteroidetes phage genomes suggest that multiple novel phage types are widespread in the global oceans 1 1 2 3 Karin Holmfeldt* , Natalie Solonenko , Nathan Verberkmoes , Lasse Riemann , Matthew 1 Sullivan 1 2 3 University of Arizona, USA, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 367B Ecogenomics of marine picocyanobacterial podoviruses 1 2 1 Sijun Huang* , Nianzhi Jiao , Feng Chen 1 2 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States, Xiamen University, China 368B Mechanisms leading to establishment of superinfective Pf4 phage in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 biofilms 1 1 2 1 Janice Gee Kay Hui* , Anne Mai-Prochnow , Janosch Klebensberger , Diane McDougald , 1 1 1 1 Kerensa McElroy , Torsten Thomas , Staffan Kjelleberg , Scott Rice 1 2 Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, University of New South Wales, Australia, Institute of Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany 369B Understanding the interaction between a deep-sea filamentous phage SW1 with its host Shewanella piezotolerans WP3 1 2 2 Huahua Jian* , Xiang Xiao , Fengping Wang 1 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Science & Biotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 370B Isolation and genomic characterization of four bacteriophages infecting marine bacteria belonging to the Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes Ilnam Kang*, Hani Jang, Hyun-Myung Oh, Jang-Cheon Cho Inha University, South Korea 371B Metagenomic study of uncultured viruses in sea cucumbers and shrimps Kyoung-Ho Kim*, Eun Soo Noh Pukyong National University, South Korea 372B Infection pattern of Microcystis cyanophage in a eutrophic pond Shigeko Kimura*, Takashi Yoshida, Naohiko Hosoda, Takashi Honda, Sotaro Kuno, Rikae Kamiji, Ryoya Hashimoto, Yoshihiko Sako Kyoto University, Japan 373B A comparative analysis of multiple roseophage infecting a single host from a genomics perspective 1 2 1 Thomas Lane* , Charles Budinoff , Alison Buchan 1 2 University of Tennessee, Genome Sciences and Technology, United States, University of Tennessee, Microbiology Department, United States 374B Role of oxidative stress on the conversion of the filamentous bacteriophage Pf4 of Pseudomonas aeruginosato a lytic form during biofilm development 1 1 2 3 2 Anne Mai-Prochnow* , Janice Hui , Staffan Kjelleberg , Diane McDougald , Scott Rice 1 2 University of New South Wales / Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation, Australia, University of New South Wales / Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and Nanyang Technological University / 3 The Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Australia, University of New South Wales / Centre for Marine Bio-Innovation and Nanyang Technological University / The Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Australia 122 PS19 – Virus-Bacteria Interactions Tuesday 21 August 375B Proteomic analysis of interactions between filamentous Pf4 phage with its P. aeruginosa PAO1 host 1 2 1 1 Manisha Mukherjee* , Ling Zhong , Staffan Kjelleberg , Scott A. Rice 1 2 Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Singapore, University of New South Wales, Australia 376B Are certain viral genes more likely to become CRISPR spacers? Daniel Nasko*, Shawn Polson, Jaysheel Bhavsar, Eric Wommack University of Delaware, United States 377B Induction of a viral community infecting nitrate reducing bacteria within a nitrate and uranium contaminated aquifer Donald Pan*, Rachel Watson, Zheng Huan Tan, Daniel Snow, Karrie Weber University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA 378B Metagenomics of Phage-Harbored Metabolic Genes in the Red-Sea Alon Philosof*, Oded Beja Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 379B Heat output from marine microbial communities Peter Salamon*, Essmaiil Djamali, James Nulton, Peter Turner, Forest Rohwer San Diego State University, United States 380B Effect of viruses on bacterial community structure and single-cell carbon and nitrogen assimilation 1 1 1 2 Abdul Rahiman Sheik* , Gaute Lavik , Phyllis Lam , Corina P.D. Brussaard , Marcel M.M. 1 Kuypers 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands 381B Dynamics and diversity of marine viruses and prokaryotes along a depth gradient in Sognefjorden, Norway Julia Endresen Storesund*, Ruth-Anne Sandaa, Svein Rune Erga, Siv Prestegard, Frede Thingstad University of Bergen, Norway 382B Habitat dependent virus–bacteria interactions 1 1 2 2 Sigitas Sulcius* , Ricardas Paskauskas , Jamileh Javidpour , Ulrich Sommer 1 2 Klaipeda University, Lithuania, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany 383B Characterisation and diversity of freshwater cyanophages in water bodies that support harmful cyanobacterial blooms Siobhan Watkins*, Joy Watts, Paul Hayes University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom 384B Selective parasites improve host evolvability Hywel Williams* University of Exeter, United Kingdom 385B Virioplankton diversity and genomic repertoire across the Baltic Sea salinity gradient 1 1 1 1 Lisa Zeigler Allen* , Christopher Dupont , Andrey Tovchigrechko , Mathangi Thiagarajan , 1 1 2 2 2 Johannes Goll , Jeff Hoffman , John Larsson , Mark Eriksson , Karolina Ininbergs , Birgitta 2 1 1 Bergman , Shibu Yooseph , Craig Venter 1 2 J. Craig Venter Institute, United States, Stockholm University, Sweden 123 PS19 – Virus-Bacteria Interactions Thursday 23 August PS20 – Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology 001A Grinder: a versatile amplicon and shotgun sequence simulator 1 1 2 1 1 Florent Angly* , Dana Willner , Forest Rohwer , Philip Hugenholtz , Gene Tyson 1 2 Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, Australia, San Diego State University, USA 002A Comprehensive Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in River Sediment, Well Water and Soil Microbial Communities Using Metagenomic DNA Sequencing 1 2 2 1 Johan Bengtsson* , Fredrik Boulund , Erik Kristiansson , DG Joakim Larsson 1 2 University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 003A Semantic tools for the management of phototrophic biofilm data Andreas Bohn* Univ Nova Lisboa / Inst Tecnologia Quimica Biologica, Portugal 004A DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase: capturing the functional complement of individual members of microbial communities using reference genomes 1 2 1 1 1 Dylan Chivian* , Folker Meyer , Michael Sneddon , Keith Keller , Paramvir Dehal , Andreas 2 2 2 2 2 Wilke , Narayan Desai , Jared Wilkening , Kevin Keegan , William Trimble , Robert 3 2 1 Cottingham , Rick Stevens , Adam Arkin 1 2 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States, Argonne National Lab, United States, Oak Ridge National Lab, United States 005A Effect of denoising in biological conclusions of amplicon-based microbial community studies 1 2 3 4 Jose C. Clemente Litran* , Daniel McDonald , J. Gregory Caporaso , Rob Knight 1 2 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, USA, Biofrontiers 3 Institute, University of Colorado, USA, Department of Computer Science, Northern Arizona 4 University, USA, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute, USA 006A RDP tools for gene-targeted analysis James Cole*, Benli Chai, Jordan Fish, Qiong Wang, Donna McGarrell, C. Titus Brown, Yanni Sun, James Tiedje Michigan State University, United States 007A Maudules: a new soil oriented Hidden Markov Model database dedicated to functionally bin soil nucleic acids and proteins sequences 1 2 1 3 Maude M. David , Emmanuel Prestat* , Richard S. Canon , Konstantinos Mavromatis , Janet 1 K. Jansson 1 2 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, Kansas State University, USA, Joint Genome Institute, USA 008A Extracellular hydrolases and molecular ecology of Aspergillus species Domenico Davolos*, Biancamaria Pietrangeli INAIL, Department of Productive Plants and Interaction with the Environment (DIPIA), Italy 010A DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase: From genome sequence to evidence-based metabolic models 1 2 2 1 1 Paramvir Dehal* , Chris Henry , Ross Overbeek , Ben Bowen , John-Marc Chandonia , Pavel 1 1 2 1 1 Novichkov , William Riehl , Scott Devoid , Michael Sneddon , Keith Keller , Robert 3 4 2 1 Cottingham , Sergei Maslov , Rick Stevens , Adam Arkin 1 2 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States, Argonne National Lab, United States, Oak 4 Ridge National Laboratory, United States, Brookhaven National Lab, United States 011A Molecular ecological network analyses 1 1 2 1 3 1 Ye Deng* , Yihuei Jiang , Yunfeng Yang , Zhili He , Feng Luo , Jizhong Zhou 1 2 3 University of Oklahoma, USA, Tsinghua University, China, Clemson University, USA 124 PS20 – Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology Thursday 23 August 012A CoNet - a co-occurrence network inference tool Karoline Faust*, Jeroen Raes VIB-VUB, Belgium 013A Scaling microbial ecology software from desktop to cloud computing systems provides new insight into a range of microbial systems 1 1 1 1 Antonio Gonzalez* , Meg Pirrung , Will Van Treuren , Jesse Stombaugh , J. Gregory 2 1 Caporaso , Rob Knight 1 2 University of Colorado at Boulder, United States, Northern Arizona University, USA 014A A Bayesian approximation to the neutral model Keith Harris*, Christopher Quince University of Glasgow, United Kingdom 015A The Diversity of Fungi and Bacteria in Bioaerosols Emitted during Composting of Municipal Solid Waste 1 2 2 2 2 Pin-Jing He , Na Yang* , Fan Lu , Wei Zheng , Li-Ming Shao 1 2 Tongji University, China, Institute of Waste Treatment and Reclamation, Tongji University, China 016A EMSL: A national user facility for cutting-edge environmental and molecular research open to scientists from around the world Matthias Hess*, Donald R. Baer, Nancy J. Hess, Scott E. Baker Washington State University, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA 017A PyroTRF-ID: A novel bioinformatics approach for the indentification of terminalrestriction fragments using microbiome pyrosequencing data 1 1 1 2 2 Christof Holliger* , David Weissbrodt , Noam Shani , Lucas Sinclair , Grégory Lefevbre , 2 3 1 Jacques Rougemont , Pierre Rossi , Julien Maillard 1 2 3 EPFL ENAC IIE LBE, Switzerland, EPFL SV PTECH PTBB, Switzerland, EPFL ENAC IIE GR-CEL, Switzerland 018A Evolution and distribution of key enzymes from the benzoate degradation pathway in metagenomic datasets Valerie Hubalek* Uppsala University, Sweden 019A Crass: identification and assembly of CRISPR loci using unassembled metagenomic sequencing reads Michael Imelfort, Connor Skennerton*, Gene Tyson University of Queensland, Australia 461B FRAGALIGN: Alignment of DNA length polymorphisms by dynamic programming within the R environment. Christopher Jones* Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 188B Clustom: a novel method for clustering metagenome sequences by minimizing overlaps 1 1 2 3 Kyung Mo Kim* , Tae-Kyung Kim , Jeongsu Oh , Soon Gyu Hong 1 2 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea, Chungbuk National 3 University, South Korea, Korea Polar Research Institute, South Korea 020A Beta diversity measurements, sequencing error, and complexity in microbial gene surveys Justin Kuczynski* University of Colorado, United States 125 PS20 – Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology Thursday 23 August 021A MeTaxa: an ultra-fast and accurate taxonomic classifier for metagenomic sequences Chengwei Luo*, Luis Rodriguez-R, Konstantinos Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 022A Mobile gene pool in long-term copper polluted soil Wenting Luo*, Michael Roggenbuck, Lars H. Hansen, Søren J. Sørensen, Leise Riber University of Copenhagen, Denmark 023A AXIOME and SSUnique: new computational tools for automated exploration of microbial diversity and taxonomic novelty Michael Lynch*, Andre Masella, Michael Hall, Andrea Bartram, Josh Neufeld University of Waterloo, Canada 024A Characterization and molecular modeling of a lipolytic enzyme from metagenomic library of soil contaminated with of petroleum hydrocarbons 1 2 3 Thaís Maester* , Mariana Pereira , Eliana Lemos 1 2 3 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Universidade de São Paulo/ LNBio, Brazil, UNESP/Dpto de Tecnologia, Brazil 025A High resolution shotgun metagenomic analysis of diel virioplankton dynamics 1 1 2 1 1 Rachel Marine* , Daniel Nasko , Shannon Williamson , Shawn Polson , Eric Wommack 1 2 University of Delaware, United States, Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper, United States 026A Refactoring Greengenes 1 2 3 4 Daniel McDonald* , Rob Knight , Todd DeSantis , Phil Hugenholtz 1 Department of Computer Science and Biofrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, USA, 2 3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boulder, USA Department of Bioinformatics, Second 4 Genome Inc., San Bruno, USA Australian Centre for Ecogenomics, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Australia 027A Metagenomics and microbial proteases Laura Morris* Cardiff University, United Kingdom 028A Characterization of the diversity and prevalence of antibiotic resistance gene determinants in the environment using a metagenomic approach Joseph Nesme*, Sébastien Cécillon, Tom O. Delmont, Pascal Simonet, Jean-Michel Monier Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France 029A Pyrotrimmer: a user-friendly software for pre-processing multiplex pyrosequencing data 1 2 3 Jeongsu Oh* , Soon Gyu Hong , Kyung Mo Kim 1 2 Chungbuk National University, South Korea, Korea Polar Research Institute, South 3 Korea, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea 030A Reconstruction of metagenomes from 16S rRNA gene sequence in biofilm formation process 1 1 1 2 1 Shujiro Okuda* , Yuki Tsuchiya , Chiho Kiriyama , Masumi Itoh , Hisao Morisaki 1 2 Ritsumeikan University, Japan, Hokkaido University, Japan 031A The gut microbiota of lean cloned and non-cloned pigs during diet-induced obesity 1 1 2 1 Rebecca Pedersen* , Anders Andersen , Jan Stagsted , Mette Boye 1 2 DTU-Veterinary Institute, Denmark, University of Aarhus-Department of Food Science, Denmark 126 PS20 – Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology Thursday 23 August 032A The abundance and expression of secondary metabolism genes in marine plankton reveals new phylogenetic diversity of micro-eukaryote ketosynthase domains 1 2 2 1 1 Kevin Penn* , Lisa Allen , Andrew Allen , Nadine Ziemert , Paul Jensen 1 2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA, The J. Craig Venter Institute, USA 033A Megx.net: Marine ecological genomics in the light of Micro B3 1 1 1 1 1 Julia Schnetzer* , Renzo Kottmann , Sebastian Groß , Michael Schneider , Pelin Yilmaz , Pier 1 2 1 Luigi Buttigieg , Aleksandar Pop Ristov , Frank Oliver Glöckner 1 2 Max Planck Institute for marine microbiology, Germany, InterWorks, Macedonia 211B Metaproteome analysis of rat microbiota reveals gut section resolved species distribution and enzymatic functionalities 1 2 2 3 2 4 Jana Seifert* , S.b. Haange , N. Schlichting , H. Till , A. Oberbach , M. von Bergen 1 2 UFZ-Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research GmbH, Germany, Leipzig University Medical Centre, Integrated Research and Treatment Center (IFB) Adiposity Diseases, 3 4 Germany, University Hospital of Leipzig, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Germany, UFZHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Proteomics, Germany 034A MetaDBScreen: tools to create metagenomic databases on demand Léa Siegwald, Frédéric Texier, Christine Hubans-Pierlot* Genoscreen, France 035A Exploring microbial controls on methane cycling using MLTreeMap Young Chang Song*, Antoine Page, Steven Hallam University of British Columbia, Canada 036A CAMERA: The resources of data, bioinformatics tools, and computations for microbial ecology Shulei Sun*, Jing Chen, Weizhong Li, Abel Lin, Ilkay Altintas, Eric Allen, Mark Ellisman, Jeffrey Grethe University of California, San Diego, United States 037A Exploiting the antimicrobial potential of soil metagenomic libraries from the Iberian Peninsula with high-throughput micro-fermentation and screening systems Marina Sánchez-Hidalgo*, Gerald F. Bills, Olga Genilloud Fundación MEDINA, Centro de Excelencia en Investigación de Medicamentos Innovadores en Andalucía, Spain 038A ePANAM: a web server dedicated to the analysis of next generation amplicons 1 1 1 2 Najwa Taib* , Gisèle Bronner , Jean-Christophe Charvy , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo , Vincent 3 1 Breton , Didier Debroas 1 2 Université Blaise Pascal / LMGE - UMR CNRS 6023, France, Université Blaise Pascal / 3 LIMOS - UMR CNRS 6158, France, Université Blaise Pascal/LPC-UMR CNRS 6533, France 039A Evaluation method for potential functionome harbored in the genome and metagenome 1 2 3 4 3 Hideto Takami* , Takeaki Taniguchi , Yuki Moriya , Tomomi Kuwahara , Mamoru Kanehisa , 3 Susumu Goto 1 2 Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, Japan, Mitsubishi Research Institute, 3 4 Japan, Kyoto University/Chemical Research Institute, Japan, Kagawa University, Japan 040A Archetypal analysis of gene expression data is an alternative tool in transcriptome data processing Juliane Thoegersen*, Lars Jelsbak, Soeren Molin Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 127 PS20 – Bioinformatics in Microbial Ecology Thursday 23 August 042A Biodiversity of nitrogen fixation microorganisms from nodule bacteria Bakhtiyor Umarov* Institute of Microbiology, Uzbekistan 043A 'OPM' – an R package for analysing OmniLog Phenotype Microarray data Lea Vaas, Johannes Sikorski*, Nora Buddruhs, Anne Fiebig, Hans-Peter Klenk, Markus Göker Leibniz Institute-DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Germany 044A Can we identify the native function of beta-lactamases bioinformatically and are we able to identify those that provide antibiotic resistance? Gisle Alberg Vestergaard*, Søren J. Sørensen, Lars H. Hansen Molecular Microbial Ecology Group, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 045A SILVA: comprehensive databases for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB 1 1 1 2 1 Pelin Yilmaz* , Elmar Pruesse , Christian Quast , Wolfgang Ludwig , Joerg Peplies , Frank 1 Oliver Gloeckner 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Technical University of Munich, Germany 046A Metagenomics community traits workflow by the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) project 1 1 2 1 Pelin Yilmaz* , Renzo Kottmann , Antonio Fernàndez Guerra , Frank Oliver Gloeckner , 3 Matthias Obst 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Center for Advanced Studies of 3 Blanes, CEAB–CSIC, Blanes, Spain, Spain, University of Göteborg, Sweden PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity: 16S and beyond - Main Authors N-Z 214A Describing the cuturable and unculturable bacterial communities from guarana leaves, a native Amazon crop, and its applicability to pathogen control of Colletotrichum spp. 1 1 1 1 Maria Letícia Bonatelli* , Sarina Tsui , Bruna Durante Batista , Maria Carolina Quecine , 1 2 1 1 Joelma Marcon , Paulo Teixeira Lacava , Aline Pizzirani-Kleiner , Elliot Kitajima , João Lúcio 1 de Azevedo 1 2 ESALQ/USP, Brazil, UNIFAL, Brazil 215A High-throughput sequencing of fungal communities in disease suppressive soils 1 2 2 3 Vadakattu Gupta* , Christopher Penton , James Tideje , Kathy Ophel-Keller , Stephen 4 5 1 6 Neate , Michael Gillings , Paul Harvey , David Roget 1 2 3 CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia, CME, Michigan State University, USA, SARDI, 4 5 6 Australia, DEEDI, Australia, Macquaire University, Australia, CSIRO (retired), Australia 216A Identification of acetate utilizers in marine sediment using DNA-Stable Isotope Probing Hyunsoo Na*, Kasper Kjeldsen, Mark Lever, Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University, Denmark 217A Characterization of nitrifying and total bacterial community structure in five different small drinking water networks Zsuzsanna Nagymáté*, Károly Márialigeti Eötvös Loránd University; Department of Microbiology, Hungary 128 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 218A The microbial footprint of a city: Views from Lake Michigan 1 2 1 Ryan Newton* , Mitchell Sogin , Sandra McLellan 1 2 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Great Lakes WATER Institute, United States, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, United States 219A An assessment of seasonal shifts in bacterial community composition in a Singaporean reservoir system using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing 1 1 2 3 4 Charmaine Ng* , Damien Raingeard , Peter Steinberg , Ole Larsen , Diane McDougald 1 Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre, Nanyang Environment and Research Water 2 Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, 3 Chowder Bay, NSW, Australia, DHI-NTU Water & Environment Research Centre and 4 Education Hub, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-Innovation, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 220A Niche partitioning of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in the water column and brineseawater interface of the Red Sea David Kamanda Ngugi*, Ulrich Stingl King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia 221A A novel polyphosphate-accumulating organism in full-scale enhanced biological phosphorus removal plants: 'Candidatus Halomonas phosphatis' Hien Nguyen*, Jeppe Nielsen, Per Nielsen Aalborg University, Denmark 222A Spatial variation of archaeal community structure in Barents Sea sediment Tan Thi Nguyen*, Bjarne Landfald University of Tromsø, Norway 223A Reasons for overestimating relative abundances of Eikelboom filamentous morphotype Type 0041 in activated sludge, using existing FISH probes designed to target it 1 2 2 1 2 Tadashi Nittami* , Lachlan Speirs , Joseph Tucci , Masatoshi Watanabe , Robert Seviour 1 2 Yokohama National University, Japan, La Trobe University, Australia 224A Evaluation of external 16S rRNA genes for quality control of massive parallel 16S rRNA gene sequencing Nahiro Noda, Akiko Ohashi, Yuji Sekiguchi* National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 225A Diversity and biogeographic variation in microbial mat archaeal and bacterial populations within three natural Bahamian hypersaline lagoons Sean Norman*, Erin Fichot, Benjamin Bey University of South Carolina, USA 226A Genetic characterization of industrial isolates of Acidithiobacillus caldus by Multi Locus Sequence Typing analysis 1 2 3 2 2 Harold Nuñez , Juan Pablo Cárdenas , Amir Shmaryahu , Paulo Covarrubias , Lillian Acuña , 2 Raquel Quatrini* 1 2 Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Fundación Ciencia & Vida; Facultad de Ciencias Biologicas, 3 Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile, Fundación Ciencia & Vida, Chile 227A New insights into microbial communities in intensive care units 1 1 2 3 Lisa Oberauner* , Christin Zachow , Stefan Lackner , Stefan Liebminger , Christoph 4 4 1 Högenauer , Karl-Heinz Smolle , Gabriele Berg 1 Graz University of Technology/Institute for Environmental Biotechnology, Austrian Centre of 2 Industrial Biotechnology, Austria, Medical University of Graz/Center for Medical Research, 3 4 Austria, Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering, Austria, Medical University of Graz/Department of Internal Medicine, Austria 129 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 228A Culture-dependent and -independent community analysis of endophytic bacteria in arabidopsis thaliana Shigenori Odashima*, Shigeto Otsuka, Kazuo Isobe, Keishi Senoo The University of Tokyo, Japan 229A Molecular characterization of bacterial phylogenetic and functional groups at Terrebonne Bay along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico Ola Olapade* Albion College, USA 230A Diversity of bacterial community in the acid mine drainage by using pyrosequencing Seong Chan Park*, Yeoung Min Hwang, Keun Sik Baik, Han Na Choe, Sonny Ramos, CheonYoung Park, Chi Nam Seong Sunchon National University, South Korea 231A Microorganism and macroorganism communities: random co-occurrence or correlated patterns? 1 2 2 3 Christina Pavloudi* , Aikaterini Vasileiadou , Elena Sarropoulou , Ioanna Kalantzi , Nafsika 2 3 2 2 Papageorgiou , Irini Tsikopoulou , Panagiotis Kasapidis , Jacques Lagnel , Georgios 2 3 2 Kotoulas , Ioannis Karakassis , Christos Arvanitidis 1 Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and 2 Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece, Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and Department of Biology, University of Patras, Greece, 3 Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece 232A Analysis of diversity and abundance of taxonomic and functionally important bacterial populations in mangroves from Brazil 1 2 3 4 5 Vivian Pellizari* , Rubens Duarte , Fernando Andreote , Timothy Johnson , Benli Chai , 6 2 2 4 Itamar Melo , Felipe Freitas , Márcia Bícego , James Tiedje , 1 2 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, Universidade de São Paulo/ Instituto Oceanográfico, 3 4 Brazil, Universidade de São Paulo - ESALQ, Brazil, Michigan State University/ Center for 5 Microbial Ecology, USA, Michigan State University / Center for Microbial Ecology, USA, 6 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária / EMBRAPA Meio Ambiente, Brazil 233A Microbial communities of methane cycle in boreal peatlands under a warming climate 1 2 1 1 3 Krista Peltoniemi* , Heli Juottonen , Päivi Mäkiranta , Timo Penttilä , Henri Siljanen , Tero 1 1 Tuomivirta , Hannu Fritze 1 2 3 Finnish Forest Research Institute (Metla), Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Eastern Finland 234A Changes in eco-functional gene community composition as a response to artificial warming in permafrost and grassland soils 1 2 3 3 1 C. Ryan Penton* , Edward A.G. Schuur , Liyou Wu , Jizhong Zhou , Jim Cole , Amanda 1 1 1 Pham , Derek St. Louis , James M. Tiedje 1 2 Michigan State University, Center for Microbial Ecology, USA, University of Florida, 3 Department of Biology, USA, University of Oklahoma, Dept. Botany and Microbiology, USA 235A Seasonal changes in abundance and diversity of N-cycling microorganisms across agricultural soils 1 2 3 2 Michele C Pereira e Silva* , Franck Poly , Brigitte Hai , Nadine Guillaumaud , Michael 3 1 1 Schloter , Jan Dirk van Elsas , Joana F Salles 1 2 3 University of Groningen, Netherlands, CNRS-Université Lyon 1, France, Department for Terrestrial Ecogenetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany, 236A Microbial diversity and community composition in humic lakes 1* 2 2 1 1 Sari Peura , Alexander Eiler , Stefan Bertilsson , Hannu Nykänen , Marja Tiirola , Roger 1 Jones 1 2 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Uppsala University, Sweden 130 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 237A Improved group-specific primers for T-RFLP and Q-PCR analysis of complex soil and rhizosphere microbial communities Stefan Pfeiffer, Birgit Mitter*, Milica Pastar, Branislav Nikolic, Angela Sessitsch 1 A.I.T. Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria 238A Gut microbial community composition and metabolic profiles in C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mice 1 1 1 2 1 Barbara Pfitzner* , Melanie Kahle , Alesia Walker , Jan Rozman , Martin Klingenspor , Valerie 1 1 1 1 Gailus-Durner , Helmut Fuchs , Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin , Michael Schmid , Susanne 1 1 1 Neschen , Martin Hrabé de Angelis , Anton Hartmann 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany, Technical University Munich, Germany 239A Microbial community structure differences associated with elevated hydrocarbon concentrations in sediment near and far from the Deepwater Horizon MC-252 wellhead 1 1 1 1 2 Yvette Piceno* , Lauren Tom , Francine Reid , Sharon Borglin , Julian Fortney , Dominique 2 1 2 3 3 Joyner , Angelica Pettenato , Terry Hazen , Chelsea Spier , William Stringfellow , Jakk 1 1 Wong , Gary Andersen 1 2 3 Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA, University of Tennessee, USA, University of the Pacific, USA 240A Testing the limits of 454 pyrotag sequencing: reproducibility, quantitative assessment and comparison to T-RFLP fingerprinting of aquifer microbes Giovanni Pilloni*, Michael S. Granitsiotis, Marion Engel, Tillmann Lueders Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany 241A Microbial biodiversity on sulfide chimneys from active and inactive vent sites of hydrothermal fields in the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea 1 2 2 3 1 Petra Pjevac* , Marcos Yoshinaga , Eoghan P. Reeves , John V. Marshall , Rudolf Amann , 1 Anke Meyerdierks 1 2 Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, MARUM - Center for Marine 3 Environmental Sciences, Germany, University Bremen, Germany 242A Vertical distribution of microbial communities in the Zmajevo oko (Rogoznica lake) during stratified and mixed conditions 1 2 3 2 Petra Pjevac* , Marino Korlević , Elvira Bura Nakić , Sandi Orlić 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Ruđer Bošković Institute Center for 3 Marine Research, Croatia, Ruđer Bošković Institute Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Croatia 243A The magnitude of microbial diversity in different deep-sea sites (basins, slopes, seamounts) and submarine volcanoes around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea using pyrosequencing analysis 1 2 1 Paraskevi Polymenakou* , Christos A. Christakis , Nikolaos Lampadariou , Paraskevi 2 3 3 4 Nomikou , Nikos Kyrpides , Konstantinos Mavrommatis , Manolis Mandalakis , Vasilios 1 5 Lykousis , Anastasios Tselepides 1 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece, National and Kapodistrian University of 3 4 Athens, Greece, Joint Genome Institute, Department of Energy, USA, University of Crete, 5 Department of Chemistry, Greece, University of Piraeus, Department of Maritime Studies, Greece 244A Phylogenetic diversity among cultivated strains and environmental clones of the families Streptomycetacea and Micromonosporacea from near-shore marine sediments 1 2 3 Alejandra Prieto-Davo* , Luis Jesús Villarreal-Gómez , Paul Jensen 1 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, Universidad Autónoma de Baja 3 California, Mexico, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 131 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 245A Do apatite deposits select for phosphorus-solubilising bacteria? 1 2 3 2 2 Sabine Ragot* , Josef Zeyer , Helmut Brandl , Gerhard Furrer , Anna Lazzaro 1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Switzerland, 2 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant 3 Dynamics, Switzerland, University of Zürich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Switzerland 246A Impact of hydrocarbon compounds on bacterial communities in coastal zones: development of molecular tools and biosensors 1 2 Md. Matiur Rahman* , Dr. A.K.M Rafiul Islam 1 2 Yamanashi University, Japan, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh 247A Pseudomonas sp. nov., a novel species isolated from grasses straw in the Peruvian Altiplano 1 2 2 3 Elena Ramos* , Martha-Helena Ramírez-Bahena , Angel Valverde , Encarna Velázquez , 4 1 2 Carmen Velezmoro , Doris Zuñiga , Alvaro Peix 1 Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana y Biotecnología Marino Tabusso, Universidad Nacional 2 Agraria La Molina, Peru, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología. IRNASA-CSIC, 3 Spain, Unidad Asociada Grupo Interacción Planta-Microorganismo, Universidad de 4 Salamanca-IRNASA (CSIC), Spain, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru 317A 16S rRNA analysis of the organic residue composting process adopted at Zoo Park Foundation of São Paulo - Brazil 1 1 1 Patricia Locosque Ramos* , Bruna Nunes Buscariollo , Leonardo Jun Otuyama , João Batista 2 1 1 1 Cruz , Rafael Costa Santos Rocha , Suzan Pantaroto Vasconcellos , Luiz Juliano Neto 1 2 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo, Brazil 318A Microbial diversity in brackish water zone of Gwangyang Bay 1 1 1 1 1 Sonny Ramos* , Seong Chan Park , Yeoung Min Hwang , Han Na Choe , Keun Sik Baik , 2 1 Chul Park , Chi Nam Seong 1 2 Sunchon National University, South Korea, Gwangyang Health College, South Korea 319A Effects of seasonality and plant chemical diversity on microbial communities in mediterranean schrubland 1 1 2 2 1 Anais Rancon* , Nicolas Montès , Nathalie Fromin , Stephan Hättenschwiler , Pascal Mirleau 1 2 Aix-Marseille University / Mediterranean Institut of Biodiversity and Ecology, France, Center of Functional Ecology and Evolution, France 320A Elucidating the co-diversification of vertebrate animals and their intestinal microbiota as a basis for molecular detection and source tracking of bacterial faecal pollution in water 1 1 2 3 Georg Reischer* , Nathalie Schuster , Ruth Ley , Andreas Farnleitner 1 2 3 Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Cornell University, United States, Interuniversity Cooperation Center Water & Health, Austria 321A Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions 1 2 3 2 Katharina Riedel* , Thomas Schneider , Katharina M. Keiblinger , Emanuel Schmid , Katja 4 5 5 6 2 Sterlinger-Gleixner , Günther Ellersdorfer , Bernd Roschitzki , Andreas Richter , Leo Eberl , 3 Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern 1 2 University of Greifswald / Institute for Microbiology, Germany, Institute of Plant Biology / 3 University of Zurich, Switzerland, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) / 4 Institute for Soil Research, Austria, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences 5 (BOKU) / Institute of Applied Microbiology, Austria, University and ETH Zurich / Functional 6 Genomics Center Zurich, Switzerland, University of Vienna / Chemical Ecology and Ecosystem Research, Austria 132 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 322A Importance of adaptation and functional redundancy for the structure and functioning of freshwater microbial communities 1 2 3 Mauricio Rocha Dimitrov* , Hauke Smidt , Paul J. Van den Brink 1 2 Wageningen University, Netherlands, Wageningen University / Laboratory of Microbiology, 3 Netherlands, Wageningen University / Department of Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management, Netherlands 323A Bacterial and eukaryotic diversity in acid mine drainage precipitates following reclamation with successional plants as revealed by pyrosequencing 1 2 1 Claudia Rojas* , Rosemary Gutierrez , Mary Ann Bruns 1 2 The Pennsylvania State University, United States, University of the Philippines Baguio, Philippines 324A Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Bacterial Community Diversity in the Soil of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Emiliana Romagnoli*, Silvia E. Barrera, Fernando D. Andreote, Marcio R. Lambais 1 University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 325A Quantification of Archaea and Bacteria Domains in the sheep rumen incubated under two diet conditions 1 1 2 2 Emiliana Romagnoli* , Lucas D. Lopes , Lilia L.R.F Silva , Fernanda M. Nakamura , Maicon 1 1 1 2 2 Sbardella , Rafaela Pereira Weliton D. Silva Adibe L. Abdalla , Siu M. Tsai , Fernando D. 1 3 Andreote Rodrigo Mendes 1 2 Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Centre for 3 Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Embrapa Environment, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Brazil 326A Microbial diversity and composition in the sediment of a laterally subdivided drinking water reservoir system 1 2 Kerstin Röske* , Isolde Röske 1 2 Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Germany, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany 327A Diversity and proteomic characterization of saturated and unsaturated LCFA anaerobic degrading communities 1 2 1 2 Andreia F. Salvador* , Ariane Bize , M. Madalena Alves , Théodore Bouchez , Diana Z. 1 Sousa 1 IBB-Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre of Biological Engineering, 2 University of Minho, Portugal, Irstea, UR HBAN, France 328A Pyrosequencing enumeration of the bacterial community in the A2O process for the treatment of municipal sewage 1 1 2 3 3 Byoung In Sang* , Byung-Chun Kim , Seil Kim , Taesub Shin , Hyunook Kim 1 2 Hanyang University, South Korea, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South 3 Korea, University of Seoul, South Korea 329A Eikelboom Type 0581: characterization of an uncommon filamentous morphotype in Portuguese activated-sludge systems 1 2 2 2 Liliana Santos* , Marta Neto , Alcina Pereira , Ana Nicolau 1 2 University of Minho, Portugal, University of Minho / IBB, Portugal 330A Planktonic and attached microbes in deep subsurface 1 2 1 1 1 Yoshito Sasaki* , Takahiro Asano , Kotaro Ise , Yuki Amano , Tomofumi Sato , Hiroaki 1 1 1 1 Murakami , Hiroki Amamiya , Teruki Iwatsuki , Hideki Yoshikawa 1 2 Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan, CHUGAI TECHNOS Corporation, Japan 133 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 331A Empirical metadata-based quality testing for operational taxonomic units Sebastian Schmidt*, João F. Matias Rodrigues, Christian von Mering Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland 332A Effects of ozone and nitrogen deposition on alpine soil microbial communities 1 2 3 3 3 Salome Schneider* , Martin Hartmann , Seraina Bassin , Matthias Volk , Jürg Fuhrer , Franco 4 Widmer 1 Molecular Ecology, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Switzerland, 2 Rhizosphere Processes, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 3 Air Pollution and Climate, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zurich, 4 Switzerland, Molecular Ecology, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon Research Station ART, Zurich, Switzerland 333A A less biased primer combination resulting in a more representative description of fungal communities Ursel Schuette*, Jim Bever, Anna Rosling Indiana University, United States 334A Bacterial community changes as potential bioindicators for hydrocarbon contamination in coastline environments in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lucy Seldin, Diogo Jurelevicius Jurelevicius*, Vanessa Alvarez, Joana Marques, Felipe Dias Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil 335A Bacterial community structure associated with the anode of sediment microbial fuel cells from the Red Sea and Tampa Bay sediment: revealed by 16s rRNA gene pyrosequencing 1 1 1 2 Noura Shehab* , Pascal Saikaly , Gary Amy , Buce Logan 1 2 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, Penn State University, USA 336A Application of stable isotope probing in a marine bioremediation study to identify aerobic benzene degrading microorganisms Petra Sheppard*, Andrew Ball Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia 337A Changes in the intestinal microflora diversity of thirteen-lined ground squirrels during Victor Sherony*, Bonita Bratina University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, United States 338A Investigating the Bacterial Community in Marine Sediment and Dead Ark Clams on the South Coast of Korea using a Culture-dependent Approach Na-Ri Shin*, Min-Soo Kim, Mi-Ja Jung, Tae Woong Whon, Jin-Woo Bae Kyung Hee University, South Korea 339A Bacterial diversity of activated sludge treating saline wastewater of waterway oil terminal 1 2 1 2 Cynthia Canedo Silva* , Livia C F Silva , Samantha Fonseca , Vinicius D Silva , Roberto D 2 3 3 3 2 Sousa , Rodrigo S Souza , Maira P Sousa , Ana Paula R Torres , Sergio O De Paula , Valeria 1 M Oliveira 1 2 3 UNICAMP, Brazil, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil, Petrobras, Brazil 340A Molecular microbial diversity in New Zealand groundwater 1 2 3 3 1 Kosala Sirisena* , Christopher Daughney , Craig Herbold , Charles Lee , Ken Ryan , Geoffrey 1 Chambers 1 School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 2 3 Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand 134 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 341A Changes of microbial diversity during bioremediation of PAH contaminated woodchips by composting Branislav Slavik*, Eva Burianova, Kamila Cajthamlova, Tomas Cajthaml Institute of Microbiology, AS CR, Czech Republic 342A Impact of heavy metals on archaeal and bacterial communities in upland soils Jaekyeong Song*, Jae-Hyung Ahn, Byung-Yong Kim, Hang-Yeon Weon, In-Cheol Park National Academy of Agricultural Science, South Korea 343A Microbiology of ammonia oxidation in the Grand River: disentangling molecular signatures of wastewater effluent from autochthonous prokaryotic communities Puntipar Sonthiphand*, Eduardo Cejudo, Sherry L. Schiff, Josh D. Neufeld University of Waterloo, Canada 344A Biochar effect on bacterial structure communities, soil and soybean (G. max) root system 1 2 2 Janne Louize Sousa Santos , Clovis Daniel Borges , Danielle Gregório Gomes Caldas , Beata 3 2 Emoke Madari , Siu Mui Tsai* 1 Federal University Of Goiás (Ufg)/Center For Nuclear Energy In Agriculture (Cena), Brazil, 2 3 Center For Nuclear Energy In Agriculture (Cena), Brazil, Embrapa Rice and Bean/Federal University Of Goiás Brazil 345A Prevalence of chitinolytic bacteria of Aeromonas genus in an aquatic environment with high anthropogenic pollution 1 1 2 1 Claudiana Souza , Maicon Passine , Edith Mariela Burbano-Rosero , Bianca Almeida , 3 1 Cristine Barreto , Irma Rivera* 1 2 University of São Paulo / Institute of Biomedical Science, Brazil, Universidad de Nariño, 3 Colombia, Universidade Católica de Brasília, Brazil 346A Development of a dynamic in vitro model for the human ileum 1 2 2 3 3 Maria Stolaki* , Erwin G. Zoetendal , Eddy J. Smid , Mans Minekus , Koen Venema , Michiel 4 Kleerebezem 1 2 Wageningen University, Netherlands, Wageningen University/Top Institute of Food and 3 Nutrition, Netherlands, TNO Quality of Life/Top Institute of Food and Nutrition, Netherlands, 4 Wageningen University/NIZO Food Research/Top Institute of Food and Nutrition, Netherlands 347A Estimation of biphenyl dioxygenase diversity in soils using gene-targeted metagenomics Michal Strejcek*, Ondrej Uhlik, Lucie Musilova, Tomas Macek, Martina Mackova Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic 348A Linking the soil functioning with the microbial diversity in the agricultural soils across The Netherlands Agnieszka Szturc-Koetsier*, Gerdit Greve, Heike Schmitt Utrecht University, Netherlands 349A Impacts of Oxytetracycline on Performance of Thermophilic Anaerobic Manure Digesters and Active Microbial Population Fulya Süzen* Istanbul Technical University/Institute of Sciences, Turkey 350A Characterization of a Vibrio spp community in the English Channel through pyrH and toxR gene partial sequencing during a warm and a cold water period 1 2 3 1 1 Amadou Tall* , Aurélie Touron-Bodilis , Régis Delesmont , Elvire Antajan , Anna Teillon , 1 1 1 1 1 Margot Legoff , Emilie Troadec , David Richard , Claire Boisset , Dominique Hervio-Heath 1 2 3 IFREMER, France, EDF R&D, France, Eurofins IPL Environnement, France 135 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 273A Characterization of bacterial communities associated with Pistacia lentiscus L. from the abandoned Sardinian mining area 1 2 2 2 3 Elena Tamburini* , Simona Sergi , Daniela Cau , Paolo La Colla , Giovanna Cappai , 3 4 Alessandra Carucci , Gianluigi Bacchetta 1 2 Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy, Section of General Microbiology and Virology & Microbial Biotechnologies, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Cagliari, 3 09042 Monserrato (CA), Italy, Dept. of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture, 4 University of Cagliari, Piazza d'Armi, 09123 Cagliari (CA) Italy, Italy, Biodiversity Conservation Centre, Dept. of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari, Viale S. Ignazio 13, 09123 Cagliari (CA), Italy 274A Metabolic potential of microbial community in a subtropical freshwater little changed by a level-5 typhoon attack 1 2 1 1 Sen-Lin Tang* , Ching-Hung Tseng1 Tseng , Pei-Wen Chiang , Jia-Rong Liou , Yi-Long 3 3 3 Chen , Ting-Chang Hsu , Fuh-Kwo Shiah 1 2 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, TIGP on Bioinformatics, Academia 3 Sinica, Taiwan, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 275A Primer choice matters: the comparison of eight 454-pyrosequencing primer pairs on soil bacterial community profile Anna Taskinen, Marja Tiirola, Sari Peura University of Jyväskylä/Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Finland 276A Deep sequencing of 16S rRNA gene to efficiently assess bacterial richness and the rare biosphere in soils 1 1 2 2 Sebastien Terrat* , Samuel Dequiedt , Dipankar Bachar , Richard Christen , Christophe 1 1 1 3 4 Mougel , Mélanie Lelièvre , Pierre-Alain Maron , Pierre Plassart , Patrick Wincker , Corinne 4 5 5 6 3 Cruaud , Claudy Jolivet , Dominique Arrouays , Antonio Bispo , Philippe Lemanceau , Lionel 1 Ranjard 1 2 GenoSol platform - UMR 1347 Agrosup/uB/INRA, France, Nice University - UMR 6543 3 Virtual Biology Laboratory, France, UMR 1347 Agroecology Agrosup/uB/INRA, France, 4 French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission - Genomic Institute-Genoscope, 5 6 France, US 1106 - INFOSOL Unit, France, ADEME - Forest and Agricultural Service, France 277A Bacterial identity and distribution on marine snow aggregates – implications for the biological carbon pump 1 1 1 2 Stefan Thiele* , Bernhard M. Fuchs , Rudolf Amann , Morten H. Iversen 1 2 MPI for Marine Microbiology, Germany, MARUM - University of Bremen, Germany 278A Bacterial community structure and function in relation to highly variable environmental conditions in a dynamic coastal ecosystem (the Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic) Tinkara Tinta*, Jana Vojvoda, Valentina Turk National institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Slovenia 279A A comparative study of the gastrointestinal microbiota of two freshwater aquaculture species Phillip Titus*, Lourens De Wet, Karin Jacobs Stellenbosch University, South Africa 280A Evaluation of oligonucleotide probe-based gene capture for recovering environmental functional gene diversity Tomohiro Tobino*, Kazuo Yamamoto The University of Tokyo, Japan 281A Differential extraction of extracellular and intracellular DNA from marine sediments 1 1 2 2 1 Andrea Torti* , Mark Alexander Lever , Yuki Morono , Fumio Inagaki , Bo Barker Jørgensen 1 2 Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan 136 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 282A Characterization of cellulolytic symbionts among core gut microbiota in captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) 1 2 3 1 Hein Min Tun* , Nathalie Mauroo , Chan San Yuen , Mabel Ting Wong , Frederick Chi-Ching 1 Leung 1 2 School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Department of 3 Pathology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Clinical Laboratory, Veterinary Center, Ocean Park Corporation, Hong Kong 283A Characteristics of the bacterial community exposed to jellyfish 1 2 2 2 Valentina Turk* , Tinkara Tinta , Maja Kos , Alenka Malej 1 2 National institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Slovenia, National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran, Slovenia 284A Metabolically active bacteria during biotransformation of aromatic pollutants in contaminated soil 1 1 1 1 2 2 Ondrej Uhlik* , Michal Strejcek , Lucie Musilova , Jiri Wald , Jakub Ridl , Miluse Hroudova , 2 1 1 Cestmir Vlcek , Martina Mackova , Tomas Macek 1 2 Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic, Institute of Molecular Genetics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic 285A Comparative Microbial Diversity in Organically Rich Sedimentary Basins, Coal and Shale, and Oil Reservoirs in the Deep Continental Subsurface 1 2 2 Burcu Unal* , Vicente Gomez-Alvarez , Klaus Nüsslein 1 2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, USA 285B Application of Illumina-based microbial community analysis for water quality monitoring in freshwater ecosystems 1 2 3 3 3 Tatsuya Unno* , Sangjung Park , Trevor Gould , Bruce Jarvis , Jane Phillips , Michael 3 Sadowsky 1 2 Jeju National University, South Korea, National Institute of Environmental Research, USA, 3 University of Minnesota, USA 286A Feeding yacon tuber increases intestinal fermentation and alters microbial community structure in rats 1 1 1 2 Ni Wayan Arya Utami* , Michiko Tanaka , Teruo Sone , Cindy Hatsuyo Nakatsu , Kozo 1 Asano 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, Purdue University, United States 287A Diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi affects decomposition activity in Norway spruce wood 1 2 2 3 2 Lara Valentín* , Tiina Rajala , Mikko Peltoniemi , Jussi Heinonsalo , Taina Pennanen , Raisa 2 Mäkipää 1 2 Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland, 3 University of Helsinki, Finland 288A Characterisation of small intestinal Streptococcus and Veillonella populations Bartholomeus van den Bogert*, Oylum Erkus, Kun Xie, Eddy J. Smid, Erwin G. Zoetendal, Michiel Kleerebezem Wageningen University, Netherlands 289A Structure and diversity of bacteria and Archaea communities in sediments from Tropical Mangroves 1 2 1 Maryeimy Varón Lopez , Eiko Kuramae* , Fernando Dini Andreote 1 Department of Soil Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paulo 2 (ESALQ/USP), Brazil, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO/KNAW), Netherlands 137 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 290A SIP 2.0: Multi-substrate isotope labeling and metagenomic analysis of active soil bacteria Yris Verastegui*, Katja Engel, Trevor C. Charles, Josh D. Neufeld University of Waterloo, Canada 291A Endozoicomonas prevail the microbiome of the coral Stylophora pistillata 1 1 1 1 1 Christian Voolstra , Matthew Neave* , Areej Alsheikh-Hussain , Manuel Aranda , Till Bayer , 2 Amy Apprill 1 2 KAUST, Saudi Arabia, WHOI, USA 292A Improved analysis of fungal communities using the next-generation-sequencing analysis of single copy gene 1 2 2 2 2 Tomáš Větrovský* , Miroslav Kolařík , Lucia Žifčáková , Jana Voříšková , Petr Baldrian 1 2 Institute of Microbiology AS CR, Czech Republic, Institute of Microbiology of the ASCR, Czech Republic 293A Gut microbiome of the critically endangered New Zealand parrot, the kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) 1 2 3 David Waite* , Peter Deines , Mike Taylor 1 2 University of Auckland, New Zealand, Institute of Natural Sciences, Massey University, New 3 Zealand, Centre for Microbial Innovation, School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand 294A Phylogenetic clustering increases with elevation for microbes 1 2 1 3 Jianjun Wang* , Janne Soininen , Ji Shen , Jizheng He 1 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 2 3 Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Finland, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 295A Enrichment and characterization of PCB dechlorinators in sediment-free Aroclor 1260 dechlorinating cultures Shanquan Wang*, Jianzhong He National University of Singapore, Singapore 296A Fungal community structure and temporal variations in the Songhua River basin, China Yingying Wang*, Jie Liu, Jianan Wang Nankai University, China 297A Ribotag analysis of microbial communities linked to rice straw degradation Carl-Eric Wegner*, Yongkyu Kim, Werner Liesack Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 297B Functional metagenomics reveals previously unrecognized diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in gulls 1 2 2 2 3 Claudia Weihe* , Adam C. Martiny , Jennifer B.H. Martiny , Andrew Fields , Julie C. Ellis 1 2 3 UC Irvine, United States, UC Irvine, USA, Tufts University, USA 298A Metatranscriptomics of the Roseobacter clade Bernd Wemheuer*, Simon Guellert, Dimitri Meier, Rolf Daniel Georg-August University of Goettingen / Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Germany 299A Multitrophic interaction between microorganisms, plants and herbivores: Does fertilizing, mowing or herbivore damage alter the microbial community composition in the rhizosphere? Franziska Wemheuer*, Stefan Vidal Georg-August University of Göttingen / Department for Crop Sciences, Germany 138 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 300A Bacterial communities associated with coral in Singaporean waters reveals sitespecificity and transplant-locale specificity 1 2 3 4 Wang Wenwen* , Bassy Wong ChingChing , Ole Larsen , Peter D. Steinberg , Staffan 5 6 Kjelleberg , Diane McDougald 1 2 Nanyang Technological University/ School of Biological Science, Singapore, Nanyang 3 Technological University/ School of Biological Sciences, Singapore, DHI Water and 4 Environment, Singapore, Sydney Institute of Marine Sciences, Chowder Bay Rd, Mosman, 5 Australia, Nanyang Technological University/ Singapore Centre on Environmental Life 6 Sciences Engineering, Singapore, the University of New South Wales/Centre for Marine BioInnovation, School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Australia 301A Metagenomic characterization of airborne viral DNA diversity in the near-surface atmosphere Tae Woong Whon*, Min-Soo Kim, Seong Woon Roh, Na-Ri Shin, Hae-Won Lee, Jin-Woo Bae Kyung Hee University, South Korea 301B Highly variable depth profiles and distribution of Chloroflexi sub-groups in a sediment transect across a dynamic estuary Angharad Williams*, R. John Parkes, Jose Constantine, Andrew Weightman Cardiff University, United Kingdom 302A A metagenomic perspective on improved bioreactor methane yield using waste activated sludge after pH 10 pretreatment 1 2 1 1 1 Mabel Ting Wong* , Dong Zhang , Jun Li , Raymond Kin Hi Hui , Hein Min Tun Tun , 1 1 2 1 Manreetpal Singh Brar , Tae-Jin Park , Yinguang Chen , Frederick C. Leung 1 2 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Tongji University, China 303A Profile analyses of sporulation genes reveal underrepresentation of endospore-forming bacteria in metagenomes Tina Wunderlin*, Thomas Junier, Ludovic Roussel-Delif, Pilar Junier Neuchâtel, Switzerland 304A Functional diversity of microbial communities in three full-scale wastewater treatment systems in Shenzhen 1 1 2 1 Yu Xia* , Xiaohui Wang , Jizhong Zhou , Xianghua Wen 1 Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control State Key Joint Laboratory, School of 2 Environment, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, P.R. China, China, Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman,Oklahoma 73072, USA 304B Detection and identification of microbes in prosthetic joint infections by culture and molecular methods 1 2 3 1 1 Yijuan Xu* , Henrik C. Schønheyder , Garth D. Ehrlich , Per H. Nielsen , Trine R. Thomsen 1 2 Aalborg University, Section of Biotechnology, Denmark, Department of Clinical Microbiology, 3 Aalborg Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, Center for Genomic Sciences, Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Allegheny General Hospital, United States 305A The herbivorous giant panda harbors a carnivore-like gut microbiota structure with large temporal variability: a co-evolutionary dead end? 1 2 2 1 1 Zhengsheng Xue* , Wenping Zhang , Lisong Fei , Menghui Zhang , Linghua Wang , Xiaojun 1 2 2 1 2 1 Zhang , He Huang , Rong Hou , Liping Zhao , Zhihe Zhang , Xiaoyan Pang 1 State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, China 306A Biodiversity and community successions of denitrifying bacteria in response to poly(Llactic acid) as the sole substrate in solid-phase denitrification processes Takeshi Yamada*, Hideto Tsuji, Akira Hiraishi Toyohashi University of Technology/ Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Japan 139 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 307A Huge diversity of marine eukaryotic picoplankton in Sendai Bay, Japan: using nextgeneration sequencing approach for meta 18S rDNA analyses 1 1 2 1 Haruyo Yamaguchi* , Mikihide Demura , Akira Kuwata , Masanobu Kawachi 1 2 National Institute for Environmental Studies Japan, Tohoku National Fisheries Research Institute Japan 308A Characterizing bacterial community and human health impact during Asian dust events in Korea 1 1 2 3 1 Keunje Yoo* , Jung Min Han , Lim-Seok Chang , James Tiedje , Joonhong Park 1 2 Yonsei University, South Korea, National Institute of Environmental Research, South Korea, 3 Center for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, United States 309A Dynamics of methanogenic archaeal community and biogas production in mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic co-digestion processes 1 1 2 2 2 Dan Yu* , Jukka Kurola , Maritta Kymäläinen , Kirsi Lähde , Helena Kautola , Martin 1 Romantschuk 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland 310A Insects gut bacterial communities determined by host's environmental niches and diets 1 1 1 2 3 Ji-Hyun Yun* , Seong Woon Roh , Tae Woong Whon , Doo-Sang Park , Changmann Yoon , 1 1 1 1 1 3 Mi-Ja Jung , Young-Do Nam , Yun-Ji Kim , Jung-Hye Choi , Joon-Yong Kim , Gil-Hah Kim , 1 Jin-Woo Bae 1 2 Kyung Hee University, South Korea, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience&Biotechnology, 3 South Korea, Chungbuk National University, South Korea 310B Diversity of dsrA and nifD genes in saline produced waters of offshore oil reservoirs 1 1 1 2 Icoquih Zapata-Peñasco* , Lucia Salazar Coria , Maria Saucedo , Lourdes Villa Tanaka , 2 Cesar Hernandez Rodriguez 1 2 Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico 311A Bisulfite reductase diversity and activity in connate waters from high temperature oil reservoirs 1 1 1 2 Icoquih Zapata-Peñasco* , Lucia Salazar Coria , Maria Saucedo , Lourdes Villa Tanaka , 2 Cesar Hernandez Rodriguez 1 2 Mexican Petroleum Institute, Mexico, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico 312A Bacterial Diversity in termal springs in desert zones: Ojo de Dolores, Jimenez, Chihuahua, Mexico Francisco Javier Zavala Diaz de la Serna*, Jaime Alberto Reyna-Amparan, Rosario PeraltaPerez, Virginia Nevarez-Moorillon Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua/Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Mexico 313A Involvement of a Dehalobacter species in the debromination of Tetrabromobisphenol A 1 2 2 2 3 Chunfang Zhang* , Zhiling Li , Daisuke Suzuki , Lizhen Ye , Naoko Yoshida , Arata 2 Katayama 1 2 3 Nagoya University, Japan, EcoTopia Science Institute,Nagoya University, Japan, EIIRIS, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan 314A Membrane biofouling and influence of salinity on microbial community composition in an FOMBR 1 1 1 2 2 Qiaoyun Zhang* , Wei Jie Yap , Diane McDougald , Winson C.l.lay , Jinsong Zhang , Bertil 1 3 2 1 Schmidt , Torsten Thomas , Anthony Fane , Staffan Kjelleberg 1 2 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Membrane Technological Center, 3 Singapore, University of New South Wales, Australia 140 PS21 – Microbial Community Diversity Thursday 23 August 315A Effects of low temperature on lactic acid bacteria diversity during whole-plant corn ensiling process 1 1 2 Yi-Qin Zhou* , Pascal Drouin , Carole Lafrenière 1 2 Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada 316A Spatio-temporal patterns of microbial communities in a hydrologically dynamic pristine aquifer 1 2 2 Yuxiang Zhou* , Claudia Kellermann , Christian Griebler 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum Munich/Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany 316B Lean breed Landrace pigs harbor fecal methanogens at higher diversity and density than obese breed Erhualian pigs 1 2 3 4 Wei-Yun Zhu* , Yu-heng Luo , Andre-Denis G. Wright , Hauke Smidt 1 2 3 Nanjing Agricultural University, China, Nanjing Agricultural Univeristy, China, University of 4 Vermont, USA, Wageningen University, Netherlands PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology 351A Virulence and antibiotic resistance properties of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia linked to ecological niche adaptation 1 2 2 2 Nolwenn Alliot* , Amélie Deredjian , Sylvie Nazaret , Sabine Favre-Bonté 1 2 Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, France, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, France 352A DNA markers for detection and infrasubspecific discrimination of prevalent bovine mastitis-causing Streptococcus 1 2 3 4 2 Alexandre Almeida , Pedro Albuquerque , Ricardo Araújo , Niza Ribeiro , Fernando Tavares* 1 FCUP - Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Biologia, Edifício FC4, Via Panorâmica no. 2 36, Universidade do Porto, 4150-564 Porto, Portugal, CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Gene´ ticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 3 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal, IPATIMUP - Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia da Universidade 4 do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal, Portugal, Segalab Laboratório de Sanidade e Segurança Alimentar, Portugal 353A Gene regulation and the cost of antibiotic resistance 1 2 1 Daniel Angst* , Martin Ackermann , Sebastian Bonhoeffer 1 2 Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Institute for Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 354A Bacterial consortium associated with Black Band Disease in Red Sea corals 1 1 1 2 2 Luba Arotsker* , Nachshon Siboni , Eitan Ben-Dov , Esti Kramarsky-Winter , Yossi Loya , 1 Ariel Kushmaro 1 2 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, Tel Aviv University, Israel 355A Expression of the blood-group-related glycosyltransferase B4galnt2 influences the intestinal microbiota and susceptibility to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in house mice 1 2 3 2 John Baines* , Natalie Steck , Jill Johnsen , Guntram Grassl 1 2 Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany, Leibniz Research Center Borstel 3 and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, Puget Sound Blood Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA 141 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 355B Shifts in gut microbiome community dynamics: a new paradigm for giardiasis 1 2 2 1 Nanelle Barash* , Jenny Maloney , Steven Singer , Scott Dawson 1 2 UC Davis, United States, Georgetown University, United States 356A The resident skin microbiota of the frog Phylomedusa distincta and the animal defense system against pathogens 1 1 1 2 2 Cristine Barreto* , Cristiane dos Santos , Flavia Dutra , Ananda de Assis , Carlos Navas , 1 Beatriz Magalhaes 1 2 Universidade Catolica de Brasilia, Brazil, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil 357A Survival and leaching of Tetracycline resistant bacteria and E. coli from manure in field scale experiments 1 1 2 2 1 Tina Bech* , Jeanne Kjaer , Preben Olesen , Mostofa Amin , Carsten Suhr Jacobsen 1 2 GEUS, Denmark, University of Aarhus, Denmark 358A Attachment of E. coli and Salmonella species in runoff under influence of polyacrylamide 1 2 1 2 Tina Bech* , Adrian Sbodio , Carsten Suhr Jacobsen , Trevor Suslow 1 2 GEUS, Denmark, University of California, United States 359A Distribution and composition of Borrelia burgdorferi communities in tick populations across central Britain 1 2 1 1 Richard Birtles* , Judy Bettridge , Natalie McConville , Kevin Bown 1 2 University of Salford, United Kingdom, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom 360A Reliability of qPCR for quantification of bacterial pathogens in highly PCR-inhibiting environments: Application of an integrative concept for Vibrio cholerae 1 1 2 1 3 Rupert Bliem* , Sonja Schauer , Helga Plicka , Regina Sommer , Georg Reischer , Andreas 3 1 Farnleitner , Alexander Kirschner 1 2 Medical University Vienna, Austria, Austrian Ministry for Defence and Sports, Austria, 3 Vienna University of Technology, Austria 361A Some epidemiological factors related to occurrence of shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) in calves, cattle and man in some Egyptian localities 1 2 Ahmed Byomi* , Hamed Samaha 1 2 Fac. of Vet. Medicine, Menoufia University, Egypt, Alexandria University, Egypt 361B Mucin-2's role in the potential inhibition of probiotics in meningitic Escherichia coli K1 E44 adherence to intestinal epithelial cells Hong Cao*, Jingyi Yu, Min Long, Meiqin Fu, Yarong Qu, Yangming Wen, Like Zhang, Wenbing Zhang, Lili Zhang, Xueling Li Southern Medical University, China 362A Ecological diversity of cereulide-producing strains of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus weihenstephanensis 1 2 3 Virginie Castiaux* , Izabela Swiecicka , Jacques Mahillon 1 2 UCLouvain / Earth and Life Institute, Belgium, University of Bialystock / Institute of Biology / 3 Department of Microbiology, Poland, UCLouvain / Earth and Life Institute/Applied Microbiolgy, Belgium 363A High abundance of pathogenic bacteria in Kuala Sepetang tropical mangrove estuary, Malaysia 1 2 2 2 Lay Ching Chai* , Aziz Ghaderpour , Nazrin M. Nasori , Kwai Lin Thong 1 2 Institute of Biological Sciences, Malaysia, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya Malaysia 142 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 364A The effect of whole-grain compared to refined wheat on the gut microbial composition and integrity in a colonic epithelial cell model following a 12-week energy-restricted dietary intervention in postmenopausal women 1 1 2 1 Ellen Gerd Christensen* , Tine Rask Licht , Mette Kristensen , Martin Iain Bahl 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, DTU Food, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Nutrition, Denmark 365A Intestinal colonization, gut function and inflammatory responses are moderately influenced by gestational age at birth 1 1 2 2 1 Malene Cilieborg* , Kerstin Skovgaard , Linn Nørgaard , Per Sangild , Mette Boye 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 366A The soil resistome: The anthropogenic, the native, and the unknown 1 2 2 3 4 Eddie Cytryn* , Joao Gatica-Arias , Yael Negreanu , Kun Yang , Zohar Pasternak , Edouard 4 3 Jurkevitch , Tao Yan 1 2 Volcani Agricultural Research Center, Israel, Institute for Soil, Water and Environmental 3 Sciences, Volcani Agricultural Research Center, Israel, Department of Civil and 4 Environmental Engineering, University of Hawaii, USA, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 366B Fine-tuned bistability stabilizes the cooperation-based intestinal virulence of Salmonella 1 2 2 3 1 Médéric Diard* , Victor Garcia , Roland Regoes , Martin Ackermann , Wolf-Dietrich Hardt 1 2 Institute of Microbiology, D-BIOL, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental 3 Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Eawag, Switzerland 367A The fpvB gene, encoding an alternative type I ferripyoverdine receptor, can be lost during long-term colonization of the cystic fibrosis lung by Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 2 3 1 4 Jozef Dingemans* , Aurélie Crabbé , Rob Van Houdt , Pierre Cornelis , Anne Malfroot 1 2 VUB, Belgium, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, Arizona State University, 3 4 USA, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Belgium, UZ Brussels, Belgium 368A Establishment of mass spectrometric profiling in Vibrio Population analyses Rene Erler*, Gunnar Gerdts, Antje Wichels Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany 369A Interactions of the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes with protozoa and plants: a way for the pathogen to succeed in the nature 1 1 1 2 Svetlana Ermolaeva* , Valentina Pushkareva , Lyubov Didenko , Galina Godova , Artem 2 1 Ovod , Viktor Litvin 1 Gamaleya Research Institute of epidemiology and Microbiology, Russian Federation, 2 Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Russian Federation 370A Evaluation of the virulence of the fish pathogen Vibrio anguillarum using a gnotobiotic sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) model 1 2 3 1 1 Ingeborg Frans , Kristof Dierckens , Chris Michiels , Kris Willems , Bart Lievens* , Peter 2 1 Bossier , Hans Rediers 1 Laboratory for Process Microbial Ecology and Bioinspirational Management-Consortium for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (CIMB)- KU Leuven Association, Belgium, 2 3 Laboratory of Aquaculture & Artemia Reference Center, Ghent University, Belgium, Centre for Food and Microbial Technology, KU Leuven, Belgium 371A Adaptation to lungs of cystic fibrosis patients leads to reduced virulence and lowered resistance against natural protist and phage enemies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 2 1 Ville-Petri Friman* , Melanie Ghoul , Angus Buckling 1 2 University of Exeter, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 143 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 371B Anthropogenic impacts on selection for antibiotic resistance in the soil environment 1 1 2 3 William Gaze , Lihong Zhang* , Peter Hawkey , Elizabeth Wellington 1 2 European Centre for Environment and Human Health, United Kingdom, University of 3 Birmingham, United Kingdom, University of Warwick, United Kingdom 372A Detection and characterization of Morganella morganii isolated from medicinal leeches 1 2 1 2 1 Stefanie Glaeser* , Nathalie Fleischer , Danh Biesgen , Harald Galatis , Peter Kämpfer 1 2 Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany, Biebertaler Blutegelzucht, Germany 373A The microbial ecology of childhood caries by 16s rRNA community analysis Ann Griffen*, Clifford Beall, Erin Gross, Eugene Leys The Ohio State University, United States 374A Adaption of bacteria to ameliorate the metabolic burden of carrying antibiotic resistance genes (a systems bioecology modeling analysis) Ferdi Hellweger* Northeastern University, United States 374B The biotic reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae at geothermal sites at the Icelandic coast Herdís Eva Hermundardóttir* 2 University of Iceland/ Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, Iceland, , Iceland 375A Factors influencing colonization of spinach and corn salad plants by the foodborne pathogens Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica 1 2 2 Andreas Hofmann* , Michael Schmid , Anton Hartmann 1 2 Technical University Munich, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 376A Can beneficial bacteria in natural prey items be transferred to lobster larvae? An onship feeding experiment using aquaculture-reared larvae Lone Høj*, David G Bourne, Evan F Goulden, Rochelle Soo, Emmanuelle Botte, Michael R Hall Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia 377A Occurrence of multidrug-resistant Serratia spp. in the Lake Kasumigaura drainage basin, Japan 1 2 3 3 Tatsuya Imai* , M. Habibur Rahman , Hisao Kuroda , Hiroyuki Ohta 1 2 3 Ibaraki University College of Agriculture, Japan, Ibaraki University, Bangladesh, Ibaraki University, Japan 377B Norlichexanthone modulate S. aureus virulence gene expression via agr and sae 1 1 1 1 2 Hanne Ingmer , Anita Nielsen* , Dan Ifrah , Cathrine Friberg , Thomas O. Larsen , Hanne 1 1 1 Frøkiær , Nina G. Hede , Dorte Frees 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Technical University, Denmark, Denmark 378A The virulence factors in environmental Escherichia coli 1 2 3 Vladimir Kmet* , Stefan Faix , Marta Kmetova 1 2 Institute of Animal Physiology Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia, Institute of Animal 3 Physiology, Slovak Acad. Sci., Slovakia, University of P. J. Safarik, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical and Clinical Microbiology, Slovakia 379A Investigating the microbiome of the bovine uterus in relation to endometritis, a costly disease for dairy farmers 1 2 1 Lif Rødtness Vesterby Knudsen* , Eva Láadal Rasmussen , Kirstine Klitgaard Schou , Hanne 2 1 2 1 Gervi Pedersen , Øystein Angen , Jørgen Steen Agerholm , Tim Kåre Jensen 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 144 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 380A Human papillomavirus, cytomegalovirus and chlamydia trachomatis infections in cervical cancer patients from tiruchirapalli, tamilnadu Vinodhini Krishnakumar*, Santhanam Shanmughapriya, Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan Bharathidasan University, India 381A A metaproteomic analysis of a human indwelling urinary catheter biofilm dominated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 1 2 3 Christian Lassek* , Melanie Burghartz , Diego Chaves-Moreno Bernd Hessling , Andreas 3 1 3 2 3 Otto , Martina Jahn , Dörte Becher , Dietmar Pieper , Katharina Riedel 1 2 Technische Universität Braunschweig/ Institute of Microbiology, Germany, Braunschweig/ 3 HZI/ Microbial interactions and processes, Germany, Greifswald/Institut of Microbiology, Germany 382A Comprehensive serotyping and epidemiology of human respiratory adenovirus isolated in Gyeonggi province, South Korea Hyunkyung Lee*, Myungjin Lee, Sukyoung Mun, Woonho Kim, Hangil Cho, Mihye Yoon, Jongbok Lee Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment, South Korea 383A Comparative ocular microbial communities in humans with and without blepharitis Se Hee Lee*, Ji Young Jung, Yoonsoo Hahn, Che Ok Jeon Chung-Ang University, South Korea 383B Effects of putatively prebiotic carbohydrates on pathogenic infections 1 2 Tine Rask Licht* , Hanne Frøkiær 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, Copenhagen University, Denmark 384A Influence of abiotic and biotic soil characteristics on Listeria monocytogenes survival in the environment Aude Locatelli* Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France 385A Identifying genomic and metabolic features that can underlie early successional and opportunistic lifestyles of human gut symbionts 1 2 2 3 4 Catherine Lozupone* , Karoline Faust , Jeroen Raes , Jeremiah Faith , Daniel Frank , Jesse 5 3 1 Zaneveld , Jeffrey Gordon , Rob Knight 1 2 3 University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Washington 4 University School of Medicine, USA, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, USA, 5 Oregon State University, USA 386A Is Faecalibacterium prausnitzii a good indicator of healthy intestinal mucosaassociated microbiota? 1 1 1 2 Mireia López-Siles* , Margarita Martinez-Medina , Teresa Mas de Xaxars , Xavier Aldeguer , 3 1 Míriam Sabat-Mir , L. Jesús García-Gil 1 2 3 Universitat de Girona, Spain, Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta, Spain, Parc Hospitalari Martí i Julià, Spain 387A Fungi and bacteria in nasal lavage from greenhouse workers as affected by environmental exposure 1 2 3 1 Anne Mette Madsen* , Trine Thilsing , Jepser Bælum , Margit W. Frederiksen 1 2 National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark, University of Southern 3 Denmark, Denmark, Odense University Hospital, Denmark 145 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 388A Pilot study of bacterial communities associated with acute otitis media with perforation in Indigenous Australian children 1 1 1 1 2 1 Robyn Marsh* , Mirjam Kaestli , Michael Binks , Linda Ward , Peter Morris , Amanda Leach , 1 Heidi Smith-Vaughan 1 2 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Australia, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory Clinical School, Flinders University, Australia 389A Evolutionary linkage between aquatic predation-resistant bacteria and mammalian pathogenic bacteria 1 2 3 2 Peter Mathisen* , Johanna Thelaus , Kerstin Kouppa , Anna-Lena Forslund , Emelie Näslund 3 3 4 2 1 Salomonsson , Laila Noppa , Anders Sjöstedt , Mats Forsman , Agneta Andersson 1 2 Umeå University / Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Sweden, Swedish 3 Defence Research Agency / Department of CBRN Defence and Security, Sweden, Swedish 4 Defence Research Agency / Department of CBRN Defence and Security, Umeå University / Department of Clinical Microbiology, Sweden 389B Environmental monitoring of pathogens during bioremediation using massive parallel 16S rRNA gene sequencing 1 1 1 2 2 Satoko Matsukura* , Naohiro Noda , Yuji Sekiguchi , Masako Ito , Yoh Takahata , Keiko 3 3 3 3 4 Tsuchikane , Akira Hosoyama , Shoko Ohji , Atsushi Yamazoe , Hideaki Nojiri , Masao 5 Fukuda 1 2 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, Taisei 3 4 Corporation, Japan, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Japan, The 5 University of Tokyo, Japan, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan 390A Structural Stability of a Salivary Bacterial Population against Supragingival Microbiota Shift Following Periodontal Therapy 1 1 1 1 2 Kazuki Matsuo* , Toru Takeshita , Wataru Yamanaka , Yukie Shibata , Nobuoki Eshima , 1 1 Takeshi Yokoyama , Yoshihisa Yamashita 1 2 Kyushu University Faculty of Dental Science, Japan, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Japan 391A Evaluation of a vegetative treatment system to reduce fecal microorganisms and antibiotic resistant bacteria in beef cattle feedlot runoff 1 1 2 Daniel Miller* , Lisa Durso , Christopher Henry 1 2 USDA-ARS, United States, University of Arkansas, United States 392A Diatom-indicated characteristics of aquatic plant biofilms associated with Mycobacterium ulcerans 1 2 3 1 4 Stephanie Miller* , Heather Williamson , Eric Benbow , Jan Stevenson , Mollie McIntosh , 1 2 1 Ryan Kimbirauskas , Pamela Small , Richard Merritt 1 2 3 Michigan State University, United States, University of Tennessee, United States, University 4 of Dayton, United States, Xavier University, United States 393A Environmental reservoirs of the footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus and transmission dynamics of the disease Mohd Muzafar*, Leo Calvo Bado, Laura E Green, Edward M Smith, Elizabeth M.H Wellington The University of Warwick, United Kingdom 394A Tick microbiomes revealed by Batch Learning Self-Organizing Maps (BLSOMs) 1 2 3 4 5 Ryo Nakao* , Takashi Abe , Ard Nijhof , Seigo Yamamoto , Frans Jongejan , Toshimichi 6 1 Ikemura , Chihiro Sugimoto 1 2 Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Japan, Niigata University, 3 4 Japan, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Miyazaki Prefectural Institute for Public Health and 5 6 Environment, Japan, Utrecht University, Netherlands, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan 146 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 195B In situ multilocus variable number of tandem repeats based, direct typing methods of Vibrio splendidus in oyster (Crassostrea gigas) haemolymph 1 2 3 3 Hanen Nasfi , Marie Agnes Travers , Delphine Destoumieux Garzon , Kevin Esteve , Louis 3 2 4 5 Sorieul , Delphine Tourbiez , Jean Christophe Avarre , Frederique Cerquieira , Radhouane 6 2 3 Gdoura , Tristan Renault , Tatiana Vallaeys* 1 2 Université de Montpellier/ Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia, IFREMER, France, 3 4 5 6 Université de Montpellier, France, IRD, France, Univerité de Montpellier, France, Faculté des Sciences de Sfax, Tunisia 395A A bistable switch and anatomical site control Vibrio cholerae virulence gene expression in the intestine 1 2 1 3 Alex Toftgaard Nielsen* , Nadia A. Dolganov , Thomas Rasmussen , Glen Otto , Michael C. 2 3 3 2 Miller , Stephen A. Felt , Stéphanie Torreilles , Gary K. Schoolnik 1 2 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, 3 Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 395B Bacteroides vulgatus strain PC510 attenuates expression of the NF-kB signaling pathway in HT-29 cells 1 2 1 1 Paraic O Cuiv* , Tomas de Wouters , Stanislas Mondot , Eline S. Klaassens , Hervé M. 2 1 Blottière , Mark Morrison 1 2 CSIRO Livestock Industries, Australia, INRA, France 396A Bacterial and chemical contributions to aquatic environments: study of a medical center – WWTP – river continuum and a pasture land – creek - river continuum 1 2 3 1 Kenny Oberle* , Marion-Justine Capdeville , Roland Leclercq , Thierry Berthe , Hélène 2 2 4 4 1 Budzinski , Patrick Pardon , Olivier Clermont , Erick Denamur , Fabienne Petit 1 2 University of Rouen - UMR 6143 M2C, France, University of Bordeaux 1 - UMR 5805 EPOC, 3 4 France, University of Caen - EA2128, France, University of Paris 7 - INSERM U722, France 397A Effects of disease on the composition of sponge-associated bacterial communities 1 1 2 3 Julie Olson* , Matthew Jenny , Deborah Gochfeld , Robert Thacker 1 2 3 University of Alabama, United States, University of Mississippi, United States, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States 398A Host-microbes interplay involved in the resolution of intestinal inflammation Toshifumi Osaka*, Junki Hayasaki, Kosuke Miki, Satoshi Tsuneda Waseda University, Japan 399A A Host-Specific Microbiota is Required for Gut Immune Maturation 1 2 2 2 3 Sünje Johanna Pamp* , Hachung Chung , Neeraj Surana , Dennis Kasper , David A. Relman 1 2 Stanford University School of Medicine / Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, USA, Harvard 3 Medical School, USA, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA 400A Global patterns of the standing and active human gut microbiome in health and inflammatory bowel diseases 1 2 1 3 1 Philipp Rausch* , Ateequr Rehman , Jun Wang , Stefan Schreiber , John F. Baines , Stephan 4 Ott 1 Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, 2 Germany, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, 3 Germany, Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel; Department of General Internal Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, University 4 Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Department of General Internal Medicine, ChristianAlbrechts-University of Kiel, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 401A Investigating the impact of biodiversity on clinically-relevant bacterial communities: is more truly merrier? Damian Rivett*, Kenneth Bruce, Andrew Lilley King's College London, United Kingdom 147 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 401B Effect of black tea and fractions on human colonic microbiota measured by in vitro models 1 1 2 1 3 Laure Roger* , Max Bingham , Deepak Mhasavade , Sara Mela , Glenn Gibson , Elaine 1 Vaughan 1 2 3 Unilever, Netherlands, Unilever, India, University of Reading, United Kingdom 402A Does microbial community structure mediate pathogen colonization in nurses' hands? 1 1 2 1 1 Mariana Rosenthal* , Arianna Miles , Guilherme Ramos , Allison Aiello , Betsy Foxman 1 2 University of Michigan School of Public Health, United States, Faculdade Evangélica de Medicina do Paraná, Brazil 403A Microbial drivers in the development of black band disease in coral 1 2 3 4 5 4 Yui Sato* , Martin Glas , Andrew Muirhead , Edmund Ling , Bette Willis , David Edwards , 3 David Bourne 1 ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies & School of Marine and Tropical Biology, 2 James Cook University, and AIMS@JCU, Australia, Max Planck Institute for Marine 3 4 Microbiology, Germany, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Agriculture & Food Sciences, The University of 5 Queensland, Australia, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Australia 404A Biocontrol effect of bacterial antagonists towards Rhizoctonia solani on lettuce and interaction with the indigenous rhizosphere communities affected by soil types? 1 2 1 2 1 Susanne Schreiter* , Rita Grosch , Ute Zimmerling , Petra Zocher , Kornelia Smalla 1 2 Julius Kühn-Institute, Germany, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren/Erfurt e.V. (IGZ), Germany 405A HuMiX: a microfluidics-based in vitro co-culture device for investigating humanmicrobial molecular interactions 1 1 2 2 1 Pranjul Shah* , Mahesh Desai , Matthew Estes , Frederic Zenhausern , Paul Wilmes 1 2 University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Centre for Advanced NanoBioscience and Medicine, University of Arizona, USA 406A In vitro actinomycetes biofilm development and biofilm inhibition by polyene antibiotic, nystatin on IUD copper surfaces Santhanam Shanmughapriya, Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan*, Vasanthi Nachiappan Bharathidasan University, India 405B QTL analysis of the skin microbiota and gene-microbe interactions in susceptibility to experimental epidermolysis bullosa acquisita (EBA) 1 2 3 4 2 2 Girish Srinivas* , Steffen Moeller , Sven Kuenzel , Jun Wang , Ralf Ludwig , Detlef Zillikens , 2 4 Saleh Ibrahim , John Baines 1 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and University of Luebeck, Germany, 2 3 University of Luebeck, Germany, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany, 4 Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany 407A Changes in oral microbiota profiles associated with caries : a pilot study 1 1 1 1 1 2 Usha Srinivasan , Ai Wen , Lixin Zhang , Carl F Marrs , Deborah Goldberg , John Thomas , 3 2 3 3 1 Robert Weyant , Richard Crout , Daniel McNeil , Mary Marazita , Betsy Foxman* 1 2 3 University of Michigan, USA, West Virginia University, USA, University of Pittsburgh, USA 408A Bacterial community succession on a hydroxyapatite disk in oral cavity in caries-active and caries-free subjects 1 1 2 1 1 Toru Takeshita* , Masaki Yasui , Yoji Saeki , Yukie Shibata , Yoshihisa Yamashita 1 2 Kyushu University Faculty of Dental Science, Japan, Lotte Co., Ltd., Central Laboratory, Japan 148 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 041A Genome-wide mapping of transcription factor binding in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Juliane Thoegersen*, Lars Jelsbak, Soeren Molin Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 408B Impact of rye and wheat used as mulch in a cover crop production system on the Pseudomonas syringae diversity Vicky Toussaint*, Marie Ciotola, Mélanie Cadieux Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada 409A Diversity of nontuberculous mycobacteria in unchlorinated drinking water Paul van der Wielen*, Dick van der Kooij KWR Watercycle Research Institute, Netherlands 410A Rodent species as reservoirs of Borrelia human pathogens in Dutch natural areas 1 2 3 Leo van Overbeek* , Fedor Gasner , Willem Takken 1 2 WUR Plant Research International, Netherlands, RIVM Bilthoven, Netherlands, 3 Wageningen University, Laboratory of Entomology, Netherlands 411A A gene-targeted approach to investigate the intestinal butyrate producing bacterial community 1 1 1 2 3 3 Marius Vital* , C.R. Penton , V. Young , D. Antonopoulos , M. Sogin , H. Morrison , L. 4 5 1 1 1 Harrell , E.B. Chang , Q. Wang , J. Cole , J.M. Tiedje 1 2 3 Michigan State University, United States, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Marine 4 Biological Laboratory, USA, University of Chicago Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, 5 USA, University of Chicago Medical Center, USA 412A Bacterial profiling of White Plague Disease in a comparative coral species framework Christian Voolstra*, Cornelia Roder, Chatchanit Arif, Manuel Aranda, Camille Daniels KAUST, Saudi Arabia 413A Scenedesmus-Microcystis interaction may provide a novel approach to combat toxic cyanobacterial blooms 1 2 2 3 3 4 Gad Weiss* , Moshe Harel , Einat Daniel , Jenny Gun , Ovadia Lev , Mario Lebendiker , 5 5 6 2 Tamar Zohary , Assaf Sukenik , Sergei Braun , Aaron Kaplan 1 2 the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 3 Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Israel, The Hebrew University of 4 Jerusalem, The Casali Institute of Applied Chemistry, Israel, The Hebrew University of 5 Jerusalem, The Wolfson Centre for Applied Structural Biology, Israel, Israel Oceanographic 6 and Limnological Research, The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Biological Chemistry, Israel 414A Genus- and strain-level culture-independent characterization of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections with comparison to clinical isolate data 1 1 2 2 1 Dana Willner* , Serene Low , Narelle George , Graeme Nimmo , Mark Schembri , Philip 1 Hugenholtz 1 2 University of Queensland, Australia, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia 414B Antibiotic resistance in freshwater: should increasing agricultural antibiotic use concern us? Cynthia Winkworth* University of Otago, New Zealand 415A Improved pathogen resistance can lead to non-targeted effects on endophytes in forest trees 1 2 1 Johanna Witzell* , Juan A. Martín , Kathrin Blumenstein 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Technical University of Madrid, Spain 149 PS22 – Microbial Disease Ecology Thursday 23 August 416A Phenotypic heterogeneity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations in cystic fibrosis patients 1 2 2 2 Matthew Workentine* , Christopher Sibley , Jens Norgaard-Gron , Harvey Rabin , Michael 1 Surette 1 2 McMaster University, Canada, University of Calgary, Canada 417A Detection system of Rotavirus in water samples Francisco Javier Zavala-Diaz de la Serna, Rocio Infante-Ramirez*, Jose Alfredo Soto-Alonso, Gilberto Erosa-de la Vega Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua/Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Mexico PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling: from genes to turnover 436A The use and limitations of reaction-transport models in quantifying, predicting and hindcasting biogeochemical dynamics in marine sediments 1 2 1 3 Sandra Arndt* , Laura Wehramnn , Jemma Wadham , Pierre Regnier 1 2 3 University of Bristol, United Kingdom, University of California, United States, Universite Libre de Brussels, Belgium 437A Identification of the active fungal and bacterial decomposers in forest soils using the combination of next generation sequencing, stable isotope probing and enzyme analysis Petr Baldrian* Institute of Microbiology ASCR, Czech Republic 438A Linking the abundance of nirK, nirS and nosZ functional genes and nitrate removal using alternative carbon sources in laboratory denitrification bioreactors 1 2 2 1 3 Maria Barrett* , Owen Fenton , T.G Ibrahim , Vincent O’Flaherty , Mark G. Healy 1 Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, School of Natural Science, 2 National University of Ireland, Ireland, Teagasc, Johnstown Castle, Environmental Research 3 Centre, Ireland, Civil Engineering, National University of Ireland, Ireland 083B Bacterial activities driving arsenic speciation and solubility in marine sediments 1 2 1 1 Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet , Fabienne Séby , Catherine Crouzet , Catherine Joulian* 1 2 French geological survey (BRGM), France, Ultra Traces Analyse Aquitaine (UT2A), France 439A Nitrite oxidation in the upper water column and oxygen minimum zone of the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean 1 2 2 J. Michael Beman* , Joy Shih , Brian Popp 1 2 University of California, Merced, United States, University of Hawaii, United States 440A The relative proportion of plant C allocated to mycorrhiza and bacteria regulate soil C sequestration 1 2 2 Per Bengtson* , Jason Barker , Sue J Grayston 1 2 Lund University, Microbial Ecology , Sweden, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Sciences, Canada 440B Interactions between recalcitrant and labile organic carbon in streams - Are priming effects important in stream biofilm carbon cycling? Mia M. Bengtsson*, Karoline Wagner, Erik Herberg, Nancy Burns, Wolfgang Wanek, Tom Battin University of Vienna, Austria 150 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 441A Isolation of heterotrophic nitrogen fixing bacteria from an oxygen minimum zone in the Baltic Sea 1 2 3 1 Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia* , Hanna Farnelid , Klaus Jürgens , Lasse Riemann 1 2 Section for Marine Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Natural 3 Sciences, Linnaeus University, Sweden, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany 442A Archaeal nitrification in sulfide influenced hypoxic waters of the Baltic Sea 1 2 3 4 Carlo Berg* , Verona Vandieken , Bo Thamdrup , Klaus Jürgens 1 2 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research , Germany, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of 3 the Marine Environment (ICBM), Germany, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), 4 University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Denmark, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), Germany 443A Effect of high pressure CO2 on microbial communities and bacterial activities related to carbon capture and storage 1 2 2 2 3 Sylvain Bordenave* , Françis Bernard , Paul Davis , Peter Clark , Gerrit Voordouw 1 2 University of Calgary, Canada, Alberta Sulphur Research Ltd., University of Calgary 3 Research Centre, Petroleum Microbiology Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences and University of Calgary 443B Abundance of norB and nosZ genes determined in conventional and no-tillage systems in the cerrado (savannah) of southwest of Brazil 1 1 1 1 Clovis Daniel Borges* , Lina Chuan Wong , Marília Hauck Reichert , Caio Augusto Yoshiura , 1 2 1 Dennis Goss Souza , Fábio Martins Mercante , Siu Mui Tsai 1 2 Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura-USP, Brazil, Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária Oeste-Embrapa, Brazil 444A Physiological shifts in the temperature response of denitrifying and anammox bacterial communities in coastal sediments 1 2 3 Lindsay Brin* , Anne E. Giblin , Jeremy J. Rich 1 2 Brown University, USA, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, USA 445A Nitrite oxidation under low oxygen conditions 1 2 3 4 Laura Bristow* , Bo Thamdrup , Tage Dalsgaard , Mark Trimmer 1 2 Nordic Center for Earth Evolution / Institute of Biology, Denmark, University of Southern 3 Denmark, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, Denmark, Aarhus University, Department of 4 Bioscience - Marine Ecology, Denmark, Queen Mary, University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, United Kingdom 446A Bacterial communities potentially involved in arsenic cycle in groundwaters from Lombardia (Italy) 1 1 1 2 1 Lucia Cavalca* , Patrizia Zaccheo , Anna Corsini , Ben Abbas , Vincenza Andreoni , Gerard 3 Muyzer 1 2 3 University of Milano, Italy, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 446B Does land use influence nitrogen cycling communities in soil? Ian Clark*, Penny Hirsch Rothamsted Research, United Kingdom 009A Interactions of arsenic species with bacterial species in natural waters Domenico Davolos*, Biancamaria Pietrangeli INAIL, Department of Productive Plants and Interaction with the Environment (DIPIA), Italy 151 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 447A Investigating benthic nitrogen fixation at diverse deep-sea sites reveals diazotrophy in the presence of high levels of ammonium 1 1 2 2 1 Anne Dekas* , Grayson Chadwick , David Fike , Dwight McCay , Nathan Dalleska , 1 1 Stephanie Connon , Victoria Orphan 1 2 California Institute of Technology, USA, Washington University in St. Louis, USA 448A Denitrifying bacteria produce much N2O at low pH, and we are beginning to understand why 1 2 3 Asa Frostegard* , Binbin Liu , Lars R Bakken 1 2 Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway, Norwegian University of Life Sciences/Dep 3 of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norway, Norwegian University of Life Sciences/Dep of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norway 449A Nitrite oxidation in the oxygen minimum zones of eastern tropical south Atlantic and Pacific 1 1 1 1 2 Jessika Füssel* , Tim Kalvelage , Phyllis Lam , Gaute Lavik , Marlene M Jensen , Moritz 1 1 Holtappels , Marcel M M Kuypers 1 2 Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Nordic Center of Earth Evolution and Institute of Biology, Denmark 450A Role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in the reduction of iron in marine intertidal flat sediment 1 2 1 Jeanine Geelhoed* , Halina Tegetmeyer , Marc Strous 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Germany 451A Characterization and quantification of gene transcripts for arsenic respiration and resistance during in situ uranium bioremediation 1 1 2 3 Ludovic Giloteaux* , Dawn E. Holmes , Kenneth H. Williams , Kelly C. Wrighton , Michael J. 4 2 1 1 Wilkins , Alison P. Montgomery , Jessica A. Smith , Courtney A. Thompson , Thomas J. 1 1 Roper , Derek R. Lovley 1 2 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 3 4 USA, University of California Berkeley, USA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA 452A Dissolved organic matter remineralization in the Benguela upwelling system Philipp Hach*, Gaute Lavik, Thorsten Dittmar, Marcel Kuypers Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 452B Assessment of PCR Primer Specificity in Detecting Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing (Anammox) Bacteria and Their Diversity in Different Environmental Samples 1 2 3 3 3 Ping Han* , Uli Klümper , Alex Wong , Meng Li , Ji-Dong Gu 1 2 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Department of Chemistry, University of Duisburg3 Essen, Germany, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, China 453A Dynamics of anoxic nitrogen cycling pathways and anammox-specific biomarkers in an experimental marine sediment system 1 2 3 1 Amber Hardison , Ellen Hopmans , Anne Giblin , Jeremy Rich* 1 2 3 Brown University, USA, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Netherlands, Marine Biological Laboratory, United States 454A Microbial extracellular enzyme activity promotes slower cycling of soil carbon in perennial agroecosystems Sarah Hargreaves*, Kirsten Hofmockel Iowa State University, United States 152 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 455A Substrate preferences of peatland sulphate reducers - elusive microorganisms mitigating peatland methane emission 1 2 3 3 Bela Hausmann* , Klaus-Holger Knorr , Alexander Loy , Michael Pester 1 2 University of Vienna, Austria, Limnological Research Station, Department of Hydrology, 3 University of Bayreuth, Germany, Department of Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria 456A Differential responses of soil microbial communities to elevated carbon dioxide among different ecosystems 1 1 2 3 4 1 1 Zhili He* , Ye Deng , Jinbo Xiong , Hao Yu , Meiying Xu , Liyou Wu , Kai Xue , Joy Van 1 5 5 6 7 8 Nostrand , Sarah Hobbie , Peter Reich , Christopher Schadt , Angela Kent , Elise Pendall , 9 1 Matthew Wallenstein , Jizhong Zhou 1 2 3 University of Oklahoma, USA, Institute of Soil Science/CAS, China, Harbin Institute of 4 5 Technology, China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, China, University of Minnesota, 6 7 USA, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8 9 USA, University of Wyoming, USA, Colorado State University, USA 457A Sulfur cycle in sewer networks and its consequences on cementitious materials 1 2 1 3 Jean Herisson* , Eric D. van Hullebusch , Marielle Guéguen , Marina Moletta , Pascal 4 1 Taquet , Thierry Chaussadent 1 2 Ifsttar, France, Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire Géomatériaux et Environnement, France, 3 4 INRA, France, Kerneos, France 458A The microbial seed bank: the effects of desiccation and heat stress on methane oxidizing bacteria 1 2 Adrian Ho* , Peter Frenzel 1 2 Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Belgium, Max-Planck-Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 458B Genes associated with phosphorus solubilisation by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria 1 2 3 1 1 Pei-Chun (Lisa) Hsu* , Leo Condron , Tim Clough , Carolyn Mander , Steve Wakelin , 1 1 Maureen O’Callaghan , Mark Hurst 1 2 3 AgResearch, New Zealand, Bio-Protection Research Centre, New Zealand, Lincoln University, New Zealand 459A Humic acids as accelerators of microbial Fe(II) oxidation 1 1 2 2 1 Anke Hädrich* , Ulrike Litzba , Jordon Beckler , Martial Taillefert , Kirsten Küsel 1 2 Friedrich Schiller University Jena / Institute of Ecology, Germany, Georgia Institute of Technology / School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, USA 460A Methanogenic oil degradation in the Dagang oil field 1 2 3 1 2 Núria Jiménez* , Minmin Cai , Friederike Gründger , Brandon E L Morris , Jun Yao , Hans H 1 3 Richnow , Martin Krüger 1 2 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany, University of Science and 3 Technology Beijing, China, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources - BGR Geozentrum Hannover Germany 461A Insights into the unexplored diversity of the nitrous oxide reducing microbial community 1 1 2 2 1 Christopher Jones* , Daniel Graf , David Bru , Laurent Philippot , Sara Hallin 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, INRA, UMR 1347 Agroecologie, France 462A Effect of long term nitrogen amendment on denitrifier community structure and activity along an established gradient of carbon availability 1 2 1 1 1 Christopher Jones* , Allana Welsh , Ella Wessen , Karin Enwall , Sara Hallin 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, University of Illinois, USA 153 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 463A Denitrification in riparian wetlands of the Seine River (France) 1 2 1 1 Anniet Laverman* , Christelle Anquetil , Roose-Amsaleg Celine , Josette Garnier , Sylvie 2 Derenne 1 2 UMR 7619 Sisyphe, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, France, UMR 7618 Bioemco, University Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, France 464A Responses of soil nitrite-oxidizers to interacting global change components 1 2 3 3 4 Xavier Le Roux* , Audrey Niboyet , Laure Barthes , Paul Leadley , Chris Field , Thomas 5 5 6 5 Pommier , Maria Tourna , A Terada , Franck Poly 1 2 3 University Lyon1 / Microbial Ecology Centre, France, INRA, France, Univ Paris 11, France, 4 5 6 Carnegie Institute, USA, Univ Lyon1, France, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 464B Microbial metabolic characteristics throughout the South Atlantic Ocean Itziar Lekunberri*, Eva Sintes, Daniele De Corte, Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna, Austria 465A Unexpected diversity of nitrite oxidoreductase genes (nxrB) in marine waters: indications for novel nitrite oxidizing microorganisms? 1 2 1 Sandra Lopez* , Sebastian Luecker , Andreas Schramm 1 2 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Microbiology, Denmark, University of Vienna, Department of Microbial Ecology, Austria 466A Anaerobic bacterial arsenic reduction in a rare, hypersaline estuary ecosystem: the Laguna Madre (Texas, USA) Kristine Lowe*, Janet Ruiz University of Texas - Pan American, United States 467A Diversity of manganese-oxidizing bacteria isolated from Taklimakan Desert suggests diverse mechanisms for the interaction between bacteria and manganese 1 2 1 2 2 2 Xuesong Luo* , Yaqiong Wang , Xian-Chun Zeng , Jun Wang , Shaohua Wang , Yangqi Yu , 2 1 2 Jun Li , Yanxin Wang , Chengxiang Fang 1 2 China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, Wuhan University, China 468A Hitherto the nitrate transformations in Brazilian mangroves sediments 1 2 3 Danice Mazzer Luvizotto* , Beate Kraft , Aline Aparecida Pizzirani-Kleiner , Halina Halina 4 2 5 Tegetmeyer , Marc Strous , Fernando Dini Andreote 1 2 University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Microbial Fitness Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine 3 Microbiology, Germany, Department of Genetics, Laboratory “Prof João Lúcio de Azevedo”, 4 “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Center for 5 Biotechnology, University of Bielefeld, Germany Department of Soil Science, “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil 469A Towards predictive understanding of nitrogen cycling in soils 1 2 1 2 Frank Löffler* , Robert Sanford , Sukhwan Yoon , Allana Welsh , Luis-Miguel Rodríguez 3 1 4 3 1 Rojas , Kirsti Ritalahti , Joanne Chee-Sanford , Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Frank Loeffler 1 2 3 University of Tennessee, United States, University of Illinois, United States, Georgia 4 Institute of Technology, United States, USDA-ARS, United States 470A NirK-possessing denitrifying bacteria, not fungi, produce N2O indairy manure compost 1 2 1 1 1 Koki Maeda* , Sakae Toyoda , Takashi Osada , Dai Hanajima , Riki Morioka , Naohiro 2 Yoshida 1 2 National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 154 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 470B Quantifying methane turnover in the deep sea: the Carlos Ribeiro Mud Volcano (Gulf of Cadiz) as a case study 1 2 2 3 4 Loïs Maignien* , R. John Parkes , Barry Cragg , Helge Niemann , Katrin Knittel , Stephanie 5 5 Coulon , Nico Boon 1 2 Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, Laboratory of Geomicrobiology, Cardiff 3 University, United Kingdom, Institute for Environmental Geosciences, University of Basel, 4 5 Switzerland, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Lab for Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), Ghent University, Belgium 471A Denitrification in Bacillus vireti as a last resort to detoxify NO from DNRA 1 2 2 3 1 Daniel Mania* , Ines Verbaendert , Kim Heylen , Lars Bakken , Åsa Frostegård 1 Dept Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2 3 Norway, Ghent University - Dept Biochemistry and Microbiology, Belgium, Dept Plant and Environmental Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway 472A Depicting biomass-degrading enzymes in mangrove sediments by metagenomics 1 2 1 Joelma Marcon* , Fábio L. Soares Jr. , Mylenne Calciolari Pinheiro da Silva , Danielle David 3 1 1 1 Klein , Giulia Mazzero Inocêncio , João Lúcio Azevedo , Aline Aparecida Pizzirani-Kleiner , 4 3 1 Valéria Maia de Oliveira , André Oliveira de Souza Lima , Fernando Dini Andreote 1 2 University of Sao Paulo - ESALQ/USP, Brazil, University of São Paulo - CENA/USP, Brazil, 3 4 University of Itajaí Valley - UNIVALI, Brazil, University of Campinas - UNICAMP, Brazil 473A Impacts of climate change on N-cycling microorganisms in soil 1 2 2 2 3 Sven Marhan* , Daniel Keil , Kathy Regan , Julia Niehörster , Pascal A. Niklaus , Claudia 4 5 2 2 Kammann , Laurent Philippot , Christian Poll , Ellen Kandeler 1 2 University of Hohenheim, Germany, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil 3 Biology, Universität Hohenheim, Germany Institute of Environmental Sciences, Universität 4 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Plant Ecology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen Germany, 5 INRA-University of Burgundy, Laboratory of Soil Microbiology and Geochemistry, France 474A Heterotrophic growth of a marine bacterium from the SUP05/Arctic96BD-19 clade of gamma proteobacteria on organic carbon and thiosulfate Katharine Marshall*, Robert Morris University of Washington, United States 474B Metagenomics-based mining of the microbial halogen cycle 1 2 2 1 1 Kyle McPherson* , Zalan Szabo , Colin Ingham , Detmer Sipkema , Hauke Smidt 1 2 Wageningen University, Netherlands, MicroDish, Netherlands 475A Microbial methanization in organic-rich shales Margaux Meslé*, Charlotte Périot, Gilles Dromart, Philippe Oger Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5276, ENS de Lyon, France 476A Land use changes in tropical peatlands affect microbial and metabolic processes 1 2 2 2 3 Shailendra Mishra* , Sheela Reuben , Lee Wan Aik , Aljosja Hooijer , Yung Pui Yui , Sanjay 1 Swarup 1 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS); NUS Environmental Research Institute, Singapore; Singapore Delft Water Alliance, NUS, 2 Singapore, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS); NUS Environmental Research Institute, Singapore 477A Seasonal changes in the community structure of ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in oligotrophic groundwater from limestone aquifers 1 1 2 3 1 Sebastian Opitz* , Kirsten Küsel , Kai Uwe Totsche , Oliver Spott , Martina Herrmann 1 2 Friedrich Schiller University Jena / Institute of Ecology, Germany, Friedrich Schiller 3 University Jena/ Institute of Geosciences, Germany, Helmoltz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ / Department Bodenphysik, Germany 155 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 477B Ecophysiology of a large planktonic marine Alteromonas that consumes an unexpectedly high fraction of dissolved organic carbon Byron Pedler*, Lihini Aluwihare, Farooq Azam Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA 478A Abundance of functional groups of microorganisms as predictors for potential biogeochemical process rates 1 2 3 2 2 Dorthe G. Petersen* , Steven J. Blazewicz , Mark Waldrop , Don J. Herman , Mary Firestone 1 2 Aarhus University/Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Denmark, UC 3 Berkeley/ESPM, United States, USGS, United States 479A Impact of silver nanoparticles on nitrification in estuarine sediments 1 2 2 2 3 1 Jessica Poole* , Bjorn Stolpe , Paula Cole , Jamie Lead , Melanie Sapp , Ian Colbeck , 1 Corinne Whitby 1 2 University of Essex, United Kingdom, University of Birmingham, United 3 Kingdom, FERA, United Kingdom 480A Diagenesis of biogenic iron minerals: tracking the interaction of Fe and C over deep time 1 2 2 2 3 Nicole Posth* , Elizabeth D. Swanner , Inga Koehler , Andreas Kappler , Donald E. Canfield 1 2 Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE) - Institute for Biology, Denmark, Center for 3 Applied Geoscience, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE), Instit. for Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 150B Responses of redox potential, nitrogen loss and soil microbial communities to frequent changes in aerobic and anaerobic conditions on a flooded soil 1 2 1 2 Laurent Quillet* , Chokri Mchergui , Ludovic Besaury , Marthe Akpa-Vinceslas , Estelle 2 2 Langlois , Fabrice Bureau 1 2 UMR CNRS 6143, France, Laboratoire ECODIV, EA1293, Université de Rouen, IRESE A, place Emile Blondel, F-76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France 481A A quantitative model of bacterial particle and polymer degradation in aquatic systems Kristin T. Ravndal*, Roald Kommedal University of Stavanger, Norway 482A Biomethylation of mercury by earthworms and its influence on ingested bacteria 1 1 2 3 1 Stefan Rieder* , Ivano Brunner , Otto Daniel , Bian Liu , Beat Frey 1 2 3 Swiss Federal Institute WSL, Switzerland, Agroscope Waedenswil, Switzerland, University of Geneva, Switzerland 483A Denitrification in natural freshwater systems – analysis of local and continental determinants 1 1 2 1 3 1 Antti Rissanen* , Jatta Karhunen , Anne Ojala , Anna Taskinen , Lauri Arvola , Marja Tiirola 1 2 3 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland, Lammi Biological Station/University of Helsinki, Finland 483B Methane microbial ecology in hydroelectric reservoirs: methanotrophic activity in water samples and of a bacterial strain from Tucuruí reservoir, Pará, Brazil 1 1 Cristina Rossi Nakayama* , Juliana Aparecida Bomjardim Soares , Débora do Carmo 2 2 2 3 Linhares , Ana Carolina Vieira Araújo , Vivian Helena Pellizari , Artur Luiz da Costa Silva 1 2 3 Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Federal University of Para, Brazil 484A Impact of nitrification on the Nitrogen Cycle in the Elbe estuary Tina Sanders*, Kirstin Daehnke Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany 156 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 485A The contributions of fungi to the biogeochemical cycling of Mn in metal-rich environments 1 1 2 3 Cara Santelli* , Dominique Chaput , William Burgos , Colleen Hansel 1 2 Smithsonian Institution, United States, The Pennsylvania State University, United States, 3 Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, United States 486A Isolation and characterization of novel thermophilic nitrifying Bacillus sp. from compost 1 2 Chikako Shimaya* , Tomoyoshi Hashimoto 1 2 National Agricultural Research Center for Kyusyu Okinawa Region, Japan, National Agricultural Research Center, Japan 487A Heterotrophic nitrate assimilating bacteria throughout the Atlantic ocean: new perspectives on the global nitrogen cycle Eva Sintes*, Paul Steiner, Daniele De Corte, Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna, Austria 488A Nitrite Respiration in a Groundwater Contaminant Plume, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA 1 2 2 1 3 Richard Smith* , Bongkeun Song , James Taylor , J. K. Bohlke , Craig Tobias 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey, United States, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, United 3 States, University of Connecticut, United States 489A Coral mucus enhances prokaryotic productivity in surrounding seawater Akito Taniguchi*, Takashi Yoshida, Mitsuru Eguchi Kinki University, Japan 489B High affinity sulfate reduction kinetics in marine sediment Irene Harder Tarpgaard*, Hans Røy, Kasper Kjeldsen, Kai Finster, Bo Barker Jørgensen Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark 490A Discriminating between the contributions of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria to soil nitrification Anne Taylor, Neeraja Vajrala, Daniel Arp, David Myrold*, Peter Bottomley Oregon State University, USA 491A The effect of pH on soil microbial community structure and function: results from a manipulated pH experiment 1 1 2 1 Bruce Thomson* , Nick Ostle , Graeme Nicol , Rob Griffiths 1 2 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, United Kingdom, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom 492A The fungal factor in variation of wood decay rates: the LOGLIFE experiment at microscale 1 2 1 Annemieke van der Wal* , Hans Cornelissen , Wietse de Boer 1 2 NIOO-KNAW, Netherlands, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands 493A Identification of acetate-oxidizing bacteria in Aarhus Bay surface sediment by RNAstable isotope probing in anoxic slurries and intact sediment cores 1 2 Verona Vandieken* , Bo Thamdrup 1 University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, 2 Germany, University of Southern Denmark, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, Denmark 494A Extracellular enzyme activity assays as a tool to investigate priming in freshwater biofilms Karoline Wagner*, Erik Herberg, Mia Bengtsson, Nancy Burns, Anna Sieczko, Tom Battin University of Vienna/ Department of Limnology, Austria 157 PS23 – Microbial Element Cycling Thursday 23 August 494B Sulfur isotope fractionation in various habitats around mud volcanoes and brine pools in the Gulf of Mexico 1 2 1 Hannah Sophia Weber* , Samantha B Joye , Kirsten S Habicht 1 2 University of Southern Denmark, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, Denmark, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, United States 495A Microbial ecology of Anammox organisms: do organics drive Anammox? 1 2 1 Simon Williams* , Mark Trimmer , Kevin Purdy 1 2 University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom 496A New insights into the Movile Cave food web: bacteria using methylated amines as a carbon, energy and nitrogen source 1 2 1 Daniela Wischer* , Yin Chen , J. Colin Murrell 1 2 University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, University of Warwick, United Kingdom 497A Quantitative detection of nitric oxide reductase (norB) gene and nitrous oxide reductase (nosZ) gene in soils of different land-use types 1 1 2 1 Lina Chuan Wong , Clovis Daniel Borges* , Fábio Martins Mercante , Siu Mui Tsai 1 2 Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura-USP, Brazil, Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária Oeste-Embrapa, Brazil 498A Vanadium addition to contaminated sediments results in vanadium reduction, decreases diversity and selects for specific taxa 1 1 1 2 1 Alexis Yelton* , Kelly Wrighton , Kim Handley , Ken Williams , Jillian Banfield 1 2 University of California, Berkeley, USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States 499A Isolation of bacteria capable of degrading pharmaceuticals and personal care products to low ng/L concentrations Nicolette Zhou*, April Lutovsky, Greta Andaker, Heidi Gough, John Ferguson University of Washington, United States 499B Phylogenetic diversity of cellular stoichiometry among marine bacteria Amy Zimmerman*, Steven Allison, Adam Martiny University of California Irvine, United States PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments 076A Diversity and function of fungal communities in biological soil crusts in Oman Raeid Abed*, Abdullah Al-Sadi, Muneera Al Shehi, Sheikha Al-Hinai, Michael Robinson Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 077A Effects of simazine and 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid upon genetics and metabolic diversity in aerobic heterotrophic bacteria present in a pristine cold aquatic oligotrophic environments 1 2 2 2 Paulina Aguayo* , Felipe Contreras , Paulina González , Evelyn Hernández , Carlos 2 3 2 González , Ricardo Barra , Miguel Martínez 1 2 Universidad de Concepción, Microbiología, Chile, Departamento de Microbiología, 3 Universidad de Concepción, Chile, Centro EULA-Chile, Universidad de Concepción, Chile 078A Spatial and salinity effect in halophilic bacterial diversity of Salar de Huasco (Chilean Altiplano) 1 1 2 2 Pablo Aguilar , Cristina Dorador , Joice Leon , Francisco Remonsellez* 1 2 Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile 158 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 079A Microbial dynamics during the annual freeze in Bratina Island ponds 1 1 1 2 3 Stephen Archer , Craig Cary , Ian McDonald* , Karl Safi , Ian Hawes 1 2 University of Waikato, New Zealand, National Institute of Atmospheric Research, New 3 Zealand, University of Canterbury, New Zealand 080A Bacterial and archaeal community structure along a geochemical gradient in hydrothermally influenced sediments of Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California 1 1 1 2 1 Philip A. Arevalo* , Sean P. Sylva , Caroline R. Toney , Nadine Le Bris , Jeffrey S. Seewald , 1 Stefan M. Sievert 1 2 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, Benthic Ecogeochemistry Laboratory, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France 081A Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial community in the very As-rich creek waters of Carnoulès mine, France 1 1 1 1 2 Volant Aurélie* , Bruneel Odile , Desoeuvre Angélique , Casiot Corinne , Bru Nöelle , Delpoux 1 1 3 3 1 Sophie , Héry Marina , Javerliat Fabien , Fahy Anne , Elbaz-Poulichet Françoise , Duran 3 4 3 Robert , Bertin Phillipe , Laugat Béatrice 1 2 Laboratoire HydroSciences Montpellier UMR 5569, France, UMR CNRS 5142, France, 3 4 EEM, UMR 5254, France, GMGM, UMR 7156, France 082A Molecular diversity and cold-adaptation in permafrost bacteria from Taylor Valley, Antarctica 1 2 3 Corien Bakermans* , Mark Skidmore , Suzanne Douglas 1 2 Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College, United States, Montana State University, 3 United States, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States 078B Enrichment and identification of psychrotolerant iron- and sulfur-oxidizing Acidithiobacillus strain from Chilean Altiplano 1 1 2 Sergio Barahona , Cristina Dorador , Francisco Remonsellez* 1 2 Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile 083A Direct and crossed effects of temperature, pressure and salinity on metabolic activity of anaerobic strains 1 1 1 1 Vanessa Barsotti , Sébastien Dupraz , Catherine Joulian* , Fabienne Battaglia-Brunet , Claire 2 1 Sergeant , Francis Garrido 1 2 BRGM, France, CENBG, France 084A Does the capacity to induce lightning in clouds increase the adaptive potential of Pseudomonas syringae? 1 1 1 2 Laurine Blanchard* , Sandrine Demanèche , François Buret , Cindy E. Morris , Timothy M. 1 1 Vogel , Pascal Simonet 1 2 Ecole Centrale de Lyon - Université de Lyon, France, INRA, UR407 Pathologie Végétale, France 085A Elevational patterns of bacterial diversity on glaciers 1 2 3 1 4 Dylan Bodington* , Takahiro Segawa , Nozomu Takeuchi , Yuichi Hongoh , Shiro Kohshima 1 2 3 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, Chiba 4 University, Japan, Kyoto University, Japan 086A Linking Mn(II)-oxidizing bacteria to natural attenuation at a former uranium mining site 1 1 2 3 3 Tsing Bohu* , Denise Akob , Andrea Beyer , Franziska Schäffner , Matthias Haendel , Carol 4 5 6 6 1 Johnson , Dirk Merten , Georg Buechel , Kai-Uwe Totsche , Kirsten Kuesel 1 2 Friedrich Schiller university Jena/Institute of Ecology, Germany, Friedrich Schiller university 3 Jena/ Institute of Microbiology, Germany, Friedrich Schiller university Jena/Institute of Earth 4 5 Sciences, Germany, Virginia Tech/Department of Geosciences, USA, Schiller university 6 Jena/Institute of Earth Sciences, Germany, Schiller university Jena/Institute of Geosciences, Germany 159 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 087A Identification and cultivation of thermophilic Planctomycetes 1 1 1 Elizaveta Bonch-Osmolovskaya* , Galina Slobodkina , Margarita Miroshnichenko , Olga 1 2 1 1 Kovaleva , Alexander Merkel , Anna Perevalova , Yana Nepomnyashchaya , Alexander 1 1 3 3 4 Slobodkin , Nikolay Chernyh , Andrey Mardanov , Vitaly Kadnikov , Esta van Heerden , Olga 5 1 Karnachuk , Alexander Lebedinsky 1 2 Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Russian Federation, Winogradsky Institute of 3 4 Microbiology, Russian Federation, Centre , Russian Federation, University of the Free 5 State, South Africa, Tomsk State University, Russian Federation 088A Restriction Endonuclease TypeII from Thermotolerant Soil Bacteria Isolated from Hot Springs in Northern Thailand 1 1 1 Sakunnee Bovonsombut* , Yingmanee Tragoolpau , Panmuk Vacharapiyasophon , Sittisin 2 1 3 3 Bovonsombut , Woottichai Nachaiwieng , Fumio Kato , Khozo Kanda 1 2 3 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Maejo University, Thailand, Saga University, Japan 089A Diversity of microbial communities in coal mine drainage remediation systems treating elevated manganese 1 2 3 1 Dominique Chaput* , William Burgos , Colleen Hansel , Cara Santelli 1 2 3 Smithsonian Institution, USA, Pennsylvania State University, USA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA 090A Extremely hypersaline isolates from microbial mats exhibit quorum sensing quenching and anti-microbial properties Sergey Dobretsov*, Raeid Abed, Marwan Al-Fori Sultan Qaboos University, Oman 091A Studying structure of methanotrophic communities from thermal springs of Uzon volcano caldera, Kamchatka Ekaterina Dvorianchikova*, Anna Kizilova, Irina Kravchenco, Valery Galchenco Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation 092A Metagenomic reconstruction of microbial communities from a CO2-driven geyser extends the environmental distribution of the Zetaproteobacteria Joanne Emerson*, Brian Thomas, Jillian Banfield University of California, Berkeley, USA 093A Microbial communities associated with alkaline hydrothermal systems of Prony Bay, New Caledonia 1 1 1 1 2 Gael Erauso , Anne Postec* , Marianne Quémeneur , Fatma Benaïssa , Jérôme Hamelin , 3 3 4 5 5 Bénédicte Menez , Emmanuelle Gérard , Martine Gérard , Bernard Pelletier , Claude Payri , 1 1 Marie-Laure Fardeau , Bernard Ollivier 1 Aix-Marseille University, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, 163, Av de Luminy, 2 3 France, INRA, UR050, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie de l'Environnement, France, Institut de 4 Physique du Globe Paris (IPGP), France, Institut de Minéralogie et Physique des Milieux 5 Condensés (IMPMC), France, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), UR 227, French Polynesia 094A Geochemistry and microbiology in an acidic and high altitude (4.000m) salt flat in northern Chile 1 2 3 1 Lorena Escudero , Guillermo Chong , Juan José Pueyo , Cecilia Demergasso* 1 Centro de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica para la Minería (CICITEM) and Centro de 2 Biotecnología-Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas3 Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile, Departamento de Geoquímica-Universidad de Barcelona, Spain 160 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 095A From microbial communities to nanocrystals: a multi-scale approach towards understanding interactions among bacteria, iron minerals, and metal contaminants 1 1 2 2 1 Maria Fabisch* , Gina Freyer , Carol Johnson , Michael Hochella, Jr. , Kirsten Küsel 1 Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of Ecology, Aquatic Geomicrobiology Group, 2 Germany, Virginia Tech, Department of Geosciences, Center for NanoBioEarth, USA 095B Bacterial and archaeal diversity in permafrost soil from Kunlun Mountains Pass, Tibet Plateau of China 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Huyuan Feng* , Weigang Hu , Qi Zhang , Jing Mu , Gang Cheng , Tian Tian , Dingyao Li , 2 2 1 Fujun Niu , Qingbai Wu , Lizhe An 1 2 School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, China, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 096A Survival of dry periods by iron depositing bacteria in biofilms attached to mars regolith simulants 1 1 2 1 Nina Feyh* , Bertram Schmidt , Jean-Pierre de Vera , Ulrich Szewzyk 1 Technische Universität Berlin/Institute of Environmental Technology, Environmental 2 Microbiology, Germany, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Germany 097A Diversity of Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria in Geothermal Sites in Greece Sevasti Filippidou*, Nicole Jeanneret, Ludovic Roussel-Delif, Tina Wunderlin, Thomas Junier, Pilar Junier University of Neuchatel, Switzerland 098A Bioprospecting for proteases from bacteria isolated from soil of St George Island, Antarctic Anderson Fragoso dos Santos*, Anderson Fragoso dos Santos, Daniela Costa Pinto, Hugo Emiliano Jesus, Angelo Samir, André Santos, Raquel Peixoto, Alexandre Rosado, Marta Branquinha Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 098B Metabolic potential of halotolerant spore-forming gram-positive bacteria from Restinga, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anderson Fragoso dos Santos*, Roberta Valle, Vanessa Marques Alvarez, Lucy Seldin, André Santos Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 099A Induction of dormancy in ice wedge isolates and characterization of dormant cells 1 1 1 2 1 Kentaro Funo* , Indun Dewi Puspita , Moe Uehara , Wataru Kitagawa , Michiko Tanaka , 2 Youichi Kamagata 1 2 Hokkaido university, Japan, Hokkaido university and National Insitute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 100A Microbial diversity and enzyme characteristics of the unique ikaite columns; a permanently cold and alkaline environment in SW Greenland 1 1 1 2 Mikkel Andreas Glaring* , Jan Kjølhede Vester , Jeanette Eva Lylloff , Waleed Abu Al-Soud , 2 1 Søren Johannes Sørensen , Peter Stougaard 1 2 University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Biology, Denmark 101A How do indigenious thermophilic microorganisms affect the permeability of potential CO2 storage sites? 1 2 3 4 5 Claudia Gniese* , Carsten Freese , Nils Hoth , Andrea Kassahun , Martin Mühling , Michael 5 Schlömann 1 2 TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Institute of Biological Sciences, Germany, TU Bergakademie 3 Freiberg / Institut f. Bohrtechnik und Fluidbergbau, Germany, TU Bergakademie Freiberg / 4 Institut f. Bergbau und Spezialtiefbau, Germany, Dresdner Grundwasserforschungszentrum 5 e. V., Germany, TU Bergakademie Freiberg / Institut f. Biowissenschaften, Germany 161 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 102A Microbial Activity and Diversity through a cold, hyper-arid desert permafrost core in University Valley, Antarctica 1 2 2 3 4 Jacqueline Goordial* , Alfonso Davila , Margarita Marinova , Dale Andersen , Charles Greer , 1 2 1 Wayne Pollard , Chris McKay , Lyle Whyte 1 2 3 McGill University, Canada, NASA Ames Research Center, USA, SETI Institute, USA, 4 Biotechnological Research Institute, National Research Council of Canada, Montreal, QC, Canada 103A Microbial Community Diversity and Their Roles on Nitrogen Cycling at Terrestrial Hydrothermal Systems 1 2 Yasemin Gulecal* , D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard 1 2 Istanbul University, Turkey, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States 104A Sulfur cycling at submarine freshwater springs in the Dead Sea 1 1 2 3 3 Stefan Haeusler* , Danny Ionescu , Yaniv Munwes , Christian Lott , Miriam Weber , Lubos 1 1 4 5 2 Polerecky , Christian Quast , Thorsten Dittmar , Aharon Oren , Jonathan B. Laronne , Dirk de 1 Beer 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 3 4 5 HYDRA Institute for Marine Sciences, Italy, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 105A Meta-transcriptomic analysis of microbial community associated with a soda lake in Khovsgol, Mongolia 1 2 3 4 Natsuko Hamamura* , He Huang , Shujiro Okuda , Narantuya Damdinsuren 1 2 Ehime University, Japan, Center for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES), Ehime 3 4 University, Japan, Department of Bioinformatics, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, School of Biology and Biotechnology, National University of Mongolia, Mongolia 106A Deep sea hydrothermal vent enrichment cultures: A way to find novel hydrogenases Moritz Hansen*, Mirjam Perner University of Hamburg, Germany 107A Comparison of microbial assemblages in Arctic multi-year and first year sea ice Ido Hatam*, Brian Lanoil, Christian Haas University of Alberta, Canada 108A Unrevealed culturable bacterial diversity in Lirima wetland, a high Andean sulfurous hot spring 1 2 3 4 1 Martha Hengst* , Klaudia Hernandez , Veronica Molina , Giannina Maya , Cristina Dorador 1 2 3 Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile, CIEN Austral, Universidad Austral, Chile, Universidad 4 Andres Bello, Chile, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile 109A The physiological characterisation of a novel Thermomicrobia isolate 1 2 3 3 3 Karen Houghton* , Xochitl Morgan , Kirill Lagutin , Mikhail Vyssotskii , Andrew MacKenzie , 1 2 Hugh Morgan , Matthew Stott 1 2 3 University of Waikato, New Zealand, GNS Science, New Zealand, IRL, New Zealand 110A Comparative Metagenomics Along a Thaw Gradient of Alaskan Permafrost 1 2 2 2 3 Jenni Hultman* , Maude M. David , Olivia U. Mason , Regina Lamendella , Manesh B. Shah , 3 4 2 Nathan Verberkmoes , Mark P. Waldrop , Janet K. Jansson 1 2 3 University of Helsinki, Finland, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States, Oak 4 Ridge National Laboratory, United States, United States Geological Survey, United States 111A Culture-independent bacterial monitoring with adhesive sheet in the "Kibo", a part of the International Space Station Tomoaki Ichijo*, Hatsuki Hieda, Rie Ishihara, Nobuyasu Yamaguchi, Masao Nasu Osaka University, Japan 162 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 112A Genome analysis of Haloarchaea isolated from seawater 1 2 3 4 2 Kentaro Inoue* , Kenshiro Oshima , Mikihiko Kawai , Hideto Takami , Masahira Hattori , 1 Kazuhiro Kogure 1 2 University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Japan, University of Tokyo, 3 Center for Omics and Bioinformatics, Japan, JAMSTEC, Environmental Metagenome 4 Research Team, Japan, JAMSTEC, Microbial Genome Research Group, Japan 113A Springs of life in a Dead Sea - rich microbial communities in and around a complex system of underwater springs in the Dead Sea 1 2 1 3 1 Danny Ionescu* , Christian Siebert , Stefan Häusler , Thorsten Dittmar , Lubos Polerecky , 4 5 5 6 1 Yaniv Munwez , Christian Lott , Miriam Weber , Mina Bižić-Ionescu , Christian Quast , Aharon 7 2 4 1 Oren , Stefan Geyer , Jonathan B Laronne , Dirk De Beer 1 2 Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental 3 Research – UFZ, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Carl von Ossietzky University, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Germany, 4 5 Ben Gurion University, Israel, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, HYDRA Institute 6 for Marine Sciences, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Leibniz Institute 7 of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries Berlin (IGB), Germany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 113B Microbial life in a geothermal fluid 1 1 1 1 1 Marion Jaussi* , Nicole Jeanneret , Sevasti Filippidou , Thomas Junier , Tina Wunderlin , 1 2 2 1 Ludovic Roussel-Delif , Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand , Simona Regenspurg , Pilar Junier 1 2 University of Neuchâtel, Institute of Biology, Switzerland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany 114A Survival of microorganisms to the main stress factors encountered in clouds 1 2 2 2 2 Muriel Joly* , Pierre Amato , Martine Sancelme , Mickael Vaitilingom , Virginie Vinatier , 3 2 Laurent Deguillaume , Anne-Marie Delort 1 Blaise Pacal University - Institut de Chimie de Clermont Ferrand - Laboratoire de 2 Météorologie Physique, France, Blaise Pacal University - Institut de Chimie de Clermont 3 Ferrand, France, Blaise Pacal University - Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, France 115A Extreme plasticity of biological stoichiometry 1 1 2 3 4 Carriayne Jones* , Sean Crowe , Julia Maresca , Edward DeLong , Bernhard Viehweger , 4 5 6 1 Kai-Uwe Hinrichs , David Fowle , Sulung Nomosatryo , Donald Canfield 1 2 3 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark, University of Delaware, USA, Massachusetts 4 5 Institute of Technology, USA, University of Bremen, Germany, University of Kansas, USA, 6 Indonesian Institute for Sciences, Indonesia 116A Diversity and distribution of cyanobacteria and microbialites in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica 1 2 3 3 1 4 Anne Jungblut* , Ian Hawes , Dawn Y Sumner , Tyler Mackey , Lu Zhang , Dale T. Andersen 1 2 The Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, University of Canterbury, United Kingdom, 3 4 University of California, USA, Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, USA 117A High-energy geochemistry drives microbial diversity and distribution in Yellowstone Lake 1 2 1 3 3 Jinjun Kan* , Scott Clingenpeel , Charlie Dow , Richard Macur , William Inskeep , Dave 4 3 5 3 5 Lovalvo , John Varley , Yuri Gorby , Timothy McDermott , Kenneth Nealson 1 2 3 Stroud Water Research Center, USA, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA, Montana State 4 5 University, USA, Eastern Oceanics, USA, Univeristy of Southern California, USA 118A Isolation and physiological characterization of butanol- and isobutanol-tolerant bacteria Manabu Kanno*, Taiki Katayama, Hideyuki Tamaki, Yasuo Mitani, Tomoyuki Hori, Takashi Narihiro, Naoki Morita, Isao Yumoto, Nobutada Kimura, Satoshi Hanada, Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 163 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 119A Evolution at fluctuating temperatures improves thermal tolerance, pre-adapts to novel environments and alters virulence of opportunistic pathogen 1 1 1 1 2 Tarmo Ketola* , Lauri Mikonranta , Ji Zhang , Kati Saarinen , Anni-Maria Örmälä , Johanna 1 2 Mappes , Jouni Laakso 1 2 University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland 120A Biodiversity of prokaryotic microflora associated with halophytes in Farasan islands shallow salt sites Mohammad Khiyami* King Abdulaziz City for Science and technology, Saudi Arabia 121A Bacterial community change during biofilm development in Arctic marine environment 1 1 2 1 3 Eun Hye Kim* , Kyeung Hee Cho , Tae-Kyung Kim , Yung Mi Lee , Jang-Cheon Cho , Hong 1 1 Kum Lee , Soon Gyu Hong 1 2 Korea Polar Research Institute, South Korea, Korea Bioinformation Center, South Korea, 3 Inha University, South Korea 122A Evidence for methane oxidation over 74°C in hot springs of Kuril Islands Anna Kizilova*, Irina Kravchenko, Nikolay Pimenov Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Russia 123A Microbe-mineral interaction in an extreme arid and high saline mine tailings environment in northern Chile 1 1 1 1 Hananeh Korehi* , Marco Blöthe , Maria Alexandrovna Sitnikova , Dagmar Kock , Bernhard 2 1 Dold , Axel Schippers 1 2 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany, FCFM-Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Geología, Chile 124A Thermophilic sulfate reducing bacteria from a Brazilian Petroleum Reservoir 1 2 3 4 2 Elisa Korenblum* , Camila França , Monica Penna , Jan Dirk van Elsas , Lucy Seldin 1 2 3 RUG, UFRJ, Netherlands, UFRJ, Brazil, CENPES 4 PETROBRAS, Brazil, RUG, Netherlands 125A Microbial hydrocarbon degradation to methane in different deep geological systems 1 2 3 3 Martin Krüger* , Hans-Hermann Richnow , Heribert Cypionka , Sabrina Beckmann 1 2 3 BGR, Germany, UFZ, Germany, ICBM, Germany 125B Osmoadaptation of halophilic methanogen Mei-Chin Lai*, Shu-Jung Lai, Shu-Yao Wu, Chuan-Chuan Hung Hung National Chung Hsing University/Department of Life Sciences, Taiwan 126A Chemolithotrophic activity in a subzero hypersaline spring of the High Arctic 1 2 1 Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon* , Charles Greer , Lyle Whyte 1 2 McGill University, Canada, Biotechnology Research Institute, Canada 127A Does geochemistry drive community structure and function in high Arctic snow ecosystems? 1 2 1 3 Catherine Larose* , Emmanuel Prestat , Sébastien Cecillon , Aurélien Dommergue , Timothy 1 M. Vogel 1 Environmental Microbial Genomics, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Université de Lyon, France, 2 Earth Science Division, Ecology Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, 3 Université Joseph Fourier – Grenoble 1 / CNRS, LGGE, France 164 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 128A 16S rRNA and functional diversity: contrasting fingerprints in arsenic-rich sediments from an acid mine drainage 1 1 2 3 4 Béatrice Lauga* , Anne Fahy , Philippe Bertin , Denis Le Paslier , Claudine Médigue , Jean 5 1 1 Weissenbach , Ludovic Giloteaux , Robert Duran 1 2 Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France, Génétique Moléculaire, Génomique et 3 Microbiologie, UMR CNRS 7156, France, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies 4 Alternatives, Institut de Génomique, Genoscope, France, UEVE, Université d'Évry, CNRS5 UMR 8030, France, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, UEVE, Université d'Évry, CNRS-UMR 8030, France 129A A metagenomic study and active 16S rRNA pyrosequencing analysis of a High Arctic subzero hypersaline spring 1 1 2 1 Chih-Ying Lay* , Nadia Mykytczuk , Etienne Yergeau , Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon , 2 1 Charles Greer , Lyle Whyte 1 2 McGill University, Canada, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council Canada, Canada 130A Microbial diversity and biogeochemical function of the phototrophic microbial mats in epsomitic Hot Lake, WA Steve Lindemann*, James Moran, Young-Mo Kim, Alice Dohnalkova, David Kennedy, Sergey Stolyar, H. Steven Wiley, Allan Konopka, Jim Fredrickson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA 131A Bacterial diversity in the foreland of the Tianshan No. 1 and Dongkemadi Glacier, China Guangxiu Liu, Wei Zhang*, Xiukun Wu Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 132A Cold-active and alkali-stable proteases from bacteria isolated from the polyextreme ikaite columns in Greenland Jeanette Eva Lylloff*, Mikkel Glaring, Peter Stougaard Copenhagen University, Denmark 133A Unique genomic and physiological traits of an ultra low-diversity bacterial and fungal high-elevation (> 6000 m) cold desert mineral soil community Ryan Lynch*, Steve Schmidt University of Colorado Boulder, United States 134A The ecological dichotomy of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys 1 2 2 3 3 Catarina Magalhães* , Adriano Bordalo , Ana Machado , Béatrice Barbier , Charles Lee , 3 Craig Cary 1 2 3 CIIMAR, Portugal, ICBAS, University of Porto, Portugal, International Centre for Terrestrial Antarctic Research, University of Waikato, New Zealand 135A Metagenomic analysis of microbial community inhabiting the deep subsurface thermal waters in Western Siberia Andrey Mardanov*, Vitaly Kadnikov, Nikolay Ravin Centre Bioengineering RAS, Russian Federation 136A Diversity of culturable anaerobic bacteria in rhizosphere soil from Antarctic vascular plant of Admiralty Bay, maritime Antarctica 1 2 2 3 Rafael José Marques Peixoto* , Leandro A. Lobo , Karla Miranda , Geraldo Renato Paula , 2 2 2 2 Naiara Rust , Alexandre Rosado , Raquel Peixoto , Regina Maria Domingues 1 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Góes, Brazil, 2 3 UFRJ, Brazil, UFF, Brazil 165 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 137A Identification of genes involved in zinc and cadmium adaptation in rhizobia isolated from heavy metal mine soil 1 2 3 1 Geraldine Maynaud* , Antoine Le-Quere , Erika Yashiro , Jean-Claude Cleyet-Marel , Brigitte 1 Brunel 1 2 Laboratoire des Symbioses Tropicales et Méditerranéennes, France, IRD, LMI Rabat, 3 Morocco, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI, USA 138A The proteomic response of extreme acidophile, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, to increased chloride concentrations Timothy McCredden*, Robert Steuart, Christopher Bryan, Elizabeth Watkin Curtin University, Australia 079B Hot and Cold: Microbial ecology of geothermal soils of Antarctica Ian McDonald*, Craig Herbold, Chelsea Vickers, Craig Cary University of Waikato, New Zealand 139A Population genetic structure of deep-sea chemolithoautotrophs inferred from multilocus sequence analysis 1 1 1 2 2 Sayaka Mino* , Satoshi Nakagawa , Tomoo Sawabe , Junichi Miyazaki , Hiroko Makita , 2 2 2 Takuro Nunoura , Masahiro Yamamoto , Ken Takai 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, JAMSTEC, Japan 140A Hydrothermal fluid flow affects the dispersal of subsurface Zetaproteobacteria Craig Moyer*, Sean McAllister Western Washington University, United States 141A Genomic and glycomic analysis of endosymbionts and their gastropod hosts in a deepsea hydrothermal field, Central Indian Ridge 1 2 1 1 2 Satoshi Nakagawa* , Shigeru Shimamura , Tamaki Watanabe , Tomoo Sawabe , Ken Takai , 2 Yoshihiro Takaki 1 2 Hokkaido University, Japan, JAMSTEC, Japan 142A Microbiology, geochemistry, and mineralogy of a household sand filter used to remove arsenic from drinking water in Vietnam 1 1 2 2 2 Katja Nitzsche , Ankita Bhansali* , Vi Mai Lan , Pham Thi Kim Trang , Pham Hung Viet , 3 1 1 Michael Berg , Andreas Kappler , Sebastian Behrens 1 2 3 University of Tuebingen, Germany, Hanoi University, Viet Nam, Eawag, Switzerland 143A Isolation, identification and applications of halotolerant bacteria from São Paulo Zoo Composting 1 1 1 Debora Noma Okamoto* , Lilian Caroline Gonçalves Oliveira , Patrícia Locosque Ramos , 1 1 1 Márcia Yuri Kondo , Alyne Marem Silva Barbosa , Thiago Carlos Bertolin , Diego Magno 1 1 2 1 Assis , Rafael Costa Santos Rocha , João Batista Cruz , Suzan Pantaroto Vasconcellos , Luiz 1 Juliano 1 2 Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil, Fundação Parque Zoologico de São Paulo, Brazil 144A Identification of extracellular proteases in halophiles isolated from La Pampa solar ponds 1 2 3 Lilian Caroline Gonçalves Oliveira* , Roberto Alejandro Paggi , Debora Noma Okamoto , 2 2 3 Debora Nercessian , Leonardo Di Meglio , Maria Aparecida Juliano , Rosana Esther De 2 3 Castro , Luiz Juliano 1 2 3 UNIFESP/Infar, Brazil, Universidade Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil 166 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 144B Characterization of tolerance to Arsenic of Exiguobacterium sp. isolated from high altitude Andean wetlands 1 1 1 2 1 Omar Ordoñez , Carolina Belfiore , Daniel Kurth , Nestor Cortez , Maria Eugenia Farias* 1 2 PROIMI-CONICET, Argentina, IBR-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquimicas y Farmaceuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina 145A Prospection of novel proteases from a metagenomic library from Bertioga city mangrove sediments (São Paulo State - Brazil) using High Throughput Screening (HTS) 1 2 2 2 2 Júlia Ottoni* , Lilian Oliveira , Débora Okamoto , Luiz Neto , Suzan Vasconcellos , Anete 3 1 Souza , Valéria Oliveira 1 2 Campinas State University - UNICAMP / Division of Microbial Resources, Brazil, São Paulo 3 Federal University - Unifesp, Brazil, Campinas State University - UNICAMP / Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, Brazil 146A Bacterial abundances and phytopigments on sediments from Southwest Atlantic 1 2 2 Rodolfo Paranhos* , Anderson Cabral , Fernando Pinto 1 2 Rio de Janeiro Federal University / Institute of Biology, Brazil, UFRJ / Institute of Biology, Brazil 147A Experimental and single cell approaches to understanding microbial life in subsurface sediments underlying the extremely oligotrophic South Pacific Gyre 1 2 2 1 Anand Patel* , Tim G. Ferdelman , Andreas Krupke , Wiebke Ziebis 1 2 University of Southern California, United States, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany 148A Nature of the microbial life in an Antarctic subglacial lake ecosystem 1 1 1 2 David Pearce* , Gavin Burns , Dominic Hodgson , Charles Cockell 1 2 British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 149A Screening of biosurfactant producing bacteria from oil reservoir of Northern Petroleum Development Center, Chiang Mai Province 1 2 1 Thanachai Phetcharat* , Pinan Dawkrajai , Sakunnee Bovonsombut 1 2 Chiang Mai University, Thailand, Northern Petroleum Development Center, Thailand 150A Molecular and microbial analysis of diversity present in unpreserved wood from King Henry VIII's Tudor warship the Mary Rose Joanne Preston*, Joy Watts University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom 151A Study of interactions copper-microorganisms in impacted marine Chilean sediments 1 1 2 Laurent Quillet , Ludovic Besaury* , Gerard Muyzer 1 2 UMR CNRS 6143, France, Laboratory of Microbiology, University of Delft, Netherlands 151B Abundance, activity and diversity of bacterial and archaeal communities in highly copper-contaminated chilean marine sediment 1 2 3 Laurent Quillet* , Besaury Ludovic , Ghiglionne Jean-Francois 1 2 3 UMR CNRS 6143, France, UMR CNRS 6143 Université de Rouen, France, UMR CNRS 7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne LOMIC, France 152A Resistance of biological sand crust organisms to excess light during desiccation Hagai Raanan*, Yitzhak Ohad, Nir Keren, Aaron Kaplan The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences The Hebrew University, Israel 153A Carbon dioxide affects growth and thiosulphate reduction of thermophilic Petrotoga sp. 1 2 3 1 1 Jana Rakoczy* , Claudia Gniese , Hans-Hermann Richnow , Axel Schippers , Martin Krüger 1 2 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany, TU Bergakademie 3 Freiberg, Germany, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 167 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 481B The effect of hydrostatic pressure on biodegradation of a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and o-xylene Kristin T. Ravndal*, Andrea Bagi, Roald Kommedal University of Stavanger, Norway 154A Fungal diversity from deep marine subsurface sediments (IODP 317, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand) 1 2 2 2 Vanessa Redou* , Danielle Arzur , Gaëtan Burgaud , Georges Barbier 1 Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne (EA3882), France, 2 Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne (EA3882), IFR148 ScInBioS, Université Européenne de Bretagne, Université de Brest, ESMISAB, Technopôle de Brest Iroise, 29280 Plouzané, France 155A The microbial ecology of cementitious radioactive waste 1 1 1 2 Athanasios Rizoulis* , Adam Williamson , Christopher Boothman , Antoni Milodowski , 1 1 Katherine Morris , Jonathan Lloyd 1 2 University of Manchester, United Kingdom, British Geological Survey, United Kingdom 156A Microbial diversity of lithifying communities in the Great Salt Lake, Utah 1 2 3 Giovanni Rompato* , Stephen Callister , Jacob Parnell 1 2 Utah State University, United States, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United 3 States, National Ecological Observatory Network, United States 157A Liberation of microbial substrates from macromolecular organic matter by nonsupercritical CO2 Patrick Sauer*, Clemens Glombitza, Jens Kallmeyer University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Germany 158A Bacterial communities established in bauxite residues with different restoration histories 1 2 1 2 1 Achim Schmalenberger* , Orla O'Sullivan , Jacinta Gahan , Paul D. Cotter , Ronan Courtney 1 2 University of Limerick, Life Sciences, Ireland, Teagasc, Moorepark Food Research Centre, Ireland 159A Environmental controls on microbial diversity in geothermal springs 1 1 1 2 3 Christine Sharp* , Allyson Brady , Joongjae Kim , Stephen Grasby , Matthew Stott , Peter 1 Dunfield 1 2 3 University of Calgary, Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada, GNS Science, New Zealand 160A Microbial synthesis and transformation of dissolved organic matter in glacial environments 1 1 3 4 Heidi Smith* , Christine Foreman , Rachel Foster , Diane McKnight 1 2 Montana State Universtiy, United States, Max-Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, 3 Germany, INSTAAR, University of Colorado, United States 161A Carnobacterium iners sp. nov., a psychrophilic, lactic acid-producing bacterium from the littoral zone of the Forlidas pond (Pensacola mountains), Antarctica 1 1 2 1 3 Isabel Snauwaert* , Bart Hoste , Katrien De Bruyne , Karolien Peeters , Luc De Vuyst , Anne 1 1 Willems , Peter Vandamme 1 2 3 Ghent University, Belgium, Applied Maths, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 162A Microbial degradation of the pesticide 2,4-D on the Greenland Ice Sheet 1 1 2 1 Marek Stibal* , Jacob Bælum , William E Holben , Sebastian R Sørensen , Carsten S. 1 Jacobsen 1 2 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, University of Montana, United States 168 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 163A Physiological and genomic characterization of microorganisms in actively serpentinizing The Cedars springs 1 2 2 2 1 Shino Suzuki-Ishii , J. Gijs Kuenen* , Kira Schipper , Suzanne van der Velde , Shunichi Ishii , 1 1 Greg Wanger , Kenneth H. Nealson 1 2 J. Craig Venter Institute, USA, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 164A In situ expression of key genes for sulfide oxidation and CO2 fixation of uncultured gigantic Aquificales bacterium dominating in hot spring microbial mats Satoshi Tamazawa*, Hideyuki Tamaki, Kazuto Takasaki, Satoshi Hanada, Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), University of Tsukuba, Japan 164B Catabolic and stress response of Desulfitobacterium hafniense DCB-2 to increasing concentrations of 3-chloro-4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid Ye Tian*, Farai Maphosa, Maria Suarez Diez, Hauke Smidt Wageningen University, Netherlands 165A An "omics" approach to characterizing dissolved organic matter from microbially derived sources in Antarctica Michelle Tigges, Christine Foreman*, Brian Bothner, Heidi Smith Montana State University, United States 166A Changes in the microbial water column community in response to a volcanic eruption at 9°50'N on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) 1 2 2 2 Alexander H. Treusch* , Kevin L. Vergin , Kyle R. Pomraning , Marie P. Johnson , James P. 3 2 Cowen , Stephen J. Giovannoni 1 University of Southern Denmark/Nordic Center for Earth Evolution and Institute of Biology, 2 3 Denmark, Oregon State University/Department of Microbiology, United States, University of Hawaii at Manoa/ Department of Oceanography, United States 167A A newly isolated green alga from desert crusts - an unusual combination of a unique survival capability and record high growth and photosynthetic rates Haim Treves*, Itzhak Ohad, Aaron Kaplan Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 167B A molecular approach to extremophilic prokaryotic biodiversity in hot springs of a little explored geothermal region in Argentina 1 2 3 1 María Sofía Urbieta* , Elena Gonzalez Toril , Alejandra Giaveno , Edgardo Donati 1 2 CINDEFI Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, Centro de Astrobiologia INTA CSIC, 3 Spain, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina 168A Response of bacterial soil communities to a small diesel-spill at the Argentine station Carlini on King George Island (Antarctica) 1 2 3 4 Susana Vazquez* , Jutta Jürgens , Patrick Monien , Roberto Pepino Minetti , Walter Mac 5 2 Cormack , Helmke Elisabeth 1 2 University of Buenos Aires-CONICET, Argentina, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, 3 4 University Oldenburg-ICBM, Germany, CIQA-UTN Regional Córdoba, Argentina, 5 Argentinean Antarctic Institute, Argentina 169A Enzymes from extremophilic microorganisms; tools to reduce energy consumption in industrial processes Jan Vester*, Mikkel Glaring, Peter Stougaard University of Copenhagen / Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Denmark 170A Reconstruction of the microbial methane cycling in deep Arctic environments 1 2 1 Dirk Wagner* , Juliane Bischoff , Kai Mangelsdorf 1 2 Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Centre for Geosciences, Germany, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany 169 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 171A New nitrifying microorganisms from hot springs of Yellowstone National Park Katja Wendt*, Yvonne Bedarf, Eva Spieck Universität Hamburg, Germany 172A Microbial biodiversity of the Alpine vanishing cryosphere Linda Wilhelm*, Katharina Besemer, Christina Fasching, Gabriel Singer, Tom J. Battin University of Vienna, Department of Limnology, Austria 173A Response of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers to abruptly increased moisture in the soil of arid ecosystems: abundance of amoA genes and transcripts Sher Yonatan, Ronen Zeev*, Nejidat Ali Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 174A Characterization of H2-producing CO-oxidizing bacterium Carboxydothermus pertinax from an acidic hot spring in Japan Yasuko Yoneda*, Takashi Yoshida, Satoshi Kawaichi, Takashi Daifuku, Takayuki Kitamura, Takahiro Inoue, Sanae Kano, Keiji Takabe, Yoshihiko Sako Kyoto University, Japan 175A Ammonium removal by sulfate- reducing and nitrate- dependent anammox Ivar Zekker*, Ergo Rikmann, Toomas Tenno, Priit Vabamäe, Kristel Kroon, Alar Saluste, Taavo Tenno University of Tartu, Estonia 131B Characteristics of microbial community structure during desertification reverse procedure Wei Zhang*, Gaosen Zhang, Guangxiu Liu Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 176A Ribosomal tag pyrosequencing reveals that sulfur metabolizing microbes drive the shallow-sea hydrothermal systems off NE Taiwan's coast 1 1 2 1 Yao Zhang* , Zihao Zhao , Chen-Tung Arthur Chen , Nianzhi Jiao 1 2 Xiamen University, China, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan 177A Could organic compounds in a storm cloud support the diverse bacterial community revealed by hailstones? 1 1 2 1 3 Tina Šantl Temkiv* , Kai Finster , Thorsten Dittmar , Bjarne M. Hansen , Runar Thyrhaug , 4 5 Niels W. Nielsen , Ulrich G. Karlson 1 2 Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Denmark, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Max Planck Research Group for Marine 3 4 Geochemistry, Germany, University of Bergen, Department of Biology, Norway, Danish 5 Meteorological Institute, Denmark, Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Denmark 178A Investigation of low bacterial density environments: Reducing background contamination problems with sensitive DNA-targeting techniques Tina Šantl Temkiv*, Kai Finster, Ulrich G. Karlson Aarhus University, Denmark 179B Atmospheric methane oxidation by airborne methanotrophic bacteria at cloud-like conditions 1 1 1 2 1 Tina Šantl Temkiv* , Kai Finster , Bjarne M. Hansen , Lejla Pašić , Ulrich G. Karlson 1 2 Aarhus University, Denmark, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 170 PS24 – Microbial Life in Extreme Environments Thursday 23 August 180A Elevated CO2 is changing soil microbial communities at natural CO2 springs (mofettes) 1 2 3 4 5 Nataša Šibanc , Thorunn Helgason , Alex J. Dumbrell , Ines Mandič Mulec , Polona Zalar , 6 1 Hans-Josef Schroers , Irena Maček* 1 2 University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Agronomy, Slovenia, University 3 of York, Department of Biology, United Kingdom, University of Essex, School of Biological 4 Sciences, United Kingdom, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Food 5 Science and Technology, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department 6 of Biology, Slovenia, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Slovenia PS25 – Microbial Origin and Evolution 181A Rewiring of global regulatory networks drives the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the airways of Cystic Fibrosis Patients Søren Damkiær*, Lars Jelsbak, Søren Molin Technical University of Denmark (DTU) / Center for systems biology, Denmark 182A The genome of the anaerobic gut fungal strain Orpinomyces sp. C1A, a remarkable biomass degrader with a unique evolutionary history Mostafa Elshahed*, Mb Couger, Noha Youssef, Audra Liggenstoffer, Chris Struchtemeyer, Fares Najar, Rolf Prade Oklahoma State University, United States 182B Role of mismatch repair system deficiency in the evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in chronic airways infections 1 2 3 3 2 Sofía Feliziani* , Rodrigo Quiroga , Rasmus L. Marvig , Søren Molin , Andrea M Smania 1 2 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC), CONICET, Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina, 3 Center of System Microbiology, Department of System Biology, DTU, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark 183A Real-time microbial adaptive radiation in soil Pedro Gomez Lopez*, Angus Buckling University of Exeter, United Kingdom 184A Genomic analyses demonstrates cholera outbreaks are caused by heterogeneous V. cholerae strains 1 2 2 1 1 1 Bradd Haley* , Nur A. Hasan , Seon Young Choi , Elisa Taviani , Arlene Chen , Anwar Huq , 1 Rita R. Colwell 1 2 University of Maryland, College Park, USA, CosmosID, USA 185A Critical role of rapid evolution in consumer resource dynamics 1 2 2 2 2 Teppo Hiltunen* , Stephen P. Ellner , Giles Hooker , Laura E. Jones , Nelson G. Hairston 1 2 University of Helsinki, Finland, Cornell University, United States 186A The evolution of colistin resistance in pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 1 1 2 Nicholas Jochumsen* , Rasmus L. Marvig , Søren D. Pedersen , Rune L. Jensen , Morten O. 1 1 1 A. Sommer , Søren Molin , Anders Folkesson 1 3 Technical University of Denmark, Department of Systems Biology, Denmark, Novozymes AS, Denmark 171 PS25 – Microbial Origin and Evolution Thursday 23 August 187A Complete genome sequence of organotrophic bacterium Melioribacter roseus representing new phylum-level lineage affiliated with Chlorobi 1 1 2 Vitaly Kadnikov , Andrey Mardanov , Olga Podosokorskaya , Elizaveta Bonch2 1 Osmolovskaya , Nikolay Ravin* 1 2 Centre “Bioengineering” RAS, Russian Federation, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology RAS, Russian Federation 188A The evolutionary history of protein fold families and proteomes confirms archaea is the most ancient superkingdom 1 2 Kyung Mo Kim* , Gustavo Caetano-Anolles 1 2 Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, South Korea, University of Illinois, United States 189A Diversification of the Bacillus subtilis-licheniformis clade along a salinty gradient in an arid soil environment 1 1 1 1 1 Sarah Kopac* , Stephanie Aracena , Melanie Koren , Jessica Sherry , Jane Wiedenbeck , 1 1 1 2 1 Menherit Goodwyn , Jonathan Chabon , Rob Clark , Alexander Rooney , Fredrick Cohan 1 2 Wesleyan University, United States, USDA, United States 190A Novel and conserved bacterial mercuric reductase genes (merA) and mercury resistance plasmids in High Arctic snow, freshwater and sea-ice brine 1 1 2 3 3 Niels Kroer* , Annette Møller , Tamar Barkay , Martin A. Hansen , Anders Norman , Lars H. 3 3 Hansen , Søren J. Sørensen 1 2 University of Aarhus/Department of Environmental Science, Denmark, Rutgers, Department 3 of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, USA, University of Copenhagen, Department of Biology, Denmark 191A Adaptive evolution of Pseudomonas stutzeri under denitrifying conditions Elin Lilja*, David Johnson ETH Zürich/Eawag, Switzerland 406B Molecular characterization of Leptospira borgpetersenii isolates of field rats (Rattus norvegicus) by RAPD, Rep-PCR, MLVA and MLST typing Kalimuthusamy Natarajaseenivasan*, Murugesan Kanagavel Bharathidasan University, India 192A Less virion's components – more chances to survive? 1 1 2 1 1 Dmitry Nosik* , Nickolay Nosik , Elli Kaplina , Olga Lobach , Petr Deryabin 1 The D.I.Ivanovsky Institute of Virology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian 2 Federation, Russia, Technomedservice Company, Russia 193A Evolution in fluctuating temperature 1 2 3 3 Kati Saarinen* , Jouni Laakso , Leena Lindström , Tarmo Ketola 1 2 Centre of Excellence in biological interactions, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University of 3 Helsinki, Finland, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 194A Genome characterisation of the genus Francisella reveals insight into similar evolutionary paths in pathogens of mammals and fish 1 1 1 1 1 Andreas Sjödin , Caroline Öhrman* , Johanna Thelaus , Kerstin Svensson , Jon Hallander , 1 2 3 2 1 Petter Lindgren , Samuel Duodu , Anders Johansson , Duncan Colquhoun , Pär Larsson , 1 Mats Forsman 1 2 FOI - Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway, 3 Umeå University, Sweden 172 PS25 – Microbial Origin and Evolution Thursday 23 August 195A Comparative genomics of Herpes viruses, a case study of host parasite co-evolution 1 2 2 3 Tatiana Vallaeys* , Lionel Frangeul , Nicolas Berthet , Ines Ben Chobba , Jean Christophe 4 5 2 6 Avarre , Tristan Renault , Antoine Gessain , Jean Robert Bonami 1 2 Université de Montpellier 2, sceinces et techniques, France, Institut Pasteur, France, 3 4 Université de Montpellier 2 and Faculté des Sciences de Sfx, Tunisia, IRD, France, 5 6 IFREMER, France Univerité de Montpellier 2, France 196A Evolution of antibiotic resistance in the presence of drug gradients Bartlomiej Waclaw*, Philip Greulich, Rosalind Allen School of Physics, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom 197A Characterization of a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium, as the second isolated member of the Desulfotomaculum subcluster Ie Miho Watanabe*, Hisaya Kojima, Manabu Fukui Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan 198A Use of valyl- and ile-tRNA synthetase genes interparalog distance for delineating the phylogenies of Methanopyrus species and searching for primitive Methanopyrus Zhiliang Yu* College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, China 198B Identification of plantpatogens: DNA barcoding and proteome analysis reveal a group of nonpathogenic Clavibacter bacteria residing on tomato seed and closely related to the quarantine Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis 1 1 2 2 1 Joanna Zaluga* , K. Heylen , J. Van Vaerenbergh , M. Maes , P. De Vos 1 2 Ghent University/ Laboratory of Microbiology, Belgium, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research-ILVO, Belgium 199A Nature and Nurture: the evolution and adaptation of Epsilonproteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal vents Ying Zhang*, Stefan Sievert 1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA PS26 – Novel High-Resolution Technologies 500A An open source autonomous water sampler for aquatic microbial ecology 1 1 2 2 David DeFilippis* , Creston Flemming , James Mutschler , Katherine McMahon , Matthew 1 Smith 1 2 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences, USA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 502A Developing low cost, near real time methods for detecting and quantifying microbial toxins Creston Flemming*, David DeFilippis, Matthew Smith University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Science, USA 503A Studying bacterial swarming motility using atomic force microscopy Annika Gillis*, Vincent Dupres, Yves F. Dufrêne, Jacques Mahillon Universite catholique de Louvain-ELIM, Belgium 173 PS26 – Novel High-Resolution Technologies Thursday 23 August 504A The gut microbiotassay – a high-throughput real-time PCR chip combined with next generation sequencing 1 1 2 Marie Louise Hermann* , Kerstin Skovgaard , Lars Mølbak 1 2 Technical University of Denmark/National Veterinary Institute, Denmark, Chr. Hansen, Denmark 551B A novel fluorescent reporter system for monitoring and identifying RNase III activity and its target RNAs 1 2 2 1 2 Kwang-sun Kim , Soohyun Lee* , Sunyoung Park , Choong-Min Ryu , Sun bin Kang 1 2 University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea, KRIBB, South Korea 505A Gold-ISH for linking microbial phylogeny and metabolic activities by using nanoSIMS 1 2 2 3 1 1 Kengo Kubota* , Yuki Morono , Motoo Ito , Takeshi Terada , Shogo Itezono , Hideki Harada , 2 Fumio Inagaki 1 2 3 Tohoku University, Japan, JAMSTEC, Japan, Marine Works Japan LTD, Japan 506A Flow cytometric analysis of freshwater viruses 1 1 1 2 1 Lili Ma* , Hui Yu , Lei Li , Thomas Egli , Yingying Wang 1 2 College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, China, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland 507A To see the invisible: a new plastic film-sampling approach for the comprehensive analysis of microbial community architecture 1 2 2 1 3 Olena Moshynets* , Anna Koza , Patricia Sterpaio , Svitlana Shpylova , Ludmyla Titova , 4 5 2 David Cohen , Geert Potters , Andrew Spiers 1 Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2 3 Ukraine, The SIMBIOS Centre, University of Abertay Dundee, United Kingdom, Zabolotny 4 Institute of Microbiology and Virology of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine, Migal Galilee Technology 5 Center, Israel, University of Antwerp, Belgium 508A A biomolecular isolation framework for Eco-Systems Biology Hugo Roume*, Emilie E.L Muller, Pranjul Shah, Paul Wilmes University of Luxembourg - LCSB, Luxembourg 509A Natural microbial community remediates oil in Australian hydrocarbon contaminated coastal sediment 1 1 2 3 3 3 Renee Smith* , Eric Adetutu , Thomas Jeffries , John Weber , Samuel Aleer , Albert Juhasz , 1 1 Andrew Ball , James Mitchell 1 2 3 Flinders University, Australia, University of Technology, Australia, University of South Australia, Cooperative Research Centre for Contaminated Assessment and Remediation of the Environment, Australia 509B Community isotope arrays for sensitive resolution of substrate-species linkages in natural microbial communities 1 2 3 2 Dieter Tourlousse* , Futoshi Kurisu , Tomohiro Tobino , Hiroaki Furumai 1 2 The University of Tokyo, Japan, Research Center for Water Environment Technology, 3 Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan 174 PS26 – Novel High-Resolution Technologies Thursday 23 August PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions 510A Genetic and symbiotic diversity of rhizobia isolated from Ethiopian soils 1 2 1 3 Tulu Degefu Abdi* , Endalkachew Wolde-meskel , Binbin Liu , Anne Willems , Ilse 3 1 Cleenwick , Åsa Frostegård 1 2 Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Norway, School of Plant and Horticultural 3 Sciences, Hawassa University, Ethiopia, Ghent University, Belgium 511A Microbial ACC-deaminase biotechnology for improving the efficiency of Rhizobium inoculation in mung bean under salt affected conditions 1 2 2 2 Maqshoof Ahmad* , Zahir Ahmad Zahir , Muhammad Arshad , Muhammad Khalid , Moazzam 1 3 Jamil , Sajid Mehmood Nadeem 1 University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, The Islamia University of 2 Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture 3 Faisalabad, Pakistan, College of Agriculture, DG Khan, Pakistan 512A Honeybees govern bacterial communities composition in floral nectar Yana Aizanberg-Gershtein*, Ido Izhaki, Malka Halpern University of Haifa, Oranim, Israel 512B Molecular characterization of nitrogen-fixing bacteria and their colonization pattern in mangrove roots Gabriela Alfaro-Espinoza*, Matthias Ullrich Jacobs University Bremen, Germany 513A Leafy vegetable - human pathogen interactions: a farm-to-fork perspective 1 2 2 2 2 Beatrix Alsanius* , Lars Mogren , Maria Grudén , Christine Larsson , Mehboob Alam , 2 2 3 4 4 Stephen Burleigh , Crister Olsson , Sofia Windstam , Sofia Boqvist , Ivar Vågholm , Karin 4 5 5 2 Söderqvist , Siv Ahrné , Göran Molin , Lilly Kristensen 1 2 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, SLU, Dept of Horticulture, Sweden, 3 4 State University of New York, Biology Dept, USA, SLU, Dept of Veterinary Biomedicine and 5 Health, Sweden, Lund University, Food Hygiene, Sweden 514A Direct image-based enumeration of microbes decomposing biomass feedstocks Jesus G. Alvelo-Maurosa*, Susan B. Leschine University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States 515A Isolation and characterization of Aurantimonas species responding to legume nodulation genonotypes 1 2 1 1 1 Mizue Anda* , Seishi Ikeda , Shima Eda , Hisayuki Mitsui , Kiwamu Minamisawa 1 2 Tohoku University, Japan, National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Japan 515B Assessing the sources of biological nitrogen fixation in a rice-field incubation system 15 using field N2–gas feeding 1 2 1 2 Qicheng Bei , Georg Cadisch , Zubin Xie , Frank Rasche* 1 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Soil Science, China, University of Hohenheim / Institute of Plant Production and Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics, Germany 516A Investigation of the plant primary metabolism in response to Verticillium attack Anja Buhtz*, Mandy Heinze, Rita Grosch Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren, Germany 517A Wild and domesticated grapevines: endophyte community structure and differences 1 1 1 2 Andrea Campisano* , Sohail Yousaf , Michael Pancher , Barbara Sara Biagini 1 2 Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy, Università di Milano, Italy 175 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 518A Botryosphaeria associated with Acacia mangium and Pinus caribaea var hondurensis Venezuelan based on morphology and DNA sequence data 1 2 3 Feraida Castro-Medina* , Sari R. Mohali , Walter. D. Gubler 1 2 Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, Venezuela, Universidad de los Andes, 3 Venezuela, University of California, United States 519A Genomic Investigation of Plant Growth-Promotion in Herbaspirillum sp. Strain GW103 Jong-Chan Chae*, Gun Woong Lee, Kui-Jae Lee Chonbuk National University, South Korea 520A Whitefly infestation elicits defense responses against bacterial pathogens on the leaf and root and belowground dynamic change of microflora in pepper 1 1 2 3 3 Hye Kyung Choi* , Soohyun Lee , Hwe-Su Yi , Boyoung Lee , Choong-Min Ryu 1 2 3 Lee, South Korea, KRIBB, South Korea, University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea 521A Seed defense priming by rhizobacteria Hye Kyung Choi*, Geun Cheol Song, Choong-Min Ryu University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea 521B Cytokinin-elicited plant immunity by bacterial airborne signal 1 1 1 2 2 Hye Kyung Choi* , Hyo Bee Park , Soohyun Lee , Jaemyung Choi , Ildoo Hwang , Hitoshi 3 1 Sakakibara , Choong-Min Ryu 1 2 University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea, Pohang University of Science 3 and Technology, South Korea, RIKEN, Japan 522A Elicitation of induced resistance of Arabidopsis against Pseudomondas syringae by a C13 volatile organic compound produced by a rhizobacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa 1 1 1 2 1 Hye Kyung Choi* , Soohyun Lee , Boyoung Lee , Mohamed A. Farag , Hyo Bee Park , 3 1 Joseph W. Kloepper , Choong-Min Ryu 1 3 University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea, Cairo University, Egypt, 4 Auburn University, United States 523A Isolation Indigenous Acetic Acid Bacteria from Different Ecosystem Noppawan Dachraksa* Dept. of Biology, Thailand 524A Do we understand AM fungal dynamics sufficiently to utilise the symbiosis to maintain crop yield in the future? Tim Daniell*, Jane Davidson, Sandra Caul, Alexander van den Bos, Katherine Becker, Alison Bennett The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom 525A Nitrogen fixation efficiency of indigenous rhizobial strains isolated from soils of southwest Nigeria 1 2 Michael Olajire Dare* , Abisoye Ojo 1 2 Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 526A Genomics and ecology of Lysobacter species 1 2 1 Irene de Bruijn* , Joeke Postma , Jos Raaijmakers 1 2 Wageningen UR, Netherlands, Plant Research International, Netherlands 176 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 527A Transcriptomic analysis of Methylobacterium mesophilicum strain SR1.6/6 in the interaction with soybean seedling roots 1 2 3 3 Francisco Dini-Andreote* , Anderson Ferreira , Milene Ferro , Maurício Bacci , Fernando Dini 4 1 4 Andreote , Jan Dirk van Elsas , Welington Luiz Araújo 1 2 University of Groningen, Netherlands, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation – 3 4 Embrapa Agrosilvopastoral, Brazil, São Paulo State University, Brazil, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 527B Role of climate change in terrestrial microbial feedbacks and disease spread Barbara Drigo*, Ian C. Anderson, Brajesh K. Singh, John W.G. Cairney Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Australia 528A Evolution of cooperation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 1 2 1 Marie Duhamel* , E. Toby Kiers , Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse 1 2 Université de Rennes1 UMR 6553, France, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam - Animal Ecology, Netherlands 529A Bacterial rhizosphere communities of eight Salix lines with different potential to accumulate Cd and Zn 1 1 2 2 3 Katharina Fallmann* , Melanie Kuffner , Brigitte Hai , Michael Schloter , Thomas Rattei , 3 4 1 Dmitrij Turaev , Markus Puschenreiter , Angela Sessitsch 1 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Health & Environment Department, Austria, 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Germany, 3 4 University of Vienna, Department of Computational Systems Biology, Austria, BOKUUniversity of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Austria 530A Biostimulation of the native and introduced quorum-quenching Rhodococcus erythropolis populations for protecting potato plants against the soft-rot bacterial pathogens Denis Faure*, Amélie Cirou, Nicolas Mothe, Samuel Mondy, Mélanie Tannières, Anthony Kwasiborski, Yves Dessaux CNRS, France 531A Miicrobispora spp. are the dominant actinobacterial endophytes of Australian rice plants Christopher Franco*, Fitri Widiantini Flinders University, Australia 532A Potential for increased N2O emissions from denitrification in vegetated areas in a free water surface constructed wetland 1 1 1 2 1 Arantzazu García Lledó* , Ariadna Vilar-Sanz , Rosalia Trias , Sara Hallin , Lluís Bañeras 1 2 University of Girona, Spain, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 533A Culture and metagenomic assessment of microbial communities associated with bioenergy crop plants 1 1 1 2 1 1 Aaron Garoutte* , Adina Howe , Jiarong Guo , Eric Cardenas , Julian Yu , Trish Eddie , 3 4 1 Ederson da C Jesus , Adriana Lopes dos Santos , James Tiedje 1 2 3 Michigan State University, USA, University of British Columbia, Canada, Embrapa Agrobiol, 4 Brazil, São Paulo University, USA 533B Interactions between root hairs and soil microorganisms – impacts on phosphate acquisition 1 1 1 2 1 Timothy George* , Lawrie Brown , Gracie Barrett , Helen Cunnold , Roy Neilson , Philip 1 White 1 2 James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom 177 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 534A Bacterial diversity and plant growth-promotion potential in Andean potato rhizosphere soils 1 2 2 2 Jonas Ghyselinck* , Eileen O'herlihy , Barbara Doyle Prestwich , Siva Velivelli , Koenraad 1 1 1 1 Van Hoorde , Hoste Bart , Kim Heylen , Paul De Vos 1 2 Ghent University, Belgium, University College Cork, Ireland 535A Effect of supplementation of mixed ruminal microflora on bioconversion of waste in biogas using cow dung as co-substrate Gunjan Goel*, Srikant Kaushik Maharishi Markandeshwar University, India 536A Effect of nitrogen input on carbon assimilation and photosynthate partitioning within the plant-microbe-soil system in the rhizosphere of beech 1 2 2 2 Silvia Gschwendtner* , Tillman Lueders , Franz Buegger , Michael Schloter 1 2 Technische Universität München, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 537A Attenuated immune response to endophytic bacteria favours successful interaction with host plant Garima Gupta*, Abhijit Das, Prabhat Jha Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India 538A Seasonal variation in protease enzyme production in ectomycorrhizas and soil solution in boreal Scots pine forest Jussi Heinonsalo*, Kirsi Bäcklund, Annele Hatakka, Timo Vesala, Jukka Pumpanen University of Helsinki, Finland 539A The genus Burkholderia: the good, the bad, and the ugly 1 2 3 1 Ann M. Hirsch* , Paulina Estrada-de los Santos , George Weinstock , Annette Angus 1 2 3 UCLA, USA, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, Washington University, USA 539B Construction of a phytoremediation system using vetiver grass and endophytic bacteria, Achromobacter xylosoxidans F3B for the remediation of phenolic pollutants Ying-Ning Ho*, Dony Chacko Mathew, Hsing-Mei Chiang, Zhang-Gong Hao, Chieh-Chen Huang National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan 540A Will selection conditions alter root-microbial relationships and influence carrot productivity in organically managed production systems? 1 1 2 3 3 Lori Hoagland* , Jessica Brazelton , Christopher Zelaya , Micaela Colley , John Navazio , 4 Phillip Simon 1 2 3 Purdue University, USA, National Agricultural University of Honduras, Honduras, Organic 4 Seed Alliance, USA, USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit, USA 541A Rhizobia as plant growth promoter for maize under reduced water conditions Muhammad Baqir Hussain*, Zahir Ahmad Zahir, Hafiz Naeem Asghar University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 542A Endophytic bacterial diversity of balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorum) root and their antimicrobial activities based on plant age Shah Md. Asraful Islam* Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh 543A Multiplex-PCR for quick strain-identification of plant-pathogenic bacteria, phytoplasma Shigeyuki Kakizawa*, Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan 178 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 543B Competition between subalpine grassland plant species and microbes for nitrogen in the rhizosphere under different redox conditions - a greenhouse approach 1 2 1 Eva-Maria Kastl* , Silvia Gschwendtner , Michael Schloter 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, Environmental Genomics, Germany, Technische Universität München, Institute of soil ecology, Germany 544A Horticultural cropping systems in the shadow of environmental demands 1 1 1 1 Sammar Khalil* , Anna Karin Rosberg , Samareh Gharaie , Malin Hultberg , Karl-Johan 1 2 2 3 1 Bergstrand , Justine Sylla , Walter Wohanka , Nicola Gruyer , Beatrix Alsanius 1 Department of Horticulture- Microbial Horticulture Group, Swedish University of Agricultural 2 3 Sciences, Sweden, Geisenheim Research Center, Germany, Centre de recherhe en Horticulture, Pavillon Envirotron, Université Laval, Canada 545A Diversity of Acetic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Tropical Thai Fruits 1 1 2 Tharinee Klawpiyapamornkun* , Sakunnee Bovonsombut , Sittisin Bovonsombut 1 2 ChiangMai University, Thailand, Maejo University, Thailand 546A The mycobiome of wheat 1 1 1 2 Kamilla Knorr* , Annemarie F. Justesen , Lise N. Jørgensen , Hans Pinnschmidt , Jiaoyu 1 1 Wang , Mogens Nicolaisen 1 2 Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany 546B Innate immunity, salicylic acid, and Arabidopsis phyllosphere microbiome 1 2 1 James M Kremer* , Sheng Yang He , James Tiedje 1 2 Michigan State University, USA, GBMF/HHMI, Michigan State University, USA 547A Stimulation of microbial metabolism by inefficient herbivory 1 2 3 Jennifer Krumins* , Valdis Krumins , Wim van der Putten 1 2 3 Montclair State University, USA, Rutgers University, USA, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands 548A Hybrid poplar-associated strains of Burkholderia fungorum capable of degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons share dbt catabolic genes 1 1 1 2 1 Silvia Lampis , Marco Andreolli* , Marika Poli , Kim Yrjala , Giovanni Vallini 1 2 University of Verona, Dept. of Biotechnology, Italy, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland 549A Linking microbial diversity and activity of olive rhizosphere to management systems in commercial orchards at Southern Spain 1 1 2 1 2 Blanca B Landa* , Miguel Montes-Borrego , Madis Metsis , David Gramaje , Jaak Simm , 3 1 Javier Tamames , Juan A Navas-Cortés 1 2 Institute for Sustainable Agriculture-CSIC, Spain, Tallin University of Technology, Estonia, 3 CNB-CSIC, Spain 550A Proteome analysis of Arabidopsis seedlings exposed to bacterial volatiles 1 2 1 2 2 Soohyun Lee* , Young Sang Kwon , Hyo Bee Park , Ki Soo Han , Jung Han Lee , Kyunghee 3 4 5 2 2 1 Lee , Woo Sik Chung , Mi-Jeong Jeong , Hee Kyu Kim , Dong-Won Bae , Choong-Min Ryu 1 2 3 KRIBB, South Korea, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, Yeungnam University, 4 South Korea, Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, South Korea, 5 Rural Development Administration, South Korea 179 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 551A Foliar aphid feeding recruits rhizosphere bacteria and primes plant immunity against pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria in pepper Soohyun Lee*, Boyoung Lee, Choong-Min Ryu University of Science and Technology / KRIBB, South Korea 552A Spatiotemporal variation in bacterial community composition on leaves of field-grown lettuce Johan Leveau*, Gurdeep Rastogi, Adrian Sbodio, Jan Tech, Trevor Suslow, Gitta Coaker University of California - Davis, United States 552B Phylogenetic distribution of traits associated with plant colonization in Escherichia coli 1 1 1 1 1 Sacha Lucchini* , Guillaume Meric , Katherine Kemsley , Laura Searle , Ida Porcelli , Daniel 2 1 Falush , Elizabeth Saggers 1 2 Institute of Food Research, United Kingdom, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany 553A Selective mobilisation of rhizosphere bacterial populations upon groundwater recharge 1 1 2 2 Tillmann Lueders* , Doerte Dibbern , Andreas Schmalwasser , Kai-Uwe Totsche 1 2 Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Germany, Institute for Geosciences, Germany 554A Evaluation of mutants from Rhizobium tropici with biotechnological potential Tereza Cristina Luque Castellane, Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos, Manoel Victor Franco Lemos* UNESP / FCAV, Brazil 555A Investigation of key species of dark septate endophytic fungi from different habitats 1 2 Rola Mahmoud* , Kazuhiko Narisawa 1 2 Tokyo university of agriculture and technology, Japan, Ibaraki university, Japan 556A The metabolic profile of soybean roots inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum under moisture deficiency Pavlo Mamenko*, Alla Levishko, Sergii Kots, Nataliya Melnykova, Ruslan Iakymchuk, Lyudmyla Mykhalkiv Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine 557A Comparison of different metagenomic DNA extraction protocols to study the endophytic microbial communities of Sorghum bicolor, Pennisetum glaucum and Arachis villosulicarpa Mapula A.K. Maropola, Jean-Baptiste Ramond*, Marla I. Tuffin Institute for Microbial Biotechnlogy and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, South Africa 558A How can plant-associated pseudomonads with antifungal activity become insect pathogens 1 1 2 2 1 Monika Maurhofer , Beat Ruffner , Maria Péchy-Tarr , Peter Kupferschmied , Pascale Flury* , 2 Christoph Keel 1 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich / Plant Pathology, Institute of Integrative 2 Biology, Switzerland, University of Lausanne/Department of Fundamental Microbiology, Switzerland 237B Microbial endophytes from Warburgia ugandensis - diversity and adption to host drimane sesquiterpenes 1 2 3 3 2 Birgit Mitter* , Sigrid Drage , Alice Muchugi , Rhamni H. Jamnadass , Franz Hadacek , Angela 4 Sessitsch 1 2 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria, Department of Chemical Ecology and 3 Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna, Austria, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), 4 Kenya, AIT Austrain Institute of Technology, Austria 180 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 558B Phenazine antibiotic production regulated by two quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aurantiaca StFRB508 and its antifungal activity against Phytophthora infestans 1 1 1 2 Tomohiro Morohoshi* , Wen-zhao Wang , Tomonori Sutou , Nobutaka Someya , Tsukasa 1 Ikeda 1 2 Utsunomiya University, Japan, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, Japan 559A Symbiotic associations with beta-rhizobia are deep-rooted within the tribe Mimoseae 1 2 3 2 4 Lionel Moulin* , Caroline Bournaud , Miguel Santos , Pierre Tisseyre , Michele Silva , Sergio 4 3 5 2 M. de Faria , Eduardo Gross , Euan K. James , Yves Prin 1 2 IRD-LSTM, France, LSTM-UMR113 CIRAD/IRD/UM2/SupaGro Usc INRA, France, 3 4 Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Brazil, Laboratório de Leguminosas Florestais5 EMBRAPA, Brazil, The James Hutton Institute, United Kingdom 560A Bacterial succession in Populus rhizosphere in rhizoremediation 1 1 1 2 3 1 Shinjini Mukherjee* , Hyunseok Choi , Timo Sipilä , Jaak Truu , Pertti Pulkkinen , Kim Yrjälä 1 2 3 University of Helsinki, Finland, University of Tartu, Estonia, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland 561A Evidence for presence and dehalogenation activity of chloromethane-degrading bacteria in the Arabidopsis thaliana phyllosphere: strain isolation and molecular analysis 1 1 1 2 1 Thierry Nadalig* , Farhan Ul Haque , Sandro Roselli , Hubert Schaller , Françoise Bringel , 1 Stéphane Vuilleumier 1 2 University of Strasbourg, UMR 7156 CNRS, France, University of Strasbourg, UPR 2357 CNRS, France 562A Phenazine-1-carboxylic acid production by Pseudomonas spp. LBUM223 contributes to repressing thaxtomin A biosynthesis in the pathogen Streptomyces scabies under soil conditions 1 1 2 1 Amy Novinscak* , Tanya Arseneault , Claudia Goyer , Martin Filion 1 2 Université de Moncton, Canada, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada 563A Development of the root microbiome: from seed to root systems, and emphasis on characteristics of plant-beneficial bacterial communities 1 2 3 Maya Ofek , Dror Minz* , Yitzhak Hadar 1 2 Agricultural Research Organization of Israel, Israel, Institute of Soil, Water and 3 Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 564A Baseline survey of the anatomical microbial ecology of an important food plant: Solanum lycopersicum 1 2 3 1 1 Andrea Ottesen* , Antonio Pena , James Robert White , Cong Li , James Pettengill , Sarah 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 Allard , Steven Rideout , Thomas Hill , Marc Allard , Errol Strain , Rob Knight , Eric Brown 1 2 3 FDA, USA, University of Colorado, USA, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA, 4 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA 564B Study of fungal phyllosphere communities from transgenic cotton with cry1ac gene 1 1 1 1 1 Jiangang Pan , Honggyan Qi* , Anzhou Ma , Zhihui Bai , Guoqiang Zhuang , Hongxun 2 Zhang 1 Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of 2 Sciences, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 565A Temperature and climate affect the endophytes community in grapevine Michael Pancher*, Andrea Campisano Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy 181 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 566A Influence of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42 on the rhizosphere bacterial community of field grown lettuce (Lactuca sativa) 1 2 3 1 3 Soumitra Paul Chowdhury* , Rita Grosch , Kristin Dietel , Michael Schmid , Rainer Borriss , 1 Anton Hartmann 1 2 Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany, Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse und Zierpflanzenbau 3 Großbeeren/ Erfurt e.V, Germany, ABiTEP GmbH, Germany 567A Molecular characterization of the interaction between antimicrobial metabolite producing Pseudomonas spp. and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis in tomato Mélanie M Paulin*, Carine Lanteigne, Martin Filion Université de Moncton, Canada 568A An α-tubulin of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Hebeloma cylindrosporum is essential for symbiosis establishment 1 1 1 2 2 Aurélie Perrin* , Clément Pellegrin , Jeanne Doré , Cindy Dieryckx , Vincent Girard , Jean 3 1 1 Phillipe Combier , Roland Marmeisse , Gilles Gay 1 2 Université Claude Bernard LYON1 UMR 5557, France, Université Claude Bernard LYON1 3 UMR 5240, France, Universtié Paul Sabatier UMR CNRS 5546, France 569A Genotypic effects of Norway spruce host trees on the associated communities of ectomycorrhizal and needle endophytic fungi Tiina Rajala*, Sannakajsa Velmala, Matti Haapanen, Taina Pennanen Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland 570A Enterobacter radicincitans sp. nov. DSM16656 a novel and efficient PGPB strain Silke Ruppel*, Katja Witzel, Anita Brock, Beatrice Berger Leibniz-Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany 570B The antifungal chitinases of soil isolated Bacillus sp. and its potential role in biological control 1 2 Stefan Russel* , Urszula Jankiewicz 1 2 Swedspan Polska Sp.z o.o., Poland, Warsaw University for Life Science, Poland 571A Archaea associated with Populus and its surrounding soil and trees 1 1 1 2 2 Migun Shakya* , Christopher W. Schadt , Mircea Podar , Zamin Yang , Marilyn Kerley , 2 2 Mitchel J. Doktycz , Gerald Tuskan 1 2 University of Tennessee / Oak Ridge National Lab, USA, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA 571B Microbial mediation of litter decomposition in soil: the role of plant roots 1 1 2 2 2 Shengjing Shi* , Donald Herman , Katherine Louie , Ben Bowen , Trent Northen , Eoin L. 2 1 Brodie , Mary Firestone 1 2 University of California, Berkeley, USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 572A Microbial community analysis of potato-associated bacteria using both cultureindependent and -dependent methods 1 1 1 2 Nobutaka Someya* , Yuki Ohdaira Kobayashi , Akira Kobayashi , Tomohiro Morohoshi , 2 1 Tsukasa Ikeda , Seishi Ikeda 1 Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research 2 Organization, Japan, Utsunomiya University, Japan 573A Growth enhancement of Aster spp. by Rhizobacteria for revegetation of barren lakeside area Hong-Gyu Song*, Hyeok-Do Kwon Kangwon National University, South Korea 182 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 574A Symbiosis with Mesorhizobium sp. affects Zn accumulation patterns among four Anthyllis vulneraria subspecies 1 2 1 2 1 Souhir Soussou* , Stéphanie Mahieu , Brigitte Brunel , José Escarré , Michel Lebrun , 3 3 4 Mohamed Banni , Hamadi Boussetta , Jean-Claude Cleyet-Marel 1 2 Montpellier SupAgro, UMR113, France, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, 3 4 France, Institut Supérieur Agronomique de Chott Meriam, Tunisia, INRA, UMR113, France 575A Contribution of a biocontrol Pseudomonas strain to the total microbial load in bioaerosols during experimental seed inoculation 1 1 1 1 Ingvar Sundh* , Anna-Ida Johnsson Holmberg , Annika I. Nilsson , Petter Melin , Margareta 2 3 Hökeberg , Anne Mette Madsen 1 2 3 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, Mase Laboratories, Sweden, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark 575B Population dynamics and diversity of fungal communities in the rhizosphere soil of wild medicinal plants in the upper flood plains of Assam, North Eastern India Sorokhaibam Sureshkumar Singh*, Chumi Khanikar North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology, India 576A Plant surfaces select for ammonia oxidizing bacteria in alkaline aquatic environments 1 1 1 1 Rosalia Trias* , Arantzazu García-Lledó , Ariadna Vilar-Sanz , Olaya Ruiz-Rueda , Sara 2 1 Hallin , Lluis Bañeras 1 2 Institute of Aquatic Ecology. University of Girona, Spain, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden 577A Bacterial volatiles suppress growth of fungal pathogens 1 1 2 1 Maaike van Agtmaal* , Maria Hunscheid , Angela Straathof , Wietse de Boer 1 2 Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands, Department of Soil Quality, Wageningen University, Netherlands 578A Associations between bacteria and ectomycorrhizal roots investigated with highthroughput sequencing 1 2 3 3 4 Unni Vik* , Ramiro Logares , Tor Carlsen , Rakel Blaalid , Ole Andreas Økstad , Anne-Brit 4 3 Kolstø , Håvard Kauserud 1 2 3 University of Oslo, Norway, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spain, University of Oslo/ 4 Department of Biology, Norway, University of Oslo/School of Pharmacy, Norway 578B First dip into rhizosphere microbial community transcriptome 1 1 1 2 1 Milana Voronov-Goldman* , Maya Ofek , Noa Sela , Yitzhak Hadar , Dror Minz 1 2 Volcani center, Israel, Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, Israel 579A AidC, a novel N-acylhomoserine lactonase from the potato root-associated Chryseobacterium sp. StRB126, a member of Cytophaga-Flavobacteria-Bacteroides (CFB) group 1 2 3 2 Wenzhao Wang , Tomohiro Morohoshi , Nobutaka Someya , Tsukasa Ikeda 1 2 Utsunomiya University, Japan, Department of Material and Environmental Chemistry, 3 Utsunomiya University, Japan, Hokkaido Agricultural Research Center (HARC), National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan 579B Co-operation between PGPR containing ACC-deaminase and Rhizobium spp. for sustainable production of legumes 1 2 3 4 Zahir Zahir* , Saqib Akhtar , Maqshoof Ahmad , Hafiz Asghar 1 2 Institute of Soil & Environmental Sciences, Pakistan, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, 3 Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Højbakkegaard Allé, Denmark, College 4 of Agriculture, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Institute of soil & Environmental Sciences, Pakistan 183 PS27 – Plant-Microbe Interactions Thursday 23 August 580A Influence of root exudates on the structural development of microbial communities in the rhizosphere Maren Ziegler*, Gerhard Welzl, Michael Schloter Helmholtz Zentrum München / Environmental Genomics, Germany 581A Losing the partner - now what? Effects of host loss on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Frank Zielinski*, Tina Netzker, Thomas Fester Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany 582A Effect of pathogenic soil bacteria and growth promoting bacteria on glucosinolate production in kale (Brassica oleracea var. Sabellica L.) 1 2 1 Matthias Zielke* , John Beck Jensen , Jørgen Mølmann 1 Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental 2 Research, Norway, University of Tromsø, Norway 583A PGPR characterization of strains isolated from goldenberry (Physalis peruviana L.) rhizosphere in highland zones 1 2 2 2 Doris Zúñiga* , Katty Ogata , Ana Cumpa , Lindacelia Flores 1 Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana y Biotecnología Marino Tabusso, Universidad Nacional 2 Agraria La Molina, Peru, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Peru 584A The effect of sodium chloride and urea in PGPRs isolated from cotton and lima bean from the valley of Ica, Peru 1 1 1 1 2 Doris Zúñiga , Elena Ramos , Carlos Arango* , Ricardo Santos , Juan Sanjuan 1 Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana y Biotecnología Marino Tabusso, Universidad Nacional 2 Agraria La Molina, Peru, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Espana PS28 – Predictive Models of Microbial Communities 065A Selection of novel maturity indices for compost derived from grape pomace 1 2 1 2 Jimena Angulo , María Mercedes Martínez* , Rodrigo Ortega , Marc Janssens 1 2 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile, Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation INRES Bonn Universität, Germany 066A Measuring species interactions during biofilm development 1 1 2 Arnaud Bridier* , Théodore Bouchez , Franck Jabot 1 2 IRSTEA-HBAN, France, IRSTEA-LISC, France 067A Understanding a methanogenic benzene-degrading culture by metabolic models 1 1 2 1 1 Cleo Hanchen Ho* , Cheryl Devine , Robert Beiko , Eugene Ma , Elizabeth Edwards , 1 Radhakrishnan Mahadevan 1 2 University of Toronto, Canada, Dalhousie University, Canada 344B Amazonian deforestation simplifies soil bacterial interaction networks and alters verrucomicrobial communities 1 2 2 2 Acácio A. Navarrete , Eiko E. Kuramae , Mathias de Hollander , George A Kowalchuk , Wim 2 2 1 Van der Putten , Johannes A. van Veen , Siu Mui Tsai* 1 2 CENA / USP, Brazil, NIOO/KNAW, Netherlands 184 PS28 – Predictive Models of Microbial Communities Thursday 23 August 068A Microbial regulation of biogeochemical cycles: evidence from a study on methane flux and land-use change 1 2 3 4 5 Loïc Nazaries* , Yao Pan , Levente Bodrossy , Elizabeth Baggs , Peter Millard , J. Colin 6 1 Murrell , Brajesh K. Singh 1 University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Australia, 2 3 Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Netherlands, CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric 4 Research, Australia, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of 5 6 Aberdeen, United Kingdom, Landcare Research, New Zealand, Earth & Life Systems Alliance, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom 069A Reconciling phylogeny and function during plant litter decomposition by highthroughput functional metagenomics 1 2 2 2 2 Mari Nyyssonen* , Claudia Weihe , Michael Goulden , Kathleen Treseder , Jennifer Martiny , 2 2 1 Adam Martiny , Steven Allison , Eoin Brodie 1 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, University of California, USA 070A Factors controlling the reproducibility of microbial community assembly 1 1 1 1 2 Eulyn Pagaling , Fiona Strathdee , Jana Schwarz-Linek , Rosalind Allen* , Andrew Free 1 2 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 071A A trait-based model of microbial-geochemical dynamics in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes 1 2 2 1 3 Daniel Reed* , Houshuo Jiang , John Breier , Christopher Klausmeier , Brandy Toner , 1 Gregory Dick 1 2 3 University of Michigan, USA, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, University of Minnesota, USA 072A Microbial communities in time: A cross-biome synthesis 1 2 1 3 3 Ashley Shade* , J. Gregory Caporaso , Jo Handelsman , Rob Knight , Noah Fierer 1 2 3 Yale University, United States, Northern Arizona University, United States, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States 073A Application of response surface analysis for biodegradation of azo reactive textile dye and chemical oxygen demand using Aspergillus foetidus based on central composite design Parveen Sharma*, Lakhvinder Singh Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, India 074A Comparison of Enterococcus qPCR analysis results from fresh and marine water samples on two real-time instruments Manohari Sivaganesan*, Richard Haugland, Manju Varma US EPA, USA 075A Computational modeling of microbial granulation processes for wastewater treatment 1 1 2 1 1 Satoshi Tsuneda* , Yuki Kagawa , Shinya Matsumoto , Junya Tahata , Naohiro Kishida , 3 3 Cristian Picioreanu , Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht 1 2 3 Waseda University, Japan, Nagoya University, Japan, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 185 PS28 – Predictive Models of Microbial Communities Thursday 23 August PS29 – Protistan Ecology: beyond diversity 047A Cellulose degradation and protist-bacteria symbiosis in the hindgut of lower termites as inferred by stable isotope labeling and NanoSIMS imaging mass spectrometry 1 1 1 1 Kevin J. Carpenter , Peter K. Weber* , M. Lee Davisson , Jennifer Pett-Ridge , Michael I. 2 3 Haverty , Patrick J. Keeling 1 2 3 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA, University of California, USA, University of British Columbia, Canada 048A Influence of land-use intensity on the "realized" diversity and spatial distribution of protists 1 1 2 2 1 Antonis Chatzinotas* , Karin Glaser , Daniel Keil , Sven Marhan , Brigitte Hai , Michael 1 2 1 Schloter , Ellen Kandeler , Hauke Harms 1 Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Environmental 2 Microbiology, Germany, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Soil Biology Section, University of Hohenheim, Germany 049A Disentangling the drivers of microbial succession in response to nutrient input in fluidic ecosystems Ye Deng, Jizhong Zhou*, Ping Zhang, Kai Xue, Joy van Nostrand, Zhili He University of Oklahoma, United States 050A The FlowCAM, a tool for studying the planktonic protistan communities: diversity, abundance, growth and grazing rate 1 2 2 1 1 Christine Dupuy* , Jun Gong , Xiaoli Zhang , Hélène Agogué , Laureen Beaugeard 1 2 University of La Rochelle, Laboratory LIENSs, France, Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, China 051A Monitoring Emiliania huxleyi blooms using Wavelength Dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WDXRF) Jorun Egge* University of Bergen /Dept og Biology, Norway 052A Behavioural responses of Tetrahymena pyriformis exposed to microgradients of hydrophobic organic chemicals 1 2 1 3 Dorothea Gilbert , Hans-Henrik Jakobsen , Anne Winding , Thomas Backhaus* , Philipp 1 Mayer 1 2 Aarhus University, Dept. of Environmental Science, Denmark, Aarhus University, Dept. of 3 Bioscience, Denmark, Univ. of Gothenburg, Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Sweden 053A Single cell genome sequencing of rumen entodinomorphid ciliates and their endosymbiotic methanogens Marissa Hirst*, Scott Dawson University of California, Davis, United States 054A Identification of Fe-only hydrogenase genes and hydrogenase activities of oxymanad protists in the gut of the termtite Reticulitermes speratus 1 2 Jun-ichi Inoue* , Moriya Ohkuma 1 2 RIKEN/ Synaptech Inc., Japan, RIKEN BRC-JCM, Japan 055A Diversified protist and cyanobacteria collection at NIES, Japan Masanobu Kawachi* National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan 186 PS29 – Protistan Ecology Thursday 23 August 056A An inducible predator defense in the marine microalga Emiliania huxleyi (Prymnesiophyceae) is linked to its heteromorphic haploid-diploid life cycle Amelia Kolb*, Suzanne Strom Western Washington University, United States 057A When Si and glucose give neither diatoms nor bacteria. A zooplankton effect in an arctic ecosystem? 1 2 3 2 Aud Larsen* , Jorun Egge , Jens C Nejstgaard , T Frede Thingstad Thingstad 1 2 3 Uni Research, Uni Environment, Norway, University of Bergen, Norway, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, University Systems of Georgia, USA 058A Polyphasic characterization of microeukaryote diversity in alpine glacier forefields Anna Lazzaro* ETH Zurich/ Institute of Biogeochemistry & Pollutant Dynamics, Switzerland 059A Molecular phylogeny and evolution of Parabasalia with new protein markers and improved taxon sampling 1 2 3 Satoko Noda* , Eric Viscogliosi , Moriya Ohkuma 1 2 3 University of Yamanashi, Japan, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France, JCM, Bioresource Center, RIKEN, Japan 060A Estimation of protistan phagotrophy in a meromictic alpine lake Andreas Oikonomou*, Maria Pachiadaki, Thorsten Stoeck University of Kaiserslautern, Germany 061A Dynamic of soil Free Living Amoebae community in three microenvironments from a Mexican desert 1 2 3 Horacio Perez-Juarez* , Angelica Serrano -Vazquez , Salvador Rodriguez-Zaragoza , Jesus 3 3 Bazan-Cuenca , Victor M. Rivera-Aguilar 1 2 Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas, UNAM, Mexico, Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas, 3 Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Iztacala, UNAM., Mexico, Facultad de Estudios SuperioresIztacala, UNAM., Mexico 062A Ciliates and predators: a microcosm study to asses top-down effects on community structure Josué Santiago-Vera*, Dimaris Acosta-Mercado University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 063A Specific primers reveal new haptophyte groups and multiple independent colonisations of freshwater environments Marianne Simon*, Purificaciόn Lόpez-García, David Moreira, Ludwig Jardillier Université Paris Sud, France 064A Identification of genes involved in the response of Vibrio cholerae to predation by heterotrophic protists 1 2 1 1 2 Shuyang Sun , Jie Hu , Zhiliang Chen , Marc Wilkins , Staffan Kjelleberg , Diane 1 McDougald* 1 2 University of New South Wales, Australia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 187 PS29 – Protistan Ecology Thursday 23 August PS30 – Syntrophy and Electron Flow in Microbial Communities 418A Electron transfer in biofilms at the microscale Haluk Beyenal*, Jerome Babauta Washington State University, United States 419A Syntrophic acetate oxidation in methanogenic reactors: an unexpected metabolic behaviour analyzed by a polyphasic approach 1 1 1 2 1 Theodore Bouchez* , Julien Grossin-Debattista , Fan Lü , Ting-Di Wu , Olivier Chapleur , 1 1 1 Ariane Bize , Laetitia Cardona , Laurent Mazéas 1 2 Irstea, France, Institut Curie, France 420A Cooperation impacts structure and function in a syntrophic biofilm of Methanococcus maripaludis and Desulfovibrio vulgaris Kristen A. Brileya*, Mathew W. Fields Montana State University, United States 420B Syntrophaceae oixdize hexadecane via methanogenesis by DNA stable isotope probing 1 1 2 1 1 1 Lei Cheng , Cheng Ding* , Qiang Li , Qiao He , Li-rong Dai , Hui Zhang 1 2 Biogas Institute of Ministry of Agriculture, China, Key Laboratory of Development and Application of Rural Renewable Energy, Ministry of Agriculture, China 421A Genomic and proteomic insights into hydrogen limited growth of Methanospirillum hungatei strain JF-1 1 2 2 3 1 Bryan Crable* , Robert Gunsalus , Lars Rohlin , Gregory Hurst , Michael McInerney 1 2 University of Oklahoma, United States, University of California, Los Angeles, United 3 States, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States 422A Chromium responses and biofilm formation in Desulfovibrio vulgaris RCH-1, a sulfatereducing bacterium isolated from 100H chromium-contaminated groundwater, are temperature-dependent 1 2 1 Lauren Franco* , Yuri Gorby , Matthew Fields 1 2 Montana State University, United States, University of Southern California, United States 423A Methanogenic degradation of succinate by a syntrophic coculture of mesophilic anaerobic microorganisms Alexander Galushko*, Michael Wagner Vienna University, Austria 424A Syntrophic degradation of acetate by sulfidogenic coculture of anaerobic mesophilic bacteria 1 2 Alexander Galushko* , Elena Rozanova 1 2 Vienna University, Austria, Institute of Microbiology RAS, Russia 425A The impact of buffer capacity and conductivity on syntrophic propionic acid oxidation in anaerobic granules 1 2 3 4 Natacha M.S. Juste-Poinapen* , Bernardino Virdis , Mark S. Turner , Korneel Rabaey , 2 Damien J. Batstone 1 2 University of Queensland, Advanced Water Management Centre, Australia, The University of 3 Queensland, Advanced Water Management Centre, Australia, The University of Queensland, 4 School of Agriculture and Food Science, Australia, The Ghent University, Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology(LabMET), Belgium 425B Effects of sunlight irradiation on electricity output from a paddy-field microbial fuel cell 1 1 1 2 1 Nobuo Kaku* , Natsuki Yonezawa , Dai Takahasi , Kazuya Watanabe , Atsuko Ueki , Katsuji 1 Ueki 1 2 Yamagata University, Japan, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan 188 PS30 – Syntrophy and Electron Flow in Microbial Communities Thursday 23 August 426A Electrode-respiring microbial community and electron flux in microbial fuel cells applied with fermentable or not fermentable substrates Taeho Lee*, Younghyun Park, Jiyun Seon, Kangbong Jo, Hana Park Pusan National University, South Korea 427A Synergetic stress of acids and ammonia on the thermophilic methanogenesis of organics Fan Lu*, Jiaqi Ji, Yucheng Lin, Liping Hao, Jianglin Cao, Liming Shao, Pinjing He Tongji University / College of Environmental Science & Engineering, China 428A Distant electric coupling between nitrate reduction and sulphide oxidation in marine sediment 1 1 1 2 Ugo Marzocchi* , Niels Peter Revsbech , Lars Peter Nielsen , Nils Risgaard-Petersen 1 Section for Microbiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, 2 Denmark, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark 429A Redox responsive regulation of microbial metabolism activity in iron reducing bacteria, Shewanella 1 2 3 3 1 Shoichi Matsuda* , Huan Liu , Souichiro Kato , Shuji Nakanishi , Kazuhito Hashimoto 1 2 3 The University of Tokyo, Japan, ERATO/JST, China, ERATO/JST, Japan 430A Metagenomic analysis of electroactive biofilms responsible for electricity production in microbial fuel cells 1 1 1 2 Jean-Michel Monier* , Sebastien Cecillon , Emmanuel Prestat , Brian Dill , Nathan 2 3 Verberkmoes , Timothy Vogel 1 2 3 CNRS - Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, ORNL, USA, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France 430B Genome-scale modeling of metabolic interactions and interspecies electron transfer in syntrophic consortia 1 1 1 2 2 Harish Nagarajan* , Mallory Embree , Adam Feist , Amelia Rotaru , Pravin Shrestha , Derek 2 1 Lovley , Karsten Zengler 1 2 University of California San Diego, United States, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States 431A Cytochrome-associated flavin molecules mediate extracellular electron transfer process Akihiro Okamoto*, Ryuhei Nakamura, Kazuhito Hashimoto Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Japan 432A Transcriptomic and genetic analysis of direct interspecies electron transfer (DIET) Pravin Shrestha*, Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Zarath M. Summers, Fanghua Liu, Toshi Ueki, Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts, United States 433A Microbial nitrate reduction by iron sulfide in anoxic Danish aquifer, peatland and brackish water sediments 1 2 3 2 Sarka Vaclavkova* , Ole Stig Jacobsen , Christian Juncher Jørgensen , Jens Aamand , Bo 4 Elberling 1 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen/ Geological Survey of 2 Denmark and Greenland, Denmark, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 3 Denmark, University of Copenhagen/Department of Geography and Geology, Denmark, 4 University of Copenhagen/ Department of Geography and Geology, Denmark 189 PS30 – Syntrophy and Electron Flow in Microbial Communities Thursday 23 August 434A Do denitrifiers on biocathodes act as a syntrophic community? 1 2 3 3 Ariadna Vilar-Sanz* , Sebastià Puig , Arantzazu García-Lledó , Rosalia Trias , M. Dolors 2 2 3 Balaguer , Jesús Colprim , Lluis Bañeras 1 2 Universitat de Girona, Spain, Laboratory of Chemical and Environmental Engineering 3 (LEQUIA-UdG), University of Girona, Spain, Institute of Aquatic Ecology, University of Girona, Spain 435A Syntrophic interactions drive the hydrogen production from glucose at low temperature in microbial electrolysis cells Defeng Xing*, Lu Lu, Nanqi Ren Harbin Institute of Technology, China PS31 – ESF - EuroEEFG Session; "Understanding the functioning of microbes and microbial communities in their natural habitat: are we shedding light in the black box?" 200A Influence of (in)organic additions to the function and diversity of prokaryotes in the subtropical North Atlantic Oxygen Minimum Zone 1 2 2 2 Federico Baltar* , Thomas Reinthaler , Itziar Lekunberri , Gerhard J. Herndl , Jarone 1 Pinhassi 1 2 Linnaeus University, Sweden, University of Vienna, Austria 201A Microbial minorities modulate methane consumption through niche partitioning 1 1 1 1 2 Paul Bodelier* , Marion Meima-Franke , Kees Hordijk , Anne Steenbergh , Mariet Hefting , 3 4 4 Levente Bodrossy , Martin Von Bergen , Jana Seifert 1 2 Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Netherlands, University of Utrecht, 3 4 Netherlands, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia, UFZ- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Germany 202A Ubiquity by diversification: Ecological radiation in the species-like freshwater taxon Polynucleobacter necessarius (Betaproteobacteria) 1 2 2 1 Maria Gadermaier* , Jan Jezbera , Jitka Jezberova , Martin Hahn 1 2 Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Limnology, Austria, Biology Centre AS CR, Institute of Hydrobiology, Czech Republic 203A Seasonality and environmental control of freshwater SAR11 (LD12) in a temperate lake (Lake Erken) 1 2 2 Friederike Heinrich* , Alexander Eiler , Stefan Bertilsson 1 2 Uppsala University, Sweden, Uppsala Univeristy, Sweden 204A Structure and field-scale activity of methane-oxidizing bacterial communities in a landfill-cover soil Ruth Henneberger*, Eleonora Chiri, Martin H. Schroth ETH Zürich, Switzerland 205A Trait-based approaches in microbial ecology: a case study on methane oxidizing bacteria testing the phylogenetic signal of functional traits 1 2 1 Sascha Krause* , Peter van Bodegom , Paul L.E. Bodelier 1 2 Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands, VU University, Netherlands 206A Gene expression and diversity of methane oxidizing Proteobacteria in a Sub-Arctic palsa peatland 1 2 2 1 Susanne Liebner* , Claudia Lueke , Peter Frenzel , Mette M Svenning 1 2 University of Tromsø, Norway, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 190 PS31 – ESF EuroEEFG Session Thursday 23 August 207A Biogeography of aerobic methanotrophs in wetland rice fields 1 2 3 1 Claudia Lüke* , Adrian Ho , Sascha Krause , Peter Frenzel 1 2 3 MPI for terrestrial Microbiology, Germany, Ghent University, Belgium, NIOOKNAW, Netherlands 208A Flow-sorting of uncultivable ultramicrobacteria according to their taxonomic affiliation Stefan Neuenschwander*, Thomas Posch, Jakob Pernthaler, Michaela M Salcher Limnological Station, University of Zurich, Switzerland 209A Assessing protistan grazing on marine prokaryotes in the mesopelagic realm of the Mediterranean Sea 1 1 2 2 2 Maria Pachiadaki* , Andreas Oikonomou , William Orsi , Virginia Edgcomb , Craig Taylor , 3 1 Michail Yakimov , Thorsten Stoeck 1 2 3 University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, Woods Hole OceanogrCNR-Institute for coastal marine environment, Messinaaphic Institution, Italy 210A Effect of energy flow on the susceptibility of aerobic methanotrophic communities to disturbance Andreas Reim*, Peter Frenzel MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany 211A Protein-SIP to elucidate bacterial key players in wetland ecosystems 1 1 2 Jana Seifert* , Martin von Bergen , Paul Bodelier 1 2 UFZ-Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research GmbH, Germany, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Netherlands 212A Bacterial population in the Pelagic zone 1 2 2 1 Abhishek Srivastava* , Sarahi L. Garcia , Falk Warnecke , Hans-Peter Grossart 1 Leibniz-Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Department 3: Limnology of 2 Stratified Lakes, Stechlin, Germany, Jena School for Microbial Communication (JSMC) and Microbial Ecology Group at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany 213A A dark and winding road: from microbial sequences to soil biogeochemical fluxes in a global change experiment 1 1 2 3 James T. Weedon* , Rien Aerts , George A. Kowalchuk , Wilfred F.M. Röling , Peter M. van 1 Bodegom 1 2 Department of Ecological Science, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, Department of 3 Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, Netherlands, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands 191 PS31 – ESF EuroEEFG Session
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