[Lista-Algas] Fw: 2011 ASLO Special Session "Genetics of Aquatic Microbial Populations"

[Andres Boltovskoy]

2011 ASLO Special Session "Genetics of Aquatic Microbial   Populations"
We invite researchers working on the structure of microbial populations to submit abstracts for a special session on "Genetics of Aquatic Microbial Populations" at the 2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico from13-18 February.
The intent of this session is to include research on population genetics, diversity, biodiversity, and biogeography viewed over a range of time scales.

When submitting your abstract, please make sure to select session number S78.
Hope to see you there,
Lisa Campbell and Deana Erdner

S78: Genetics of Aquatic Microbial Populations
Conveners: Deana Erdner, University of Texas Marine Science Institute, derdner at mail.utexas.edu and Lisa Campbell, Texas A & M University, lcampbell at ocean.tamu.edu
In many ways, we know relatively little about the structure of microbial populations, as compared to other groups of organisms.  Because microbes reproduce primarily through asexual division, it was thought that their populations were largely homogeneous.  In the past decade, however, we have seen a rapid acceleration in the pace of research in the field of microbial population genetics, which has begun to reveal the extensive genetic and phenotypic diversity that is present in microbial populations, as well as the implications of this diversity for their ecology, physiology, and evolution.  The intent of this session is to bring together research on the genetics of microbial populations, at all scales.  This includes topics such as biogeography, population structure, genetic diversity, phenotypic diversity, and cryptic speciation, and their changes in both time (daily to geological scales) and space (local to global scales).


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Deana Erdner
University of Texas at Austin
Marine Science Institute
750 Channel View Dr.
Port Aransas, TX 78373
(361)749-6719
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