STUDENT PRESENTATION TOPICS
"Steel and Magnets as a Marine Biofilm
Substrate, Catalina Island, CA"
Rachel Schelble (University of New Mexico)
"FISHing for Magnetic Microorganisms"
Cody Nash (Caltech)
"The Hidden World of a Sulfide-Rich Habitat"
Munti Yuhana (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
"A Microbial World Under the Mat"
Masha Prokopenko (University of Southern California)
"Observed Calcium Carbonate Precipitation in
Association with Microbial Mats"
Karine Plee (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
"Methanogenesis in Buffalo Pond"
Tran Huynh (University of Southern California), Helge Niemann (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen), and Claudia Piccini (University of Uruguay)
"Extremophiles in Mono Lake"
Virginia Souza-Egipsy (Jet Propulsion Lab) and Osvaldo Ulloa (University of Concepción, Chile)
"A Study of Iron in a Small Marine Mesocosm, USA"
Emel Sahan (EAWAG, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland)
"Catalina Island Epiphytic Microbial Kelp Communities
and Nitrification Rates"
Hinsby Cadillo (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru)
and Veronica Molina (University of Concepción, Chile)
"Clays: A Substrate Implicated by the Origin(s) of Life?"
Alison Olcott (University of Southern California)
"Arsenate Reduction in Microorganisms"
Caryl Becerra (Cal State Los Angeles) and
Chloe Heywood (Cardiff University, Wales)
"Microbial Diversity of a Dry Pond Shore
and the Cost of Extremophile Adaptation"
Derek Shannon (Caltech)
"Using Inverse PCR to Identify
Regions Flanking Mariner Transposons"
JR Flanders (University of California, Santa Cruz)
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