28 Geomicrobiology: Microbe-Mineral Interactions, Life in Extreme Environments, and Early Microbial Life on Earth

Sunday, 7 November 2004
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  ADDITIONAL ROLES FOR MICROBES: DO MICROBES INCRUST INVERTEBRATES (BRYOZOA), ALTER EXOSKELETAL MINERALOGY AND POSSIBLY AFFECT THE SEDIMENTARY RECORD?
  Penny A. Morris, Univ of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX and Dorothy F. Soule, Univ of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA and Rebecca Forrest, Univ of Houston Downtown, Houston, TX and Wolfgang Donner, Univ of Houston, Houston, TX
  79435 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  ENTRAPMENT OF BACTERIA IN FLUID INCLUSIONS IN LABORATORY-GROWN HALITE
  James C. Adamski, Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Jennifer A. Roberts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Robert H. Goldstein, The Univ of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  80049 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  SHOULD ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FOUND IN ASSOCIATION WITH MINERALS BE CALLED BIOMINERALS?
  Randall S. Perry, Oxford Univ and Planetary Sci Institute, Oxford, N/A and James T. Staley, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA and Martin D. Brasier, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, N/A and Michael H. Engel, Univ of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Owen R. Green, Univ of Oxford, Oxford, N/A and Anna A. Gorbushina, ICBM Carl von Ossietzky Univ, Oldenburg, N/A and Vera M. Kolb, Univ of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI and Wolfgang E. Krumbein, ICBM Carl von Ossietzky Univ, Oldenburg, N/A and Carole C. Perry, The Nottingham Trent Univ, Nottingham, N/A and Kathleen Campbell, Univ of Auckland, Auckland, N/A
  77159 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  A BASELINE STUDY OF EVAPORATIVE WATER CHEMISTRY AND MICROBIAL MAT DIVERSITY FROM ALKALINE LAKES IN WARNER VALLEY, OREGON
  David B. Finkelstein, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Alan Munhall, Lakeview, OR and Lisa M. Pratt, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Carl E. Bauer, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN
  80116 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  EVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS OF NICHE SPECIALIZATION IN THE TREE OF LIFE; IMPLICATIONS FOR EARLY LIFE ON EARTH AND THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ELSEWHERE
  Carrine E. Blank, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO
  78292 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  TESTING THE BIOGENICITY OF ENDOLITHIC MICROBORINGS ON EARLY EARTH AND MARS: NEW DATA FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
  Martin D. Brasier, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and Nicola McLoughlin, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and Owen R. Green, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and Madeleine Press, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and Randall S. Perry, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and John F. Lindsay, Center for Advanced Space Studies, Houston, TX
  73786 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  ANAEROBIC BIOSYNTHESIS OF HOPANOIDS BY A MICROBE PREVALENT IN ANOXIC ENVIRONMENTS
  Woodward W. Fischer, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA and Roger E. Summons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, N/A and Ann Pearson, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
  78028 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  THE ROLE OF SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA ON THE FORMATION OF SUPERGENE GOLD
  Maggy F. Lengke, Univ of Western Ontario, London, ON and Gordon Southam, Univ of Western Ontario, London, ON
  74116 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  DISSIMILATORY ARSENATE REDUCTION AND CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC ARSENITE OXIDATION ASSOCIATED WITH SEDIMENTS FROM A SALT-SATURATED SODA LAKE
  Thomas R. Kulp, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY and Shelley E. Hoeft, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Jodi Switzer Blum, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Laurence G. Miller, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Ronald S. Oremland, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA
  80663 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  CRITICAL FACTORS LIMITING MICROBIAL FE(III)- AND MN(IV)-OXIDE REDUCTION: OXIDE SURFACE AREA, DISSOLVED CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCT ION, AND ARSENIC ADSORPTION
  Brent A. Meyer, Univ of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV and Lisa L. Stillings, U.S. Geololgical Survey, Reno, NV
  80301 (Technical Sessions)