Microbial Ecology in the Era of 'omics'

The Gordon Research Seminar on Marine Microbes is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to discuss how shifts in marine microbial community structure and species interactions shape the ecology and biogeochemistry of the seas, and how to integrate diverse methodological approaches to answer these questions. Specifically, ‘omic’ technologies, from genomic to proteomic, have great potential to provide new insights into marine microbial communities, but how can we integrate these technologies with physiological studies in situ and of cultured isolates that are still critical to understanding marine microbiology. Additionally, a keynote talk will be given by E. Virginia Armbrust from the Univeristy of Washington.