Geomicrobiology Network is running a fortnightly online seminar series starting on October 8th, 2020. The aim of these seminars is to facilitate knowledge sharing, exchange of ideas and networking amongst our community. These seminars will typically consist of a 40 minute presentation, followed by 15 minutes of questions and discussion. They should be a great opportunity to see and interact with familiar and new faces amongst our geomicrobiology community. Delegates are asked to register but note that there is no charge.
Forthcoming speakers and titles
| 21 Jan 2021 (12-1 pm) | Jon Lloyd | Going underground; how the subsurface microbiome may offer the key to unlocking sustainable life | Register | ||
| 4 Feb 2021 (12-1 pm) |
Ashish Malik | Linking microbial communities to soil carbon cycling under anthropogenic change using a trait-based framework | Register | ||
| 18 Feb 2021 (12-1 pm) | Charles Cockell | Geobiology in the z axis | Register | ||
| 4 Mar 2021 (12-1 pm) | Clara Chan | How microbes rust the Earth: Insights from field studies, culturing and ‘omics | Register | ||
| 18 Mar 2021 (12-1 pm) |
Andrea Bravo | Mercury methylators | Register | ||
| 1 Apr 2021 (12-1 pm) |
James Bradley | Energy limits to life in the deep biosphere | Register | ||
| 15 Apr 2021 (12-1 pm) | Katherine Duncan | Polar antibiotic exploration – awakening ancient Antarctic bacteria | Register | ||
| 29 Apr 2021 (12-1 pm) | Mark Fox-Powell | Searching for life below the ice in the outer solar system | Register | ||
| 13 May 2021 (12-1 pm) | Cristina Catto | Biofilms and building stone biodegradation | Register | ||
| 27 May 2021 (12-1 pm) | Terry McGenity | Limits to Microbial Life: Slow, Salty, Subterranean Survival | Register |
Previous speakers and links to videos
| 8 Oct. 2020, (12–1 pm) | Sophie Nixon | Microbial iron reduction in extreme environments | |||
| 22 Oct. 2020 (12–1 pm) |
Rosa Santomartino | Harnessing the power of microbe-mineral interaction in space: BioRock and BioAsteroid | Video |
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| 5 Nov. 2020 (12–1 pm) |
Liz Bagshaw | Cryoconite: what, where, why, how? | Video |
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| 19 Nov. 2020 (12–1 pm) |
Olga Golyshina | Acidophiles and cold temperature archaea | Video | ||
| 3 Dec. 2020 (12–1 pm) |
Jon Telling | What lies beneath – past and present research into subglacial biogeochemistry | Video | ||
| 17 Dec. 2020 (12–1 pm) |
Casey Bryce | Microbial iron oxidation and banded iron formations | Video | ||
| 7 Jan 2021 (12-1 pm) |
Ciara Keating | From macro-to-micro scale – Method development of an anaerobic live-imaging platform for industrially relevant anaerobic cells | Video |
Field photo from Katherine Duncan