M2C2 webinar: #5 The IAMM project – Sher, Grossart, Segré, Voss labs
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Hour:
9:00 - 11:00 EST
15:00 - 17:00 CET
16:00 - 18:00 IL
About the lab
Marine biogeochemistry, energy and greenhouse gas fluxes from the ocean are primarily controlled by microbes. Looking at marine communities in a holistic way, the IAMM team (Interactions Among Marine Microbes) aims to predict how marine microorganisms growing together interact and affect each other, based on the information encoded in their genomes. Our work is motivated by increasing evidence that interactions between marine microorganisms are key to understanding global biogeochemical cycles, weather and climate. Understanding the fate of these interactions is nevertheless extremely complicated due to the enormous diversity of microorganisms and the richness of their metabolism. We are working to tackle this challenge through a tightly integrated combination of genome analyses, genome-scale modeling, and laboratory experiments, to identify genomic traits dictating how environmentally-relevant microbes interact. In the M2C2 presentations, we will ask three questions: 1) How are traits related to microbial interactions partitioned across marine microbial diversity? 2) To what extent does the growth of marine microbes under lab conditions recapitulate their metabolic potential? 3) To what extent does the phenotype of microbial interactions vary between ecologically-divergent strains of two model marine microbes (Prochlorococcus and Alteromonas)?
Speakers
Overview of the IAMM project
Daniel Sher, PI
University of Haifa, Israel
Comparative whole-genome approach to identify bacterial traits for microbial interactions
Luca Zoccarato, Postdoc
IGB, Berlin, Germany
Marine microbial interactions across diversity and their biogeochemical consequences
Hans-Peter G, PI
IGB, Berlin, Germany
Metabolic phenotyping of marine heterotrophs on refactored media reveals diverse metabolic adaptations and lifestyle strategies
Elena Forchielli, PhD student
Boston University, USA
Predicting ecosystem-level metabolism and microbial interactions
Daniel Segré, PI
Boston University, USA
Phototroph-heterotroph interactions during growth and long-term starvation across Prochlorococcus and Alteromonas diversity
Osnat Weissberg, PhD student
University of Haifa, Israel
*Currently at sea*
Maren Voss, PI
IO Warnemunde, Germany