Dear Sea Ice Biologists, please join us at the International Glaciological Society 2019 Sea Ice Symposium, August 19-23 in Winnipeg, Canada!
For more information on the conference please visit the Conference Website at http://igswpg.com/
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Session 23: Sea-ice ecosystems: Genomes and phenomes of sea ice microbes
High throughput DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing approaches ("-omics") have revolutionized biology over the past decade, but there are still major gaps in our understanding of how to use these enormous datasets to predict microbial function in situ. This session invites submissions of studies utilizing -omics, modeling, and phenotypic approaches (lipids, pigments, growth rates, growth limits, metabolism, etc.) on bacteria, archaea, algae, protists, fungi, viruses, plasmids, or other mobile genetic elements from sea ice. The goal of the session is to bring together field-, laboratory- and computational-based researchers to better understand the ecology of sea ice microbes at the cellular level, and to work towards a future where phenotypes can be accurately predicted from population genotypes.
Chairs: Eric Collins (recollins@alaska.edu), University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA; Eeva Eronen-Rasimus, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Maria Bautista, University of Calgary, Canada; Jeff Bowman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, USA; Jody Deming, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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A full list of Sessions is available at http://igswpg.com/sessions/
Important Dates
Abstracts Due: March 20
Registration Opens: April 10
Early Registration Deadline: June 24
Final Registration Deadline: July 29
Opening Reception: August 18
Symposium: August 19-23
Excursion to Churchill: August 24-28
