[Save] Special Seminar: Thursday 10/23

[Matthew Gardner]

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Distinguished Seminar Series

Jointly Sponsored by the Earth System Initiative and the Biological 
Engineering Division

Dr. Edward DeLong
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Integrating Perspectives on the Natural Microbial World :
 From Nano-systems to Ecosystems

Microbial species and processes are remarkably diverse, complex, and 
pervasive. A significant challenge for understanding ecosystem processes 
involves the identification, quantification and modeling of microbial 
interactions and dynamics, and the biogeochemical processes they mediate. 
Just as individual macromolecules can serve as documents of evolutionary 
history, the collective genomes within natural ecosystems can provide deep 
perspective on environmental, evolutionary and ecological processes and 
interactions. Recent results demonstrate that defining microbial functional 
attributes, population biology, biological interactions, and ecosystem 
processes in complex ecosystems is now possible, using such 
genomics-enabled approaches.

12 Noon, Thursday October 23, 2003
MIT Building 16-160

Seminar will be immediately followed by lunch in 16-168


Matthew Gardner, Ph.D.
Program Administrator
Earth System Initiative, 16-177
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, 02139
617.253.6895
http://web.mit.edu/esi
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