{"id":397,"date":"2020-07-25T19:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T19:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2020-10-14T23:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:57:01","slug":"annual-esa-meeting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/annual-esa-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual ESA meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Virtual ESA 2020 Section Mixer Highlights<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Why microbial ecology? Below are highlights from the Virtual ESA Microbial Ecology Section Mixer 2020 (in no particular order)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Life is an emergent property of microbes and they run the world!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We, microbial ecologists, may be interested in the role of microbes in plant, animal, and human hosts or we may be interested in ecosystem processes and the role of microbes in those processes. Regardless of how we got here, we enjoy the orchestra, mystery, and technological advancements used to study microbial ecology. We study microbes to ensure our existence and future existence in a more sustainable way. We study microorganisms to understand the missing links orchestrating the ecosystems and processes that govern our planet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbes are the key to sustainability because they mediate global change, promote agricultural crop yields, disease resistance, and nutrient acquisition. Microbes giveth and microbes taketh away!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbes play a foundational, yet non-intuitive, role in the function and structure of all ecosystems, including free-living and host-associated systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbial ecology is a meeting of ecological and statistical disciplines that provides broad intellectual contributions to our understanding of pathogenicity, species concepts, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity, and biogeography, as well as material consequences for climate change mitigation, land use change, and food security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In some ways microbes provides a vehicle for teaching important ecological concepts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbes are important for many ecosystem processes that we as humans are altering (carbon and nitrogen cycles). Teaching about microbes is important for helping people understand how hard it is to address these global scale problems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Often, introductions into microbial ecology begin as a \u201cside project\u201d, but they are so inherent into the functions and dynamics of ecosystems and hosts, etc., and so a whole world opens up.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The unseen majority are invisible yet critical operators behind the scenes that have changed and are changing the way the world works. Microbes are resilient (they can survive in space!) and have numerous positive interactions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbes are the engineers that control many of Earth\u2019s life support systems. We don\u2019t know how all the knobs and dials for those systems work yet! Learning about microbes is essential for our future!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Microbial communities are tractable way to show change in the natural world. But they are just as often the agents of change, and this is one of the main reasons to study them.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Annual ESA 2020 Meeting Details<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/saltlake\/\">The annual ESA 2020 meeting<\/a> (virtual style) is coming up! The meeting runs from Monday, Aug 3 \u2013 Thursday, Aug 6. Register for the meeting <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/saltlake\/registration\/\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This year, we\u2019ve compiled a list of ESA posters and talks that are all about microbial ecology! Click links below to see the lists:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/ESA-2020-Microbial-Posters-List.pdf\">2020 ESA ME-related Poster presentations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/ESA-2020-Microbial-Talks-List.pdf\">2020 ESA ME-related Oral presentations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/eco.confex.com\/eco\/2020\/meetingapp.cgi\/Home\/0\">virtual meeting program<\/a>, the ME section is organizing great events for our members!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>(1) Microbial Ecology Poster Crawl!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Please join the virtual ESA 2020 Microbial Ecology Section poster crawl on Monday August 3 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm ET and on Thursday August 6 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">See schedule of poster talks <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/ESA_ME-poster-crawl-schedule.pdf\">here<\/a>. Registration is required. Register for the poster crawl <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/5tUx42DigiJCJqoM8\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>(2) Ecology Underground<br>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-407 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/Outlook-g24qsgrc-300x269.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/Outlook-g24qsgrc-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/microbial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2020\/07\/Outlook-g24qsgrc.png 382w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">This year for ESA, the organizers and co-organizers of six Organized Sessions focused on plant, soil, and microbial ecology have teamed up to host a live set of talks and discussions: Ecology Underground 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>When<\/b>: August 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 5<sup>th<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>What<\/b>: Talks will span observational, experimental and modelling frameworks<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">surrounding belowground ecology on day 1, with a special focus on roots and fungi on day 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Check out the\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/ecologyunderground.github.io\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fecologyunderground.github.io%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7CAdriana.RomeroOlivares%40unh.edu%7C6ebdaf699e504726f34d08d829295755%7Cd6241893512d46dc8d2bbe47e25f5666%7C0%7C0%7C637304604824747682&amp;sdata=%2BLZkYNtUaFByfxBBsTtUpzb%2FrHvBR6rvpefpQUHcc4c%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">We are excited for you to\u00a0<a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeJu-aCTC0onc9jMOhfOEdk-UDipbLLl6ISgAod_E6ox8_gsg\/viewform. 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