Early Career Scientists
2:00 - 2:15 pm: Angela Beckett, University of Portsmouth Finding the Needle: Strategic Screening for Discovery of Plastic-Degrading Bacteria in the Environment
2:15 - 2:30 pm: Seongwook Kim, Jeju National University Ecophysiological Adaptations of Nitrosocosmicus Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea
2:30 - 2:45 pm: Nicola Fantom, University of East Anglia Carbon monoxide and bacterial communities: an analysis of soil deposits from Antuco Volcano, Chile
2:45 - 3:00 pm: Nicholas Tucker, University of Suffolk Molecular ecology of bacteria in the Rivers Deben and Itchen; from citizen science to metagenomes.
3:00 - 3:15 pm: Expedito Olimi, University of Southampton Tomato: Far from the Andes, but plastic in the seed microbiome
3:15 - 3:30 pm: Jo Warwick-Dugdale, Marine Biological Association Two decades of coastal biodiversity through marine eDNA: Long-term metabarcoding time-series informs traditional observations of Western English Channel microbial plankton ecology.