Early Career Scientists
4:00 - 4:15 pm: Luke Hillary, University of California, Davis Impacts of fire intensity and depth on DNA and RNA viral communities in California chaparral wildfire pyrocosms
4:15 - 4:30 pm: Eleonora Silvano, University of Warwick Revealing the methanotrophs potential to deal with phosphorus scarcity
4:30 - 4:45 pm: Julia Zoehrer, University of Innsbruck State-specific extraction of environmental DNA: Spike-and-recovery controls to validate and optimize extraction protocols
4:45 - 5:00 pm: Shamsudeen Dandare, Queen's University Belfast Diversity and distribution of the lanthanome in aerobic methane-oxidising bacteria
5:00 - 5:15 pm: Marine Cambon, University of Birmingham Chemical cues from beetle larvae trigger proliferation and putative virulence gene expression of a plant pathogen
5:15 - 5:30 pm: Alejandro Huerta-Hurtado, Queen Mary University of London Microbial diversity underlying methylotrophic methanogenesis in anoxic sediments along the Medway Estuary (UK)