Networked Speaker Series

C-DEBI is a “networked” Science and Technology Center, gathering expertise, ideas, and participation from institutions across the U. S. and around the world. C-DEBI is particularly interested in opening and developing communication between participants separated by thousands of miles. C-DEBI participants gather in person at meetings periodically, but we also link C-DEBI members using modern web tools. The Networked Speaker Series highlighted presenters capable of combining compelling visual materials with the ability to communicate effectively to a broad audience. We were particularly enthusiastic about giving young researchers a chance to present work to the C-DEBI community. Being selected to be a C-DEBI Networked Speaker is an honor.

C-DEBI hosted 29 speakers in the Networked Speaker Series from 2011-2021 as a means to enhance communication and the exchange of ideas among our community. Speakers were nominated by colleagues, mentors, or those mentored by C-DEBI participants; they could also self nominate. Speakers made their presentations online, using video conferencing tools, with assistance from the C-DEBI main office at USC. Presentations were about 30 minutes in length, with time allocated for questions and discussion. Presentations were recorded for later online playback by participants or those who could not “attend” the live web event.

Previous Speakers

2020-2021 Networked Speaker Series

	September 10, 2020 Dr. Rose Jones, University of Minnesota Menu for a deep microbe: attempts in understanding microbe-mineral interactions in the deep marine seafloor
	November 5, 2020 Dr. Julia McGonigle, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Formate metabolism by Chloroflexi is key in unlocking deep carbon for the Lost City chimney ecosystem
	January 14, 2021 Dr. Jesse Colangelo, Colorado School of Mines Exploring the marine sediment environment’s influence on microbial sulfur isotope biosignatures using experimental evolution
	March 18, 2021 Megan Mullis, Texas A&M Corpus Christi Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: A microbial tale of survival within the marine deep subsurface

2019 Networked Speaker Series

	May 30, 2019 Dr. Jeanine Ash, Rice University Making and Breaking Molecules
	September 5, 2019 Taylor Royalty, University of Tennessee Quantitatively partitioning microbial genomic traits among taxonomic ranks: implications for subsurface microbial communities
	October 3, 2019 Dr. Jessica Labonté, Texas A&M Galveston You are what you eat: a geochemical and microbial study of a 3000-year old stratigraphic sediment succession
	November 7, 2019 Dr. James Bradley, Queen Mary University of London The power of microbial life in marine sediments

2018 Networked Speaker Series

	May 31, 2018 Dr. Alma Parada, Stanford University Evaluating the diversity and distribution of novel microbes across physical and geochemical gradients in deep-sea sediments
	September 20, 2018 Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University Uncovering microbial species-specific effects on organic matter transformation in marine sediments
	September 27, 2018 Dr. Jackie Goordial, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Microbial activity and ecology through sorted cell -omics of Mid-Atlantic ridge oceanic crust and sediments
	October 18, 2018 Dr. Rosa León Zayas, Willamette University Description of the microbial community composition and metabolic potential of a depth profile in the Tonga Trench from 400m in the water column to 2m below the seafloor

2017 Networked Speaker Series

	March 9, 2017 Dr. Annie Rowe, University of Southern California Eating rocks! Investigating microbial energy conservation with microbes that utilize solid mineral electron donors
	May 11, 2017 Dr. Drew Steen, University of Tennessee Knoxville What Heterotrophs Want: Using extracellular enzyme assays to probe the lifestyle of heterotrophic microorganisms in subsurface sediments
	September 7, 2017 Dr. Gus Ramirez, University of Rhode Island Microbial Neter-Khertet: Life and death post-entombment
	November 2, 2017 Dr. Emily Estes, University of Delaware Organic carbon utilization and preservation in a carbon desert

2015-2016 Networked Speaker Series

	March 31, 2016 Dr. Katrina Twing, University of Utah Microbial diversity and metabolic potential of the serpentinite subsurface environment
	April 28, 2016 Dr. Olivia Nigro, University of Hawaii Viruses in the oceanic basement: An integral component of microbial life
	May 26, 2016 Dr. Stephanie Carr, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Methanosaeta, are you my methanogen?

2013-2014 Networked Speaker Series

	May 21, 2014 Luke McKay, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Approaching the high temperature boundary for life in the hydrothermally altered sediments of Guaymas Basin
	June 18, 2014 Dr. Jason Sylvan, University of Southern California Microbial life in old subseafloor basaltic crust
	August 13, 2014 Dr. Julie Meyer, University of Florida Microbial life in cold, hydrologically active oceanic crustal fluids at North Pond

2012-2013 Networked Speaker Series

	April 4, 2013 Dr. Mark Lever, Aarhus University Evidence of Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Buried Ridge Flank Basalt and General Implications for Life within Earth’s Oceanic Crust
	May 30, 2013 Tim Engelhardt, University of Oldenburg Viruses in Marine Subsurface Sediments
	July 25, 2013 Dr. Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Opening the Black Box of Carbon Degradation Pathways in Marine Sediments through Single Cell Genomics and Metagenomics

2011-2012 Networked Speaker Series

	November 10, 2011 Dr. Brandi Kiel Reese, University of Southern California Biogeography of Geochemical Characterizations and Molecular Communities within Shallow and Deep Subsurface Sediments
	March 8, 2012 Dr. Beth Orcutt, Aarhus University The Dynamics of Life Across the Sediment-Basement Interface
	June 15, 2012 Rika Anderson, University of Washington Viral Manipulation of the Genetic Landscape of Deep Subsurface Microbial Communities