Small Matters: Microbes and Their Role in Conservation
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation’s Twelfth Annual Symposium
American Museum of Natural History
April 26 and 27, 2007

Video Archive of Keynote Addresses

THE TREE OF LIFE AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF EUKARYOTES
Laura Katz, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College

IT’S A JUNGLE IN THERE: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN THE HUMAN BODY
David Relman, Associate Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University

THE ROLE OF PARASITES AND PATHOGENS IN FOOD WEBS
Andrew Dobson, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

MICROBIAL DIVERSITY, BIOGEOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, AND HEALTH
Rita Colwell, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland College Park and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.

OF MICROBES AND MACROBES: ARE MICROORGANISMS ECOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT FROM THEIR PLANT AND ANIMAL DESCENDENTS?
Shahid Naeem, Professor of Ecology, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

MICROBES AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES: DUMB, BLACK-BOX BIOREACTORS IN THE DIRT?
Peter Groffman, Senior Scientist, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

NOTE: Unfortunately, Dr. Edward Delong was unable to attend the symposium and deliver his keynote address, “A Sea of (Genomic) Change: Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics In Planktonic Microbial Communities.”

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