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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "The role of Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Christa Schleper\, professor\, Archaea Ecology and Evolutio
 n\, University of Vienna\, Austria\n\nShort biography:\nChrista Schleper i
 s professor for Microbiology and Genetics at the Faculty for Life Sciences
  of the University of Vienna\, where she holds the chair of the Division o
 f Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics since 2007. She has studied Biology in A
 achen und Konstanz\, obtained her PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute for Bioc
 hemistry in Munich and was a postdoc for three years in California (Univ. 
 of Califorania Sta. Barbara und Caltech\, Pasadena)\, before she started a
 s an assistant Professor in Darmstadt Technical University. She was appoin
 ted as full professor in 2004 at the Univ. of Bergen Norway and moved to V
 ienna in 2007. Christa Schleper is elected member of the American and Euro
 pean Academies of Microbiology and of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He
 r major research interests are the ecology and evolution of Archaea in mod
 erate environments.\nAbstract:\nArchaea are microorganisms that emerged on
  this planet roughly 3.5 billion years ago as one of two primary lineages 
 of life beside Bacteria. They are often associated with extreme environmen
 ts\, because most of the described organisms stem from hot springs or hype
 rsaline environments. However\, two functional guilds of archaea are ecolo
 gically widespread and have successfully radiated into moderate marine and
  terrestrial environments. They are anaerobic methanogens and aerobic ammo
 nia oxidizers. Both groups occupy important parts in the global carbon and
  nitrogen cycles and contribute to greenhouse gas production in the oceans
  and soils. In this talk I will give an update about newest findings of th
 e ecology and diversity of both groups\, and discuss their potential envir
 onmental impacts as well as controversial findings.\n 
LOCATION:GR A3 32 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==GR%20A3%2032
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