34: Microbial transformation of arsenic and selenium for bioremediation

Thursday, July 28, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 PM
Nottoway, 4th fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
John Stolz
8:30 AM
Microbial Respiration of Selenium Oxyanions
Max Haggblom, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
9:00 AM
The arsenic biogeocycle:  microbial pathways of methylation and demethylation
Barry P. Rosen, Masafumi Yoshinaga, Kavitha Marapakala and Abdul Ajees Abdul Salam, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HERBERT WERTHEIM COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, MIAMI, FL
9:30 AM
Break
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
Bacterial arsenic transformations in the rhizosphere of the arsenic hyperaccumulator fern Pteris vittata
Bala Rathinasabapathi1, Xin Wang2, Piyasa Ghosh3, Letuzia Maria de Oliveira3 and Lena Q. Ma3, (1)Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (2)College of Environmental Science, Hunan University, Hunan, China, (3)Soil and Water Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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