ASA Section: Environmental Quality Session: Symposium--Characterizing Human and Livestock Contamination in Soil and Water Sources: Current Research Gaps and Emerging Chemical and Molecular Approaches (ASA, CSSA and SSSA Annual Meetings (Cincinnati, OH- Oct. 21

Symposium--Characterizing Human and Livestock Contamination in Soil and Water Sources: Current Research Gaps and Emerging Chemical and Molecular Approaches

Oral Session

ASA Section: Environmental Quality

The focus of the proposed session would be on microbial, chemical and pharmaceutical markers of human and livestock contamination as it relates to soil and water quality.

Cosponsor(s):

Animal Agriculture and the Environment Community
Environmental Quality
Organic Management Systems Community

Monday, October 22, 2012: 1:00 PM-4:50 PM

Duke Energy Convention Center, Room 205, Level 2

Community Leader:

Gilbert C. Sigua

Organizers:

Kimberly Cook , Jean E. McLain and Jorge Sto Domingo

Presiders:

Kimberly Cook , Jean E. McLain and Gilbert C. Sigua

1:00 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:05 PM

78-1

Genomic Insight and Molecular Approaches to Understanding and Tracking Pathogens in Nature.
James M. Tiedje, Michigan State University

1:30 PM

78-2

Molecular and Metagenomic Tools to Determine Primary and Secondary Sources of Fecal Bacteria in Waterways.
Michael Sadowsky, University of Minnesota

1:55 PM

78-3

Microbiomic Investigation of the Poultry Production Chain: Using Next Generation Sequencing to Study General Microbial and Foodborne Pathogen Dynamics.
Michael J. Rothrock Jr., USDA-ARS; Kelli Hiett, USDA-ARS; Brian Kiepper, University of GA

2:20 PM

Break

2:30 PM

78-4

Molecular Approaches in Fecal Source Tracking: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Jorge Sto Domingo, US EPA; Hodon Ryu, US EPA

2:55 PM

78-5

Sustainable Management of Soil Microbial Communities in the Genomic Age: Seeing the Forest Amidst the Trees.
Jay Garland, US EPA

3:20 PM

78-6

Hormone Fate, Export, and Restoration Dynamics in Agricultural Ditch Networks Receiving Subsurface Tile-Drainage.
Linda S. Lee, Purdue University; Heather E. Gall, Purdue University; Michael L. Mashtare Jr., Purdue University; Stephen A. Sassman, Purdue University; Dara Green, Purdue University; Chad Jafvert, Purdue University; Palakurthi Rao, Purdue University

3:45 PM

78-7

Contaminants of Emerging Concern in the Water Cycle.
Susan Glassmeyer, US EPA

4:10 PM

78-8

Antibiotic Resistance in Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Settings.
Lisa Durso, USDA-ARS

4:35 PM

Discussion

4:50 PM

Adjourn

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