Progress and perspectives in aquatic microbial ecology: Highlights of the SAME 14, Uppsala, Sweden, 2015
The SAME (Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology) series is a prime opportunity for discussion and interaction for the international aquatic microbial community. SAME 14 (also the 2nd EMBO Conference on Aquatic Microbial Ecology) was hosted by the Limnology group of the Department of Ecology and Evolution of the University of Uppsala, and took place in Uppsala, Sweden, from 23–28 August 2015; it brought together around 250 scientists from over 25 countries. As has been the case for previous SAME meetings, Aquatic Microbial Ecology offered the organizers the possibility of developing a special issue that collates the highlights of the meeting. This SAME 14 AME Special will be composed of papers contributed by invited plenary speakers as well as by the recipients of the student and young investigator awards, who will explore a wide range of current topics in aquatic microbial ecology, including population and community dynamics across time and space in water and sediments, microbial biogeography, microdiversity and functional tuning to the environment, microbes and the biogeosphere, and new conceptual and technical approaches and advancements. The Special will be published as a Virtual Special, i.e. papers are published without delay in regular issues and are simultaneously collated on this separate, online Virtual Special contents page, available with Open Access.
Date of completion: August 2017
Editors: Paul A. del Giorgio, Fereidoun Rassoulzadegan, Eva Lindström
Lindström ES, del Giorgio PA
OVERVIEW: Progress and perspectives in aquatic microbial ecology: highlights of the SAME 14, Uppsala, Sweden, 2015
AME 80:101-103 | Full text in pdf format 
Garcia SL
AS I SEE IT: Mixed cultures as model communities: hunting for ubiquitous microorganisms, their partners, and interactions
AME 77:79-85 | Full text in pdf format
Farnelid H, Turk-Kubo K, Muñoz-Marín MC, Zehr JP
REVIEW : New insights into the ecology of the globally significant uncultured nitrogen-fixing symbiont UCYN-A
AME 77:125-138 | Full text in pdf format
Salcher MM, Šimek K
AS WE SEE IT: Isolation and cultivation of planktonic freshwater microbes is essential for a comprehensive understanding of their ecology
AME 77:183-196 | Full text in pdf format
Newton RJ, Shade A
REVIEW: Lifestyles of rarity: understanding heterotrophic strategies to inform the ecology of the microbial rare biosphere
AME 78:51-63 | Full text in pdf format
Krabberød AK, Bjorbækmo MFM, Shalchian-Tabrizi K, Logares R
REVIEW: Exploring the oceanic microeukaryotic interactome with metaomics approaches
AME 79:1-12 | Full text in pdf format
Vass M, Langenheder S
REVIEW: The legacy of the past: effects of historical processes on microbial metacommunities
AME 79:13-19 | Full text in pdf format
Petro C, Starnawski P, Schramm A, Kjeldsen KU
REVIEW: Microbial community assembly in marine sediments
AME 79:177-195 | Full text in pdf format
Moorthi SD, Ptacnik R, Sanders RW, Fischer R, Busch M, Hillebrand H
The functional role of planktonic mixotrophs in altering seston stoichiometry
AME 79:235-245 | Full text in pdf format
Hagström Å, Azam F, Berg C, Zweifel UL
AS WE SEE IT: Isolates as models to study bacterial ecophysiology and biogeochemistry
AME 80:15-27 | Full text in pdf format