Microbial Mats

communities.- Determination of the genetic diversity of microbial communities using DGGE analysis of PCR amplified 16 S rDNA.- Exopolymers in microbial mats: Assessing their adaptive roles.- The challenge to analyse extracellular polymers in biofilms.- New cultivation techniques and laboratory model systems for investigating the growth of stratified microbial communities.- Panel discussion: New methods in microbial mat research.- III. Microscale interactions in microbial mats.- Diffusion processes and boundary layers in microbial mats.- Cycling of carbon, sulfur, oxygen and nutrients in a microbial mat.- Nitrogen cycling in microbial mat communities: the quantitative importance of N-fixation and other sources of N for primary productivity.- Anaerobic dark energy generation in the mat-building cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes.- Production and consumption of volatile organosulfur compounds in microbial mats.- Panel discussion: Mcroscale interactions in microbial mats.- IV. Diel and spatial variations of physico-chemical parameters and processes in microbial mats.- The carbon isotope biogeochemistry of microbial mats.- The fluxes of inorganic carbon and CO2-dependent genes involved in the cyanobacterial inorganic carbon-concentrating mechanism: A view on some of the open questions.- Oxygenic photosynthesis and light distribution in marine microbial mats.- The effects of irradiance, temperature and desiccation on cyanobacterial photosynthesis: A possible explanation for the diurnal changes in surface waterblooms.- Denitrification, nitrification and nitrogen assimilation in photosynthetic microbial mats.- Nitrogen fixation dynamics in microbial mats.- Relationships between functional groups of organisms in microbial mats.- Diel and spatial fluctuations of sulfur transformations.- Panel discussion: Diel and spatial variations of physico-chemical parameters and processes in microbial mats.- V. New physiological groups of organisms in microbial mats.- Novel metabolic capacities of sulfate-reducing bacteria, and their activities in microbial mats.- Diversity of and interactions among sulphur bacteria in microbial mats.- Phototrophic oxidation of ferrous minerals - a new aspect in the redox microbiology of iron.- Heterocystous versus non-heterocystous cyanobacteria in microbial mats.- Development of versicolored microbial mats: succession of microbial communities.- Light-driven sulfate reduction and methane emission in hypersaline cyanobacterial mats.- Panel discussion: New physiological groups of bacteria.- VI. Bioremediability and biogeochemical cycles (panel discussion).- Bioremediability and biological value of microbial mats.- New concepts in biogeochemical cycling and ecology.- General considerations.- Cyanobacterial mats in general biology.