Dr. Julie Dinasquet at Scripps Institution of Oceanography will present a talk titled "From marine microbes to atmospheric chemistry: interactions between bacterioplankton and volatile organic compounds"
Although it plays a key role in atmospheric chemistry and climate regulation, the pool of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and its importance in the marine carbon cycle has been largely overlooked. With advances in microbial genomics, we know now that this “hidden” pool of carbon may indeed be important to marine microbial metabolisms, which may in turn affect marine carbon cycle and air-sea fluxes. This talk will focus on spatiotemporal variations of bacterioplankton interactions with methanol as a model VOC.
