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PART I

EVOLUTION TO PRESENT DAY MICROBIAL DIVERSITY

1. Diversity among microbes

2. Phenotypic characterization of metabolic versatility

3. Phylogenetics: Evolution of microbial diversity

4. Microbial paleontology

PART II

MICROBIAL ECOSYSTEMS & ECOSYSTEM DETERMINANTS

5. Microbially dominated ecosystems (an overview).

6. Ecological determinants which regulate microbial life

7. Carbon cycling and carbonate buffering

8. Simulation of ecological determinants for the cultivation of microorganisms

9. Perception and responses to environmental variability and changes

PART III

ENERGETICS DETERMINES MICROBIAL LIFESTYLES

10. Biochemistry of energy metabolism

11. Bridging chemistry and microbial physiology

12. Application of thermodynamics to environmental processes

13. From thermodynamics to bacterial lifestyles

14. Ecoenergetic case studies

PART IV

MICROBIAL INVOLVEMENT IN GEOCHEMICAL CYCLING

15. Geomicrobiological processes in the sulfur cycle

16. Sulfate and sulfur reducing bacteria

17. Coupled phosphorus and iron cycling

18. Global biogeochemical cycling of elements

PART V

PRIMARY PRODUCTION

A) Photosynthesis

19. Anoxigenic photosynthesis: processes and organisms

20. Ecology of anoxigenic phototrophic bacteria

21. Adaptation to material and energy gradients in microbial mats and biofilms.

22. Oxigenic photosynthesis by cyanobacteria and prochloron

23. Cyanobacteria as sources for secondary metabolites

B) Chemosynthesis

24. Diversity of C₁-fixation pathways

25. Lithotrophy

PART VI

MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS

26. How microbes interact

27. Interactions between prokaryotes

28. Acetogenic prokaryotes in anaerobic food webs

29. Microbe-Macrobe interactions

PART VII

APPLIED MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

30. Technically and industrially important processes

31. Ecology of clinically important microbes

PART VIII

DERIVING CONCEPTS FROM MICROBIAL ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY

32. Concepts in microbial ecology

33. Criteria for life: Applications to Exo- and Astrobiology:

34. Levels of abstraction applied to the study of microbial ecology

35. Defining complexity in microbial ecosystems

36. Microbial ecology in the modern era of biology