CGUE Program
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 18:30 | Welcome Gathering |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Opening Plenary Session Session Chair: Alexandra Worden, Marine Biological Laboratory, US |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Plenary Lecture: Nicole King,University of California Berkeley, US |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Parasites, Viruses, Invasive Elements, & HGT | |
| Session Chair: Julius Lukes, CZ | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Varsha Mathur (UK, F):Unravelling the mechanism of a plankton-parasite interaction |
| 9:30 | Isabelle Florent (France, F):Adaptive and functional biodiversity of Apicomplexa, the contribution of -omic data on gregarines |
| 10:00 | McFadden, University of Melbourne: The mechanism of uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes in Plasmodium |
| 10:20 | Moises Bernabeu, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS):Timing of HGT events in Paulinella species may suggest ancestral prolonged symbioses |
| 10:40 | Jazmin Blaz Sanchez, Université Paris-Saclay:Long-lasting traces of lateral gene transfer into the genomes of the early divergent lineage Ancyromonadida. |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 11:30 | Patrick Keeling:Reversing endosymbiosis - loss of function and physical loss of organelles |
| 11:55 | Matthias Fischer: Endogenous DNA viruses in protist genomes - parasites or defense agents? |
| 12:20 | Claire Bugnot, CNRS: Structural variations associated to evolution of resistance to giant viruses |
| 12:40 | Max Schon, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research: Pervasive host-virus-virophage interactions in marine alga Bigelowiella natans |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Manny Ares - Introns: a hallmark and often still mysterious feature of eukaryotes |
| 15:00 | Anzhelika Butenko, Czech Academy of Sciences:Exploring eukaryotic intron evolution: lessons from Euglenozoa |
| 15:20 | John Mattick, University of Maryland:Ancestral introns predate the acquisition of the mitochondria in early eukaryotes |
| 15:45 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 16:15 - 17:30 | Early Career Scientist Discussion Session and Mixer Determine Topics for ECS Panel Discussions on Thursday |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster session |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Evolution & Diversification | |
| Session Chair: Gwenael Piganeau, FR | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Inaki: The truth about the microbial origins of animals |
| 9:30 | Norico Yamada (Germany, F): A missing link dinotom dinoflagellate Durinskia kwazulunatalensis exhibits the "nucleomorphising" process |
| 10:00 | Nina Pohl, Uppsala University:Unveiling novel deep diversity within Archaeplastida |
| 10:20 | Bernard Snel, Utrecht University:How protein structure predictions are impacting comparative genomics of unicellular eukaryotes |
| 10:40 | Sarah Frail, Stanford University: Caught in the act: Initial stages of endosymbiotic evolution in Epithemia |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 11:30 | Kristína (Kika) Pašuthová:Canonical and non-canonical nuclear genetic codes: Genomics of Blastocrithidiinae |
| 11:55 | Ken Wolfe: Killer toxins and evolution of the genetic code in fungi |
| 12:20 | Girish Beedessee, University of Cambridge:Novel nuclear proteins in dinoflagellates mediate the highly compacted liquid-like state of dinoflagellate chromosomes |
| 12:40 | Abigail Lind, Georgia Institute of Technology:Hybrid assemblies of Blastocystis gut microbiome-associated protists reveal evolutionary diversification to host ecology |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Planetary Biology: From First Life Onwards | |
| 14:30 | Session Chair: John Archibald, CA and Alexandra Worden, US |
| 15:00 | Plenary - Andy Knoll,Harvard University, US |
| 15:20 | Plenary - Andy Knoll,Harvard University, US |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Laura Eme |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 16:20- 16:50 | Joel Dacks |
| 16:50 | Miguel Mendez Sandin, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva:Fast eukaryotic diversification during the Mesoproterozoic evidenced from environmental phylogenetics |
| 17:10 | Anna Nerorkova, University of Bristol:Resolving the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition using new phylogenomic models of endosymbiosis |
| 17:30 | Carlos Santana Molina & Anja Spang, NIOS (Invited) |
| 17:50 - 18:10 | Denis Tikhonenkov, Russian Academy of Science:Eukaryovorous flagellates and their evolutionary and ecological significance |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Poster Session |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| The Spectrum of Symbioses | |
| Session Chair: Elisabeth Hehenberger, CZ | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Filip Husnik, JP, Foraminifera: The Last Frontier of Protist Symbioses |
| 9:30 | Fabian Burki: A novel branch on the algal tree of life illuminates the evolution of complex red plastids |
| 10:00 | Megan Sørensen, Heinrich Heine Universität: Taking control of light responses during the endosymbiont to organelle transition |
| 10:20 | Ann Walraven, Uppsala University:Exploring the plastid symbiosis in the marine centrohelid Meringosphaera: a novel model system for plastid integration |
| 10:40 | Ondřej Pomahač, Charles University:I carry it in my heart: The first case of intranuclear methanogen symbionts in a eukaryote |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the Speakers |
| 11:30 | Anna Karnkowska: Let's get together and feel all right: Bacterial endosymbioses abundance in protists |
| 11:55 | Ross Waller:Symbiosis across Myzozoa: what changes, and what stays the same? |
| 12:20 | Lawrence Rudy Cadena, Heinrich Heine Universität:Exploring the Spatial Proteomics of Paulinella chromatophora: Insights Into a Nontraditional Protein Import Machinery |
| 12:40 | Ben Jenkins, University of Oxford:Immune-like glycan sensing determines host control of a nascent photosymbiosis |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 20:00 | Excursion or Free Afternoon |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Tackling mechanisms of interactions and their consequences | |
| Session Chair: Toni Gabaldón, ES | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Rachel Foster,University of Stockholm, SE, New insights on metabolic interactions and establishing Diatom-N2 fixing symbioses |
| 9:30 | Flora Vincent,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, DE, Symbiosis in marine diatoms |
| 10:00 | Fabian Wittmers, Marine Biological Laboratory, US, Marine protists and the evolution of animal-associated symbionts and pathogens |
| 10:20 | Fiona Savory, University of Oxford |
| 10:40 | John Archibald, Dalhousie University, CA, Genome biology and evolution of newly-discovered mirusviruses in thraustochytrid protists |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + Meet the Speakers |
| 11:30 | Lillian Fritz-Laylin: The evolution and specification of cytoskeletal networks |
| 11:55 | David Booth: Find Your Niche: Lessons from choanoflagellates |
| 12:20 | Núria Ros-Rocher, Institut Pasteur, FR, An unusual form of multicellularity controlled by extreme salinity fluctuations in a unicellular relative of animals |
| 12:40 | Susanne Wilken, University of Amsterdam, NL, Mixotrophic protists in changing waters |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | ECS Panel Discussion and Interdisciplinary Career Talk |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Courtney Stairs,Lund University, SE |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:15 | Flash Talks |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner |
| 20:30 | Celebration |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Goodbyes and Transit to Airport/Train |
| 11:00 | Last bus to Airport/Train |