Download 11 SYMPOSIA / 10 WORKSHOPS

CONGRESS PROGRAMME
OPENING CEREMONY
Al-Andalus Silken Conference Center
(Sunday 6th, 9.30-10.00 h)
Chair
Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain
Ana Martín, Madrid, Spain
Welcome by President of GEP – SEM
Antonio Ventosa, Sevilla, Spain
Welcome by President of SEM
Frederick W. Spiegel, Fayetteville, USA
Welcome by President of ISOP
Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain
Welcome by President of the Organizing Committee
PLENARY LECTURES
Plenary Lectures will take place in the Al-Andalus Silken Conference Center
(Sunday 6th) and the Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos) of the Faculty of
Computer Engineering (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería
Informática, ETSII) of the Reina Mercedes Scientific Campus (Monday 7th to
Thursday 10th):
PL I (Sunday 6th, 10.00-11.00 h)
Chair: Andrew J. Roger, Halifax, Canada
Cryptic Diversity in Organisms and Organelles
Graham Clark
London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, London, UK
(ISOP sponsored lecture)
PL II (Sunday 6th, 15.00-16.00 h
Chair: Maria Cristina Angelici, Rome, Italy
Pheromone Signalling in Protists
Pierangelo Luporini
University of Camerino, Italy
PL III (Monday 7th, 9.00-10.00 h
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Chair: Ramon Massana, Barcelona, Spain
Protist Metabarcoding and its Applications
Jan Pawlowski
University of Geneva, Switzerland
PL IV (Monday 7th, 15.00-16.00 h
Chair: Eduardo Villalobo, Sevilla, Spain
Molecular and Cell Biology of Entamoeba histolytica Pathogenesis
Nancy Guillen
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
PL V (Tuesday 8th, 9.00-10.00 h
Chair: Alastair Simpson, Halifax, Canada
Evolution and Devolution in Alveolates: Invasion, Organelles and
Chromatin (Hutner Award Lecture 2015)
Ross Waller
Cambridge University, UK
(ISOP sponsored lecture)
PL VI (Tuesday 8th, 15.00-16.00 h
Chair: Thomas Weisse, Mondsee, Austria
Protists as Bioindicators in Wastewater Treatment: Identification, Ecology,
and Further Needs
Wilhelm Foissner
University of Salzburg, Austria
(Lecture sponsored by Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla - EMASESA)
PL VII (Wednesday 9th, 9.00-10.00 h
Chair: Alan Warren, London, UK
Ciliate Researches in China: Active Groups, Chance for Collaboration and
the On-going Studies
Weibo Song
Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China,
Qingdao, China
PL VIII (Thursday 10th, 9.00-10.00 h
Chair: Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain
Functional Analysis of Acidocalcisomes: Organelles Conserved from
Bacteria to Human Cells
Roberto Docampo
University of Georgia, USA
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SYMPOSIA and WORKSHOPS
These sessions will take place in the Al-Andalus Silken Conference Center
(Sunday 6th) and in three different buildings of the Reina Mercedes Scientific
Campus (Monday 7th to Thursday 10th):
SYMPOSIA
Faculty of Computer Engineering
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (ETSII)
Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla
Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos)
WORKSHOPS
Faculty of Biology – Red Building
Facultad de Biología – Edifício Rojo
Reina Mercedes Ave. 6, 41012 Sevilla
Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados), ground floor
Celestino Mutis building (CITIUS II)
Edificio Celestino Mutis (CITIUS II)
Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla
Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados)
SYMPOSIUM
S6M
(ISOP sponsored symposium) (Sunday 6th, 11.30-13.30 h)
Sex in Protists
Organizers and Chairs
Micah Dunthorn
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Thomas Weisse
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Speakers
Sex on the Beach, but not in Open Oceans
Colomban de Vargas
Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
Sex in Diatoms: Insights and Inspiring Questions
Marina Montresor
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy
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Sex in Foraminifera
Jere Lipps
University of California Museum of Paleontology, USA
Tetrahymena Genome Architecture Provides the Benefits of Sex in the
Absence of Sex
Rebecca Zufall
University of Houston, USA
SYMPOSIUM
S6E
(ISOP sponsored symposium) (Sunday 6th, 16.30-18.30 h)
Evidence of Taxa-, Clone-, and Kin-discrimination in Protists:
Ecological and Evolutionary Implications
Organizers and Chairs
Avelina Espinosa
Roger Williams University, USA
Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Speakers
Mechanisms of Discrimination and Kin Recognition: from Unicellular to
Multicellular Eukaryotes
Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C
New England Center for the Public Understanding of Science, Roger Williams
University, USA
Exploration of the Developmental Program of the Social Life Cycle in
Copromyxa protea (Tubulinea, Amoebozoa) using Ultra Low Input RNAseq
Matthew W. Brown
Mississippi State University, USA
Recognition Genes, Population Density, Sorting, and Cheating in the
Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
Joan E. Strassmann
Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Intercellular Signalling, Aggregative Behaviour
Challenges in Entamoeba Discrimination Trials
Avelina Espinosa
Department of Biology, Roger Williams University, USA
SYMPOSIUM
and
Experimental
S7M (Monday 7th, 10.00-11.30 h)
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Leaving “Everything is Everywhere” Behind: Recent Advances
in the Biogeography of Marine Protists
Organizers and Chairs
John R. Dolan
Université Paris6/CNRS Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer,
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
David J.S. Montagnes
University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool, University of
Liverpool, UK
Speakers
Parasitic Dinoflagellates over Time and Space
D. Wayne Coats
Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, MD, USA
Beyond Everything is Everywhere – The Burgeoning Field of Landscape
Genetics and its Application for Understanding Protist Biogeography
Chris Lowe
University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Perceptions of Biogeography: Correspondence between Molecules and
Morphologies in Tintinnid Ciliates
Luciana Santoferrara
University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, USA
Ciliates in the Oligotrophic Ocean: Do Transient Dynamics Determine
Long-term Patterns?
Stephen Wickham
University of Salzburg, Austria
WORKSHOP
W7M (Monday 7th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Free-living Amoebae Infections: Are They Rare Pathogens or an
Emerging Threat?
Organizer and Chair
Jacob Lorenzo Morales
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Speakers
Genome Assembly and Annotation of Balamuthia mandrillaris
Albrecht F. Kiderlen
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Natural Products as a Source of Potential Therapeutics against
Acanthamoeba Infections
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Ines Sifaoui
University of Cartague, Tunisia
Acanthamoeba keratitis: Update on Current Treatment Options
Jacob Lorenzo Morales
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
Anti-Acanthamoeba Activity of Different Artificial Tears Used in the
Treatment of Amoeba Keratitis
Angela Magnet
San Pablo CEU University, Madrid, Spain
Detection of Acanthamoeba Strains in the Ocular Surface of Contact Lens
Wearers Using the Schirmer Strip Test
María Reyes-Batlle
Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
SYMPOSIUM
S7A (Monday 7th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Molecular Cross-talk between Parasitic Protists and their Host
Cells
Organizer and Chair
Helena Soares
Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, IPL & Faculdade de
Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Co-chair
Alexandre Leitão
Instituto de Investigação Cientifica Tropical, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa,
Portugal
Speakers
Apicomplexan Parasites: Intracellular Life Style Specialists and their
Astonishing Adaptive Potential to Anti-proliferative Drugs
Andrew Hemphill
Cell Biology and Parasitology, Institute of Parasitology, Universität Bern,
Switzerland
Interactions between Theileria and the Host Cell Cytoskeleton
Kerry Woods
Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern,
Switzerland
The two Apicomplexa Besnoitia besnoiti and Toxoplasma gondii
Differentially Alter Intrinsic Host Cell Polarity by Manipulating Centrosome
and Golgi Apparatus
Helena Soares
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Universidade de Lisboa and Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de
Lisboa, Portugal
WORKSHOP
W7A (Monday 7th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Symbioses in Microbial Eukaryotes
Organizers
Genoveva F. Esteban (Bournemouth University, UK)
Martin T. Embley (Newcastle University, UK)
Speakers
Endosymbiotic Algae of the Ciliates Euplotes daidaleos, Frontonia sp. and
Paramecium bursaria
Undine Achilles-Day
Scottish Association for Marine Science, Culture Collection of Algae and
Protozoa, Scottish Marine Institute, Oban, Argyll, UK
Organelle Evolution in Anaerobic Ciliates
William Lewis
Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle
University, UK
Genomics of the Methanogenic Endosymbionts of Anaerobic Ciliates
Anders E. Lind
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala
University, Uppsala, Sweden
Kitchen Garden or Recycling Center? Comparative Genomics of the
Kentrophoros Ciliate-Bacteria Symbiosis
Brandon Seah
Symbiosis Department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Intracellular Bacterial Symbiosis in Genus Arcella (Arcellinids:
Amoebozoa): a Key Player for Adaptation to Hostile Environments
Fatma Gomaa
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Biological Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
WORKSHOP
W7E (Monday 7th, 16.00-17.30 h)
Ciliate genome evolution and adaptation
(Workshop sponsored by the COST Action BM1102)
Organizer and Chair
Cristina Miceli
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University of Camerino, Italy
Speakers
Ciliates as Model Systems
Environmental Responses
Cristina Miceli
University of Camerino, Italy
to
Study
Molecular
Adaptation
and
How Many Cell Polarity Related Genes Are Conserved from Tetrahymena
to Metazoa?
Helena Soares
Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, IPL & Faculdade de
Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ciliates as Natural Reservoir of Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria: State of
the Art After a Four Year Networking Project
Giulio Petroni
University of Pisa, Italy
Julia Contreras
Control of Splicing in Paramecium
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
SYMPOSIUM
S8M (Tuesday 8th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Novel Protist
Lineages
Organizer and Chair
Ramon Massana
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Co-chair
Javier del Campo
University of British Columbia, Canada
Speakers
(Re)-discovery of Marine ALVeolate Protistan Pineages (MALV,
Syndiniales) in the Plankton and their Relevance in Marine Ecology
Laure Guillou
Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
Exploring the Diversity of Divergent Protist Lineages in Freshwater
Ecosystems
Purificación López-García
UMR CNRS 8079, Université Paris-Sud. Orsay, France
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Investigation of a Novel Opisthokont with a Predatory Lifestyle in the
Context of the Evolution of Multicellularity
Elisabeth Hehenberger
University of British Columbia, Canada
Exploring the Marine Pico-eukaryotic Dark-matter Using Single-cell
Genomics
Ramiro Logares
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
WORKSHOP
W8M (Tuesday 8th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Biology of Anaerobic Protists: Adaptation to Anaerobiosis and
Parasitic Style of Life
Organizer and Chair
Jan Tachezy
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Speakers
Variations in Anaerobic Metabolism of Protists
Aloysius G.M. Tielens
Dept. Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC,/ University
Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Parasite Secreted Microvesicles: Mediators of Host Cell Colonization and
Prostate Cancer?
Patricia Johnson
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA, USA
Cholesterylsulfate Synthesized via the Mitosome-compartmentalized
Sulfate Activation Pathway is Required for Encystation of Entamoeba
Tomoyoshi Nozaki
Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjukuku, Tokyo, Japan
Imaging Giardia in vivo Metabolism and Infection Dynamics
Scott Dawson
University of California Davis, Davis, USA
N-acetyl-L Ornithine Deacetylase is an Essential Factor for Adaptation of
the Parasite Entamoeba histolytica to Nitrosative Stress
Serge Ankri
Department of Molecular Microbiology, B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa,
Israel
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Mastigamoeba balamuthi and Entamoeba histolytica: So Similar Yet So
Different
Jan Tachezy
Department of Parasitology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
SYMPOSIUM
S8A (Tuesday 8th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Stress and Protists: No Life without Stress
Organizer and Chair
Juan Carlos Gutierrez
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Speakers
Redox-Based Sensing of Environmental Stress: From Organelle Signalling
to Cell fate Decisions
Assaf Vardi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Engineered Nanoparticles and Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Protists
Vera Slaveykova
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Stress Responses and Photoprotective Strategies of Ciliates Exposed to
Ultraviolet Radiation
Bettina Sonntag
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Adaptations to High-Salt Environments in Two Bacterivorous Halophiles
Tommy Harding
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
WORKSHOP
W8A (Tuesday 8th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Atypical Metabolism in Protists
Organizer and Chair
Michael Ginger
Lancaster University, UK
Speakers
The Diversity and Origins of Anaerobic Metabolism in Mitochondria and
Related Organelles
Andrew J. Roger
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Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Evolution of Thylakoid Membrane Complexes in Eukaryotes and
Functional Implications in Chromera velia
Heather Esson
Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
The Calvin Cycle of Non-Photosynthetic Euglena longa: a Role in Central
Energy Metabolism?
Zoltan Fussy
Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology,
Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic
Inorganic Pyrophosphate Metabolism
Evolutionary Implications
Jose Roman Perez-Castiñeira
IBVF, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
in
Protists:
Metabolic
and
KEYNOTE LECTURE (Tuesday 8th, 16.00-16.30 h)
Malaria Parasite Resistance to the Common Drug Atovaquone is Unable to
Transmit via Mosquitoes
Geoff McFadden
School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
SYMPOSIUM
S8E (Tuesday 8th, 16.30-17.30 h)
New Challenges in Microalgae Biotechnology
Organizers and Chairs
Federico Valverde
Aurelio Serrano
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain
Speakers
Biofuel from Microalgae?
Miguel G. Guerrero
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla y CSIC,
Spain
Development of New Molecular Tools for the Genetic Engineering of
Eukaryotic Microalgae
Rosa M. Leon
Universidad de Huelva, Spain
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A Chlamydomonas Gene Co-expression Network reveals Global
Properties of its Transcriptome and the early Establishment of Key Coexpression Patterns in the Green Lineage
Francisco J. Romero-Campero
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain
WORKSHOP
W8E (Tuesday 8th, 16.00-17.30 h)
Protist Relevance in Wastewater Treatment
(Workshop sponsored by Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla – EMASESA)
Organizers
Eva Rodriguez
Asociación Científica Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla, Seville, Spain
Humbert Salvadó
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Susana Serrano
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Chair
Wilhelm Foissner
University of Salzburg, Austria
Speakers
User-friendly Methods for the Identification of Ciliate Species in Biological
Aerobic Wastewater-treatment Processes
Allan Warren
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Relevance of Microscopical Analysis in Wastewater
Marina Ettl
Yara Industrial GmbH, Germany
Protists: Tireless Informants of Wastewater Treatment Systems. The
Shortcut Biological Nitrogen Removal and Partial Nitritation Processes
Oriol Canals
Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
Understanding the Eukaryotic Microbial Community of Slow Sand Filters
and the Implications for Bacterial Pathogen Removal from Wastewater
Joseph Gibbs
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Effect of high Lecane inermis rotifers abundance on activated sludge
biocenosis
Fyda Janusz
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Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
SYMPOSIUM
S9M (Wednesday 9th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Functional Ecology of Aquatic Protists
Organizer and Chair
Thomas Weisse
University of Innsbruck, Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, Austria
Speakers
Functional Ecology of Aquatic Protists – Key Issues and Open Questions
Thomas Weisse
University of Innsbruck, Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, Austria
Evaluating Predator-Prey Dynamics: Making the Most out of Functional
and Numerical Response Data
David J.S. Montagnes
Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Numerical/functional Response and Prey Selectivity in Heterotrophic vs.
Mixotrophic Protists
Ruth Anderson
University of Copenhagen, Dept of Biology, Marine Biological Section,
Helsingør, Denmark
On the Functional Ecology of Heterotrophic Flagellates and the
Complexity Behind
Hartmut Arndt
University of Cologne, Zoological Institute, General Ecology, Cologne, Germany
Opening the Marine Microzooplankton Black Box: Sources of Variability in
Protozoan Grazing Impacts
Albert Calbet
Dept. Biologia Marina I Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC),
Barcelona, Spain
WORKSHOP
W9M (Wednesday 9th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Frontier-of-knowledge in Pneumocystis Infection
(Workshop sponsored by Red Iberoamericana sobre Pneumocystosis –
RED TEMÁTICA 212RT0450 CYTED)
Organizer and Chair
Enrique J. Calderon
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CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla,
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Speakers
New High-throughput Methodologies in Epidemiology and Diagnosis of
Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia
Olga Matos
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Airborne Spread of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Nosocomial Infection
Gilles Nevez
Brest University hospital, University of Brest, France
Pneumocystis jirovecii in Chronic pulmonary Diseases
Carmen de la Horra
CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla,
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
SYMPOSIUM
S9A (Wednesday 9th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Emergent Harmful Protists in the Globalization Era
(ISOP sponsored symposium)
Organizer and Chair
Maria Cristina Angelici
National Institute of Health (ISS), Department of Environment and Primary
Prevention, Rome, Italy
Speakers
Waterborne Protozoan Infections: Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens
in the Globalization Era
Panagiotis Karanis
Medical School, University of Cologne, Germany / Center for Biomedicine and
Infectious Diseases-The Qinghai Medical School, Qinghai University, Xining,
China
Opportunistic Protists: What we Know and What we Have to Know
Olga Matos
Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa,
Portugal
A Still Not Well-known Parasite: Balantidium sp., Epidemiology and
Diagnostic Tools
Francisco Ponce Gordo
Department of Parasitology, Complutense University Madrid, Spain
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Toxic Protists and Water Microbioma: a Feedback to Environmental
Change
Andrea Curti
Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, National Institute of Health
(ISS), Rome, Italy
WORKSHOP
W9A (Wednesday 9th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Community Ecology through the Lens of High-throughput
Sequencing
Organizers and Chairs
Ramiro Logares and Ramon Massana
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Speakers
Freshwater Plankton Community Ecology under High Throughput
Sequencing Perspective
Enrique Lara
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
High-throughput Sequencing Reveals Strongly Season-dependent
Diversity and Dynamics of Haptophytes in North Atlantic Coastal Waters
Egge Elianne Sirnæs
University of Oslo, Norway
Harvesting Phylogenetic Information to Unveil the Global Marine Diversity
and Biogeography of the Mamiellophyceae Lineage of Eukaryotic
Phytoplankton
Adam Monier
University of Exeter, UK
Single Cell Transcriptomics of Two Uncultivated Radiolarian Species
Anders Krabberød
University of Oslo, Norway
Molecular and Morphology Methods for the Assessment of Marine
Dinoflagellates Diversity: Do they Agree?
Albert Reñé
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity Characterization of Natural Populations
of the Parasitoid Parvilucifera sinerae
Rosa I. Figueroa
Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Vigo, IEO, Spain, and Department of
Biology, Lund University, Sweden
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Special Mini-Symposium
(Wednesday 9th, 12.00-12.30 h, in the frame of General Oral Session GO-7
Evolution/Phylogeny (III))
Towards an integrated taxonomic and morpho-genetic system
for eukaryotes
Chairs
Sina Adl
Colomban de Vargas
Speakers
EukRef: Phylogenetically informed, bottom-up curation of eukaryotic 18S
rDNA sequences
Javier del Campo
University of British Columbia, Canada
UniEuk: A universal, expert validated taxonomic framework integrating
reference gene databases for eukaryotic biology, ecology, and evolution
Cedric Berney
Station Biologique de Roscoff, France
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SYMPOSIUM
S10M (Thursday 10th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Genome Editing in Protists
Organizer and Chair
Roberto Docampo
Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular
Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Speakers
Unlocking the Toxoplasma gondii Genome through CRISPR/Cas9
Sebastian Lourido
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Revolutionizing Functional Studies in Plasmodium falciparum with
CRISPR/Cas
Jessica M. Bryant
Unité de Biologie des Interactions Hôte–Parasite – INSERM U1201- CNRS,
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Trypanosoma cruzi Reveals the Role of
Paraflagellar Rod Proteins in Flagellar Attachment and Motility
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Noelia Lander
CTEGD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, and Department of Clinical
Pathology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, S.P., Brazil
WORKSHOP
W10M (Thursday 10th, 10.00-11.30 h)
Soil Protist Diversity and Ecology
Organizers and Chairs
Enrique Lara
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Stefan Geisen
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Speakers
Introduction to the Workshop on Soil Protists and First Question: Can we
Trust Data on Protist Distribution and Ecology?
Edward A. D. Mitchell
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Protists Hold a Central Regulator Role in Soil Ecosystem Nutrient Cycling
Sina Adl
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Biodiversity of Protists in Soils: What we Know, What we Miss
Anna Maria Fiore-Donno
University of Cologne, Germany
Soil Micro-eukaryotes: Different Perspectives on a Diverse and Highly
Partitioned Biome
David Bass
The Natural History Museum/CEFAS, London, UK
Roundup: Diversity and Key Roles of Protists in Soils
Stefan Geisen
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wageningen, the Netherlands
SYMPOSIUM
S10A (Thursday 10th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Novel Therapies against Parasitic Protists
Organizer and Chair
José Manuel Bautista
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Speakers
Trypanocidal Activity and Mode of Action of Carbohydrate binding Agents
Dolores González-Pacanowska
Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain
Molecular Approaches against Malarial Plasmodium
Irene Díaz Moreno
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, University of Sevilla-CSIC,
Sevilla, Spain
Miltefosine as an Anti-Acanthamoeba Drug
Julia Walochnik
Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
WORKSHOP
W10A (Thursday 10th, 12.00-13.30 h)
Autophagy-related Processes in Unicellular Eukaryotes
Organizer and Chair
José L. Crespo
IBVF, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Speakers
Acidification-dependent Defects in Membrane Traffic and Autophagy in
Yeast Sterol Mutants
Aurelio Serrano
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain
Eco-physiological Context for the Conserved Autophagy Pathway during
Algal Bloom Dynamics
Assaf Vardi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Activation of Autophagy by Redox Unbalance in the Model Green Alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
José L. Crespo
Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla,
Spain
FAREWELL SESSION
Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos)
Faculty of Computer Engineering
(Thursday 10th, 13.30-14.00 h)
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