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FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Initial Presentation of the Congress Dear Protistologist, On behalf of “Grupo Especializado de Protistología” and “Groupment de Protistologues de Langue Française”, we have the pleasure to announce you the conjoint celebration in 2008 of their respective meetings. The gathering, called First Spanish-French Congress on Protistology, will be held in Seville, from 4th to 6th June. The aim of this meeting is to promote Protistology in Europe through scientific exchange. Official language is English. We shall make up an attractive scientific program and encourage the active participation of young researchers (pre-, post-docs); the city will provide participants with nice spring weather, history, and charm. The scientific program will be divided in three main axes, Evolution of protists, Biology of free-living protists, and Biology of parasitic protists, with oral presentations and posters. Topics should be set up according to received abstracts. If financial support allows it, two granted talks, opening and closing the meeting, each given by an outstanding protistologue during 60 minutes, are foreseen. Oral communications will be held in morning and afternoon sessions. Every session will include one talk, given by a senior researcher during 45 minutes, five secondary talks, given by young researchers during 20 minutes. All submitted abstracts should be considered as potential for oral presentations; selection will be carried out by the scientific committee of the meeting. Non-selected abstracts should be presented as posters. A session for poster discussion will be included also. 2 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Organizing Committee Grupo Especializado de Protistología (GEP), Sociedad Española de Microbiología (SEM). Groupement des Protistologues de Langue Française (GPLF). The Federation of European Protistological Societies (FEPS), a non-profit association of national and cross-national European Societies of Protistology and less formal national groups of Protistology of diverse European countries, supports the meeting President: Eduardo Villalobo. Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Sevilla. SPAIN. GEP-SEM. Vice-Presidents: Aurelio Serrano. Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC, Sevilla. SPAIN. GEP-SEM. Isabelle Desportes Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. FRANCE. GPLF. Scientific Committee -Dr. Antonio Torres, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla. SPAIN. -Dr Gabriel Gutiérrez, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla. SPAIN. -Dr. Federico Valverde, Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC, Sevilla. SPAIN. -Dr. Susana Serrano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid. SPAIN. -Dr. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid. SPAIN. -Dr. Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López- Neyra, CSIC, Granada. SPAIN. -Dr. Loïc Morin, Université de Paris Sud, Orsay. FRANCE. -Dr. Anne Baroin-Tourancheau, Université de Paris Sud, CNRS, Orsay. FRANCE. -Dr. Purificación López García, Université de Paris Sud, CNRS, Orsay. FRANCE. -Dr. Nancy Guillén, Institut Pasteur, CNRS, Paris. FRANCE. 3 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Abbreviated Scientific Program Wednesday, 4th June -12:00-14:00 h. Registration. -15:00-15:15 h. Welcome talk by Dr. Eduardo Villalobo (President of the Congress), Dr. Loïc Morin (President of GPLF), and Dr. Aurelio Serrano (President of GEP-SEM). -15:15-16:15 h. Opening lecture by Dr. Andrés Aguilera. AFTERNOON, SESSION I. MOLECULAR/CELLULAR BIOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTISTS. Chairperson: Dr. Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez -16:30-18:00 h. Oral presentations and discussions. -18:00-18:30 h. Poster pasting. -20:00-22:00 h. Welcome cocktail at Patio del Rectorado, Universidad de Sevilla. Thursday, 5th June. MORNING, SESSION II. MOLECULAR/CELLULAR BIOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF FREE- LIVING PROTISTS. Chairperson: Dr. Geneviéve Bricheux -09:00-10:00 h. Main talk by Dr Philippe Bouchard. -10:00-10:30 h. Coffee break. -10:30-12:30 h. Oral presentations and discussions. -12:30-13:30 h. Posters discussion session. I Jornadas Internacionales de Tratamiento y Reutilización de Aguas Residuales: El Papel de los Protistas (only in spanish). Dr. Susana Serrano and Dr. Blanca Pérez Uz. Moderadora: Pilar Calvo -13:30-15:00 h. Lunch and coffee. AFTERNOON, SESSION III. ECOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF FREE-LIVING PROTISTS. Chairperson: Dr. Juan Carlos Gutiérrez -15:00-17:30 h. Conferences on the Role of Protists on Wastewater Treatment and Reuse. Dr. Purificación López García, Dr. António Luís Pereira do Amaral and Dr. Lucía Arregui. -17:30-19:00 h. Oral presentations and discussions. -20:30 h. “Tapas tour” in the city centre. Friday, 6th June MORNING, SESSION IV. BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTISTS. Chairperson: Dr. Federico Valverde -09:00-10:00 h. Main talk by Dr. Naveed Ahmed Khan. -10:00-10:30 h. Coffee break. -10:30-12:00 h. Oral presentations and discussions. -12:00-13:30 h. Posters discussion session. -13:30-15:00 h. Lunch and coffee. AFTERNOON, SESSION V. PROTIST EVOLUTION. Chairperson: Dr. Loïc Morin -15:00-15:15. Closing talk by Dr. Ernesto García López (Vice-president Sociedad Española de Microbiología) -15:15-16:00 h. Main talk by Béatrice Lecroq. -16:00-18:00 h. Oral presentations and discussions. -18:00-19:00 h. Closing lecture by Dr. David Moreira. -20:15-21:15 h Visit to Reales Alcázares. 4 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Congress Venue The Congress will be held in Seville (SW, Spain) at "ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIERÍA INFORMÁTICA (ETSII), UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA", situated in "Campus Reina Mercedes" (Avenida Reina Mercedes, 41012 Sevilla). We will meet in the "Salón de Actos" of the "Escuela", with capacity for more than 300 people, provided with audiovisual media, and located in the first floor of the building. 5 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 INDEX OF ABSTRACTS BY AUTHORS OPENING LECTURE Aguilera, Andrés 9 CLOSING LECTURE Moreira, David 11 SESSION I. MOLECULAR/CELLULAR BIOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTISTS. Chairperson: Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez Kohl, Linda 13 López Farfán, Diana 14 Aranguren, Raquel 15 Arroyo, Francisco T. 16 Marques, Adam 17 Marques, Adam 18 Weber, Christian 19 SESSION II. MOLECULAR/CELLULAR BIOLOGY, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF FREE-LIVING PROTISTS. Chairperson: Geneviève Bricheux Bouchard, Philippe 21 Baroin-Tourancheau, Anne 22 Ruger Herreros, Carmen 23 Damaj, Raghida 24 Serrano, Aurelio 25-26 Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah 27 Aubusson-Fleury, Anne 28 Bricheux, Geneviève 29 Calvo, Purificación 30 Gallego, Andrea 31 Palomino Gutiérrez, Carmen 32 SESSION III. ECOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF FREE-LIVING PROTISTS Conferences on the Role of Protists on Wastewater Treatment and Reuse. Chairperson: Juan Carlos Gutiérrez López García, Purificación 34 Pereira do Amaral, António Luís 35 6 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 INDEX OF ABSTRACTS BY AUTHORS Arregui, Lucía 36 Amaro, Francisco 37 Fajon, Céline 38 Aguilar, María 39 Canals, Oriol 40 Chatzinotas, Antonis 41 Conty, Ana 42 Serrano, Susana 43 SESSION IV. BIOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF PARASITIC PROTISTS. Chairperson: Federico Valverde Khan, Naveed Ahmed 45-46 Guillen, Nancy 47 Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah 48 Moktar, Norhayati 49 Gestal, Camino 50 Maíllo, Pedro Andrés 51-52 Umar, Nor Aini 53 SESSION V. PROTIST EVOLUTION. Chairperson: Loïc Morin Lecroq, Béatrice 55 Albi Rodríguez, Tomás 56 Lara, Enrique 57 Valverde, Federico 58 Amar, Laurance 59 Hernández-Piñero, Sara 60 Lecroq, Béatrice 61 Marande, William 62 7 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Opening Lecture 8 Opening Lecture FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Understanding transcription-associated genome instability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Andrés Aguilera. CABIMER-Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092 SEVILLA, Spain. [email protected] Transcription takes place on the same substrate as replication, repair and recombination and, not surprisingly, there is a functional and physical interconnection between these processes. A number of conserved factors with a role in mRNP biogenesis, transcription and RNA export show a strong effect on different types of genetic instability, and recent experimental evidence suggests that transcription-mediated hyper-recombination can be mediated by replication-fork impairment. A comparative molecular and genetic analysis of replication fork-progression impairment as a source of hyper-recombination, as well as data on new factors governing repair and hyper-mutation in association with transcription will be presented. Specific emphasis will be made on the relevance of the formation of R-loops as a source of transcription-associated genomic instability. 9 FSFCP, Sevilla '08 Closing Lecture 10 Closing Lecture FSFCP, Sevilla '08 An overview of the new phylogeny of eukaryotes David Moreira. Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution. CNRS Université Paris-Sud. [email protected] The use of molecular information, in particular 18S rRNA sequences, in the late 80s initiated a revolution in the study of the evolutionary relationships among eukaryotes. The first molecular phylogenies showed a stepwise emergence of the different eukaryotic phyla, which supported the idea of a progressive evolution of eukaryotes from very simple forms (the amitochondriate Archezoa) to the complex multicellular groups (animals, plants and fungi). Nevertheless, this paradigm has been challenged in the last decade thanks to the use of alternative molecular markers, especially conserved protein sequences. All known eukaryotes appear to derive from mitochondriate ancestors, which places the origin of mitochondria very early in eukaryotic evolution. Moreover, the topology of the first 18S rRNA-based