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PROGRAMME – List of Activities PROGRAMME – List of Activities 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 ) of the Reina Mercedes Scientific Campus (Monday 7th to Thursday 10th): Sunday 6th, 10.00-11.00 h PL I Cryptic Diversity in Organisms and Organelles Graham Clark London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, London, UK (ISOP sponsored lecture) Sunday 6th, 15.00-16.00 h PL II Pheromone Signalling in Protists Pierangelo Luporini University of Camerino, Italy Monday 7th, 9.00-10.00 h PL III Protist Metabarcoding and its Applications Jan Pawlowski University of Geneva, Switzerland Monday 7th, 15.00-16.00 h PL IV Molecular and Cell Biology of Entamoeba histolytica Pathogenesis Nancy Guillen Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Tuesday 8th, 9.00-10.00 h PL V Hutner Award Lecture 2015 Evolution and Devolution in Alveolates: Invasion, Organelles and Chromatin Ross Waller Cambridge University, UK (ISOP sponsored lecture) Tuesday 8th, 15.00-16.00 h 1 PL VI Protists as Bioindicators in Wastewater Treatment: Identification, Ecology, and Further Needs Wilhelm Foissner University of Salzburg, Austria (Lecture sponsored by Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla - EMASESA) Wednesday 9th, 9.00-10.00 h PL VII 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 Thursday 10th, 9.00-10.00 h PL VIII Functional Analysis of Acidocalcisomes: Organelles Conserved from Bacteria to Human Cells Roberto Docampo University of Georgia, USA _______________________________________________________________ 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 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 ) 2 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 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 3 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 and Experimental Challenges in Entamoeba Discrimination Trials Avelina Espinosa Department of Biology, Roger Williams University, USA SYMPOSIUM S7M (Monday 7th, 10.00-11.30 h) 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 4 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 Ines Sifaoui University of Cartague, Tunisia Acanthamoeba keratitis: Update on Current Treatment Options Jacob Lorenzo Morales Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Anti-Acanthamoeb a 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 5 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 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 6 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 Gomaa Fatma 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 University of Camerino, Italy Speakers Ciliates as Model Systems to Study Molecular Adaptation and Environmental Responses Cristina Miceli University of Camerino, Italy 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 7 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
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