<p>CONGRESS PROGRAMME OPENING CEREMONY Al-Andalus Silken Conference Center (Sunday 6th, 9.30-10.00 h)</p><p>Chair Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Ana Martín, Madrid, Spain Welcome by President of GEP – SEM</p><p>Antonio Ventosa, Sevilla, Spain Welcome by President of SEM</p><p>Frederick W. Spiegel, Fayetteville, USA Welcome by President of ISOP</p><p>Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain Welcome by President of the Organizing Committee</p><p>PLENARY LECTURES</p><p>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):</p><p>PL I (Sunday 6th, 10.00-11.00 h) Chair: Andrew J. Roger, Halifax, Canada</p><p>Cryptic Diversity in Organisms and Organelles Graham Clark London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, London, UK (ISOP sponsored lecture)</p><p>PL II (Sunday 6th, 15.00-16.00 h Chair: Maria Cristina Angelici, Rome, Italy</p><p>Pheromone Signalling in Protists Pierangelo Luporini University of Camerino, Italy</p><p>PL III (Monday 7th, 9.00-10.00 h</p><p>1 Chair: Ramon Massana, Barcelona, Spain</p><p>Protist Metabarcoding and its Applications Jan Pawlowski University of Geneva, Switzerland</p><p>PL IV (Monday 7th, 15.00-16.00 h Chair: Eduardo Villalobo, Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Molecular and Cell Biology of Entamoeba histolytica Pathogenesis Nancy Guillen Institut Pasteur, Paris, France</p><p>PL V (Tuesday 8th, 9.00-10.00 h Chair: Alastair Simpson, Halifax, Canada</p><p>Evolution and Devolution in Alveolates: Invasion, Organelles and Chromatin (Hutner Award Lecture 2015)</p><p>Ross Waller Cambridge University, UK (ISOP sponsored lecture)</p><p>PL VI (Tuesday 8th, 15.00-16.00 h Chair: Thomas Weisse, Mondsee, Austria</p><p>Protists as Bioindicators in Wastewater Treatment: Identification, Ecology, and Further Needs Wilhelm Foissner University of Salzburg, Austria (Lecture sponsored by Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla - EMASESA)</p><p>PL VII (Wednesday 9th, 9.00-10.00 h Chair: Alan Warren, London, UK</p><p>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</p><p>PL VIII (Thursday 10th, 9.00-10.00 h Chair: Aurelio Serrano, Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Functional Analysis of Acidocalcisomes: Organelles Conserved from Bacteria to Human Cells Roberto Docampo University of Georgia, USA</p><p>2 ______SYMPOSIA and WORKSHOPS</p><p>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):</p><p>SYMPOSIA</p><p>Faculty of Computer Engineering Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (ETSII) Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos)</p><p>WORKSHOPS</p><p>Faculty of Biology – Red Building Facultad de Biología – Edifício Rojo Reina Mercedes Ave. 6, 41012 Sevilla Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados), ground floor</p><p>Celestino Mutis building (CITIUS II) Edificio Celestino Mutis (CITIUS II) Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados)</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S6M (ISOP sponsored symposium) (Sunday 6th, 11.30-13.30 h)</p><p>Sex in Protists</p><p>Organizers and Chairs Micah Dunthorn University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Thomas Weisse University of Innsbruck, Austria</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Sex on the Beach, but not in Open Oceans Colomban de Vargas Station Biologique de Roscoff, France</p><p>Sex in Diatoms: Insights and Inspiring Questions Marina Montresor Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli, Italy</p><p>3 Sex in Foraminifera Jere Lipps University of California Museum of Paleontology, USA</p><p>Tetrahymena Genome Architecture Provides the Benefits of Sex in the Absence of Sex Rebecca Zufall University of Houston, USA</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S6E (ISOP sponsored symposium) (Sunday 6th, 16.30-18.30 h)</p><p>Evidence of Taxa-, Clone-, and Kin-discrimination in Protists: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications</p><p>Organizers and Chairs Avelina Espinosa Roger Williams University, USA Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Recognition Genes, Population Density, Sorting, and Cheating in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum Joan E. Strassmann Biology Department, Washington University in St. Louis, USA</p><p>Intercellular Signalling, Aggregative Behaviour and Experimental Challenges in Entamoeba Discrimination Trials Avelina Espinosa Department of Biology, Roger Williams University, USA</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S7M (Monday 7th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>4 Leaving “Everything is Everywhere” Behind: Recent Advances in the Biogeography of Marine Protists</p><p>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</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Parasitic Dinoflagellates over Time and Space D. Wayne Coats Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, MD, USA</p><p>Beyond Everything is Everywhere – The Burgeoning Field of Landscape Genetics and its Application for Understanding Protist Biogeography Chris Lowe University of Exeter, Exeter, UK</p><p>Perceptions of Biogeography: Correspondence between Molecules and Morphologies in Tintinnid Ciliates Luciana Santoferrara University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, USA </p><p>Ciliates in the Oligotrophic Ocean: Do Transient Dynamics Determine Long-term Patterns? Stephen Wickham University of Salzburg, Austria</p><p>WORKSHOP W7M (Monday 7th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Free-living Amoebae Infections: Are They Rare Pathogens or an Emerging Threat?</p><p>Organizer and Chair Jacob Lorenzo Morales Universidad de La Laguna, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Genome Assembly and Annotation of Balamuthia mandrillaris Albrecht F. Kiderlen Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany</p><p>Natural Products as a Source of Potential Therapeutics against Acanthamoeba Infections</p><p>5 Ines Sifaoui University of Cartague, Tunisia</p><p>Acanthamoeba keratitis: Update on Current Treatment Options Jacob Lorenzo Morales Universidad de La Laguna, Spain</p><p>Anti-Acanthamoeba Activity of Different Artificial Tears Used in the Treatment of Amoeba Keratitis Angela Magnet San Pablo CEU University, Madrid, Spain</p><p>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</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S7A (Monday 7th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Molecular Cross-talk between Parasitic Protists and their Host Cells</p><p>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</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Interactions between Theileria and the Host Cell Cytoskeleton Kerry Woods Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland</p><p>The two Apicomplexa Besnoitia besnoiti and Toxoplasma gondii Differentially Alter Intrinsic Host Cell Polarity by Manipulating Centrosome and Golgi Apparatus Helena Soares</p><p>6 Universidade de Lisboa and Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal</p><p>WORKSHOP W7A (Monday 7th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Symbioses in Microbial Eukaryotes</p><p>Organizers Genoveva F. Esteban (Bournemouth University, UK) Martin T. Embley (Newcastle University, UK)</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Organelle Evolution in Anaerobic Ciliates William Lewis Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle University, UK</p><p>Genomics of the Methanogenic Endosymbionts of Anaerobic Ciliates Anders E. Lind Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden</p><p>Kitchen Garden or Recycling Center? Comparative Genomics of the Kentrophoros Ciliate-Bacteria Symbiosis Brandon Seah Symbiosis Department, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany</p><p>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</p><p>WORKSHOP W7E (Monday 7th, 16.00-17.30 h)</p><p>Ciliate genome evolution and adaptation (Workshop sponsored by the COST Action BM1102)</p><p>Organizer and Chair Cristina Miceli</p><p>7 University of Camerino, Italy</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Ciliates as Model Systems to Study Molecular Adaptation and Environmental Responses Cristina Miceli University of Camerino, Italy</p><p>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</p><p>Ciliates as Natural Reservoir of Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria: State of the Art After a Four Year Networking Project Giulio Petroni University of Pisa, Italy</p><p>Julia Contreras Control of Splicing in Paramecium Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S8M (Tuesday 8th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Novel Protist Lineages</p><p>Organizer and Chair Ramon Massana Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Co-chair Javier del Campo University of British Columbia, Canada </p><p>Speakers</p><p>(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</p><p>Exploring the Diversity of Divergent Protist Lineages in Freshwater Ecosystems Purificación López-García UMR CNRS 8079, Université Paris-Sud. Orsay, France</p><p>8 Investigation of a Novel Opisthokont with a Predatory Lifestyle in the Context of the Evolution of Multicellularity Elisabeth Hehenberger University of British Columbia, Canada </p><p>Exploring the Marine Pico-eukaryotic Dark-matter Using Single-cell Genomics Ramiro Logares Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain </p><p>WORKSHOP W8M (Tuesday 8th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Biology of Anaerobic Protists: Adaptation to Anaerobiosis and Parasitic Style of Life</p><p>Organizer and Chair Jan Tachezy Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Parasite Secreted Microvesicles: Mediators of Host Cell Colonization and Prostate Cancer? Patricia Johnson Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, UCLA, USA</p><p>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, Shinjuku- ku, Tokyo, Japan</p><p>Imaging Giardia in vivo Metabolism and Infection Dynamics Scott Dawson University of California Davis, Davis, USA</p><p>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</p><p>9 Mastigamoeba balamuthi and Entamoeba histolytica: So Similar Yet So Different Jan Tachezy Department of Parasitology, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S8A (Tuesday 8th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Stress and Protists: No Life without Stress </p><p>Organizer and Chair Juan Carlos Gutierrez Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Redox-Based Sensing of Environmental Stress: From Organelle Signalling to Cell fate Decisions Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel</p><p>Engineered Nanoparticles and Oxidative Stress in Aquatic Protists Vera Slaveykova University of Geneva, Switzerland</p><p>Stress Responses and Photoprotective Strategies of Ciliates Exposed to Ultraviolet Radiation Bettina Sonntag University of Innsbruck, Austria</p><p>Adaptations to High-Salt Environments in Two Bacterivorous Halophiles Tommy Harding Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada</p><p>WORKSHOP W8A (Tuesday 8th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Atypical Metabolism in Protists</p><p>Organizer and Chair Michael Ginger Lancaster University, UK</p><p>Speakers</p><p>The Diversity and Origins of Anaerobic Metabolism in Mitochondria and Related Organelles Andrew J. Roger</p><p>10 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Inorganic Pyrophosphate Metabolism in Protists: Metabolic and Evolutionary Implications Jose Roman Perez-Castiñeira IBVF, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>KEYNOTE LECTURE (Tuesday 8th, 16.00-16.30 h)</p><p>Malaria Parasite Resistance to the Common Drug Atovaquone is Unable to Transmit via Mosquitoes Geoff McFadden School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Australia</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S8E (Tuesday 8th, 16.30-17.30 h)</p><p>New Challenges in Microalgae Biotechnology</p><p>Organizers and Chairs Federico Valverde Aurelio Serrano Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Biofuel from Microalgae? Miguel G. Guerrero Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, Universidad de Sevilla y CSIC, Spain</p><p>Development of New Molecular Tools for the Genetic Engineering of Eukaryotic Microalgae Rosa M. Leon Universidad de Huelva, Spain</p><p>11 A Chlamydomonas Gene Co-expression Network reveals Global Properties of its Transcriptome and the early Establishment of Key Co- expression Patterns in the Green Lineage Francisco J. Romero-Campero Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>WORKSHOP W8E (Tuesday 8th, 16.00-17.30 h)</p><p>Protist Relevance in Wastewater Treatment (Workshop sponsored by Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla – EMASESA)</p><p>Organizers Eva Rodriguez Asociación Científica Grupo Bioindicación Sevilla, Seville, Spain Humbert Salvadó Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Susana Serrano Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain</p><p>Chair Wilhelm Foissner University of Salzburg, Austria</p><p>Speakers</p><p>User-friendly Methods for the Identification of Ciliate Species in Biological Aerobic Wastewater-treatment Processes Allan Warren The Natural History Museum, London, UK</p><p>Relevance of Microscopical Analysis in Wastewater Marina Ettl Yara Industrial GmbH, Germany</p><p>Protists: Tireless Informants of Wastewater Treatment Systems. The Shortcut Biological Nitrogen Removal and Partial Nitritation Processes Oriol Canals Universidad de Barcelona, Spain</p><p>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</p><p>Effect of high Lecane inermis rotifers abundance on activated sludge biocenosis Fyda Janusz</p><p>12 Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S9M (Wednesday 9th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Functional Ecology of Aquatic Protists</p><p>Organizer and Chair Thomas Weisse University of Innsbruck, Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, Austria</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Functional Ecology of Aquatic Protists – Key Issues and Open Questions Thomas Weisse University of Innsbruck, Research Institute for Limnology, Mondsee, Austria</p><p>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 </p><p>Numerical/functional Response and Prey Selectivity in Heterotrophic vs. Mixotrophic Protists Ruth Anderson University of Copenhagen, Dept of Biology, Marine Biological Section, Helsingør, Denmark</p><p>On the Functional Ecology of Heterotrophic Flagellates and the Complexity Behind Hartmut Arndt University of Cologne, Zoological Institute, General Ecology, Cologne, Germany</p><p>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 </p><p>WORKSHOP W9M (Wednesday 9th, 10.00-11.30 h) </p><p>Frontier-of-knowledge in Pneumocystis Infection (Workshop sponsored by Red Iberoamericana sobre Pneumocystosis – RED TEMÁTICA 212RT0450 CYTED)</p><p>Organizer and Chair Enrique J. Calderon</p><p>13 CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Airborne Spread of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Nosocomial Infection Gilles Nevez Brest University hospital, University of Brest, France</p><p>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</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S9A (Wednesday 9th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Emergent Harmful Protists in the Globalization Era (ISOP sponsored symposium)</p><p>Organizer and Chair Maria Cristina Angelici National Institute of Health (ISS), Department of Environment and Primary Prevention, Rome, Italy</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Opportunistic Protists: What we Know and What we Have to Know Olga Matos Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal</p><p>A Still Not Well-known Parasite: Balantidium sp., Epidemiology and Diagnostic Tools Francisco Ponce Gordo Department of Parasitology, Complutense University Madrid, Spain</p><p>14 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</p><p>WORKSHOP W9A (Wednesday 9th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Community Ecology through the Lens of High-throughput Sequencing</p><p>Organizers and Chairs Ramiro Logares and Ramon Massana Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Freshwater Plankton Community Ecology under High Throughput Sequencing Perspective Enrique Lara University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland </p><p>High-throughput Sequencing Reveals Strongly Season-dependent Diversity and Dynamics of Haptophytes in North Atlantic Coastal Waters Egge Elianne Sirnæs University of Oslo, Norway </p><p>Harvesting Phylogenetic Information to Unveil the Global Marine Diversity and Biogeography of the Mamiellophyceae Lineage of Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Adam Monier University of Exeter, UK</p><p>Single Cell Transcriptomics of Two Uncultivated Radiolarian Species Anders Krabberød University of Oslo, Norway </p><p>Molecular and Morphology Methods for the Assessment of Marine Dinoflagellates Diversity: Do they Agree? Albert Reñé Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain</p><p>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</p><p>15 Special Mini-Symposium (Wednesday 9th, 12.00-12.30 h, in the frame of General Oral Session GO-7 Evolution/Phylogeny (III))</p><p>Towards an integrated taxonomic and morpho-genetic system for eukaryotes Chairs Sina Adl Colomban de Vargas</p><p>Speakers</p><p>EukRef: Phylogenetically informed, bottom-up curation of eukaryotic 18S rDNA sequences Javier del Campo University of British Columbia, Canada</p><p>UniEuk: A universal, expert validated taxonomic framework integrating reference gene databases for eukaryotic biology, ecology, and evolution Cedric Berney Station Biologique de Roscoff, France</p><p>______</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S10M (Thursday 10th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Genome Editing in Protists</p><p>Organizer and Chair Roberto Docampo Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA</p><p>Speakers</p><p>Unlocking the Toxoplasma gondii Genome through CRISPR/Cas9 Sebastian Lourido Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA</p><p>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.</p><p>CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Trypanosoma cruzi Reveals the Role of Paraflagellar Rod Proteins in Flagellar Attachment and Motility</p><p>16 Noelia Lander CTEGD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, and Department of Clinical Pathology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, S.P., Brazil</p><p>WORKSHOP W10M (Thursday 10th, 10.00-11.30 h)</p><p>Soil Protist Diversity and Ecology</p><p>Organizers and Chairs Enrique Lara University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Stefan Geisen Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wageningen, The Netherlands </p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Protists Hold a Central Regulator Role in Soil Ecosystem Nutrient Cycling Sina Adl University of Saskatchewan, Canada</p><p>Biodiversity of Protists in Soils: What we Know, What we Miss Anna Maria Fiore-Donno University of Cologne, Germany</p><p>Soil Micro-eukaryotes: Different Perspectives on a Diverse and Highly Partitioned Biome David Bass The Natural History Museum/CEFAS, London, UK</p><p>Roundup: Diversity and Key Roles of Protists in Soils Stefan Geisen Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO), Wageningen, the Netherlands</p><p>SYMPOSIUM S10A (Thursday 10th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Novel Therapies against Parasitic Protists</p><p>Organizer and Chair José Manuel Bautista Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain</p><p>17 Speakers</p><p>Trypanocidal Activity and Mode of Action of Carbohydrate binding Agents Dolores González-Pacanowska Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina López-Neyra, CSIC, Granada, Spain</p><p>Molecular Approaches against Malarial Plasmodium Irene Díaz Moreno Instituto de Bioquímica Vegetal y Fotosíntesis, University of Sevilla-CSIC, Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Miltefosine as an Anti-Acanthamoeba Drug Julia Walochnik Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria</p><p>WORKSHOP W10A (Thursday 10th, 12.00-13.30 h)</p><p>Autophagy-related Processes in Unicellular Eukaryotes</p><p>Organizer and Chair José L. Crespo IBVF, CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</p><p>Speakers</p><p>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</p><p>Eco-physiological Context for the Conserved Autophagy Pathway during Algal Bloom Dynamics Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel</p><p>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</p><p>FAREWELL SESSION Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos) Faculty of Computer Engineering (Thursday 10th, 13.30-14.00 h)</p><p>18</p>