Conference Program Sunday, August 3th 4:00PM-8:00PM in PDC Central Foyer Registration Desk 7:00PM-9:00PM in KC 101/outdoor patio Ice Breaker Reception Monday, August 4th Breakfast will be provided between 7:00AM-9:00AM in the Vistas Dining Room Continuous refreshments will be provided from 8:00AM-12:00PM and 1:00PM-4:30PM in KC 100 9:00AM-10:35AM in KC103/105 Symposium: Insights into protistan ecology coming from next generation sequencing-I Chairs: Laura Wegener Parfrey; Maria Aguilar Gonzalez I. Purificación López-García: Diversity and temporal dynamics of small planktonic protists from shallow freshwater system II. Ramiro Logares: Community patterns in marine protists III. Maria Aguilar González: Next generation sequencing of protists in the oilsands of Alberta (Canada) IV. Laura Wegener Parfrey: Defining the 'normal' human eukaryotic microbiota 10:35AM-11:00AM in KC 100 Refreshment break 11:00AM-12:05PM in KC103/105 Symposium: Insights into protistan ecology coming from next generation sequencing-II Chairs: Laura Wegener Parfrey; Maria Aguilar Gonzalez I. Tove Gabrielsen: Seasonality of arctic marine protists in western spitsbergen fjords II. Javier del Campo: A community effort towards phylogenetic-based curation of ribosomal databases for environmental sequencing. 12:05PM-1:30PM in Vistas Dining Room Lunch 1:30PM-2:30PM in KC 103/105 KEYNOTE: HuTner LecTure by John Archibald: Endosymbiosis, organelles and genome evolution 2:30PM-2:45PM in KC 100 Refreshment break 2:45PM-3:50PM (Talks in all concurrenT sessions are 15 minuTes, including quesTions) Concurrent session 1A: Plastids-I (KC 103) Chair: HeaTher Esson I. MaTThew S. BenneTT: Chloroplast genomes of the Euglenaceae II. ZolTán Füssy: The retainment of the secondary plastid of Euglena longa is connected to the functional Calvin cycle localized to this compartment III. Norico Yamada: Diatom-derived chloroplasts in dinoflagellates originate from eight different free-living diatoms IV. ElisabeTh Richardson: Genome-wide transcript profiling reveals the coevolution of plastid gene sequences and transcript processing pathways in the fucoxanthin dinoflagellate Karlodinium veneficium Concurrent session 1B: Predatory Flagellates-II (KC 105) Chair: Naoji Yubuki I. Denis V. Tikhonenkov: Free-living predatory flagellates as basal branches of eukaryotic supergroups II. David Moreira: Molecular phylogeny and ultrastructure of Aphelidium aff. melosirae (Aphelida, Opisthosporidia) and the diversity of freshwater aphelids III. ElisabeTh Hehenberger: Introducing a new opisthokont species with a predatory lifestyle IV. SebasTian Hess: The Viridiraptoridae- a novel family of algivorous flagellates (Glissomonadida, Rhizaria) 3:50PM-4:30PM in KC 100 Refreshment break 4:30PM-5:35PM Concurrent session 2A: Plastids (KC 103) Chair: Goro Tanifugi I. Yuki Nishimura: Paulinella chromatophora retains two evolutionarily distinct pathways for tetrapyrrole biosynthesis II. MaTThew D. Johnson: Cellular and metabolic integration of symbiotic organelles in Mesodinium rubrum III. HeaTher J. Esson: Whence the apicoplast? Phylogenetic analyses of photosynthetic genes give us a hint IV. ChrisTopher Howe: Transcription and post-transcriptional processing in the Plasmodium chloroplast Concurrent session 2B: Excavates (KC 105) Chair: ElisabeTh Hehenberger I. Julius Lukeš: Paratrypanosoma confusum- an unexpected early-branching trypanosomatid II. Aaron A. Heiss: Malawimonad ultrastructure and molecular phylogenetics III. Naoji Yubuki: Comparative ultrastructure of fornicate excavates, including a description of a novel lineage (CL2) IV. Tomáš Pánek: Creneidae fam. nov.- novel anaerobic lineage of Heterolobosea (Excavata) with unique cell structure and peculiar multiflagellate stage within the life cycle 5:35PM-6:30PM in KC 105 ISOP AGM 7:00PM-the cows come home Student Night Tuesday, August 5th Breakfast will be provided between 7:00AM-9:00AM in the Vistas Dining Room Continuous refreshments will be provided from 8:00AM-12:00PM and 1:00PM-4:30PM in KC 100 9:00AM-10:35AM in KC103/105 Symposium: Evolution of metazoan multicellularity Chair: Joel Dacks I. Inaki Ruiz-Trillo: How animals emerged? A genomics and cell biology perspective II. Nicholas J. BuTTerfield: Tracking the cryptic record of early animal evolution III. Sally P. Leys: Sponges, complex traits, and the evolution of multicellularity 10:35AM-11:00AM in KC 100 Refreshment break 11:00AM-12:05PM in KC103/105 KEYNOTE: ISEP PresidenT LecTure by Andrew Roger: The evolutionary of mitochondria and related organelles in eukaryotes: theories, mechanisms and evidence. 12:05PM-1:30PM in Vistas Dining Room Lunch 1:30PM-2:35PM Concurrent session 3A: Ecology (KC 103) Chair: Josephine M. Scoble I. Jong Soo Park: Diversity and spatial variation of protozoa in geographically disparate hypersaline environments II. Thierry J. Heger: Soil protistan communities in contrasting ecosystems from the coastal temperate rainforest of Calvert Island (British Columbia, Canada) III. GayTha A. Langlois: Changes in an intertidal microbial community during chronic exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons at a bioremediation site, Prudence Island, Narragansett Bay IV. Olga Flegontova: Diplonemea (Excavata) emerge as a major component of mesopelagic plankton in the world ocean Concurrent session 3B: Cell Biology (KC 105) Chair: Laura Eme I. Charles F. Delwiche: The plant hormone ethylene is functional in charophyte green algae II. Izumi IwaTa: Observation on the development of the bothrosome after zoospore settlement, which characterized the Labrinthulomycetes (Stramenopiles) III. Shinichiro Maruyama: Evolution and diversification of light harvesting complex driven by gene duplication IV. Erica Lasek-NesselquisT: The molecular interplay between a ciliate and its stolen organelles 2:35PM-3:30PM in KC 100 Refreshment break 3:30PM-4:35PM Concurrent session 4A: Species Concept (KC 103) Chair: Daniel Lahr I. Ivan Čepička: Anaeramoeba spp., novel anaerobic amoeboflagellates with uncertain phylogenetic position II. NaTalia V. Annenkova: A recently formed species flock contains both marine and freshwater dinoflagellates III. Vera Tai: Can microbes in the hindgut communities of termites and wood-eating cockroaches be used to study speciation? IV. Alan Warren: What should be the minimum requirements for establishing new ciliate species in the 21st century? Concurrent session 4B: Ancient Eukaryotes (KC 105) Chair: Jeremy Wideman I. Michael RouT: Uncovering evolution in 3D: architecture of the nuclear pore complex reveals conserved features of the eukaryotic endomembrane system across a billion years II. Alexander SchlachT: Characterization of TSET, an ancient and widespread membrane trafficking complex III. Frederick W. Spiegel: Was LECA a landlubber? IV. Laura Eme: On the age of eukaryotes: evaluating evidence from fossils and molecular clocks 4:45PM-7:00PM in KC 101 Poster session and drinks (cash bar) Posters ordered alphabetically. Available for viewing from Monday, August 3rd. Wednesday, August 6th For those who have registered for the hikes: Bagged breakfast and lunch will be available for pickup from the front desk by 6AM 6:30AM-8:30PM Walcott Quarry Bus departs at 6:30AM 6:30AM-8:30PM Helen Lake Stromatolite Beds Bus departs at 6:30AM 7:30AM-4:45PM Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds Bus departs at 7:30AM For those who have NOT registered for the hikes: Breakfast will be provided between 7:00AM-9:30AM in the Vistas Dining Room Bagged lunch will be available by 9AM in the Vistas Dining room, for those who have requested it. Bag lunch requests must be made by 9AM, Monday August 4th. 9:00AM-5:00PM in KC 103 Optional Breakout Sessions 12:00PM-1:30PM in Vistas Dining Room Lunch Thursday, August 7th Breakfast will be provided between 7:00AM-9:00AM in the Vistas Dining Room Continuous refreshments will be provided from 8:00AM-12:00PM and 1:00PM-4:30PM in KC 100 9:00AM-10:35AM in KC103/105 Symposium: MMETSP-I Chair: John Archibald I. Dail Laughinghouse: Taxon-rich analyses using a phylogenomic pipeline resolve the eukaryotic tree of life and reveal the power of subsampling by sites II. Chris Lane: Using networks to facilitate transcriptome assembly and analysis III. MarTin Kolisko: Investigation of contamination levels in the Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project data 10:35AM-11:00AM in KC 100 Refreshment break 11:00AM-12:05PM in KC103/105 Symposium: MMETSP-II Chair: John Archibald I. Sonya Dyhrman: Transcriptome-based profiling of algal nutritional physiology; linking physiology to geochemistry in cultures and field populations II. Denis Lynn: Large-scale phylogenomic analysis reveals the phylogenetic position of the problematic taxon Protocruzia and unravels the deep phylogenetic affinities of the ciliate lineages 12:05PM-1:30PM in Vistas Dining Room Lunch 1:30PM-2:35PM in KC 103/105 KEYNOTE: ISOP PasT PresidenT LecTure by John Clamp: Reflections on a career in ciliate systematics 2:35PM-2:45PM in KC 100 Refreshment break 2:45PM-3:50PM Concurrent session 5A: Mitochondria-I (KC 101) Chair: Anna Karnkowska I. Lukáš Novák: Mitochondrial organelle of Trimastix pyriformis II. Michelle L. Leger: Adaptations to anaerobiosis and ancient mitochondrial features in the mitochondrion-related organelles of a free-living jakobid III. Lael Barlow: Comparative genomics and phylogenetic analysis of Syntaxin 17 IV. Ryan MR Gawryluk: A unique H2-producing mitochondrion in a novel anaerobic cercomonad Concurrent session 5B: Novel Lineages-I (KC 105) Chair: Susana Breglia I. AlasTair G. B. Simpson: