PLENARY LECTURE & SYMPOSIUM SYMPOSIuM From genomics to flagellar and ciliary struc - MONDAY 29 JulY tures and cytoskeleton dynamics (by FEPS) PlENARY lECTuRE (ISoP Honorary Member lECTuRE) Chairs (by ISoP) Cristina Miceli , University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy Helena Soares , University of Lisbon and Gulbenkian Foun - Introduction - John Dolan , CNRS-Sorbonne University, Ville - dation, Lisbon, Portugal franche-sur-Mer, France. Jack Sunter - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK- Genome Tom Fenchel University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Den - wide tagging in trypanosomes uncovers flagellum asymmetries mark Dorota Wloga - Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, War - ISoP Honorary Member saw, Poland - Deciphering the molecular mechanisms that coor - dinate ciliary outer doublet complexes – search for “missing Size, Shape and Function among Protozoa links” Helena Soares - University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal - From centrosomal microtubule an - SYMPOSIuM on ciliate biology and taxonomy in memory choring and organization to basal body positioning: TBCCD1 an of Denis lynn (by FEPS/ISoP) elusive protein Chairs Pierangelo luporini , University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy Roberto Docampo , University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia TuESDAY 30 JulY Alan Warren - Natural History Museum, London, UK. The bio - logy and systematics of peritrich ciliates: old concepts and new PlENARY lECTuRE (PAST-PRESIDENT LECTURE, by ISoP) findings Rebecca Zufall - University of Houston, Houston, USA. Amitosis Introduction - Avelina Espinosa , Roger Williams University, and the Evolution of Asexuality in Tetrahymena Ciliates Bristol, USA Sabine Agatha - University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria. The biology and systematics of oligotrichean ciliates: new findings David Bass and old concepts Natural History Museum London, London & Cefas, Weymouth, laura utz - School of Sciences, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Ci - Dorset, UK liate diversity and ecological interactions in Neotropical envi - ronments Micro-eukaryotes in animal and plant microbiomes: ecologies of disease? SYMPOSIuM Protist diversity and function in the dark ocean - challenging the paradigms of deep-sea ecology (by SYMPOSIuM ISOP ADVANCES Ten years of metabarcoding: FEPS) what have we learned and how do we move forward? (by ISoP/ B&R Moore Foundation) Chairs John Dolan, CNRS-Sorbonne University, Villefranche-sur- Chairs Mer, France, luciana Santoferrara University of Connecticut, Storrs, Hartmut Arndt , University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany USA. George McManus ,University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA John Dolan - CNRS-Sorbonne University, Villefranche-sur-mer, France. - Protistan Microzooplankton in the Mesopelagic Medi - luciana Santoferrara - University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. terranean Sea Strengths and limitations of metabarcoding for assessing aquatic Andrew J. Gooday - National Oceanography Centre, Southam - protist communities pton - Biodiversity and biogeography of deep-sea benthic fora - Fabien Burki - Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Long me - minifera and their possible roles in bathyal and abyssal tabarcoding of the eukaryotic rDNA operon to phylogenetically ecosystems and taxonomically resolve environmental diversity Hartmut Arndt , University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany - Fla - Ramiro logares - Institute of Marine Sciences, Barcelona, gellates, ciliates and amoebae may occupy all niches of deep-sea Spain. Hypothesis testing and inference of ecological patterns microbial life from large marine metabarcoding datasets Alexandra Schoenle , University of Cologne, Cologne, Ger - Sabine Filke r - University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, many- Global distribution and unique protist communities in the Germany. Metabarcoding as a basis to study the diversity and deep sea ecophysiology of halophilic microeukaryotes 1 VIII ECOP-ISOP JOINT CONGRESS 2019 SYMPOSIuM All Roads lead to Rome: Comparing Molecu - Adaptation Strategies of the Invasive Bloom-Forming Dinofla - lar and Cellular Paths to Eukaryotic Multicellularity gellates in Brackish Waters (by ISoP) SYMPOSIuM Free-living amoeba and neglected pathogen Chairs protozoa: health emergency signals? (by FEPS) Michelle leger CSIC -University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Chairs Sebastián Najie , CSIC -University Pompeu Fabra, Barce - Joel Dacks , University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada. lona, Spain Maria Cristina Angelici , National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Pauline Schaap - University of Dundee, Dundee, UK. Evolution of multicellularity in the Amoebozoan lineage Joel Dacks - University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada. A compa - Alexander Tice - Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA. rative ‘omics approach to pathogenicity in the Brain-eating Comparing paths to multicellularity in amoeboid protists amoeba, Naegleria fowleri Thibaut Brunet - University of California, Berkeley, USA. In - Julia Walochnik - University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Patho - sights into the origin of animal contractile cells from choanofla - genicity in Acanthamoeba gellates Patrick Scheid - Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz, Ko - lászló Nagy - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hun - blenz, Germany. “Free living amoebae as pathogens and as vec - gary. Not all follow the same road: fungi took a unique evolutio - tors of endocytobionts”. nary path to multicellularity Adriana Calderaro - University of Parma, Parma, Italy. Intesti - nal protozoa searching for a disease or for a doctor? SYMPOSIuM ISOP ADVANCES Applications of Genetic Tools for Advancing Research on Marine Protists (by ISoP/B&R SYMPOSIuM Host-Parasite Interactions in Vector-borne Moore Foundation) Protozoan Infections (by FEPS) Chairs Chairs Virginia Edgcomb , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Marina Gramiccia National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Woods Hole, USA, luigi Gradoni National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Julius lukes , Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic Gad Baneth - Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel. Babesia spe - cies of Domestic Dogs – Where do they Fit in the Piroplasmid Binnypreet Kaur - Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějo - World? vice, Czech Republic. Diplonema papillatum, a representative of Paul Bates - Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Revising Lei - the highly diverse and abundant marine microeukaryotes, can shmania’s life cycle in the phlebotomine vector. be genetically manipulated Anna Olivieri - National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy. Pla - Ross Waller - Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. Transfor - smodium development in the mosquito midgut. A molecular and ming Dinozoa: steps forward and steps back”. cellular view. Fatma Gomaa - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, USA. Tools for stable integrative transfection of Bodo saltans: A micro-eu - karyote with polycistronic peptide coding genes SYMPOSIuM Waterborne infections of protozoan origin: Jackie Collier - Stony Brook University, NY, USA. Successful ge - how much do we really know? (by FEPS) netic manipulation of the thraustochytrid Aurantiochytrium li - macinum and challenges extending to other labyrinthulomycetes Chairs Cristina Miceli - University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy. Tran - Panagiotis Karanis , University of Cologne, Cologne, Ger - sfection and reverse genetics in marine ciliates with highly am - many plified nanochromosomes Maria Cristina Angelici , National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy Panagiotis Karanis - University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. Wednesday 31 July Waterborne Protozoan Infections: Health Problem Dimension Worldwide PlENARY lECTuRE (by FEPS) Melissa Palos ladeiro - University of Reims Champagne-Ar - Introduction - Maria Cristina Angelici, National Institute of denne, Reims, France. Mollusc Bivalves as Indicators of conta - Health, Rome, Italy mination of water bodies by protozoan parasites Judit Plutzer - National Public Health Institute, Budapest, Hun - Sergey Skarlato gary. New directions in parasite detection: micro-and macroflui - Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia dic platforms 2 PLENARY LECTURE & SYMPOSIUM Maria Cristina Angelici - National Institute for Health, Rome, Diane Stoecker - University-Md-Horn Point Lab, Cambridge, Italy. Waterbone Protozoan Infections in the Climatic Changes USA. Mixotrophs - food webs and harmful algal blooms Era. George McManus - University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA. Mi - xotrophs and challenges for experimental studies Fabrice Not –CNRS-Sorbonne University, Roscoff, France. Mi - Thursday 01 August xotrophs and challenges for molecular biology Aditee Mitra - Swansea University, Swansea, UK Challenges for PlENARY lECTuRE (by FEPS) modelling the perfect beast Introduction - Giulio Petroni , University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy SYMPOSIuM Bioactive molecules from protists: perspecti - Sergey Fokin ves in Biotechnology (by FEPS) University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Chairs Prof. H.-D. Goertz and his contribution to our knowledge of pro - Adriana Vallesi and Sandra Pucciarelli tozoan symbiosis. University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy SYMPOSIuM Symbiosis in ciliates: H.-D. Görtz and his le - Marco Mangiagalli - University of Milan, Milan, Italy. Life gacy (by FEPS) under stress: ice binding proteins and superoxide dismutases from an Antarctic ciliate. Chairs Angelo Fontana - (ICB) CNR, Naple, Italy. Function and biote - Giulio Petroni , University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy chnological research of metabolites from marine protists Martina Schrallhammer , University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Federico