Keynote Lectures | SAME15 – 15th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

	Rudolf Amann Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Visualizing bacterioplankton succession and bacterial polysaccharide utilization in a coastal sea
	Felix Baerlocher Biology Faculty, Mount Allison University, Canada Fungi – neglected key players in aquatic ecology
	Tom Ian Battin Stream Biofilm and Ecosystem Reasearch laboratory, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Biofilm ecology in stream ecosystems
	Emilio O Casamayor Continetal Ecology Department, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes, Spain *Microbial ecology in alpine lakes*
	Annette Summers Engel Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, USA *Microbial roles in aquatic karst ecosystems*
	Gurvan Michel Marine Glycobiology group, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France *Habitat and taxon as driving forces of carbohydrate catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria: a focus on the model algae-associated bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT*
	Thomas Mock School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom The Evolution and Significance of Diverged Alleles in Diatoms
	Victoria Orphan Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, USA Specific partnerships and syntrophic mechanisms between methane oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria
	Jillian Petersen Division of Microbial Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria Marine symbioses: How animals gain new functions by cooperation with microbes
	Christa Schlepper Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics Division, University of Vienna, Austria Ecological patterns and functional diversity of marine thaumarchaeota
	Matthew Sullivan Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, USA The global ocean virome: Re-imagining patterns, processes and paradigms on the high seas
	Thorsten Stoeck Ecology Department, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Environmental DNA barcoding of benthic protists is a strong tool for environmental impact assessment of salmon farming
	Assaf Vardi Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Mapping the virus-induced metabolic seascape during algal blooms in the ocean
	Tanja Woyke Targeted Genomics Lab, DOE Joint Genome Institute, USA Targeting taxonomic ‘blind spots’ & functional traits via single-cell approaches