SAME15 Program in pdf
Sunday 3.9.2017.
14:00 – 17:00 Registration opens
17:00 – 17:30 SAME Welcome – Sandi Orlić, representative of the University and Ministry
17:30 – 18:00 Felix Baerlocher: Fungi – neglected key players in aquatic ecology (IL)
18:00 – 18:30 Tanja Woyke: Targeting taxonomic ‘blind spots’ & functional traits via single-cell approaches (IL)
18:30 – 21:00 – Welcome party
Monday 4.9.2017.
Chair and moderator: Assaf Vardi
8:45 – 9:15 Matthew Sullivan: The global ocean virome: Re-imagining patterns, processes and paradigms on the high seas (IL)
Session 1: Viruses: understanding the power of the smaller
9.15 Ian Hewson: Come and go as you please! Widespread endemism and transiency in echinoderm-associated picornaviruses
9:30 Rohit Ghai: A thousand ways to kill: Genomes of freshwater phages infecting major microbial groups in freshwater habitats
9:45 Sheila Roitman: Cyanophage-encoding lipid desaturases: Fiddling with cyanobacterial membranes
10:00 Sophia Zborowsky: Resistance Strategies Differ Against Generalist and Specialist Cyanophages
10:15 Daniela Schatz: Communication via extracellular vesicles during host-virus interactions in the ocean
10:30 Anna Szekely: The effect of viruses during bacterial community coalescence: no viruses are as bad as your own and not everyone has the same immunity
10:45 – 11:15 – Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Rudolf Amann: Visualizing bacterioplankton succession and bacterial polysaccharide utilization in a coastal sea (IL)
Session 2: Microbial behavior in aquatic systems: from individual cells to communities
11:45 Bennett Lambert: Chemotaxis-driven interactions between microorganisms revealed through in situ microfluidics.
12:00 Clara Ruiz-González: Individual abundance distributions unveil the different lifestyles of prokaryotes inhabiting the global surface ocean
12:15 Dina Spungin: Programmed cell death in diazotrophs and the fate of C and N in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean
12:30 -14:00 – Lunch break
Chair and moderator: Gianluca Corno
14:00 – 14:30 Thorsten Stoeck – Environmental DNA barcoding of benthic protists is a strong tool for environmental impact assessment of salmon farming (IL)
Session 2: Microbial behavior in aquatic systems: from individual cells to communities
14:30 Dirren Sebastian: Grazing of Nuclearia thermophila and Nuclearia delicatula (Nucleariidae, Opisthokonta) on the toxic cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens
14:45 Leon Dlugosch: Roseobacters are the most active cell-proliferating bacterioplankton group during early summer in the North Sea
15:00 Magdalena J. Mayr: Methanotrophs in stratified Swiss lakes: First evidence of C. Methylomirabilis oxyfera-like bacteria and ecological differentiation of aerobic methanotrophs
15.15 Marco Giardina: Imaging and quantifying Nitrogen uptake by phytoplankton- associated heterotrophic bacteria
15.30 Mireia Mestre: Vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome: Sinking particles as dispersal vectors
15.45 Ramiro Logares: Evidence of different community structuring patterns in eukaryotic vs. prokaryotic picoplankton inhabiting the sunlit global ocean
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break
Session 2: Microbial behavior in aquatic systems: from individual cells to communities
17:00 Sophie Crevecoeur: Bacterial community assembly across a steep environmental gradient in a small water continuum
17.15 Trista Vick-Majors: A functional perspective on microbial community assembly along an aquatic continuum
17:30 – 19:00 – Poster section
20:00 – 22:00 – Night in the museum
Tuesday 5.9.2017.
Chair and moderator: Stefan Bertlisson
9:00 – 9:30 – Emilio Casamayor: Microbial ecology in alpine lakes (IL)
Session 8: Making a living of what is available: Microbial chemoautotrophic metabolisms in aquatic environments
9:30 Alfredier Albin: Pathways of carbon dioxide fixation used by nitrifiers in lakes
9:45 Barbara Bayer: Comparative proteomics of three Nitrosopumilus species and their interaction with a heterotrophic Alphaproteobacterium
10:00 Massimiliano Molari: Expanding the ecological niche of the genus Sulfurimonas
10:15 Petra Pjevac: Discriminating and quantifying inorganic carbon fixation by green and purple sulfur bacteria in a stratified seawater lake
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Victoria Orphan: Specific partnerships and syntrophic mechanisms between methane oxidizing archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria (IL)
Session 4: Microbial metabolic networks in biogeochemical cycles: Who does what? Strategies/success stories in linking (microbial) diversity to function”
11:30 Alexander Bochdansky: Shift of community composition towards eukaryotic microbes on deep-sea marine snow
11:45 Christin Koch: Searching the ecological niche of electroactive microorganisms
12:00 Clara Martinez Perez: A new player in the Marine N cycle? Genome and physiology of a new diazotroph isolate from the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone
12:15 – 14:00 – Lunch break
Chair and moderator: Gian Marco Luna
14:00 – 14:30 Thomas Mock: The Evolution and Significance of Diverged Alleles in Diatoms (IL)
Session 4: Microbial metabolic networks in biogeochemical cycles: Who does what? Strategies/success stories in linking (microbial) diversity to function”
14:30 Clemens Krawautz: In or out – Structure and function of submersed methylotrophic biofilms vs. subaerial snottites in a iodine-rich mineral spring cave
14:45 Eva Ortega Retuerta: A snapshot of prokaryote community structure in the Mediterranean Sea reveals high spatial structuring by depth and basin
15:00 Kang Soo Lee: Raman-activated sorting of isotopically labeled microbial cells in a microfluidic device
15:15 Laura Gomez Consarnau: Mosaic patterns of B-vitamin metabolism in a natural marine microbial community
15:30 Laura Zeugner: Visualization of two glycoside hydrolase genes of family 92 in Formosa strain B with direct geneFISH and super-resolution microscopy
15:45 Luca Zoccarato: Whole genome comparative analyses uncover gene modules and functional traits potentially involved in host-bacteria interactions
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break
16.30 Maliheh Mehrshad: The enigmatic SAR202 cluster up close: shedding light on a globally distributed dark ocean lineage involved in sulfur cycling
16:45 Stefan Bertilsson: Nature and control of biological mercury methylation in lakes
17:00 – 19:00 – Poster section
Wednesday 6.9.2017.
Chair and moderator: Meinhard Simon
8:30 – 9:00 Christa Schlepper: Ecological patterns and functional diversity of marine thaumarchaeota (IL)
Session 5: Microbes in future aquatic environments (Response of aquatic microbial communities to environmental changes)
9:00 Eva Teira: Size-fractionated microbial plankton B1 and B12 vitamin uptake and kinetic parameters in a coastal upwelling system
9:15 Eyal Rahav: Sewage outburst triggers Trichodesmium bloom in the coastal southeastern Mediterranean Sea
9:30 Gianluca Corno: Modulate response of the microbiome and resistome of natural bacterial communities exposed to treated wastewater effluents
9:45 Giulia Gionchetta: Storms and hyporheic humidity as key factors for resistance of streambed microbial heterotrophs to drought
10:00 Kasia Piwosz: Throughout insight into bacterial growth rates: getting high resolution data
10:15 Malin Olofsson: Has Skeletonema marinoi adapted to increased eutrophication during the last century?
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
11:00 – 21:00 – Free program
Thursday 7.9.2017.
Chair and moderator: Matthew Sullivan
8:45 – 9:15 Tom Battin: Biofilm ecology in stream ecosystems (IL)
Session 7: Handling the flow: from small scale turbulence to stream and river microbiology – Stream microbiology
9.15 David Scheidweiler: Unveiling biofilm structure and function in porous environments mimicking the hyporheic zone
9:30 Robert Niederdorfer: Ecological strategies and metabolic trade-offs of complex environmental biofilms
Session 2: Microbial behavior in aquatic systems: from individual cells to communities
9:45 Vojtech Kasalicky: Environmental factors influencing the freshwater aerobic anoxygenic photoheterophs
10:00 Weizhou Zhao: A tale of two ends: Dispersal of horizontally acquired genes in fresh and saltwater Actinobacteria into the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea
10:15 Matthias Hoetzinger: Microevolution of a pelagic Polynucleobacter species
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
Session 5: Microbes in future aquatic environments (Response of aquatic microbial communities to environmental changes)
11:00 Allison R Rober: Ecological consequences of warming on the toxicity of cyanobacteria blooms
11:15 María Arias-Andrés: Microplastics particles increase antibiotic resistance transfer in aquatic ecosystems
11:30 Sergi Compte: Assessing the impact of metal contamination over sediment-dwelling Archaea from pristine high-mountain lakes
11:45 Raven Bier: Effects of environmental fluctuations on the temporal dynamics of community assembly mechanisms
12:00 Cecilia Alonso: Bacterioplankton community composition as environmental indicator
12:15 Angel Franco: Microplastics act as new surfaces for the development of non-native bacterial communities in marine systems.
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch break
Chair and moderator: Michaela Salcher
14:00 – 14:30 Jillian Petersen: Marine symbioses: How animals gain new functions by cooperation with microbes (IL)
Session 6: Symbiotic interactions in the aquatic environment
14:30 Ramsy Agha: Chytrid parasitism facilitates trophic transfer between bloom-forming cyanobacteria and zooplankton
14:45 Oliver Jäckle: Physiological showcasing of an alphaproteobacterial SOX symbiont – Ca.Riegeria sp. ‘standrea’
15:00 Gianna Pitsch: The green Tetrahymena utriculariae n. sp. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) with its endosymbiotic algae (Micractinium sp.), living in traps of a carnivorous aquatic plant
15:15 Desponia Sousoni: One-to- one interactions in marine microbes: Phototroph vs. Heterotroph
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 16:30 Assaf Vardi: Mapping the virus-induced metabolic seascape during algal blooms in the ocean (IL)
16:30 – 18:30 – Poster section
20:00 – 04:00 – Gala Dinner
Friday 8.9.2017.
Chair and moderator: Cecilia Alonso
9:00 – 9:30 Gurvan Michel: Habitat and taxon as driving forces of carbohydrate catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria: a focus on the model algae-associated bacterium Zobellia galactanivorans DsijT (IL)
Session 3: Model organisms in aquatic microbiology
9:30 Veronika Will: Proteomics analysis of Marinobacter adhaerens during its interaction with diatoms
9:45 Michaela Salcher: ‘Ca. Methylopumilus planktonicus’: highly abundant freshwater methylotrophs as models for genome-streamlining in planktonic microbes
10:00 Matthias Wietz: Succession of proteomic, transcriptomic and exometabolomic signatures in Alteromonas macleodii degrading a mix of macroalgal polysaccharides
10:15 Lea Weinisch: Schmidingerothrix salinarum – an ideal model organism to investigate haloadaptations in heterotrophic protists
10:30 Danny Ionescu: Community-like genome in single cells of Achromatium sp.
10:45-11:15 – Coffee break
11:15 – 11:45 Annette Engel: Microbial roles in aquatic karst ecosystems (IL)
11:45 – 12:00 – Final remarks
12:00 – Closing of the congress