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25. august
15:30 - 17:00
Registration
Duration: 90 min
17:00 - 17:10
Short Welcome and Introduction to Plenary Session
Duration: 10 min
Chair: Veljo Kisand
17:10 - 18:10
PLENARY TALK BY PEI-YUAN QIAN
Duration: 60 min
18:10 - 19:10
PLENARY TALK BY MEINHARD SIMON
Duration: 60 min
19:15 - 21:45
Welcome mixer
Duration: 150 min
08:45 - 08:50
Short introduction
Duration: 5 min
08:50 - 09:35
TOPIC 1. QUEST FOR CARBON. KEYNOTE BY JAN-HENDRIK HEHEMANN
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Mina Bizic
09:35 - 09:50
Jakob Pernthaler: A stranger around every corner: small-scale spatial heterogeneity in freshwater bacterial metacommunities and its functional consequences
Duration: 15 min
09:50 - 10:05
Cristian Villena-Alemany: Exploring the ecological significance of aerobic anoxygenic photoheterotrophic bacteria in freshwater ecosystems
Duration: 15 min
10:05 - 10:20
Falk Eigemann: Mechanistic inference suggests periodic dominance of internal heterotrophic recycling in the Western English Channel carbon cycle
Duration: 15 min
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
Duration: 15 min
10:45 - 11:00
OFFICIAL OPENING
Duration: 15 min
11:00 - 11:45
TOPIC 2. HOOPS AND LOOPS OF NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS CYCLE. KEYNOTE BY LASSE RIEMANN
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Matthias Labrenz
11:45 - 12:00
Anabel von Jackowski: Seasonal variations in amino acid isomers and response from microbial communities in the north-western Mediterranean Sea
Duration: 15 min
12:00 - 12:15
Michaela A. Mausz: Elucidating the consequences of cyanobacterial lipid remodelling following phosphorus stress
Duration: 15 min
12:15 - 12:30
Mariano Santoro: Insights into adaptational strategies of blooming Cyanobacteria to limiting nutrients and natural perturbation events: a mesocosm study in the Baltic Sea
Duration: 15 min
12:30 - 12:45
Daniel E.M. Saavedra: Investigating the prevalence of enzyme promiscuity in different alkaline phosphatases families
Duration: 15 min
12:45 - 13:30
Lunch
Duration: 45 min
13:30 - 14:15
TOPIC 3. ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC MICROBIAL EUKARYOTES. KEYNOTE BY RAMIRO LOGARES
Duration: 45 min
Chairs: Ester Eckert and Rohit Ghai
14:15 - 14:35
Shai Fainsod: Rhodopsin Richness in a Microalgae Peat Lake Population
Duration: 20 min
14:35 - 14:55
Thomas Mollica: Pico- and nanophytoplankton drive plankton stoichiometry in the Baltic Sea
Duration: 20 min
14:55 - 15:15
Tessa de Bruin: Can intraspecific trait variation modulate the effects of environmental change drivers on population dynamics?
Duration: 20 min
15:15 - 15:35
Javier Florenza: De novo assembled single-cell transcriptomes from aquatic phytoflagellates reveal an unexpected and metabolically distinct cell population
Duration: 20 min
15:35 - 16:00
Coffee break
Duration: 25 min
16:00 - 16:20
Usman Asghar: Season specific response of freshwater ciliates communities under the same experimental manipulation conditions
Duration: 20 min
16:20 - 16:40
Indranil Mukherjee: From under the radar to under the microscope: global distribution of aplastidic bacterivorous cryptophytes in freshwater lakes
Duration: 20 min
16:40 - 17:00
Kasia Piwosz: Never-ending story – intriguing trophic levels in pelagic microbial food webs in the Baltic Sea
Duration: 20 min
17:00 - 17:20
Paul-Adrian Bulzu: Large-scale invasion of Cryptophyte genomes by Polinton-like viruses
Duration: 20 min
17:20 - 17:40
Filomena Romano: Metabarcoding and single cell transcriptomic of nanociliates in the Eastern Mediterrenean Sea
Duration: 20 min
17:45 - 19:30
Poster session I (with beer and snacks) / Sponsors' exhibition
Duration: 105 min
09:00 - 09:45
TOPIC 4. DEEP AQUATIC BIOSHPERE, ANYTHING BELOW 200 M. KEYNOTE BY ANAÏS CARIO
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Danny Ionescu
09:45 - 10:00
Mauro Celussi: High dissolved inorganic carbon uptake by Bacteria and Archaea in the deep water masses of the Ross Sea
Duration: 15 min
10:00 - 10:15
Mina Bizic: Cave Thiovulum (Candidatus Thiovulum stygium) differs metabolically and genomically from marine species
Duration: 15 min
10:15 - 10:30
Cas Cornet: Methanogenic and methanotrophic communities in methane-rich sediments and microbial mats from the Western Black Sea
Duration: 15 min
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break
Duration: 20 min
10:50 - 11:50
TOPIC 4 CONTINUES AND ECR SESSION
Duration: 60 min
10:50 - 11:05
Federico Baltar: A novel gammaproteobacterial group potentially dominates inorganic sulfur oxidation and inorganic C fixation in the deep ocean
Duration: 15 min
11:05 - 11:20
Ariel Chazan: Phototrophy by antenna-containing rhodopsin pumps in aquatic environments
Duration: 15 min
11:20 - 11:35
Paul Layoun: Microdiversity in genome-streamlined freshwater ‘Ca. Methylopumilus’ and their marine sister lineage OM43.
Duration: 15 min
11:35 - 11:50
Maria - Cecilia Chiriac: Novel cultivated lineages of the abundant ‘Ca. Nanopelagicales’ order – what are the genomic adaptations required for success?
Duration: 15 min
11:50 - 12:35
TOPIC 6. MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS
Duration: 45 min
Chairs: Hans-Peter Grossart
11:50 - 12:05
Eduard Fadeev: The ecophysiological roles of extracellular vesicles in marine bacteria
Duration: 15 min
12:05 - 12:20
Omer Nadel: Cyanophage auxiliary metabolic protein NblA is directly involved in phycobilisome degradation in infected marine Synechoccocus
Duration: 15 min
12:20 - 12:35
Coco Koedooder: Unraveling the intricate community dynamics in colonies of the diazotrophic cyanobacteria Trichodesmium through metagenomics and metatranscriptomics
Duration: 15 min
12:35 - 13:30
Lunch
Duration: 55 min
13:30 - 13:45
Isabell Klawonn: Interactions between microscopic fungi, phytoplankton, and bacteria, and how those modulate the fate of carbon in aquatic systems
Duration: 15 min
13:45 - 14:00
Martin Sperfeld: Bacterial lag phase shortening by methylated compounds - a primer for phototroph-heterotroph interactions?
Duration: 15 min
14:00 - 14:15
Carina Bunse: Influence of bacterial interactions on organic matter biogeochemistry
Duration: 15 min
14:15 - 15:00
TOPIC 7. BIG DATA AND DATA RE-USE IN AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY. KEYNOTE BY LUCAS PAOLI
Duration: 45 min
Chairs: Christiane Hassenrück and Jaak Truu
15:00 - 15:15
Rohit Ghai: PELAGICS: Pan-European Lake Sampling and Microbial Ecogenomics
Duration: 15 min
15:15 - 15:30
Yu Nakajima: Tera base hot spring metagenomes illuminate novel and diverse microbiomes
Duration: 15 min
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee break
Duration: 15 min
15:45 - 16:00
Alejandro Rodríguez-Gijón: Across the Rhodoferax-verse: High genomic diversity within an understudied Gammaproteobacteria genus
Duration: 15 min
16:00 - 16:15
Alizée Le Moigne: Revisiting the Paradox of the Plankton: Aquatic bacterial genomes are functionally more diversified than those from other habitats
Duration: 15 min
16:15 - 16:30
Izabela Mujakic: Multi-environment ecogenomics analysis of the cosmopolitan phylum Gemmatimonadota
Duration: 15 min
16:30 - 16:45
Anna Karnkowska: Plastidial metagenomics reveals diversity and ecology of phototrophic eukaryotes in freshwater lakes
Duration: 15 min
16:45 - 17:00
Danny Ionescu: Heterozygous, polyploid, giant bacterium, Achromatium, is ubiquitous in aquatic sediments and has an identical functional inventory across drastically different ecosystems
Duration: 15 min
17:00 - 17:15
Mara Maeke: Using data mining to uncover novel thermoplasmatota involved in protein degradation in marine sediments
Duration: 15 min
17:15 - 17:30
Corentin Fournier: Bayesian inference revealed seasonal dynamics of the microbial plankton community driven by both environmental factors and biotic interactions.
Duration: 15 min
17:45 - 19:45
Poster session II (with beer and snacks) / Sponsors' exhibition
Duration: 120 min
09:00 - 09:45
TOPIC 8. MICROBES IN A CHANGING WORLD. KEYNOTE BY RAFFAELE SIANO
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Helen Tammert
09:45 - 10:05
Siim Koppel: Temporal variations of ancient bio-vibrations
Duration: 20 min
10:05 - 10:25
Jason Woodhouse: LIMNOS: Exploring long-term changes in freshwater microbial communities
Duration: 20 min
10:25 - 10:45
Vincenzo Manna: Annual recurrence of climactic microbial communities in shallow waters of the North Mediterranean
Duration: 20 min
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
Duration: 15 min
11:00 - 11:45
TOPIC 8 CONTINUES. KEYNOTE BY SILKE LANGENHEDER
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Kasia Piwosz
11:45 - 12:05
Matthias Labrenz: Regionally important parameters impact pelagic Vibrio vulnificus occurrences along the Baltic Sea coast
Duration: 20 min
12:05 - 12:25
Deborah Knapp: Red alert for Planktothrix rubescens! surprising effects of climate heating on cyanobacterial blooms in a deep stratifying lake
Duration: 20 min
12:25 - 13:30
Lunch
Duration: 65 min
13:30 - 15:30
TOPIC 8 CONTINUES
Duration: 120 min
13:30 - 13:50
Anders Andersson: Spatiotemporal variation of microbial plankton communities in the Baltic Sea
Duration: 20 min
13:50 - 14:10
Pedro J. Cabello-Yeves: Why do alpha-cyanobacteria with form 1A RuBisCO dominate aquatic habitats worldwide?
Duration: 20 min
14:10 - 14:30
Carlotta Meriggi: Competition dynamics of native mixed phytoplankton communities exposed to the invasive cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis raciborskii along gradients of N:P and temperature
Duration: 20 min
14:30 - 14:50
Isabel Fernandes: Impacts of drought and nutrients are stronger on fungal diversity than functions
Duration: 20 min
14:50 - 15:10
Ashish Verma: Prokaryotic specific growth rates regulate the share of maintenance respiration in marine ecosystems
Duration: 20 min
15:10 - 15:30
Krzysztof Jurdzinski: Large-scale phylogenomics of aquatic bacteria reveal molecular mechanisms for adaptation to salinity
Duration: 20 min
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Duration: 30 min
16:00 - 17:20
TOPIC 8 CONTINUES
Duration: 80 min
Chair: Daniel Herlemann
16:00 - 16:20
Attila Szabó: Contrasting Response of Microeukaryotic and Bacterial Communities to the Interplay of Seasonality and Stochastic Events in Shallow Soda Lakes
Duration: 20 min
16:20 - 16:40
Ester Eckert: Zooplankton released free enzymes impact on the natural transformation of bacteria
Duration: 20 min
16:40 - 17:00
Theodor Sperlea: A year of microbial dynamics in the Warnow estuary and the Baltic Sea coast in high spatiotemporal resultion.
Duration: 20 min
17:00 - 17:20
Gianluca Corno: Guess who's coming to dinner! Fate and dynamics of allochthonous bacteria and their antibiotic resistome in aquatic communities exposed to different anthropogenic pressures.
Duration: 20 min
09:00 - 09:45
TOPIC 9. WATERBODY - LAND - ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY. KEYNOTE THORSTEN BRINKHOFF
Duration: 45 min
Chair: Peeter Laas
09:45 - 10:05
Janina Rahlff: Distinctive features of viral-bacterial communities from the sea-surface microlayer of a wave-dampened zone
Duration: 20 min
10:05 - 10:25
Andrea Čačković: Diversity and seasonal variation of microbial communities in karst stream tufa deposits
Duration: 20 min
10:25 - 11:00
Coffee break
Duration: 35 min
11:00 - 12:40
TOPIC 9 CONTINUES
Duration: 100 min
11:00 - 11:20
Anna Székely: The influence of diel cycles on the bacterial community composition of two boreal lakes
Duration: 20 min
11:20 - 11:40
Viviana Fonti: Faecal contamination signature and antibiotic resistance genes in the N-Adriatic Sea coastal waters
Duration: 20 min
11:40 - 12:00
Yusuke Okazaki: Single cell genomics uncovered uncultured virus-host links in a deep freshwater lake
Duration: 20 min
12:00 - 12:20
Angel Rain-Franco: Dispersal and competition shape the composition and functioning of experimental microbial communities
Duration: 20 min
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
Duration: 70 min
13:30 - 14:15
TOPIC 10. ECOLOGY OF AQUATIC FUNGI. KEYNOTE BY SILKE VAN DEN WYNGAERT
Duration: 45 min
Chairs: Gianluca Corno and Veljo Kisand
14:15 - 14:35
Takeshi Miki: Integrating single-cell infection experiment and population dynamics model to uncover the impacts of multiple infections in diatom-chytrid interactions
Duration: 20 min
14:35 - 14:55
Hans-Peter Grossart: Taxonomy and ecology of saprolegniales (oomycota): aiming the forgotten in freshwater ecology
Duration: 20 min
14:55 - 15:15
Elisa Banchi: Exploring mycoplankton diversity and dynamics in the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea)
Duration: 20 min
15:15 - 15:35
Eva Breyer: The largely neglected ecological role of oceanic pelagic fungi
Duration: 20 min
15:35 - 16:00
Coffee break
Duration: 25 min
16:00 - 17:20
TOPIC 10 CONTINUES
Duration: 80 min
16:00 - 16:20
Andreas Bruder: The role of fungal leaf-litter decomposers in streams and forest floors across biomes
Duration: 20 min
16:20 - 16:40
Jennifer Anderson: Global distribution patterns for ACE (Aquatic hyphomyCete and Endophytic) fungi in Tetracladium
Duration: 20 min
16:40 - 17:00
Cordelia Roberts: Mycobiomes in the coastal ocean: assessing one particle at a time
Duration: 20 min
17:00 - 17:20
Closing
Duration: 20 min
19:00 - 23:00
Conference dinner in AHHAA science centre
Duration: 240 min
23:15 - 08:00
Afterparty
Duration: 915 min
09:30 - 12:30
Excursion in Tartu and boat trip on River Emajõgi
Duration: 180 min
09:30 - 18:00
Day excursions discovering Estonian science and nature
Duration: 510 min
Excursion 1. Centre for Limnology, Lake Võrtsjärv and Rubina Bog
At 09:30 AM, a bus from Vanemuise theatre lower parking lot will start tour.
The bus will have the „SAME17“ logo by the front window.
HERE is the Google maps link to the location of the bus parking spot.
Excursion 2. Tartu Observatory, Valgesoo trail, boat trip on River Ahja
At 09:30 AM, a bus from Vanemuise theatre lower parking lot will start tour.
The bus will have the „SAME17“ logo by the front window.
HERE is the Google maps link to the location of the bus parking spot.
