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Evolution & Diversification |
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Session Chair: Gwenael Piganeau, FR |
7:00 - 8:30 |
Breakfast |
9:00 |
Inaki Ruiz-Trillo: The truth about the microbial origins of animals |
9:30 |
Norico Yamada (Germany, F): A missing link dinotom dinoflagellate Durinskia kwazulunatalensis exhibits the "nucleomorphising" process |
10:00 |
Nina Pohl, Uppsala University:Unveiling novel deep diversity within Archaeplastida |
10:20 |
Bernard Snel, Utrecht University:How protein structure predictions are impacting comparative genomics of unicellular eukaryotes |
10:40 |
Sarah Frail, Stanford University: Caught in the act: Initial stages of endosymbiotic evolution in Epithemia |
11:00 |
Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
11:30 |
Kristína (Kika) Pašuthová:Canonical and non-canonical nuclear genetic codes: Genomics of Blastocrithidiinae |
11:55 |
Ken Wolfe: Killer toxins and evolution of the genetic code in fungi |
12:20 |
Girish Beedessee, University of Cambridge:Novel nuclear proteins in dinoflagellates mediate the highly compacted liquid-like state of
dinoflagellate chromosomes |
12:40 |
Abigail Lind, Georgia Institute of Technology:Hybrid assemblies of Blastocystis gut microbiome-associated protists reveal evolutionary diversification to host ecology |
13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
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Planetary Biology: From First Life Onwards |
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Session Chair: John Archibald, CA and Alexandra Worden, US |
14:30 - 15:20 |
Plenary - Andy Knoll,Harvard University, US |
15:20 - 15:50 |
Laura Eme |
15:50 - 16:20 |
Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
16:20- 16:50 |
Dr. Paul Manna |
16:50 |
Miguel Mendez Sandin, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva:Fast eukaryotic diversification during the Mesoproterozoic evidenced from environmental phylogenetics |
17:10 |
Anna Nerorkova, University of Bristol:Resolving the prokaryote-to-eukaryote transition using new phylogenomic models of endosymbiosis |
17:30 |
Carlos Santana Molina & Anja Spang, NIOS (Invited) |
17:50 - 18:10 |
Denis Tikhonenkov, Russian Academy of Science:Eukaryovorous flagellates and their evolutionary and ecological significance |
19:15 - 20:15 |
Poster Session I:
Parasites, Viruses, Invasive Elements, & HGT
Evolution & diversification
Planetary Biology: From First Life Onwards Individualswith last names L-Z should stand by their posters |
20:30 |
Dinner |