SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Deciphering marine ecology at the molecular level |
| Discussion Leader: Brian Palenik (SCRIPPS) |
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Daniel Morse (University of California)
"Biophotonics: Tunable Control of Camouflage, Communication and Photosynthetic Symbiosis in Marine Molluscs"
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8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Peter Steinberg (University of South Wales)
"Seaweed/microbe interactions: disease, climate change and bacterial community dynamics"
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9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbes-invertebrate interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Irene Wagner-Döbler (Helmholtz-Center for Infection Research) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Tadashi Maruyama (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
"Symbioses between deep-sea invertebrates and their symbionts"
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9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Monika Bright (University of Vienna)
"Microbe-invertebrate interactions and symbiosis in hot vents"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ute Hentschel Humeida (University of Wuerzberg)
"Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome"
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Phylogeography and population connectivity |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Morse (University of California) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ka Hou Chu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Phylogeography of intertidal barnacles in the Indo-West Pacific"
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8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Iliana Baums (Pennsylvania State University)
"The unrecognized importance of coral genotype variation during environmental change"
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9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Molecular ecology of marine invertebrates and vertebrates |
| Discussion Leader: Vengatesen Thiyagarajan (Hong Kong University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Mutsumi Nishida (University of Tokyo)
"Molecular phylogenetic approach to diversity of fishes" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Brian Bowen (University of Hawaii)
"Origins of tropical marine biodiversity - a phylogeographic approach"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Allen Chen (Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica)
"Adaptation of coral holobionts to climate change: Reality overrides myth?"
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Integrated Omics in evolutional and ecological studies |
| Discussion Leader: Brian Bowen (University of Hawaii) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Noriyuki Satoh (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)
"Cross talk of coral and Symbiodinium genes during environmental changes"
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8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Sandie Degnan (University of Queensland)
"The importance of innate immune pathways to the marine invertebrate pelagobenthic life cycle"
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9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New tools for studying inter-species interaction |
| Discussion Leader: Rudolf Wu (Hong Kong University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Pierre De Wit (Stanford University)
"Using high-throughput sequencing to gain new insights into population genetics of marine benthic organisms"
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9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Bradley Moore (University of California, San Diego)
"Biosynthesis and Distribution of Polybrominated Organic Compounds in Marine Bacteria"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Joern Piel (University of Bonn)
"Exploring the chemical language of uncultivated marine bacteria with metagenomic and single-cell methods"
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Molecular ecology of marine microbes |
| Discussion Leader: Chen Feng (University of Maryland) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Stephen Giovanonni (Oregon State University)
"Outliers: Extreme selection for minimalism in ocean bacterioplankton" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Fresh off the Bench |
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Huahua Jian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
"Understanding the interaction between a deep-sea filamentous phage SW1 and its host Shewanella piezotolerans WP3"
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8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Karen Weynberg (Australian Institute of Marine Science)
"Evidence of a persistenet viral infection in the coral algal symbiont, symbiodinium"
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8:45 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Joseph A. Christie-Oleza (University of Warwick)
"The breakdown of dissolved organic matter drives a perfect consortium between marine photoautotrophs and heterotrophs"
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8:55 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm | Javier Paz Yepes (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)
"The study of allelopathic interactions between different species of marine photosynthetic microorganims of the genus Synechococcus, using tools of molecular biology"
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9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Rowena Stern (Sir Alister Hardy Foundation For Ocean Science)
"Is it possible to identify shifts in phytoplankton from long-term, formalin-preserved plankton samples: an example using Harmful algae Pseudo-nitzschia"
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9:15 pm - 9:20 pm | Discussion |
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Kathleen Morrow (Australian Institute of Marine Science)
"Diversity of coral-associated bacteria exposed to high CO2 conditions, highlighting the importance of coral-specific methods for metagenomics"
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9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Energetics and biogeochemical cycling |
| Discussion Leader: Kenji Kato (Shikuoka University) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jonathan P. Zehr (University of California Santa Cruz)
"Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic insights into the marine nitrogen cycle"
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9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Sonya Dyhrman (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
"Genome-enabled insights into marine biochemical cycles"
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11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Xiao Xiang (Shanghai Jiaotong University)
"Adaptation stratage under multiple extremes"
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11:45 am - 11:55 am | Discussion |
11:55 am - 12:15 pm | William Ussler (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
"Application of molecular methods to in situ studies of microbial biogeochemistry in the Deep Sea"
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12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Marine Virus |
| Discussion Leader: Roberto G. Kolter (Harvard Medical School) |
4:00 pm - 4:40 pm | Qinglu Zeng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Coevolution of marine viruses and their hosts under environmental stresses" |
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm | Discussion |
5:00 pm - 5:40 pm | Curtis Suttle (University of British Columbia)
"Viruses in the Sea: Drivers of global processes" |
5:40 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |