Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Challenges of Marine Microbial Studies |
| Discussion Leader: Ezequiel Marzinelli (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Virginia Edgcomb (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA) "From Samples to Meta-Omics: Challenges of Marine Microbial Studies" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Contributions to Biogeochemistry and Responses to Environmental Change |
| Discussion Leader: Matthias Wietz (University of Oldenburg, Germany) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Jesse McNichol (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) "Incubations of Hydrothermal Vent Communities at In-Situ Pressure and Temperature Quantify Community Primary Productivity of the Subseafloor Biosphere" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Sheila Roitman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) "Closing the Gaps on the Viral Photosystem-I psaDCAB Gene Organization" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Amy Zimmerman (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, USA) "Assessing Controls on Virus-Host Interactions in Marine Eukaryotic Picophytoplankton" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Priscila Goncalves (Macquarie University, Australia) "Understanding the Molecular Basis for Disease Resistance and CO2 Resilience in Oysters" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Environmental Stress, Disease and Host-Microbe Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Raquel Rodriguez MartÃnez (University of Exeter, United Kingdom) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Rebecca Fieth (University of Queensland, Australia) "Importance of Host-Bacterial Interactions in the Inheritance of Symbionts in the Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Guadalupe Ruiz-Jones (Stanford University, USA) "Transcriptional Stability and Plasticity in Coral and Symbiodinium in a Dynamic Reef Environment" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Shashank Keshavmurthy (Jeju University, South Korea) "Stress Resistance Mechanisms in Coral Holobionts - More than Symbiodinium Shuffling, Long-Term Acclimtization and Adaptation and a Stable Association with Symbiodinium Is a Better Option for Coral Survival" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Zhiguang Qiu (University of New South Wales, Australia) "Microbial Assemblages and Putative Disease in the Kelp Ecklonia radiata" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Marine Microbial Tools and Challenges |
| Novel sequencing technologies have revolutionized the field of microbial ecology and have allowed a significant understanding of microbial diversity, providing the capacity to analyze field samples in a rapid and increasingly cost-effective way. However, since their inception, these techniques have been mainly used to simply describe microbial diversity and abundance in different environments. Arguably, we need to go beyond the description of patterns to study the processes and mechanisms driving them. This mentorship panel will explore today's tools available to analyze -omics data, as well as ways of deciphering the ecology hidden within them. |
| Discussion Leader: Marli Vlok (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Peter Steinberg (University of New South Wales, Australia) "Ecological Theory vs. Molecular Mechanisms: Different Approaches to Marine Molecular Ecology?" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Maria Pachiadaki (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, USA) "From -Omics to Marine Microbial Stories: Tools and More Challenges" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |