Monday, August 20, 2018 |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Registration |
13:00 – 13:10 |
Welcome address Johanna Eleonore Weber, Rector of the University of Greifswald |
Environmental microbiomesChair: Thomas Schweder |
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13:10 – 13:35 |
Jörg Overmann, DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany The untapped microbial diversity |
13:35 – 14:00 |
Ute Hentschel Humeida, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany Exploring microbial dark matter in marine sponge symbioses |
14:00 – 14:25 |
Daniel L. Distel, Ocean Genome Legacy Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA, USA Cellulose, Sulfur and Shipworms |
14:25 – 14:50 |
Jillian Petersen, University of Vienna, Austria Chemosynthetic symbioses in marine bivalves – Getting to the bottom of microbe-host relationships |
14:50 – 15:20 |
Coffee break |
Key microorganismsChair: Rudolf Amann |
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15:20 – 15:45 |
Meinhard Simon, University of Oldenburg, Germany Ecological significance, biogeography and physiology of the Roseobacter group in pelagic systems |
15:45 – 16:10 |
Christian Jogler, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Planctomycetes after the paradigm shift – more exciting than ever |
16:10 – 16:35 |
Phillip Pope, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway Multi-omics and the challenge of bringing uncultured microbes to “life” |
16:35 – 17:00 |
André Scheffel, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany Unusual polysaccharides in coccolithophores – What are they good for? |
Powertalks (presenting selected posters) |
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17:00 – 17:30 |
Julia C. Engelmann, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands Predicting causal dependencies between marine microbes |
Anneke Heins, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Comparison of separation techniques to obtain marine particle-associated bacteria |
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Doreen Schultz, University of Greifswald, Germany Establishment of a metaproteomics pipeline to unravel the mechanisms of polysaccharide degradation of particle-associated microbial communities |
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María Teresa Camarena Gómez, University of Helsinki, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland Marine bacterioplankton metabolism and dynamics shaped by phytoplankton spring bloom communities |
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Andreas Sichert, MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany Marine Verrucomicrobia have a mega plasmid with the polysaccharide utilization pathway to digest recalcitrant sulfated fucans |
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Luca Zoccarato, Department Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany Whole genome comparative analysis uncover possible gene modules involved in host-bacteria interactions |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
Coffee break |
18:00 – 19:10 |
Eric Martens, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Gut bacterial degradation of dietary fiber: terrestrial fruits and vegetables and genetic upgrades for marine algae Public evening talk within the frame of the MIMAS2 symposium and as part of the lecture series “Molecular basics of life” Chair: Thomas Schweder |
19:10 – 21:30 |
Poster session / Cheese & Wine |
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 |
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Proteogenomics of marine polysaccharide utilizationChair: Jan-Hendrik Hehemann |
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08:30 – 08:50 |
Bernhard Fuchs, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Who, when and why: marine Flavobacteria as specialists for phytoplankton degradation |
08:50 – 09:10 |
Ben Francis, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Monitoring of diversity, and prediction of function of the free-living bacterioplankton during North Sea spring blooms using metagenomics |
09:10 – 09:30 |
Dörte Becher, University of Greifswald, Germany Metaproteomics of diatom driven spring blooms |
09:30 – 09:50 |
Marie-Katherin Zühlke, University of Greifswald, Germany Laminarin utilization strategies of marine flavobacteria during microalgal blooms |
09:50 – 10:10 |
Lukas Reisky, University of Greifswald, Germany The ulvan utilization pathway of Formosa agariphila |
10:10 – 10:30 |
Craig S. Robb, MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany Structure and function of a carbohydrate active P450 |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
Proteogenomics of marine polysaccharide utilizationChair: Uwe Bornscheuer |
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11:00 – 11:25 |
Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany Slow food or fast food? – Enzymatic degradation of algal polysaccharides in the ocean |
11:25 – 11:50 |
Carol Arnosti, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA Selfish, sharing, and cheating bacteria: A new view of carbon cycling in the ocean |
11:50 – 12:15 |
Mirjam Czjzek, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France Biochemical and functional dissection of carrageenan catabolism in marine heterotrophic bacteria |
12:15 – 12:40 |
François Thomas, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France What a difference a gene makes – Degradation of brown algae by Zobellia galactanivorans |
12:40 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
Chemosynthesis-based ecosystemsChair: Kathrin Riedel |
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14:00 – 14:25 |
Stefan Sievert, WHOI, MA, USA Activities and productivity of the subseafloor biosphere at deep-sea hot springs |
14:25 – 14:50 |
Dimitri Kalenitchenko, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway Wood falls, ephemeral deep sea benthic ecosystem transformed by microbes that are ultra-rare in seawater |
14:50 – 15:15 |
Klaus Jürgens, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany Microbial communities and their role in biogeochemical processes in marine oxygen depletion zones: examples from the Baltic and Black Sea |
15:15 – 15:40 |
Stephanie Markert, Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany Marine thiotrophic symbioses – examined by physiological proteomics |
15:40 – 16:00 |
Tjorven Hinzke, Institute of Marine Biotechnology, Greifswald, Germany The big picture in small molecules: Interactions in the Riftia symbiosis on the protein level |
16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
Microbial interactionsChair: Bernhard Fuchs |
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16:30 – 16:50 |
Tobias Viehböck, University of Vienna, Austria STILBONOMICS – omics insights into the physiology of symbiotic marine nematodes |
16:50 – 17:10 |
Federico Baltar, University of Vienna, Austria Watch Out for the “Living Dead”: Cell-Free Enzymes and Their Fate |
17:10 – 17:30 |
Silvia Vidal-Melgosa, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Uncovering fluctuations of marine polysaccharides during a phytoplankton bloom |
17:30 – 17:50 |
Sonja Oberbeckmann, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany Diversity, function and relevance of microplastic biofilms in the Baltic Sea |
17:50 – 18:00 |
Catherine Gérikas Ribeiro, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France Small eukaryotic phytoplankton communities off Brazil are dominated by symbioses between Haptophyta and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria |
18:00 – 18:10 |
Nina Heinzmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany Phages are a mortality factor of bacterial key groups during a spring bloom |
18:10 – 18:20 |
Emma Gibbin, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Carbon partitioning in the coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis during Pocillopora damicornis-Vibrio coralliilyticus infection |
18:20 – 18:30 |
Mauro Celussi, Oceanography Division, Trieste, Italy Links between microbial processing of organic matter and the thermohaline and productivity features of a temperate prodelta (Po river, Adriatic Sea) |
19:00 |
Conference Dinner (Theatercafé) |
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 |
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Marine microbial metabolic networksChair: Thomas Schweder |
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08:30 – 08:55 |
Hans-Peter Grossart, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Stechlin, Germany Dynamics of bacteria-phytoplankton interactions and their ecological consequences |
08:55 – 09:20 |
Thorsten Dittmar, University of Oldenburg, Germany Modeling the long-term fate of marine dissolved organic matter through a network of compounds and bacteria |
09:20 – 09:45 |
Matthias Wietz, University of Oldenburg, Germany Bacterial adaptations to the degradation of algal polysaccharide mixtures on cellular and community level |
09:45 – 10:10 |
Irene Wagner-Döbler, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany Loss or horizontal transfer? The evolution of photosynthesis in Rhodobacteraceae |
10:10 – 10:40 |
Coffee break |
Plant-bacteria interactionsChair: Rudi Amann |
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10:40 – 11:05 |
Mia Bengtsson, University of Greifswald, Germany Algal-bacterial relationships in the microbial jungle: Inferring microbial interactions via community dynamics in biofilms and open water |
11:05 – 11:30 |
Noa Barak-Gavish, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Bacterial virulence against an oceanic bloom-forming phytoplankter is mediated by algal DMSP |
11:30 – 11:55 |
Rebecca J. Case, University of Alberta, Canada Do small bioactive molecules play a role in Phaeobacter inhibens pathogenesis – A role for T4SS and its candidate effectors |
11:55 – 12:20 |
Deniz Tasdemir, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany The chemical signatures of microbial interactions: Comparative metabolomics and application potential |
12:20 – 13:30 |
Farewell coffee |
End of Symposium |