09:00-10:00

New Millenium Hall

Ecology of a novel protist symbiosis
Jana Milucka (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany)

10:30-11:50

9B217

ApuRs, a new family of ultraviolet to blue light absorbing rhodopsin channels from apusomonads.
Luis Javier Galindo González (University of Granada, Spain)

Phototaxis and gravitaxis tune the emergence of new collective patterns
Hélène de Maleprade (Sorbonne Université, France)

Differentiation of behavioral responses to complex environmental conditions in ciliary swimming and amoeboid locomotion.
Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Biophysics of mechanosensation in protists.
Kirsty Wan (University of Exeter, UK)

10:30-11:50

9B217

Insights from the Working Group on Trait Annotation of Protists and results for the global ocean
Pierre Ramond (Sorbonne University CNRS Benthic Ecogeochemistry Laboratory, France)

Trophic strategies in marine protists: annotation and global distributions
Luciana Santoferrara (Hofstra University, USA)

Trait-based approach coupled to metatranscriptomic-derived sequence similarity network:towards the depiction of the functional diversity of freshwater microbial eukaryotes
Arthur Monjot (Université de Bretagne Occidentale: UBO, France)

Comparative Trait Databases of Cercozoa and Amoebozoa: Functional Insights from Terrestrial Ecosystems
Kenneth Dumack (University Of Cologne, Germany)

10:30-11:50

90110

Phytoplankton recruit specific microbial assemblages and exhibitphylosymbiotic patterns
Joo-Hwan Kim (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)

The presence of highly toxic Dinophysis fortii populations in Japan
Satoshi Nagai (Fisheries Technology InstituteJapan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Japan)

Toxin production in bloom-forming, harmful alga Alexandrium pacificum (Group IV) is regulated by cyst formation-promoting bacteria Jannaschia cystaugens NBRC 100362T
Jiang Yue (Third Institute of Oceanography, China)

Genetic diversity and ecophysiological impacts of the toxic benthic dinoflagellate Ostreopsis in Korean coastal waters
Bora Lee (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)

10:30-11:50

90109

Chromatin dynamics regulating DNA elimination in Tetrahymena
Kensuke Kataoka (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

The role of histone methylations on DNA elimination in the ciliate Paramecium
Therese Solberg (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)

Cryptic transcription ensures faithful DNA elimination in Tetrahymena
Miao Tian (Ocean University of China, China)

Soma-derived 30 nt small RNAs precisely protect non-transposon DNA during genome rearrangement in Euplotes vannus
Feng Gao (Ocean University of China, China)

14:00-14:45

New Millenium Hall

Seasonal Bloom Dynamics of the nasselarian radiolarian Plagiacantha arachnoides in a Coastal Maine Estuary.
John Burns (Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences, USA)

Temperature as the main driver of microbial biomass and diversity in a hypoxic harbor during the summer
Luciana Santoferrara (Hofstra University, USA)

14:00-14:45

9B217

Quantitative Molecular Diversity and Evolution of Ribosomal Genes in Marine Protists
Nansheng Chen (The Chinese Academy Of Sciences, China)

Functional Diversity and Metabolic Strategies of Microeukaryotes from the Epipelagic to the Bathypelagic Zone of the Tropical and Subtropical Ocean
Mattia Greco (Institute Of Marine Sciences (icm), Spain)

14:00-14:45

90110

The unexpected taxonomic diversity of centrohelid heliozoans and their symbionts
Elena Gerasimova (University of Tyumen, Russian Federation)

Tripartite host-virus-virophage interactions in marine chlorarachniophyte algae
Max Emil Schön (Max Planck Institute For Medical Research, Germany)

Multiple Euglenid-Bacterial Endosymbiotic Relationships Uncovered
Daria Tashyreva (University Of Warsaw, Poland)

14:00-14:45

90109

Diversity and Dynamics of Microbiomes Associated with Freshwater Ciliates Stentor and Paramecium
Alexey Potekhin (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

Parabasalid-associated endosymbionts arose from repeated recent events
Corey Holt (University of Bath, UK)