Symposia
Willi Foissner Symposium
Sabine Agatha and Agnes Weiner (Chairs)
Speakers:
- Micah Dunthorn
- Erna Aescht
- Horst Aspöck
- Marina Ettl
- Sabine Agatha
Protist symbioses
Filip Husník and Julius Lukeš (Chairs)
Speakers:
- Margaret Brisbin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- Daria Tashyreva, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Inferring protist cell biology using spatial proteomics
Jeremy Wideman (Chair)
Speaker and title list:
- Spatial proteomics of the free-living heterotrophic stramenopile Cafeteria roenbergensis
Dagmar Jirsová - Spatial proteomics of Naegleria gruberiwith the focus on the evolution of the eukaryotic cell.
Pavel Dolezal - Comparative spatial proteomics of euglenozoans.
Michael Hammond - Spatial proteomics of the free living anaerobic protist Paratrimastix pyriformis.
Justyna Zítek - Spatial proteomics reveals the presence of complex subcellular compartmentalization in the Alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus.
Dayana Salas-Leiva
Advances in the biology and systematics of sessilid peritrichs and other ciliates
Rosaura Mayén-Estrada, Weibo Song and Alan Warren (Chairs)
Peritrichs were among the first microorganisms to be observed and over 1,000 species have been described in the ca. 350 years since their discovery. Throughout much of the 20th century, the taxonomy of peritrichs was remarkably stable. However, the last two decades has seen a revolution in our understanding of evolutionary relationships among peritrichs, particularly sessilids, largely because of advances in molecular systematics. This symposium will explore our knowledge of peritrich biology, provide details of some recent findings on peritrich systematics, and report on new discoveries of peritrichs and other free-living ciliates in a productive wetland.
Speakers:
- Alan Warren: The biology of peritrich ciliates, including some historical perspectives.
- Wei Miao: From phylogenomics to functional genomics of peritrichs.
- Roberto Júnio Pedroso Dias: New morphological and molecular data on peritrichs from Brazil provides new insights into the evolutionary relationships among epistylids.
- Weibo Song: Free-living ciliates in a wetland in China.