Thursday, October 8th

18:30-20:30

Arrival and registration   

Friday, October 9th

09:00-9:20

Welcome
Roberto Di Lauro (Stazione Zoologica Napoli, Italy)

Session 1: The Marine Environment

Debora Iglesias-Rodríguez, Chair

09:20-10:00 

Maurizio Ribera d’Alcalà (Stazione Zoologica Napoli, Italy)
How far can we go?

10:00-10:40

Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Germany)/Chris Bowler (CNRS-ENS, France)

Tara Oceans: a three year expedition to explore the wellbeing of planktonic ecosystems throughout the world’s oceans

10:40-11:10 

Coffee

11:10-11:50

Michael Follows (MIT, MA, USA)
The organization of microbial communities in model ocean

11:50-12:20 

Wolfgang Hess (University Freiburg, Germany)
Modelling the pan- and supragenome of marine picocyanobacteria and definition of their core genome

12:20-12:40 

Silvia De Monte (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Structuration of phytoplankton communities in the open ocean

12:40-13:00 

Daniela Schmidt (University of Bristol, UK)
A palaeontological perspective on ecological and evolutionary changes in the planktic ecosystems

13:00 - 14:30

Lunch

Session 2: Growth, Reproduction and Survival @Sea

Catherine Boyen, Chair

14:30-15:10

Marina Montresor (Stazione Zoologica Napoli, Italy)
The complex life of unicellular microalgae: a challenge for ecological and experimental research

15:10-15:50

Assaf Vardi (Rutgers University, NJ, USA)
Chemical arms race at sea: on cell signaling, mortality and defense of marine phytoplankton

15:50-16:10

Valerie Devos (Ghent University, Belgium)
Transcriptome and exometabolome analysis of the cell size-regulated sexual reproduction in diatoms

16:10-16:30

Miguel Frada (Rutgers University, USA)
The response of Emiliania huxleyi sexual life cycles to viral infection: in vitro and in situ observations

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee

17:00 - 18:00

Round table -

"Life Strategies of Marine Organisms: Internal vs External Control"

Marina Montresor & Assaf Vardi, Chairs

18:00 - 20:00

Poster Session (with drinks)

20:00 -

Dinner

Saturday, October 10th

Session 3: Evolution and Development @ Sea

Gáspár Jékely & Chris Lowe, Chairs

09:00-9:40 

Detlev Arendt (EMBL, Germany)
The annelid Platynereis dumerilii - a new molecular model for marine zooplankton

09:40-10:20

Ulrich Technau (Vienna University, Austria)
The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis as a model system for the study of the evolutionary origin of triploblasty and bilaterality

10:20 - 11:00

Chris Lowe (Chicago University, USA)
Early regulatory origins of the vertebrate head: conservation of an extensive genetic network in divergent body plans and environments

11:00-11:30 

Coffee

11:30-12:10

Bernie Degnan (Queensland University, Australia)
The antiquity of pelagobenthic life cycle and its role in animal ecology and evolution

12:10-12:30 

Luis Gimenez (Bangor University, UK)
Linking environmental history, developmental plasticity and recruitment in marine organisms

12:30-12:50 

Ferdinand Marlétaz (Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, France)
High level of structural polymorphism in the Hox region of a single population: evolutionary stasis and genomic variation in the chaetognath S. cephaloptera

12:50-13:10 

Hiroshi Suga (Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Spain)
Divergence of Protein Tyrosine Kinase Family in the Pre-Metazoan Opithokonts

13:10 - 14:40

Lunch

14:40-15:20

Gáspár Jékely (MPI-Tübingen, Germany)
Neurobiology of marine zooplankton

15:20-15:40

Gabriele Procaccini (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy)

Sam Dupont (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

16:00-16:20

Maria Byrne (Sydney University, Australia)
Naked abalone and corrupted urchins, development in a global climate change hot spot

16:20-16:40

Sandie Degnan  (Queensland University, Australia)
Ecological genomics reveals impact of microhabitat on developmental plasticity in the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina

16:40 - 17:10

Coffee

17:10 - 18:10

Round table -

"Integrated Biology: Towards Eco-Evo-Devo?"

Detlev Arendt & Ina Arnone, Chairs

18:10 - 20:00

Poster Session (with drinks)

20:00 -

Dinner

Sunday, October 11th

Session 4: Change @ Sea

Angela Falciatore & Gabriele Procaccini, Chairs

09:00-9:40 

Chris Bowler (CNRS-ENS, France)
Comparative and functional genomics of eukaryotic marine plankton

09:40-10:20

Peer Bork (EMBL, Germany)
Metagenomics as entry into molecular trait-based ecology

10:20-11:00

Arthur Grossman (Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA)
Photosynthetic electron flow to oxygen in marine Synechococcus

11:00-11:30 

Coffee

11:30-12:10 

Debora Iglesias-Rodríguez (Southampton University, UK)
Application of marine proteomics to ocean biogeochemistry

12:10-12:30

Ilana Berman-Frank (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Regulation of nitrogen metabolism in the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium in a "greenhouse" world

12:30-12:50

Marie Huysman (Ghent University, Belgium)
Genome-wide analysis of the diatom cell cycle unveils a novel cyclin gene family involved in environmental signalling

12:50 - 14:20

Lunch

14:20-15:00

Mitchell Sogin (Brown University, USA)
The rare biosphere is everywhere

15:00-15:40

Devaki Bhaya (Carnegie Institution, Stanford, USA)
Probing population level functional diversity in cyanobacteria with comparative genomics and metagenomics

15:40-16:40

Round table -

"Adaptive Responses to Gradual and Sudden Environmental Changes"

Chris Bowler, Arthur Grossman & Mitchell Sogin, Chairs

16:40 - 17:10

Coffee

17:10 - 18:30

Final discussion -

"Integrative Marine Biology:  How to proceed? What is needed?"

Roberto Di Lauro & Maurizio Ribera d’Alcalà, Chairs

Catherine Boyen (Station Biologique Roscoff, France)

‘Marine Genomics Europe’ Network of Excellence, five years of 
integration at the European level: achievements,  bottleneck and  
opportunities

Michèle Barbier (CIESM, Monaco)

Integrative ecosystemic research in the Mediterranean - the CIESM experience

Guntram Bauer (HFSPO, Strasbourg, France)

Opportunities for international collaborations and training in the life sciences from HFSP

 20:00 -

Gala dinner

End of meeting