CGUE Program
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 18:30 | Welcome Gathering |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Opening Plenary Session Session Chair: Alexandra Worden, Marine Biological Laboratory, US |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Plenary Lecture: Nicole King, University of California Berkeley, US |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Parasites, Viruses, Invasive Elements, & HGT | |
| Session Chair: Joel Dacks, University of Alberta, CA | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Varsha Mathur, University of Oxford, UK |
| 9:30 | Isabelle Florent, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle & CNRS, FR |
| 10:00 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 11:30 | Matthias Fischer, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, DE |
| 12:00 | Patrick Keeling, University of British Columbia, CA |
| 12:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 12:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 | Manny Ares, University of California Santa Cruz, US Introns a hallmark and often still mysterious feature of eukaryotes |
| 15:00 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 15:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 15:45 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 16:15 - 17:30 | Early Career Scientist Discussion Session and Mixer Determine Topics for ECS Panel Discussions on Thursday |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster session |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Evolution & Diversification | |
| Session Chair: Elisabeth Hehenberger, Institute of Parasitology, CZ | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ES |
| 9:30 | David Booth, Univerity of California San Francisco, US |
| 10:00 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 11:30 | Kristína (Kika) Pašuthová, Charles University, CZ |
| 12:00 | Ken Wolfe, Univerity College Dublin, IE |
| 12:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 12:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| Planetary Biology: From First Life Onwards | |
| 14:30 | Session Chair: Laura Eme, Université Paris-Sud, FR |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Plenary - Andy Knoll, Harvard University, US |
| 15:50 - 16:15 | Anja Spang, NIOZ & University of Amsterdam, NL |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 16:45 to 17:05 | Puri Lopez-Garcia, CNRS & Université Paris-Saclay, FR |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Poster Session |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| The Spectrum of Symbioses | |
| Session Chair: John Archibald, Dalhousie University | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Filip Husnik, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, JP |
| 9:30 | Fabian Burki, Uppsala University, SE |
| 10:00 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the Speakers |
| 11:30 | Anna Karnkowska, University of Warsaw, PL |
| 12:00 | Ross Waller, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 12:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 12:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 15:00 - 20:00 | Excursion or Free Afternoon |
| 20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| Tackling mechanisms of interactions and their consequences in the lab and wild | |
| Session Chair TBD | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Rachel Foster, Stockholm University, SE |
| 9:30 | Flora Vincent, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, DE |
| 10:00 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 10:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 11:00 | Coffee break + ECS Meet the Speakers |
| 11:30 | Norico Yamada, University of Konstanz, DE |
| 12:00 | Lillian Fritz-Laylin, University of Massachusetts, US |
| 12:20 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 12:40 | TBD - Selected from submitted oral requests |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | ECS Panel Discussion and Interdisciplinary Career Talk |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | ThankGod Ebenezer, University of Cambridge, UK ECS Career Talk: Blending Genome Datascience and Protistology |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:15 | Flash Talks |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner |
| 20:30 | Celebration |
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:00 | Goodbyes and Transit to Airport/Train |
| 11:00 | Last bus to Airport/Train |