Advances in Analysis of Marine Protists and Non-model Algae

9:00 a.m.

Introductory Remarks
Gene Robinson
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

9:05 a.m.

Overview
Steven Burgess
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

9:15 a.m.

Progress in Genetics of Non-model Algae
Alexandra Worden
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology,MBL, Germany

9:45 a.m.

Signatures of Parallel Genome Evolution in Algae from Polar Oceans
Thomas Mock
University of East Anglia, UK

10:15 a.m.

Sexual Reproduction in Picophytoplankton
Gwenael Piganeau
French National Centre for Scientific Research, France

10:45 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m.

How Lessons Learned with Chlamydomonas Have Helped to Establish Molecular Tools for Phaeodactylum - and How They Haven’t
Alison Smith
University of Cambridge, UK

11:30 a.m.

Chromosome-scale genome engineering in Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Bogumil Karas
University of Western Ontario, Canada

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Artificial Chromosome Technology and Genetic Parts Registries in Protists
Chris Dupont
J. Craig Venter Institute

1:30 p.m.

Phenotyping Tools for Picophytoplankton
James Evans
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

2:00 p.m.

Genomic Tools for the Analysis of Microbes and Complex Environmental Communities
Adam Deutschbauer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

2:35 p.m.

Panel Discussion on Challenges and Future Directions
Ellen Nisbet, University of Nottingham, UK
Lieve Laurens, National Renewal Energy Laboratory, USA