Tentative Schedule
Sunday, June 22nd
1. Arrival & Registration
2. Evening Social with Hors d'oeuvres & Drinks
Monday, June 23rd
1. Breakfast
2. Welcome and Opening Remarks
3. Keynote Presentation by Andrew Knoll, Harvard University:
Topic: "Early Evolution of Eukaryotes"
4. Minisymposium: Paleolimnology (Christian Kamenik, tentative topics)
Christian Kamenik (University of Bern) - Chrysophytes: Climate proxies in alpine lake sediments
Andrew Paterson and John Smol (Queen's University) - The application of chrysophytes to lake management: assessing environmental change from weeks to centuries
Sergi Pla (The Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes, Spain) - Chrysophyte cysts reveal submillennial seasonal signature on climate variability in the north-western Mediterranean region throughout the Holocene
Peter Siver (Connecticut College) - Chrysophytes in the Eocene
5. Lunch
6. Open Paper Sessions
7. Dinner
8. Evening Presentation on "Natural History of Connecticut"
9. Ice-cream social & Group Meetings
Tuesday, June 24th
1. Breakfast
2. Keynote Presentation by Mitch Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Topic: Microbial Population Structure of the World's Oceans: an underexplored "rare biosphere"
3. Minisymposium: Evolution of Heterokonts (Robert Andersen, Convener)
Rose Ann Cattolico (University of Washington) - New perspectives on stramenopile chloroplast genome
Robert Andersen (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) - Heterokont algal phylogenies derived from multi- gene analyses.
Hwan Su Yoon (Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) - Molecular evolution of the brown algae and kelps
J. Craig Bailey (University of North Carolina - Wilmington) - Plastids and colorless stramenopiles: implications for the origin of heterokont algae
4. Lunch
5. Open Paper Sessions
6. Poster Session with hors d'oeuvres & Drinks
7. Dinner
8. Stom@ocyst WIKI workshop led by Christian Kamenik
Other Workshops are still being planned
Wednesday, June 25th
1. Breakfast
2. FIELD TRIP:
Select either Mystic Seaport or Yale Peabody Museum
3. Dinner: New England Clam Bake with Shanty Sea Music
4. Taste & Odor Workshop- The Senses of Taste and Smell, and Water
Gary Burlingame, Philadelphia Water Supply
Thursday, June 26th
1. Breakfast
2. Keynote Presentation by James Rohlf, SUNY-Stony Brook:
Topic: "Use of Geometric Morphometrics in Biology"
3. Open Paper Sessions (including ones on geometric morphometrics)
4. Lunch
5. Minisymposium: Signals & Smells: Chemical Ecology &Taste and Odor (Sue Watson, convener)
Sue Watson (National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada) - Chrysophyceae & Other Taxa: Signals & Smells in Drinking Water and Foodwebs
Gary Burlingame (Philadelphia Water Supply) - The Case of the Cucumber Flavor
Thomas Wichard (Princeton) - Ecological Functions of Diatom Derived Aldehydes: Deleterious Blooms & Chemical Signals
David S. Domozych (Skidmore), Sarah A. Spaulding, Sarah N. Kiemle and Michael R. Gretz - Bioinvasion by the diatom, Didymosphenia geminata: D-day is upon us
Karen Pelletreau (University of Maine) - Brown algal signaling in the intertidal environment: molecular evidence of cross-talk and the production of defensive compounds
6. Open Paper Sessions
7. Business Meeting
7. Social Hour
8. Closing Banquet/Slide show/Possible Auction
Friday, June 27th
1. Breakfast and Departure
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