Welcome

Session 2

  Adam LARSON - A complex cytoplasm enables inflation-based motility in a non-motile dinoflagellate.

  Ellen NISBET - Evolving a non-photosynthetic dinoflagellate in the laboratory.

  Girish BEEDESSEE - Novel nuclear proteins in dinoflagellates mediate the highly compacted liquid-like state of dinoflagellate chromosomes.

  Isabel NIMMO - Establishment of genetic modification tools in the dinoflagellate Amphidinium carterae.

Refreshments

Session 3

  Sara CHELAGHMA - Apical annuli are essential exocytic sites in the apicomplexan parasite  Toxoplasma gondii.

  Tsvetoslav GEORGIEV - The Soil Protist Communities of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean.

  Elisa GIAMMARINI - The impact of heavy metals on multitrophic interactions in the soil microbiome: how soil pollution influences amoebic predation and bacterial interactions.

  Anaísa MORENO - High-efficiency transfection of Acanthamoeba castellanii using a cationic polymer.

  Sonja RUECKERT - Gregarine apicomplexan research: the old, the new, and the future.

  Kevin MCKINLEY - A non-lethal method of gregarine apicomplexan identification in the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex.

  Anthony Allan CARDOSO - Establishing an in-vitro culturing system for apicomplexan gregarines.

  Qiongqiong DAI - How does Toxoplasma manipulate its host cells via secreted parasite proteins?

  Melanie DUC - Exo-erythrocytic stages of avian Parahaemoproteus (Haemosporida, Apicomplexa) protists: how we study their diversity.

  Daniel MEDNÉZ-SÁNCHEZ - (pre-recorded) Unveiling the diversity of Odontostomatea using 18S rRNA sequences and morphology.

  Gaytha LANGLOIS - (pre-recorded) The importance of long-term microbial ecosystem studies as a basis for mitigation strategies and environmental policymaking.

Lunch

Session 4

  Kristina PROKINA - Morphological and phylogenetic observations of Agogonia voluta gen. et sp. nov. and Ophirina chinija sp. nov. shed light into the evolution of the deepest jakobid branch.

  Alexey SMIRNOV - A long way of the genus Thecochaos (Amoebozoa, Thecamoebida) - from ancient stained preparation in NHM collection to molecular phylogeny and NGS sequencing.

  Patrick HOOPER - Changes in diversity and function of protists in Arctic cyanobacterial microbial mat communities.

  Jana PILÁTOVÁ - Protist biocrystallization in the spotlight or Raman microspectroscopy.

  Richard DORRELL - An evaluation of the phylogenetic and spatial distribution of vitamin B12-dependent metabolism across the algal tree of life.

  Helen POWLEY - Coccolithophores as predators: integrating system dynamics with hydrodynamic-biogeochemical  modelling to study impact of mixoplanktonic coccolithophores on ecosystem functioning.

  Luciana SANTOFERRARA - Diversity and phylogenetic partitioning of ciliated protists across 1,000 m in the Sargasso Sea.

  Aidan PIERCE - How Does Multi-Level Selection Impact Stable Genome Sizes in Endosymbionts?

  Hazel FARTHING - Determining the stage-specific thermal effects on the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

  William LEWIS - Transfer of protein translocation machinery from haptophyte endosymbionts to Kareniaceae hosts supports complex red plastid evolution by serial.

Refreshments

Panel discussion and wrap-up

Departure