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Programme CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2021

Preliminary programme for CeMEB Autumn Assembly 5-7 October 2021 at Tjärnö marine laboratory, University of Gothenburg. Hybrid meeting with members participating on-site and on-line.

Tuesday October 5th

12.30 – Lunch

13.30–15.00 Big lecture hall
Chair: Pierre De Wit

Welcome and introduction by the CeMEB Steering committee

Invited speaker: Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire - Hidden layers of genetic diversity in marine fishes from the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ecosystems

15.00 - Coffee & tea

15.30 - 17.30: Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: Björn Andersson

  • Ane Laugen - Dynamic management of the Pacific oyster
  • Sam Dupont - A question of time – how the dynamic of exposure modulates the response to ocean acidification
  • Andreas Wallberg - The genomics of ecological adaptation in the Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica), a keystone species for the North Atlantic Ocean
  • Matteo Tomasini - Range expansions along multiple environmental gradients

Flash-talks by PhD students

18.00 - Dinner

19.30 – Mingle & Time for unscheduled meetings, Pub, White dormitory

Wednesday October 6th

07.30 - Breakfast

08.30 - 10.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: James Reeve

  • Pierre De Wit - Temporally Balanced Selection - a mechanism for preserving genetic diversity in marine invertebrates
  • Marvin Choquet - Species boundaries in contemporary populations of Calanus in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
  • Björn Andersson - Environmental and experimental evolution of copper tolerance in the coastal diatom Skeletonema marinoi
  • Anders Blomberg - Extreme nucleotide diversity in coding regions of the barnacle Balanus improvisus
  • Irene Adrian-Kalchhausser - First steps towards understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics of perch aquaculture microbiomes

10.00 - Coffee & tea  
Steering committee tea with the CeMEB PhD students

10.40 – 11.40 Walk & Talk 

11.40 - 12.30 Presentations, Big lecture hall 
Chair: Chloé Robert

  • Anja Westram - The genomic basis of temperature adaptation across space
  • Kai Lohbeck - How a marine diatom didn’t adapt to 40 years of in situ seawater warming

12.30 – Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: Marina Rafajlovic

Invited speaker: Marija Cvijovic - Lessons from yeast: synergistic effects of damage accumulation, nutrient signalling and metabolism in the context of cellular rejuvenation and health span

15.00 - Coffee & tea

15.40 - 16.40 Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: Martin Eriksson

  • Gunilla Toth -  Microgeographical differences in the common starfish, Asterias rubens
  • Felix Lenner - A phylogenomic framework to study molecular evolution and adaptation in the krill
  • Jon Havenhand -  Environmental variability matters:  timescale of environmental fluctuations differentially selects phytoplankton phenotypes

16.40 - 18.30 Workshop "Future research & Funding opportunities", Big lecture hall
Introduction to group discussions – Leon Green & Ellika Faust

19.00 - Dinner & Pub

Thursday October 7th

07.30  -  Breakfast

08.30 - 10.00 Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: Stefanie Ries

  • James Reeve - Seeing the forest from the trees: surveying phenotypic diversity at a local scale in a sea snail
  • Alan le Moan - Speciation genomics along the sea shore: parallel clines in marine snails from the genus Littorina 
  • Simon Henriksson - Mosaic population structure of juvenile cod on the Swedish west coast
  • Olga Kourtchenko - Survivors of the sea: investigating diatom resting stage survival mechanisms
  • Rui Faria -The importance of chromosomal rearrangements in the evolution of marine organisms

10.00 - Coffee & tea

10.30 – 11.15 Presentations, Big lecture hall
Chair: Marlene Jahnke

Invited speaker: Olga Vinnere Pettersson - Biodiversity Genomics initiatives: Global, European, Swedish

11.15 – 12.30 Group discussions, Big lecture hall
Introduction to the group discussions, Marlene & Marina

12.30 – Lunch

14.00 – 15.00  Big lecture hall

  • Summary from group discussions in plenum 
  • Follow up on suggested future activities
  • Summary and ending of the meeting

15.15 - Coffee & tea