Programme CeMEB Autumn Assembly 2022

07.30 - Bus departs from Gothenburg, outside Post Hotel Drottningtorget

10.00 - Bus arrives from Gothenburg

10.00 – Fika, entrance to the Aquarium

10.30 – 12.30 Big lecture hall

Welcome and introduction 
Chair: Pierre De Wit

Invited speaker: Leif Andersson - Genetics of ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring and sprat
Chair: Pierre De Wit

Presentations
Chair: Chloé Robert

• Milena Arias Schreiber - Marine Evolutionary Biology and Marine Social Sciences: reflections and challenges for inter and transdisciplinary research

Flash talks:

• Stefanie Ries - Filling the gap – Insights into the genetic population structure of Zostera marina along the Swedish coast
• Johan Severinson - Perennial algal mats – implications for seagrass conservation

12.30 - Lunch

13.30 – 15.00 Big lecture hall

Invited speaker: Jacob Granit - title coming soon
Chair: Andreas Wallberg

Panel discussion
Topic: “Incorporating an evolutionary approach in conservation management”
In the panel: Jakob Granit, Leif Andersson, Maria Beger & Kerstin Johannesson
Facilitator: Andreas Wallberg

15.00 Fika

15.30 – 17.30 Big lecture hall
Discussions I, IRL and On-line
Facilitator: Ellika Faust

Topics: 

1. How to align goals between researchers and managers? 
How can we make science that can be used by management and governmental agencies?
Often researchers receive funding for a specific research topic, this often does not align with a standardised data collection which may be more useful to management and governmental agencies. 
Are researchers too narrow in their views, and what data, method development or knowledge is actually needed by management and governmental agencies? 
How can we work hand in hand?

2. How do we make research results useful for management and governmental agencies?
Standardization - What are the requirements and constraints to be able to use basic research results in e.g. monitoring?
Communication - where are scientific results published and who reads it?
What incentives could there be for management and governmental agencies to use basic research results?

3. How do we make data produced by management and governmental agencies useful for research?
What do researchers need to integrate data from management in science? 
Availability, standardization, communication?
What data and topics are of interest to researchers?
Time-series, environmental parameters etc? 
What incentives could there be for researchers to use data from management and governmental agencies or produce relevant data?

17.30 – 18.00 Big lecture hall
Poster session with snacks
Chair: James Reeve

• Maria Eugenia Bernal Gomez - Identifying cues that promote flowering in eelgrass (Zostera marina)
• Matt Pinder - Reproducible analysis of eDNA for national biodiversity monitoring programs
• Ola Svensson - Sand goby females do not spawn with silent males - but do males sing out their condition and can the females hear the song in a noisy environment?.
• Andrea Morf - Linking communities of practice and science advice in Marine Spatial Planning – first lessons from collaborative learning across the North and Baltic Sea Regions
• Andreas Wallberg - Comparative genomics provide new insight into the evolutionary history and adaptive potential in krill

19.00 – Conference dinner 

07.30 – Breakfast

08.30 - 10.00 Big lecture hall
Invited speaker: Maria Beger - Integrating connectivity and adaptive capacity into marine spatial planning
Chair: Marlene Jahnke

Presentations
Chair: Luisa Kumpitsch

• Carl André - Multi-species patterns in intraspecific biodiversity

Flash talks:

• Erik Zhivkoplias - The marine biotechnology sector and biological functions associated with proteins from marine species.
• Valentina Bernal (online) - Genetic structure of the notothenioid Harpagifer antarcticus: The influence of geographical distance and oceanographic currents in population differentiation along the Antarctic Peninsula

10.00 – 10.45 - Coffee & tea  
Steering committee tea with the CeMEB PhD students

10.45 – 12.30 Big lecture hall
Presentations
Chair: Jessica Rieder

• Irene Adrian-Kalchhausser (online) – The effects of pathogen-host encounters are far from predictable
• Morten Tange Olsen (online) - Hidden diversity and local adaptations in a key Arctic marine mammal
• Filip Volckaert - The SEA-UNICORN European COST Action: Advancing Knowledge on Marine Connectivity to Support Transition to a Sustainable Blue Economy.
• Marlene Jahnke – Conservation genetics of eelgrass
• Linda Laikre - Science-management efforts to monitor genetic diversity

12.30 – Lunch

13.30 – 14.30 Walk & Talk 

14.40 – 15.00 Big lecture hall
Discussions II – IRL only
Facilitator: Matteo Tomasini

15.00 – Fika

15.30 – 17.30 Big lecture hall
Discussions II, summery

18.00 – Dinner

07.30  -  Breakfast

08.30 - 10.00 Big lecture hall
Award ceremony 2022 Molecular Ecology Prize
Professor Kerstin Johannesson has been awarded the 2022 Molecular Ecology Prize. Professor Michael Møller Hansen, Senior Editor at Molecular Ecology and Professor at Aarhus University, will host the award ceremony and present the prize.

Invited speaker: Kerstin Johannesson – Trailing a snail - highlights from more than 40 years research adventure
Chair: Michael Møller Hansen

Presentations
Chair: Johan Severinson

• Matteo Tomasini - How do species ranges respond to the effects of counteracting environmental gradients?

10.00 - Fika

10.30 – 11.50 Big lecture hall
Presentations
Chair: Stefanie Ries

• Michael M Hansen - Genome-wide methylation in the panmictic European eel
• Ellika Faust - Crossing barriers: Genetic consequences of translocating
• Nauras Daraghmeh - Testing genetic connectivity across the European regional seas with a metaphylogeographic approach
• Marina Panova - eDNA in environmental monitoring and biodiversity assessment

11.50 - 13.00 Big lecture hall
Discussions III – IRL only
Facilitator: Leon Green

13.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Big lecture hall
Summery of discussion III

Future topics, and future CeMEB, discussion

Summery and ending of the meeting
Chair: Marina Rafajlovic

15.00 – Fika

15.30 – Bus departs to Gothenburg