| Day |
Time |
Event |
Venue |
Sunday
June 8 |
10.20 - 18.30 |
Excursion to Kilmartin and Taynish
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|
Oban railway station |
| 20.00 - 22.00 |
Drinks reception:
Icebreaker for Algal CC delegates
|
Oban Bay Hotel |
| 20.00 - 22.00 |
Registration for Algal CC delegates |
Oban Bay Hotel |
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Monday
June 9 |
08.45 |
Bus leaves Oban to SAMS |
Oban railway station & Corran Halls |
| 09.00 - 12.00 |
Registration |
Lobby of SAMS building |
| 09.15 - 09.20 |
Welcome |
William Spiers Bruce Conference Room (WSB) |
| 09.20 - 14.30 |
The role of culture collections in the development of DNA barcodes and bioinformatics
Chair: G Cochrane & Dr. F Küpper |
WSB |
| 09.20 - 09.50 |
The EMBL Nucleotide Archive: Genomics meets biodiversity |
Cochrane GR, Vaughan R, Faruque N & Birney E |
| 09.50 - 10.20 |
Integrating algal culture collections within the StrainInfo.net bioportal |
Dawyndt P |
| 10.20 - 10.50 |
The Pasteur Culture Collection of Cyanobacteria (PCC): phylogenetic studies based on 16S rDNA sequences |
Gugger M, Tambosco J, Rippka R, Coursin T, Laurent T, Cruaud C, Gavory F, Weissenbach J & Tandeau de Marsac N |
| 10.50 - 11.30 |
Coffee break, Trade Display & Poster set up |
Old Conference Room |
| 11.30 - 12.00 |
A brave new world? A review of the impact of DNA barcoding on the identification of benthic marine algae |
Brodie J |
| 12.00 - 12.20 |
ITS-2 as universal Barcode for protists |
Pröschold T, Seibel P, Wolf M & Coleman AW |
| 12.20 - 12.40 |
Recent developments in bioinformatics at www.ccap.ac.uk |
Campbell CN, Saxon RJ, Day JG, Pröschold T, Küpper FC & Gachon CMM |
| 12.40 - 13.30 |
Lunch & posters |
Old Conference Room |
| 13.30 - 13.50 |
The Roscoff Culture Collection (RCC): current status and perspectives |
Vaulot D, Probert I, Le Gall F, Rigaut-Jalabert F, Gourvil P & Marie D |
| 13.50 - 14.10 |
NIES-Collection: ex situ conservation of biodiversity and endangered algae in Japan |
Kasai F, Kawachi M, Erata M, Mori F, Yumoto K, Sato M & Ishimoto M |
| 14.10 - 14.30 |
The CSIRO Collection of Living Microalgae |
Jameson I, Blackburn SI, Johnston C, Frampton DMF, Robert S, Albinsson ME & Bolch CJ |
| 14.30 - 17.10 |
Current curatorial developments
Chair: Prof. Thomas Friedl |
WSB |
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
How do algae survive freezing? Exploring the biophysical basis of in vivo and in vitro cryopreservation |
Benson EE, Day JG & Harding K |
| 15.00 - 15.30 |
Cryopreservation, genetic stability and the concept of cryobionomics for Algal Culture Collections |
Harding K, Müller J, Friedl T & Day JG |
| 15.30 - 15.50 |
Culture collections and type specimens - what is their relevance to understanding and naming species and to resolving taxonomic and phylogenetic questions? |
Cox EJ |
| 15.50 - 16.10 |
Conservation of algal type material: approaches needed for 21st century science |
Day JG, Pröschold T & Friedl T |
| 16.10 - 16.30 |
Coffee break |
Old Conference Room |
| 16.30 - 16.50 |
Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne (CCAC): New cultivation techniques for microalgae |
Surek B & Melkonian M |
| 16.50 - 17.10 |
Intraspecific variation in culture growth dynamics - genetic variation or environment? |
Bejoy T & Bolch CJS |
| 17.10 - 17.40 |
Discussion Session I: Use of molecular bar codes
Chair: Prof. Juliet Brodie |
WSB |
| 17.40 - 18.10 |
Discussion Session II: Conservation of epitypes
Chair: Dr. Erica Benson |
WSB |
| 18.15 |
Bus to Oban (Free evening) |
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Tuesday
June 10 |
08.45 |
Bus leaves from Oban to SAMS |
Oban railway station & Corran Halls |
| 09.15 - 09.20 |
Announcements |
WSB |
| 09.20 - 12.50 |
Natural products and biodiscovery
Chair: Prof. A Harvey & Prof. M Jaspars |
WSB |
| 09.20 - 9.50 |
Streamlining the Biodiscovery Pipeline |
Jaspars M |
| 09.50 - 10.10 |
The CSIRO Collection of Living Microalgae: Bioapplications |
Blackburn SI, Jameson I, Johnston C, Nichols CM, Frampton DMF, Mansour MP, Nichols PD, Robert S & Volkman JK |
| 10.10 - 10.30 |
Antiviral activity of microalgae extracts against Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) |
Chu WL, Kok YY, Lai PJ, Tan BK, Mohammed SM, Ling SN, Mak JW, Lim KC, Naidu R, Balraj P & Phang SM |
| 10.30 - 10.50 |
Incipient report of domoic acid production by four benthic diatom species under non-axenic batch culture conditions |
O'Higgins L |
| 10.50 - 11.20 |
Coffee break |
Old Conference Room |
| 11.20 - 11.50 |
Natural products as a continuing source of inspiration for drug discovery |
Harvey A |
| 11.50 - 12.10 |
Are microalgae a realistic source of biofuels? |
Stanley M & Day JG |
| 12.10 - 12.30 |
Marine Glycobiology based drug discovery: opportunities in microalgal research |
Bavington C |
| 12.30 - 12.50 |
The role of the Bioscience for Business Knowledge Transfer Network in encouraging utilisation of bioresources |
Lloyd-Evans M |
| 12.50 - 14.00 |
Lunch & Posters |
Old Conference Room |
| 14.00 - 16.00 |
Taxonomy, biodiversity and biogeography
Chair: Dr. Eileen Cox |
WSB |
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Comparative cell motility of some 'bangiophycidean' and 'florideophycidean' red algae |
West J, West K, Pickett-Heaps J, Ackland J & Spurck T |
| 14.30 - 15.00 |
Systematics of coccoid green algae with the eyes of a morphologist, a limnologist and a molecular biologist |
Krienitz L, Bock C, Luo W & Pröschold T |
| 15.00 - 15.20 |
Phenotypic plasticity in Desmodesmus as viewed with the SEM |
Shubert E |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Identification and phylogeny of algae dominating biofilms: a challenge for algal systematics |
Friedl T, Mohr K, Brinkmann N, Mudimu O & Hallman C |
| 15.40 - 16.00 |
Genetic divergence of world-wide Ectocarpus populations based on mitochondria cox3 and nuclear Ocm3 gene sequences using KU-MACC culture strains |
Kawai H, Hanyuda T, Müller DG & Yamagishi T |
| 16.00 - 16.30 |
Coffee break |
Old Conference Room |
| 16.30 - 16.50 |
Monitoring harmful algal blooms in Scottish waters |
Swan S, Davidson K & Pete R |
| 16.50 - 17.10 |
Interfilum and Klebsormidium are closely related streptophycean algae |
Mikhailyuk TI, Sluiman HJ, Rindi F, Massalski AK, Mudimu O & Friedl T |
| 17.10 - 17.30 |
Taxonomic revision of a common aerophytic coccoid green alga previously assigned to Chlorella (Chlorophyta, Trebouxiophyceae) |
Darienko T, Friedl T, Zufall-Roth E, Mudimu O, Beck A, Peters L, Schumann R & Karsten U |
| 17.30 - 17.45 |
Summary and farewell |
WSB |
| 17.45 - 18.45 |
Coffee / refreshments |
Cafe na Mara |
| 18.45 |
Bus to The Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary |
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| 19.00 |
Tour / visit of centre |
The Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary |
| 20.00 |
Conference Dinner |
The Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary |
| 22.30 |
Bus to Oban |
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