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Parasites, Viruses, Invasive Elements, & HGT |
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Session Chair: Julius Lukes, CZ |
| 7:00 - 8:30 |
Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Varsha Mathur (UK, F): Unravelling the mechanism of a plankton-parasite interaction |
| 9:30 |
Isabelle Florent (France, F): Adaptive and functional biodiversity of Apicomplexa, the contribution of -omic data on gregarines |
| 10:00 |
Geoffrey McFadden, University of Melbourne: The mechanism of uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes in Plasmodium |
| 10:20 |
Moises Bernabeu, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS): Timing of HGT events in Paulinella species may suggest ancestral prolonged symbioses |
| 10:40 |
Olga Matantseva: The unique process of cell covering rearrangement in dinoflagellates and new insights to cyst activity levels |
| 11:00 |
Coffee break + ECS Meet the speakers |
| 11:30 |
Patrick Keeling: Reversing endosymbiosis - loss of function and physical loss of organelles |
| 11:55 |
Matthias Fischer: Endogenous DNA viruses in protist genomes - parasites or defense agents? |
| 12:20 |
Claire Bugnot, CNRS: Structural variations associated to evolution of resistance to giant viruses |
| 12:40 |
Max Schon, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research: Pervasive host-virus-virophage interactions in marine alga Bigelowiella natans |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30 |
Manny Ares - Introns: a hallmark and often still mysterious feature of eukaryotes |
| 15:00 |
Anzhelika Butenko, Czech Academy of Sciences: Exploring eukaryotic intron evolution: lessons from Euglenozoa |
| 15:20 |
John Mattick, University of Maryland: Ancestr |