SPECIAL SESSIONS - Oral Presentations by PhD Students and Young Postdocts
Monday 7th (16.00-17.30 h)
Three parallel sessions (12 min long presentations)
These sessions will take place in three different buildings of the Reina Mercedes Scientific Campus:
Faculty of Computer Engineering
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla
Auditorium Maximum (Salón de Actos)
Faculty of Biology – RedBuilding
Facultad de Biología – Edifício Rojo
Reina Mercedes Ave. 6, 41012 Sevilla
Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados), ground floor
Celestino Mutis building (CITIUS II)
Edificio Celestino Mutis (CITIUS II)
Reina Mercedes Ave., 41012 Sevilla
Conference Classroom (Salón de Grados)
SS7E-1
Chair: Jacob Lorenzo Morales, La Laguna, Spain
1Genomes of monoxenous species shed light on the evolution of parasitism in trypanosomatids
Anzhelika ButenkoGenomics/Molecular Biology
2Genetic regulation of sporocarp development in a protosteloid amoeba, Protosteliopsis fimicola (Vanellidae, Amoebozoa)
Alexander TiceGenomics/Molecular Biology
3Uncovering the ancestral state of mitochondrial targeting
Sriram GargCell Biology
4Urea vs. nitrate: concurrent uptake of nutrients by dinoflagellates Prorocentrum minimum at a population and single-cell level
Olga MatantsevaPhysiology and Metabolism
5High prevalence of the ‘bovine genotype’ T. foetus in domestic pig faecal samples and transcriptomic comparisons of the porcine, bovine and feline T. foetus isolates
Victoria Morin-AdelineParasitology
6Hexaazatrinaphthylenes with apoptosis-like activity against Leishmania donovani
Atteneri López-ArencibiaParasitology
7Promiscuous and conservative symbiont acquisition in the genus Nuclearia
Sebastian Dirren Evolution/Phylogeny
SS7E-2
Chair: Alastair Simpson, Haifax, Canada
8Evolutionary history of the arginine deiminase pathway among eukaryotes
Lukáš NovákEvolution/Phylogeny
9Tetrahymena thermophila shows increased evolvability following sexual reproduction
Jason TarkingtonEvolution/Phylogeny
10Strain PAP020, a novel anaerobic microeukaryote branching at the base of Fornicata
Euki YazakiEvolution/Phylogeny
11Hunting for agile prey: two novel Leptophryid amoebae (Vampyrellida, Cercozoa) devouring planktonic freshwater algae
Sebastian HessEvolution/Phylogeny
12Single-cell multigene and transcriptomics-based cataloging of phagotrophic euglenids: towards multigene phylogenetics
Gordon LaxEvolution/Phylogeny
13Cytoplasmic double-infection - Paramecium biaurelia infected by two novel Rickettsia-like bacteria
Franziska SzokoliEnvironmental Microbiology
14Combined culture-based and culture-independent approaches provide insights into diversity of jakobids, extremely plesiomorphic eukaryotic lineage
Tomáš PánekEnvironmental Microbiology
SS7E-3
Chair: Ana Martín, Madrid, Spain
15Functional diversity of peatland testate amoebae: finding relevant
traits to assess the response of communities to ecological stress
Isabelle KoenigEcology
16Water-energy balance, past ecological perturbations and evolutionary constraints shape the latitudinal diversity gradient of soil testate amoebae in southwestern South America
Leonardo D. FernándezEcology
17The response of Myxomycete communities to 14 years of N, P, and K addition in a lowland tropical rain forest
Laura WalkerEcology
18Environmental diversity of cryptic species from the Nebela collaris complex is strongly correlated with environmental filters
David SingerEcology
19Accessing the ecology of uncultured picoeukaryotes through a high-throughput automatic cell enumeration approach
Jean-François Mangot Ecology
20Protozoan diversity in activated sludge from MBR systems
Julián Andrés Parada-AlbarracínEcology
21Impact of the conversion of tropical lowland rainforests on soil testate amoebae community composition
Valentyna KrashevskaEcology