PROGRAMME /
All times are given in CEST
(Central European Summer Time, Paris time)
Day 1 | May 12th
09:00 – 09:30 Registration and coffee
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09:30 – 09:45 Welcome and practical information
Lise Øvreås | University of Bergen
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09:45 – 10:15 Historical overwiew of the PVC phylum | Warming up talk
Damien P. Devos | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
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10:15 – 10:45 Key note lecture I
Quo vadis Planctomycetes: tapping into biodiversity, secondary metabolism and
potential biotechnological applications of an understudied bacterial phylum
Nicolai Kallsheuer | Friedrich Schiller University Jena
10:45 – 11:05 Planctomycetota from Tejo river estuary (Portugal): isolation, diversity and
bioactive potential
Inês Vitorino | University of Porto
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11:05 – 11:25 Summasphaera aliquam gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel planctomycetal strain
belonging to the Phycisphaerae and isolated from saline sediment of a Portuguese
solar saltern
Eduarda Almeida | University of Porto
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11:25 – 11:45 Diversity of Planctomycetes from different habitats of India
Kumar Gaurav | University of Hyderabad
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11:45 – 13:00 Lunch
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13:00 – 13:30 Key note lecture II
Gene gain facilitated the origin and diversification of an ancient phylum of
symbionts
Stephan Köstlbacher | Wageningen University & Research
13:30 – 13:50 Chlamydiae in the environment
Astrid Collingro | University of Vienna
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13:50 – 14:10 Sponge microbiomes reveal diverse Chlamydiae and cross-phylum biosynthetic
potential
Jennah Dharamshi | Stockholm University
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14:10 – 14:30 Filamentous inclusions in the Planctomycetota Aeoliella straminimaris
Olga Maria Lage | University of Porto
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14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break
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15:00 – 15:20 Comparative study of symmetrical cell division in the PVC superphylum
Valentina Henriques | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
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15:20 – 15:40 Big Proteins in the tree of life
João Amaral | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
15:40 – 16:00 Review of Verrucomicrobia
Nils Kåre Birkeland | University of Bergen
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19:00 – 22:00 Conference dinner at Fløyen
Day 2 | May 13th
09:00 – 09:30 Key note lecture III
Engineering, energy and diversity in the anammox bacteria
Tom Curtis | Newcastle University
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09:30 – 09:50 Planctomycetes in the global context: Comparison and analysis of genomic
architectures of bacterial and archaeal clades
Laura Claret Fernández | Radboud University
09:50 – 10:10 Protein architectures: Key of complexity growth in evolution?
Rúben García Domínguez | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
10:10 – 10:30 Building a robust PVC species phylogeny
Kassiani Panagiotou | Wageningen University & Research
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
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11:00 – 11:20 Planctomycetota distribution across Svalbard shelf
Rita Calisto | University of Porto
11:20 – 11:40 Planctomycetes diversity in deep Arctic sediments
Francesca Naletto | University of Bergen
11:40 – 12:00 Diversity of Planctomycetes in pingo ecosystems on Svalbard
Shalaka Kiran Patil | University of Bergen
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
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13:00 – 13:30 Key note lecture IV
Third generation sequencing and metagenomics
Paco Rodrigues Valera | Universidad Miguel Hernandez
13:30 – 13:50 Essential gene complement of the non-model bacterium Planctomycetes
Planctopirus limnophila
David Moyano Palazuelo | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo
13:50 – 14:10 Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial diversity of three African Rift valley
soda lakes determined by amplicon metagenomics
Oliyad Jeilu Oumer | Addis Ababa University / Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
14:10 – 14:30 An overview of the carbohydrate hydrolytic potential within the
Planctomycetes phylum
Dominika Klimek | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
14:30 – 14:50 Role of Planctomycetes in fucoidan degradation: characterization of
Rhodopirellula-like strains isolated from Fucus spiralis
Carla Perez-Cruz | Basque Research and Technology Alliance
14:50 – 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 – 15:55 Round Table
15:55 – 16:00 Closing of the V PVC meeting
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17:00 Guided Visited to the Leprosy Museum
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PVC V Scientific Committee
Lise Øvreås | University of Bergen - Norway
Olga M. Lage | University of Porto - Portugal
Damien P. Devos | Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo - Spain
Nils Kåre Birkeland | University of Bergen - Norway
Rita Calisto | University of Porto - Portugal