2021 NeLLi Symposium – Agenda

Seminar 1

Thursday, September 16

Origin of the Eukaryotic Cell

“Inference and Reconstruction of the Skadiarchaeial Ancestry of Eukaryotes”

“Spatial Separation of Ribosomes and DNA in Asgard Archaeal Cells”

“Tracing the Origin of the Eukaryotic Cellular Membrane”

“The Role of Death in the Rise of Eukaryotes”

“Regulatory Adaptations During the Early Stages of Endosymbiont Genome Decay”

“The Role of Mitochondrial Energetics in the Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes”

Burak Avci, Wageningen University and Research

Yosuke Hoshino, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Sori La, University of Witwatersrand

Arkadiy Garber, Arizona State University

Sergio Munoz-Gomez, Universite Paris-Saclay

“From Asgard to Eukaryotes: How Hard was the Transition?”

Seminar 2

Thursday, September 23

Updates on the Tree of Life

“Resolving Widespread Incomplete and Uneven Archaeal Classifications Based on a Rank-Normalized Genome-Based Taxonomy”

“GTDB: An Ongoing Consus of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity”

“Culexarchaeota: A Novel Thermophilic Archaeal Lineage with Diverse Metabolisms”

“Fast-Evolving Alignment Sites are Highly Informative for Reconstructions of Deep Tree of Life phylogenies​”

“Exploring Lateral Gene Transfers Across Rhizaria”

Donovan Parks, University of Queensland

Anthony Kohtz, Montana State University

Thiberio Rangel, MIT

Jolien van Hooff, ESE, CNRS – Université Paris-Saclay – AgroParisTech

“Phylogenetics and the early evolution of Bacteria”

Seminar 3

Thursday, September 30

The Role of Novel Lineages in Biogeochemical Cycles

“Diverse Bacteria from the Candidate Phyla Radiation with the Potential to Shape Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in a Meromictic Lake”

“Energy Efficiency and Biological Interactions Define the Core Microbiome of Deep Oligotrophic Groundwater”

“An Important Niche Filled by Candidate Phylum TA06”

“Characterizing the Roles of Plant-Archaea Interactions in Driving Soil Nitrogen Availability”

Maliheh Mehrshad, Swedish university of agricultural sciences

Joe Vineis, Northeastern University

Edi Wipf,  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

 “Multi-omics Insights into the Ecophysiology and Interactions of Environmental Archaeal-Bacterial Consortia and Viruses in Methane Seep Sediments”

Seminar 4

Thursday, October 7

Cultivation of New Lineages

“Cultivation Renaissance in the Post-Metagenomics Era: Combining the New and Old”

“Cultivation of Motile Thermophilic Dehalococcoidia Sheds Light on an Interesting Past”

“Tungsten is Essential for Carbohydrate Metabolism in Members of a Novel Family of Anaerobic, Thermophilic Caldarchaeales (Aigarchaeota)”

Marike Palmer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Steffen Buessecker, Stanford University

“Vampire Bacteria: A Unique Predatory Lifestyle”

Seminar 5

Thursday, October 14

Microbial Symbionts of Microeukaryotes

“Bacterial and Archaeal Symbioses with Protists”

“New Flow-through Cultivation Chambers for the First Chemosynthetic Symbiosis Model System Zoothamnium Niveum”

“The Complex Symbiotic Community of Pelomyxa Schiedti”

“Finding Lions in the Microbial World: How Both Cultivation-Dependent and -Independent Methods can Help Target Rare Microbial Predators”

“Cryptomonas: A single-Celled Eukaryote with Seven Genomes”

“Candidatus Gromoviella Agglomerans”, A Novel Intracellular Holosporaceae Parasite of the Ciliate Paramecium Showing Marked Genome Reduction”

Jean-Marie Volland, DOE JGI / LRC.Systems

Sebastian Cristian Treitli, Charles University, Czech Republic

Victoria Jacko Reynolds, University of British Columbia

Emma George, University of British Columbia

Michele Giovannini, University of Pisa

“An Unusual Partnership Between a Denitrifying Endosymbiont and its Ciliate Host”

Seminar 6

Thursday, October 21

Methods to Discover the Undiscovered

“MetaHipMer for Terabyte Scale Assemblies”

“DNA-SIP Metagenomics: Linking the Identity of Bacteria with their Function in Complex Microbial Communities”

“Correlative Raman-FM-SEM-EDS-nanoSIMS Links Identity, Biochemistry, and Morphology of Environmental Microbes”

“Co-evolution of Genes Involved in Plant Biomass Conversion by Fungi”

“Increasing Taxonomic Diversity of Genome Bins using MetaHipMer for Terabyte Scale Assembly”

Dariia Vyshenska, JGI

George Schaible, Montana State University

Ronald de Vries, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute and Utrecht University

Robert Riley, JGI

“From Tara Oceans to Plankton Genomics at Large Scale”