Invited speakers list

Invited speakers (provisional titles)

• Catharina Alves-de-Souza (University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28409, USA)
  Modeling dynamics of harmful dinoflagellate blooms and their alveolate parasites
   
• Tsvetan R. Bachvaroff (Institute for Marine and Environmental Technology, Baltimore, USA)
  Genome evolution in dinoflagellates
   
• Lucie Bittner (Institut de Biologie Paris, Paris, France)
  Capturing structure, functions, diversity and evolution of microbial eukaryotic communities using high-throughput sequencing
   
• Rosa Figueroa (Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)
  Complexity of live cycles in dinoflagellates
   
• Isabelle Florent (Muséum National d-Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France)
  Marine gregarines as models for early apicomplexan evolution
   
• Laure Guillou (Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France)
  What make dinoflagellate parasites different from human parasites?
   
• Mona Hoppenrath (Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung, Wilhelmshaven, Germany)
  Diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of taxa of dinoflagellates
   
• Jan Janouskovec (University College London, London, United Kingdom)
  Character evolution in Myzozoans
   
• Cécile Jauzein (Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
  Role of cell death in the interaction between parasites (Syndiniales) and their dinoflagellate hosts, from the use of chemical weapons towards cell suicide
   
• Patrick Keeling (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
  Evolution of parasitism in Myzozoa
   
• Maryse Lebrun (Campus Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France)
  Common exocytic machinery for myzozoan interactions with other organisms
   
• Cécile Lepère (Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France)
  Relevance of Perkinsozoa in freshwater systems
   
• Senjie Lin (University of Connecticut, Groton, USA)
  ENDS: beginning of an integrative molecular ecological approach to understanding ecological success of dinoflagellates.
   
• Markus Meissner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munchen, Germany)
  Dynamic cell biological processes for movement, invasion and replication in Toxoplasma
   
• Shauna Murray (University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia)
  Evolution and molecular ecology of marine microbial biotoxins
   
• Fabrice Not (Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France)
  Diversity, biology and ecology of mutualistic symbioses in marine plankton
   
• Miroslav Oborník (Faculty of Science, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)
  Chromerids at the interface of phototrophy and parasitism
   
• Arnab Pain (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
  Myzozoan genome evolution
   
• Betina Porcel (Genoscope, Evry, France)
  Comparative genomics and signatures of parasitism in marine alveolates
   
• Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  The private life of parasites: Sophisticated strategies for survival & reproduction
   
• David S. Roos (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
  Comparative biology in the ‘Omics Era’
   
• Sonja Rueckert (Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  Gregarine apicomplexan biology, diversity and systematics
   
• Raffaele Siano (Ifremer, Plouzané, France)
  History of dinoflagellate blooms as recorded from sediments
   
• Timur Simdyanov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119 234, Russian Federation)
  Parasitism in chrompodellids
   
• Dominique Soldati-Favre (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
  Armed and dangerous: the arsenal at the apical complex of Toxoplasma gondii 
   
• Boris Striepen (University of Georgia, Athens, USA)
  The biology of Cryptosporidium
   
• Isabelle Tardieux (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France)
  Micro-biomechanics of the Toxoplasma tachyzoite cell
   
• Rita Tewari (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom)
  Molecular mechanisms of cell division, signalling and motility in Plasmodium
   
• Leann Tilley (The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
  Parasite-host interactions and remodelling in malaria
   
• Fiona Tomley (The Royal Veterinary College, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
  Host-pathogen interactions and control of coccidiosis caused by Eimeria
   
• Ross F. Waller (University of Cambridge, Cambridge; United Kingdom)
  New tools for evolutionary cell biology in Myzozoa