BESD 11 CODENET first annual workshop Château de Blagnac, September 17-22, l998 PROGRAM Thursday September 17 Afternoon arrival at Château de Blagnac,
Refreshments and hotel allocation
18:00 Check-in at hotel
Return to Blagnac
19:00 Ice-breaker apéro
20:00 Buffet dinner at Ch. de Blagnac
22:00 Return to Hotel
Friday September 18
08:00 Departure from Hotel
08:30 Breakfast
PLENARY SESSIONS
General. Chair Jan E. van Hinte
09:00 Jan E. van Hinte. Welcome, objectives of the meeting, trivia.
09:15 Jeremy Young. CODENET overview, project structure, people and their tasks.
09:45 Mario Cachão. Post-doc coordination, how and why.
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Chair Christian Samtleben.
The species –
review of state of knowledge and their special characteristics.These talks provided background information on the species, and an introduction to their special features and the unique features of each.
10:30 Gephyrocapsa spp., C.leptoporus ETH. Jorg Bollmann, Sabrine Renaud.
11:00 C. pelagicus MNHN-UL. Mario Cachão.
11:30 U. sibogae, H. carteri, S. pulchra NHM, VUA. Extant Annelies Kleijne, fossil Jeremy Young.
12:10 Conclusions
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Chair Hans Thierstein.
Team talks on research activities and tasks.
These talks were supposed to cover both the research interest and background of the groups and pay special attention to the research tasks indicated, giving a review of how it is/should be approached within the CODENET project.
14:00 U. Caen (RT1, 2, 7, culture isolation, life cycles, TEM studies). Ian Probert.
14:30 AWI (RT3, molecular genetics). Alberto Garcia Saez.
15:00 NIOZ (RT4, lipid studies). Hanno Kinkel.
15:30 Tea
16:00 CSIC (RT 5 Pigment studies). Kees van Lenning.
Distribution of Haptophyceae and Crysophyceae in oceanic regions as revealed by high performance liquid chromatography.16:30 NHM (RT6, 8, 15 biomineralisation, phylogeny, macroevolution). Jeremy Y.
17:00 Poster set-up
17:30 Refreshments
20:00 Dinner by former chef of Auberge St. Jean,
22:00 Return to hotel
Saturday September 19
08:00 Departure from Hotel
08:30 Breakfast
Team talks on research topics cntd.
Chair Peter Westbroek.
09:00 VUA (RT12, 13 sediment trap and Holocene samples, global biogeography) Patrizia Ziveri & Sandra Broerse
09:45 ETH (RT14 study of ODP samples). Sabrine Renaud
10:30 Coffee
General session I. Chair Jan E, van Hinte
11:00 Christian Samtleben. Gephyrocapsa: morphologiocal development and phylogenetic evolution.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Hans Thierstein . HOT BATS and their seasonal coccolithophore dynamics.
14:00 Poster session
Combined CODENET/GEM initiative: "Club des Amis du Château Blagnac" with treasure chest for improvement of meeting facilities.
14:30 Tea
15:00 Training session. Franco Novarino & Chantal Billard.
PHYCOLOGY - ALGAL BIOLOGY AND CULTURING.
17:00 Refreshments
18:00 Return to Hotel
19:30 Dinner at Auberge Gasconne St Pey de Castets
Sunday September 20
08:00 Departure from Hotel
08:30 Breakfast
09:00 Overview of work areas 1 - 3, and program. Chair Patrizia Ziveri.
The separate research tasks are focussed toward addressing a common set of objectives in three "work areas". These talks constituted a reminder of the large scale objectives of the project, the problems we are addressing and the unique contribution the project can make. They also provided a reflection point half way through the workshop to assess how well the project is structured toward meeting its objectives and provide a framework for workshop sessions in the latter part of the meeting. These talks included an element of review from the previous presentations.
09:00 Work area 1. Evolutionary biodiversity. Jeremy Young
09:30 Work area 2. Microevolution and species level variation. Hans Thierstein
10:00 Marta Estrada. Coccolithophorid ecology. Questions and case studies.
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Work area 3. Ecology. Marta Estrada & Luisa Cros.
11:30 Discussion
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Afternoon & evening off, sightseeing.
Monday September 21
08:00 Departure from Hotel
08:30 Breakfast
09:00 Training session. Gerard Versteegh & Hanno Kinkel
ORGANIC BIOMARKER GEOCHEMISTRY
10:30 Coffee
General session II. Chair Jan E, van Hinte
10:50 Hanno Kinkel. Comparison of coccolithophore and alkenone sedimentation.
11:20 Alberto Garcia-Saez. DNA phylogenies of coccolithophores.
11:50 Victor Huss. The unusual plastome of coccolithophorids.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 General session II ctnd.
Karl-Heinz Baumann. Coccolithus pelagicus from the polar North Atlantic: abundance and morphology.
14:00 Patrizia Ziveri & Sandra Broerse. Intercalibration experiment. Sediment trap sample preparation and quantification of coccolith flux and their carbonate contribution. See posters.
14:30 Workshop Sessions
Parallel workshops dealing with the research tasks involving several participants. The original program proposed six topics or their combinations:
a. RT1. Culture isolation and maintenance (ETHZ, U. Caen).
b. RT4 5. Lipid biomarker and pigment studies (CSIC, NIOZ).
c. RT11. Study of plankton assemblages - ecological characterisation (ETHZ, FdA-VUA, CSIC, MNHN-UL).
d. RT13, 14. Holocene and ODP sediment studies (NHM, ETHZ, FdA-VUA, MNHN- UL).
e. RT9, 10. Physiological characterisation and biometric study of cultured coccoliths (NHM, ETHZ, CSIC, MNHN-UL)
f. RT12. Sediment trap studies - flux rates and seasonal succession (ETHZ, FdA-VUA)
Discussion lead to a proposal by the post-docs of three parellel sessions:
I. Genetics, phylogeny and species concept. Post-docs and invitees.
II. Geobiochemistry, pigments, ecology and life cycles. Post-docs and invitees.
III. Bureaucratobatics. Scientists in charge.
15:00 Tea
15:30 Workshops cntd.
16:30 Plenary Session. Chair Jeremy Young.
Reports workshops, CODENET syntheses, CODENET bureaucracy and work strategy.
17:30 Refreshments. Last chance poster session
20:30 Closing dinner at Château de Blagnac.
Tuesday September 22
08:30 Departure from Hotel
09:00 Breakfast
10:00 - 15:00 Departure participants
11:00 Work-plan summary and report writing (Jeremy, Patrizia, Sabrine, Jan)
12:00 Lunch
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday September 23
Departure NHM, VUA and CSIC participants
Return rentals and clean-up château