Second Annual CODENET Meeting

    Château de Blagnac, September 2 - 7, 1999

     

    PROGRAM

     

    Thursday September 2

    Afternoon arrival at Château de Blagnac,

    Cabara, 33420 Branne, tel/fax (++33) 55 784 5529, e-mail: hinj@geo.vu.nl.

    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 3

    08:00 Departure from Hotel

    08:30 breakfast

    General session.

    09:00 Jan E. van Hinte (FdA VUA). Welcome, objectives of the meeting, trivia.

    09:15 Jeremy Young (NHM). CODENET burocratobatics and next steps.

    Mid-term review requirements.

    09:45 Mario Cachao (MNHN UL). Postdoc coordination, mobility status and plans.

    10:00 coffee

    Postdoc- and other results.

    Each talk should cover: objectives in CODENET context, accomplishments and plans.

    Results will be further discussed and integrated in the "Workshops"

    10:20 Alberto García Sáez (AWI) Resolving the long standing issue of the chloroplast genome size in Coccolithophores.

    10:40 Cornelis van Lenning (CSIC) Portugal-CODENET cruise 1999; nutrient and pigment data

    11:00 Hanno Kinkel (NIOZ) Evolution of coccolithophores and their biomarkers:Implications for paleoclimate reconstructions

    11:20 Ian Probert (U.Caen) Ultrastructural observations on Gephyrocapsa and Calcidiscus.

    11:40 Mario Cachao (MNHN UL) Coccolith and coccosphere ratio in plankton samples.

    12:00 lunch and poster set-up

    13:00 Markus Geisen (NHM) Morphometrics on S. pulchra, H. carteri and U. sibogae. Episode I: Initial results of the 0 and 4Ma timeslices.

    13:20 Patrizia Ziveri (FdA VUA) Fine fraction mass flux off Somalia: coccolithophore implications and the contribution of codenet taxa.

    13:40 Sabrina Renaud (ETHZ) Comparison of morphological variability in plankton, cultures and Holocene samples.

    14:00 Annelies Kleijne (FdA VUA) Helicosphaera carteri var. hyalina in the equatorial Atlantic.

    14:20 Christine Klaas, Bollmann Jörg and Thierstein Hans .R. (ETHZ) Morphological and growth characteristics of Gephyrocapsa as a function of temperature conditions.

     

    14:40 Alexandra Broerse (FdA VUA) Coccolith carbonate contribution in the global ocean

    15:00 tea break

    15:30 Marie-Helène Noël (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibararaki, Japan) Grow rate and optic characteristics relative to cell fractionation of E. huxleyi in an axenic tank culture.

     15:50 Heather Stoll (Dept. de Geologia, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) & Daniel P. Schrag (Harvard University, USA) Coccolith Sr/Ca as a new indicator of coccolithophorid calcification and growth rate.

    16:10 Masanobu Kawachi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibararaki, Japan) & Isao Inouye (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Phylogenetic analysis of the 18SrRNA gene sequence from members of the Haptophyceae.

    16:30 Alex Poulton on: the last AMT cruise

    17:00 Poster session, refreshments

    18:30 return to hotel

    19:00 pick-up for dinner

    Saturday September 4

    08:00 Departure from Hotel

    08:30 breakfast

    PHYLOGENY (evolutionary biodiversity)

    09:00 Katharina von Salis (ETHZ):

    Origin and diversification of Coccolithophoridae.

    09:45 Jeremy Young (NHM):

    Review of CODENET progress on phylogeny

    10:15 coffee

    11:00 Workshop - status reviews

    geological record (chair Markus)

    (paleo)biogeographic analysis (chair Patrizia)

    12:00 lunch

    Training session I: Cladistics

    13:00 Rienk de Jong (NNM Leiden):

    Historic overview on taxonomy and systematics: from intuition to computer analysis.

    14:00 Rienk de Jong (NNM Leiden):

    Cladistics workshop

    15:00 tea break

    15:30 Cladistics workshop cntd

    17:00 Poster session, refreshments

    18:00 return to hotel

    19:00 dinner at Hotel de France

    Sunday September 5

    08:00 Departure from Hotel

    08:30 breakfast

    ECOLOGY

    09:00 Gerald Ganssen, Patrizia Ziveri & Sandrine Conan (FdA VUA): Comparison of stable isotope composition of coccoliths with that of planktic foraminifera from sediment traps off Somalia.

     

    09:20 Gerard Versteegh (NIOZ)

    Lipids of the CODENET species and related taxa

    09:40 Karin Zonneveld, Britta Karwath & Helmut Willems (U. Bremen):

    Calcareous dinocyst ecology.

    10:20 Lluisa Cros (CSIC):

    Distribution of coccolithophorids across the Catalan front in the Mediterranean Sea.

    10:40 Marta Estrada (CSIC):

    Review of CODENET progress on ecology.

    11:00 coffee

    11:30 Workshop Status reviews:

    - culture collections (chair Ian)

    - culture experiment work (chair Christine)
      • Lisbon Cruise results (Mario and Hanno)

    12:30 lunch.

    Afternoon and evening off.

    Monday September 6

    08:00 Departure from Hotel

    08:30 breakfast

    MICRO-EVOLUTION

    09:00 Karl-Heinz Baumann, Babette Böckel & Claudia Sprengel (U. Bremen) Morphological variations of distinct coccolith species - examples from the Canary Islands.

    09:30 Karl-Heinz Baumann, Babette Böckel & Claudia Sprengel (U. Bremen) Morphological variations of distinct coccolith species — example from the South Atlantic.

    10:00 Jeremy Young:

    Review of CODENET progress on micro-evolution.

    10:30 coffee

    11:00 Workshop - status reviews per taxon (chair Jeremy and Patrizia):

    C. pelagicus, Gephyrocapsa, C. leptoporus, S. pulchra, U. sibogae, H. carteri

    12:30 lunch and poster show and tell

    Training session II: Molecular genetics

    13:30 Instructors: Volker Huss (U. Erlangen) and Alberto García Sáez (AWI):

    15:00 tea break

    15:30 Molecular genetics cntd

    16:15 Jeremy Young. Wrap-up. Present status of the program viz à viz its objectives. Can we meet them in the next two years or was our proposal too ambitious? Determine how to modifie (cut or expend) original plans and set procedures for integration of results. Goals (realistic task assignments) for the next two years. See "Reminder".

    Again: Mid-term review requirements.

    17:30 refreshments

    Last chance poster discussion.

    20:00 Closing dinner at Château de Blagnac.

    Tuesday September 7

    08:30 Departure from Hotel

    09:00 breakfast

    10:00 - 15:00 Departure participants

    10:00 Work-plan and report write-up. (Jeremy, Patrizia, Jan, +, +, +, + ?)

    12:00 lunch

    19:00 dinner

    Wednesday September 8

    a.m.: Departure writers & organizers

    p.m.: Return rentals and clean-up château


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      This program was organised by Patrizia Ziveri in discusion with Jan van Hinte and Jeremy Young.