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)
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