A. Murat Eren
University of Oldenburg
Germany
Overview
This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually.
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Conference overview
The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of the functioning, ecology and evolution of plankton communities at a global scale. Environmental surveys spanning all domains of life, from bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes, DNA and RNA viruses, have been performed. Techniques have advanced from single gene surveys to whole-genome-resolved approaches, and recent years have also witnessed advances in cross-scale plankton automated imaging techniques, feedback microscopy, remote sensing from space, and the acquisition of contextual data from the water column, as well as new computational techniques for big data analysis and deep learning. As ambitious interdisciplinary oceanographic efforts and time-series sites continue to generate and release information-rich data, it is time to discuss the most notable milestones and discoveries, and to showcase how scientists can exploit these data in different ways.
The goal of the conference is to focus on the new fields of plankton science enabled in particular by 10 years of Tara Oceans research, to increase the impact of the new knowledge generated from these datasets, and to foster new collaborations among aquatic microbial ecologists, evolutionary biologists, oceanographers, cell and molecular biologists, geneticists, and more. The objective is also to identify questions we can now ask thanks to recent discoveries, and with the arrival of new technologies, methods, and concepts from all corners of the biological sciences.
Speakers
Keynote speakers
Éric Karsenti
Emeritus Res. Dir. CNRS & Visiting Group Leader EMBL Heidelberg
France
Speakers
Erin Bertrand
Dalhousie University
Canada
María del Carmen Muñoz-Marín
University of Córdoba
Spain
Nicole Dubilier
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Germany
Angela Falciatore
Sorbonne University
France
Matthias Fischer
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
Germany
Jed Fuhrman
University of Southern California
USA
Stephen Giovannoni
Oregon State University
USA
Mahwash Jamy
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden
Eugene Koonin
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
USA
Marina Levy
Locean-IPSL Sorbonne University
France
Xin Lin
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University
China
Victoria Orphan
California Institute of Technology
France
Manu Prakash
Stanford University
USA
Michael Rappé
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
USA
Scientific organisers
Detlev Arendt
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Chris Bowler
IBENS, Ecole normale supérieure
France
Tom Delmont
Genoscope
France
Naomi Levine
University of Southern California
USA
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Date: 1 - 4 Sep 2026
Location: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual
Venue: EMBL Advanced Training Centre
Organisers:
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Detlev Arendt
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany -
Chris Bowler
IBENS, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France -
Tom Delmont
Genoscope, France -
Naomi Levine
University of Southern California, USA
Contact: EMBL Events