Programme
Day 1: Monday 23 September 2024
Registration and Welcome | |
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| 11:30 – 12:00 | Registration Sandwiches and fruits will be provided |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Welcome to the TREC symposium TREC Achievements towards overcoming research fragmentation Paola Bertucci, Head of EMBL Scientific Expeditions, EMBL Peer Bork, TREC Scientific Director, EMBL |
| Session 1: State of the art TREC sampling and analysis (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Paola Bertucci | |
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| 12:15 – 12:30 | The soil biome in TREC: summary of the sampling activities and scientific perspectives Leho Tedersoo, Researcher in Fungal Ecology and Biogeography, University of Tartu, Estonia Samuel Abiven, Research Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | The sediment biome in TREC: summary of the sampling activities and scientific perspectives Raffaele Siano, Senior Scientist, Ifremer – Brest, France |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | TREC Coastal and Offshore Marine Waters (Tara Europa) Colomban de Vargas, Research Director, CNRS, France |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | TREC Shallow Marine Waters Flora Vincent, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany Hugo Berthelot, Research scientist, Ifremer, France |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | TREC Chemical Profiling Michel Zimmermann, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany Georg Pohnert, Group Leader, University of Jena, Germany |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Short talks (5 mins) Mobile Labs for the European Research Community Niko Leisch, Operational Manager – EMBL Mobile Services, EMBL, Germany TREC DataHub Matej Trojak, Planetary Biology Biocurator, EMBL, Germany Traversing European Coastlines superstop at Athens Evangelos Pafilis, Researcher, and Savvas Paragkamian, Predoctoral fellow, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Coffee break, Operon Foyer Art exhibitions: ‘The Faces of TREC‘ ‘I took the one less traveled by‘ |
| Session 2: Towards Planetary Microbial Systems Biology (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Peer Bork | |
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| 14:15 – 14:30 | Gearing up for TREC: Characterization of the planetary microbiome Peer Bork, Director of EMBL Heidelberg, Senior Scientist, EMBL, Germany |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Aerosol microbiomes at the land-ocean interface James O’Brien, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michel Flores, Researcher, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Planetary fungi Leho Tedersoo, Researcher in Fungal Ecology and Biogeography, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Planetary viruses (in person and VC) Sheree Yau, CNRS Researcher, CNRS, France Matt Sullivan, Founding Director Center of Microbiome Science, Ohio State University, US |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Building a catalog of reference genomes for all Eukaryote species Patrick Wincker, Genoscope Director, CEA, France |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Characterizing microbial behaviors in European coastal waters (VC) Jean-Baptiste Raina, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Inferring European coastal ecosystem evolutions during the Anthropocene by paleogenomics Raffaele Siano, Senior Scientist, Ifremer – Brest, France |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Short talks (5 mins) Investigating temperature adaptation using resurrected diatoms Conny Sjöqvist, Senior Researcher, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Phytoplankton, eutrophication and climate change Sirje Sildever, Assistant Professor, TalTech, Estonia Global landscape of mobile genetic elements Anastasia Grekova, Predoctoral fellow, EMLB, Germany Global abundance and composition of micro-macroplankton across European coasts Fabien Lombard, Associate professor, Sorbonne University – LOV, France |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Coffee break, Operon Foyer Art exhibitions: ‘The Faces of TREC‘ ‘I took the one less traveled by‘ |
| Session 3: Microbial Interactions (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Flora Vincent | |
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| 17:00 – 17:15 | Biogeography of giant viruses around Europe’s coastlines Matthias Fischer, Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Germany |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Biology and Ecology of Virus-Phytoplankton interactions and extracellular Vesicles Samuel Chaffron, CNRS Researcher, France Gwenael Piganeau, CNRS Research Director, France |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | Exploring the ultrastructure of Dinoflagellates Yannick Schwab, Team Leader and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility, EMBL, Germany |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | Discovery of photosymbiosis at the subcellular and ecosystem level Johan Decelle, CNRS Researcher, France |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | PlanExM: towards an ultrastructural atlas of marine microplankton Gautam Dey, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 18:15 – 18:30 | Diatom symbioses in fluctuating environments Flora Vincent, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 18:30 – 19:00 | Short talks (5 mins) AtlaSymbio: the Roscoff worm case study Gaëlle Toullec, Postdoctoral fellow, Grenoble Alpes University, France Moving matters: scoping the effect of diatom-ciliate symbiosis Thomas Beavis, Predoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Exploring the ultrastructural diversity of marine dinoflagellates Chandni Bhickta, Predoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Standardized fluorescence imaging for open access microscopy data Tina Wiegand, Imaging Specialist, EMBL, Germany |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Dinner, EMBL Canteen |
Day 2: Tuesday 24 September 2024
| Session 4: Selected taxa in their environmental context-Part 1 (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Detlev Arendt | |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee, Operon Foyer |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Cellular responses to changing environments in selected holobionts along the European coastline Detlev Arendt, Senior Scientist, EMBL, Germany |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Systematic single cell profiling in natural populations to identify cell type-specific responses to temperature Michael Dorrity, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Environmental drivers of marine sponge microbiomes Ute Hentschel Humeida, Professor, GEOMAR, Kiel Germany |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Symbiont sharing between plants and animals in seagrass meadows Jillian Petersen, Associate Professor, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Illuminating marine photosynthetic symbioses along evolutionary and environmental gradients Elizabeth Hambleton, Group Leader, University of Vienna, Austria |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Soundscapes, environmental changes & noise pollution (VC) Lucia Di Iorio, Group Leader, University of Perpignan, France |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break, Operon Foyer Art exhibitions: ‘The Faces of TREC‘ ‘I took the one less traveled by‘ |
| Session 4: Selected taxa in their environmental context-Part 2 (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Detlev Arendt | |
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | An innovative pipeline for large scale investigation of meiofauna (Recorded) Daniela Zeppilli, Head of the Deep-Sea Lab, Ifremer, France |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Inference of animal life history strategies from organismal-scale single-cell transcriptomics Hanh Vu, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Long-range amplification and nanopore sequencing to generate whole mitogenomes of fish from eDNA Kristy Deiner, Assistant Professor of Environmental DNA, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Rhythms@sea: a multiscale analysis of plankton and benthos diel rhythms in the Gulf of Naples Ina Arnone, Senior scientist, Researcher, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Short talks (5 min) Looking for a partner under the moonlight: a Platynereis story Antonella Ruggiero, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Microbiome variation in Platynereis dumerilii across Europe Alvin Han, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Annelid brains across Europe Victoria Witte, Predoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Annelid comparative genomics Cyril Cros, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Symposium Picture, ATC Foyer |
| 12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch, ATC Foyer Art exhibition: ‘Living Like An Amoeba‘ |
| 13:15-13:30 13:40-13:55 | Visit 1 to the Advanced Mobile Lab (AML)- registration Visit 2 to the Advanced Mobile Lab (AML)- registration |
| Session 5: Towards planetary environmental profiling (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Michael Zimmermann | |
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| 14:00 – 14:15 | Probing microbial biotransformation of organic pollutants at scale Michael Zimmermann, Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Anthropogenic Dissolved Organic Matter: Exploring OPEs and PFAS in the oceans Maria Vila Costa, Research Scientist, IDAEA-CSIC, Spain |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Metal concentrations in European soils and sediments: exploring the land-sea connectivity Nicolas Briant, Geochemist, Ifremer Nantes, France Clémentine Lapie, Biogeochemist, LPG, Nantes University, France |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Study of trace metals along European coasts Corentin Baudet, Research Engineer, LEMAR, CNRS, France |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Barium isotopes in coastal environment Emilie Le Roy, MSCA Postdoctoral fellow, LEMAR, CNRS, France |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Chemical contaminants in TREC sediment: European map and link with biodiversity (EU project Contrast) Aourell Mauffret, Ecotoxicologist, Ifremer Nantes, France |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Short talks (5 mins) Marine microbial communities under pesticide stress Soraya Zwahlen, Predoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee Break, Operon Foyer Art exhibitions: ‘The Faces of TREC‘ ‘I took the one less traveled by‘ |
| Session 6: Planetary Processes (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Hugo Berthelot | |
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| 16:15 – 16:30 | Linking the emergence and maintenance of the diverse DOM pool to microbial metabolism along environmental gradients Thorsten Dittmar, Professor for Marine Geochemistry, University Oldenburg, Germany Jessika Fuessel, Postdoctoral Researcher, University Oldenburg, Germany |
| 16:30 – 16:45 | Chemical Ecology Georg Pohnert, Professor, University Jena, Germany |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Linking nutrients availability with primary production and N2 fixation rates Hugo Berthelot, Research scientist, Ifremer Brest, France |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Dissolved gas measurements in oceanic and coastal waters Ulisse Cardini, Researcher, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Biogeochemistry with TREC samples/ post trec experiments Samuel Abiven, Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France |
| 17:30 – 17:45 | The ESA Hyperboost project: Hyperspectral Bio-Optical Observations Sailing on Tara (VC) Marie-Helene Rio, Ocean Applications Scientist, ESA-ESRIN, Italy |
| 17:45 – 18:00 | DOM dynamics along the European coasts Chiara Santinelli, Senior researcher, Biophysics Institute, CNR (CNR-IBF), Italy |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Short talks (5 mins) Planetwide Biogeography and Phylogenetic Diversity of Nitrogen Fixing Prokaryotes Lucas Ustick, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Global-scale shifts of marine microbial functions along environmental gradients reveal dominant metabolic strategies and environmental stressors Jonas Richter, Predoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Biogeography and ecology of autotrophic microbes Anna Mankowski, Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL, Germany Simulating the Effect of Climate Change on TREC Samples Kiley Seitz, Soil Microbiologist, EMBL, Germany |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner, ATC Foyer Art exhibition: ‘Living Like An Amoeba’ |
| 20:00 – 20:30 | Awards Ceremony, ATC Foyer |
| 20:30 – 24:00 | Drinks and music, ATC Roof Bar |
Day 3: Wednesday 25 September 2024
| Session 7: Data Science forward looking (12 mins talks + 3 mins QA) Chaired by Peer Bork | |
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| 8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee, Operon Foyer |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Data Science Jan Korbel, Head of Data Science Center, EMBL, Germany |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Opportunities for multi-modal data integration and AI Oliver Stegle, Associate Group Leader, EMBL, Germany |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Data integration Wolfgang Huber, Group Leader and Senior Scientist, EMBL, Germany |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | TREC data across scales discussion Chaired by Peer Bork |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Short Coffee break, Operon Foyer |
| Round Tables | |
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| 10:15 – 11:15 | In Small Operon: Round table “Paleogenomics“ Chaired by Raffaele Siano |
| 10:15 – 11:15 | In Large Operon: Round table “Species – species interactions“ Chaired by Flora Vincent |
| 11:15 | End of the symposium |
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| 11:30 – 13:00 | TRECCO Meeting (for TREC scientific coordinators), Small Operon |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch for TREC scientific coordinators, Canteen |
Online streaming
Please register using THIS LINK to attend the symposium via Zoom.
Following your registration via the registration link, you will receive a confirmation email with the link for joining the meeting and the option to save the event with joining instructions in your calendar.
Information for participants
Registration as well as the on-site catering will be free of charge for those joining in person.
The event will be held in the Large Operon, coffee breaks will be organized in the Operon Foyer, and the break-out sessions of the last day in Large and Small Operon (all located in Building 4 on the map below).
Lunch, dinner and evening drinks will be served in EMBL canteen (located in Building 11 on the map), in ATC Foyer (ground-floor) and at the Rooftop bar (both in Building 10 on the map).
Please refer to the daily program to check which venue is used for the various meals.
Bus shuttle
The following shuttle services will be offered in the mornings from Heidelberg downtown to EMBL and in the evenings from EMBL to Heidelberg downtown. The shuttles will be run by our partner Hoffmann Reisen and will have a big EMBL sign displayed on the front windshield.
Please make sure to arrive on time for the pick-up points, as the bus will leave each stop after maximum a few minutes of waiting time. The evening shuttles always take the same route with the same stops as the morning shuttles, but going to Heidelberg downtown from EMBL.
Day 1- Monday 23 September 2024
| MORNING SHUTTLES – from Heidelberg downtown, reaching EMBL at 11:30 | |
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| 11:00 | Heidelberg Main Train Station / Hauptbahnhof at Bus stop 39A (Steig R) |
| 11:05 | Heidelberg, Bergheimer Strasse 1A (next to Bismarkplatz) – see image |
| 11:10 | Heidelberg, Alois Link Platz, Bus stop 39A |
| 11:20 | ISG Hotel |
| EVENING SHUTTLES – from EMBL to Heidelberg downtown | |
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| 20:30 | |
| 21:30 |
Day 2 – Tuesday 24 September 2024
| MORNING SHUTTLES – from Heidelberg downtown, reaching EMBL at 8:30 | |
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| 8:00 | Heidelberg Main Train Station / Hauptbahnhof at Bus stop 39A (Steig R) |
| 8:05 | Heidelberg, Bergheimer Strasse 1A (next to Bismarkplatz) – see image |
| 8:10 | Heidelberg, Alois Link Platz, Bus stop 39A |
| 8:10 | ISG Hotel |
| EVENING SHUTTLES – from EMBL to Heidelberg downtown | |
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| 20:45 | |
| 22:30 | |
| 00:30 |
Day 3 – Wednesday 25 September 2024
| MORNING SHUTTLES – from Heidelberg downtown, reaching EMBL at 8:30 | |
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| 8:00 | Heidelberg Main Train Station / Hauptbahnhof at Bus stop 39A (Steig R) |
| 8:05 | Heidelberg, Bergheimer Strasse 1A (next to Bismarkplatz) – see image |
| 8:10 | Heidelberg, Alois Link Platz, Bus stop 39A |
| 8:10 | ISG Hotel |
| After the symposium, from EMBL to Heidelberg downtown | |
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| 11:45 | |
| 13:00 (EMBL shuttle) | |
| 14:00 (EMBL shuttle) |
Other useful public transport information
For self-organized transportation:
Flixbus from Frankfurt Airport
Bus schedule 39A from EMBL in the direction of Bismarckplatz
Bus schedule 39A from EMBL in the direction of Mombertplatz
Train schedules – Deutsche Bahn
Bus schedules – RNV
Commercial Taxi Services
Taxi Heidelberg Zentrale
Phone: +49 6221 30 20 30
Taxi Weinmann
Phone: +49 6203 17245
TLS Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 770077
Art exhibitions
“I took the one less traveled by”
The exhibit presents a snapshot of the TREC expedition through the eyes of EMBL Photographers.
“The Faces of TREC”
Portraying the scientists and staff of the TREC expedition. These works aim to honor the dedication of the expedition team, and celebrate their efforts with color using pastels.
Kevin Nzumbi Mutemi, self-taught artist in the transition phase between life as a scientist and an artist.
Instagram: @nzumbiart
Website: www.nzumbiart.com
“Living Like An Amoeba”
Dive into the multimedia Amoebism art exhibition with footage collected along TREC and brought together by the “Amoebae from the world” collective, presented by Amaranta Kahn and Tina Wiegand.
The exhibition will take place in the ATC foyer and auditorium with 9 prints of various size and 5 short movies embedded in the space for the guests to explore and interact.
Dates: 23 – 25 September 2024
Location: EMBL Heidelberg, Large Operon
Contact: trec-symposium@embl.de