Monday, 31. August

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09:00 - 09:30 am       Registration and Coffee

09:30 - 10:00 am       Welcome and Introduction (Christian Jogler)

 

Session 1: Evolution – chair: Christian Jogler

 

10:00 - 11:00 am       Invited Talk, Damien Devos (Lille): Planctomycetota at the transition of cell types

11:00 - 11:30 am       Valentina Henriques (Seville): Functional Convergence in Membrane Evolution: Hopanoids Fulfill Sterol Function in Bacteria

11:30 - 12:00 am       Manuel Lonigro (Lille): Planctomycetota bacteria are intermediary in the evolutionary history of the Wood Ljungdahl Pathway H4MPT branch

 

12:00 - 01:00 pm       Light Lunch 

 

01:00 - 02:00 pm       Invited Talk, Carmen E. Wurzbacher (Jena): Bacteria of prey - Fantastic microorganisms and where to find them

 

Session 2: Interactions – chair: Olga M. Lage

 

02:00 - 03:00 pm       Invited Talk, Thomas Wichard (Jena): Thallusin – From a Marine Morphogen to a Globally Distributed Microbial Signaling Metabolite

 

03:00 - 03:30 pm       Coffee Break

 

03:30 - 04:00 pm       Jonathan Hammer (Jena), From planctomycetal genomics to functional interaction studies

 

Session 3: Cell Biology – chair: Damien Devos

 

04:00 - 04:30 pm       Tom Haufschild (Jena): Untangling Cell Division Mechanisms in the Phylum Planctomycetota

04:30 - 05:00 pm       Yésica Molina-Castro (Seville): Nucleoid condensation in Planctopirus limnophila

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05:15 pm                    Reception in Schiller’s Garden

 

 

Tuesday, 01. September

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Session 4: Cultivation – chair: Nicolai Kallscheuer

 

09:00 - 09:30 am       Olga M. Lage (Porto): title to be announced

09:30 - 10:00 am       Madeleine Kündgen (Jena): title to be announced

10:00 - 10:30 am       Christian Jogler (Jena): title to be announced

 

10:30 - 11:30 am       Poster Session with coffee

 

11:30 – 12:00 am      J-Lab Tour with stations

 

12:00 - 01:00 pm       Light Lunch

 

Session 5: Metabolic Strategies and Substrate Preferences – chair: Thomas Wichard

 

01:00 - 02:00 pm       Invited Talk:  Luis H. Orellana (Bremen): Conserved glycan-utilization strategies shape Akkermansiaceae success across aquatic and gut ecosystems

02:00 - 02:30 pm       Dominika Klimek (Luxembourg): A proposed oxidative mechanism for plant polysaccharide degradation in newly isolated Planctomycetota

02:30 - 03:00 pm       Luis Felipe Muriel (Lille): New insights into macromolecule uptake in Planctomycetota

 

03:30 – 04:30 pm      Guided tour Phyletic Museum

 

07:00 pm - open end Dinner

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Wednesday, 02. September

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Session 6: Natural products and Biotechnology – chair: Luis H. Orellana

 

09:00 - 10:00 am       Invited Talk, Christine Beemelmanns (Saarbrücken): Symbiosis Driven Natural Product Research

10:00 - 10:30 am       Nicolai Kallscheuer (Jena): Development of genetic tools for model strains of the phylum Planctomycetota

 

10:30 - 12:30 am       Round Table (PI and Co-PI)

12:30 - 01:00 pm       Farewell

 

Posters:

Manuel Lonigro (Lille): Planctomycetota bacteria are intermediary in the evolutionary history of the Wood Ljungdahl Pathway H4MPT branch
Tomás Sauma Sánchez (Bremen): Genomic insights into specialized low-abundance Verrucomicrobiota degrading recalcitrant algal polysaccharides
Nicole Von Possel (Bremen):Temporal shifts in bacterial communities associated with cultivated brown macroalgae
Ishhika Ghosh (Jena): Untangling Cell Division Mechanisms in the Phylum Planctomycetota
Maximilian Hamann (Jena): Untangling cell division mechanisms in the phylum Planctomycetota
Javier Gámez Luque (Seville): Characterization of unconventional cell division mechanisms in Planctopirus limnophila

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