Elke Dittmann
University of Potsdam, Germany
Keynote Speech:
“Dissecting the Role of Microcystin on the Carbon Concentrating Mechanism of Microcystis aeruginosa”
KEYNOTE & INVITED SPEAKERS
Petr Dvořák
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Taxonomy of cyanobacteria in the age of large genomic datasets
Pedro Leão
CIIMAR – Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Portugal
“Cultured and uncultured cyanobacteria as sources of unique enzymes”
Timo Niedermeyer
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
“Microcystins – a pharmacist’s perspective”
Hans Paerl
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USA
“Mitigating harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) in an increasingly chaotic and extreme global climate”
Daniel Petras
University of California Riverside, USA
“Functional Metabolomics Approaches for Understanding Microbial Community Dynamics at the Molecular Level”
Ernani Pinto
University of São Paulo, Brazil
“Metabolomic Insights into Cyanobacteria: From Toxicity Profiling to Novel Bioactive Compounds”
Nico Salmaso
Research and Innovation Centre Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), Italy
“Taxonomic and functional metagenomic assessment of cyanobacteria”
Petra Visser
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
“Effective in-lake measures to control cyanobacterial blooms”
Eleni Voultsiadou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Opening Ceremony Speech:
“Marine biodiversity 25 centuries ago: Human knowledge and uses of marine organisms as depicted in ancient Greek literature”