Rise and Fall of Mutualisms

Registration Fees

Due to the current situation, we like to encourage your participation with our special offer.

on site:

  • Students, PhD: EUR 80,-
  • Postdocs and Technicians: EUR 100,-
  • Professors and Principal Investigators: EUR 120,-

online: free

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Registration

Registration for active participation:

  • If your application is successful, you will get an email with information on registration

Registration for Livestream only:

  • You will be able to follow the workshop online via livestream link
  • Participation is limited to chat option
  • Registration open until Oct 8, 2021
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Application for active participation

You can still apply for a poster presentation! Please first submit an abstract by Sep 3, 2021. 

If your application is successful, we will send you a link to register. The decision who will get which spot will be made by Sep 8, 2021.

In case your application was not successful, there is still the possibility to register for the livestream only.

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Participation

This workshop will be held as a hybrid format – with a limited number of participants on site and the possibility of a remote online participation.

Our venue - the scenic Monastery Wasem in Ingelheim - and the adjacent hotel worked out a hygiene concept that complies with the current laws and regulations pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. For our safety the spaces to participate on site are limited. This way, all hygiene regulations can be followed and the workshop can still take place with the planned program.

If you do not feel comfortable on site or travel restrictions do not allow being there face to face, there is the possibility to follow the workshop remotely on an online livestream.

 

Symbiotic bacteria (yellow/green) in the dorsal organs of a darkling beetle larva (Lagria villosa). The symbionts protect their host‘s eggs by producing antifungal secondary metabolites. ©Rebekka Janke, JGU, iomE, Evolutionary Ecology.

 

 

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Apply and Register

This workshop will be held as a hybrid format – with a limited number of participants on site and the possibility of a remote online participation.

Our venue - the scenic Monastery Wasem in Ingelheim - and the adjacent hotel worked out a hygiene concept that complies with the current laws and regulations pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. For our safety the spaces to participate on site are limited. This way, all hygiene regulations can be followed and the workshop can still take place with the planned program.

If you do not feel comfortable on site or travel restrictions do not allow being there face to face, there is the possibility to follow the workshop remotely on an online livestream.

If you want to apply for participation, the following possibilities are available:

Active participation on site:

  • You are actively taking part in the workshop on site (choice between short talk or poster presentation)
  • Please first submit an abstract to apply for a space by Oct 11, 2020
  • Unfortunately we are only able to host a limited number of people on site. In case your application was not successful, there is still the possibility to register for the remote participation online.
  • Registration open Oct 19th - 25th 2020
  • Registration fee: EUR 250

Remote participation online:

  • You will be able to follow the workshop online via livestream link
  • Participation is limited to chat option (no talk or poster presentation)
  • Registration open until 1 Nov, 2020
  • Registration fee:  EUR 20

To apply please click here and fill out the form. If there are any questions regarding the application, feel free to send us an e-mail anytime.

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Workshop Program | Rise and Fall of Mutalisms

Please notice that the time refers to CEST.

 

Wednesday 13th October

18:00 Dinner
19:00 Martin Kaltenpoth and Peter Baumann - Welcome address
19:15 Christian Kost - Rise and fall of mutualistic cooperation within microbial communities
20:00 Get together

Thursday 14th October

09:00 Takema Fukatsu - Experimental evolution of insect-Escherichia coli mutualism (online)
09:45 Annika Guse - Adapting to the Environment by symbiosis – a model systems` approach
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Ruben Garrido-Oter - Conserved features and reciprocal complementation of the Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis microbiota
11:45 Shraddha Shitut - Evolution of chromosomal coexistence: a study in wall-deficient cells
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 Poster session with coffee (even numbers)
14:00 Maria Harrison - Reprogramming root cells for symbiosis with AM fungi (online)
14:45 Megan Sørensen - Identifying a new marine endosymbiosis: the origin and function of the photosynthesising bodies in Meringosphaera
15:00 Davide Sassera - Ongoing replacement or collaboration? Genomics of the two symbionts of Hyalomma marginatum provides clues on the evolution of mutualism in ticks
15:30 Wine hike
17:15 Kayla King - Microbial protection against infection: an experimental evolution approach (online)
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Poster Session with wine/beer (uneven numbers)
20:00 Get together

Friday 15th October

09:00 Sara Mitri - Evolving mutualistic bacterial communities
09:45 Andreas Brune - Endomicrobia – intracellular symbionts of termite gut flagellates or energy parasites?
10:00 Rosario Gil - Unraveling the crosstalk between the endosymbiont Blattabacterium and the gut microbiota in the German cockroach
10:15 Elizabeth Hambleton - Molecular processes across marine animal-algal photosymbioses
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Ned Ruby - Evidence of genomic diversification in a symbiotic population within its host
11:45 Johannes Zimmermann - The role of chitin in the formation of a distinct microbial succession pattern in the model cnidarian Nematostella
12:00 Lunch break and leisure time
14:00 Anna Zaidman-Rémy - How to get what you need from your partner: the active dialogue of bacteria with the insect host in a nutritional mutualistic endosymbiosis
14:15 Meet the editor session: Ursula Hofer, Nature Reviews Microbiology, and Emily White, Nature Microbiology
14:45 Katharina Ribbeck - Partners in Slime: How Mucus Regulates Microbial Virulence (online)
15:30 Coffee break
16:15 Gordon Bennett - Evolutionary strategies for maintaining symbioses between plant-sap feeding insects (Hemiptera) and their bacterial symbionts (online)
17:00 Nicole Dubilier - The Art of Harnessing Dark Energy: Symbioses between Chemosynthetic Bacteria and Marine Invertebrates
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Mutualism pub quiz
20:00 Get together

 

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Gutenberg Workshop: The Rise and Fall of Mutualisms - Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Host-Microbe Symbioses

October 13–15, 2021, Mainz

Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature and shape the ecology and evolution of all living organisms on the planet, from microbes to plants and animals. As such, mutually beneficial interactions are subject to intensive research efforts, and important facets from the molecular level to the processes governing the assembly of interacting communities are currently being elucidated.

The Gutenberg Workshop onThe Rise and Fall of Mutualisms will bring together leading scientists in this field to discuss recent developments on the factors stabilizing cooperation in mutualisms, the molecular underpinnings of the partners’ interactions, the determinants of host colonization and microbial community assembly, and the impact of mutualistic associations on the ecology and evolution of the interacting partners.

 

 

Scientific Organizer: Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth

Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Baumann

Event Manager: Dr. Sacha Heerschop

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