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
Due to the current situation, we like to encourage your participation with our special offer.
on site:
online: free
Registration for active participation:
Registration for Livestream only:
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.
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.
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:
Remote participation online:
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.
Please notice that the time refers to CEST.
Wednesday 13th October |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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