Please notice that the time refers to CEST.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |