The meeting is organised around four key thematic areas, each of which has a designated session and ample time for discussion:
Biogeochemistry - What is the role of coccolithophores in the marine carbon cycle and nutrient cycling?
Cell Biology - What can we learn about coccolithophore biology through -omics, genetics, molecular processes and cellular physiology?
Climate Change - How does coccolithophore physiology, ecology and biogeography respond to complex environmental variability over a range of timescales?
Ecosystems - What is the role of coccolithophores in ecosystem processes, and what are the ecological interactions between coccolithophores and other plankton groups, microbes, viruses and other trophic levels?
Advances in Coccolithophore Research Handbook 2025
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Advances in Coccolithophore Research Schedule |
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| 9th September | |||||
| 10.30 | Optional discussion group | CASCADE Database Workshop | |||
| Discussions of the development of the global coccolithophore species distribution database | |||||
| 12.30 | Lunch + Arrival | ||||
| Day 1 (9/9) PM session | 14.00 | Introduction | |||
| Cell Biology | 14.10 | Colin Brownlee (Keynote) | IP | Elucidating the ins and outs of coccolithophore calcification | |
| 15.00 | Andre Scheffel | IP | Proteomic and Genetic Analysis of Coccolithophores: Insights into Scale Formation | ||
| 15.30 | Break | ||||
| 16.00 | Fabio Nudelman | IP | Dynamic change of calcium-rich compartments during coccolithophore biomineralization | ||
| 16.20 | Jan Janouskevec | IP | An update on haptophyte evolution | ||
| 16.40 | Chiara Bonatelli | IP | Insights into Biomineralization and Intracellular Organization in Highly Calcified Coccolithophores | ||
| 17.00 | Talia Shaler | ON | Mapping the transcriptomic landscape of G. huxleyi resistance to lytic viral infection | ||
| 17.15 | Discussion | ||||
| 18.00 | Dinner (MBA Common Room) | ||||
| 19.00 | Poster session | ||||
| 10th September | |||||
| Day 2 (10/9) AM session | 9.00 | Kyoko Hagino | ON | Taxonomic re-evaluation of Braarudosphaera bigelowii species complex (Prymnesiophyceae) | |
| Ecosystem | 9.30 | Benjamin Gustafson | IP | Pelagic calcifiers’ diversity and relative contributions to production and export of CaCO3 | |
| 9.50 | Catarina V. Guerreiro | IP | Impacts of aeolian dust deposition in the ocean: a coccolithophore perspective | ||
| 10.20 | Nir Joffe | ON | Using comparative genomics to uncover resistance to viral infection in Gephyrocapsa huxleyi | ||
| 10.40 | Break | ||||
| 11.10 | Boris Karatsolis | ON | Reconstructing paleoclimate and paleoproductivity across the warm Late Miocene to Pliocene using calcareous nannofossils | ||
| 11.40 | Frederic Chaux | ON | Exploring the metabolic interplay between phytoplankton and bacteria: case study of B vitamins in a coccolithophore’s phycosphere | ||
| 12.00 | Alastair Skeffington | IP | Do coccolithophores watch the clock? Circadian rhythms in coccolithophores and other haptophytes. | ||
| 12.30 | Pauline Béziat | IP | Interactions Between Coccolithophores and Selenium Biogeochemistry | ||
| 12.50 | Lunch Break + Posters | ||||
| Day 2 (10/9) PM session | 14.00 | Ros Rickaby | IP | TBC | |
| Climate Change | 14.30 | Alex Poulton | IP | Climate Stressor Impacts on Coccolithophores and the Carbonate Pump | |
| 15.00 | Gerald Langer | IP | Are coccolithophores less vulnerable to Ocean Acidification than aragonitic calcifiers? | ||
| 15.20 | Break | ||||
| 15.50 | Hongrui Zhang | IP | Mid-Brunhes Coccolithophore Acme Event: from driving mechanism to carbon cycle effect | ||
| 16.20 | Vivien Bauer | IP | Revisiting the Uk’₃₇ Proxy: Accounting for Habitat-Depth and Seasonality Effects | ||
| 16.40 | Abha Singh | ON | Integrated biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment from western Garo Hills, Meghalaya, northeast India | ||
| 17.00 | Group Photo | ||||
| 17.10 | Discussion/Poster | ||||
| 19.30 | Dinner (Cosmic Kitchen) | ||||
| 11th September | |||||
| Day 3 (11/9) AM session | 9.00 | Alba Gonzalez-Lanchas | IP | Environmental controls on coccolithophore calcite production | |
| Biogeochemistry | 9.30 | Sarah Cryer | IP | Coccolithophore physiology and 2024 bloom dynamics in the Iceland Basin | |
| 9.50 | Blanca Ausin | ON | Beyond the bloom: assessing lateral transport biases in coccolith paleorecords | ||
| 10.20 | Jessica Walker | IP | Mapping variation in coccolith Sr/Ca ratios using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence | ||
| 10.40 | Break | ||||
| 11.10 | Borna Branimir Vukovic | IP | Tracking coccolithophore calcification – first steps towards a PIC estimation model | ||
| 11.30 | Nicola Wiseman | IP |
Subtropical gyres dominate calcite production by coccolithophores |
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| 11.50 | Griet Neukermans | ON | Towards autonomous observations of the open ocean’s carbonate pump | ||
| 12.20 | Closing Remarks + Prizes | ||||
| 12.30 | Lunch Break | ||||
| IP = in person presenter | |||||
| ON = online presentation | |||||