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?

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Advances in Coccolithophore Research Schedule

   
           
  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 Patrizia Ziveri IP Not all calcifying plankton groups are alike
    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