Invited Speakers
Kirk Apt,
Martek Biosciences
Corporation, USA
“Approaches to the Development of
Algal Products”
Chris Bowler,
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,
FRANCE
“Using
the genome to interpret diatom strategies to thrive in changing
environments”
Eike Brunner,
Technical
University Dresden,
GERMANY
“Diatom
biosilica: Formation and constituents as studied by NMR spectroscopy”
Angela Falciatore,
Université Pierre et Marie
Curie, Paris, FRANCE
“Diatom
response to light: a tale of energy and colors”
Paul Falkowski,
Rutgers
University, USA
"The
obscure evolutionary history of diatoms"
Uwe Maier,
Philipps-University
of Marburg,
GERMANY
“Protein
import into the complex plastids of diatoms”
Georg Pohnert,
Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
GERMANY
“High
plasticity of the diatom endo and exometabolome during the
development of cultures and blooms: Implications for ecological
interactions”
John Reinfelder,
Rutgers University,
USA
"Pumping
carbon: physiology and ecology of inorganic carbon assimilation in
marine diatoms"
Gregory Rorrer,
Oregon State
University,
USA
"Bioreactor
Cultivation Strategies for Incorporating Titanium and Germanium
Nanostructures into Diatom Biosilica"
Ken Sandhage,
Georgia Institute
of Technology,
USA
“Shape-preserving
Chemical Transformation of Diatom Frustules (Diatom ‘Alchemy’)”
Richard Sayre,
The Donald Danforth Plant Science
Center, USA
" to be announced”
Wim
Vyverman,
University of Ghent, BELGIUM
“To grow, starve or have sex: the nature and
evolution of diatom life strategies”