Laboratorio de Procesos Oceanograficos y Clima

Symposium

Current Aspects of Marine Microbial Ecology

A one-day Symposium offered by the International Course on the

“Ecology and Diversity of Marine Microorganisms (ECODIM IV)”

and the “6th Austral Summer Institute” at the Estación de Biología Marina, Dichato, Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción

Friday, January 13, 2006

Auditorium Claudio Gay

Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Main Campus, Universidad de Concepción

Symposium Program
10:00 - 10:10	Welcome (Osvaldo Ulloa)
10:10 - 11:10	Daniel Vaulot, Station Biologique de Roscoff, France DIVERSITY OF MARINE EUKARYOTIC PICOPLANKTON
11:10 - 11:30	Coffe Break
11:30 - 12:30	Heike Stevens, Universidad de Concepción INSIGHTS INTO BACTERIAL DIVERSITY IN LOW-OXYGEN OCEANIC WATERS – A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Mitch Sogin, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA ICoMM: THE INTERNATIONAL CENSUS OF MARINE MICROBES
15:00 - 15.30	Coffe Break
15:30 - 16:30	Verónica Molina, Universidad de Concepción NITRIFYING BACTERIA: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THEIR ROLE IN THE NITROGEN CYCLE OF OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONES
16:30 - 17:30	Edward DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA MICROBIAL COMMUNITY GENOMICS IN THE SEA
17:30 - 17:40	Kurt Hanselmann, University of Zürich, Switzerland Symposium Summary and Outlook

The Symposium is sponsored by: Fundación Andes, IOC-UNESCO, Partnership for Observations of the Global Oceans (POGO), Escuela de Graduados-Universidad de Concepción, Centro de Investigación Oceanográfica (FONDAP-COPAS), Millennium Nucleus for Microbial Ecology and Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM), Minera Escondida Ltda.