ERC-BLOOMTOX Symposium: Impacts of Global Change on Harmful Cyanobacterial Blooms Across Scales

On 11 November, Dedmer van de Waal and his team from Aquatic Ecology are hosting a symposium on harmful cyanobacterial blooms, linked to the ERC project BLOOMTOX.

Programme

• 9:15-9:45 Registration
• 9:45-10:00 Welcome by Dedmer Van de Waal (chair)
• 10:00-11:00 Thad Scott - Baylor University, USA
  Nitrogen fixation, ecosystem stoichiometry, and lake eutrophication
• 11:00-11:30 Annemieke Drost - NIOO-KNAW
  Effects of nutrients and warming on natural cyanobacterial communities
• 11:30-12:00 Savannah Sarkis - NIOO-KNAW
  Linking environmental drivers, phytoplankton community succession, and cyanobacterial population toxicity
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-14:00 Elke Dittmann - University of Potsdam, Germany
  Microcystin as a modulator of high-light adaptation in Microcystis
• 14:00-14:30 Arnaud Louchart - NIOO-KNAW
  From cells to communities: scaling phytoplankton traits responses across hierarchical levels
• 14:30-15:00 Harley Lin - NIOO-KNAW
  Phytoplankton-on-a-Chip: A high-throughput method to study inter- and intraspecific variations in nutrient competitive traits
• 15:00-15:30 Coffee
• 15:30-16:30 Jef Huisman – University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  Sticking together: the ups and downs of colony-forming cyanobacteria in warmer waters
• 16:30-17:30 Elena Litchman - Michigan State University, USA
  Using traits to understand and predict harmful algal blooms
• 17:30-19:00 Posters & Drinks

Registration

Do you like to join the symposium, online or at NIOO (limited seats)? Please register via the web form.
It's free to join and there is the option to show a poster of your work.