7 International Symbiosis Society Congress

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7 th International Symbiosis Society Congress
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
July 22-28, 2012
“The earth’s vast symbiosphere”
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. Lynn Margulis and Dr. Gopi Podila
Sunday, July 22
Monday, July 23
14:00-18:00 Registration
Welcome reception: 18:00-19:30
8:00 Welcome and opening remarks
8:25-8:45 Lynn Margulis in memoriam, Douglas Zook,
Boston University USA
Symposium 1. Symbiosis as a driving force in evolution
Session A. Eukaryotic cell as a symbiotic chimera
Chair: James Lake UCLA, USA
9:00-9:30 James A. Lake – Using genomes to track the evolution of life on Earth
9:45-10:05 Wolfgang Löffelhardt – Plastid evolution: lessons from the completed
genome of Cyanophora paradoxa
10:05-10:30 Cecilia Wentrup, Mario Schimak, Julie Huang, Christian Borowski, Thomas
Neu, Annelie Wendeberg, Nicole Dubilier – Symbiont colonization occurs throughout
the entire life cycle of hydrothermal vent mussels
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Robert M. Brucker, Seth R. Bordenstein – Gut bacteria enhance postmating
reproductive isolation
11:20-11:40 Przemysław Gagat, Paweł Mackiewicz, Andrzej Bodył – Protein import into
the cyanobacterial endosymbionts/plastids of Paulinella chromatophora
11:40-12:00 Nikolay A. Provorov, Nikolay I. Vorobyov – Evolution of symbiotic bacteria
within extra- and intra-cellular plant compartments: experimental evidence and
mathematical simulation

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Symposium 2. Cellular Interactions
Session C. Integrative Processes
Chair: Abdelaziz Heddi, National Institute of Applied Science (INSA),
Lyon, France
9:00-9:45 Abdelaziz Heddi – Insects tolerate endosymbionts with a local immune
response
9:45-10:05 Elizabeth A.C. Heath-Heckman, Suzanne M. Peyer, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai –
Luceat lux vestra: light production and perception in the Euprymna scolopes–Vibrio
fischeri symbiosis
10:05-10:25 François H. Lallier, Isabelle Boutet, Hayat Guezi, Arnaud Tanguy – A
transcriptomic approach of the phenotypic plasticity in a chemotrophic symbiosis,
the deep-sea mussel Bathymodiolus
10:25-10:55 Break
10:55-11:15 Mauricio Henriques Pontes, Kari Lyn Smith, Linda De Vooght, Jan Van Den
Abbeele, Colin Dale – Modulating the functions of PhoP/PhoQ in the transition to
obligate insect-bacterial association
11:15-11:35 Lisa Bauer, Nika Pende, Silvia Bulgheresi – Can you hear me How the
marine nematode Laxus oneistus may perceive and respond to microbes
11:35-11:55 Mary Beth Saffo – A mutualism with parasitic origins: paradoxes of a
surprising three-kingdom symbiosis in marine animals
11:55-12:10 Nedeljka Rosic, Sophie Dove – Origin of mycosporine-like amino acid
biosynthetic genes in coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis
Symposium 1. Symbiosis as a driving force in evolution (continued)
Session B. Co-evolutionary mechanisms
Chair: Monika Bright, University of Vienna, Austria
14:00-14:30 Monika Bright, Julia Klose, Mario Schimak, Andrea Nussbaumer – In and out
of symbiosis - connectivity between the host-associated and free-living population of
Candidatus Endoriftia persephone in Riftia pachyptila tubeworms
14:30-14:50 Claudia Vannini, Filippo Ferrantini, Alessandro Ristori, Franco Verni, Giulio
Petroni – Betaproteobacterial symbionts of the ciliate Euplotes: establishment,
replacement and re-replacement of an obligate microbial association.
14:50-15:10 Marc-André Selosse, Yosuke Matsuda, Cécile Palancade, Yasushi Hashimoto –
Convergent evolution of heterotrophy in mycorrhizal symbioses of Monotropoideae
(Ericaceae) and Orchidaceae
15:10-15:30 Nicole Gerardo, Ben Parker, Alice Laughton – Symbionts’ impact on
investment to defense and response to danger by aphids
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 Pauliina P. Wäli, Piippa R. Wäli, Kari Saikkonen, Juha Tuomi – Ergot - a seed
pathogen or a mutualistic symbiont
16:20-16:40 Istvan Scheuring, Douglas W. Yu – How to assemble a beneficial microbiome
in three easy steps
16:40-17:00 Mélanie Roy, Juliette Rochet, Patricia Jargeat, Hervé Gryta, Sophie Manzi,
Pierre-Arthur Moreau, Monique Gardes – Coevolution in Alnus-ectomycorrhizal fungi
mutualism: from couples to communities

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Symposium 2. Cellular Interactions (continued)
Session D. Recognition systems.
Chair: Spencer Nyholm, University of Connecticut, USA
14:00-14:30 Andrew Collins, Tyler Schleicher, Bethany Rader, Spencer V. Nyholm –
Understanding the cellular innate immune response and specificity in the
association between the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and the
bioluminescent bacterium Vibrio fischeri
14:30-14:50 Ibtissem Guefrachi, Mikhail Baloban, Eva Kondorosi, Peter Mergaert – The
NCR peptides in legume nodules: effectors for the control of the endosymbiotic
Rhizobium bacteria
14:50-15:10 Natacha Kremer, Eva Philipp, Lars Kraemer, Marie-Christine Carpentier,
Robert Haesler, Melissa A. Altura, Elizabeth A.C. Heath-Heckman, Suzanne M. Peyer,
Bethany A. Rader, Julia Schwartzman, Edward G. Ruby, Philip Rosenstiel, Margaret J.
McFall-Ngai – Initial ‘conversation’ between the bobtail squid and its specific
partner during the establishment of the symbiosis
15:10-15:30 Sergio Svistoonoff, Nicholas Beauchemin, Virginie Vaissayre, Faten
Gholdborne-Gtari, Claudine Franche, Didier Bogusz, Louis S. Tisa – Genome-guided
approaches toward elucidating the signaling mechanisms in the actinorhizal
symbiosis
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 Joachim Meessen, Trudi Schaper, Frederike Sill, Claudia Bauten, Sieglinde Ott
– In the initial steps of recognition of lichen symbionts based on morphological
processes of growth patterns
16:20-16:40 Antonin Schmitz, Caroline Anselme, Marc Ravallec, Christian Rebuf, Jean-
Christophe Simon, Jean-Luc Gatti, Marylène Poirié – The cellular immune response
of the pea aphid to foreign intrusion and symbiotic challenge
16:40-17:00 Jiyeun Kate Kim, Jeong Yun Kwon, Sang Hum Han, Yoshitomo Kikuchi,
Hiroshi Nakayama, Takema Fukatsu, Bok Luel Lee – Elucidation of change and
adaptation of symbiotic bacteria in association with host
17:00-17:30 Soukayna Hayek, Philipp Franken, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson –
Mycorrhiza-induced resistance against a root-rot pathogen in Petunia: molecular
mechanisms
17:30-19:00 Poster visits

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Tuesday, July 2
Plenary presentation
Frank Ryan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Symbiotic viruses and the concept of a holobiontic genome
8:00-8:45
Symposium 1. Symbiosis as a driving force in evolution (continued)
Session E. Horizontal gene transfer and the role of viruses
Chair: Takema Fukatsu, University of Tsukuba, Japan
9:00-9:30 Takema Fukatsu – Introduction: how can horizontal gene transfers contribute
to adaptive evolution
9:30-9:50 Mary E. Rumpho, Karen N. Pelletreau, Susan P. Devine, Dana C. Price,
Debashish Bhattacharya – Mechanisms supporting long-term kleptoplasty in the
mollusc Elysia chlorotica
9:50-10:10 Jennifer H. Wisecaver, Jeremiah D. Hackett – Horizontal gene transfer
facilitates chloroplast acquisition and endosymbiosis in dinoflagellates
10:10-10:30 Eva Novakova, Nancy A. Moran – Evolutionary significance of horizontal
gene transfer in aphids
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori,
Takema Fukatsu – Lateral gene transfer and evolution of Wolbachia-insect
nutritional mutualism
11:20-11:40 Seth Bordenstein – The entangled bank in animals: viral transfer between
bacterial symbionts
11:40-12:00 Jason A. Metcalf, Lisa J. Funkhouser, Seth R. Bordenstein – Grafting the Tree
of Life: recurrent horizontal gene transfer of a Wolbachia lysozyme between
Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryotes
12:00-12:20 Laurence Daubois, Eric Bapteste, Philippe Lopez, Mohamed Hijri – Potential
contribution of viral and plasmidic in the Glomeromycota’s diversity
12:20-12:40 Glenn Dulla, Ruth Go, Nic Pinel, Jaimie Barkley, David A. Stahl, Seana K.
Davidson – Aggregation and natural transformation mediated by type four pili in
the earthworm symbiont Verminephrobacter eiseniae

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Session F. Genomics in Symbiosis
Chair: Francis Martin, National Institute of
Agricultural Research (INRA), Nancy, France
9:00-9:30 Francis M. Martin – The forest social network: deciphering the protein-coded
molecular language of mycorrhizal symbiosis
9:30-9:50 François Buscot, Lasse Feldhahn, Sabine Recht, Florence Kurth, Ivo Grosse,
Tesfaye Wubet, Oguzhan Angay, Frank Fleischmann, Thorsten E. E. Grams, Mika
Tarkka, Sylvie Herrmann – TrophinOak: a controlled system with oak microcuttings
to study gene expression and resource allocation in multitrophic interactions
9:50-10:10 Valérie Hocher, Nicole Alloisio, Petar Pujic, Alexandre Tromas, Sergio
Svistoonoff, Hassen Gherbi, Claudine Franche, Philippe Normand, Didier Bogusz –
Transcriptomics for deciphering actinorhizal symbiosis
10:10-10:30 Daniele Armaleo, Olaf Mueller, François Lutzoni, Francis Martin, Emmanuelle
Morin, Guillaume Blanc, et al. – Decoding symbiosis: the two genomes of the lichen
Cladonia grayi
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Alessandra Salvioli, Stefano Ghignone, Paola Bonfante – The genome of the
obligate endobacterium of an AM fungus reveals an interphylum network of signal
and nutrient exchanges
11:20-11:40 Diego Santos-García, Francisco Beitia, Laurence Mouton, Andrés Moya,
Amparo Latorre, Francisco J. Silva – Endosymbiont genomes of Bemisia tabaci strain
Q HC
Gopi Podila in memoriam, Francis Martin
14:00-14:15
Margalith Galun in memoriam, David Richardson
14:15-14:30
Symposium 3. Symbiosis education
Session G. Innovative curriculum approaches and activities.
Chair: Douglas Zook, Boston University, USA
14:30-15:10 Douglas Zook – Twenty-five years of teaching symbiosis: what has worked
15:10-15:30 Marc-André Selosse – Endosymbiosis that results in organelles can be a way
to re-think genetic inheritance
15:30-15:50 Igor A. Tikhonovich, Nikolay A. Provorov – Development of Symbiogenetics
to study the heredity in super-species systems: a novel approach to the symbiosis
education

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Session H. Interactive workshop/sharing of living symbiotic systems
with experts
Chair: Marc-André Selosse, Université de Montpellier II, France
16:00-18:00
Wednesday, July 25
18:00-19:30 Poster visits (wines of the World)
Plenary Session
Sieglinde Ott, Heinrich Heine University, Germany
A Symbiologist's Second Home, Antarctica
19:30-20:30
Excursions

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Thursday, July 26
Plenary presentation
Manuela Giovannetti, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Flow of nutrients and information in mycorrhizal networks
8:00-8:45
Symposium 4. Ecological implications of symbiosis
Session I. Ecosystem interactions
Chair: Simon Dunn, University of Queensland, Australia
9:00-9:30 Simon R. Dunn – Unraveling the complexity of cnidarian-dinoflagellate
symbiotic interactions on the coral reef
9:30-9:50 Mathieu Pernice, Christophe Kopp, Simon Dunn, Isabelle Domart-Coulon,
Anders Meibom – From single cell to ecosystem: understanding how the biology of
elements sustains the coral symbiosis
9:50-10:10 E. Alan Verde, Ann Cleveland, Raymond W. Lee – Nitrogen and/or carbon
transfer from host anemone and zooxanthellae to resident anemonefish
10:10-10:30 Sharon L. Doty, Zareen Khan, Jenny Knoth, Amy Baum, Soo-Hyung Kim,
Greg Ettl – Nitrogen-fixing endophytes of poplar and willow
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Heikam Evelin, Rupam Kapoor, Bhoopander Giri – Integrated nutritional,
biochemical and physiological response to salinity stress in arbuscular mycorrhizal
plants
11:20-11:40 Sandra Varga – When sex matters: interactions between arbuscular
mycorrhizas and dioecious plants
11:40-12:00 Todd M. Palmer, Maureen L. Stanton – The high cost of mutualism: why
plants pay ants too much
12:00-12:20 Hassan Salem, Sailendharan Sudakaran, Christian Kost, Elisabeth Kreutzer,
Martin Kaltenpoth – Host-microbiota co-evolution and the importance of
Actinobacteria as nutritional symbionts in pyrrhocorid bugs
12:20-12:40 Sharmishtha Dattagupta, Jan Bauermeister, Danny Ionescu – Metabolic
consequences of the “hitchhiking” lifestyle of sulfur-oxidizing ectosymbionts of
cave-dwelling amphipods
12:40-13:00 Stanley Freeman, Michal Sharon, Neta Okon-Levy, Alex Protasov, Miriam
Eliyhu, Michael Noi, Robert Rabaglia, Kerry O'Donnell, Zvi Mendel – Consequences of
the symbiosis between a novel pathogenic Fusarium sp. and the ambrosia beetle
Euwallacea fornicates

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Symposium 5. Interdisciplinary approaches to symbiotic inquiry
Session K. Symbiotic networks and their role in resiliency and
vulnerability
Chair: Marcel G.A. van der Heijden, Agroscope, Swiss Federal
Research Institute, Switzerland
9:00-9:30 Marcel G.A. van der Heijden – Symbiosis as a driver of ecosystem
sustainability
9:30-9:50 Martina Janoušková, Karol Krak, Petra Caklová, Helena Štorchová, Miroslav
Vosátka – Evidence for stable equilibrium in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal
fungi: can we influence the quantitative relationships
9:50-10:10 Cameron Wagg, Jan Jansa, Bernhard Schmid, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden –
Belowground biodiversity effects of plant symbionts support aboveground
productivity
10:10-10:30 Cecilia Casas, Pedro E. Gundel, Maria Semmartin, Marina Omacini –
Consequences of fungal endophytes on host plant invasion and the structure of plant
community
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Vanessa C. Coats, Karen N. Pelletreau, Mary E. Rumpho – Microbial
symbionts associated with invasive Japanese barberry plants
11:20-11:40 Florian Walder, Helge Niemann, Mathimaran Natarajan, Moritz F. Lehmann,
Thomas Boller, Andres Wiemken – Mycorrhizal networks are shared by the plants
under unequal terms of trade
11:40-12:00 Thomas Fester, Claus Haertig – Impact of below-ground stress, mineral
nutrients, and root-microbe interactions on above-ground metabolite profiles
12:00-12:20 Julien Bauwens, Cédric Tarayre, Catherine Brasseur, Christel Mattéotti,
Jacqueline Destain, Micheline Vandenbol, Daniel Portetelle, Philippe Thonart, Edwin De
Pauw, Eric Haubruge, Frédéric Francis – Influence of lignin in Reticulitermes
santonensis: symbiotic interactions investigated through proteomics
12:20-12:40 Erin R. Graham, Robert W. Sanders – Mutualistic algae confer multiple
benefits to Ambystoma maculatum embryos
12:40-13:00 Håkan Wallander, Johan Berg, Alf Ekblad – Ectomycorrhizal fungi
contributes significantly to soil organic matter formation

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Symposium 4. Ecological implications of symbiosis (continued)
Session J. Climate change and environmental impacts
Chair: Russell Rodriguez, US Geological Survey, USA and President of
the International Symbiosis Society
14:00-14:30 Rusty Rodriguez, Yong Ok Kim, Claire Woodward, Jose Macia Vicente,
Regina Redman – Impacts of climate change on plant-fungal endophyte symbioses
and potential mitigation strategies
14:30-14:50 Martin Grube - Lichens and climate change: past and present
14:50-15:10 Simon K. Davy - Susceptibility versus resistance to climate change in reef
corals: the role of symbiont diversity
15:10-15:30 Christian Borowski, Dennis Fink, Nicole Dubilier – Linking symbiont
abundance in hydrothermal vent mussels to energy availability
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 Emily Howells, Ray Berkelmans, Madeleine van Oppen, Bette Willis, Line Bay
– Historical thermal regimes define limits to acclimatisation in corals
16:20-16:40 Piippa R. Wäli, Marjo Helander, Riitta Laitinen, Kalle Hellström, Pawel
Olejniczak, Kari Saikkonen – Local adaptation of subarctic grass-endophyte -
symbiosis to different habitats
16:40-17:00 Silvana Munzi, Cristina Cruz, Stefano Loppi, Cristina Branquinho – The
physiological response of lichen symbionts to stress conditions
17:00-17:20 Anne Wietheger, Paul L. Fisher, Kevin S. Gould, Simon K. Davy –
Antioxidants: saviours in the face of climate change
17:20-17:40 David Kline, Tali Treibitz, Paul Roberts, Ben Neal, Jules Jaffe, David Kriegman
and B. Greg Mitchell - Multispectral Imagery to Understand Coral Bleaching

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Symposium 5. Interdisciplinary approaches to symbiotic inquiry
(continued)
Session L: Revealing earth biodiversity
Chair: François Lutzoni, Duke University, USA
Co-chair: Betsy Arnold, University of Arizona, USA
14:00-14:30 François Lutzoni, Michael Nowak, Michael Alfaro, Jana U'Ren, A. Elizabeth
Arnold, Jolanta Miądlikowska, Susana Magallon – A multidimensional exploration of
plant-fungal symbioses and their associated shifts in diversification rate
14:30-15:00 A. Elizabeth Arnold, Jana M. U'Ren, Jakob M. Riddle, Kayla Arendt, Jolanta
Miądlikowska, Bernard Ball, Emilie LeFevre, Ignazio Carbone, Georgiana May, François
Lutzoni – Emerging perspectives on endophytic and endolichenic symbioses
15:00-15:15 Tania Nobre, Duur A. Aanen – From pattern to process in fungus-growing
termites: the ruminant hypothesis
15:15-15:35 Garret Suen – Symbiotic nutrient acquisition in two dominant North and
South American herbivores
15:35-16:00 Break
16:00-16:20 Gabriele Berg, Massimiliano Cardinale, Martin Grube – The microbiome in
lichens: the new variable in the symbiosis
16:20-16:40 Lucile Durand, Marie Roumagnac, Valérie Cueff-Gauchard, Cyrielle Jan,
Mathieu Guri, Claire Tessier, Marine Haond, Philippe Crassous, Magali Zbinden, Sophie
Arnaud-Haond, Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita – Biogeographical distribution of
Rimicaris exoculata gut epibiont communities along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
hydrothermal vent sites
16:40-17:00 Anne M. Estes, David J. Hearn, Emilie Snell-Rood, Armin Moczek – How to
degrade dung: the vertically transmitted microbiome of the dung beetle,
Onthophagus taurus
17:00-17:15 Sarah W. Keenan, Annette S. Engel, Ruth M. Elsey – Bacterial community
diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract
Evening: Congress banquet
18:00 bus departure

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Friday, July 27
Plenary presentation
Franz Oberwinkler, University of Tübingen, Germany
Enigmatic Sebacinales
8:00-8:45
Symposium 6. Applied Symbiosis
Session M. Bioremediation and restoration
Chair: Katarzyna Turnau, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
9:00-9:30 Katarzyna Turnau, Przemysław Ryszka, Katarzyna Góralska, Paulina Janik,
Giovanni De Giudici, Anna Rosa Sprocati, Erika Kothe – Use of microbes for the Zn-
Pb waste restoration Tool Box
9:30-9:50 Ralf Oelmüller – Symbiotic interaction between the growth-promoting
endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica and Arabidopsis thaliana
9:50-10:10 Nuria Ferrol, Miguel Angel Merlos, Elisabeth Tamayo, Carmen Sánchez, Ana
Jiménez-Jiménez, Jacob Pérez-Tienda, Ascensión Valderas, Karim Benabdellah,
Concepción Azcón-Aguilar – Unravelling mechanisms of heavy metal tolerance in
arbuscular mycorrhiza
10:10-10:30 Iván Sánchez-Castro, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Ezekiel Baudoin, Diederik
van Tuinen – Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, partners of the rhizostabilization
proccess of an orphan mining site
10:30-10:50 Hermann Bothe – Arbuscular mycorrhiza and salt tolerance
10:50-11:20 Break
11:20-11:40 John Dighton, Sharron Crane, Tamar Barkay – Response of ectomycorrhizal
symbionts of pine to mercury
11:40-12:00 Rita Choudhary, Nisha Aggarwal, Raj K. Mishra, Alok Adholeya –
Mycorrhizal seed coating: a combat to chemical fertilizer
12:00-12:20 Andrey A. Belimov, Vera I. Safronova, Giannella Piluzza, Simonetta Bullitta,
Ian C. Dodd, William J. Davies – Symbiotic interactions improve adaptation of
plants to stresses caused by drought and heavy metal toxicity
12:20-12:40 Joseph Seckbach – Extremophiles at the edge of life: implications for
astrobiology
12:40-13:00 Fernando L. Cônsoli – Exploiting insecticide resistant insects as a source of
bacteria for bioremediation

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Session N. Symbiont-based control of arthropod pests and disease vectors -
breakthroughs and bottlenecks
Chair: Kostas Bourtzis, University of Western Greece & Biomedical
Sciences Research Center, Greece
Co-chair: Einat Zchori-Fein, Agricultural Research Organization,
Israel
9:00-9:10 Kostas Bourtzis, Einat Zchori-Fein – Welcome address and introduction to the
workshop “Symbiont-based control of arthropod pests and disease vectors –
breakthroughs and bottlenecks”
9:10-9:40 Takema Fukatsu, Minoru Moriyama, Naruo Nikoh, Takahiro Hosokawa,
Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori – Comparative symbiont genomics toward
identification of bacterial genes involved in pest insect evolution
9:40-10:00 Yoshimoto Kikuchi – Insecticide resistance by endosymbiotic bacteria
10:00-10:20 Guido Favia – Mosquito symbionts: perspectives in disease control
10:20-10:40 Yuval Gottlieb, Neta Morag, Yonatan Saroya, Itamar Lensky, Eyal Klement –
Prevalence of Cardinium in sympatric Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
vector species
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-11:20 Edouard Jurkevitch, Yael Aharon, Michael Ben Yosef, Boaz Yuval –
Exploiting bacterial symbionts against their hosts: what we learn from the
Mediterranean fruit fly
11:20-11:40 Michael Ben-Yosef, Edouard Jurkevitch, Boaz Yuval – Bacterial symbionts
and their contribution to the fitness of the olive fly, Bacterocera oleae
11:40-12:00 Daniele Daffonchio – Liberibacter, a plant pathogen or a symbiont
12:00-12:20 Steve J. Perlman, Brian Galka, Lilach Iasur-Kruh, Ajay B. Maghodia, Netta
Mozes-Daube, Leanne E. Peixoto, Wyatt Robinson, Rakefet Sharon, Chrystel Y.
Olivier, Einat Zchori-Fein – Evolution and ecology of symbionts of insect grape pests
12:20-12:40 Martha S. Hunter, Anna G. Himler, Bodil N. Cass, Suzanne E. Kelly, Elad
Chiel, Einat Zchori-Fein – Rickettsia infection is dynamic and influences fitness and
ecology of the global invasive pest, the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci
12:40-13:00 Julien Varaldi, Fabrice Vavre – Symbionts as tools to unravel the genetic
basis of parasitoid traits

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Symposium 6. Applied Symbiosis (continued)
Session O. Agricultural and industrial enhancement
Chair: Silvio Gianinazzi, CNRS, Dijon, France
15:00-15:30 Silvio Gianinazzi, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson – Bioalternatives to chemicals
in plant production and in cleaning up the environment: hopes and reality
15:30-15:50 Regina S. Redman, Yong Ok Kim, Claire J.D.A Woodward, Zareen Khan,
Sharon L. Doty, Rusty J. Rodriguez – Application of adaptive symbiotic technology
for sustainability of plants in agricultural and natural ecosystems
15:50-16:10 Szymon Zubek, Katarzyna Turnau – Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance
hypericin and pseudohypericin concentrations of the medicinal plant Hypericum
perforatum L.
16:10-16:30 Marouane Baslam, Inmaculada Pascual, Manuel Sánchez-Díaz, Javier Erro,
José María García-Mina, Nieves Goicoechea – The improvement of nutritional quality
of greenhouse-grown lettuce by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is conditioned
by the source of phosphorus nutrition
16:30-16:50 Tommaso Sozzi, Nicola Gianinazzi, Peter Molan, Armelle Gollotte, Luigi
Tiradani, Rudolf Dieffenbach, Silvio Gianinazzi, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, Dale
Walters, Christoph Carlen, Zo Camps, Andrej Susek, Rossitza Batchvarova, Violeta
Kondakova, Philippe Massardier, Jean-Luc Loisy – QualiRedFruits: a European effort
to develop new agricultural practices for quality production for red fruits enriched
in healthy compounds
16:50- 17:20 Break
17:20-17:35 Jerzy Wielbo, Janusz Podleśny, Anna Podleśna, Dominika Kidaj – The effect of
rhizobial Nod factors treatment on nodulation, growth and yield of different pea
(Pisum sativum L.) cultivars
17:35-17:50 Miroslav Vosátka, Jana Albrechtová, Aleš Látr, Silvio Gianinazzi –
Development of mycorrhizal biotechnology and industry: achievements and
bottlenecks
17:50-18:05 Marion Tauschke, Jana Monk, Axel Behrendt, Lothar Müller, Frank Eulenstein
– Effects of mycorrhiza application on water use efficiency and biomass production
of energy plants in lysimeter experiments
18:05-18:20 Oksana Y. Shtark, Alexey Y. Borisov, Tatiana S. Naumkina, Tatiana N.
Danilova, Gulnar A. Akhtemova, Vladimir K. Chebotar, Taisiya N. Gromova, Vladimir
A. Zhukov, Vladimir B. Petrov, Igor A. Tikhonovich – Arbuscular mycorrhiza as a
basis of mutually-beneficial multi-component symbiotic system of the legumes
18:20-18:40 Hrynkiewicz Katarzyna, Ylva K Toljander, Christel Baum, Petra MA
Fransson, Andy FS Taylor, Martin Weih Abundance and diversity of ectomycorrhizal
willows (Salix spp.) in short rotation coppice and adjacent natural stands
19:00-20:00 Poster visits

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Symposium 7. Tropical symbioses
Chair: Ingrid Kottke, University of Tübingen, Germany
15:00-15:30 Ingrid Kottke, Paulo Herrera, Dario Cruz, Juan Pablo Suárez – Promotion of
biodiversity through mycorrhiza networks in a tropical mountain rain forest
15:30-15:50 Katja Kühdorf, Babette Münzenberger, Dominik Begerow, Jorge Gomez-
Laurito, Reinhard F. Hüttl – Diversity and identification of mycorrhizal fungi of
tropical Comarostaphylis arbutoides
15:50-16:10 Ingeborg Haug, Sven Günter, Patrick Hildebrandt, Bernd Stimm, Michael
Weber, Reinhard Mosandl, Jürgen Homeier, Juan Pablo Suárez – Arbuscular
mycorrhizae in a tropical montane rain forest in South Ecuador
16:10-16:30 Jérémie Lauth, Céline Leroy, Pierre-Jean G Malé, Frédéric Petitclerc, Alain
Dejean, Jérôme Orivel – Development of non-food agriculture in ants through the
vertical transmission of a fungal symbiont
16:30-16:50 Sarah E. Marsh, Michael Poulsen, Adrian Pinto-Tomas, Cameron R. Currie –
Symbiont acquisition in leaf-cutter ants
16:50-17:20 Break
17:20-17:40 Polina Yu. Dgeubadze, Elena S. Mehova, Temir A. Britayev – Repopulation
of symbiotic organisms associated with comatulid crinoid Himerometra robustipinna
(Himerometridae, Crinoidea), the experimental data
17:40-18:00 Janja Ceh, Jean-Baptiste Raina, Rochelle M. Soo, Mike van Keulen, David G.
Bourne – Coral-bacterial communities before and after a coral mass spawning event
on Ningaloo Reef
18:00-18:20 Shaun P. Wilkinson, Paul L. Fisher, Stefanie Pontasch, Simon K. Davy – The
distribution and physiology of mixed Symbiodinium populations within high-latitude
colonies of the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis
18:20-18:40 Kamil Szafranski, Clara F. Rodrigues, Nelly Léger, Carole Decker, Karine Olu,
Sylvie M. Gaudron, Sébastien Duperron – Diversity of symbioses between
chemosynthetic bacteria and metazoans at the ‘Guiness’ cold seep site (Gulf of
Guinea, West Africa)
18:40-19:00 Jan Šlapeta, Marjorie Linares, Victoria Morin-Adeline, Christie Foster, Dee
Carter – The extent of coral reef inhabiting protist diversity: insights from the
molecular ecology of eukaryotes

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Saturday, July 28
Symposium 6. Applied symbiosis (continued)
Session Q. Ecology and medical implications of symbiosis with the
human microflora
Chair: Christian Riedel, University of Ulm, Germany
Co-chair: Larry Forney, University of Idaho, USA
9:00-9:30 Christian U. Riedel – Medical/veterinary implications of symbiosis
9:30-10:00 Larry Forney – Ecology of the human microbiome
10:00-10:20 Suikinai Nobre Santos, Faustos Klabund Ferraris, Ana Olivia de Souza, Maria
das Graças M. O. Henriques, Itamar Soares Melo – Endophytic fungi from
Combretum leprosum with potential anticancer and antifungal activities
10:20-10:40 Wieslaw J. Kozek – Wolbachia: intracellular endosymbionts as target for
control and elimination of filarial infections in man and animals
10:40-11:00 John Huss – Molecular and ecological models of the human microbiome: a
conceptual analysis
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-11:50 Pawel Gajer, Rebecca M. Brotman, Zaid Abdo, Larry J. Forney, Jacques Ravel
– Classification and stability of the human vagina bacterial communities
11:50-12:10 Anton Hartmann, Inge Kepert, Juliano Fonseca, Kerstin Hochwind, Michael
Schmid, Saskia van Hemert, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Susanne Krauss-Etschmann –
Identification of D-tryptophan as immunologically active compound excreted by
probiotic bacteria using highly resolving metabolite analysis and immunological in
vitro-test systems
12:10-12:30 Closing remarks