Planetary Biology Workshop
May 16 @ 08:00 – May 17 @ 17:00 CEST
EMBL-SciLifeLab workshop on the theme Planetary Biology
The purpose of the workshop is to enhance connectivity between researchers at both, SciLifeLab and EMBL, to identify new collaboration ideas, and to promote joint technology and infrastructure resource development within Planetary Biology.
This is one of many workshops that will follow the conclusion of the MoU between SciLifeLab and EMBL in 2021.
The workshop is a hybrid event. Physical location is the EMBL Heidelberg campus, where in-person attendance is limited. Allocation of spaces is on a first-come first-served basis.
Please note: there are two separate registration links for on-site or virtual participation. In case you sign up for on-site participation but your availability changes, please make sure to inform the responsible contacts.
The workshop will include talks on a broad set of themes including:
- Biodiversity Genomics & Reference Genome Sequencing
- Ecology & Evolution
- Biogeochemistry & Ecosystems
- Data-driven Planetary Biology,
As well as invited keynote speakers and panel discussions.
Day 1, Monday 16th May, 2022
| 13:00 | Welcome and opening remarks Edith Heard Director General of EMBL Olli Kallioniemi Director of SciLifeLab |
| 13:10 | Introduction and overview of Planetary Biology Detlev Arendt Planetary Biology Co-Chair, Senior Scientist, Group Leader, EMBL Olga Vinnere Pettersson & Stefan Bertilsson Co-Leads Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab |
| 13:30 | Session 1: Biodiversity Genomics & Reference Genome Sequencing (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A per speaker in each session) Moderator Peter Harrison, Genome Analysis Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Speakers Fergal Martin, Vertebrate Annotation Coordinator, EMBL-EBI Kerstin Lindblad Toh (remote), Professor in Comparative Genomics, Uppsala University, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology, Broad Institute Detlev Arendt, Planetary Biology Co-Chair, Senior Scientist, Group Leader, EMBL Ove Nilsson, Group Leader Control of Flowering Time and Tree Phenology, Umeå Plant Science Center |
| 14:50 | Coffee break |
| 15:10 | Session 2: Ecology and Evolution Moderator Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Speakers Love Dalén, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Research Leader at Center for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm Michael Dorrity, Group Leader Structural and Computational Biology, EMBL James Sharpe (remote) , Head of EMBL Barcelona, Group Leader in Tissue Biology and Disease Modelling Anna Rosling, Group Leader Ecology and Evolution in Soil Fungi, Uppsala University |
| 16:30 | Keynote by Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| 17:15 | Summary and Q&A |
Day 2, Tuesday 17th May, 2022
| 09:00 | Arrival and Coffee |
| 09:30 | Keynote by Martin Polz University of Vienna |
| 10:20 | Session 3: Biogeochemistry & Ecosystems (15 mins + 5 mins Q&A per speaker in each session) Moderator Stefan Bertilsson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Speakers Michael Zimmermann, Group Leader in Structural and Computational Biology, EMBL Flora Vincent, Incoming Group Leader in Developmental Biology; Post Doctoral Fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Sara Hallin, Professor at the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Mark Dopson, Professor at the Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University |
| 11:40 | Break |
| 12:40 | Session 4: Data-driven Planetary Biology Moderator Oliver Stegle, Associate Group Leader in Genome Biology, EMBL Speakers Tomas Roslin (remote), Professor at the Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Peer Bork, Director of EMBL Heidelberg, Group Leader in Structural and Computational Biology, EMBL Anders Andersson, Group Leader in Environmental Genomics, Royal Institute of Technology Anna Kreshuk, Group Leader in Cell Biology and Biophysics |
| 14:00 | Summary and Q&A |
| 14:15 | Coffee break |
| 14:45 | Panel Discussion 1: Technological Infrastructure Needs for PB Research Moderator Stefan Bertilsson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Panelists Yannick Schwab, Team Leader Volume Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility, EMBL Timo Zimmermann, Team Leader Advanced Light Microscopy Technology Development and Service Provision, EMBL Linda Sandblad, Scientific Platform Director Cellular and Molecular Imaging, Umeå University, SciLifeLab Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Project coordinator at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University; Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Annika Johansson, Head of Swedish Metabolomics Centre, Umeå University, SciLifeLab |
| 16:00 | Short break |
| 16:10 | Panel Discussion 2: Data Collection in PB Research Moderator Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Panelists Rainer Pepperkok, Director of Scientific Core Facilities and Scientific Services, Team Leader Membrane traffic and Organelle Biogenesis, EMBL Stefan Bertilsson, Professor in Functional Ecology of Freshwaters, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Director of the Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science (SITES); Co-Lead Planetary Biology Capability, SciLifeLab Fredrik Ronqvist, Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History; Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI) |
| 16:40 | Panel Discussion 3: Data Management and Processing in PB Research Moderator Fergal Martin, Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader, EMBL-EBI Panelists Guy Cochrane (remote), Team Leader Data Coordination and Archiving, EMBL-EBI Blokeshwaran Manoharan, Expert in Metagenomics; National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS) Johan Rung, Head of Data Center, SciLifeLab |
| 17:00 | Conclusion and Closing Remarks |
Scientific committee SciLifeLab
Stefan Bertilsson, SLU
Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Uppsala University
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