Online Seminar

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Felice Mastroleo (SCK CEN, Belgium) | Running a photobioreactor in space for the production of oxygen and edible spirulina biomass

Jörn Petersen (Leibniz Institute DSMZ, Germany) | Biodiversity in Culture - Metagenomics, Metabolomics and the cyanobacterial Tree of Life

Kathrin Rousk (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) | Cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in pristine ecosystems: Uncovering the climatic, ecological, and molecular control mechanisms

Sonia Chamizo (University of Almeria, Spain) | Biocrust cyanobacteria as a tool for restoration of degraded dryland soils

Florian Rudroff (Technical University Vienna, Austria) | Photo-Biocatalysis goes green and blue

Nathan Chrismas (Marine Biological Association, UK) | Comparative genomics of polar cyanobacteria

Kirstin Gutekunst (University of Kassel, Germany) | Glycolytic shunts replenish the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle as anaplerotic reactions in transition states in the cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Marc Nowaczyk (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) | Structural insights into photosystem II assembly

Moritz Koch (University of British Columbia, Canada) | Cyanobacterial cell factories – can we transform our industry towards sustainability?

Michelle Gehringer (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) | How Cyanobacteria changed the WO2rld

Robert Kourist (Technical University Graz, Austria) | Photosynthesis-driven biocatalytic redox reactions

Dmitry Shvarev (University of Osnabrück, Germany) | Multiple roles of tripartite transporters in cyanobacteria

David Russo (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) | Exploring cyanobacterial secretion for ecology and biotechnology

Timo Niedermeyer (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) | From well-known to unknown cyanotoxins: Microcystins as leads for drug substances and the identification of the novel cyanotoxin Aetokthonotoxin

Elisabeth Janssen (Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland) | Increasing confidence in detecting cyanobacterial peptides beyond microcystins and studying their environmental fate in surface waters

Paula Tamagnini (University of Porto, Portugal) | Cyanobacterial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS): From the genes to the industrial toolbox

Nicole Pietrasiak (New Mexico State University, USA) | Dryland soil cyanobacteria - Critical ecosystem engineers with unique biodiversity

Ralf Steuer (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) | Maximal growth rate, resource allocation, and the limits of phototrophic productivity

Paul D'Agostino (Dresden University of Technology, Germany) | Applying Direct Pathway Cloning (DiPaC) towards the capture and expression of cyanobacterial biosynthetic gene clusters

Alistair McCormick (University of Edinburgh, UK) | Using the CyanoGate platform to engineer Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 for production of thermostable phycocyanin

Luis López-Maury (University of Seville, Spain) | A protease-mediated mechanism regulate cytochrome c6/ plastocyanin switch in cyanobacteria

Jeffrey Johansen (John Carroll University, USA and University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic) | The explosion of nomenclaturally invalid cyanobacterial genera: navigating two nomenclatural codes - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Karl Forchhammer (Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, Germany) | Regulation of glycogen metabolism in response to the autotrophy-heterotrophy switch in Cyanobacteria

Petr Dvorak (Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic) | Species and speciation in cyanobacteria

Chin Soon Phan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) | Cyanobacterial natural products – prenylated cyclic peptides - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Nina Kamennaya (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) | Accumulation of phosphate in periplasm of marine cyanobacteria

Danny Ducat (Michigan State University, USA) | Bottom up' interrogation of cyanobacterial metabolism through engineering non-native bioproduction sinks

Amel Latifi (Aix-Marseille University, France) | The PatX morphogen in the developmental cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120: from maturation to action - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Luca Schulz (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany) | How a small protein enabled the transition to aerobic life on earth - Rubisco and its small subunit - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Satoru Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan) | Cyanobacterial multi-copy chromosomes and their replication

Anabella Aguilera (Linneaus University, Sweden) | Disentangling the role of regulated cell death in cyanobacteria

Cecilia Blikstad (Uppsala University, Sweden) | Discovery of a carbonic anhydrase-Rubisco supercomplex within the α-carboxysome - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Ellen Oldenburg (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) | Timeseries analysis of Arctic pelagic bacterial and eukaryotic communities

Petra Visser (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) | Suppression of cyanobacterial blooms using hydrogen peroxide: effects on phytoplankton, bacteria and zooplankton - YouTube Video (coming soon)

María del Carmen Muñoz-Marín (University of Córdoba, Spain) | Are the extracellular vesicles a way to communicate among the Synechococcus cells?

Luning Liu (University of Liverpool, UK) | Cyanobacterial Photosynthetic Machinery: Architecture, Biogenesis, and Regulation - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Lucas Gewehr (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) | SynDLP, the fusogenic Dynamin-like protein of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Abi Perrin (University of York, UK) | CyanoTag: High-throughput protein tagging in a model photosynthetic bacterium

Mark Heinnickel & Mesfin Gewe (Lumen Bioscience, USA) | Spirulina, a new therapeutic manufacturing, and delivery platform - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Steven J. Biller (Wellesley College, USA) | Cyanobacterial extracellular vesicles: origins, contents, and community interactions - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Pedro Leão (CIIMAR - University of Porto, Portugal) | Unique ways by which cyanobacteria deal with fatty acids

María F. Fillat (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | Regulatory networks operated by FUR (ferric uptake regulator) proteins in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Julia Kleinteich (German Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany) | Warning signals from German waterways: Cyanobacteria and algae in a changing climate - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Taina Tyystjärvi (University of Turku, Finland) | A novel signaling cascade regulates growth of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 according to CO2

Rodrigo Santibáñez (University of California, San Diego, USA) | iSynME: Development and interrogation of a computational model of the Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 metabolism and gene expression at genome scale - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Iris Maldener (University of Tübingen, Germany) | The cell-cell communication system of filamentous cyanobacteria

Paul Hudson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) | New metabolite regulation of the bacterial Calvin cycle revealed by interaction proteomics

Rei Narikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) | Cyanobacteriochrome color palette for optogenetics and bioimaging - YouTube Video (coming soon)

James Golden (University of California, San Diego, USA) | Engineering expression of natural products in cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial growth in the short light/dark cycles of low earth orbit - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Tobias Pfennig (RWTH Aachen, Germany) | Capturing Cyanobacterial Photosynthesis - A spectrum-dependent mathematical model

Lukas Becker (HHU Düsseldorf, Germany) | Elevating Your Genomic Analyses - Part 1: CATHI - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Giorgio Bianchini (University of Bristol, UK) | Elevating Your Genomic Analyses - Part 2: Treeviewer - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Jan Červený (CzechGlobe, Czechia) | Digital platform for intelligent research on microalgae: A case study on the application of evolutionary AI techniques to enhance the growth of cyanobacteria

Jeff Elhai (USA) | N2-fixing organelles: Can they make a difference in meeting world food needs? - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Estel Rueda Hernandez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) | Can cyanobacteria meet the bioplastics production challenge? - An environmental and economic perspective - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Berat Z. Haznedaroglu (Boğaziçi University, Turkey) | Algal Biotechnology: From Earth to Space - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Katja Bühler (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) | Mixed-trophies biofilms driven by Cyanobacteria - YouTube Video (coming soon)

Yagut Allahverdiyeva (University of Turku, Finland) | Introduction to Photosynthetic Light Reactions in Cyanobacteria

Mar Benavides (Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France) | Marine Diazotrophic Cyanobacteria

Sally W. Chisholm (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA) | The Power Of Diversity - What Prochlorococcus Can Teach Us About Life

Maria Del Carmen Santos Merino (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA) | Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria

Elke Dittmann (University of Potsdam, Germany) | Cyanobacterial Blooms and Their Toxins

Marion Eisenhut (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany) | Manganese Homeostasis in Cyanobacteria

Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel (Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany) | Pigment Biosynthesis from Bacteria Goes Viral

Susan Golden (University of California San Diego, USA) | Circadian Control of Gene Expression In Vivo and In Vitro

Patricia Sanchez Baracaldo (University of Bristol, UK) | History and Evolution of Cyanobacteria

Annegret Wilde (Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany) | Phototaxis in Cyanobacteria

Anusuya Willis (Australian National Algae Culture Collection ANACC, CSIRO, Australia) | Defining Cyanobacterial Species: Diversity and Description Through Genomics

Yulia Yuzenkova (University of Newcastle, UK) | Peculiarities of Cyanobacterial Transcription

Julie Zedler (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) | Cyanobacteria for Biotechnology - Can SynBio Make It Happen?