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Day 1
May 20 / Thursday / 10:00 EST (USA)
TIME Title/Presenter
10:00 – 10:15 Welcoming Remarks
10:15 – 10:30 History of Cassiopea Research
William Fitt (University of Georgia)
Dietrich Hofmann
10:30 – 10:45 Cassiopea Lifecycle
William Fitt (University of Georgia)
Dietrich Hofmann
10:45 – 11:30 Tutorial 1: Spawning and Husbandry of Cassiopea
Victoria Sharp (Penn State University)
Aki Ohdera (Caltech)
11:30 – 12:00 Break (Gather.town)
12:00 – 12:45 Tutorial 2: JGI Genome Browser
Sajeet Haridas (JGI)
12:45 – 13:00 Break (Gather.town)
13:00 – 14:00 Tutorial 3: Embryo Injection
DeGennaro Lab (Florida Int. U)
14:00 – 15:00 SOCIAL (Gather.town)
Day 2
May 21 / Friday / 10:00 EST (USA)
TIME Title / Presenter
10:00 – 10:15 Ramifications of viewing symbiosis as a loop of context dependent states
Tamar Goulet (University of Mississippi) ABSTRACT
10:15 – 10:30 Conserved symbiotic mechanisms in invertebrate-algal symbioses
Angus Thies (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) ABSTRACT
10:30 – 10:45 Amoebocytes facilitate efficient nutrient transfer in Cassiopea
Niclas Lyndby (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lousanne) ABSTRACT
10:45 – 11:00 Quo vadis, Symbiodiniaceae miRNA evolution?
Viridiana Avila-Magana (University of Colorado Boulder) ABSTRACT
11:00 – 11:15 BREAK (Gather.town)
11:15 – 11:30 The relationship between diverse Symbiodiniaceae species, strobilation, and resulting host
phenotypes in Cassiopea xamachana
Victoria Sharp (Pennsylvania State University) ABSTRACT
11:30 – 11:45 A deep dive into Cassiopea sleep: complementary behavioral, RNAseq, and pharmacology
experiments implicate homeostasis as a key function of sleep
Michael Abrams (University of California – Berkeley) ABSTRACT
11:45 – 11:52 Behavioral differentiation among Mastigias papua subpopulations in an isolated marine lake (LT)
Karly Higgins-Poling (University of California – Merced) ABSTRACT
11:53 – 12:00 Draft genome sequence of Cassiopeia andromeda (LT)
Adrian Jaimes-Becerra (Universidade de São Paulo)
12:00 – 12:15 Feeding Behavior of Cassiopea xamachana
Kendra Pfeil (Pennsylvania State University) ABSTRACT
12:15 – 12:30 Cassiopea care and culture at the Maritime Aquarium
Rachel Stein (The Maritime Aquarium) ABSTRACT
12:30 – 13:00 BREAK (Gather.town)
13:00 – 13:30 PLENARY: The fluid dynamics of Cassiopea sp.
Laura Miller (University of Arizona)
13:30 – 14:00 BREAK (Gather.town)
14:00 – 14:15 Hydrodynamic studies of Cassiopea feeding and exchange currents
Arvind Santhanakrishnan (Oklahoma State University) ABSTRACT
14:15 – 14:30 Hopscotching Jellyfish: combining different duty cycles can lead to enhanced swimming
performance
Nicholas Battista (The College of New Jersey) ABSTRACT
14:30 – 14:45 Exploring the benthic fluid dynamics of Cassiopeia with 3D computational models
Alexander Hoover (The University of Akron) ABSTRACT
14:45 – 15:00 Introducing Planktos: an agent-based modeling framework for small organisms in fluid flow
Christopher Strickland (University of Tennessee – Knoxville) ABSTRACT
15:00 – SOCIAL (Gather.town) – Trivia
Day 3
May 22 / Saturday / 10:00 EST (USA)
TIME Title/Presenter
10:00 – 10:15 Using Cassiopea cf. xamachana as a model to study the effects of temperature and pH on
symbiotic interactions
Gloria Lorena Velazquez Mejia (Universidad del Mar) ABSTRACT
10:15 – 10:30 In vivo evaluation of bioenergetic parameters in heat-stressed Cassiopea
Edmee Royen (University of Liège) ABSTRACT
10:30 – 10:45 Influence of salinity, temperature, and light intensity on the rate of strobilation of Cassiopea
xamachana
Marcela Prado-Zapata, Raian Counsman, Caroline Link (New College of Florida) ABSTRACT
10:45 – 11:00 Mitochondrial dysfunction and reductions in symbiont colonization occur in tandem during
thermal stress in Cassiopea xamachana
Bradford Dimos (University of Texas – Arlington) ABSTRACT
11:00 – 11:15 BREAK (Gather.town)
11:15 – 11:30 Symbiont genotype influences host response to temperature in a model Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate
mutualism phenotypes in Cassiopea xamachana
Jennica Moffat (University of California Northridge) ABSTRACT
11:30 – 11:45 Untangling genetic tentacles: Characterizing population diversity in a model jellyfish
Megan Maloney (Auburn University) ABSTRACT
11:45 – 12:00 Symbioses in 3D: diversity and dynamics in pelagic photosymbioses
Michael Dawson (University of California – Merced) ABSTRACT
12:00 – 12:15 A chemist in the ocean – exploration of the microbial community and chemistry of Cassiopea
Sandra Loesgen (University of Florida) ABSTRACT
12:15 – 12:30 The bacterial community of Cassiopea xamachana
Natalia Carabantes (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) ABSTRACT
12:30 – 13:00 BREAK (Gather.town)
13:00 – 13:30 PLENARY: Adaptation to the environment by endosymbiosis – a model systems’ approach
Annika Guse (Heidelberg University) ABSTRACT
13:30 – 14:00 BREAK (Gather.town)
14:00 – 14:15 High photosynthetic plasticity may reinforce invasiveness of upside-down zooxanthellate jellyfish
in Mediterranean coastal waters
Marta Mammone (Università del Salento) ABSTRACT
14:15 – 14:30 Cassiopea as a biomonitoring tool
Shelley Templeman (TropWATER, James Cook University) ABSTRACT
14:30 – 14:45 Upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea) as a model organism for biomonitoring environmental
variability
Madeline McKenzie (James Cook University) ABSTRACT
14:45 – 15:00 Upside-down down under: identification, distribution, and population dynamics of the invasive
Cassiopea jellyfish in Lake Macquarie, Australia
Claire Rowe (University of Sydney) ABSTRACT
15:00 – SOCIAL (Gather.town)
Day 4
May 23 / Sunday / 10:00 EST (USA)
TIME Title/Presenter
10:00 – 11:00 Tutorial 4: A quick tutorial on numerically simulating mathematical models relevant to Cassiopea
Laura Miller (University of Arizona)
Christina Hamlet (Bucknell University)
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK (Gather.town)
11:30 – 12:00 Tutorial 5: Symbiodinium Culturing
William Fitt (University of Georgia)
Todd LaJeunesse (Penn State University)
12:00 – 12:30 BREAK (Gather.town)
12:30 – 13:30 Tutorial 6: Cassiopea morphology
Andre Morandini (University of São Paulo)
Edgar Gamero (University of São Paulo)
12:30 – 12:45 Best Talk Award Announcement
Mónica Medina
12:45 – 13:00 Closing Remarks
Mónica Medina
13:15 – SOCIAL (Gather.town)