Darwin & NESSC Days: Programme
Thursday 20 November 2014
| 10.00 – 10.20 | Registration – Coffee |
| 10.20 – 10.30 | Opening Scientific Director Darwin Center for Biogeosciences, Prof. dr. J. Middelburg |
| 10.30 – 11.30 | Lectures by Darwin PhD/PD (part I): |
| Yvonne Lipsewers (NIOZ) ‘The role of anammox and denitrifying bacteria in hypoxic/anoxic and sulfidic SALINE lake sediments’ |
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| Eli Moore (NIOZ) ‘Abundant trimethylornithine lipids and specific gene sequences suggest Planctomycete importance at the oxic/anoxic interface in Sphagnum-dominated northern wetlands’ |
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| Andries Temme (VU) ‘From the low past to the high future: Plant growth across CO2 levels’ |
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| 11.30 – 12.15 | Keynote: Ros Rickaby |
| 12.15 – 13.15 | Lunch + posters |
| 13.15 – 14.00 | Keynote: Paul Falkowski |
| 14.00 – 15.20 | Lectures by Darwin PhD/PD (part II): |
| Dorina Seitaj (NIOZ-Yerseke) ‘Microbial innovation and the quest for electron donors in marine sediments’ |
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| Diana Vasquez Cardenas (NIOZ-Yerseke) | |
| Derya Ozuolmez (WUR) ‘Propionate and butyrate conversions in marine sediments: competition or cooperation?’ |
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| Martina Sollai (NIOZ) ‘Heterocyst glycolipids in the Baltic Sea: species distribution and potential applications as tracers of anoxic events’ |
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| 15.20 – 15.40 | Coffee |
| 15.40 – 17.40 | Lectures by Darwin Alumni: |
| Petra Schoon ‘Impacts of coastal ocean acidification: Biomarkers and ‘zombie’ forams’ |
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| Lennart de Nooijer ‘Biomineralization in foraminifera’ |
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| Francien Peterse ‘Assessing soil bacterial tetraether lipids as tracers for land-sea soil organic carbon transfer’ |
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| Darci Rush ‘Anammox: source of BHT stereoisomer in marine sediments’ |
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| Thorsten Bauersachs ‘Temperature induced changes in the heterocyst glycolipid distribution of N2 fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria’ |
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| Melike Balk ‘From the isolation of C1-utilizing microorganisms to Nickel isotope fractionation by methanogens’ |
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| 17.40 | Drinks |
| 19.00 | Diner |
Friday 21 November 2014
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Registration – Coffee |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Opening SIAM, Prof. dr. ir. Mike Jetten |
| 10.15 – 11.15 | Lectures by SIAM researchers |
| Irene Sanchez Andrea (WUR)‘Novel acidophilic sulfate- and sulfur-reducing bacteria from Rio Tinto sediments’ | |
| Eveline van den Berg (TUD)‘DNRA vs denitrification’ | |
| Olivia Rasigraf (RU)AOM in Bothnian Sea Sediments | |
| 11.15 – 12.00 | Keynote: Richard Pancost‘The Uncertain World: How examination of past climate and biogeochemical processes can help us understand the future’ |
| 12.00 – 12.45 | Lunch |
| 12.45 – 13.00 | Opening NESSC, Prof. dr. ir. Jaap Sinninghe Damsté |
| 13.00 – 14.40 | Lectures by NESSC work package leaders |
| WP1: Prof. dr. Stefan Schouten | |
| WP2: Prof. dr. Lucas Lourens | |
| WP3: Prof. dr. Michiel van den Broeke | |
| WP4: Prof. dr. Appy Sluijs | |
| WP5: Prof. dr. ir. Henk Dijkstra | |
| 14.40 – 15.10 | Introduction of NESSC researchers |
| Loes van Bree | |
| Luke Blauw | |
| Sarah Bradley | |
| Anne Roepert | |
| Esmee Geerken | |
| Cindy Schrader | |
| Robin van der Ploeg | |
| 15.15 – 15.20 | Conclusion by Darwin Center Scientific Director Prof. dr. Jack Middelburg |
| 15.20 | Drinks |