Schedule overview (CEST)

  • 2 PM
  • 2:20 PM
  • 2:20 PM
  • 2:40 PM
  • 3 PM
  • 3:20 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • 4 PM
  • 4:30 PM
  • 4:30 PM
  • 4:50 PM
  • 5:10 PM
  • 5:20 PM
  • 5:30 PM
  • 6 PM
  • 6 PM
  • 6:20 PM

April 26th, 2021

  • Opening and welcome

    Chair : Bruno Ernande

    François Houllier
    Chief Executive Officer of IFREMER

    Romain Troublé
    Executive Director of Tara Océan, Paris, France
    &
    Chris Bowler
    Scientific Coordinator of Tara Océan, ENS, Paris, France

    Edith Heard
    Director General of EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
  • SESSION 1 : Best practices/State-of-the-art

    Chair : Chris Bowler
  • KEYNOTE 1

    Yucheng Wang
    Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Ancient Environmental Metagenomics: Exploit the Full Potential
  • KEYNOTE 2

    Philip Francis Thomsen
    Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Next-generation marine biodiversity research using environmental DNA
  • KEYNOTE 3

    Pierre Taberlet
    CNRS, UMR LECA, Grenoble, France

    Best practices in metabarcoding
  • Questions and discussion
  • Brainstorming Session

    Subgroup 1: Yucheng Wang, Detlev Arendt, Kiley Seitz
    Subgroup 2: Philip Francis Thomsen, Bruno Ernande, Céline Reisser
    Subgroup 3: Pierre Taberlet, Chris Bowler, Flora Vincent
  • Coffee break
  • SESSION 2 : Sampling methodologies

    Chair : Lionel Guidi
  • KEYNOTE 1

    Kevan Yamahara
    MBARI, Moss Landing, California, USA

    In-situ Autonomous Acquisition and Preservation of Environmental DNA Using the Environmental Sample Processor
  • KEYNOTE 2

    Alexandra Z. Worden
    GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

    The use of eDNA in the field of biogeochemistry
  • Sophie Arnaud Haond
    Ifremer, UMR MARBEC, Sète, France

    Sampling eDNA in deep sea ecosystems
  • Questions and discussion
  • Brainstorming Session

    Subgroup 1: Kevan Yamahara, Lionel Guidi, Manon Boosten
    Subgroup 2: Alexandra Z. Worden, Damien Eveillard, Daniela Zeppilli
  • SESSION 3 : Analysis methodologies

    Chair : Peer Bork
  • KEYNOTE 1

    Jerome Chave
    CNRS, UMR LEDB, Toulouse, France

    Interpretations of eDNA in the context of community ecology
  • End of meeting

Schedule overview (CEST)

  • 2PM
  • 2 PM
  • 2:20 PM
  • 2:40 PM
  • 2:50 PM
  • 3 PM
  • 3:10 PM
  • 3:20 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • 4 PM
  • 4:30 PM
  • 4:30 PM
  • 4:50 PM
  • 5:10 PM
  • 5:30 PM
  • 5:40 PM
  • 5:50 PM
  • 6:00 PM
  • 6:30 PM

April 27th, 2021

  • SESSION 3 : Analysis methodologies (continued)

    Chair: Peer Bork
  • KEYNOTE 2

    Antonio Fernandez-Guerra
    Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Exploring the unknown: Linking past, present and future through metagenomics
  • KEYNOTE 3

    Pier Luigi Buttigieg
    Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

    Community analyses
  • Damien Eveillard
    Tara Oceans, Université de Nantes, UMR LSNN, Nantes, France

    Network analysis of eDNA
  • Peer Bork
    EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

    Analysis of microbiomes
  • Venera Trenkel
    Ifremer, EMH, Nantes, France

    Semi-quantitation in fish communities
  • Patrick Wincker
    Tara Oceans, Génoscope, Evry, France

    Functional Metagenomics
  • Questions and discussion
  • Brainstorming Session

    Subgroup 1: Jerome Chave, Chris Bowler, Tobias Gerber
    Subgroup 2: Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Damien Eveillard, Fabienne Wiederkehr
    Subgroup 3: Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Peer Bork, Agostino Leone
  • Coffee break
  • SESSION 4 : Distinguishing DNA in living and from dead organisms

    Chair : Philippe Goulletquer
  • KEYNOTE 1

    Grant Burgess
    Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

    eDNA stability in the marine environment
  • KEYNOTE 2

    Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan
    University of Washington, USA

    Marine eDNA transport and diffusion
  • KEYNOTE 3

    Michal Kucera
    MARUM, Bremen, Germany

    Deposition and burial of eDNA in marine sediments
  • Chris Bowler
    Tara Oceans, ENS, Paris, France

    Ancient DNA from phytoplankton
  • Raffaele Siano
    Ifremer, DYNECO, Brest, France

    Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) reveal shifts in marine protist communities after World War II and agricultural pollution
  • Questions and discussion
  • Brainstorming Session

    Subgroup 1: Chris Bowler, Mathilde Bourreau
    Subgroup 2: Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, Bruno Ernande, Babett Gunther
    Subgroup 3: Michal Kucera, Philippe Goulletquer, Leslie Pan
  • End of meeting

Schedule overview (CEST)

  • 2PM
  • 2 PM
  • 2:20 PM
  • 2:40 PM
  • 3 PM
  • 3:20 PM
  • 3:30 PM
  • 3:40 PM
  • 3:50 PM
  • 4:20 PM
  • 4:50 PM
  • 4:50 PM
  • 5:40 PM
  • 6:30 PM

April 28th, 2021

  • SESSION 5 : Examples of applications and flagship projects

    Chair : Lucie Zinger
  • KEYNOTE 1

    Ian Salter
    Faroe Marine Research Institute, Faore Islands, Denmark

    Quantitation of macro-organisms
  • KEYNOTE 2

    Frédérique Viard
    CNRS, UMR ISEM, Montpellier, France

    Detection and monitoring of invasive species
  • KEYNOTE 3

    Loic Pellisier
    ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Global biodiversity observatory based on eDNA
  • KEYNOTE 4

    Kristy Deiner
    ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Lakes as accumulators of large-scale biodiversity information
  • Benjamin Morga
    Ifremer, SG2M, La Tremblade, France

    Detection and monitoring of pathogens
  • Colomban de Vargas
    Tara Oceans, CNRS, UMR ADMM, Roscoff, France

    Protist biodiversity
  • Questions and discussion
  • Brainstorming Session

    Subgroup 1: Ian Salter, Detlev Arendt, Paola Bertucci
    Subgroup 2: Frédérique Viard, Philippe Goulletquer, Benjamin Morga
    Subgroup 3: Loic Pellissier, Peer Bork, Josipa Bilic
    Subgroup 4: Kristy Deiner, Damien Eveillard, Xavier Capet
  • Coffee break
  • Final discussion and wrap up
  • Wrap up of the brainstorming sessions by rapporteurs

    Brainstorming Session 1 to 5
  • Discussion of overarching topics
  • End of meeting