Complete programme - MUSE

Venue: Museo delle Scienze - MUSE, Corso del Lavoro e della Scienza 3,
Trento.
Where:
- All scientific events including Poster Sessions:
Aula Magna (level -1);
- Coffee breaks, lunches, Exhibitors & poster display:
Temporary-exhibitions’ area (level +2).
How:
- Contributed talks last 15 min + 4 min questions + 1 min changing
speaker; Keynote and introductory talks last longer (they usually
occupy two time slots);
- During Poster sessions, posters will be presented in the Aula
Magna by using the pdf file of the poster or a brief power point
including Figures and Tables taken from the poster. On average,
poster presentations last 6 min + 2 min questions + 1 min changing
speaker.
Programme
[KT = Keynote talk, IT = Introductory talk]
The International Congress 9th Use of Algae for Monitoring RIvers and
comparable habitats (UAMRIch) (June 15.-17. 2015)
Monday June 15th
08.00-09.00: Registration desk open
OPENING SESSION – Chairs: Sandra Poikane & Marco Cantonati
09.00-09.20: Welcome & opening words by the Autonomous-Province-of-Trento Minister for Scientific
Research, By the MUSE Director, and by the UAMRIch 2015 Organizer
09.20-10.00 (KT): Sandra Poikane
Current state-of-the-art and future needs in algae-based monitoring from the perspective
of the EU
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10.00-10.40 (KT): Martyn G. Kelly & Phil Harding
Developing algal-based ecological assessment to achieve good ecological status in European
rivers and streams
10.40-11.00: Coffee break – Registration desk open
SESSION - Benthic algae and bioassessments (streams, lakes, wetlands) in North
America – Chairs: Donald Charles & R. Jan Stevenson
11.00-11.40 (KT): R. Jan Stevenson
Algae and national bioassessments in streams, lakes, wetlands and coastal zones of the
United States: successes and challenges
11.40-12.00: Donald Charles, Sonja Hausmann, Thomas Belton & Jeroen Gerritsen
A Diatom-based Biological Condition Gradient (BCG) approach for assessing stream and
river impairment
12.00-12.20: Sonja Hausmann, Donald Charles, Thomas Belton & Jeroen Gerritsen
The development of nutrient criteria using the Biological Condition Gradient (BCG)
approach
12.20-12.40: Rosalina Stancheva, Lilian B. Busse, A. Elizabeth Fetscher, J. Patrick Kociolek & Robert G.
Sheath
Use of benthic algae for monitoring streams in California
12.40-13.50: Lunch break
SESSION – Overlooked aspects / habitats - Chairs: Eileen J. Cox & Eugen Rott
13.50-14.30 (KT): Eugen Rott
Success and failure of “Use of Algae for monitoring rivers” meetings over 24 years – a
view “from a founder's perspective….”
14.30-15.10 (KT): Eileen J. Cox
Why has the use of living diatoms been ignored when assessing water quality?
15.10-15.30: Herman van Dam, Bert Pex & Harry Boonstra
Diatoms and their environment in lime-rich springs in The Netherlands
15.30-15.50: Laura Monteagudo & José Luis Moreno Alcaraz
Are benthic cyanobacteria useful indicators of anthropogenic pressures in south-central
Spanish rivers?
15.50-16.10: Marco Cantonati, Daniel Spitale, Nicoletta La Rocca, Graziano Guella, Nicola Angeli, Isabella
Moro, Katia Sciuto & Alessia Scalfi
Adaptive biology of the red alga Bangia atropurpurea in the rocky-shore phytobenthos of
the large peri-alpine Lake Garda: Consequences for its use in environmental assessments
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16.10-16.30: Coffee break
16.30-17.20: Poster session I: Springs, taxa, monitoring - Chairs: Elvira Perona & Pertti
Eloranta
Stefano Segadelli, Marco Cantonati, Elena Bertoni & Daniel Spitale
Can reference spring diatom communities be predicted from simple aquifer and emergence-site
characteristics?
Ingrid Jüttner, David M. Williams, Luc Ector, Elisa Falasco, Maurizio Battegazzore, Zlatko Levkov, Marco
Cantonati, Bart Van de Vijver & Catalena Angele
Re-investigation of the type materials of Diatoma hyemale (Roth) Heiberg, Diatoma hiemale var. maximum
F.Meister and a new Odontidium species
Elena Bertoni, Stefano Segadelli, Marco Cantonati, Eugen Rott, Alessandro Gargini, Fulvio Celico & Reinhard
Gerecke
The EU Habitat Directive Priority Habitat Type Spring-Associated Limestones (SAL) Springs: Hydrogeological
model to predict areas of occurrence, review on indicators and threats, and suggestions for sustainable
management
Antje Gutowski, Julia Foerster, Angela Doege & Markus Paul
Occurrence and autecology of Chamaesiphon species in soft-water streams in Germany
Pertti Eloranta & Anssi Eloranta
Freshwater rhodophytes as bioindicators for peat mining loads
Małgorzata Bąk, Marzena Adamczyk & Adrian Kryk
Is optimisation of labour- and time-intensity possible in diatom analyses for Polish Diatom Indices (IO, IOJ)
determination?
SESSION – Algae in rivers and ecological assessments - Chairs: Martyn Kelly & Jonathan C.
Taylor
17.20-17.40: Rossano Bolpagni, Alex Laini & Erica Racchetti
Algal richness and relative abundance dynamics in the short time: a 3 years-study from a
mid-size river of north Italy
17.40-18.00: David Armanini, Martyn G. Kelly, Daniele Demartini, Marco Cantonati, Nicola Angeli & Gerald
Dörflinger
Natural factors regulating diatom assemblage composition in streams in Cyprus, and their
relevance to ecological status assessment
18.00-18.20: Jonathan C. Taylor, Sam Jack & Tommy Bornman
Diatoms as indicators of water quality in the Orange River, South Africa
18.20-18.40: Maria A. Snell, Philip A. Barker, Ben W. J. Surridge, Martyn G. Kelly, Andy R. G. Large &
EdenDTC
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Seasonal succession in headwater benthic diatom biofilm structural properties reveal
insights into the relationship between catchment productivity and climate
Tuesday June 16th
SESSION – Metabarcoding and phylogeny for biomonitoring - Chairs: Frédéric Rimet &
Tamar Zohary
09.00-09.40 (KT): Frédéric Rimet, Philippe Chaumeil, Jean Marc Frigerio, Kalman Tapolczai, François Keck,
Valentin Vasselon, Alain Franc & Agnès Bouchez
Potential of diatom metabarcoding and phylogeny for biomonitoring
09.40-10.00: François Keck, Frédéric Rimet, Alain Franc & Agnès Bouchez
Developing phylogenetically based biomonitoring methods: a test with diatoms
10.00-10.20: Ruth N. Kaplan-Levy, Yael Benyamini, Alla Alster & Tamar Zohary
DNA barcoding of Israel’s microalgae
10.20-10.40: Coffee break
SESSION – Monitoring in countries nor previously covered by the Use of Algae
meetings - Chairs: Eugen Rott & Brian Alan Whitton
10.40-11.00: Taurai Bere
Diatom-based biological monitoring of streams in developing nations: experiences from
Brazil and Zimbabwe
11.00-11.20: Cüneyt Nadir Solak, Agata Wojtal, Frédéric Rimet, Hasan Kalyoncu & Éva Àcs
Biomonitoring in Turkey based on Diatoms: State of art and perspectives
11.20-11.40: Abdullah A. Saber & Marco Cantonati
Algae-based assessment and monitoring of inland waters in Egypt: a review, needs, and
perspectives
11.40-12.00: Julie Gueguen, Anne Eulin, Estelle Lefrancois, Sébastien Boutry, Juliette Rosebery, Michel
Coste & François Delmas
Indice Diatomique Antilles (IDA) : a new diatom index dedicated to the rivers of the French
West Indies
12.00-13.00: Poster session II: Tropical systems, diatom-based assessments,
functional measures - Chairs: Morgan Vis & Susanne Schneider
Kálmán Tapolczai, Frédéric Rimet, Csilla Stenger-Kovács, Judit Padisák & Agnès Bouchez
New diatom-based evaluation metrics for a universal and facilitated river biomonitoring – first steps in
tropical rivers
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Joanna Żelazna-Wieczorek & Paulina Nowicka-Krawczyk
Cascade construction of reservoirs as a tool for urban stream restoration – use of benthic diatoms in
assessment the effects of restoration practice
Valentina Della Bella, Rosalba Padula, Stefania Bracchi, Fedra Charavgis, Alessandra Cingolani, Egiziana
Rinaldi & Margherita Di Brizio
Diatom-based river monitoring in Umbria (Central Italy): biodiversity and characterization of communities
Zlatko Levkov & Slavica Tofilovska
Preliminary assessment of the ecological status of the rivers on mountain Jablanica
Stephanie J. Connor, Donald J. Baird, Joel F. Gibson, Mehrdad Hajibabaei & Shadi Shokralla
Diversity patterns of benthic diatoms in wetlands of the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada.
Samuel A. Drerup & Morgan L. Vis
A Call for Incorporating Functional Measures into Stream Monitoring Protocols
Elena Piano, Elisa Falasco & Francesca Bona
Mediterranean streams: drought effects on benthic primary production and ecological niche differentiation
of photosynthetic groups
13.00-14.20: Lunch break
SESSION – Structural and functional measures - Chairs: Sergi Sabater & Morgan Vis
14.20-15.00 (KT): Sergi Sabater, Damià Barceló, Núria De Castro-Català, Antoni Ginebreda, Mira Petrovic,
Yolanda Picó, Lydia Ponsatí, Elisabeth Tornés & Isabel Muñoz
Which are the main stressors affecting the biota of impaired rivers? A case for algae and
invertebrates in river monitoring
15.00-15.20: Rémy Marcel, Amélie Thiers & Vincent Berthon
Response of diatoms life forms and ecological guilds to nutrient and organic pollutions in
the Loire river basin (France)
15.20-15.40: Detlev Lohse, Anna Dahlhaus, Hanno Dahlhaus & Christian Moldaenke
The measurement and assessment of phytobenthos by in situ fluorometry
15.40-16.00: Coffee break
SESSION – Blooms, river phytoplankton & toxins - Chairs: Pilar Mateo & Eugen Rott
16.00-16.40 (KT): Brian A. Whitton & Neil T. W. Ellwood
Why has the diatom Didymosphenia become so abundant in rivers of many countries?
16.40-17.00: Vivian Montecino, Ximena Molina, Sunil Kumar, María Loreto Castillo, Paola Muñoz, Laura
Carrevedo, Francisco Salinas, Max Bothwell & Ramiro Bustamante
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Is Didymosphenia geminata expanding in central and southern Chile?
17.00-17.20: Sanet Janse van Vuuren
Monitoring the extent of algal blooms in South African rivers
17.20-17.40: Elvira Perona, Simon Kønig, Antonio Quesada, Maria Ángeles Muñoz-Martín & Pilar Mateo
First report of potential benthic cyanobacteria Anatoxin-a producers in Spanish riverine
systems
17.40-18.20: CLOSING SESSION - Chairs: UAMRIch Scientific Committee
18.30 – 20.00: Thematic (environment, botany) guided tour to the MUSE exhibitions
20.00: MUSE: UAMRIch social dinner
Wednesday June 17th
UAMRIch & InBAT Excursion
(8.00: Meeting at the bus in front of the MUSE entrance.)
8.15: Bus departs.
9.30: Cascate Nardis (60 km).
11.30: Bus departs.
11.50: Short stop in roadside parking below Madonna di Campiglio with view on the Brenta
Dolomites (15 km).
12.05: Bus departs.
13.10: Ristorante Centrale Flavon (50 km).
14.20: Bus Departs.
14.50: Parking below Lake Tovel (17 km).
16.50: Bus departs.
17.40: Cantine Endrizzi – Località Masetto, S. Michele all’Adige (36 km)
18.55: Bus departs.
19.15: MUSE – Museo delle Scienze TN (20 km)
Total km = 198 km
21.00: Special event on Algae & Art with the environmental biologist and artist
Martyn Kelly and with the artist Viviana Puecher (collettivo Puecher/Speranza)
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The International Workshop on Benthic Algae Taxonomy (InBAT) (June
17.-19. 2015)
Thursday June 18th
08.00-09.00: Registration desk open
DIATOMS (Chairs: Marco Cantonati & Bart Van de Vijver)
Talks:
9.00-09.20 (IT): Marco Cantonati, Rosalina Stancheva, David Armanini, Lilian B. Busse, Gerald Dörflinger, A.
Elizabeth Fetscher, Martyn G. Kelly, J. Patrick Kociolek, Robert G. Sheath & Daniel Spitale
Mediterranean-stream diatom-assemblage features as suggested by a case study from the
Island of Cyprus and by comparison with a Californian dataset
09.20-09.40 (IT): Bart Van de Vijver, Carlos E. Wetzel & Luc Ector
The genus Planothidium (Bacillariophyta): towards a better identification of some
widespread taxa
09.40-10.00: Mariacristina Torrisi, Valentina Della Bella, Catia Monauni, Raffaella Zorza, Carlos E. Wetzel,
Dáša Hlùbikovà, Rossana Dell’Anna & Luc Ector
A ring-test to improve the correct use of diatoms to evaluate a water body strongly affected
by urban waste water and pesticides. Case study Ribosc River (Trento, Italy)
10.00-10.30: Coffee break – Registration desk open
10.30-10.45: Transfer to microscopy lab in Povo (University of Trento)
10.45-12.00: Practical part
12.00-12.15: Transfer to MUSE
12.15-13.15: Poster session InBAT DIATOMS
Nicola Angeli, Marco Cantonati & Horst Lange-Bertalot
New and interesting naviculoid diatoms from the Island of Cyprus
Cüneyt Nadir Solak, Sophia Barinova, Maxim Kulikovskiy & Aydın Kaleli
The diversity and ecology of naviculoid diatoms of Kütahya waterbodies
Markéta Letáková, Cantonati Marco, Hašler Petr, Nicola Angeli & Aloisie Poulíčková
Substrate specifity and fine-scale distribution of epiphytic diatoms in a shallow tarn in the Brenta Dolomites
(south-eastern Alps)
Jonathan C. Taylor & Christine Cocquyt
Tools for the introduction of diatoms for monitoring studies in central Africa
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Joanna Żelazna-Wieczorek & Rafał M. Olszyński
Revision of Chamaepinnularia krookiformis Lange-Bertalot
Chamaepinnularia plinskii Żelazna-Wieczorek & Olszyński sp. nov.
&
Krammer
with
description
of
Zlatko Levkov, Danijela Mitic-Kopanja, Slavica Tofilovska & Erwin Reichardt
Morphological variability of Gomphonema Ehrenberg species from Macedonia
13.15–14.15 Lunch break
CYANOBACTERIA (Chairs: Eugen Rott & Brian Alan Whitton)
Talks:
14.15-14.45 (IT): Brian A. Whitton
Changing views on taxonomy and nomenclature of cyanobacteria
14.45-15.00: Transfer to microscopy lab in Povo (University of Trento)
15.00-16.15: Practical part InBAT cyanobacteria
16.15-16.30: Transfer to MUSE
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00–17.20: Poster session InBAT cyanobacteria
Jan Mareš & Marco Cantonati
Phylogenetic position of a peculiar benthic epilithic cyanobacterium Geitleribactron purpureum from Lake
Tovel (Italy), and its consequences to the taxonomy of Geitleribactron
Federica Nones, Marco Cantonati, Jiří Komárek, Eugen Rott, Elliot Shubert, Dietmar Jäger, Nicola Angeli &
Stefano Segadelli
Exploring the biodiversity of benthic algae in spring habitats of the Northern Apennines (Emilia-Romagna
Region, EBERs Project)
17.20–17.50: Closing discussion cyanobacteria
18.30–20.00: Thematic (environment, botany) guided tour to the MUSE exhibitions
20.00: MUSE: InBAT social dinner
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Friday June 19th
RED ALGAE (Chair: Morgan Vis) + GREEN ALGAE & OTHER GROUPS (Chairs: Susanne Schneider
& Elliot Shubert)
Talks red algae:
09.00-09.40 (IT): Morgan L. Vis
Biogeography of Freshwater Red Algae: Changing ideas about cosmopolitan and endemic
floras
09.40-10.00: Abdullah A. Saber, Marco Cantonati, Graziano Guella & Andrea Anesi
Polyphasic approach and comparative lipidomics of two freshwater red algae with similar
thallus architecture but from thermally contrasting habitats
10.00-10.30: Coffee break
Talks green algae:
10.30-11.00 (IT): Elliot Shubert
Taxonomic determination of phenotypic plastic species of microscopic green algae: a
polyphasic approach
11.00-11.30 (IT): Susanne C. Schneider, Petra Nowak, Anuar Rodrigues & Andreas Ballot
Determination of green algae: morphology “versus” genetics - an example from Chara
11.30-12.00: Poster session InBAT red algae
Pertti Eloranta
Results of the intensive studies of freshwater rhodophytes in Central Finland
Johanna Knappe, Antje Gutowski, Florian Freymann
First record of the extremely rare freshwater red alga Tuomeya americana in Germany
Daniel Spitale, Marco Cantonati, Alessia Scalfi, Graziano Guella & Mariona Hernández Mariné
Two contrasting strategies of seasonal development of crenic macroalgae
12.00 – 12.20: Closing discussion red algae
12.20 – 13.20 Lunch break
13.30-13.45: Transfer to microscopy lab in Povo (University of Trento)
13.45-15.00: Practical part InBAT red algae
15.00-16.15: Practical part InBAT green algae
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16.15-16.30: Transfer to MUSE
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00-17.30: Poster session InBAT green algae & other groups
José Luis Moreno Alcaraz & Laura Monteagudo Canales
An unknown freshwater macroalga from a Mediterranean Spanish river
Rossano Bolpagni & Alex Laini
Small-scale spatial dynamics of algae in a low-land river partially fed by groundwater
Georg Niedrist, Marco Cantonati & Leopold Füreder
The effect of environmental harshness on the feeding preferences of alpine chironomid species: The
identification of ingested benthic algae
17.30–18.00: Closing discussion InBAT – Green algae & other groups
18.00–18.30: Closing discussion InBAT & Farewell
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