Draft Programme
Sunday 28th August
Registration desk opens in Geography Roxby Building at 15.00
Icebreaker social in Geography Building starting at 18.00
Monday 29th August
09.00 Registration desk
09.15 Conference welcome and opening
Session 1: Environmental Change - Chair Anne de Vernal
09.45: de Schepper et al. A multi-proxy approach for investigating Pliocene-Pleistocene
North Atlantic environmental change and dinoflagellate cyst palaeoecology
10.30 Van de Waal et al. Eco-physiological responses of calcareous and toxic
dinoflagellates to rising CO2
10.50 Bradley et al. Holocene dinoflagellate cyst records from the south-western shelf of
the Black Sea
11.10 Coffee
11.40 Harland & Nordberg Dinoflagellate cysts along the west coast of Sweden and
their significance to the recognition of environmental change over the last two centuries
12.00 Dekeyzer & Zonneveld Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios of Thoracosphaera heimii shells
in surface sediment samples from the South and Equatorial Atlantic
12.20 Penaud et al. Assessment of sea surface temperature changes in the Gulf of Cadiz
during the last 30ka: implications for glacial changes in the regional hydrography
12.40 Lunch
From 13.10 Posters prefixed with A to be presented
Session 1: Environmental Change – Chair André Rochon
14.00 Sangiorgi et al. A dinoflagellate cyst’s perspective on the Oligocene and Neogene
climate and environment of the Wilkes Land margin, East Antarctica
14.20 Bonnet et al. Dinocyst distribution as a tracer of Pacific vs. Atlantic water masses in
Arctic-subarctic settings
14.40 Richerol et al. Palaeoceanographic reconstructions in Nunatsiavut fjords (North
Labrador, Canada)
15.00 de Vernal et al. Dinocysts as proxy of sea-surface conditions and sea ice cover:
toward multi-proxy approaches and data-model intercomparisons
15.20 Coffee
Session 1: Environmental Change – Chair Rex Harland
15.50 Prebble et al. A dinoflagellate cyst temperature transfer function for the Southwest
Pacific Ocean and Southern Hemisphere
16.10 Eynaud et al. Surface oceanic gradients along the western European margin during
Marine Isotope Stage 3: insights from dinoflagellate cyst reconstructions
16.30 Frechette & de Vernal Interglacial dinocyst assemblages in the northwest North
Atlantic, with emphasis on latitudinal gradients
16.50 Bouimetarhan et al. Contrasting changes in marine productiviy and coastal
vegetation in western Sahel during Heinrich Stadial 1: high vs low latitude forcing
17.10 Close
Tuesday 30th August
Session 2: Ecology/Palaeoecology – Chair Karin Zonneveld
09.00 Masure & Vrielynck Dinoflagellate cysts and estimated δ18O temperatures as tools
for qualitative SST gradients in geological times
09.45 van Nieuwenhove et al. Holocene versus last interglacial (MIS 5e) surface ocean
conditions in the Nordic seas and northern North Atlantic
10.05 Ribeiro et al. Reconstructing the history of an invasion - the toxic phytoplankton
species Gymnodinium catenatum in the NE Atlantic
10.25 Roberts et al. Palaeoenvironment of Marmara Sea: Palynology of Late Pleistocene
and Holocene Assemblages in Long Piston Cores
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Houben et al. Massive abundance, morphological variation and carbon isotopic
signature of the dinoflagellate Thalassiphora pelagica in the late middle Eocene southern
Indian Ocean
11.35 Olde et al. Dinoflagellate Cyst Response to Oceanographic Changes in the
Cretaceous Greenhouse
11.55 Brinkhuis et al. 'Deep time' dinoflagellate cyst paleoecology - state of the art
12.15 Carbonell-Moore Dinoflagellates of the Indian Ocean: Revisited
12.35 Lunch
From 13.00 Posters prefixed with B to be presented
14. 30 Workshops 1 Culturing & 2 Dry taxonomy
16.50 Close
Geological ‘walk’ around Liverpool
Wednesday 31st August
Session 2: Ecology/Palaeoecology – Chair Chris Bolch
09.00 Anderson et al. Alexandrium fundyense cyst distributions in the Gulf of Maine:
Interannual variability and links to past and future bloom magnitude
09.20 Potvin et al. First report of the phototrophic dinoflagellate genus Azadinium in
Korean waters: morphology, DNA sequences and pigments of A. cf. poporum
09.40 Almarzan-Beccaril et al. Epiphytic dinoflagellates from the northern portion of the
Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System
10.00 Al-Has et al. Distribution of Marine Sand-Dwelling Dinoflagellates in Dinawan
Island, Malaysia
10.20 McCarthy et al. Freshwater dinoflagellates in palaeolimnological studies
10.40 Coffee
Session 2: Ecology/Palaeoecology – Chair Esther Garces
11.10 Dale et al. Ecological signals in recent dinoflagellate cysts from Scandinavian
waters
11.25 Zonneveld et al. The use of dinoflagellate cysts to determine human and natural
induced eutrophication in coastal areas
11.45 Ellegaard et al. Dinoflagellate population changes through time - using the
sediment archive of living dinoflagellate cysts
12.05 Rochon et al. A decade of sediment and dinocyst accumulation in the ballast tanks
of a bulk carrier
12.25 Lunch
From 13.00 posters prefixed with C to be presented
14. 00 Excursion
19.30 for 20.00 Conference Dinner at the Liner Hotel
Thursday 1st September
Session 3: Life cycles and Diversity – Chair Marianne Ellegaard
09.00 Kremp Diversity in dinoflagellate life cycles: facets and implications of complexity
09.45 Amorim et al. Life-cycle, morphology and phylogeny of species of Fragilidium
Balech in Western Iberia Peninsula
10.05 Tilmann & Hoppenrath The life-cycle of the heterotrophic pseudocolonial
dinoflagellate Polykrikos kofoidii
10.25 Masure et al. Blowin’ in the wind… A 100 Myr old multi-staged dinoflagellate with
sexual fusion trapped in amber: marine-freshwater transition
10.45 Coffee
Session 3: Life cycles and Diversity – Chair Gerard Versteegh
11.15 Coats & Bachvaroff Parasitic sex
11.35 Craveiro & Calado Internal fine structure of Peridinium sensu stricto and related
genera: recent findings and missing data
11.55 Gornik et al. Insights into the cellular processes, metabolic pathways and
mitochondrial genome organisation of the parasitic dinoflagellate Hematodinium sp.
12.15 Bogus et al. Variability in fossil dinoflagellate cyst wall composition: implications for
preservation
12.35 Lunch
From 13.00 Posters prefixed with D to be presented
14. 30 Workshops 2 & 3 Transfer functions
16.50 Close
18.00 Public Lecture on ‘Climate change’, P.C. Reid in Sherrington building
Friday 2nd September
Session 4: Stratigraphy & Evolution – Chair Martin Head
09.00 Medlin & Fensome Evolution of the dinoflagellates: from fossils to genes
09.45 Matsuoka & Kawani Phylogeny of the Protoperidiniaceae, Dinophyceae
10.05 Hoppenrath et al. Molecular phylogeny of the benthic dinophysioid genus
Sinophysis
10.25 Orr et al. Improved phylogenetic resolution of toxic and non-toxic Alexandrium
strains using a concatenated rDNA approach
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Stuken et al. Discovery of nuclear-encoded genes for the neurotoxin saxitoxin in
dinoflagellates
11.35 Al-Kandari et al. Molecular tools separate harmful algal bloom species, Karenia
mikimotoi, from different geographical regions into distinct sub-groups
11.55 Schreck & Matthieseen New insights into the Neogene palaeoenvironmental
evolution of the Iceland Sea (ODP Hole 907A): the dinocyst evidence
12.15 Henissen et al. Dinoflagellate cysts and foraminiferal geochemistry from marine
isotope stages G7 to 102 (Upper Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene) in the eastern North Atlantic
12.35 Lunch
From 13.00 Posters prefixed with E to be presented
Session 4: Stratigraphy and Evolution Kazumi Matsuoka
14.00 Soliman et al. Late Miocene radiations of endemic organic-walled phytoplankton
(acritarchs and dinoflagellates) in Lake Pannon (Central Europe)
14.20 Sliwinska & Heilmann-Clausen The Svalbardella cooksoniae interval marking
the Oi1a cooling event in the Northern Hemisphere
14.40 Bijl et al. Integrated stratigraphy of the Eocene Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica;
preliminary results from IODP Expedition 318: dinoflagellate cysts
15.00 Workshop summaries/feedback
15.30 Closing Remarks and Presentations