MarBEF TRAINING COURSE ON BIOASSAY METHODS IN MARINE
CHEMICAL ECOLOGY
September 9-14, 2006
Tjärno Marine Biological Laboratory, Strömstad, Sweden
(www.tmbl.gu.se)
PROGRAM
Fri 8th
17:30
Arrival and registration
Dinner
Sat 9th MICROBES
9:00 – 10:00
Jens HARDER
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee
Jens HARDER
11:00 – 12:30
Friedericke HOFFMANN
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:30
17:30 – 18:30
18:30 -
Lunch
Preparation of agar plates
HARDER/HOFFMANN
Coffee
DAPI staining and epifluorescence microscopy
HARDER/HOFFMANN
DAPI staining and epifluorescence microscopy
HARDER/HOFFMANN
Dinner
Welcome mixer with guided tour
of TMBL
General microbiology, secondary metabolites and their
function
General microbiology, secondary metabolites and their
function (cont’d)
Culture-independent techniques, interspecies chemical
communication: examples from prokaryotes and
eukaryotes
Sun 10th BENTHIC
INVERTEBRATES
9:00 – 10:00
Joe PAWLIK
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:30
11:30 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
Coffee
Angelo FONTANA
Ernesto MOLLO
Lunch
PAWLIK/ FONTANA
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
Coffee
MOLLO/FONTANA
Antifeedant activity, Ichithyotoxicity, Antifouling activity
16:30 – 17:30
MOLLO/FONTANA
Antifeedant activity, Ichithyotoxicity, Antifouling activity
17:30 –
Dinner
Historical perspective on studies of invertebrate chemical
defenses, development of assay methods, ecological
relevance and limitations.
Chemical mediators in marine opisthobranchs
A chemoecological approach to biological invasions
Volume-based gel techniques for lab and field assays
testing questions of chemical defense, fouling and
overgrowth.
Mo 11th
PHYTOPLANKTON
9:00 – 10:00
Catherine LEGRANDE and
Raffaella CASOTTI
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:30
Coffee
LEGRAND/CASOTTI
11:30 – 12:30
Michael STEINKE
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:30
17:30 –
Lunch
LEGRAND
Coffee
LEGRAND/STEINKE
LEGRAND/STEINKE
Dinner
Tue 12ve
SEAWEEDS
9:00 – 11:00
Mark HAY
11:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
Boat excursion and lunch
Philippe POTIN
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
Coffee
Gunilla TOTH
16:30 – 18:30
POTIN
19:30 –
Social dinner
Wed 13th
ZOOPLANKTON
9:00 – 10:00
Adrianna IANORA
10:00 – 10:30
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee
Serge POULET
11:30 – 12:30
Maarten BOERSMA
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:30
Lunch
IANORA/ROMANO
Coffee
Giovanna ROMANO
POULET/BOERSMA
17:30
Dinner
Thu 14th
Departure
Allelochemicals and toxins in phytoplankton and
bioassay methods in phytoplankton: from fluorescent
molecules to large-scale ecosystem manipulations
Allelochemicals and toxins in phytoplankton and
bioassay methods in phytoplankton: from fluorescent
molecules to large-scale ecosystem manipulations
Microzooplankton grazing and the production of biogenic
trace gases
Vital staining of phytoplankton
Microzooplankton grazing
Microzooplankton grazing
Ecologically realistic bioassays as the key for progress in
marine chemical ecology: some problems, some
solutions.... some more problems
Bioassay methods to study induced defenses and
resistance in seaweeds.
Different bioassays used to study plant-herbivore
interactions
Bioassays of induced resistance in seaweeds and tests of
ROS and metabolite toxicity in seaweeds
Bioassay methods to study the effects of toxic
dinoflagellate metabolites on feeding and reproduction of
zooplankton
Bioassay methods to study the effects of diatom
metabolites on the reproductive biology of copepods
Defence mechanisms in the pelagic zones: which
explanatory models are most adequate.
Toxicological tests on marine invertebrates
Toxicological tests on marine invertebrates
Classic and modern methods to observe and compare the
effects of phytoplankton diets on zooplankton