Knowledge of water-dwelling organisms, specifically microbial eukaryotes, is advancing rapidly. There are three major contributions that are propelling the field forward: the Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project, the Tara Oceans Expedition, and the Malaspina Expedition. Each has provided new data to research communities and is enabling the development of new concepts, particularly with regard to how protists interact with viruses, bacteria and archaea. Two of the foundation’s Marine Microbiology investigators, Mick Follows and Matt Sullivan, were key contributors to the Tara Oceans effort.
To increase the impact of the new knowledge, and to nurture new collaborations among audiences that don’t traditionally interact (aquatic microbial ecologists, evolutionary biologists, oceanographers, limnologists, cell and molecular biologists, geneticists and more), Jon Kaye, program director of the Marine Microbiology Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, along with Chris Bowler, a scientific coordinator of the Tara Oceans project, have helped create the EMBO EMBL symposium, A New Age of Discovery for Aquatic Microeukaryotes. The symposium will be held on January 26-29, 2016, gathering a diverse community to exchange ideas and experiences in new developments in the life sciences.
To learn more, and register by December 3, go here.
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