Lecture View

Lecture View

Monday 10 September

Registration

Informal gathering at Cutters Wharf

Tuesday 11 September

Opening welcome and overview

Progress and potential of using testate amoebae in paleoecological studies of drought: perspectives from eastern North America

The integration of pollen and testate amoeba records for a southern James Bay Lowlands peatland, Ontario, Canada

Testate amoebae as indicators of floating Sphagnum-dominated mat development: a case study from a karst pond basin in the mixed forest zone of European Russia

Testate amoebae of recent and fossil Holocene and Pleistocene communities from Arctic and sub-Arctic zones (Flash poster presentation)

Peatland records of recent (last ca. 250 years) climate change in the North of Ireland (Flash poster presentation)

Testate amoebae response to the catastrophic deforestation caused by a tornado compared to the past anthropogenic deforestations (Flash poster presentation)

Testate amoebae as indicators of hydrological conditions in boreal forested peatlands (Flash poster presentation)

Can testate amoebae be used for palaeohydrological reconstruction in High Arctic wetlands? (Flash poster presentation)

Coffee break and poster presentations

Continental-scale compilation of peatland testate amoeba data for palaeohydrological transfer function development: recent advances and future research priorities

Reconstruction of hydrological changes over the last 4000 years in the Puścizna Wielka bog (Southern Poland) based on testate amoebae

Testate amoebae in tropical peatlands: the good, the bad and the ugly

Reassessing the vertical distribution of testate amoeba communities in acrotelmic peats in eastern Canada (Flash poster presentation)

Exploring testate amoeba–environment relationships through time and space in New Zealand Empodisma-dominated peatlands (Flash poster presentation)

Testate amoebae from peatlands in the Alaskan continuous permafrost zone (Flash poster presentation)

Testate amoebae as indicators of disturbances on the rewetted peat extraction area (Northern Estonia) (Flash poster presentation)

Lunch, networking and poster presentations

Using testate amoebae and microecosystems to track and evaluate atmospheric pollution

Salt-spray deposition inhibits biomass production in sub-Antarctic peatland-dwelling Arcellinida and Euglyphida (testate amoebae)

Rapid response of testate amoebae to wildfire in a peatland of Northeast China

Coffee break and poster presentations

Testate amoebae as peatland restoration biomonitoring tools from theory to application

Testate amoebae, trees and peat

Testate amoebae of fens – exceptional diversity and palaeoecological potential

Testing randomised sampling strategy and effect of empty shell exclusion at two contrasting fen sites

Discussion

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Outreach event, Peatlands Ulster Museum

Wednesday 12 September

Welcome

The future of Arcellinida in applied paleolimnology: achieving high-quality and high-resolution research outcomes on a budget

Lacustrine testate amoebae: multi-indicator palaeolimnology reveals habitat-driven community shifts in response to eutrophication in shallow UK lakes

Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) as a salt contamination monitoring tool in the ‘Salt Belt’ lakes of northeastern North America

Quantification of arsenic-tolerance limits of lacustrine Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae): implications for environmental monitoring

Assessing temporal changes in Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) standing crop in homogenous lacustrine environments (Flash poster presentation)

Intralake hydroecological controls on the distribution of Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) in a temperate eastern North American lake (Flash poster presentation)

New temperature transfer functions based on freshwater testate amoebae from China (Flash poster presentation)

Testing the trophic status inferences of lake testate amoebae: a palaeolimnological perspective (Flash poster presentation)

Coffee break and poster presentations

Diversity and functioning of protists in soils: Cryptodifflugia and more

Testate amoebae communities in suspended soil versus topsoil of oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia

Genes of past, present and future: does legacy pollution contribute to antibiotic resistance in industrialised estuaries?

Exploring arenosol forest floor horizons condition using testate amoebae communities (Flash poster presentation)

Testate amoebae of forest ecosystems of the Mediterranean region (Flash poster presentation)

First results of the study of soil testate amoebae communities from the Salonga National Park (Central Congo) (Flash poster presentation)

Lunch, networking and poster presentations

Evolutionary inferences based on phylogenomics of Arcellinid testate amoebae

Exploring the diversity of hyalospheniid testate amoebae (Amoebozoa) from regional to subcontinental scales

Taxonomic revision of Nebela militaris, based on morphology, molecules…and history!

Coffee break and poster presentations

Molecular tools (HTS analyses of amplicons) reveals diverse clades of testate amoebae in New England bogs and fens

Testate amoeba taxonomy from morphology to metatranscriptomics

Evaluation of the environmental quality in catchment lakes from the Community of Madrid using metabarcoding and transcriptomic approaches on benthic testate amoebae

Using single-cell transcriptomics to study biodiversity and species delineation in Arcellinida

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Drinks reception and conference dinner, Belfast City Hall

Thursday 13 September

Welcome

Let me see your shell and I will tell you who you are – what can traits tell us about testate amoebae?

The relationship between test morphology, ecology and phylogenetic placement of freshwater Arcellinida (lobose testate amoebae)

A new morphological character of the soil-dwelling arcellinids with agglutinated dorso-ventrally flattened shells

Testing the response of Arcellinida communities to arsenic in a simulated lake environment

Coffee break and poster presentations

From inside the shell: applications of micro-computed tomography for the analysis of Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae)

Origin of mineral particles integrated within testate amoeba tests: a review of 10 years of research

Semi-automated analysis of lacustrine Arcellinida (testate lobose amoebae) using FlowCam technology

Characterising morphological variability of freshwater lobose testate amoebae (Arcellinida) across a spatial gradient of nutrient enrichment (Flash presentation)

Description of a Pyxidicula Ehrenberg, 1838 taxon from the Hudson Bay Lowlands region, Ontario, Canada (Flash presentation)

Testate amoebae diversity from Tierra del Fuego peatlands (Argentina) (Flash presentation)

Checklist, diversity and distribution of hyalospheniid testate amoebae of the Balkan Peninsula (Flash presentation)

Comparison of Holocene testate amoeba assemblages and functional traits in boreal bog and fen peat core records from Northern Ontario, Canada (Flash presentation)

Testate amoebae diversity of Central China (Flash presentation)

A novel morphotype of Hyalosphenia papilio from Wales

Exploring the links between functional traits and palaeoecological processes in lake Arcellinida: the ‘ECOTRAIT’ Project (Flash presentation)