Invited talk: Evolutionary repair of a broken mitotic entry switch

Maria Rosa Domingo Sananes (Nottingham Trent University, UK and Microbial Genomics Editor)

Offered talk: Untangling the genomes of protists and their partners: A reference-free approach to resolve eukaryotic genomes in mixed communities

Frederik De Boever (Scottish Association For Marine Science, Oban, UK)

Flash talk: Rooting the tree of eukaryotes using pre-LECA gene duplications

Chenxue Lin (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

Publishing for the Community talk

Tamanna Khanom (Microbiology Society, UK)

Networking and morning break

Offered talk: Anaerobic fungi as treasure trove for biomass degradation machinery for exploitation in renewables-based biotechnology

Jolanda van Munster (SRUC, Edinburgh, UK)

Offered talk: How Sex Reshapes the Genome: Comparative Long-Read and Chromatin Conformation Analysis of Clonal and Sexually-Reproducing T. cruzi Strains

Kyrie Dickson (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

Flash talk: Progress toward a synthetic biology toolbox for Thraustochytriidae

Alberto Rock (Scottish Association For Marine Science, Oban, UK)

Flash talk: Analysis of an unusual tetraploid Trypanosoma brucei parasite

Catarina Marques (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)

Group photo

Invited talk: Tracking the Cell Cycle: Insights from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania spp

Emma Briggs (Newcastle University, UK)

Offered talk: The pangenome of Aspergillus fumigatus highlights the dynamics of gene gain-loss over evolutionary time-scales in a human fungal pathogen

Harry Chown (Imperial College London, UK

Offered talk: Trypanosoma congolense ≠ Trypanosoma brucei

Marija Krasilnikova (University of Glasgow, UK)

Prizes and close/Thank you for attending and next steps

Peter Cotgreave (Microbiology Society, UK)

Networking and refreshments