Planetary Biology 2024 Conference – Linking molecules to ecosystems
September 17, 2024 @ 08:00 – September 18, 2024 @ 17:00 CEST
The Planetary Biology Capability at SciLifeLab is pleased to announce its first conference and all-hands meeting on the theme “Linking molecules to ecosystems”. This event aims to integrate molecular and ecosystem-level research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration in planetary biology.
This two-day conference targets researchers addressing the pressing environmental, climate, and biodiversity challenges facing our planet today and will feature a diverse program, including inspirational talks, poster presentations, and interactive sessions. Participants will have the chance to pitch project ideas and explore potential collaborations, emphasizing cross-scale methodological approaches to advance our understanding of ecosystem interactions and functions.
Join us in Gothenburg in September!
Important information
- Free of charge conference!
- Deadline to submit abstracts: 16th August
- Deadline to register: 1st September
Interactive sessions
- Foster opportunities to develop collaborations. We encourage you to present a short (2-minute max) project idea pitch explaining where you see opportunities for collaboration to bridge the molecular and ecosystem scales.
- Overcome challenges in applying new technologies and cross-scale approaches to span from molecules to ecosystems. Are you intending to apply cutting-edge technologies to your research but find it challenging? Are there technical or methodological problems you need to solve? Let us know in the registration form so we can involve experts working on the 10 technology platforms at SciLifelab.
Confirmed speakers and Scientific focus
- Yannick Schwab (EMBL). Team Leader and Head of Electron Microscopy Core Facility
- Mads Albertsen (Aalborg University, Denmark). Method development within DNA sequencing related topics including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, amplicon sequencing and bioinformatic method development.
- Jurgen Schleucher (Umeå university). Biomolecular function from molecular scale to global scale.
- Laura Bristow (University of Gothenburg). Cycling of elements and microbial community function across oxic-anoxic interfaces.
- Per Stenberg (Umeå university). Evolution of cells, organisms, and entire ecosystems using DNA sequencing and computationally intensive data analysis methods.
- Sandra Jamtgard (Umeå Plant Science Centre, SLU). Ecophysiology of nitrogen use efficiency in plants and plant-soil interactions.
- Carina Bunse (University of Gothenburg). Functional microbial dynamics in the changing ocean.
- J.r. Marius Tuyishime (Functional Ecology, Lund University & MAX IV, Imaging). Synchrotron X-ray methods and their application to soil microbial ecology.
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