Scientific Program
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
8.30 Welcome
Symposium:
Protist Evolution and Phylogeny (in Memory of Andrč Adoutte)
Conveners: F. Dini (Pisa), E. Piccinni (Padova)
9.00-13.00, Lecture Hall 1. 15.00-16.50, Lecture Hall 1
9.00 R. Perasso (Paris, France): Andrč
Adoutte: a pioneer in the protist phylogenetic tree building.
9.30 T. Cavalier-Smith (Oxford, UK): Protist
phylogeny and the high-level classification of Protozoa.
10.00 M.
Schlegel (Leipzig, Germany): The species problem in protozoa revisited.
10.30 J. Wright (York, UK):
Choanoflagellates – a STEPP in animal evolution.
10.45 B.
Leadbeater (Birmingham, UK): Evolutionary relationships within the
Choanoflagellida: molecular and
morphological approaches.
11.00 Coffee-Break
11.30 D.
Lynn (Guelph, Canada): Molecules or morphology – how do we identify the
major clades of ciliate evolution?
12.00 C. Bardele (Tubingen, Germany): A
scenario of ciliate evolution.
12.30 H. Endoh (Kanazawa, Japan): Phylogenetic position
of opalinids and an evolutionary pathway to ciliates.
12.45 C. Berney (Geneva,
Switzerland): A molecular perspective on the phylogeny of amoeboid
protists.
13.00 Lunch
15.00 W. Foissner (Salzburg, Austria): Endemic
ciliates (Protozoa Ciliophora) from tank bromeliads: taxonomic and ecological
implications.
15.30 G. Petroni (Pisa, Italy): Phylogenetic
analysis of genera within the class Heterotrichea (Ciliophora) based on small
subunit rRNA gene sequences.
15.50 S.
Agatha (Salzburg, Austria): A proposed phylogentic system for the order
Strombidiida Jankowski, 1980 (Protozoa, Ciliophora) based on morphological and
ontogenetic features.
16.10 K. Xu (Salzburg,
Austria): From the temporary cytostome towards a permanent cytopharynx: a
new evolutionary line in Spathidiid Gymnostomes (Ciliophora).
16.30 H. Berger (Salzburg,
Austria): Redefinition of Holosticha wrzesniowski, 1877 (Ciliophora,
Hypotricha).
16.50 Coffee-Break
Symposium: Protist Behavior
(in Memory of Nicola Ricci)
Conveners: R. Banchetti (Pisa), A. Miyake (Camerino)
17.15-19.35,
Lecture Hall 1
17.15 R. Banchetti (Pisa, Italy): Ethology of ciliates: a
naturalistic survey exploited by Nicola Ricci.
17.35 T. Preston (London, UK): The water-air interface: a microhabitat for amoebae.
18.00 V. Leick (Copenhagen, Denmark): Protein phophorylation
and chemosensory adaptation during chemoattraction in Tetrahymena
thermophila.
18.20 L. Kőhidai(Budapest, Hungary):
Tactics and strategy in chemotaxis.
18.40 A. Miyake (Camerino, Italy):
Discharge of extrusomes as defensive behaviour in ciliates.
19.00 K. Hausmann (Berlin, Germany): Behavioural and
ultrastructural aspects of food acquisition and food uptake in protists.
20.00 Dinner
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Symposium: Cytoskeleton and
Cell Motility
Conveners: C.
Miceli (Camerino), F. Verni (Pisa)
8.30-13.00,
Lecture Hall 1
8.30 J.
Beisson (Paris, France): Tubulins and centrins in basal body biogenesis.
9.00 K. Gull (Oxford, UK):
The cytoskeleton of Trypanosoma brucei: gene function to cytotactic
morphogenesis
9.30
J.
Gaertig (Athens, USA):
Tubulin glycylation affects ciliary and cortical microtubular organelles in an opposite manner.
10.00 J. Kloetzel (Baltimore, USA): Articulins come in different
flavors: the case of alveolar plate proteins (plateins) in Euplotes.
10.30 B. Leadbeater (Birmingham, UK): Lorica assembly
in Choanoflagellates: a game with rules!
10.50 Coffee Break
11.15 P. Satir (New York, USA): Control of
ciliary motility: a unifying hypothesis.
11.45 L. H. Bannister (London, UK): Malaria: 3-dimensional
ultrastructural evidence for actin, myosin and microtubule involvement in
gliding motility during Plasmodium knowlesi merozoite invasion of
red blood cells.
12.05 A. R. Dluzewski (London, UK): The
multiple myosins of malaria.
12.20 C. King (London, UK): Modelling apicomplexan motility using
gregarine protozoans.
12.40 T. Suzaki (Kobe, Japan): Relationship between cell body
movement and vitamin B12 deficiency in Euglena gracilis.
13.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00 Poster Sessions: No. 1 and No. 2
Symposium: Protist Diversity in, and Adaptation to
Extreme/Unusual Environments
Conveners: G. Santangelo (Pisa), A. Valbonesi (Camerino)
16.00-18.30,
Lecture Hall 1
16.00 B. Finlay (Dorchester, UK): Is microbial diversity
fundamentally different from biodiversity of larger animals and plants? (Part
1).
16.20 T. Fenchel (Copenhagen, Denmark): Is microbial diversity fundamentally different from biodiversity of larger animals and plants? (Part 2).
16.40 J. Laybourn-Parry (Nottingham, UK): Antarctica – Where
protists and other micro-organisms rule.
17.10 D. McL. Roberts (London, UK):
Eukaryotes from extreme environments: a review.
17.30 S. Epstein (Nathan, USA): 18S rDNA diversity in anoxic environments and the meaning of OTU.
17.50 S. J. Coupe (Coventry, UK): Microbial biodiversity and colonisation of biofilms in permeable pavements.
18.10 W. Petz (Salzburg, Austria): Ciliate biodiversity in Antarctic and Arctic freshwater habitats - bipolar comparison.
Symposium: Morphogenesis and
Protein/Membrane Traffic
Conveners: G. Chessa (Genova), P. Ramoino (Genova)
16.00-18.30,
Lecture Hall 2
16.00 M. Jerka-Dziadosz (Warsaw, Poland): Building a polarized
cortex in ciliates: expression of polarity protein in basal body duplication
and specification of body plan.
16,30 P. Dupuis-Williams (Paris, France): Functional analysis in Paramecium tetraurelia of new tubulins involved in basal body organization.
16.50 R. Kissmehl (Konstanz, Germany): The Paramecium
genome does contain the classical repertoire of genes necessary for the docking
and membrane fusion machinery of higher eukaryotic cells.
17.20 E. Wyroba (Warsaw, Poland): Molecular evidence for the conservancy of the endocytic machinery in single-celled eukaryote Paramecium.
17.50 G. Margos (London, UK): Micronemal localization, trafficking and function of the candidate malaria vaccine immunogen AMA-1.
18.10 J. Tröger (Berlin, Germany): Morphology and morphogenesis of
the ciliate Didinium cf. nasutum.
19.00 Dinner
21.30 Concert
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
Symposium: Genome Organization
and Gene Expression
Conveners: A. La Terza (Camerino), E. Piccinni
(Padova)
8.30-11.00,
Lecture Hall 1
8.30 K.
Heckmann (Münster, Germany): The mechanism by which stop codons are
recognized in eukaryotes: a hypothesis.
9.00 E. Meyer (Paris, France): RNA-mediated
programming of developmental genome rearrangements in Paramecium.
9.20 H. Lipps (Witten, Germany): The
organization of the end-replication machinery in spirotrichous ciliates – the
use of RNAi to exploit the biological function of genes of spirotrichs.
9.40 J. Forney (Purdue, USA):
Developmentally regulated DNA elimination in Paramecium tetraurelia.
10.00 T. Noto (Kanazawa,
Japan): Programmed DNA excision in the dicyemid mesozoans: implication for
genome down-sizing during early development.
10.20 E.
Piccinni (Padova, Italy): Identities and differences of Tetrahymena
metallothioneins: evolutionary relationships.
10.40 A. La Terza (Camerino, Italy): Regulative elements of
stress genes in Euplotes and Tetrahymena.
11.00 Coffee Break
Symposium: Genomics and
Proteomics
Conveners: M. Gramiccia (Roma), C. Miceli (Camerino)
11.15-13.40,
Lecture Hall 1
11.15 E. Orias (Santa Barbara, USA): Tetrahymena thermophila’s
cromosome breakage junctions: role in the genome-sequencing project and
evidence for junction duplications.
11.40 L.
Sperling (Paris, France): Paramecium Megabase chromosome project.
12.05 D. F. Smith (London, UK): Proteomic
analysis of Leishmania differentiation.
12.35 F. Tosini (Roma, Italy):
Identification of genes and proteins expressed in sporozoite stage of Cryptosporidium
parvum using a histidine-tagged peptide library.
13,00 A. Tiedtke (Münster, Germany): Genetic and biochemical
analysis of phagosome biogenesis in Tetrahymena thermophila.
13,20 G. Herrick (Salt Lake City, USA): Purifying selection acting
on TBE and Tec transposon genes: an explanation (trait group selection) and a
test (transposon-tag censusing).
13.40 Lunch
Symposium: Symbiotic Protists
and Symbionts of Protists
Conveners: G.
Rosati (Pisa), P. Rappelli (Sassari)
16.00-19.00,
Lecture Hall 1
16.00 J. Hackstein (Nijmegen, Netherland): Allopatric vs
sympatric speciation in symbiotic ciliates.
16.30 H.-D. Görtz (Stuttgart, Germany): Some
recently found bacteria in ciliates.
17.00 S. I. Fokin (St. Petersburg, Russia): Bacterial
endocytobionts of Ciliophora: diversity and interactions with the host.
17.20 G. Rosati (Pisa, Italy): Well
established, mutualistic associations between ciliates and prokaryotes might be
more widespread and diversified than so far supposed.
17.40 M. Rautian (St
Petersburg, Russia): Triple symbiotic system of Paramecium bursaria
– Chlorella –Chlorella viruses: a study by means of pulsed field
gel electrophoresis.
18.00 V. Dovgal (Kiev, Ukraine): On the
variability of some sessile infusoria.
18.20 A. Maass (Berlin, Germany): Light-
and electron-microscopic investigation of the
flagellate community in the hindgut of the
termite Neotermes cubanus.
18.40 P. Rappelli (Sassari, Italy): Enhancement of in vitro
pathogenicity by Trichomonas vaginalis following acquisition of Mycoplasma
hominis symbionts.
Symposium: Sex and Ageing
Conveners:
M. U. Delmonte Corrado (Genova), C. Ortenzi (Macerata)
16.00-17.50,
Lecture Hall 2
16.00 T. Harumoto (Nara, Japan): Characterization and expression
of gamone 1, the conjugation-inducing substance, in the ciliate Blepharisma
japonicum.
16.30
M. U. Delmonte Corrado (Genova, Italy): Identification
of a 38 KDa glycoprotein candidate for promoting mating interactions in Paramecium
primaurelia.
16.50 E. Przybos (Krakow, Poland): Syngens of Paramecium jenningsi
revealed by classical genetical studies and RAPD analysis.
17.10 K.
Mikami (Sendai, Japan): Reprogramming of the maternal macronucleus in the
gene expression of sexual immaturity by new macronucleus after conjugation of Paramecium
caudatum, analysed by nuclear transplantation.
17.30 C. Ortenzi (Macerata, Italy): Cell ageing and pheromone
oxidation in Euplotes.
20.00 Dinner
21.30 Round Table: The
Future of Protistology/Eukaryotic Microbiology/Protozoology as Disciplines
Conveners: F. Dini (Pisa),
L. Gradoni(Roma), P. Luporini (Camerino)
21.30 Introduction by: Michael Sleigh (Editor of The European Journal of Protistology), Denis Lynn (Editor of The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology), Wilhelm Foissner (Editor of Wildlife Monographs).
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The Round Table on "The Future of Protistology/Eukaryotic Microbiology/Protozoology as Disciplines" has been organized with the hope that delegates to the Congress might be able to generate and distribute a clear message that protists are not just appendages of the animal, plant and fungal kingdoms, but represent a different sector of the living world and deserve their own space in teaching (and research) independent of Botany, Mycology and Zoology. The feedback of this message will hopefully be an increased general appreciation of the relevance that protists have in studies of evolution, ecology (including parasitology) and biology, as well as an increased support of the view that animals, plants and fungi are merely the most obvious results of the evolution of protists. One aspect relates to the unity of our subject. Many of us have accepted that we should look at all of these "lower eukaryotes" collectively and without bias, with those coming from zoological backgrounds having knowledge about autotrophic members and groups and those with botanical training including the heterotrophic, and even phagotrophic, members in their sphere of interest. This view has led to the success of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, and to attempts to broaden coverage and integrate interests by the naming of journals – the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology and the European Journal of Protistology, among others. But this still has a limited effect. There seems to be a willingness from many protozoologists to accept this view, but a less positive response from phycologists. Perhaps the continuing debate about how protists should be allocated to kingdoms unsettles people. Unless we can convince other biologists who study protists to take a broader view, how can we convince the wider range of biologists and beyond these the policy makers concerned with the direction and funding of teaching and research ? It is clear that protists are of recognised importance and are intensively studied by specialists in such subject areas as cell and molecular biology, ecology and parasitology because of their particular attributes or roles. Indeed protists often provide excellent material for specific types of research. As a result the research findings tend to be published in the specialist journals dealing with these subject areas rather than in specifically protistological journals. This is, of course, a good way of spreading understanding of the particular attribute of or role played by the protist involved, but it does little to help recognition of the special characteristics of protists sensu lato. Indeed, these are often "played down" in order to gain acceptance of the work as of general interest. Perhaps those of us who publish in these areas could do more to emphasise the particular reasons for using protists, or the uniqueness of their roles, so as to reinforce the contention that the study of protists is important. To provide some structure to the discussion the following four themes have been identified :
It has been planned to allocate about 20 minutes to discussion of each theme. For each theme two or three people have been invited to speak for no more than 5 minutes on their experiences or aspirations in relation to the advancement of the discipline of protistology, before opening the topic to general discussion.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2003
Symposium: Host-Parasite Relationships
8.30-10.30,
Lecture Hall 1
8.30 G. Milon (France): The parasitism of Leishmania
within the mammalian host: complex processes downstream and upstream the second
hematophagous insect host/vector.
9.00 N. Yarlett (New York,
USA): Novel synthetic polyamine analog chemotherapy of Chryptosporidium.
9.30 M. A. Gomez-Morales
(Roma, Italy): Cell mediated immune response in human cryptosporidiosis.
9.45 Y. S. Tokarev (St.
Petersburg, Russia): Interactions of Microsporidia with insect immune
system: infection of haemopoietic tissue and blood cell proliferation in
Orthoptera.
10.00 R. Madeiro (Rio de
Janeiro, Brasile): Modifications in colon adenocarcinoma cells (CACO-2)
junctional complex caused by the interaction with Trichomonas vaginalis.
10.15 A. Calderaro (Parma, Italy): Detection and identification
of the pathogenic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica and spirochaetes (Brachyspira
spp) in biopsies and faeces of a patient.
10.30 Coffee
Break
Symposium: Diagnosis and Control of
Opportunistic/Parasitic Protists
Conveners: M. C. Angelici (Roma), D.
Savoia (Torino)
11.00-13.30,
Lecture Hall 1
11.00 A. W. Pfaff (Strasbourg, France):
Immune responses to protozoan parasites.
11.30 J.
Dupouy-Camet (Paris, France): Molecular techniques for detection and
characterization of human parasitic Protozoa.
12.00 S. M. Cacciň (Roma, Italy): Diagnosis and taxonomy of
parasitic protozoa in the molecular age.
12.30 H. Pelloux (Grenoble, France): Congenital toxoplasmosis: a
protozoan infection still difficult to diagnose and treat.
13.00 M. C. Angelici (Roma, Italy): Molecular testing of
congenital toxoplasmosis by direct PCR on biological samples.
13.15 P. Rossi (Roma, Italy): Present situation and obstacles for
new developments of in vitro diagnostic tests for human protozoan
infections.
13.30 Lunch
Symposium: Signals, Modulation of Cell Activities, and
Transduction
Conveners: M. U. Delmonte Corrado (Genova), A. Vallesi (Camerino)
15.00-17.30,
Lecture Hall 1
15.00 B. H. Satir (New York, USA): Common signal transduction
features in exocytosis in Alveolata.
15.30 H.
Plattner (Konstanz, Germany): Calcium signalling in Paramecium.
16.00 S. Christensen (Copenhagen, Denmark): Signalling
components in sensory cilia of Tetrahymena.
16.30
S.
Bozzaro (Torino, Italy): Heterotrimeric G protein-dependent signalling networks regulating
chemotaxis and development of Dictyostelium cells.
16.50 P. Gualtieri (Pisa, Italy):
Fluorescence behaviour of Euglena photoreceptor.
17.10 P. Luporini (Camerino, Italy): Pheromone secretion in Euplotes evolution.
Symposium:
Ecology and Protists as Bioindicators
Conveners: P. Madoni (Parma), A. Viarengo (Alessandria), F. Verni (Pisa)
15.00-17.30,
Lecture Hall 2
15.00 A. Warren (London, UK): Ciliated
protozoa in aerobic wastewater-treatment processes: an interactive guide to
their identification and use as bioindicators.
15.30 J. Nilsson
(Copenhagen, Denmark): Effects of lanthanum on Tetrahymena resemble
those of zinc, also on cell motility – an interference with calcium metabolism?
15.55 J. C. Gutierrez (Madrid, Spain): Ciliates as a
potential source of cellular and molecular biomarkers for heavy metal
pollution.
16.25 G. Pesce (Alessandria, Italy): Cell
responses to environmental stressors in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.
16.45 M. Macek (Iztacala, Mexico): Protozooplankton of monomictic,
high altitude tropical lakes with an anoxic hypolimnion.
17.00 T. Weisse (Mondsee, Austria): Temperature adaptation in
oligotrich ciliates: the Meseres corlissi case study.
17.15 A. Smirnov (St. Petersburg, Russia): Microhabitats of
protists define their distribution pattern in the environment: the model of
“hidden community”.
17.30 Coffee Break
18.00-19.00
Poster Sessions: No. 3 and No. 4 (from 4.1 to 4.11)
19.00-20.00
Poster Sessions: No. 4 (from 4.12 to 4.22), No. 5 and No. 6
21.00 Social Dinner
Poster Sessions
No. 1 Phylogeny
and Taxonomy
1.1 F.
Burki, C. Berney, J. Pawlowski: Phylogenetic position of Gromia oviformis
Dujardin inferred from nuclear-encoded small subunit ribosomal DNA.
1.2 V.
Dovgal: New revised system of suctorian ciliates.
1.3 G.
F. Esteban, B. J. Finlay: Morphological diversity within ciliate
morphospecies.
1.4 J.
F. Fahrni, I. Bolivar, C. Berney, E. Nassonova, A. Smirnov, J. Pawlowski:
Phylogeny of lobose amoebae based on actin and small-subunit ribosomal RNA
genes.
1.5 R.
Frassanito, G. Guella, G. Di Giuseppe, M. Cantonati, M. Tardio, I. Mancini,
F. Dini: An integrated molecular approach to the study of the phylogeny and
of the secondary metabolism of the freshwater dinoflagellate Glenodinium
sanguineum.
1.6 M.
Holzmann, A. Habura, H. Giles, S. S. Bowser, R. Meisterfeld, J. Pawlowski:
Molecular diversity of freshwater and terrestrial Foraminifera.
1.7 Y.
Lei, W. Foissner: Ontogenesis in a spathidiid ciliate, Arcuospathidium
coemeterii (Ciliophora, Gymnostomatea).
1.8 D.
Longet, C. Berney, L. Zaninetti, J. Pawlowski: Phylogenetic position of the
Foraminifera revisited.
1.9 L.
Modeo, G. Rosati: Extrusomes in ciliates: A survey with phylogenetic
implications.
1.10 S.
Nikolaev, C. Berney, J. F. Fahrni, A. P. Mylnikov, N. B. Petrov, J.
Pawlowski: The twilight of sun-animalcules.
1.11 A. I. Asegurado Pérez, P. Quintela
Alonso, P. Ó. Santamaria Estépar, R. Anadňn. Alvarez, M. S. Ruiz Alvarez: Characterization of a new ciliate
species: Myxophyllum anadoni n. sp. (Protozoa, Ciliophora), an
endocommensal scuticociliate isolated from the respiratory chamber of the snail
Portugala inchoata (Pulmonata, Gastropoda, Mollusca).
1.12 S.
Polet, C. Berney, J. F. Fahrni, J. Pawlowski: Small subunit ribosomal RNA
sequences of Phaeodarea challenge the monophyly of Haeckel's Radiolaria.
1.13 E.
Steenkamp, J. Wright, S. Baldauf: The single-celled origins and early evolution
of animals and fungi.
1.14 J.
K. Török, R. Meisterfeld: A new aquatic Arcella species (testate
amoebae) in the European fauna.
1.15 R.
Gupta, K. Kamra, G. R. Sapra: A new oxytrichid (Ciliophora, Hypotrichida)
with a unique mode of multiple marginal row formation.
No. 2 Physiology
2.1 A.
Amaroli, F. Trielli, B. Bianco, S. Giordano, E. Moggia, M. U. Delmonte Corrado:
Effects of exposure to time-variant low frequency electromagnetic fields on Dictyostelium
discoideum.
2.2 F.
Boldrin, G. Santovito, E. Piccinni: Identification of a novel
copper-metallothionein in Tetrahymena thermophila.
2.3 F.
Buonanno, S. Hiro, H. Iio, A. Miyake: Cytotoxicity of climacostol and its
analogues.
2.4 E.
Callone, G. Guella, I. Mancini, F. Frontini, F. Dini: Liquid chromatography-tandem
mass spectrometry technique: a powerful tool
for fast and effective
dereplication of Protista’s secondary metabolites.
2.5 S.
T. Christensen, C. F. Guerra, A. Bell, P. Satir: Identification of a
guanylate cyclase in the sensory cilia of Tetrahymena thermophila.
2.6 B.
Di Pretoro, A. Vallesi, P. Luporini: Identification and gene cloning of a
MAPK-family member in Euplotes raikovi.
2.7 H.
Fabczak, K. Sobierajska, S. Fabczak: Cyclic nucleotide-dependent pathway
contributes to photophobic behavior of Stentor coeruleus.
2.8 W. Klopocka, M. J. Rédowicz: The
role of Rho-dependent kinase in actomyosin II activity and motility of Amoeba proteus.
2.9 L.
Kőhidai, G. Gál, S. Vazzoloretto, R. Banchetti: Effects of Euplotes Er-1 and Er-2
pheromones in Tetrahymena.
2.10 R. Komori, T. Harumoto, H. Fujisawa, Y.
Takagi: Isolation and characterization of a Paramecium tetraurelia mutant
that has long autogamy-immaturity.
2.11 N. Mizobuchi, K. Yokoigawa, T. Harumoto,
H. Fujisawa, Y. Takagi: Hydrogen peroxide and catalase are respectively the
paramecia-killing toxin in wheat-grass-powder infusion and the bacteria-derived
detoxifying substance.
2.12 M. Ognibene,
F. Trielli, C. Della Giovampaola, R. Focarelli, F. Rosati, M. U. Delmonte
Corrado: Characterization and purification
of a 38 KDa glycoprotein candidate to promote mating interactions in Paramecium
primaurelia.
2.13 G.
Santovito, O. Coppellotti, E. Piccinni, A. Cassini: Antioxidant responses to altered pO2 and cadmium exposure on Euplotes
rariseta, Antarctic and sub-Antarctic populations.
2.16 I. Taga , K. Mikami:
Nuclear apoptosis at gametogenesis in Paramecium caudatum.
2.17 F. Trielli, M. Ognibene, M. Passalacqua, C. Della Giovampaola, F. Rosati, M. U. Delmonte Corrado: Immunolocalization and immunoblot analysis of a 38 KDa glycoprotein candidate to promote mating interactions in Paramecium primaurelia.
2.18 X. Xu, K. Suzuki, M. Takahashi: Identification and localization of mating-type substances
in Paramecium caudatum.
2.19 S.
Pucciarelli, F. Marziale, P. Ballarini, C. Miceli: The g-tubulin of the Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii.
2.20 E.
Sabaneyeva: Rab 5 and Rab 7 in Paramecium caudatum (Ciliophora,
Protista).
3.1 L.
Alberti, A. Mattana, E. Mariotti, P. L. Fiori, P. Cappuccinelli: Platelets
and erythrocytes as targets during Acanthamoeba infections.
3.2 S.
El Manssory, I. A. El Naga, A. Negm, E. Amer: Influence of temperature and
salinity on the viability and infectivity of some intestinal protozoa.
3.3 S.
I. Fokin, M. Schweikert, M. Fujishima: Way of the ciliate Paramecium
multimicronucleatum defense against bacterial infection with Holospora
obtusa.
3.4 K.
O. Hovnanyan, M. K. Hovnanyan: Ultrastructural and enzymo-cytochemical
study on relationships between Entamoeba histolytica and host.
3.5 A.
Keppler, M. Schweikert, H-D. Görtz: Some
ultrastructural aspects of Eucoccidium dinophili in Dinophilus
gyrociliatus.
3.6 A. Mattana, G. Biancu, E. Mariotti, C.
Serra, G. Delogu, L. Alberti, P. L. Fiori, P. Cappuccinelli: In vitro
evaluation of cytopathogenicity and responsiveness to antimicrobial drugs of Acanthamoeba castellanii.
3.7 A.
Mattana, E. Mariotti, C. Serra, G. Delogu, L. Alberti, P. L. Fiori, P.
Cappuccinelli: Survival of Coxsakie virus in Acanthamoeba castellanii
cultivated in vitro.
3.8 G.
Omura, T. Suzaki: Degradative transformation of trichocysts to small
granules during re-infection of algae-free Paramecium bursaria with Chlorella.
3.9 M. A. Panaro, S. Lisi, M. Sisto,
R. Spinelli, L. Fumarola, O. Brandonisio: Infection with Leishmania
infantum inhibits actinomycin-induced apoptosis of U-937 cells.
3.10 G.
Santoni, M. Mosca, P. Scuppa, A. Habluetzel, P. Ballarini, L. Pasqualini, G.
Favia, F. Esposito: Expression of adhesion molecules and Toll-like
receptors on hepatocytes of Plasmodium infected mice.
3.11 D. Savoia, T. Allice, C. Avanzini, E.
Callone , G. Guella , F. Dini: Antileishmanial activity of Euplotin C, the
sesquiterpene taxonomic marker from the marine ciliate Euplotes crassus.
3.12 N. Skovorodkin, S. I. Fokin, E. Przybos:
New bacterial endocytobionts in the cytoplasm of Paramecium
multimicronucleatum and P. dodecaurelia from Hawaii.
3.13 G. Tordini, A. Braito, M. Zazzi: Nested-PCR on blood samples for the diagnosis of human
visceral leishmaniasis.
3.14 C. Vannini, G. Petroni, F. Verni, G.
Rosati: A bacterial species belonging to the Rickettsiaceae family
inhabits the cytoplasm of a marine ciliate of the genus Diophrys
(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia).
3.15 R. Spinelli, M. A. Panaro, S. Lisi, M. Sisto, A. Acquafredda, L. Fumarola, O. Brandonisio: Reduced expression of the chemokine receptor CCR1 in human macrophages and U937 cells in vitro infected with Leishmania infantum.
No. 4 Ecology and Biogeography
4.1 P.
Quintela Alonso, I. Asegurado Pérez, P. Ó. Santamaria. Estépar; R. Anadňn. Alvarez, M. S. Ruiz
Alvarez:
Characterization of the
ciliated protozoan community present in two brackish coast lagoons of the
northwest of the Iberian peninsula (Galicia, Spain):
Lagoon of San Pedro de Muro and lagoon of Vixán.
4.2 K. A. S. AL-Rasheid: A review of marine interstitial ciliates from the
Arabian Gulf and its offshore islands with notes on their ecological status and
recovery after two devastating Gulf wars.
4.3 I. Andreoli, L. Modeo, M. Masetti, F. Verni: Further investigations on predator–prey model Litonotus lamella-Euplotes crassus.
4.4 A. Balbo,
E. Bracco, S. Bozzaro: Exploiting Dictyostelium as biomarker for
contaminated soil and water.
4.5 A. Beran, S.
Fonda Umani: How does microzooplankton
influence heterotrophic picoplankton in summer in the Northern Adriatic Sea?
4.6 N. Bojani: Seasonal changes in density and biomass of
ciliated protozoa in the eutrophicated part of Kaštela Bay (Middle Adriatic).
4.7 L. Bongiorni, A. Pusceddu, R. Danovaro: Benthic
thraustochytrid fungi-like protists and heterotrophic nanoflagellate response
to organic deposits due to a fish farm.
4.8 E. G. Boshko: Peritrichous ciliates (Ciliophora,
Peritrichia) from genus Mantoscyphidia
Jankowski, 1980 and their distribution in the Ukraine.
4.9 W. Foissner, M. Strüder-Kypke, G. Van
Der Staay, S.-Y. Moon, J. H. P. Hackstein: Endemic ciliates (Protozoa,
Ciliophora) from tank bromeliads: a combined morphological and gene sequence
study.
4.10 M.
G. Chessa, F. Trielli, A. Amaroli, L. Gallus, S. Ferrando, M. U. Delmonte Corrado: Colpoda inflata: a soil single-cell model to study organism-environment
interactions.
4.11 A. V. Kurilov:
Ciliated protozoa from coastal waters of the North-Western Black Sea.
4.12 I. Naqvi, R. Gupta, G. R. Sapra: Free living soil ciliates from an urban area
in Delhi, India.
4.13 J. Pawlowski, M. Holzmann, J. Fahrni, A.
J. Gooday, T. Cedhagen, S. Korsun, A. Habura, S. S. Bowser: How closely
related are Arctic and Antarctic foraminiferans?
4.14 W. Petz, A. R. Leitner: How many
ciliate species in the Mediterranean Sea?
4.15 W. Petz, A. R. Leitner: How many
testate amoebae species (Lobosea; Testacealobosia; Filosea) in the
Mediterranean Sea?
4.16 A. Sabbatini, C. Morigi, M. Ravaioli, L.
Langone, A. Negri: Abyssal benthic Foraminifera in the Polar Front Region (Pacific
Sector): faunal composition, standing
stock and size structure.
4.17 A. Saccŕ, L. Guglielmo, V. Bruni:
Time-space distribution of flagellated and ciliated protozoa in the brackish
meromictic lake of Faro, Messina (Italy).
4.18 G. Santangelo, I. Andreoli, L. Mangini,
P. Lucchesi, F. Verni, G. Petroni: Ecological and phylogenetic relationships
among some interstitial karyorelictids of marine sandy shore.
4.19 A. Szabó: Comparative
protozoological analysis of coniferous and beech forests in Hungary.
4.20 L. M. Terenko: Dinoflagellates as monitoring object in the urban
area of the port of Odessa (Black Sea, Ukraine).
4.21 A. Smirnov and R. Thar: Spatial distribution of amoebae in marine and
freshwater bottom sediment
4.22 A.
Smirnov: Amoebae from the bottom sediment of the Nivĺ Bay (Baltic Sea, The
Sound): what is actually the “fauna of a local habitat”?
No. 5 Genetics
5.1 S.
Barchetta, A. La Terza, C. Miceli: Regulation of the hsp70 gene expression in Tetrahymena
thermophila.
5.2 C. del Fresno, A. Martín-González, J.
C. Gutiérrez: "End-End-PCR" method as a tool for macronuclear
genome analysis of stichotrich ciliates: new completely sequenced
minichromosomes.
5.3 E. Joachimiak, J. Kaczanowska, C.
Miceli: Expression of the g-tubulin gene of Tetrahymena
pyriformis during the cell cycle.
5.4 I. Nekrasova, A. Potekhin, E. Przybos,
M. Rautian: Comparative study of macronuclear genomes of the Paramecium
aurelia species complex by PFGE.
5.5 F. R. Opperdoes, V.
Hannaert, P. A. M. Michels: Revelations from the genomes, new drug targets
in trypanosomatids.
5.6 R. C. Peters, N. Ytow, D. McL. Roberts: Analysis of bias in environmental nucleic acid extraction.
5.7
S.
Diaz, D. Rico, A. Martín-González,
E. P. Hamilton, E. Orias, J.
C. Gutiérrez: Remarkable sequence conservation of Cd-inducible
metallothionein isoforms across ciliate groups.
No. 6 Morphology
6.1 W. Foissner: Deciliation
of ciliated Protozoa for scanning electron microscopy: a fast, simple method
using tensides.
6.2 P. Pomorski, J. Kolodziejczyk, A. Wasik,
L. Grébecka: Influence of nicotine on morphology and cytoskeleton of Amoeba
proteus.
6.3 B. Skotarczak: Electron microscopic
study of the vacuolar system in the Balantidium coli trophozoites.
6.4 M. Schweikert, M. Elbraechter: Ellobiopsis spec. (incertae sedis) a parasite of the
copepod Calanoides cf. carinatum, some ultrastructural
investigations.
6.5 F. Verni, L. Modeo: Litonotus
cygnus (Ciliophora, Haptoria): Morphology, ultrastructure and predatory
behaviour.
6.6 J. A. Kloetzel, M. Butler, A. Baroin-Tourancheau, A. Fleury-Aubusson, D. Banerjee: Sequence and properties of cagein, a coiled-coil scaffold protein linking basal bodies in Euplotes polykinetids.
6.7 A. Wasik, L. Grebęcka, A. Grebęcki: Fine structure of cell-substrate contacts of Amoeba Proteus
Session
No.
4: Ecology and Biogeography
A.
Bobrov, N. Chizhikova, A. Savel'ev:
Sphagnophilic
testate amoebae (Protozoa:Testacea) as indicator of Lake-Bog ecosystems evolution
A. A. Bobrov,
A.
A. Andreev, L. Schirrmeister, C. Siegert:
Species
diversity and adaptations of testate amoebae (Protozoa:Testacea) of high latitudes
(Northeast Arctic Region, Russia)
Session
No.
2 Physiology
G.
Scheidgen-Kleyboldt, K. Kuchta, T. Kiy, A.
Tiedtke:
Production
of secreted hydrolytic enzymes by continuous high-cell-density cultivation of
Colpidium campylum