Program of the Conference

Tentative program of the conference. Will be updated as more information becomes available.

Tuesday, August 16th

Section II. Modern taxonomy of Cyanobacteria

moderator: Petr Dvořák

9:00 - 9:20

Nomenclature of Cyanobacteria under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

Aharon Oren

9:20 - 9:40

Cyanobacteria taxonomy: Problems and solutions in the electronic infosphere

Seán Turner

9:40 - 10:00

Taxonomic revision of cyanobacterial orders and families: state in 2022

Otakar Strunecký & Jan Mareš

10:00 - 10:20

Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:20 plenary talk

Advances in tropical cyanobacteria diversity

Marli F. Fiore

11:20 - 11:40

The Azores as a resource for new cyanobacteria taxa

Rúben Luz, Rita Cordeiro, Elisabete Dias, Amélia Fonseca, Jan Kaštovský, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Ralph Urbatzka, Vítor Vasconcelos & Vítor Gonçalves

11:40 - 12:00

Simple morphology, complicated taxonomy: the case study of Nostoc and Nostoc-like taxa

Prashant Singh

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch (included in fee)

Section II. Modern taxonomy of Cyanobacteria

moderator: Tomáš Hauer

13:30 - 13:50

Novel diversity of benthic cyanobacterial proliferations from the coasts of Florida (USA)

David E. Berthold, Forrest W. Lefler, Matthew Bertin, Paul V. Zimba, Maximiliano Barbosa & H. Dail Laughinghouse IV.

13:50 - 14:10

Opening the gap: Unexpected cyanobiont diversity in cyanolichens

Patrick Jung, Matthias Schultz, Burkhard Büdel & Michael Lakatos

14:10 - 14:30

Brief contribution to the taxonomy and phylogeny of the family Merismopediaceae – the plot thickens

Jan Pokorný, Lenka Štenclová & Jan Kaštovský

14:30 - 14:50

Coffee Break

14:50 - 15:10

Morphological and molecular characterization of marine genus Brachytrichia

Hilda León-Tejera, Laura González-Resendiz, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Gabriela Hernández-Pérez & José A. Martínez-Yerena

15:10 - 15:20

Use of the 16S-23S ITS region to delineate cyanobacterial species is complicated: the strange story of ribosomal evolution in Brasilonema

Chelsea D. Villanueva, Markéta Bohunická, & Jeffrey R. Johansen

15:20 - 15:40

Classification of Stenomitos (Leptolyngbyaceae): recognizing cryptic diversity with the description of seven new species

Jeffrey R. Johansen, Miranda K. Shetzer, Annick Wilmotte, Thomas Friedl & Josef Juráň

15:45 - 16:00

17:00

Individual social & cultural progam in the city - see mid-conference program + Pub Crawl