Dear Fellow Scientists,
International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria (ICTC) is a periodic summit of an international community focusing on the study of cyanotoxins and toxic cyanobacteria. Poland was chosen as the venue of the next ICTC by the participants of the conference in Wuhan in 2016. The five-day event includes interactive sessions and lively discussion panels which promote active scientific exchange and communication between scientists and students. This event will feature recent findings from leading academic experts in the field in the form of lectures and posters. Participants will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience from the experts on the subject and to network with other enthusiasts.
The theme of this year’s ICTC 11 is:
“Learning from the past to predict the future”
The event also includes excursions and off-site visits with the aim of giving the participants a wider insight about the heritage of Kraków and Małopolska region. The royal capital city of Kraków is the spiritual centre of Poland with rich heritage. Krakow’s Old Town, along with Wawel Castle and the city’s Kazimierz district found their place on the First World Heritage List, created by UNESCO in 1978. The city is home to Polish intellectual and artistic elites and is a magnet for the young. Students and young Polish professionals as well as a growing international community are drawn to the city.
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to attend the 11th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria to be held in Kraków, Poland from 5 to 10 May, 2019.
Chairman,
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee
Scientific Sessions
11th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria: Learning from the past to predict the future
- Detection, identification and diversity of toxic/invasive cyanobacteria
- Toxic cyanobacteria in the context of climate changes
- Ecology of cyanobacteria, abiotic and biotic factors in the regulation of cyanobacterial growth and/or toxin production (2 parts)
- Secondary cyanometabolites – structure, biosynthesis, physiological function, environmental significance and biotechnological application
- Cell physiology and molecular biology of cyanobacteria
- Toxicity and harmful effects of cyanobacteria and their metabolites
- Risk identification, water management and toxin removal
- New tools, new methods, most original findings and hypotheses
speakers
Bojana Žegura
Bojana Žegura currently works in the Department of genetic toxicology and cancer biology at the National Institute of Biology (NIB) and is Assistant professor in Toxicology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Diana Kirilovsky
Diana Kirilovsky has born in Buenos Aires. She obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).
Hanna Mazur-Marzec
Hanna Mazur-Marzec works at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, where she established the Division of Marine Biotechnology
Jef Huisman
Prof. Dr Jef Huisman works at the University of Amsterdam, where he is chair of the new department of Freshwater and Marine Ecology (FAME) of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED).
Kaarina Sivonen
Prof. Sivonen has studied toxic and bioactive compounds producing cyanobacteria since 1985.
Linda Lawton
Prof. Linda Lawton works at the Rober Gordon University in Aberdeen, where she is a Research Group leader in Cyanobacteria, cyanotoxins and algal biotechnology.
Muriel Gugger
Dr Muriel Gugger is cyanobacteriologist in charge of the Pasteur culture collection of Cyanobacteria (PCC) at Institut Pasteur. She studies the evolution and the bioactive compounds of the Cyanobacteria using the richness and diversity of the PCC as a tool for her research.
Steven Wilhelm
Steven Wilhelm is the Kenneth and Blaire Mossman Professor & Associate Head of the Department of Microbiology.
Susie Wood
Susie Wood obtained her PhD from Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand) in 2006 specialising in cyanobacterial blooms and toxins.
Committees
Scientific Committee:
- Maria Antoniou, Cyprus
- Sandra Azevedo, Brasil
- Ludek Blaha, Czech Republic
- Michele Burford, Australia
- Wayne Carmichael, USA
- Geoff Codd, Scotland
- Elke Dittmann, Germany
- Tim Downing, South Africa
- Dariusz Dziga, Poland
- Ambrose Furey, Ireland
- Elizabeth Hilborn, USA
- Jean F. Humbert, France
- Tri Kaloudis, Greece
- Rainer Kurmayer, Austria
- James Metcalf, USA
- Jussi Meriluoto, Finland
- Shin-ichi Nakano, Japan
- Philip Orr, Australia
- Hans Paerl, USA
- Antonio Quesada, Spain
- Lirong Song, China
- Sigitas Sulcius, Lithuania
- Nico Salmaso, Italy
- Kaarina Sivonen, Finland
- Zorica Svircev, Serbia
- Petra Visser, The Netherlands
Local Organizing Committee:
- Dr hab. Dariusz Dziga, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
- Dr hab. Iwona Jasser, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
- Dr hab. Mikołaj Kokociński, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
- Prof. Joanna Mankiewicz-Boczek, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz
- Prof. Hanna Mazur-Marzec, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography , University of Gdańsk
- Prof. Barbara Pawlik-Skowrońska, Faculty of Biology, Animal Sciences and Bioeconomy, University of Life Sciences, Lublin
- dr Anna Toruńska-Sitarz, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography , University of Gdańsk
Oral sessions - Preliminary Agenda
( update : 16 04 2019 )
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