Scientific Sessions
11th International Conference of Toxic Cyanobacteria: Learning from the past to predict the future
- 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:
Local Organizing Committee:
- dr Anna Toruńska-Sitarz, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography , University of Gdańsk