PICODIVa European FP5 program
Monitoring the diversity of photosynthetic picoplankton in marine waters

PICODIV 2003 meeting (year 3):
24-28 March 2003
Oslo University, Norway

Local hosts
Jahn Throndsen and Wenche Eikrem

Program organizer
Daniel Vaulot (vaulot@sb-roscoff.fr)

Participants
Pictures
Program
Practical details
Final report information

Participants

Name

First Name

Eikrem

Wenche

Fuller

Nick

Groisillier

Agnès

Guillou

Laure

Hastings

Richard

Kerkmann

Katja

Klaveness

Dag

Latasa

Mikel

Massana

Ramon

Mazard

Sophie

Medlin

Linda

Not

Fabrice

Pedrós-Alió

Carlos

Scanlan

Dave

Shalchian-Tabrizi

Kamran

Throndsen

Jahn

Valentin

Klaus

Vaulot

Daniel

Program

PICODIV:Final meeting 
Tues 25 March 2003 Moderator: Vaulot Wpk 1: Cultures
  Valentin Picoplankton cultures from Helgoland
  Guillou and Massana Picoplankton cultures from Blanes
  Eikrem Picoplankton cultures from Oslo fjord and the Arctic
  Vaulot and Le Gall Picoplankton cultures from Roscoff and Status of the RCC collection
  Guillou and Massana Enrichment cultures followed by DGGE and gene cloning
  Moderator: Scanlan Wpk 2: Clone libraries
  Massana Clone libraries from Blanes
  Valentin Clone libraries from Helgoland
  Romari and Vaulot Clone libraries from Roscoff
  Moderator: Throndsen Wpk 1 and 2: Taxonomy and Phylogeny
  Scanlan and Fuller Synechococcus diversity
  Throndsen Picocyanobacteria
  Guillou Prasinophyceae diversity and phylogeny
  Latasa Prasinophyceae pigment diversity
  Rodriguez and Guillou Ostreococcus diversity and ecophysiology
  Valentin Novel 'Red' group
  Eikrem Florenciella ultra, a novel Dictyochophyte
Wed 26 March 2003 Shalchian-Tabrizi Telonema: phylogenetic analysis
Eikrem Telonema: ultrastructural analysis
  Eikrem Other novel species from PICODIV cultures
  Fuller Eukaryote culture plastid 16S analysis
  Moderator: Medlin Wpk 4: Probe methods
  Kerkmann DNA chips
  Medlin Locked nucleotides for probe construction (go to their web site)
  Zhu and Vaulot Quantitative PCR: current status
  Moderator: Kerkmann Wpk 3: Probe development and application
  Not Probes for the genus Micromonas
  Massana Novel Stramenopile probes
  Groisillier Alveolate probe development and first results
  Moderator: Pedrós-Alió Wpk 5: Time series and cruises
  Medlin General characteristic of the annual cycle at Helgoland (hydrology, chlorophyll, picoplankton, phytoplankton)
  Pedrós-Alió General characteristic of the annual cycle at Blanes (hydrology, chlorophyll,, picoplankton phytoplankton)
  Not General characteristic of the annual cycle at Roscoff (hydrology, chlorophyll,, picoplankton phytoplankton)
  Latasa Pigment analyses of time series at coastal stations
  Massana DGGE analysis of time series at coastal stations
Thu 27 March 2003 Hastings Cyanobacteria dot blot probe analysis of time series at coastal stations
  Mazard Cyanobacteria dot blot probe analysis during the PROSOPE cruise (Med Sea 1999)
  Not FISH analyses of time series at coastal stations
  Pedrós-Alió Results from the Arctic cruise (aug 2002)
  Pedrós-Alió Overview and first results from the Antarctic TEMPANO cruise (nov 2002)
  Not and Massana Planned cruise: Indian Ocean 2003
    Life after PICODIV
  Valentin ALGINET, a starting EU program
  Scanlan The MARGENES project
  Valentin The genome of Thalassiosira pseudonana
  Pedrós-Alió The BASICS project
    Final report preparation
  Vaulot Final report structure

Practical information

Final report information

Draft final report
Deadlines
Date
Item
March 15 Daniel sends structure of Final report
April 18 Participants send sequence data
April 18 (firm) Participants send individual reports
April 30 Participants send time series data
May 12 Daniel sends Final report to participants
May 23 Report leaves for Brussels
Instructions

Send comments/corrections to Daniel Vaulot