Program NENUN workshop, Helsinki 12th – 14th May 2014
The venue is Biocenter 3, Viikinkaari 1, Room 2402, ‘Telkän pönttö’
Monday May 12th
Registration and packed lunch 12-13.00
13.00 Opening of NENUN meeting 2014 by Kirsten and Kim
13.15 Carsten Suhr Jacobsen: Former and future activities in NENUN
Functional genes – hydrocarbons and biodegradation
13.30: Kirsten Jørgensen (Finnish Environment Institute): PAH degradation and PAH-ring hydroxylating dioxygenase (PAH-RHDα) genes in soils and sediments
13.50: Louise Feld (GEUS): Detection and quantification of degradation genes for phenoxyacid pesticides
14.10: Sajan Raju (University of Helsinki): Catabolic potential of alphaproteobacteria from the genome perspective
14.30: Aura Nousiainen (Finnish Environmental Institute): Radioisotope methods in expression studies of atrazine degradation
14.50-15.15 CAMPUS WALK and coffee break
15.15-16.15: Olivia Mason (Florida State University, USA): Microbial response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
16.15-16.30 CAMPUS WALK back to own meeting room.
16.30: Antje Gittel (Århus University): Anaerobic oxidation of short-chain hydrocarbons in marine sediments: identification of microbial key players by functional gene assays and their application in oil & gas exploration
16.50: Mette Haubjerg Nicolaisen (University of Copenhagen) Significance of environmental stress for catabolic gene expression
16.50 – 17.00 Wrap of the afternoons program – : Kim Yrjälä
17.00. – 18.15 get-together at the University
Possibility for Sauna at the Finnish Environment Institute close to the hotel.
Tuesday May 13th
9.00 Announcements by Kim and Kirsten
Methods in functional gene analysis
9.15 Jacob Bælum (DTU) Methods for studying functional genes in microbial communities – from qPCR to shot gun sequencing
9.50 Natalie Lim (Norwegian University of Life sciences) The order of downstream enzymatic processes strongly affects the quality of soil-extracted nucleic acids used for metagenomics and metatranscriptomics analyses
10.10 Manu Tamminen (University of Helsinki) Making genomics small: single genome barcoding and targeted sequencing
10.30 – 11.00 coffee break
11.00: Stefan Bertilsson (Uppsala University): Single cell genomics in environmental microbiology
11.20: Alexander Eiler (Uppsala University): GEFES: Pipeline for metagenomic assembly and annotation
11.40: Wrap up of the mornings program – Kasper Kjeldsen
Lunch at noon, 12.00 In Gardenia restaurant (http://www.gardenia-helsinki.fi/lounasravintola.htm)
13.15 – 13.50 . Kim Yrjälä (University of Helsionki): Functional genes and phylogeny, who are the hosts or are they just ghosts?
Functional genes – inorganic geochemistry
13.50 Vaibhav Diwan (DTU): Functional gene approach to study nitrifier diversity
14.10 Jaak Truu (University of Tartu): Microbial community structure and abundance of functional genes related to nitrogen transformation processes in different treatment wetlands
14.30 Kasper Urup Kjeldsen (University of Århus): Dissimilatory bisulfite reductase (dsrAB) as a functional marker gene for sulfate-reducing microorganisms
14.50 – 15.00 coffee break
15.00: Christopher Jones (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences): Biodiversity and N2O emissions – a functional gene perspective
15.20: Yun-Feng Duan (Kevin) (University of Århus): Community of denitrifying bacteria and nitrous oxide emissions in Danish grassland soils
15.40: Mette Marianne Svenning (Tromsø University): Methane oxidising bacteria in Arctic and Sub-Arctic peatlands
16.00: Marja Tiirola (University of Jyväskylä): Functional analysis of uncultivated microbes using radioisotope probing new ERC project “Micro-RIP”
16.20 Wrap of the afternoons program – Åsa Frostegaard
End of second day around 16.30
Evening dinner on Suomenlinna fortress island
http://www.hel.fi/hki/HKL/sv/F_rjetrafiken+till+Sveaborg
Departure ca. 18.30 from the Kauppatori (market place) harbor
Wednesday May 14th
Start at 9 am
9.15 Oliver Muller (University of Bergen) Microbial communities in arctic environments ? Combining molecular methods and carbon flux analysis to study the impact of changes on biogeochemical processes
9.35: Windi Muziasari (University of Helsinki): Distribution of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Baltic Sea sediments using qPCR array
9.55: Ole Nybroe (University of Copenhagen) Development of bioreporters in P. putida mt-2 to study oxidative stress responses
10. 15 Discussion about making use of current network for applications (Norden, Horizon 2020, Cost, other EU funds). Discussions in smaller groups.
12.00 Ending of meeting and packed lunch
12.00-13.30 Steering group meeting