Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

9:00-10:00

PLENARY

Bob Creese & Tim Glasby: Caulerpa taxifolia: Research and control efforts in NSW

PLENARY

Brett A. Neilan : The evolution of cyanobacterial-algal toxin biosynthesis

10:00-10:15

COFFEE

COFFEE

10:20-10:35

SESSION 1:Macroagal Ecology

A.W.D. Larkum: Halimeda growth: greening in the dark

SESSION 4: Blooms and invasive species

Martina A. Doblin: The role of mesozooplankton grazing in harmful algal bloom dynamics

10:40-10:55

Guillermo Diaz-Pulido: Interactions between sedimentation, herbivory & propagule density on the ecology of algal recruitment in Colombian coral reefs

Julie A. Phillips: Blooms of the endemic filamentous brown alga Hincksia sordida on the subtropical east Australian coast.

11:00-11:15

Vergés, A: The importance of herbivory on the life history stages of a chemically defended red alga

Lucy Hurrey:  Growth of the Noosa nuisance alga Hincksia sordida, over variation in nitrogen availability

11:20-11:35

Alecia Bellgrove: Habitat restoration at polluted rocky shores following water quality remediation: competition with algal turfs

Dana Burfeind: The role of water quality on seagrass and Caulerpa taxifolia interactions

11:40-11:55

Prue McKenzie: Potential for long-distance dispersal in the important habitat-forming alga Hormosira banksii (Phaeophyceae: Fucales).

Lesley Rhodes: The diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia and the problematic “delicatissima group”

12:00-12:15

Jacqueline Pocklington: Examining the role of Hormosira banksii beds on Victorian rocky intertidal shores.  Potential as an Ecosystem Engineer?

Assaf Sukenik: On biotic and abiotic factors that support the bloom of diazotrophic cyanobacteria  – Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel, case study

12:20-1:20

LUNCH

LUNCH

1:20-1:35

Tracy Farr: Current studies on coralline algae in New Zealand, and the development of identification tools

SESSION 5: Taxonomy and systematics

Patterson, D J: Names based services and communal databases bring cohesiveness to a heterogeneous world of information about algae and other organisms

1:40-1:55

Tracy Farr: Steps towards an e-flora: new approaches to documenting New Zealand's macroalgal diversity

Yola Metti: The morphology and molecular phylogeny of the red algal genus Laurencia (Ceramiales, Rhodomelaceae) in NSW including Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands

2:00-2:15

SESSION 2: Symbiosis

Ranjeet Bhagooli: Variable thermal and/or light stress responses of photosystem II among different ITS2 types of cnidarian algal endosymbionts, Symbiodinium spp.

SESSION 6: BEAM network session: Physiology

John Beardall: Nutrient induced fluorescence transients in N- and P-starved chlorophyte microalgae

2:20-2:35

Ross Hill: Thermostability of Zooxanthellae Thylakoid Membranes: Seasonal Variation and Bleaching Sensitivity

John Beardall: Investigations into the macromolecular content of living single cells of microalgae using FTIR and Raman microspectroscopy

2:40-2:55

Rosalind Hinde: Host signal molecules that affect metabolism in symbiotic algae.

Long B.M: A biochemical study of carboxysomes from ß-cyanobacteria

3:00-3:15

REGISTRATION

Wiebke Nordmeier: Isolation and initial characterisation of symbiosome membrane proteins of Zoanthid robustus.

George S. Espie: Interaction and organization of proteins involved in the structure and function of cyanobacterial ccm-carboxysomes

3:20-4:00

REGISTRATION

COFFEE

COFFEE

4:00-4:15

REGISTRATION

SESSION 3: Microalgal Ecology

Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff: Marine Phytoplankton Bioregions in Australian Seas

K. Shelly: Interactions between UVB exposure and phosphorus nutrition on chlorophyll fluorescence in the chlorophyte microalga Dunaliella tertiolecta

4:20-4:35

REGISTRATION

Shauna Murray: Cryptic species and morphological plasticity in toxic microalgae

Jeff Cosgrove: Assessment of photoacclimation in Isochrysis galbana (Haptophyta) using variable chl-a fluorescence

4:40-4:55

REGISTRATION

Jacob John: Diatom assemblages as indicators of environmental change in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River Catchment, Sydney.

John Runcie: In situ relaxation kinetics of non-photochemical quenching of the macroalga Iridaea mawsonii in low- and high-light environments.

5:00-5:15

ASPAB AGM

Jens Rupprecht: Solar Bio-H₂ Production in Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

5:20-5:35

POSTER SESSION

5:40-5:55

POSTER SESSION

6:00-7:00

ICE BREAKER – Sydney Aquarium

PUBLIC LECTURE

John A Raven: Environmental change and primary productivity in the ocean

7:00-8:00

ICE BREAKER

8:00 CONFERENCE DINNER  at Marigold’s Restaurant