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A New View of Plankton in the Global Ocean: Celebrating 10 Years of Tara Oceans

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This conference focuses on new fields of plankton science enabled by 10 years of Tara Oceans research. It aims to increase the impact of knowledge from these datasets and foster collaborations among aquatic microbial ecologists, evolutionary biologists, oceanographers, cell and molecular biologists, and geneticists.

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Event details

Dates
1 September 2026 to 4 September 2026
Location
EMBL Advance Training Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Address
EMBL, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Organiser
EMBL Heidelberg

Agenda themes

Topics covered

  • Science & Research
  • IT & Technology

On stage

Speakers

  • A. Murat ErenUniversity of Oldenburg Germany
  • Éric KarsentiEMBL Heidelberg Germany
  • María del Carmen Muñoz-MarínUniversity of Córdoba Spain
  • Nicole DubilierMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Germany
  • Angela FalciatoreSorbonne University France
  • Matthias FischerMax Planck Institute for Medical Research Germany
  • Jed FuhrmanUniversity of Southern California USA
  • Stephen GiovannoniOregon State University USA
  • Mahwash JamySwedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden
  • Eugene KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) USA
  • Naomi LevineUniversity of Southern California USA
  • Xin LinXiamen University China
  • Katja MetfiesAlfred Wegener Institute Germany
  • Victoria OrphanCalifornia Institute of Technology France
  • Manu PrakashStanford University USA
  • Michael RappéUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa USA

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Sponsors and partners

  • Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies (FlowCam)
  • Advanced Biology
  • BioEssays
  • ChemBioChem
  • EMBO Reports
  • FEBS Press
  • Medinformatics
  • Open Biology

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