ABSTRACTS FROM SECTION MEETINGS 2003

(also available 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004)

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Society of Protozoologists

55th Annual Meeting

June 14-18 2003

Gleneden Beach, Oregon


Hutner Award Lecture

Scott, D.A.   The Densest of Organelles – Acidocalcisomes in Trypanosomatids and Other Micro-organisms


Past President's Address

Kloetzel, J.A.   Deconstructing the Euplotes Cortex


Contributed Papers

Armstrong, T.-N., Felton, C. & Coats, D.W.   Influence of Mixed Host Populations on Success of the Parasitic Dinoflagellate Amoebophrya

Bettarel, Y., Sime-Ngando, T. & Amblard, C.   Grazing by Heterotrophic Nanoflagellates on Virus - and Bacteria-sized Particles in two Lakes of Different Trophy

Brussaard, C.   Viral Control of Phytoplankton

Caron, D.A.   The Growing Contributions of Molecular Biology and Immunology to Protistan Ecology: Molecular Signatures as Ecological Tools

Corliss, J.O.   Why the World Needs Protists!

Cushion, M.T., Slaven, B.E., Sesterhenn, T. & Smulian, A.G.   Comparative Genomics of Pneumocystis and Other Protists: Implications for Life Style

Dacks, J.B., Davis, L.A.M., Sjögren, Andersson, J.O., Roger, A.J. & Doolittle, W.F.   An Early Origin of the Golgi Apparatus

Fayer, R., Lewis, E.J., Trout, J.M., Zhou, L., Xiao, L. & Howard, D.W.   Atlantic and Gulf Coast Multi-state Study of Cryptosporidium in Shellfish

Fritzinger, A.E., Toney, D.M. & Marciano-Cabral, F.   Identification and Characterization of a Naegleria fowleri Membrane Protein Cross-reactive with Anti-human CD59

Jardeleza, S.E. & Coats, D.W.   Morphological Variation in “Free-living” Stages of the Parasitic Dinoflagellate Amoebophrya

Kaneshiro, E.S., Basselin, M., Yarbrough, D.N. & Smulian, A.G.   The Pneumocystis SAM:SMT, an Atypical Fungal Enzyme Protein

Kim, E., Graham, J. & Graham, L. Cryptic Speciation of Peridinium limbatum

Leander, B.S.   Symbiotic Innovation in Streblomastix stix (Oxymonadida)

Lee, J. J., Cevasco, M, Byfield, C., Lee, S. & Médor, G.   Progress in Characterizing the Symbiodinium sp. in Sortid Foraminifera

Lenaghan, S. & Sundermann, C.   The Effects of Gamma-irradiation on Giardia lamblia Trophozoites

Lewis, S. B., Cooney, S. K., Marshall, L. E. & Coats, D. W.   Effect of Karlodinium micrum on Success of the Parasitic Dinoflagellate Amoebophrya sp.

Linton, E. W., Farmer, M. A. & Triemer, R. E.  Assessing Microalgal Morphology from Century-old Herbarium Sheets Using SEM

Lynn, D. H. & Strüder-Kypke, M. C.   Phylogenetic Relationships Among Species in the Genera Entodiscus, Plagiophyliella, Thyrophylax, and Entorhipidium, Scuticociliate Endosymbionts of Echinoids

Mayali, X. & Azam, F.   Do Algicidal Bacteria Significantly Influence the Dynamics and the Demise of Marine Algae Blooms?

McCutcheon, S. M., McLaughlin, N. B. & Buhse, H. E. Jr. Immunolocalization of Three Vorticella convallaria Centrins

McLaughlin, N. B., McCutcheon, S. M. & Buhse, H. E. Jr.   Characterization of Filament Systems in the Macrostomal Oral Apparatus of Tetrahymena vorax

Miller, J. J. & Coats, D. W.   Host Recognition and Penetration by the Parasitic Dinoflagellate Amoebophrya sp.

Park, M. G.   Parasites and Phytoplankton with Special Emphasis on Dinoflagellate Infections

Peglar, M. T., Gillevet, P. M., Anderson, O. R., Nerad, T. A., O'Kelly, C. J. & Sawyer, T. K.   Cultivation and Characterization of Amoeboid Protists Implicated in the Life Cycle of Pfiesteria piscicida and Related Dinoflagellates

Peglar, M. T., Amaral Zettler, L. A., Nerad, T. A., Anderson, O. R., Gillevet, P. M., Mullen, T. E., Frasca, S. Jr. & O'Kelly, C. J.   Two New Small-subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Lineages within the Subclass Gymnamoebia

Sengco, M. R. & Anderson, D. M.   Controlling Harmful Algal Blooms through Clay Flocculation

Simpson, A.G.B.   Excavata: Evolutionary Relationships amongst Supposedly Early-diverging Eukaryotes

Tillmann, U.   Interactions between Planktonic Microalgae and Protozoan Grazers

Triemer, R.E., Zimba, P.V. & Rowan, M.   Identification of Euglenoids that Produce Ichthyotoxin(s) (Euglenophyta)

Utz, L.R.P., Coats, D.W. & Small, E.B.   Telotroch Formation, Survivorship, and Attachment Success of the Epibiotic Peritrich Zoothamnium intermedium Precht, 1935

Young, J.R. & Probert, I.   Culture Collections as the Engine of Multidisciplinary Research on Protists - the Coccolithophores Tale

Zackroff, R.V. & Hufnagel, L.A.   Wortmannin, Phagocytosis, and Anti-actin Drug Resistance in Tetrahymena thermiphila

Ziemkiewicz, H.T., Johnson, M.D. & Smith-Sommerville, H.E.   Phytate Utilization by Tetrahymena



The Society of Protozoologists

East Coast Section

11th East Coast Protozoology Conference

June 8-10, 2003

Anderson, O.R.   Biotic Complexity, Niche Theory, and the Role of Stress in Eukaryotic Microbial Community Structure - A Focus on Amoeboid Protists

Bettarel, Y., Sime-Ngando, T. and Amblard, C.   Viral Lysis vs. Protistan Predation: A Long-term Study of Bacterial Losses in Two Lakes of Different Trophic Status

Ferguson, T.J., Powell, E. & Marciano-Cabral, F.   Inducible Cytokine Gene Expression by Microglia-like Cells in Response to a Clinical Isolate of Acanthamoeba

Kleydman, Y., Yarlett, N. & Gorrell, T.   Production of Ammonia by Tritrichomonas foetus and Trichomonas vaginalis

Langlois, G.R.   Protistan Communities of the Great Barrier Reef

Ravit, B., Champanerkar, J., Anderson, O.R., Blackmore, D., Haggblom, M., Kerkhof, L., Gorrell, T., Benoit, G. & Levandowsky, M.   Comparing Protistan Biocomplexity in Adjacent Salt Marsh Microhabitats in Winter and Summer: 3 Approaches

Maclean, R.C., Mensah, A.A., Lapat-Polasko, L. & Marciano-Cabral, M.   Identification of Naegleria fowleri in Domestic Water Sources by Nested PCR

McGugan, G. & Temesvari, L.   Examination of Virulence in an Entamoeba histolytica Mutant Expressing a Dominant Negative Rab11-like GTPase

Pecher, W.T., Robledo, J.A.F. & Vasta, G.R.   Perkinsus andrewsi Has Two Distinct rRNA Gene Units

Santin-Duran, M., Fayer, R. & Trout, J.M.   Epidemiology of Zoonotic Protozoa in Dairy Cattle and Wildlife in Eastern United States



British Section of the Society of Protozoologists

41st Annual Meeting

April 2003

Nottingham, UK


Plenary Speaker

Patterson, D.J.   The frightened Frontonia fled furtively from a Fuchsia forest fearful of the frenzied falcon


Contributed papers

King, C.A. & Bruce, D.R.   Consideration of changes in cell shape during cell motility events by Eimeria tenella sporozoites

Leadbeater, B.   Lorica assembly in choanoflagellates: a game with rules!

Symmons, S.A. & Gilbert, P.   Growth of Listeria monocytogenes within amoebae alters their antibiotic susceptibilities


Biogeography, biodiversity and conservation

Finlay, B.J.   Pinning down the ubiquity-biogeography transition

Charman, D.   Wanted dead or alive! Testate amoebae as indicators of environmental change

De Jonckheere, J.F. & Brown, S.   Morphological and molecular diversity of the vahlkampfiid amoebae

Wilkinson, D.M. & Smith, H.G.   Biogeography of testate amoebae – Does size matter?

Day, J.G.   Long-term maintenance of protists by cryopreservation: the problem of freeze-recalcitrance

Song, W.   On the Biodiversity and Cell Development of Ciliated Protozoa from Chinese Seas

Esteban, G.F. & Finlay, B.J.   Cyclidium glaucoma: a diverse wanderer

Esteban, G.F. & Finlay, B.J.   Cryptic diversity of ciliates in a hypersaline habitat reveals freshwater species

Brown, S. & De Jonckheere, J.F..   Ribosomal DNA sequence diversity within the ciliate species Cyclidium glaucoma

Coupe, S.J. & Smith, H.G.   Microbial biodiversity and colonisation of biofilms in permeable pavements


Symposium: Parasites on phylogenetic boundaries: A tribute to Elizabeth Canning
(sponsored by Schering Plough Aquaculture)

Vickerman, K.   What Elizabeth Canning and her protozoa have taught us

Embley, T.M.   Microsporidia: From early branching eukaryotes to relatives of fungi

Tops, S. & Okamura, B.   Buddenbrockia plumatellae, the most mysterious myxozoan?

Feist, S.   Myxosporean infections in fish with emphasis on malacosporidiosis (PKD) of salmonids

Vivares, C.   The 'microsporidial world' and a tribute to Liz Canning

Smith, J., Terry, R. & Dunn, A.   Divergence or Convergence ? microsporidian biodiversity and evolution

Dunn, A., MacNeil, C., Terry, R.S., Smith, J.E., Hatcher, M.J. & Dick, J.T.A.   Do microsporidia mediate biological invasions?

Markus, M.B.   What is the "Monozoic Cyst" of Isospora belli in HIV/AIDS?



German Section Society of Protozoologists

22nd Annual Meeting

March 2003

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

in connection with the

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY OF CILIATES AND ANAEROBIC PROTOZOA


Xu, K. & Foissner, W.   Spathidiid Ciliates – A Re-evaluation of Their Morphological Diversity

Agatha, S., Strüder-Kypke, M. & Beran, A.   Redescription and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Supposedly Well-known Marine Planktonic Ciliate Laboea strobila Lohmann, 1908 (Ciliophora, Oligotrichia), with Notes on its Cultivation, Ecology, and Ontogenesis

Lynn, D.H., Wright, A.D. & Strüder-Kypke, M.C.   A Revised Molecular Phylogeny of the Trichostome Ciliates of Ruminants and Other Vertebrates And Their Free-living Haptorian Relatives (Phylum Ciliophora, Class Litostomatea)

Strüder-Kypke, M. & Lynn, D.H.   Morphological Versus Molecular Data - Phylogeny of Oligotrich Ciliates, Inferred from SSrRNA Gene Sequences



Groupement des Protistologues de Langue Française (GPLF)

41st Annual Meeting

2003

France


Platform

Bouladoux, N., Briquet, S. & Desportes-Livage, I.   Role of Gamma Interferon in Cytokine and Chemokine Expression in the Duodenum of Mice following Oral Infection with the Microsporidium Encephalitozoon intestinalis

Daulouede, S., Gobert, A., Duleu, S., Courtois, P., Labassa, M. & Vincendeau, P.   Arginase induction by Trypanosoma brucei brucei

Delbac, F., Peuvel, I., Brosson, D., Méténier, G. & Vivarès, C.P.   Cell Invasion and Polar Tube Proteins in Encephalitozoon spp

Faye, N., Yeramian, E., Cornillot, E., Toguebaye, B.S. & Vivares, C.P.   Subtelomeres in the microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi: regionalization and mosaic organization

Gissot, M., Refour, P., Briequet, S., Boschet, C. & Vaquero, C.   Study of 3D7 and F12 Clone Transcriptome, a Beginning for Comprehension of Induction of the Sexual Cycle in Plasmodium falciparum

Lemullois, M., Fryd-Versavel, G. & Fleury-Aubusson, A.   Localization of Centrins 1, 2 and 3 in the Hypotrich Ciliate Paraurostyla weissei

Mansour, L., Ben Hassine, O.K., Vivares, C.P. & Cornillot, E.   Relationship between cysts development and genome dynamics in Spraguea lophii (Microspora)

Pesce, S., Fajon, C., Mailhot, G., Bardot, C., Bonnemoy, F. & Portelli, C.   Impact of Diuron and its Transformation Products on Activity and Diversity of Phytoplanktonic and Bacterial Communities in Freshwater Microcosms

Villalobo, E., Moch, C., Fryd-Versavel, G., Fleury-Aubusson, A. & Morin, L.   Cysteine proteases and cell differentiation: the case of the excystment process during the life cycle of the ciliated protist Sterkiella histriomuscorum

Yang, T., Lescasse, R., Villalobo, E., Moch, C., Grisvard, J., Morin, L., Perasso, R. & Baroin-Tourancheau, A.   Multigene-Molecules in Hypotrichs: the example of Sterkiella histriomuscorum (formerly Oxytricha trifallax)


Poster

Arraj, A., Traore, O., Bohatier, J., Laveran, H. & Guyot, S.   Comparison of the Kinetics of Elimination of Bacteriophages and Enteric Viruses in Activated Sludge Laboratory Pilots

Bonnet, J.L., Dusser, M., Laffosse, J. & Bohatier, J.   Effect of One Environmental Pollutant, Anthracene Towards a Freshwater Ciliated Protozoan: Tetrahymena pyriformis

Briquet, S., Boschet, C., Gissot, M. & Vaquero, C.   Molecular Analysis of Two Annotated Transcription Factors in Plasmodium falciparum

Coffe, G., Brugerolle, G., Bricheux, G. & Bayle, D.   Characterization of a Protein from the 'Actratophore', Centrosomal Equivalent Structure in Parabasalia

Erkilic, N., Toubiana, M., Marques, A., Le Breton, A., Sauvegrain, C. & Widada, Sri   Detection Assay of Enteromyxum leei in Farmed Seabream (Sparus aurata) Using a Methodology Based on 18S rRNA Gene

Fryd-Versavel, G., Moch, C., Clerot, J.-C., Taghouti, G., Lemullois, M. & Fleury-Aubusson, A..   Characterization of Centrosomal-like Proteins in Hypotrich Ciliates by Immunological Approach

Labbe, M., Girard-Misguich, F., Ouarzane, M., Marguerite, I., Bourdieu, C. & Pery, P.   Expression of Two Glycolytic Pathway Enzymes of the Protozoan Eimeria tenella: Enolase and Pyruvate Kinase

Lawton, P., Hejl, C., Mancassola, R. & Naciri, M.   Effects of Purine Nucleosides and Analogues on Cryptosporidium parvum Growth in an In Vitro Culture Model

Maillo, P.A., Marques, A. & Gracia, M.P.   Observations on Ceratomyxa appendiculata Thelohan 1892 Myxosporidia Parasite of the Black-Bellied Angler (Lophius budegassa Spin.) in the Western Mediterranean

Nitcheu, J., Tefit, M., Combadiere, C., Bonduelle, O., Seilhean, D., Combadiere, B. & Mazier, D.   Analysis of Effectors Mechanisms and Cerebral Migration of CD8 T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Experimental Cerebral Malaria. Role of Chemokines/Chemokine Receptors Interactions

Pomel, S., Diogon, M., Bouchard, P., Bayle, D., Ravet, V., Henou, C. & Vigues, B.   RNAi of Epiplasmins severely impairs cytokinesis in the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia

Puigagut, J., Salvadó, H., Mas, M. & Gracia, M.P.   Ammonia effect on microfauna from wastewater treatment plants (Protozoa & Metazoa)

Renaud, F., Manet, D., Toubiana, M., Siau, Y., Le Breton, A., Sauvegrain, C., Wyers, M. & Marques, M.   Enteromyxum leei (Myxosporean) Infection of Sea Bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, Reared with Infested Sea Bream, Sparus aurata

Salvadó, H., Mas, M., Puigagut, J. & Gracia, M.P.  Protozoa growth kinetics in an activated sludge system

Texier, C., Brosson, D., Kuhn, L., Garin, J. & Vivares, C.   Proteomics of the Microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi spore : Application to the Identification of New Spore Wall Proteins



Czech Section Society of Protozoologists

33rd Annual Meeting

May 12-16 2003

Sec, Czech Republic


Hortvíková, M.   The development of a precocious strain of Eimeria necatrix

Houdek, Z., Oravec, R., Trefil, P., Hortvíková, M. & Miku, T.   Development of PCR for the detection of chickens Eimeria species

Macek, M., Simek, K. & Vazquez, A.L.   Distribution of ciliates of different feeding specialisations in the water bodies of different trophy

Novy, J., Tomas, J. & Janisch, R.   Methods of analysis and 3D imaging of protozoan cytoskeletal structures obtained by confocal microscopy

Pakandl, M., Cerník, F. & Houdek, Z.   Selection and characterization of a precocious line of rabbit coccidium Eimeria flavescen

Rohousova, I. & Volf, P.   Specificity of sand fly salivary antigens and host antibody response

Sedlak, K.   Prevalence of Neospora caninum antibodies in zoo animals in the Czech Republic

Svobodova, M., Votypka, J., Peckova, J., Jacobson, R.L. & Warburg, A.   Phlebotomus arabicus – a new vector of Leishmania tropica