14:30

Visit of an interactive periodic table - Albertov street, 50.0689428N, 14.4244053E (optional)

15:30

Joint bus transportation from Prague city center - Albertov street, 50.0689428N, 14.4244053E (optional)

19:30

Dinner

20:00

Giant Mountains National Park - a lecture

20:30

Social evening

8:00

Breakfast

9:00

Opening

Session 1. Photobiont diversity (chairperson: Pavel Škaloud)

9:10

Jouko Rikkinen: Cyanobacterial diversity in lichen symbioses.

9:40

Clara Rodríguez-Arribas, Isabel Martínez, Gregorio Aragón, Pilar Hurtado, Carlos Zamorano-Elgueta, Lohengrin Cavieres and María Prieto: Disentangling specificity patterns of lichen communities along a wide latitudinal gradient in Chile.

10:00

Patricia Moya, Salvador Chiva, Isaac Garrido-Benavent and Eva Barreno: Symbiont association patterns in the lichen genus Squamarina.

10:20

Matthew P. Nelsen, Steven D. Leavitt, Kathleen Heller, Lucia Muggia and Helge Thorsten Lumbsch: Historical legacies shape patterns of symbiont association.

10:40

Coffee break

Session 2. New methods, ecology (chairperson: Natalia Koch)

11:00

Myriam Catalá, Irene Bruñas, Rosa de las Heras and Eva Barreno: Determination and metabolomic interpretation of the molecular fingerprint of phycobionts by Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).

11:20

Julia Gerasimova, Bernhard Ruthensteiner and Andreas Beck: µCT as a useful tool for analysing the 3D structure of lichens and quantifying internal cephalodia in Lobaria pulmonaria.

11:40

Niko Johansson, Ulla Kaasalainen and Jouko Rikkinen: The role of birds in the dispersal ecology of lichen myco- and photobionts.

12:30

Lunch

Session 3. Photobiont diversity, physiology (chairperson: Lucia Muggia)

13:40

Jana Steinová, Håkon Holien, Ivana Černajová, Alica Košuthová and Pavel Škaloud: Can photobiont identity better predict the lichen phenotype than mycobiont? A case study in red-fruited Cladonia species.

14:00

Sergio Pérez-Ortega, Miguel Blázquez, Lucía Selva Hernández Moreno, Francisco Gasulla and Israel Pérez-Vargas: Photobiont diversity in the Ramalina decipiens group in Macaronesia within a context of adaptive radiation.

14:20

Veronica Malavasi, Ivana Černajová, Lucie Vančurová and Pavel Škaloud: Getting insight into the diversity of free-living aero-terrestrial green algae - preliminary data from a Czech steppic locality.

14:40

Coffee break

15:00

César Daniel Bordenave, Ayelén Gázquez, Lucía Muggia, Pedro Carrasco and Eva Barreno: New insights from old technologies: spying microalgae colony development.

15:20

Natália M. Koch, James Lendemer, Christy M. McCain, Erin Manzitto-Tripp and Daniel E. Stanton: Photobiont genus and carbon-concentrating mechanisms matter for lichen ecology.

15:40

Kristiina Mark: Investigations on algal volatiolomes.

16:00

Microscopy workshop - aerophytical green algae

8:00

Breakfast

9:00

Field trip - lichens of the Giant Mountains National Park

14:00

Lunch

Session 4. Photobiont diversity (chairperson: Ivana Černajová)

15:00

Łucja Ptach, Beata Guzow-Krzemińska, James Lendemer and Martin Kukwa: Photobionts of Loxospora species.

15:20

Ian D. Medeiros, Carlos Pardo De la Hoz, Scott LaGreca, Jolanta Miadlikowska and François Lutzoni: Survey of lichen photobionts in South Africa and Namibia.

15:40

Magdalena Kosecka, Amélia Bourceret, Benoît Perez-Lamarque, Martin Kukwa, Marc-André Selosse, Adam Flakus, Pamela Rodriguez-Flakus, Agnieszka Jabłońska and Beata Guzow-Krzemińska: Assessment of photobionts diversity in Bolivian lichens using DNA metabarcoding.

16:00

Pavel Škaloud, Ondřej Peksa, Zuzana Škvorová and Lucie Vančurová: How to find the best partner: Insights into the mysterious world of symbiotic algae.

16:20

Coffee break

Session 5. Photobiont diversity (chairperson: Jana Steinová)

16:40

Anna Guttová, Judita Zozomová-Lihová, Jaroslava Gužiková, Alica Hindáková and Zuzana Fačkovcová: Photobiont diversity of lichen congeners with different substrate and climatic preferences.

17:00

Roberto De Carolis, Agnese Cometto, Martin Grube, Patricia Moya, Eva Barreno, Steven Leavitt and Lucia Muggia: Lichen photobiont diversity in extreme environments.

17:20

Ivana Černajová, Ulf Schieffelbein and Pavel Škaloud: Lichens from intertidal zone host diverse Ulvophycean photobionts.

17:40

Silke Werth and Victoria L. Sork: Ecological specialization in Trebouxia photobionts of Ramalina menziesii.

18:30

Dinner

20:00

Social evening

8:00

Breakfast

9:30

Joint bus transportation to Prague

12:30

Approximate arrival to Prague airport

13:15

Approximate arrival to Prague city center (Albertov street)