EPIMAR

Epigenetics in Marine Biology Conference 2022

Executive Committee

EPIMAR aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of epigenetics.

“EPIMAR provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the field of epigenetics.”

Jose M. Eirin-LopezEnvironmental Epigenetics Lab

Dr. Hollie Putnam

University of Rhode Island

Dr. Steven Roberts

University of Washington

Dr. Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

Florida International University

Tentative Program

The detailed conference program will be updated here as soon as it becomes available. The conference chair will host an opening ceremony. After that, the speakers will deliver their speeches and share their cutting-edge research with the participants.

Please, be aware the session chair will start each session on time.

Tentative Program

14h / Arrival

Arrival to the venue.

D1

17h / Dinner

Dinner will take place at the venue.

19h / Introduction

Introduction will take place at the venue.

20h / Icebreaker

Icebreaker will take place at the venue.

9h / Introduction

Introduction will take place at the venue.

D2

10h / Real Life Epigenetics – A Multiple Angles Approach

Adrian-Kalchhauser, Irene. Dr. Adrian-Kalchhauser investigates the role of epigenetics for the fitness, plasticity, and adaptation of vertebrates in changing environments. She combines her molecular biology education with ecology and evolution to understand how wild vertebrates store and inherit environmental exposures and experiences. She combines basic and applied approaches in her research, and tries to understand fundamental mechanisms of biology on the one hand and applications as markers for disease, environmental change or pollution on the other hand.

Featured Talk

10:30h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

11h / An Investigation Into Germline Inheritance In The Purple Sea Urchin

Strader, Marie. Dr. Marie E. Strader joined the Auburn University Department of Biological Sciences as an assistant research professor in August and brings with her the knowledge of an integrative biologist that studies how the environment shapes organismal traits.

Developmental and Comparative Epigenetics

11:22h / DNA Methylation Machinery In Mytilus Galloprovincialis And Its Crucial Role During Embryogenesis

D’Aniello, Enrico. Dr. D’Aniello is a Research Scientist at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn.

Developmental and Comparative Epigenetics

11:44h / Developmental And Comparative Epigenetics, Genetics Of Epigenetics: Heritability, Population Biology, And Evolutionary Dynamics

Tirichine, Leila. Dr. Tirichine is Research Director at Nantes Université, CNRS, US2B, UMR 6286, F-44000 Nantes, France.

Developmental and Comparative Epigenetics

12:06h / Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals A Mating Type Specific Methylation Pattern In The Diatom Pseudo-Nitzschia Multistriata

Ruggiero, Antonella. Ruggiero is a PostDoc at the Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn in Napoli.

Developmental and Comparative Epigenetics

12:30h / Lunch Break

Lunch will take place at the venue.

14h / Bacterial N4-Methylcytosine As An Epigenetic Mark In Eukaryotic DNA

Rodriguez, Fernando. Fernando Rodriguez is a Researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory, MBL, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Genetics of Epigenetics

14:22h / Exploring The Epigenetic Mechanisms Of Maternal Age Effects On Offspring Lifespan And Fecundity

Liguori, Alyssa. Liguori is a Postdoctoral Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, MBL, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Environmental Epigenetics

14:44h / Epigenetic Patterning In Bleached And Non-Bleached Phenotypes Of Montipora Capitata

Putnam, Hollie. With over 55 publications and 2,800 citations, Dr. Putnam has pioneered work on cross-generational acclimatization and epigenetics. Dr. Putnam started at the University of Rhode Island in 2016 after 8 years at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. Her research and academic goals are focused on the acclimatization and adaptation of marine invertebrates and working and training based on rigorous, transparent, and reproducible scientific approaches.

Environmental Epigenetics

15:06h / Environmental And Epigenetic Drivers Of Phenotypic Plasticity In Acropora Cervicornis Corals

Hackerott, Serena. Serena Hackerott is a Ph.D. candidate at the Environmental Epigenetics Lab, FIU.

Environmental Epigenetics

15:06h / Pending Title

Rodriguez-Casariego, Javier. Dr. Rodriguez-Casariego completed his Bachelors and Master degree in Marine Biology at the University of Havana (Cuba). In 2012, he joined the Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment Lab at FIU, integrating ecological, physiological and molecular data to study organism’s responses to environmental stress. In 2016, he joined the Environmental Epigenetics Lab (EELab) as a Ph.D. student, studying how epigenetic mechanisms modulate responses to environmental stress in “key marine organisms” – those capable of creating and maintaining ecosystems – which are critically impacted by global climate change.

Environmental Epigenetics

15:50h / Pending Title

Gignoux-Wolfsohn, Sarah. Dr. Gignoux-Wolfsohn works at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Environmental Epigenetics

16:22h / Multigenerational Effects Of Early Exposure To An Environmentally Relevant Pesticide Mixture In The Pacific Oyster, C. Gigas

Sol Dourdin, Thomas. La Rochelle Université, Faculté de Sciences.

Environmental Epigenetics

16:34h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

16:30h / Methods and Analyses Discussion

Discussion on methods and analyses in epigenetics.

17:30h / Dinner

Dinner will take place at the venue.

19h / Poster

Poster session will take place at the venue.

9h / Pending Title

Venkataraman, Yaamini. Dr. Venkataraman is an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (NSF PRFB) Postdoctoral Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Yaamini Venkataraman is interested in how climate change is going to affect the organisms in our current and future oceans. Currently, she studies how hypoxia and warming impact Caribbean corals, and how temperature influences crab metabolism using “-omic” techniques.

Featured Talk

D3

10h / One Tool In A Toolkit: Integrative, Genewise Tests Of Associations Between The Environment, Dna Methylation, And Gene Expression

Bogan, Samuel. Bogan is a PhD Student University of California Santa Barbara. Mr. Samuel Bogan is interested in advancing ecological genomics and physiology in the context of environmental adaptation.

Featured Talk

10:30h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

11h / Exploring The Direct Rna Sequencing To Detect Epigenetic Modification In The Blue Mussel Mytilus Chilensis Exposed To Hypoxia

Gallardo-Escárate, Cristian. , Cristian. Gallardo-Escárate works at the Departamento de Oceanografía of the University of Concepción.

Environmental Epigenetics

11:22h / DNA Methylation Changes Associated To Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome In Crassostrea Gigas

Valdivieso, Alejandro. Valdivieso is a Ph.D. Student at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Spain.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

11:44h / Functional Interplaying Between Epigenetics And Microbiome In The Mussel Mytilus Chilensis During Hypoxia Conditions

Valenzuela-Miranda, Diego. Valenzuela-Miranda is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Concepción.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

12:06h / Integrative Analysis Of Dna Methylation And Lncrnas Expression In Atlantic Salmon During Sea Lice Infestation

Valenzuela Muñoz, Valentina. Valenzuela Muñoz is a Ph.D. Student at the University of Concepción.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

12:30h / Lunch Break

Lunch will take place at the venue.

14h / Pending Title

Trigg, Shelly. Shelly began as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Steven Roberts’ lab in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at University of Washington where she studied how the environment impacts marine animals at the physiological and molecular systems level. She conducted experiments that simulated various ocean conditions and used omics technologies (like epigenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) in combination with physiological assays to measure animal response. In March of 2021, Shelly started her current position as a Research Scientist at Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

14:22h / Identification Of European Sea Bass Neomales Through Epigenomic Analysis

Piferrer, Francesc. Dr. Piferrer is a Professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Spain.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

14:44h / Molecular Studies Of The Seaweed Gongolaria Barbata In The Venice Lagoon: Is Epigenetics Key For Effective Habitat Restoration?

Papetti, Chiara. Dr. Papetti is a Professor at the University of Padova in Italy.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

15:06h / Determinants And Relative Weight Of Genetic And Epigenetic Variation In The Resistance Of The Oyster Crassostrea Gigas To The Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome

Vidal-Dupiol, Jeremie. Dr. Vidal-Dupiol is a Research Associate at the Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Ifremer, Department of Biology of Exploited Marine Species.

Epigenetics in Aquatic Resources Management

15:28h / Discussion

Discussion will take place at the venue.

15:50h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

16h / Poster

Poster session will take place at the venue.

17:30h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

18h / Reception

Reception will take place at the venue.

9h / Discussion

Future Perspectives

D4

10:30h / Break

Break will take place at the venue.

11h / Research and Community Needs

Research and community needs will take place at the venue.

11:44h / Closing

Closing ceremony will take place at the venue.

12:06h / Lunch

Lunch will take place at the venue.

18h / Departure

Departure from the venue.

Posters

DNA (DE) Methylation Across Embryonic Development Under Ambient And Increased Temperature In Acropora Hyacinthus

Alexandre Fellous, Laetitia Hedouin, Jeremy LeLuyer, Jeremie Vidal-Dupiol, Hollie M Putnam

1

Transcriptional Divergence During Cichlid Embryogenesis At Different Resolutions

Chengwei Ulrika Yuan, Martin Hemberg, Eric Miska

2

DNA Methylation Machinery In Mytilus Galloprovincialis And Its Crucial Role During Embryogenesis

Claudia La Vecchia, Marco Gerdol, Stefania Gorbi, Alberto Pallavicini , Francesco Regoli and Enrico D’Aniello

3

Pending Title

Thea Gessler, Zhiqiang Wu, Nicole Valenzuela

4

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Jill Ashey, Ben Glass, Katie Barott, Hollie Putnam

5

Pending Title

Lauren Zane, Sophie Lucente, Daniel Roxbury, Hollie Putnam

6

Pending Title

Kelcie L. Chiquillo, Juliet M. Wong, Juan Sanchez, Alberto Sabat, Alex E. Mercado-Molina, Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

7

Pending Title

Zoe Dellaert and Hollie Putnam

8

Spines Out: The Mystery Of An Extensive Die-Off Of Long-Spined Sea Urchins In Puerto Rico

Juliet Wong, Kelcie Chiquillo, Alex Mercado Molina, Alberto Sabat, and Jose Eirin-Lopez

9

Pending Title

Kevin H. Wong, Gretchen Goodbody-Gringley, Samantha J. de Putron, Hollie M. Putnam

10

Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (Chip) In The Coral Model System Exaiptasia Diaphana

Mascha F. Dix, Peng Liu, Guoxin Cui, Francesco Della Valle, Valerio Orlando, Manuel Aranda

11

Exploring The Base Of Priming In Posidonia Oceanica Seedlings

Jessica Pazzaglia, Fabio Badalamentia, Jaime Bernardeau-Esteller, Vincenzo Maximiliano Giacalone, Juan M. Ruiz, Koen Verhoeven, Gabriele Procaccini, Lazaro Marã­n-Guirao

12

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13

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Antonella Ruggiero, Rossella Annunziata, Francesco Manfellotto, Svenja Mager, Viviana di Tuccio, Danila Vonorov, Monia Teresa Russo, Maria Immacolata Ferrante

14

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Amira H. Donia, Mohamed N. Seddek, Abdel-Hamid A.M. Ali, Lamees Hegazy and Hany A. Abdel-Salam

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