Plenary Speakers
 | Nancy Turner University of Victoria “From Fishing to Feasting: the Cultural Importance of Marine Algae and Marine Plants for Northwest Coast Indigenous Peoples" |
 | Thomas Wernberg University of Western Australia "Flattening of global kelp forests: tales of turf, temperature and tropical herbivores" https://wernberglab.org/ |
 | Fabrice Not CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff "Photosymbiosis in the ocean” |
 | Thomas Richards University of Exeter “Three perspectives on gene transfer in the eukaryotes” |
ISOP Past President’s Address
 | John Dolan "Protists of the Mesopelagic and a Bit on the Long Path to the Deep Sea” |
Symposium Speakers
PSA Presidential Symposium: Macroalgal Legacy of the Pacific Northwest
 | Louis Druehl Simon Fraser University "One student-of-seaweed's journey with frequent departures from relevance from West Beach, Whidbey Island to Bamfield and octogenerian-ship: Scagelean adventures and a marine station" |
 | Gayle Hansen Oregon State University "Early west coast marine laboratories: Josephine Tilden and the Minnesota Seaside Station" |
 | Sandra Lindstrom University of British Columbia "Ramblings of an itinerant phycologist in a post-glacial landscape" |
 | Mike Hawkes University of British Columbia "Heroes in the seaweed and other events in the phycological exploration of Vancouver's Island and beyond" |
Kelp forests in flux
 | Jane Watson Vancouver Island University "Long-term variation in kelp-forest community structure off the west coast of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada" |
 | Matt Edwards San Diego State University "Changes in benthic diversity and ecosystem production following widespread kelp loss in the Aleutian Archipelago" |
 | Cathy Pfister University of Chicago "Kelp forests in the northeast Pacific: their dynamics and function in a changing climate" |
 | Kira Krumhansl Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy "Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half century" |
From Pharm to Table: Frontiers in Applied Phycology (Prof. Milton Sommerfeld Memorial Symposium)
 | Stephen O’Leary National Research Council Canada “NRC’s Algal Carbon Conversion Program - converting CO2 and other industrial waste streams into valuable bioproducts” |
 | Vanya Ewart Dalhousie University "Turning the tide on protein misfolding diseases: can seaweeds help?" |
 | Balakrishnan Prithiviraj Dalhousie University "Seaweeds as Plant Biostimulants: Chemical Components and Mechanisms of Action" |
 | Charles Yarish University of Connecticut "Opportunities, challenges and future directions of open water seaweed aquaculture in Northeast America for ecosystem services, food, feeds and biofuels" |
Origins and early evolution of eukaryotes
| Organizers: | Laura Eme and Courtney Stairs Uppsala University, Sweden |
 | Maureen O’Malley University of Sydney "LECA Concepts and their Implications for Evolutionary Understanding" |
 | Purificación López-García CNRS & Université Paris-Sud "Eukaryogenesis: Patterns and Processes" |
 | Laura Eme Uppsala University "Novel Asgard archaea and the deep roots of eukaryotes" |
 | Bill Wickstead University of Nottingham "'Reconstructing the cell biology of LECA" |
Protist responses to environmental stress: resilience to climatic changes?
| Organizers: | Maria Cristina Angelici Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy |
 | Sandra Pucciarelli*, Patrizia Ballarini, Kesava Priyan Ramasamy, Matteo Mozzicafreddo, Cristina Miceli *School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Italy "Resilience and Adaptation to Extreme Environments: The Special Case of Euplotes focardii, a Strictly Psychrophilic Antarctic Ciliate" |
 | Anush Kosakyan*, Enrique Lara * Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic "Insights to Testate Amoebae Response to Environmental Stress" |
 | Maria Cristina Angelici*, Chiara Nardis, Panagiotis Karins *Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy "Protists Responses to Climatic Changes Focusing on Waterborne Pathogenic Protozoa" |
 | Panagiotis Karanis Medical School, University of Cologne, Germany “Giardia and Cryptosporidium parasites response to climatic changes in water environment” |