Protistology Open 2026 April 19 - 23, 2026 (Prague, Czech Republic)

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Below is the preliminary programme of the meeting. This new programme version is from March 6, 2026 (after confirmation of talks and posters).

  April 19
12:30-16:00 Mentoring Event (the czech academy of sciences building; Národní 1009/3, Prague 1)
17:00-19:00 Registration (conference hotel)
17:30 Welcome drink (conference hotel)
   
  April 20 (all talks in Congress hall, single session)
7:30 Registration
8:30 Opening ceremony
9:00 Plenary talks (30 mins each - David Montagnes, Victor Tobiasson, Ramon Massana)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 The Symbiotic Continuum across the Tree of Life (ISOP-sponsored symposium )
12:30 Lunch (and poster mounting)
14:00 Kleptoplasty: Living Between Feeding and Photosynthesis (ISOP-sponsored symposium II)
15:30 Poster session I (60 posters) (Libuše+Bruncvík+Přemysl)
17:00 Coffee break
17:30 Poster session II (60 posters) (Libuše+Bruncvík+Přemysl)
19:00-22:00 ISOP-sponsored Student Night (only for student ISOP members)
   
   
  April 21 (Congress hall, Libuše, Bruncvík; plenaries in Congress hall + three parallel sessions)
8:30 2026 ISOP Hutner award winner announcement and 2025 ISOP Hutner award winner talk (Javier del Campo)
9:20 Grell prize winner talk (Society for Eukaryotic Microbiology): Jule Freudenthal and Alejandro Berlinches de Gea
10:00 ISOP Past President lecture (Sina Adl)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Parallel sessions (3)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Plenary talk (F. Söderbom)
14:30 Parallel sessions (3)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Parallel sessions (3)
18:00-19:00 ISOP Annual Membership meeting
   
  April 22 (Congress hall, Libuše, Bruncvík; three parallel sessions)
8:30 Plenary talk (Alexandra Worden: Friends and enemies in protistan interdomain relationships)
9:00 Parallel sessions (3)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Parallel sessions (3)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Plenary talk (M. Nowacki)
14:30 Parallel sessions (3)
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Parallel sessions (3)
17:30-19:00 Membership meetings of the Italian Soc, Czech Soc., and Protistology Nordics, Society of Euk. Micro.
19:00 Banquet, ceremonies
   
  April 23 (Congress hall, Libuše, Bruncvík; three parallel sessions)
   
8:30 Parallel sessions (3)
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Parallel sessions (3)
12:30 Lunch
  Post-conference activities
   
   
  April 24 Conference trip (Karlštejn, optional)