Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Thank you so much for attenting Cyano2020. It was a pleasure to host everyone of you at this wonderful event.

Cyano2020 was held as a remote summer school between September 14th-18th with a full week of cyanobacteria with 13 keynote speakers and over 350 attendees from all around the world to learn more about the exciting world of cyanobacterial research. We provided video lectures with live Q&A sessions, workshops as well as live poster sessions and short talks from early career researchers.

We also created a Discord server to connect everyone at the summer school. This Discord server is still running anyone is more than welcome to join. We will try to make this a small online community for everyone interested in cyanobacteria. Furthermore, we are currently working on making as many of the lectures available for everyone to watch on YouTube.

Follow us on Twitter @CyanoWorld1.

Keynote Speaker

• Yagut Allahverdiyeva - Introduction to Photosynthesis in Cyanobacteria (Twitter: @yagut_rinne) - University of Turku, Finland
• Mar Benavides - Marine Nitrogen Fixation (Twitter: @mar__benavides) - Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France
• Sallie Chisholm - The Power Of Diversity - What Prochlorococcus Can Teach Us About Life - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA
• Maria Del Carmen Santos Merino - Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria (Twitter: @marysBiotec) - Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
• Elke Dittmann - Cyanobacterial Blooms and Their Toxins (Twitter: @DittmannElke) - University of Potsdam, Germany
• Marion Eisenhut - Allocation of Metals - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
• Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel - Pigment Biosynthesis from Bacteria Goes Viral (Twitter: @FKBmicro) - Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany
• Susan Golden - Circadian Control of Gene Expression In Vivo and In Vitro (Twitter: @susanksgolden) - University of California San Diego, USA
• Patricia Sanchez Baracaldo - History and Evolution of Cyanobacteria (Twitter: @sanchez_baracal) - University of Bristol, UK
• Annegret Wilde - Phototaxis in Cyanobacteria (Twitter: @FreeCyano) - Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany
• Anusuya Willis - Defining Cyanobacterial Species: Diversity and Description Through Genomics (Twitter: @filledesalgues) - Australian National Algae Culture Collection ANACC, Australia
• Yulia Yuzenkova - Gene Regulation and Transcription in Cyanobacteria - University of Newcastle, UK
• Julie Zedler - Cyanobacteria for Biotechnology - Can SynBio Make It Happen? (Twitter: @SynBioJazz) - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Panel Discussion

Career, Women in STEM & Mentoring

• Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel - @FKBmicro - Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany 
• Beronda Montgomery - @BerondaM - Michigan State University, USA
• Patricia Sanchez Baracaldo - @sanchez_baracal - University of Bristol, UK
• Julie Zedler - @SynBioJazz - Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

Host: Ilka Axmann - @SynMibi - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Workshops & More

• Cultivation & Bioreactors
• Bioinformatics & Statistics
• Cyanobacteria at Leibniz Institute DSMZ (German Culture Collection)
• Cyanobacteria and Water Management in Australia, Canada and around the world