MACHRO Summer School 2026

“Current Topics in Marine Chronobiology”

Bremen, 14-17 July 2026
organised by Kristin Tessmar-Raible
(Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg & Alfred-Wegener-Institut)

Programme

14th July 2026

10:30am-12pm. Kristin Tessmar-Raible, AWI and Uni Oldenburg, Germany/Uni Vienna, Austria
Rhythms and endogenous timers in marine biology, the impact of light and other environmental factors

1:30pm-3pm Kristin Tessmar-Raible, AWI and Uni Oldenburg, Germany/Uni Vienna, Austria
The role of moon light for monthly (circalunar) oscillator entrainment and for the modulation of a plastic circadian-circalunidian clock

3:30pm-5pm. Tobias Kaiser, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
Crazy insect clocks

15th July 2026

10:30am-12pm. Tobias Kaiser, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany
Clunio marinus - biological clocks in evolution and ecology

1:30pm-3pm. Andrés Ritter, Marine Biological Station Roscoff, Sorbonne Université-CNRS, Roscoff, France
Biological rhythms in marine brown algae : different clocks for different cycles

3:30pm-5pm. Kenny Bogaert, MPI for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
From fertilization to embryogenesis: chronobiology of seaweed development

16th July 2026

10:30am-12pm. Eva Farre Prokosch, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
On land and at sea: contrasting requirements of time keeping in photosynthetic organisms

1:30pm-3pm Peter Kroth, Uni Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Gene regulation and responses in diatoms

3:30pm- 5pm. François-Yves Bouget, CNRS, Banyuls sur mer, France
Circadian rhythms and seasonality across latitudes in cosmopolitan phytoplankton

17th July 2026

10:30am-12pm Sören Häfker, AWI, Germany
Contrasting rhythms of behavior, circadian clock and metabolism in a marine worm

1:30pm-3pm Sören Häfker, AWI, Germany
Pelagic hens and eggs: Exploring vertical migrator clock functioning under self-made environmental cycles

3:30pm final discussions