AGENDA

12:00 - Welcoming Ceremony

Welcome speech by Valentí Sallarès (ICM Director) and James Sharpe (Head of EMBL Barcelona)

Addresses by TREC representatives and collaborators

Paola Bertucci – Head of EMBL Scientific Expeditions

André Abreu – Head for International Affairs, Tara Ocean Foundation

Ibon Cancio – Director, EMBRC – ES ERIC

Addresses by stakeholders and collaborators

Ignacio Baanante Balastegui – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, EMBL Delegate

Olivier Ramadour – French Consul in Barcelona

Rosario Allué – Directorate General of Maritime Policy and Sustainable Fisheries, Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, Government of Catalonia
Pep Hurtado - Strategic office for the city’s coastal areas, Barcelona City Council

13:30 - Reception and networking opportunity

15:00 - Planet in Focus: Dialogues on Ecosystems and Global Health

Chaired by Ramiro Logares, ICM-CSIC

Introduction by chair and keynote

Colomban de Vargas, Research Director CNRS - The Onset of Planetary Biology

15:30 – Session 1

Pep Gasol, ICM-CSIC - Microbes: sentinels of planetary health

Arendt Detlev, EMBL - Planetary Biology across scales: correlating cellular variation in selected model species with environmental gradients

Maria Vila-Costa, IDAEA-CSIC - Plastics, Pollutants and Marine Bacteria: a biogeochemical perspective

Coffee break

17:00 – Session 2

Estela Romero, CREAF - Healthy food, healthy rivers, healthy oceans: the impact of diets and agro-food scenarios on freshwaters and coastal waters

Ricard Solé, IBE (CSIC-UPF) - Tackling ecosystem tipping points with emergent bioengineering

Josep Maria Anto, ISGlobal - Planetary Health: Protecting Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch

TREC Expedition Barcelona 2024