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TREC

Traversing European Coastlines

An expedition to study coastal ecosystems and their response to the environment, from molecules to communities

Governance

Background

TREC is an EMBL led scientific expedition and a project with many partners. It is the flagship project of EMBL’s Planetary Biology Transversal Theme.

After the initial expedition (TRaversing European Coastlines) it is expected that other expeditions, exploring diverse habitats in various regions, will follow, evolving TREC into TRaversing ECosystems, expanding in scope and scale.

A TREC consortium has been formed and will collectively drive the analysis and integrate data from future expeditions. This is expected to take many years.

Governance

Given the complexity, a TREC governance structure has been introduced. The TREC consortium steering  committee oversees the activities of the consortium and is responsible for overall directions and organizational management. It is chaired by the TREC scientific director.

The research of the TREC consortium is driven by the TREC scientific coordinators who are responsible for certain aspects of data generation and analysis, but also for integrating various subprojects and concepts to make TREC more than the sum of its many individual subprojects.

The many subprojects are led by PIs from the various partner institutions.

Current members of the TREC consortium steering committee:

  • Samuel Abiven
  • Detlev Arendt 
  • Paola Bertucci, Head of TREC expedition 
  • Peer Bork (chair), TREC Scientific Director 
  • Chris Bowler
  • Colomban de Vargas
  • Nicole Dubilier
  • Stefanie Kandels

Current TREC consortium coordinators:

  • Samuel Abiven, Soil biogeochemistry Coordinator and Expedition Soil Coordinator, TREC Steering Committee
  • Detlev Arendt, Animal Models Coordinator, TREC Steering committee
  • Hugo Berthelot, Symbiosis Co-Coordinator and Expedition Shallow waters Co-Coordinator
  • Paola Bertucci, Head of TREC Expedition and Scientific Engagement,  TREC Steering Committee, 
  • Peer Bork, Prokaryotes Coordinator, TREC Steering Committee, and TREC Scientific Director 
  • Emmanuel Boss, In situ Underway Sensing Systems Coordinator
  • Chris Bowler, Plants and Microalgae Coordinator,TREC Steering Committee
  • Vittorio Brando, Remote sensing Coordinator
  • Colomban de Vargas,, Protist Co-coordinatior and Expedition Tara Europa Director, TREC Steering Committee
  • Johan Decelle, Symbiosis Co-Coordinator
  • Michel Flores, Aerosols Coordinator
  • Lionel Guidi, Oceanography Coordinator
  • Fabien Lombard, Light microscopy Co-Coordinator
  • Rainer Pepperkok, Light Microscopy Co-Coordinator
  • Georg Pohnert, Ocean Chemical profiling Coordinator
  • Yannick Schwab, Electron Microscopy Coordinator
  • Raffaele Siano, Protist Co-Coordinator and Expedition Sediments Coordinator
  • Shinichi Sunagawa, Sequencing Co-Coordinator
  • Matthew Sullivan, Viruses (Prokaryotes) Coordinator
  • Leho Tedersoo, Fungi Coordinator and Expedition Soils Biology Coordinator
  • Flora Vincent, Symbiosis Co-Coordinator and Expedition Shallow waters Co-Coordinator
  • Patrick Wincker, Sequencing Co-Coordinator
  • Sheree Yau, Viruses (Eukaryotes) Coordinator
  • Michael Zimmermann, Chemical profiling Coordinator

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