Agenda

9:00 - 17:00 AFRICAN OSTRACOD TAXONOMY WORKSHOP

18:00–22:00 REGISTRATION AND ICE BREAKER SOCIAL IN THE CONFERENCE VENUE

9:00-9:15 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 
Moriaki Yasuhara, Tadeusz Namiotko

9:15-10:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 
D.L. Danielopol (with contribution of Kerry Swanson)

Ostracod Phylogeny and Evolution – Thirty years after the “Manawan Perspective”

The necessary 3-D Visualisation of Ostracod morphological traits - Presentation of K. Swanson’s „Bugs of the Ocean“

10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK  

10:45 - 11:30 PLENARY SESSION 1: PALAEOZOIC OSTRACODS         
Convener: B. Sames

10:45-11:00 The end-Ordovician “interesting times” in the ancient Baltic Palaeobasinoffee break 
T. Meidla

11:00-11:15 Silurian myodocope ostracods from Poland 
V. Perrier

11:15-11:30 The impact of the Mulde bioevent (Lower Silurian) on Ostracod ecological dynamics
S. Rinkevičiūtė

11:30 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION 2: MESOZOIC NON-MARINE OSTRACODS         
Convener: T. Meidla

11:30-11:45 New method of describing smooth ostracod shells 
M.A. Naumcheva

11:45-12:00 The Central Tunisian Atlas as a biogeographic crossroad: Insights from a potential key area for mid-late Mesozoic non-marine ostracod and charophyte research
B. Sames

12:00-12:15 Taxonomy, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous non-marine ostracods in Luanping Basin of northern Hebei, North China
Z. Qin

12:15-12:30 Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental significance of Campanian-early Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) ostracods from the Jiaozhou Formation of Zhucheng, Shandong, China
H. Wang

12:30-13:30 LUNCH

13:30 - 15:15 PLENARY SESSION 3: MESOZOIC MARINE OSTRACODS         
Convener: D. Horne

13:30-13:45 New insights into the rise of Meso-Cenozoic marine ostracods 
M.-B. Forel

13:45-14:00 Ostracod biostratigraphy of the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) GSSP, Peniche, Portugal 
M.C. Cabral

14:00-14:15 New results on the ostracod fauna from the Aalenian and Lower Bajocian of SW Germany 
M. Franz

14:15-14:30 Normal pore canals in ostracod taxonomy: the case of Minyocythere 
A. Lord

14:30-14:45 Male-driven evolution in the ostracod genus Lophocythere from the Middle Jurassic of the Russian Plate
Y.A. Shurupova

14:45-15:00 The ornamentation of Vlakomia and its possible relation to a transgression event 
Y. Wang

15:00-15:15 Shifts in sexual selection across the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction boundary in cytheroid ostracodes
M.J.F. Martins

15:15-15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45-18:45 OSTRACODA IN ENVIRONMENTAL MICROPALAEONTOLOGY OPEN WORKSHOP
Conveners: Mauro Alivernini and Peter Frenzel 

10:00–23:00 Mid-conference excursion and social evening

Programme:

10:00 Participants meet at the EOM9 venue – Gdańsk at 24 Kładki street where the guided tour starts

12:45 Lunch at the Filharmonia restaurant

14:30 Meeting at the marina on Długie Pobrzeże near the Green Gate to embark on a ship Galeon Lew (Lion)

15:00 Cruise to Westerplatte

15.40 Westerplatte guided tour

17:00 Shuttle to Biological Station of the University of Gdańsk (Gdańsk-Górki Wschodnie)

18:00 Social evening at the Biological Station of the University of Gdańsk, including food & beer and live music

22:30 Leave for Gdańsk Main Town

23:00 Arrival at the Conference Venue

9:00-9:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
M. Yasuhara

Deep-sea biodiversity: an ostracod perspective

9:45 - 10:15 PLENARY SESSION 4: NEOGENE NON-MARINE OSTRACODS         
Convener: T. Karan-Žnidaršič

9:45-10:00 The Pannonian ostracod fauna from the Zalanyi’s type section of Obrenovac (Serbia)

M. Spadi

10:00-10:15 Preservation of Ostracoda in Miocene Amber from Chiapas, Mexico, revealed by synchrotron tomography techniques
R. Matzke-Karasz

10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:45 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION 5: QUATERNARY AND RECENT MARINE OSTRACODS
Convener: J. Rodriguez-Lazaro

10:45-11:00 Quaternary ostracod assemblages of the northeastern Black Sea shelf
M.A. Zenina

11:00-11:15 Palaeoenvironmental evolution of an active rift basin through ostracod analysis: the example of the Corinth Gulf (IODP Leg 381)
I. Mazzini

11:15-11:30 Benthic faunal responses to deoxygenation and Pleistocene climate events, the Sea of Japan
H.-H.M. Huang

11:30-11:45 Holocene sea-level changes in Hong Kong: reconstruction based on ostracod assemblages in a sediment core
Y. Hong

11:45-12:00 QDeglacial-Holocene Svalbard paleoceanography and evidence of Melt Water Pulse 1B
S.Y. Tian

12:00-12:15 Recent ostracod assemblages from the eastern Algarve continental shelf, Portugal
M.C. Cabral

12:15-12:30 Cuticle ultrastructure and calcification in the carapace of the myodocopan ostracod Euphilomedes japonica
S. Yamada

12:30-13:45 LUNCH

13:45 - 15:15 PLENARY SESSION 6: QUATERNARY NON-MARINE OSTRACODS         
Convener: G. Rossetti

13:45-14:00 A new non-marine ostracod fauna from Pleistocene sediments (MIS11) at Little Cornard, Suffolk, UK
K. Sohar

14:00-14:15 Tracking the Older Holsteinian Oscillation: a high-resolution ostracod record from Eastern Poland
M. Wasążnik

14:15-14:30 Limnocythere as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: The Lake Van example
D. Akdemir

14:30-14:45 Holocene Ostracoda (Crustacea) from the Baćina lakes (Dalmatia, Croatia)
V. Hajek Tadesse

14:45-15:00 Ostracods as Indicators for Climatic and Environmental Changes on the Tibetan Plateau
M. Alivernini

15:00-15:15 Ostracod investigations as part of multiproxy analyses - case studies from two antique harbours
A. Pint

15:15-15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45-18:00 OPEN SF*IRGO GENERAL ASSEMBLY, EOM BUSINESS MEETING

9:00-9:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
K. Martens

The influence of urbanisation on diversity and occurrence of non-marine ostracod species (Crustacea, Ostracoda)

9:45 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION 7: RECENT NON-MARINE OSTRACODS         
Convener: C. Meisch

9:45-10:00 Towards a Holarctic view of living non-marine ostracod distribution: taxonomic harmonisation of databases
D.J. Horne

10:00-10:15 On two types of Taxonomic Chimaeras within ostracod systematics
D.L. Danielopol

10:15-10:45 COFFEE BREAK

10:45-11:00 Environmental stability of Western Carpathian spring-fens and its influence on ostracod assemblages
D. Výravský

11:00-11:15 The colonization of the rooftop of ‘Bunker Valentin’ in Bremen, Germany with Ostracoda and Cladocera (Crustacea)
B. Scharf

11:15-11:30 Does ostracod valve shape respond to subtle environmental changes?
Á. Baltanás

11:30-11:45 How do cryptic species look like in the fossil record?
F. Viehberg

11:45-12:00 DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity in a non-marine ostracod morphospecies Heterocypris salina (Brady, 1868)
A. Kilikowska

12:00-12:15 The taxonomy of Candoninae (Ostracoda): molecular insights into a difficult problem
M. Kijowska

12:15-12:30 Co-habiting non-marine ostracods harbor host-specific microbiota
T. Namiotko

12:30-13:45 LUNCH

13:45-15:45 POSTER SESSION

15:45-16:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS AND CLOSING CEREMONY

19:00-23:00 CONFERENCE DINNER AT FILHARMONIA RESTAURANT

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