Larwood program

May 31:   

18:00     Icebreaker at Postkontoret

June 1

09:00Registration
09:30Larwood opening - Museum Director Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle
09:45Session 1
09:45Dennis Gordon: The Cheilostomata Treatise classification project: Reflections on the challenge of integrating molecular and morphological data, exemplified by spinocystal taxa
10:05Tom Lewin: What can we learn from bryozoan genomes?
10:25Helle Baalsrud: Chromosomal fusions shaped the genome of the greater hornwrack bryozoan (Flustra foliacea) (Linnaeus, 1758)
10:45Carolann Schack: Does Polymorphism Increase Success?
11:05Break
11:30Session 2
11:30Abbie Herdman: Digitising the NHM’s Bryozoa Herbarium: Part 1 databasing and georeferencing
11:50Mali Hamre Ramsfjell: Documenting Norwegian Bryozoans - A NorDigBryo Summary
12:10Maria Grankvist Buhaug: Establishing a Baseline for Northern Cyclostomatida
12:30Paul Taylor: Long-term enhanced cheilostome dominance in low latitude bryofaunas
12:50Lunch
13:45Session 3
13:45Kjetil Lysne Voje: Standing on the shoulders of Alan Cheetham: Using fossil bryozoans to understand how populations change over millions of years
14:05Andrew Harwood: Characterizing spatial morphology of fossilized bryozoan colonies using lattice structure
14:30Tour of NHM Oslo (led by Aubrey Roberts and Hans Arne Nakrem)
15:30Break
15:40Session 4
15:40Leandro Manzoni Vieira: The identity of Sertularia anguina Linnaeus, 1758 (Bryozoa)
16:00Sebastian Decker: A re-evaluation of Terebripora ramosa d’Orbigny, 1842 and the identity of its endolithic tracemaker
16:20Thomas Schwaha: Ichno- vs. biotaxa: disentangling boring bryozoans
16:40Eckart Håkansson: Dormancy – a novel type of agametic propagation in the free-living bryozoans
17:00Posters and mingling
18:00Conference dinner

June 2

08:30Registration and mingling
09:00Session 5
09:00Everthon Xavier : The invader as habitat: epibiotic bryozoan assemblages on Triphylozoon arcuatum in tropical ports
09:20Terese Ronglan Borøy: Distribution and genetic variation within the non-indigenous bryozoan Tricellaria inopinata in Norwegian Waters
09:40Javier Souto Derungs: Impact of non-indigenous species Beania serrata on natural reefs of Pentapora foliacea
10:00Sofía Ruiz-Velasco: New species and records of fouling bryozoans on artificial structures along the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coast: an integrative taxonomy approach
10:20Break
10:50Session 6
10:50Sergio González Mora: Pliocene bryozoan assemblages from Punta Maldonado (Guerrero, Mexico): paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographical implications
11:10Abby Smith: New Zealand's First Described Bryozoans (Gray in Dieffenbach, 1843)
11:30Emanuela Di Martino: Microporella uncovered: Past and present diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand
11:50Andrew Ostrovsky: Vestibular glands in Cheilostome Bryozoans: Structure, Distribution and Probable Function
12:10Alexey Vakhrushev: Features of astogeny, microstructure and microsculpture of colonies in unique deep-sea bryozoans of the genus Calyssopora (Bryozoa: Cyclostomatida)
12:30Lunch
13:20Session 7
13:20Anna Piwoni-Piórewicz: The variability of skeletal mineralogy in cheilostome bryozoans across global and regional scales
13:40Steve Hageman: Annual trends in species-level larval recruitment in Arctic bryozoans: Eleven successive years in Svalbard
14:00Piotr Kukliński: Ecological investigation of bryozoans with support of high-resolution environmental monitoring in Maritime Antarctica (King George Island) – project overview
14:20Blanca Figuerola: From field to laboratory: integrating microbial, metabolic, and structural responses of bryozoans to climate change
14:40Break
15:10Session 8
15:10Junye Ma: The bimineralization of early Ordovician bryozoan Prophyllodictya
15:30Andrej Ernst: Bryozoan assemblage of the Steinvika Formation (lower Katian, Ordovician), Norway
15:50Baopeng Song: A diverse early Permian bryozoan fauna from the Taiyuan Formation of North China
16:10Kamil Zágoršek: New Jurassic Bryozoa from Hungary and France.
16:30Prizes and President's updates

June 3

09:00     Field trip. Departure from NHMO - Program for the field trip here

17:00     Arrival at NHMO

 

 

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