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Echinoderms in a Changing World
The International
Echinoderm Conference is held every two to three years and attracts scientists and students
worldwide to share their research developments. In 2009 this Conference will
be held at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania,
Australia.
I look forward to welcoming colleagues to Hobart in January.
Professor Craig Johnson
School of Zoology, University of Tasmania
Conference Convenor
Plenary
Schedule
The draft schedule
for the plenary presentation, with working titles, is outlined below.
Monday 5January
Tuesday 6
January
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Mary
Sewell: Ocean Acidification and Echinoderms: How bad will it be for
our favourite phylum?
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Mike Reich:
Fossil record, diversity and ecology of shallow water holothurians
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John
Lawrence: Arm loss and regeneration in stellate echinoderms: an
organismal view
Thursday 8
Jaunuary
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Philippe
Dubois: Metal contaminants: a threat to echinoderms in the 21st
century?
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Sven
Uthicke: Outbreaks and Dieoffs: Causes and consequences of large
amplitude population density fluctuations in Echinoderms
Friday 9 January
Conference
Committee
Craig Johnson - University of Tasmania
Mike Barker - University of Otago
Maria Byrne - University of Sydney
John Keesing - CSIRO
Tim O’Hara - Vic Museum
Mary Sewell - University of Auckland
Important Dates
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Abstracts due |
15
Nov 2008 |
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Early registration closes |
15
Nov 2008 |
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Registration closes |
17
Dec 2008 |
Post-conference workshop
Expressions of interest are invited for a five-day post
conference workshop on tropical echinoderm diversity. The
workshop will be chaired by Dr Maria Byrne, Professor of
Developmental and Marine Biology, Director One Tree Island
Research Station.
The cost is approximately AU$1000 per person (ex Gladstone
Queensland, not including flights from Hobart) based on current
prices.
For more detail on One Tree Island
visit:
http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/OTI/
Email
info@cdesign.com.au to
register your interest. We need registrations of interest to be
advised by 31 August 2008. |
