PSAMMONALIA The Newsletter of the International Association of Meiobenthologists Number 161, June 2014 Composed and Printed at: Lab. Of Biodiversity Dept. Of Life Science, College of Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni – ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Korea. DONT FORGET TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP IN IAM! THE APPLICATION CAN BE FOUND AT: http://www.meiofauna.org/appform.html This newsletter is mailed electronically. Paper copies will be sent only upon request This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 1 The International Association of Meiobenthologists Executive Committee Wonchoel Lee Lab. Of Biodiversity, (#505), Department of life Science, college of Chairperson Natural Sciences, Hanyang University. [[email protected]] Nikolaos Lampadariou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, PO Box 2214, 71003, Heraklion, Past Chairperson Crete, Greece [[email protected]] Ann Vanreusel Ghent University, Biology Department, Marine Biology Section, Gent, Treasurer B-9000, Belgium [[email protected]] Jyotsna Sharma Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Assistant Treasurer TX 78249-0661, USA [[email protected]] Vadim Mokievsky P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, (term expires 2016) 36 Nakhimovskiy Prospect, 117218 Moscow, Russia [[email protected]] Walter Traunsburger Bielefeld University, Faculty of Biology, Postfach 10 01 31, D-33501 (term expires 2016) Bielefeld, Germany [[email protected]] Hanan Mitwally Faculty of Science, Oceanography, University of Alexandria, Moharram (term expires 2019) Bay, 21151, Egypt . [[email protected]] Gustavo Fonseca Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Instituto do Mar, Av. AlmZ Saldanha (term expires 2019) da Gama 89, 11030-400 Santos, Brazil. [[email protected]] Ex-Officio Executive Committee (Past Chairpersons) 1966-67 Robert Higgins (Founding Editor) 1987-89 John Fleeger 1968-69 W. Duane Hope 1990-92 Richard Warwick 1970-71 John Gray 1993-95 Paul Montagna 1972-73 Wilfried Westheide 1996-98 Magda Vincx 1974-75 Bruce Coull 1999-01 Yoshihisa Shirayama 1976-77 Jeanne Renaud-Mornant 2002-04 John Lambshead 1978-79 William Hummon 2005-07 Keith Walters 1980-81 Robert Higgins 2008-10 Paulo Santos 1982-83 Carlo Heip 2011-13 Nikolaos Lampadariou 1984-86 Olav Giere Board of Correspondents Er Hua College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, P.R.C. [[email protected]] Martin Sørrensen Natural History Museum, Denmark. [[email protected]] Samuel Gomez Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Joel Montes Camarena s/n, 82040 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México. [[email protected]] Jeroen Ingels Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK [[email protected]] Cheng Chen University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia [[email protected]] This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 2 Contents th Contents . 3 12 Copepod international conference Editorial . 3 on copepoda in korea. 6 Systematics of freshwater subterranean Database . 3 Malacostraca . 7 Frontiers in Marine Science. 3 TMS joint Foraminifera and Nannofossil Nematode designing. 4 Spring Meeting 2014. 7 st 1 Meeting of Asian Ostracodologists in Books at a Glance. 4 Korea. 7 Proceedings of the Biological th Society of Washington. 4 6 International Congress of Nematology. 8 Handbook of Zoology: Nematoda. 4 43rd Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting 2014. 8 Meiofauna Gathering. 5 News from members. 8 Approaches to Study Living Norliana Rosli. 8 Foraminifera. 5 Melissa Rohal. 8 Kong Qiang. 8 Upcoming conferences. 5 rd 3 World Conference on Marine Travelled to Korea. 9 Biodiversity. 5 8th International Shallow Lakes Prof. Alexei Valerjevitch TCHESUNOV. 9 Conference. 6 Dr. Hendrik Segers. 9 8th International Symposium Obituaries. 9 on Eastern Mediterranean Love of Meiofauna . 9 Geology. 6 Recent Literature. 9 Conferences, Workshops held and st Registrations closed. 6 Collage …1 MAO In Korea. 15 Membership Renewal Form. 16 Editorial Data Base Dear Colleagues, Frontiers in Marine Science Really time is like an arrow! It has been a year ago since the FiftIMCO in Korea. I hope all of you are having a fruitful time in your research and daily life. Here’s a report for our recent activities, and news related to our society. I must express my sincere thanks to Mr. Vinod Vakati who is editing the current issue of Psammonalia. He will keep devoting to this It's a new journal in the 'Frontiers family' job, hopefully until the end of 2016. I have already called 'Frontiers in Marine Science - Marine hot summer in Seoul, and hopefully all of you have a systematics and Taxonomy'. It's an open access nice summer holiday season. journal, and besides being nested in the Frontiers series that usually maintains good impact factors, With best wishes, importantly this journal is designed for taxonomy, which makes it relevant for many members of our By Wonchoel Lee community. Editor – in – Chief Dr. Martin Vinther Sørensen, Associate Dr. Wonchoel Lee professor at Natural History Museum of Denmark, Who has been appointed as subject editor for Editorial Board Cycloneuralia, meaning that all contributions Vinod Vakati regarding, e.g., nematodes, kinorhynchs and priapulids go through him. We hope people will consider it for their future descriptions. Please go This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 3 through the journal web page (FiftIMCo)’’ and contains 18 selected papers in two sections: I) ‘‘Biodiversity of Meiofauna’’ with ten http://www.frontiersin.org/Marine_Systematics_and papers, and II) ‘‘Invertebrate fauna from Korea’’ Taxonomy/about with eight papers. Nematode designing The papers presented in this issue represent the first collective publication of proceedings of a meeting of the International Meiofauna Conference since its inception in 1969. Hand Book of Zoology: Nematoda Open Worm is an open source project dedicated to creating a virtual C.elegans nematode in a computer. It aims to build the first comprehensive computational model of C.elegans, a microscopic roundworm. With only thousand cells, it solves basic problems such as feeding, mate – finding and predator avoidance. Despite being extremely well studied in biology, this organism still eludes a deep, principled understanding of its biology. People used a bottom-up approach, aimed at observing the worm behavior emerge from a simulation of data derived from scientific Overview experiments carried out over the past decade. To do Comprehensive account of the morphology, so we are incorporating the data available in the ecology, phylogeny and diversity of the scientific community into software models. Nematoda. Please fallow the link for deeper understandings Taxa with important roles as parasites, in http://www.openworm.org/index.html terrestrial and aquatic communities Books at a glance Recent systematic and evolutionary questions are treated. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Aims and Scope Washington This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa, Rotifera, Seisonida and Acanthocephala, covering all relevant topics such as morphology, ecology, This special issue of the Proceedings of the phylogeny and diversity. The series is intended to be Biological Society of Washington is dedicated to the a detailed and up-to-date account of these taxa. As ‘‘Fifteenth International Meiofauna Conference This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 4 was the case with the first edition, the Handbook is Approaches to Study Living Foraminifera intended to serve as a reliable resource for decades. Many of the taxa of this volume are comparatively unknown to many biologists, despite their diversity and importance for example in meiofaunal communities (Gastrotricha, Rotifera, Gnathostomulida), their fascinating recent discoveries (Loricifera and Micrognathozoa), their importance as parasites (many nematodes, Nematomorpha, Acanthocephala) and their importance for evolutionary questions (e.g. Priapulida, Gastrotricha). The groups covered range This book concerns about the experimental approaches with unique concepts to study living from those poor in species (such as Micrognathozoa foraminifera. Especially it’s useful to the one who with 2 known species) to the species-rich and diverse wish to study living foraminifera with a geological Nematoda and their ca. 20.000 described species. and/or paleontological background rather than a biological background. While each taxon is covered by one chapter, Note: It’s freely available online. nematodes are treated in several chapters dedicated to their structural, taxonomic and ecological diversity. Upcoming conferences Meiofauna Gathering The fallowing content would be of interest. Perhaps some of these already been advertised in the previous issue but they are presented again as they are still in the future. 3rd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 12-16 Oct, 2014 Huanghai Hotel, Qingdao, China This book consists of theoretical and http://wcmb2014.csp.escience.cn/ practical explanations about Environmental and Societal Significance, especially with regards to World Conference of Marine Biodiversity Tsunami events. Interestingly this book even covered III Committees For the organization of a special with important