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9th International Symposium on Tardigrada St. Pete Beach, FL 28 July – 1 August 2003 Program of Events Date/Time Event Location_________ Sunday July 27, 2003 6:00pm – 8:00pm Welcome Social Beachfront Breezeway Monday July 28, 2003 Session 1 Welcome Mediterranean Palm 9:00am Jim Garey, Symposium Committee Chair 9:10am Sandy Schneider, Associate Dean of Research, USF 9:30am Diane Nelson, East Tennessee State University Tardigrade Research: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going? 10:30am Morning Break Mediterranean Palm Session 2 Phylogeny Mediterranean Palm 11:00am Jerome Reiger, University of Maryland 12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch Royal Palm – 8th Floor 1:30pm Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh Molecular phylogenetics of the Tardigrada and an investigation of the position of tardigrades in animal phylogeny 2:00pm Jette Eibye-Jacobsen, University of Copenhagen Three dimensional understanding of the foremost section of the buccal apparatus of Echiniscus viridissimus Peterfi, 1956 (Heterotardigrada) 2:30pm Ruth Dewel, Appalachian State University Origin and Diversification of the Arthropods: New Interpretations of Some Old Characters 3:00pm Afternoon Break Mediterranean Palm 3:30pm Roberto Bertolani, University of Modena Phylogenetic relationships in Macrobiotidae (Tardigrada). II. Molecular (mtDNA) and morphological approaches 4:00pm P. Brent Nichols, University of South Florida Family Values: A Cladistic Analysis of the Tardigrada 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 2 Date/Time Event Location_________ Tuesday July 29, 2003 Session 1 Life History – Temperate Mediterranean Palm 9:00am Tiziana Altiero, University of Modena Phenotypic life history variations in two clones of Macrobiotus richtersi 9:30am Harry Meyer, McNeese State University Distribution of Terrestrial Tardigrades in the State of Florida 10:00am Nigel Marley, University of Plymouth Preliminary Results from a Study on Ecuadorian Tardigrada 10:30am Morning Break Mediterranean Palm 11:00am Juliana Hinton, McNeese State University Seasonal and Spatial Variation in Tardigrade Diversity in Leaf Litter from Florida and Louisiana 11:30am Paul Bartels, Warren Wilson College A Large-scale, Multi-Habitat Inventory of Tardigrades in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch Royal Palm – 8th Floor Session 2 Poster Session 1 Sabal - Canary Palm 3rd Floor 1:30pm Wataru Abe, Hokkaido University Semiterrestrial Tardigrades form Sakhalin Island, Far East Russia Jennifer Daub, University of Edinburgh Genomic Resources for the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini Peter Degma, Comenius University The Ecological Distribution of Tardigrada in National Nature Reserve Stužica (Bukovské vrchy Mts , NE Slovakia ) Maria Fernandez, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Population Dynamics of Dactylobiotus grandipes Schuster et al., 1977 (Tardigrada) in a Neotropical Eutophic Pond. Roberto Guidetti, University of Modena Dactylobiotus octavi n. sp. (Eutardigrada; Macrobiotidae) from Disko Island St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 3 Date/Time Event Location_________ Session 2 Poster Session 1- cont. Sabal - Canary Palm 3rd Floor Jesper Hansen, University of Copenhagen The “Hyena Female” within the Marine Tardigrada with the Description of Two New Species of Megastygarctides (Arthrotardigrada: Stygarctidae) from Saudi Arabia Nigel Marley, University of Plymouth Designation of Pseudobiotus kathmanae Nelson (Tardigrada) as the Type Species of Pseudobiotus Nelson. Daiki Horikawa, Hokkaido University The Effects of Prehydration on the Anhydrobiotic Survival in the Tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum Javier Jerez-Jaimes, University of Puerto Rico Tardigrades in Six Phorphytes of the Moss Calymperes tenerum C. Müller ElianaNarvaea, University of PuertoRico Tardigrade Community Composition in Four ForestTypes in the El Divisio Reserve, (Santander, Colombia) Atsushi Suzuki, University of Keio Oogenesis of Milnesium tardigradum Sandra McInness, British Antarctic Survey Exceptional, Tardigrade Dominated Ecosystems in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Diana Sucharski, Chestnut Hill College Tardigrades of North America: Southeastern Pennsylvania 3:00pm Afternoon Break Mediterranean Palm 3:30pm FreeTime/Late Additions St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 4 Date/Time Event Location_________ Wednesday July 30, 2003 Session 1 Life History – Polar and Sub-polar Mediterranean Palm 9:30am Michael Collins, University of Newfoundland A Preliminary Account of Tardigrades of Labrador, Canada 10:00am Randy Miller, Chestnut Hill College Tardigrades of the Sub-Antarctic: 5000 year old eggs from Marion Island 10:30am Morning Break Mediterranean Palm 11:00am Jesper Hansen, University of Copenhagen A Study on the Genus Amphibolus from Disko Island, Greenland, with Special Attention on the Life Cycle of Amphibolus nebulosus (Eutardigrada: Eohypsibiidae) 11:30am Matthew Boeckner, University of Newfoundland Factors Affecting the Ecology of Tardigrada in Labrador, Canada with Relation to Elevation, Latitude, Seasonality, and Desiccation Tolerance. 12:00 – 12:30pm Lunch Boxed Lunch 12:30pm Busch Gardens Resort Entrance St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 5 Date/Time Event Location_________ Thursday July 31, 2003 Session 1 Life History -- Marine Mediterranean Palm 9:45am Tom Boesgaard, University of Copenhagen The Tardigrade Fauna of Two Australian Marine Caves With Descriptions of Six New Species of Arthrotardigrada. 9:45am Iben Heiner, University of Copenhagen A Revision of the Marine Genus Orzeliscus, Arthrotardigrada, Tardigrada 10:30am Morning Break Mediterranean Palm 11:00am Reinhardt Kristensen, University of Copenhagen Extreme Secondary Sexual Dimorphism in the Genus Florarctus (Arthrotardigrada: Halechiniscidae) 11:30am Clark Beasley, McMurry University Additions to the Tardigrada Fauna of China 12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch Royal Palm – 8th Floor Session 2 Poster Session 2 Sabal - Canary Palm 3rd Floor 1:30pm Łukasz Kaczmarek, A Mickiewicz University Milnesium katarzynae sp. nov., a New Species of Eutardigrade from China Hiroki Harada, Yokohama National University The response of Soil-Inhabiting Tardigrade Communities to Various Forests in the Southern Part of Kanagawa Prefacture. Nigel Marley, University of Plymouth Tardigrades of Southwest England, United Kingdom. A Long-term, Multi-habitat Survey from the Coastal Urban Habitats to the Upland Moors. Clayton Marshall, Eastern High School A Comparative Study of Souther Indiana Urban and Rural Tardigrade Populations Due to Seasonal Environmental pH Changes. Harry Meyer, McNeese State University Small-scale Spatial Variability in Terrestrial Tardigrade Populations. Maria Moly de Peluffo, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Tardigrade Distributions in a Medium-sized City of Central Argentina St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 6 Date/Time Event Location_________ Session 2 Poster Session 2- cont. Sabal - Canary Palm 3rd Floor Lorena Rebecchi, University of Modena Resting Eggs in Tardigrades Fran Thomas, University of Edinburgh Establishment of a Culture System for and Lifecycle Dynamics of the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini Birna Trygvadottir, University of Copenhagen Tardigrades of the Faroe Islands Karsten Klage, Virginia Tech University Tardigrades – Understanding Dessication Tolerance. Sandra McInness, British AntarcticSurvey Tardigrade faunaof Sub-Antarctic Marion Island in the Prince Edward Archipelago, South Indian Ocean – A Preliminary Report. Sandra McInness, British Antarctic Survey Tardigrade Fauna of the South Sandwich Islands Randy Miller, Chestnut Hill College Tardigrades of North America: Central Park, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 3:00pm Afternoon Break Mediterranean Palm Session 3 Taxonomy & Methods Mediterranean Palm 3:30pm Habib Maroon, University of Edinburgh Adult and Embryonic Anatomy of Hypsibius dujardini 4:00pm Randy Miller, Chestnut Hill College Auto-Montage Imaging for Tardigrades 4:30pm Jonnathan Herrera-Vásquez, University of Costa Rica Tardigrades Density and Diversity in Four Life Zones of Costa Rica. St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 7 Date/Time Event Location_________ Friday August 1, 2003 Session 1 Physiology Mediterranean Palm 9:00am Richard Helm, Virginia Tech University Tardigrades and Biomimetic Cell Stabilization 10:00am Lorena Rebecchi, University of Modena Long-term Anhydrobiotic Survival of Lichen-dwelling Tardigrades 10:30am Morning Break Mediterranean Palm 11:00am Roberto Guidetti, University of Modena Encystment in Eutardigrades: Differences and Common Traits in Two Evolutionary Lines 12:00pm Open Forum 1:00 – 2:00pm Lunch Royal Palm – 8th Floor St. Pete Beach, Florida USA 27 July – 1 August, 2003 9th International Symposium on Tardigrada 8 Semiterrestrial Tardigrades from Sakhalin Island, Far East Russia Wataru ABE Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Abstract. No report on the tardigrades from the Sakhalin Island has been made until now. 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