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Scientific Program for Molluscs 2015 as at 18 th November Mon day 30 th Nov ember Tues day 1st Dec ember Wed nesday 2nd Dec ember 8:00am Registration Registration Registration Jetty Room, Pacific Bay Resort Jetty Room, Pacific Bay Resort Jetty Room, Pacific Bay Resort 8:45am Welcome: opening address (conference chair, MSA President) 9:00 Opening Keynote: Tony Rees Keynote: Richard Willan Keynote: Karen Cheney 10 years of global biodiversity databases: are we there yet? Where have all the opisthobranchs gone? Understanding chemical and colour diversity in nudibranchs 9:45 Keynote: Pauline Ross Keynote: Karina Hall Keynote: Bob Creese Impacts of ocean climate change on marine molluscs Determing the current status of eastern australian From New Zealand molluscs to marine biodiversity cephalopod stocks conservation – a personal journey 10:30 Morning Tea (Pacific Bay) Morning Tea (Pacific Bay) Morning Tea (Pacific Bay) 10:45 Human impacts and evolution Bioresources : Molecular innovations Biodiversity & Citizen Science 11:00 Kevin Kocot Carmel McDougall Kiran Liversage Phylogenomics of Aplacophora and a solenogaster without a Genetic novelty underlies the patterning of abalone shells. Can citizen scientists monitor molluscs? Results from foot reef and beach molluscs in and around SA Marine Parks 11:20 Fred Wells Bijayalakshmi Devi Nongmaithem Steve Smith Protecting the Australian marine environment against invasive More than a legend: scientific proof of the traditional value of The Sea Slug Census: a citizen science approach to marine species – but what species? opercula from Tyrian purple producing mollusc documenting the diversity of heterobranch sea slugs 11:40 Rachel Przeslawski Scott Cummins Matt Nimbs Potential impacts of marine seismic surveys on scallops Snail pheromone odours that dictate key ecological interactions Temporal variability in heterobranch sea slug assemblages on three intertidal rocky reefs of the Solitary Islands Marine Park 12:00 Simon Hills David Rudd Renee Rossini Mitochondrial Phylogenomics of New Zealand Aeneator Finlay, Mass spectrometry imaging reveals new biological roles for Dealing with permanent impermanence: the ecology of 1926 and Buccinulum Deshayes , 1830 species (Buccinidae) choline esters and Tyrian purple precursors in muricid molluscs endemic snails in Australia’s desert spring 12:20 Lunch (Pacific Bay) Lunch (Pacific Bay) Lunch (Packed boxes from Pacific Bay (Molluscan Research Editorial board meeting) then to NMSC) MSA AGM (1pm) in the NMSC Lecture Theatre Monday 30 th November (continued) Tuesday 1 st December (continued) Wednesday 2 nd December (Continued) NMSC Lecture NMSC Classroom NMSC Lecture NMSC Classroom Theatre Theatre Climate Change Phylogeography & Bioresources: Biodiversity and evolution Molecular Bioegeography innovations 1:20 Gustav Kessel Hamish Spencer Natasha Botwright Tom Davis A limpet’s legacy: carry-over Divergence of New Zealand and Draft abalone genome and Quantifying subtidal mollusc effects between life stages temperate Australian abalomics portal: lessons diversity in a temperate estuary and generations caused by cantharidines (Trochidae: learned global change stressors Cantharidinae) is ancient 1:40 Rick Tate Jude Keyse Robert Day Jen Marsha ll Effects of ocean Strong signature of the Torres Profiling of nutritional Spatial and depth-related acidification and warming Strait landbridge on population metabolites of abalone patterns of infaunal macro- on the feeding ecology and structure in three species of using 1HNMR. mollusc assemblages in a nutritional properties of the Tridacna giant clams subtropical marine park predatory whelk, Dicathais orbita 2:00 Roselyn Regino Luisa Teasdale Bryce Peebles Ca itlin Woods Ocean Warming and CO2- Using ‘next generation’ Examination of chiton valve Monitoring long-term change in Induced Acidification Impact sequencing to resolve deep mineralogy, pigments, and macro-mollusc biodiversity on the Lipid Content of a phylogenetic relationships in proteins using Raman subtropical rocky shores Marine Predatory the land molluscs spectroscopy Gastropod (Eupulmonata) 2:20 Roslizawati Ab Lah Sarah Jacquet Ajit Kumar Nicola Fraser Panel discussion Thermal preference and New Lower Cambrian Ngangbam Evidence for Biodiversity of rocky intertidal Future Priorities for Molluscan Research tolerance of Turbinids snails macromolluscs from South the role of bacterial shores in the Solitary Islands NMSC Lecture Theatre (Turbo militaris and Lunella Australia and taphonomic symbionts in Tyrian purple Marine Park, NSW undulata ) from New South constraints in the fossil record. production in a marine Wales, Australia mollusc 2:40 Kehani Manson Frank Kohler Vineet Vaibhav Fabrice Brescia Wrap-up and Student Prizes Facing the heat: thermal From alpha taxonomy to Identification of disease Ecology and population trends NMSC stress, infrared phylogenomics: resistance biomarkers in in the New Caledonian thermography and intertidal Understanding Australia’s Sydney Rock Oysters. Placostylus snail (Mollusca: gastropods iconic land snails, the Gastropoda: Bulimulidae) Camaenidae. 3:00 Afternoon Tea at the Aquarium, NMSC Afternoon Tea at the Aquarium, NMSC Afternoon Tea at the Aquarium, NMSC Poster Session Poster Session Monday 30 th November (continued) Tuesday 1 st December (continued) Wednesday 2 nd December (continued) NMSC Lecture NMSC Classroom NMSC Lecture NMSC Classroom Theatre Theatre Ecology & life Phylogeography Bioresources: Nudibranchs history Fisheries & Aquaculture 3:30 Andy Davis Ting Hui Ng Michael Dove Matt Nimbs Close Prickly proposition: Are Not in the Least Concern: Advances in breeding Introducing NudiKey v1.0: an spinose freshwater nerites Current status of Pila scutata Sydney rock oysters, illustrated, interactive key to better defended? (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) in Saccostrea glomerata the Australian heterobranch Peninsular Malaysia sea-slug families 3:50 Daniel Bucher Don Colgan Wayne O’Connor Meryl Larkin Analysis of concentric bands Fine-scale phylogeography of Advances in hatchery As clear as night and day: Diel in statoliths as an age the invasive mussel Xenostrobus production of flat oysters heterobranch sea slug study in a determination method in securis in central New South temperate estuary subtropical Dicathais orbita Wales 4:10 Nicole Phillips Felix Vaux Natalie Yen -Wei Chang Larval ecology and Paraphyly and Invasion in New Moltschaniwsky Molecular phylogeny of settlement of the tropical Zealand true whelks Changes in spawning phyllidiid nudibranchs vermetid gastropod, (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae, deposition and population (Porostomata: Phyllidiidae) Ceraesignum maximum Buccinulidae ) size in Sepioteuthis based on the mitochondrial australis : tracking a decadal genes (COI and 16S). long decline at multiple time scales 4:30 Natalie Kirsten Donald Amanda Beasley Lisa Kirkendale Moltschaniwsky Phylogeography of the whelk Exploring methods to Kimberly marine molluscs Establishing a link between genus Cominella (Gastropoda, directly age cuttlefish via deconstructed personality and resting Buccinidae) suggests long- statolith increments metabolic rates in the distance dispersal of a direct dumpling squid, Euprymna developer. tasmanica 4:50: Close Close Close Close 6:00 Conference D inner at Pacific Bay Resort .
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