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Molluscan Forum 2019 Number 70 (February The Malacologist Page 1 NUMBER 58 FEBRUARY 2012 Contents Editorial ………………………………...………….…... 2 News and Notices………………………………………..…2 Molluscan Forum 2011 ABSTRACTS…...…...………7 to 23 Travel Grant Reports - World Congress Grants and Awards.............................................................28 of Malacology 2019, California (USA) Membership notices .............................................................29 Mapping slug diversity in gardens Imogen Cavadino …….24 Conference - Limpets 2020 Biology of Limpets: The nudibranch genus Jorunna in Europe with a evolution, adaptation, ecology and environmental focus on the J. tomentosa complex - Jenny Neuhaus………...25 impacts.............................................................................................31 Sun, sea and solenogastres - Lauren Sumner-Rooney...…...25 Notice of the Annual General Meeting......................................32 Research Grant Report: Cuban Cupids: mating behaviour and physiology of dart- possessing land snails - Joris Koene & Bernardo Reyes-Tur…..26 Molluscan Forum 2019 Last November young malacologists from across Europe took part in the Malacological Forum at the Natural History Museum. The abstracts of the thirty one presentations start inside, starting on page 8. This image encapsulates the cycling processes in the Southern Ocean which are vulnerable to climate change. See the abstract entitled by Alejandro Roman Gonzalez & James Scourse on page 19. The Malacological Society of London was founded in 1893 and registered as a charity in 1978 (Charity Number 275980) Number 70 (February The Malacologist Page 2 EDITORIAL As usual, the February issue carries the abstracts of the presentations which took place at the Malacologists Forum. As is customary at these meetings, the audience was positive and attentive. My zoological education goes back a long way. We spent a lot of time dissecting and drawing animals and ‘molecular biology’ had not yet appeared in the vocabulary (nor had computers). I was ruefully amazed therefore to find this sentence in one of the abstracts. “In this work, an expanded taxon set of specimens from across the geographical distribution of P. quadrilineata was assembled and the gene cytochrome c oxydase subunit I was used to generate a Bayesian phylogenetic tree, perform species delimitation analysis based on the Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery method, and to generate a haplotype network.” It is well written and I know what it means but put it before any biology student thirty years ago and they would have been lost. My amazement stems from appreciating how far, and fast we have come in the biological sciences in general, and malacology in particular. As ever, the abstracts published in this issue cover an eclectic mix of malacology ranging from parasitism to shellfisheries management to cannibalism to plastics pollution. Among other things they illustrate the contribution being made by malacology to un- derstanding climate change (for example Alejandro Gonzalez & James Scourse on page 19) and past environments (for example Quentin Wackenheim on page 23). The Society, its publications and its meetings need to be managed and there is a dedicated group of people who do this as the Council of the Society. On page 6 you can see most of the Council, photographed at a recent Council meeting. A PLEA The Council would like to digitise issues of the Newsletter, which predated both The Malacol- ogist and the malacological Bulletin. If any membersNEWS have copies of the Newsletter (particularly num- bers 1-7), could they please contact me. Emeritus Prof. Georges Dussart TAXONOMIC/NOMENCLATURAL DISCLAIMER Canterbury Christ Church University This publication is not deemed to be valid for taxonomic/nomenclatural purposes North Holmes Rd., [see Article 8b in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature 3rd Edition Canterbury (1985), edited by W.D. Ride et al.]. Kent CT1 3JZ UK [email protected] News and notes See pages 31 and 32 in this issue for details of this meeting and the Annual General Meeting. News and notices and News ICIM-5: 5th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, August 2-7, 2020 See congress website for details on the program, speakers, social events, and much more here: https://icim5-2020.univie.ac.at Prof. DDr. Andreas Wanninger, University of Vienna Wanninger Andreas <[email protected] Number 70 (February The Malacologist Page 3 FREE TO GOOD HOME Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London / Journal of Molluscan Studies, complete from Vol 40 (1972) to Vol 82 (2016) including Supplements 1-7, 9, 11, 15. ALSO Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, mostly complete (a few early issues missing) from 6 (new series, 1900) to 84 (2004), plus most annual reports. Recipient must collect, from north-east England. Contact [email protected] Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, notices and News Florida After eight months, The Shell Museum will reopen for visitors on Saturday, December 21, 2019. The Museum is still putting the finishing touches on its general construction, but will be open for all visi- tors beginning on Saturday 12/21 with more pro- grams, exhibits, and activities than ever before, including a new exhibit: Coral Reefs: Nurseries of the Sea. The New Living Gallery (aquarium) will open in March, 2020. Visitors are encouraged to check the website: www.shellmuseum.org for updates or call the Museum at 239-395-2233. Daily Beach walks are always available and may be reserved by calling the Museum. Regular hours will be daily 10am – 5pm Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum | 3075 Sanibel-Captiva Road, Sanibel, FL 33957 Littorina littorea shells A graduate student in one of my courses used Littorina littorea shells as part of a published study. https://blaypublishers.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/ye-leb63.pdf I have ca. a dozen of his specimens and would like to donate the, as vouchers, to a suitable museum. The specimens have geographical provenance and day of collection. If anyone is interested, please feel free to email me at: [email protected] Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/santiagoblay.cfm Number 70 (February The Malacologist Page 4 Conference - Non-marine snails and slugs: from extinction to invasion We are pleased to invite you to participate in International scientific conference "Non-marine snails and slugs: from extinc- tion to invasion", that will take place from 25th to 28th of August 2020 in Riga, Latvia. This Conference hosted by Institute of Horticulture, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies in cooperation with the Latvian Malacological Society. The aim of the meeting is to bring together the latest advances in research on the non-marine snails and slugs, and to pro- vide an opportunity to exchange information and ideas and stimulate joint research and collaboration. The official lan- guage of the conference will be English. More information is available at the conference website: notices and News https://www.darzkopibasinstituts.lv/en/international-scientific-conference-non-marine-snails-and-slugs-from-extinction- to-invasion The latest Conference updates will be available via the Conference website. Arturs Stalaz s Researcher; secretary of conference Institute of Horticulture Graudu iela 1, Cerin i, Krimu nu pagasts, Dobeles novads, LV-3701, LATVIA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY / GENOMICS TOPIC: Drivers of diversification in predatory gastropods One full-time postdoctoral position for 2 years is available at the Muse um National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), located in Paris, France. The position will start the 1st of June 2020. A one-year extension is negotiable. The post-doctoral fellow will work in the framework of the ERC project “Hyperdiverse” (ERC-COG-2019, # 865101), who seeks at identifying the drivers of diversification in a group of marine predatory snails, the neogastropods. One of the goals of the project is to sequence 15 genomes of species characterized by various feeding and developmental strategies, two characters that might have influenced the evolutionary success of the group. These genomes would be the first for neogas- tropods (except for some low-quality, poorly assembled genomes), which are also known to have a large genome size (2- 5Gb), with many repeated elements. The post-doc fellow will have to assemble the genomes, combining data from various sequencing technologies (Illumina, Minion, PacBio), and will also be in charge of the genome annotation, in particular to identify candidate genes involved in feeding (e.g. toxins, anaesthetics, etc…) and in larval development, integrating popula- tion genomics approaches. Within the “Institut de Syste matique, Evolution et Biodiversite ” of the MNHN, the post-doc fel- low will work in the team 3E (“Exploration, Espe ces, Evolution”), working on the systematics and evolution of benthic ma- rine invertebrates. The team regularly organizes expeditions that the post-doc fellow may join, to enrich the MNHN collec- tions and provide data for a highly active international network of taxonomists and evolutionists with which the fellow will collaborate. QUALIFICATIONS - PhD in Biology. The candidates are expected to have a good experience in genome assembly and annota- tion. SALARY – 2650€ per month APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Please submit a CV, detailing your experience in genome sequencing, assembly and annotation. Email your application to [email protected],
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