2nd International Meeting on Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Bivalves Buffalo, NY, USA October 4-8, 2015

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Invited Speaker: Alexander Y. 09:00AM Invited Speaker: Manuel Lopes- Karatayev Lima Endangered or invaders? Molluscs - the Conference Opening Addressing Global Conservation most imperiled group of freshwater Issues on Freshwater Bivalves: invertebrates includes the highest 09:20AM Challenges and Opportunities number of invaders

Invasion history of Dreissena Seven steps towards improving polymorpha, the zebra mussel in Lough 09:40AM mussel conservation success Key, an Irish lake Geist, J. Lucy, F.E., Sullivan, M.R., Moran, H. Invited Speaker: Caryn Vaughn Ecosystem services provided by Project Grande Mulette: A recent Dreissena invasion in an old freshwater bivalves Conservation of the Giant Pearl canal system in northern Europe 10:00AM Mussel (Margaritifera auricularia) in Bergengren, J., Svensson, J.-E., von Europe Proschwitz, T., Lundberg, S. Soler, J., Wantzen, K.M., Araujo, R.

10:20AM Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Social Program

The quagga mussel (Dreissena Field Trips rostriformis bugensis) in the southern Ecological services of a host-affiliate Baltic coastal lagoon: a visitor or an Unionid biodiversity and conservation relationship across a gradient of 10:40AM invader? problems in Turkey nutrient loading Wawrzyniak-Wydrowska, B., Kebapçı, Ü. Spooner, D., Hamilton, D. Wozniczka, A., Soroka, M., Radziejewska, T., Skrzypacz, A.

Estimation of exotic bivalve abundance Conservations efforts with focus on Trematode parasitism, an ‘ecosystem and coverage in a large river using the thick shelled river mussel (Unio service’ provided by freshwater traditional sampling, remote sensing, and crassus Philipsson, 1788) and its 11:00AM mussels GIS-derived benthic habitat maps host fish fauna in Svennevadsån, Taskinen, J. Mehler, K., Karatayev, A.Y., Burlakova, Sweden L.E. Wengström, N., Lundberg, S.

Comparison of particle filtration Using sensitivity distributions for A comprehensive freshwater mussel ecosystem services by North assessing effects of river management restoration program: Progress in the American freshwater mussels fed on measures on native and non-native 11:20AM Delaware River Basin natural seston mollusc assemblages Cheng, K., Kreeger, D., Padeletti, Kreeger, D., Gatenby, C., Howard, Collas, F.P.L., Buijse, A.D., Hendriks, A., Thomas, R. J. A.J., Leuven, R.S.E.W. 2nd International Meeting on Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Bivalves Buffalo, NY, USA October 4-8, 2015

Saving six freshwater pearl mussel Enhanced Phylogeography, A comparison of growth and survival Margaritifera margaritifera Demography, and Life History Resolution of quagga mussel veligers in low and populations in the Armorican Massif in Unionid Species: Transitioning from 11:40AM high calcium waters (France) Population Genetics to Population Acharya, K., Ruhmann, E., Davis, Capoulade, M., Pasco, P.-Y., Dury, Genomics C.J., Chandra, S. P., Ribeiro, M., Beaufils, B., King, T. Rostagnat, L.

12:00PM Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break

Conservation of endangered unionids in high-flowing fragmented rivers: historical changes and Sex determination in freshwater mussels: metapopulation dynamics of the Rio 1:00PM a mitochondrial story Grande endangered endemic Invited Speaker: Kevin Cummings Breton, S. Popenaias popeii The Freshwater Mussels (: Burlakova, L.E., Karatayev, A.Y., Unionoida) of South America: A Karatayev, V.A., Miller, T., Perrelli, Review M.F. Dispersal and gene flow in unionid Latitudinal distribution of the unionid mussels and the boundaries defining mussel anatina and its 1:20PM Great Lakes assemblages trematode parasites in Finland Social Program Krebs, R.A., Zanatta, D.T. Choo, J. M., Taskinen, J.

Field Trips Biogeography, ecology and adaptive Varied patterns of post-glacial dispersal strategies of freshwater bivalves by freshwater mussels species into the Parasitic freshwater pearl mussel (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae) in Arctic North American Great Lakes with larvae reduce the drift-feeding rate of 1:40PM Bespalaya, Y.V., Bolotov, implications for conservation and juvenile brown trout I.N. , Aksenova, O.V. , Kondakov, management of imperiled taxa Österling, M.E. A.V. , Gofarov, M.Y. Zanatta, D., Hewitt, T.L., Mathias, P.

Biogeography of freshwater mussels Fast swimming brown trout receives (Bivalvia: Unionoida) across the Species boundaries and levels of a higher parasitic load of freshwater largest Southeast Asian riverbasins: intermixing between two freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera endemism and biodiversity 2:00PM mussel species (Family: ) margaritifera) larvae assessment Porto-Hannes, I., Burlakova, L., Wengström, N., Wahlqvist, F., Konopleva, E., Kondakov, A., Lasker, H. Näslund, J., Aldvén, D., Zaworka, Vikhrev, I., Bespalaya, Y., L., Höjesjö, J. Tumpeesuwan S., Bolotov, I.

Morphological variability of Indochinese The Naiads (Bivalvia: Unionidae) Are all glochidia equal? Evidence of pearl mussels: environmental signal or from Romania: Trends in Knowledge, variation within and among individual chance for species identification? 2:20PM Distribution, Ecological Requirements unionids Vikhrev, I., Bespalaya, Y., Gofarov, M., and Human Impacts Woolnough, D.A., Timmers, R.B., Konopleva, E., Tumpeesuwan, S., Sîrbu, I., Benedek, A.M. Ross, M.J. Minn, M., Bolotov, I. 2nd International Meeting on Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Bivalves Buffalo, NY, USA October 4-8, 2015

A review of the life history of Host fish biotic homogenization: A Australasian freshwater mussels with Cellular changes associated with major threat to Iberian freshwater new information from Western nematode infections in the foot of the 2:40PM mussel (Unionoida) species Australia Alabama rainbow (Villosa nebulosa) Teixeira, A., Varandas, S., Sousa, Klunzinger, M.W., Lymbery, A.J., McElwain, A., Bullard, S. R., Froufe, E., Lopes-Lima, M. Walker, K.F.

Pathological changes associated with a co-infection of metacercaria (Digenea) How does the distribution of unionid and eggs of Unionicola sp. (Acari, Nomenclatural remarks on some freshwater mussels in Texas relate to Uninonicolidae) in the mantle of Elliptio Western-Palearctic Najades the distribution of fishes? 3:00PM complanata (Bivalvia, Unionidae) (Bivalvia: Unionacea) Dascher, E., Olson, J., Burlakova, Springall, B., Fleming, R., Gulkarov, von Proschwitz, T., Falkner, G. L.E., Karatayev, A.Y., Bonner, T., A., Kyaw, W., Lajoie, M., Lima Da Schwalb, A.N. Silveira Jr., L., Lovell, J., Maney, C., McElwain, A.

3:20PM Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

Variation in Growth and Survival in Recovering from co-extirpation: the Alasmidonta heterodon across locations Twenty-five years of change in the challenge of restoring an ecologically in the Northeast, United States 3:40PM Hudson River’s bivalve populations relevant host-affiliate relationship Cole, J.C., Galbraith, H.S., White, B. St. Social Program Strayer, D.L., Malcom, H.M. Galbraith, H.S., Blakeslee, C.J., J., Lellis, W.A., Blakeslee, C.J., Devers, J.L., Minkkinen, S. Weaver, S., Wicklow, B.J. Field Trips

Registration Does exposure to Duck Mussel Does the accumulation of trace (Anodonta anatina) immunize Brown elements in riverine sediments affect Biology and habitat of Sphaerium Trout (Salmo trutta) against the the populations of Margaritifera striatinum in two streams in the upper 4:00PM endangered Freshwater Pearl Mussel margaritifera? Susquehanna River drainage (Margaritifera margaritifera)? Antelo, J., Suarez-Abelenda, M., Dittman, D., Johnson, J., Nack, C. Chowdhury, M.M.R, Salonen, J.K., Pastoriza, C., Barral, J., Ondina, P., Taskinen, J. Outeiro, S., Lois, S., Antelo, J.M.

Environmental influences on the community composition of freshwater From common to probably extinct: Boat hull mediated overland dispersal mussels as a baseline to spatial tales about the peaclam Pisidium chance of dreissenid mussels conservation prioritization: A case 4:20PM amnicum in the Minho River Collas, F.P.L., Karatayev, A.Y., study in the Cuiabá River Basin, (Portugal) Burlakova, L.E., Leuven, R.S.E.W. Midwest of Brazil Sousa, R. Santos, R., Callil, C., Mansur, M., Michiura, A., Colle, A. Characterization and protection of Mussel monitoring in the context of the native species of bivalves in two Physiological and behavioral European Habitats Directive: New coastal lagoons response of native freshwater 4:40PM information on the ecological Varandas, S., Assunção, T., mussels to environmental variables requirements of U. crassus Teixeira, A., Cortes, R., Lopes- Blakeslee, C.J., Galbraith, H.S. Stoeckl, K., Denic, M., Geist, J. Lima, M., Sousa, R., Froufe, E. 2nd International Meeting on Biology and Conservation of Freshwater Bivalves Buffalo, NY, USA October 4-8, 2015

Unravelling the UNIONIDAE: examination of subfamily relationships within Unionidae Bogan, A.E., Froufe, E., Ghamizi, Recovery of mussels in Lake Orta Investigating the impacts of water M., Mock, K., Kebapci, U., Klishko, revealed by social networks ninety years quality on freshwater mussels 5:00PM O., Kovitvadhi, S., Kovitvadhi, U., after their extirpation Choy, S.J., Buttermore, E.N., Paulo, O.S., Raley, M., Riccardi, N., Riccardi, N., Froufe, E., Lopes-Lima, Moore, J.N. Pfeiffer, J.M. III, Sereflisan, H., M., Mazzoli, C. Sousa, R., Teixeira, A., Do, V.T., Varandas, S., Wu, X.P., Zanatta, D. Zieritz, A., Lopes-Lima, M. Social Program Registration Life history trade-off of Anodontites Field Trips trapesialis (Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Mycetopodidae) in a wetland: An Bivalves in human-modified and natural 5:20PM evolutionary or environmental ecosystems of Ukraine adaptation? Protasov, A., Sylaieva, A. Callil, C., Mateus, L., Leite, M., Jones, J.

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Welcome 6:00PM Poster Reception Closing Dinner Reception