CYPRIS International Ostracoda Newsletter Number 35 ISO 18 supplement Abstractbook Impressum i Impressum CYPRIS International Ostracoda Newsletter Number : 35 suppl. - 2017 ISSN (printed): 0886-3806 (online): 2195-030X CYPRIS International Ostracoda Newsletter Editor: Finn Viehberg University of Cologne Institute of Geology and Mineralogy Zülpicher Straße 49A 50674 Cologne, Germany Todd Oakley University of California Santa Barbara Dep. of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology Number 35 ISO 18 Santa Barbara supplement Abstractbook CA 93106, USA Assistant Editor: Caren Pearl Shin School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China Publisher: Förderverein für die International Research Group on Ostracoda e. V. Zülpicher Straße 49A 50674 Cologne Germany Title: Cypris pubera O.F. Müller, 1776 (drawing F. Viehberg) CYPRIS is sponsored by the International Research Group on Ostracoda Copyright „Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlinke 3.0 Unported License“ (18thISO, August 27-31, Santa Barbara) ii Editorial Organizing Committee iii Editorial The International Research Group on Ostracoda (IRGO) is pleased to welcome you to the 18th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ISO), in Santa Barbara at the University of California, Santa Barbara from August 27-31, 2017. This CYPRIS issue is a supplement to CYPRIS 35 (2017), it serves merely to host For the first time in over 30 years, since 1982 in Houston, ISO will return to the abstracts of the 18th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ISO) in Santa North America and the United States of America. Barbara, USA. The ISO is hosted for the third time in the USA after Delaware in 1972 (4thISO) and Houston in 1982 (8thISO). Convenors: There are about 154 registered abstracts in this booklet that cover the latest Todd Oakley (University of California, Santa Barbara), results from ostracod research. All fit well the general topic of the symposium: Gene Hunt (National Museum of Natural History) „Ostracoda - Evolving Witnesses of Changing Environments”. Furthermore, we are also pleased to have several contributions that highlight the work of our missed colleague Prof Robin Whatley († 04.06.2016). These entries are part of Organizing Committee the Robin Whatley Memorial Session (see index). Todd Oakley (UCSB), Elisabeth Torres (California State University, LA), So, here it is the first supplement of the thirty-fifth issue of ‚CYPRIS‘ 2017. Ajna Rivera (University of the Pacific),Finn Viehberg (University Cologne), Gene Hunt (NMNH) Finn Viehberg & Todd Oakley Welcome Committee: Emily Ellis (UCSB), Nicholai Hensley (UCSB), Suzie Heidner (SB), Tess Oakley (SB) Funding Committee: University of California Santa Barbara Lisa Park Boush (University of Connecticut) August 27-31, 2017 Scientific Committee: Steffen Mischke (Iceland) Twitter: @isostracoda18 Simone N. Brandão (Brazil) Vincent Perrier (France) Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ Dermeval do Carmo (Brazil) Benjamin Sames (Austria) Thomas M. Cronin (USA) Isa Schön (Belgium) isostracoda18/ David J. Horne (UK) Alison Smith (USA) Larry Knox (USA) Robin Smith (Japan) Renate Matzke-Karasz (Germany) Oive Tinn (Estonia) Koen Martens (Belgium) Don Van Nieuwenhuise (USA) Ilaria Mazzini (Italy) Moriaki Yasuhara (Hong Kong) *IRGO Officers (2014-2017)* Chair: Finn Viehberg Vice-Chair: Todd Oakley Past Chair: Renate Matzke-Karasz Secretary: Ricardo Lourenco Pinto Communication Officer:Ilaria Mazzini Treasurer: Akira Tsukagoshi CYPRIS 35th supplement (2017) (18thISO, August 27-31, Santa Barbara) iv Editorial Locations and Abbreviations v Table of Content Locations and Abbreviations Impressum i Manzanita Village - is the group of student apartments on the west side of campus over- Editorial ii looking the Pacific Ocean. Those who chose the campus housing will stay at Manzanita Organizing Committee iii Village. Our ice breaker reception, symposium dinner, and poster session will be located Locations and Abbreviations v in Manzanita village. Campus Map 1 De La Guerra Commons (DLG) - is the dining commons, where meals are included Press release 2 with the housing package for those staying at Manzanita Village. If you are staying off cam- ISO-18 schedule 4 pus, you may buy individual meals at DLG, or have meals at the food court in the UCEN, or at restaurants in Isla Vista. For dinner, you could drive or take a bus to downtown Santa Saturday August 26 6 Barbara. Sunday, August 27 7 Monday, August 28 8 Have you ever heard of the musician Jack Johnson? He was a UCSB student. His famous Tuesday, August 29 9 song Bubble Toes about a surfer girl says “I was eating lunch at the DLG”, where he met Wednesday, August 30 10 his surfer girl. If you visit our beaches, you might understand why the song says “her feet Thursday, August 31 11 are infested with tar balls”. Sessions with Presenters and Titles 12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4D42hn-Ww Monday, August 28 12 https://tinyurl.com/ya9uotzn Tuesday, August 29 13 Wednesday, August 30 (Poster session) 14 Move like a jellyfish. Go with the flow. Poster Session 14 MCC (Multi-Cultural Center) Theater - is the site of all morning sessions and vendor Thursday, August 31 17 displays. The theater is on the ground floor. Morning coffee breaks will be just outside Abstracts 18 between MCC and the University Center (UCEN), which has food, coffee, and a bookstore. Session 1 - Paleoecology and diversity 18 Session 2 - Brackish Ostracoda 23 Life Sciences Building (LSB) - is the site of all afternoon sessions. We will use the Session 3 - Ecology and Biodiversity 28 lecture hall, room 1001, which is also called the Rathman Auditorium. Coffee breaks will be just outside LSB in the afternoons. The African Taxonomic Harmonization Workshop Session 4 - Paleontology, Evolution, and Development 33 is located in LSB as well. Session 5 - Courtship, reproduction, and sexual selection 38 Session 6 - Paleoenvironment I 44 Hatlen Theater - is part of UCSB’s Theater and Dance Department. We will use the Session 7 - Paleoenvironment II 48 theater for screening the documentary Life That Glows, featuring cypridinid ostracods and Session 8 - Neotropical Ostracoda 53 other amazingly luminous creatures. The screening will be open to the public and have a Session 9 - Biostratigraphy 58 Question and Answer session with an expert panel of scientists and filmmakers, featured in the documentary. Poster Session 64 Presenter (Index) 108 Your personal notes: 110 CYPRIS 35th supplement (2017) (18thISO, August 27-31, Santa Barbara) Campus Map 1 Campus Map (18thISO, August 27-31, Santa Barbara) 2 Press release Life That Glows ostracod 3 Press release and even to communicate. Many are not closely related, yet hundreds of species have separately evolved the ability to emit light. Life That Glows ostracod As part of the 18th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ISO-18) Aug. 27- 31 at UC Santa Barbara, a screening of the award-winning BBC documentary “Life That Glows” will be held at 8 p.m. Aug. 29 in the campus’s Hatlen Theater. Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 20:00 Co-sponsored by Ammonite Films, UCSB’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, Location: Hatlen Theater. UCSB Campus and Marine Biology (EEMB) and the ISO-18 conference, the documentary is free and open to the public. In the film, Sir David Attenborough reveals As part of the 18th International Symposium on Ostracoda (ISO-18) Aug. 27- the vast scale of bioluminescence in unprecedented detail, thanks to specially 31 at UC Santa Barbara, a screening of the award-winning BBC documentary designed cameras. “Life That Glows” will be held at 8 p.m. Aug. 29 in the campus’s Hatlen Theater. Co-sponsored by Ammonite Films, UCSB’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, “The film is absolutely beautiful and the science is accurate and easy to un- and Marine Biology (EEMB) and the ISO-18 conference, the documentary is derstand,” said Todd Oakley, an EEMB associate professor and convener of free and open to the public. In the film, Sir David Attenborough reveals ISO-18. “We are fortunate to host several of the scientists featured in the film, as the vast scale of bioluminescence in unprecedented detail, thanks to specially well as one of the cinematographers, who are available for a question-and-ans- designed cameras. One of the film‘s cinematographers, and several of its featu- wer session after the screening. It will be a really special night.” red scientists, will be on campus for a Q&A immediately following the screening. ‘Panelists include UCSB alumni Steven Haddock, a senior scientist at the http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2017/018210/life-glows Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and Jim Morin, professor emeri- tus at Cornell University; Gretchen Gerrish, an associate biology professor at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse; Trevor Rivers, a research affiliate and instructor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence; and Elliot Lowndes, ‚Life That Glows’ natural history videographer whose footage appears in “Life That Glows.” http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2017/018210/life-glows By Julie Cohen Sir David Attenborough narrates an award-winning BBC documentary about bioluminescent organisms at a free screening Aug. 29 Bioluminescence is a persistent mys- tery everywhere — in the deep oce- an, shallow reefs, plains and forests, soil and air. The numerous ways in which life forms biochemically cre- ate light are still being explored, but why they do it remains an enigma. Scientists posit that many organis- ms — fireflies, millipedes, bacteria, squid, plankton, jellies, krill and ostracods — have developed