Creatures of Mystery: Global Research on Syngnathidae Fishes Meeting Schedule for SyngBio 2021 (Time Zone: UTC+8, Beijing, China) (Continually updating) We are delighted to have you join us for the SyngBio2021 meeting! We believe we have a dynamic and broad program, with contributed work from at least 15 countries and 5 continents, and fantastic invited speakers! 1 / 7 17 May, Monday Time and Duration Agenda Location 09:00am- Ramada Hotel Meeting on-site Registration 17 May 12:00am (Guangzhou) Morning 03:00pm- Ramada Hotel Meeting on-site Registration 06:00pm (Guangzhou) 18 May, Tuesday Opening Ceremony - In-person & Online Online Zoom ID: to be updated Moderator: Qiang Lin Time and Duration Agenda Person Qiang Lin, Chairman 09:00am- Announcing the beginning of ceremony of the Conference 09:10am (China) Director of the South 09:10am- China Sea Institute Welcome and Announcement 09:20am of Oceanology (China) 09:20am- Amanda C.J. Vincent To be updated 09:50am (Canada) 18 May 09:50am- Morning Photos & Coffee break 10:20am 10:20am- Plenary speech: Global Syngnathiformes Genome Project Qiang Lin 10:30am (GSGP) (China) 10:30am- Camilla Whittington Plenary speech: To be updated 11:00am (USA) 11:00am- Josefin Stiller Plenary speech: To be updated 11:30am (Denmark) 11:30am- Development of seahorse brood pouch in the aspect of Mari Kawaguchi 12:00am neofunctionalization of the genes (Japan) 2 / 7 Session (Syngnathid Conservation) - In-person & Online Online Zoom ID: to be updated Suggested Moderator: Louw Claassens & Xiong Zhang Time and Duration Agenda Person Keynote Speech: Filling Knowledge Gaps in Advancing 02:30pm- Xiong Zhang Seahorse Conservation: Species distributions & human 03:10pm (China) impacts 03:10pm- Keynote Speech: Turning the tide on syngnathid Louw Claassens 03:50pm conservation and research in southern Africa (South Africa) 03:50pm- Seadragon genome analysis provides insights into its Meng Qu 04:15pm phenotype and sex determination locus (China) 04:15pm- Coffee break 04:25pm 18 May 04:25pm- David Booth Afternoon Weedy seadragon demography study 04:50pm (Australia) 04:50pm- The past, present-day, and future geographical distribution Zhixin Zhang 05:10pm of seaweed pipefish (Japan) 05:10pm- Diego Luzzatto A new method to assess natural history traits of seahorses 05:30pm (Argentina) 05:30pm- Zhengsen Yu Taxonomy and reproductive biology of Syngnathus schlegeli 05:50pm (China) Effects of tributyltin on gonad and brood pouch 05:50pm- Lu Tang development of male pregnant lined seahorse (Hippocampus 06:10pm (China) erectus) at environmentally relevant concentrations 19 May, Wednesday Session (Aquaculture & Environment) - In-person & Online Online Zoom ID: to be updated Suggested Moderator: Dong Zhang, Kai Wang, Jinhui Sun Time and Duration Agenda Person 09:00am- Keynote Speech: Seahorse aquaculture: how far can we Dong Zhang 19 May 09:40am reach? (Keynote speech) (China) Morning 09:40am- Research model and its evaluation of seahorse bacterial Kai Wang 10:05am enteritis (China) 3 / 7 10:05am- Geng Qin To be updated 10:30 am (China) 10:30am- Coffee break 10:40am 10:40am- Intestinal microbiota dysbioses caused by seahorse bacterial LeLe Zhang 11:00am enteritis pathogen Edwardsiella tarda (China) 11:00am- Effects of marine organic pollutant on intestinal structure Yanan Tian 11:20am and microbiota of lined seahorse (China) 11:20am- Influence of microplastics absorption of heavy metals on Ying Liu 11:40am lined seahorse (China) 11:40am- Chromosome preparation and karyotype of lined seahorse Xin Liu 12:00am Hippocampus erectus (China) Session (Biology & Behavior) Online Zoom ID: to be updated Suggested Moderator: Olivia Roth, Yali Liu Time and Duration Agenda Person 02:30pm- Keynote Speech: Evolution of male pregnancy and Olivia Roth 03:10pm remodeling of vertebrate adaptive immunity (Germany) 03:10pm- Nuno Monteiro Keynote Speech:?? 03:50pm (Portugal) Identification of neurohypophysial hormones and their roles 03:50pm- Huixian Zhang in the parturition of the pregnant seahorse (Hippocampus 04:15pm (China) erectus) 04:15pm- Coffee break 19 May 04:25pm Afternoon 04:25pm- Rapid growth and short life spans characterize pipefish David Booth 04:45pm populations in vulnerable seagrass beds (Australia) 04:45pm- Tingting Lin Compensation strategies for male parental care of seahorse 05:05pm (China) 05:05pm- Establishment of hematology reference intervals in big Claire Grosset 05:25pm bellied seahorses (Hippocampus abdominalis) (Canada) 05:25pm- Cloning and expression pattern analysis of foxl2 and Jingjing Ma 05:50pm foxl2-like genes in Hippocampus erectus (China) 4 / 7 05:50pm- A crown for each monarch: a distinguishable pattern using Miguel Correia 06:10pm photo ID (Portugal) Important Note: In-person meeting participants leaving or/and attending the inspection activities, and the follow-up meeting is only in the form of online meeting 20 May, Thursday Offline inspection activities (09:00am-5:00pm) 20 May, Thursday Session (Systematics & Evolution) Online Zoom ID: to be updated Suggested Moderator: Healy Hamilton, Yanhong Zhang Time and Duration Agenda Person 07:00pm- Healy Hamilton Keynote speech: to be updated 07:40pm (USA) 07:40pm- Chunyan Li Global dispersal routes and adaptive evolution of seahorses 08:05pm (China) 08:05pm- Snake pipefish in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean: boom Kenyon Mobley 20 May 08:30pm and bust in a panmictic population (Finland) Evening The seahorse population in Greece and especially the 08:30pm- density, structure and habitat use in a semi-closed Vasilis Mentogiannis 08:55pm north-eastern Mediterranean marine area (Stratoni, north (Greece) Aegean Sea) 08:55pm- Phylogeographical patterns of syngnathid fishes in Xin Wang 09:20pm Norhtwest Pacific (China) 21 May, Friday Session (Genomics & Genetics) Online Zoom ID: to be updated Suggested Moderator: Sarah Flanagan, Yanhong Zhang Time and Duration Agenda Person 21 May 09:00am- Keynote Speech: Genomic data reveals the role of selection Sarah Flanagan 5 / 7 Morning 09:40am in the evolution of sex-role reversed pipefish (New Zealand) Comparative genomics reveal shared genomic changes in 09:40am- Yanhong Zhang syngnathid fishes and signatures of genetic convergence 10:05am (China) with placental mammals Genomic and morphological evidence of distinct populations 10:05am- O. Selma Klanten in the endemic weedy seadragon Phyllopteryx taeniolatus 10:30 am (Australia) along the east coast of Australia. 10:30am- Coffee break 10:40am 10:40am- Wnt8a plays an essential role in the elongation of seahorse Bo Zhang 11:00am prehensile tail (China) Expression patterns of alpha-2 macroglobulin reveal 11:00am- Yongli Wu potential immune functions in brood pouch of the lined 11:20am (China) seahorse Hippocampus erectus 11:20am- 11:40am 11:40am- 12:00am 6 / 7 Meeting Time visualization Day Time Morning Afternoon Evening 17 May ● ● 18 May ★ ★ 19 May ★ ★ 20 May ＊ ＊ ☆ 21 May ☆ ●: Meeting Registration ★: In-person & Online Meeting ☆: Online Meeting Only ＊: Inspection activities Meeting Host: South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-Resouces and Ecology, CAS Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) Contact us: No. 164, Xingang West Rd, Guangzhou, P.R. China, 510301 Tel: +86-020-89441994 E-mail: [email protected] 7 / 7 .