Upcoming Presentations on Cephalopod Research

[robyn]

I'm going to this one ^

Stavros, will you be there? Anyone else planning to go?

 

[Stavros]

Yup, nice to hear you'll be there Robyn. Would be great to meet others from here as well.

 

[Stavros]

This was sent by James Wood to the Ceph group members today. The part about Brazil probably refers to the CIAC meeting later this year.
______________________________________________________________________________________

The 2012 American Malacological Society meeting will be held this June 16 –
21 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There will be a *themed session on
cephalopods on Monday, June 18th*. Please consider joining us for what will
be a low key, fun event. All topics are welcome - evolution, ecology,
behavior, physiology, biomechanics, or any other aspect of cephalopod
biology. Come and get ready for Brazil!****

** **

Deadlines are coming up quickly – early registration and abstracts are due
May 1st. Full registration is $180 for AMS members, $250 for non-members
and $100 for students and includes the welcome party, banquet and reception
at the Academy of Natural Sciences. One day registration is $50, but does
not include any festivities. Hotel reservations are due May 17th for best
rates and availability. ****

** **

All forms and more information can be found at the AMS website:
www.malacological.org****

** **

Questions about the cephalopod session can be directed to Liz Shea at
[email protected] or 302.658.9111 x319. Please send general questions about
the meeting to Paul Callomon at: [email protected].****

**

 

[Stavros]

Molluscan Neuroscience Meeting next week

For anyone who plans to attend the Molluscan Neuroscience meeting next week:

If you are arriving at Ft. Lauderdale and looking for someone to share a ride to Jupiter, send me a private message- I'm trying to help a friend out who is looking to share a car/van.

S.

 

[Stavros]

CIAC Conference Brazil 2012

Symposium website

Invitation

Join us for the 2012 Cephalopod International Advisory Council Symposium (CIAC 2012) from 27 October to 02 November at the Majestic Palace Hotel, Florianópolis, Brazil!

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to Florianópolis for the 2012 Cephalopod International Advisory Council Symposium. It is a privilege to host the next CIAC Symposium and we are proud to have it in Brazil. The theme of our conference, “Interdisciplinary approaches to cephalopod biology,” embraces all aspects of cephalopod biology and allows the presentation of oral communications and posters across a broad range of topics. Apart from a strong scientific program, CIAC 2012 will promote communication and new collaborations through workshops and a topical and vibrant symposium program including keynote papers, oral and poster presentations, and discussion sessions. Social events are being carefully planned as an essential part of the program: occasions to re-connect with old friends and colleagues and to meet young scientists and students.

The hosting city, Florianópolis, has some of the most stunning scenery in Brazil. Commonly referred as “Floripa,” Florianópolis is one of the most visited cities in Southern Brazil, and is the Brazilian state capital with the highest HDI (Human Development Index – United Nations). The island combines the characteristics of a state capital and urban center, including a population of about 421,000 (the entire metropolitan area contains 1 million inhabitants), with the peacefulness of a traditional fishing village. There are over 100 beaches in Florianópolis. The island’s amazing natural setting includes areas of preserved Atlantic Forest, sand dunes, mangroves and lagoons. The beautiful “Lagoa da Conceição” lagoon, besides being one the island’s greatest natural treasures, concentrates various restaurants, cafes and pubs in its vicinity, making it a place of fine gastronomy and active nightlife.

In Brazil, exuberance is everywhere! You find it in the Amazon Forest, in the Iguazu Falls (two of the New 7 Wonders of Nature) and in Pantanal, a 140,000 km² wetland located in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso States, an impressive nature reserve. Beauty also runs wild in the 44 national parks created to preserve the ecosystem. Our 7500 km of coastline varies from desert-like sand dunes (Maranhão State) to long rows of coconut palms (Alagoas State) to the beautiful landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Everywhere you look, there are plenty of reasons to become enchanted and travel around before or after the symposium.

The symposium venue, The Majestic Palace Hotel (Majestic Palace Hotel | Hotel na Grande Florianópolis | Beiramar Norte), combines sophistication and comfort in the best neighborhood in the city, Beira Mar Norte Avenue. With its oceanfront location, the Hotel allows easy access to beaches in the north, south and east of the island and is also close to the Hercílio Luz International Airport. The Majestic Palace Hotel has 261 rooms and provides excellent infrastructure for the event, as well as for the leisure of participants and their families.

I hope that you will find sufficient information to help you plan your trip to Florianópolis on this website. Start planning early, and let me know if you need any assistance. Please note that the general call for registration and abstracts submission will open shortly.

I am very much looking forward to seeing you in Florianópolis in October 2012!

Dr. Érica A. G. Vidal
University of Paraná
Symposium Chair

 

[Stavros]

MNM 2012 - Relevant talks

Wednesday, May 16th 2012
9:15 – 10:55 AM Cognition
Chair: Paul Benjamin

* Cognitive behavior in cuttlefish: conditional discrimination in maze
learning, discrimination using a touch screen analog, learned control of
body patterning, and sleep-like behavior
Jean Boal

* Pre- and post-natal development of visual cognition in cuttlefish
Ludovic Dickel

* The neurophysiological basis of motor function and learning and memory in the octopus - an animal with a complex 'embodiment'
Binyamin Hochner

* The cognitive mollusc: from gastropods to cephalopods, and beyond
Rhanor Gillette


5:00 – 6:00 PM Special Lecture:

* Dynamic camouflage and communication in cephalopods: visual input, neural skin control and diverse behaviors
Roger Hanlon



Thursday, May 17th 2012
9:00 – 10:40 AM Sensory Signaling and Nociception
Chair: Roger Hanlon

* Lessons for mammals from snails and squid: universal patterns of nociceptive plasticity and conserved signaling pathways in long-term sensory alterations induced by bodily injury.
Edgar Walters

* Peripheral injury produces long-term behavioural and neural sensitisation in squid, Loligo pealei
Robyn Crook

* Behavioral effects of clinical doses of the general anesthetic isoflurane on Octopus vulgaris
Anna Di Cosmo

* Nanoresolution studies of PKC and Arf-GEFs in a presynaptic switch that mediates attention-like sensory gating
Thomas Abrams


11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Genome
Chair: Wayne Sossin

* A Proposed link between RNA editing and temperature adaptation in cephalopods
Joshua Rosenthal

* Neurobiology of the Aplysia and cephalopod genomes: Insights into memory mechanisms and the multiple origins of complex brains
Leonid Moroz

* Neuronal DNA amplification is polyploidization brought about by target innervation
Ryota Matsuo


2:00 – 3:30 PM Workshop: Challenges of Cephalopod Research in a Laboratory Setting
Robyn Crook, Ludovic Dickel, Roger Hanlon, Binyamin Hochner,

 

[DWhatley]

I would sooo, like to attend

 

[suboc]

anything at MACNA this year?

 

[Stavros]

anything at MACNA this year?

Richard Ross will be giving a talk there.

Here's a list of the speakers and here's the schedule.

 

[GPO87]

So, if you are in either New Zealand or Australia at the begining of July, you should come to the AMSA-NZMSS conference (in Hobart, Tasmania)!
Both heather.braid and myself (Aaron Evans) will be presenting our research on cephalopod taxonomy. (Jesse Kelly, who used to visit Tonmo, will also be presenting his research on Octopoteuthidae)
We are speaking on July 3rd.

Here's a link to the program! http://www.amsa-nzmss2012.com.au/

It's bound to be an awesome (and informative) time!

 

[DWhatley]

Sadly Australia at the end of October does not quite work

 

[lilalancarey]

Anything coming up ?

 

[CaptFish]

Symposium website

Invitation

Join us for the 2012 Cephalopod International Advisory Council Symposium (CIAC 2012) from 27 October to 02 November at the Majestic Palace Hotel, Florianópolis, Brazil!

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to Florianópolis for the 2012 Cephalopod International Advisory Council Symposium. It is a privilege to host the next CIAC Symposium and we are proud to have it in Brazil. The theme of our conference, “Interdisciplinary approaches to cephalopod biology,” embraces all aspects of cephalopod biology and allows the presentation of oral communications and posters across a broad range of topics. Apart from a strong scientific program, CIAC 2012 will promote communication and new collaborations through workshops and a topical and vibrant symposium program including keynote papers, oral and poster presentations, and discussion sessions. Social events are being carefully planned as an essential part of the program: occasions to re-connect with old friends and colleagues and to meet young scientists and students.

The hosting city, Florianópolis, has some of the most stunning scenery in Brazil. Commonly referred as “Floripa,” Florianópolis is one of the most visited cities in Southern Brazil, and is the Brazilian state capital with the highest HDI (Human Development Index – United Nations). The island combines the characteristics of a state capital and urban center, including a population of about 421,000 (the entire metropolitan area contains 1 million inhabitants), with the peacefulness of a traditional fishing village. There are over 100 beaches in Florianópolis. The island’s amazing natural setting includes areas of preserved Atlantic Forest, sand dunes, mangroves and lagoons. The beautiful “Lagoa da Conceição” lagoon, besides being one the island’s greatest natural treasures, concentrates various restaurants, cafes and pubs in its vicinity, making it a place of fine gastronomy and active nightlife.

In Brazil, exuberance is everywhere! You find it in the Amazon Forest, in the Iguazu Falls (two of the New 7 Wonders of Nature) and in Pantanal, a 140,000 km² wetland located in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso States, an impressive nature reserve. Beauty also runs wild in the 44 national parks created to preserve the ecosystem. Our 7500 km of coastline varies from desert-like sand dunes (Maranhão State) to long rows of coconut palms (Alagoas State) to the beautiful landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Everywhere you look, there are plenty of reasons to become enchanted and travel around before or after the symposium.

The symposium venue, The Majestic Palace Hotel (Majestic Palace Hotel | Hotel na Grande Florianópolis | Beiramar Norte), combines sophistication and comfort in the best neighborhood in the city, Beira Mar Norte Avenue. With its oceanfront location, the Hotel allows easy access to beaches in the north, south and east of the island and is also close to the Hercílio Luz International Airport. The Majestic Palace Hotel has 261 rooms and provides excellent infrastructure for the event, as well as for the leisure of participants and their families.

I hope that you will find sufficient information to help you plan your trip to Florianópolis on this website. Start planning early, and let me know if you need any assistance. Please note that the general call for registration and abstracts submission will open shortly.

I am very much looking forward to seeing you in Florianópolis in October 2012!

Dr. Érica A. G. Vidal
University of Paraná
Symposium Chair

repost from earlier.

 

[GPO87]

Yeah! I'm going! I'm quite excited to get to visit Brazil, and for a ceph conference no less! Good times!

 

[DWhatley]

Sooooo jealous!