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5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies

 

 

 

 

   
     

 

Congress Schedule:

 

 

 

 

 

2th September, 2008 - Tuesday

 

 
09:00 - 09:30
Opening ceremony
 
 
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote speaker: David Reid
 
 
10:30 - 10:50
Martine Claremont
 
 
10:50 - 11:10
Bernhard Lieb
 
   
 
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 
 
11:30 - 11:50
Sajmir Beqiraj
 
   
 
11:50 - 12:10
Sérgio Ávila
 
 
12:10 - 12:30
Magdalena Szarowska & Andrzei Falniowski
 
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
 
 
 
14:00 - 14:20
Angela Dinapoli
 
 

Comparative analysis of 18S rRNA secondary structures of Heterobranchia (Mollusca, Gastropoda): phylogenetic signal and structural variability

 
 
14:20 - 14:40
Mandë Holford
 
 

Evolution of the Toxoglossa Venom Apparatus as Inferred by Molecular Phylogeny of the Terebridae

 
 
14:40 - 15:00
Débora Borges
 
   
 
15:00 - 15:20
Manuel Malaquias
 
 

Systematics and speciation of Haminoea gastropods in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans

 
 
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
 
 
15:40 - 16:00

Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha

 
 

The salivary glands in herbivorous and carnivorous cephalaspidean opisthobranchs

 
 
16:00 - 16:20
Helena Gaspar
 
 

Chemical Studies on Opisthobranchs from Portuguese Coast

 
 
16:20 - 16:40
Thomas Kunze
 
 

What is a really Skeneid? - The Microanatomy of Skenea serpuloides (Montagu, 1808) (Gastropoda, Vetigastropoda)

 
 
16:40 - 17:00
Andrea Barco
 
   
 
 
 
3th September, 2008 - Wednesday
 
 
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote-speaker: Björn Berning
 
   
 
10:30 - 10:50
Patrícia Madeira
 
 

The MPB-Marine PalaeoBiogeography working group and the study of Santa Maria fossils: an updated overview

 
 
10:50 - 11:10
Sérgio Ávila
 
 

A biogeographical paradox and the palaeobigeographical importance of the Azorean Marine fossils

 
 
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 11:50
António M. de Frias Martins
 
 

A gut feeling: what comparative anatomy of the endemic Oxychilus (Drouetia) tells about the age of São Miguel island, Azores

 
 
11:50 - 12:10
Xavier Jordana
 
 

Ancient human skeletal remains from the Azores Islands. The value of the Bioarchaeology for reconstructing the lives of past people

 
 
12:10 - 12:30
Andrzej Kaim
 
   
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
 
 
 
14:00 - 14:20
Clément Poirier
 
 

Spatial distribution of live and dead mollusc assemblages : implications for the fossil record

 
 
14:20 - 14:40
Nina Therese Mikkelsen
 
 

Where is the Chaetodermomorpha (=Caudofoveata) in the tree of life?

 
14:40 - 15:00
Marta Pola
15:00 - 15:20 Mónica Albuquerque
The Molluscan Fauna of Ormonde and Gettysburg Seamonts (Gorringe Bank, north-east Altantic): Taxonomy and Zoogeographical affinities
  15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
 
15:40 - 16:00
Paolo Albano

Biodiversity survey of the benthic communities of the Marine Protected Area “Secche di Tor Paterno”, Central Thyrrhenian Sea, by way of molluscs: preliminary results on the foliar stratus of Posidonia oceanica

16:00 - 16:20
Lotfi Rabaoui
   

Growth of the fan shell Pinna nobilis Linnaeus, 1758 in the north and east of Tunisian Coast

 
16:20 - 16:40
Walid Belgacem
16:40 - 17:00
Marina Kuzmanic
17:20 - 18:00
Poster Session
 
 
 
4th September, 2008 - Thursday
 
 

Excursion to Furnas

 
 
 
 
 
 
5th September, 2008 - Friday
 
 
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote-speaker- Robert Cameron
 
 

Time, space and very slow motion: patterns in the diversity of snails

 
 
10:30 - 10:50
Vanya Prévot
 
 

DNA sequence variation in the terrestrial snails Rumina decollata and R. saharica (Gastropoda, Pulmonata)

 
 
10:50 - 11:10
Anna Sulikowska-Drozd
 
 

Egg retention and ovoviviparity in Carpathian clausiliids of the genus Vestia P. Hesse (Gastropoda: Clausiliidae)

 
 
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 
 
11:30 - 11:50
António M. de Frias Martins
 
 

The malacology of the Azores workshops

 
 
11:50 - 12:10
Kurt Jordaens
 
 

A phylogenetic and morphometric analysis of the Azorean Leptaxinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) and implications for conservation

 
 
12:10 - 12:30
Katerina Vardinoyannis
 
   
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
 
 
14:00 - 14:20
Dragos Micu
 
 

Climate Change - Induced life history alterations lead to hyperinvasiveness of Rapana venosa in the Western Black Sea

 
 
14:20 - 14:40
Cláudia Patrão
 
 

The quest for the slug:  Preliminary molecular phylogeny of the genus Geomalacus (Gastropoda: Arionidae)

 
 
14:40 - 15:00
Emmanouil Malandrakis
 
 

Genetic diversity of edible snail (Helix aspersa M.) populations in southern Hellas and Cyprus

 
 
15:00 - 15:20
Elżbieta Żbikowska
 
 

One Host Three Trematode Species – Different Strategies in Host-Parasite Interaction
(Why trematode invasion in molluscs should be taken into consideration by malacologists?)

 
 
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
 
 
15:40 - 16:00
Joaquín Vierna
 

Molecular phylogeny of seven Ensis species based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

 
16:00 - 16:20 Ana Velosa

Radular development in Oxychilus (Drouetia) atlanticus (Morelet & Drouët, 1857)

16:20 - 16:40
Małgorzata Ożgo  
 

Contingency and determinism during convergent contemporary evolution in the polymorphic land snail, Cepaea nemoralis

 
16:40 - 17:00 Jeroen Goud
Towards a revision of the recent Glycymerididae of the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean
 
17:20 - 18:00
Poster Session
 
 
20:00 - ?
Conference Dinner at "Solar da Graça"
 
 
 
 
6th September, 2008 - Saturday
 
 
09:30 - 10:30
Keynote-speaker - Richard Neves
 
 

Recovery of Endangered Mollusks in the U.S.A.: More than Just a Shell Game

 
 
10:30 - 10:50
Vincent Prié
 
 

Subterranean snails’ microdistribution : a continental insularity context

 
 
10:50 - 11:10
María José Madeira
 
 

Status and conservation of the native freshwater bivalves From the Ebro Basin (Spain)

 
 
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 
 
11:30 - 11:50

Manuel Lopes-Lima

 
 

Calcium movements and biomineralization studies on the freshwater bivalve Anodonta cygnea

 
 
11:50 - 12:10
Holly Barclay
 
 

Propagation of the Chinese giant mussel, Anodonta woodiana, for conservation and biomanipulation

 
 
12:10 - 12:30
Paula Lima
 
 

A histological study of the oogenesis of the freshwater mussel Anodonta cygnea (Linaeus, 1771) in Mira Lagoon, Portugal

 
 
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Time
 
 
14:00 - 14:20
Alexandra Zieritz  
 

Ecomorphological trends within freshwater mussel species (Unionoida) and their use for reconstructing palaeoenvironments

 
 
14:20 - 14:40
Joaquim Reis
 
 

Is climate change driving Unio tumidiformis Castro, 1885 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) to extinction?

 
 
14:40 - 15:00
Ilmari Valovirta
 
 

How to monitor and protect the three million individuals of Unio crassus in the Finnish capital Helsinki

 
 
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee Break
 
 
15:40 - 16:00
Maria Gomez
 
 

Phylogeography of the Guatemalan Pachychilus (Cerithioidea: Pachychilidae)

 
 
16:00 - 16:20
Elisa Kefalás Troncon
 
 

The distribution of freshwater mussels in the hydrographic basins of the São Paulo state, Brazil

 
 
16:20 - 18:00
Poster Session
 
 
18:00 - 18:30
Closing ceremony
 
     

 

 

 

 

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2nd AINIC,
2008

 

 

Freshwater
mussels’
conservation
workshop

 

 

   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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