Forwarded FYI
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Dear colleagues,
It is a great pleasure to announce that a Meiofaunal Summer School,
entitled MeioScool, will be held in Brest (France) from 27th of June to
1st of July 2016.
MeioScool's objective is to bring together several meiofaunal experts in
Brest in order to:
1) Increase awareness of researchers, students and general public about
the fundamental role of meiofauna in marine ecosystems from the coastal
zone to abyssal depths.
2) Train students and researchers in the identification and description
of meiofauna through several complementary disciplines (taxonomy,
ecology, molecular biology, etc) and stimulate a new generation of
meiobenthologists.
The MeioScool workshop will last 5 days. The first two days will be
devoted to conferences while the 3 following days will be devoted to
field and laboratory work.
MeioScool planned sessions are: meiofauna biodiversity and ecosystem
functioning, meiofauna biodiversity and biogeography,
meiofauna-macrofauna interactions, prokaryotes-meiofauna interactions,
meiofauna response to climate change and anthropogenic impacts,
meiofauna from extreme environments, deep-sea fauna (focus on deep-sea
nodules), meiofauna and microplastics, meiofauna sampling and
extraction, meiofauna in-situ experiments and colonisation devices,
confocal microscopy and SEM, Fluorescence in Situ Hydridization
technique (FISH), barcoding, metabarcoding, metagenetic, metagenomics,
phylogenetic analyses, taxonomy of Foraminifera, taxonomy of Copepoda,
taxonomy of Nematoda, taxonomy of Tardigrada, taxonomy of Kinoryncha,
taxonomy of Loricifera, taxonomy of Rotifera, taxonomy of Polychaeta,
taxonomy of Isopoda, taxonomy of Tanaidacea.
MeioScool Invited Speakers: Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Pedro Martinez Arbizu,
Magdalena Blacewicz, Paulo Bonifacio, Marie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita,
Valerie Cueff-Gauchard, Diego Fontaneto, Andy Gooday, Stefanie Kaiser,
Jeroen Ingels, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Daniel Leduc, Florence
Pradillon, Nuria Sánchez Santos, Aurélie Tasiemski, Ann Vanreusel,
Dorothée Vincent and Helena Wiklund.
We are planning to establish a series of grants for students and
researchers to attend the conference, for information please visit the
MeioScool2016 website.
A MeioScool dedicated night event will be organized at Vauban, Brest
(29th of June, 21h).
Join us on
http://meioscool2016.sciencesconf.org/https://www.facebook.com/Meioscool-562704920446936/
Registration now open
Abstract Submission/Registration:
Until March 15th, 2016
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.
Looking forward to see you in Brest
Daniela Zeppilli, Jozée Sarrazin and the MeioScool Organization Committee
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Jozée SARRAZIN
Chercheure en écologie benthique
Responsable du Laboratoire Environnement Profond
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la MER
Département Etude des Ecosystèmes Profonds
Laboratoire Environnement Profond
Centre de Brest - BP 70
29280 PLOUZANE
FRANCE
Téléphone : 33 (0)2 98 22 43 29
FAX : 33 (0)2 98 22 47 57
Courriel : jozee.sarrazin from ifremer.fr<mailto:jozee.sarrazin from ifremer.fr>
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