Program
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Monday, 11th September 2023
09:00 – 09:30 Participant registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome of the organizing Committee – Marco Bertolino, Barbara Calcinai, Katia Longo GAINO E., PANSINI R. & PRONZATO R. – The Italian Scientific Spongiologists: a Historical Overview
Theme – Atlantic deep-sea sponges
10:00 – 10:30 Talk 1: MORROW C., RIOS P., CRISTOBO X., CÁRDENAS P., XAVIER J., DOMINGOS C., ÓLAFSDÓTTIR STEINUNN H., DE MONTETY L. & GUDMUNDSSON G. – Fan-shaped Iophon & Forcepia (Forcepia) from the deepsea sponge grounds of Iceland & Greenland
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Talk 2: JANUSSEN D. – Deep-sea sponges in deep Earth history: fossil record provides spectacular evolutionary evidence of the Hexactinellida
11:30 – 12:00 Talk 3: CRISTOBO J., PRADO E., HERES P., BOZA C., CALVO-DIAZ A., ABAD-URIBARREN A., RODRIGUEZ-BASALO A., ALTUNA A., RODRIGUEZ CABELLO C., MODICA L., IBARROLA T. P., GARCIAGUILLEN L., MANJÓN-CABEZA E., SANCHEZ F. & RÍOS P. – Asconema setubalense in Aviles Canyon System (Bay of Biscay), a community of sponges affected by human impacts
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Taxonomy session
Tuesday, 12th September 2023
Theme – Atlantic and Mediterranean deep-sea sponges
09:00 – 09:30 Talk 4: DE VOOGD N.J. & VAN SOEST R.W.M. – Mesophotic and rariphotic sponges from (Klein)-Curaçao
09:30 – 10:00 Talk 5: PINHEIRO U. & ANNUNZIATA B. – How deep do you know about Brazilian Deep-Sea Sponges?
10:00 – 10:30 Talk 6: RIOS P., BOZA C., HERES P., CALVO-DIAZ A. & CRISTOBO J. – Incrusting and small species sponges that increase the biodiversity in Capbreton Canyon
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Talk 7: CÁRDENAS P. – Revision of the boreo-arctic Atlantic and Mediterranean Tetillidae (Demospongiae, Spirophorina): new species and new genera
11:30 – 12:00 Talk 8: DÍAZ J.A., ORDINES F., MASSUTÍ E. & CÁRDENAS P. – From caves to seamounts: the hidden diversity of tetractinellid sponges from the Balearic Islands, with the description of eight new species
12:00–12:30 Talk 9: DOMINGOS C., PILAR R., XAVIER C. & XAVIER J.R. – The phoenix project – disentangling a species complex in the deep Atlantic
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Poster session
15:30 – 17:00 Taxonomy session
19:00 Workshop dinner
Wednesday, 13th September 2023
Theme – Deep-sea sponges: Mediterranean and other oceans
09:00 – 09:30 Talk 10: XAVIER J.R., CÁRDENAS P., SANTÍN A. & the SponBIODIV CONSORTIUM – Delivering knowledge and tools for sustainable management and conservation of marine sponge biodiversity from genes to ecosystems – the SponBIODIV project
09:30 – 10:00 Talk 11: ENRICHETTI F., TOMA M., BAVESTRELLO G., COSTA G., BERTOLINO M. & BO M. – Diversity and distribution of the bathyal sponge facies of the Ligurian Sea
10:00 – 10:30 Talk 12: IDAN T., GOREN L., SHEFER S. & ILAN M. – Drivers of community composition in mesophotic sponge grounds in the Mediterranean coast of Israel 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Talk 13: SOÓS C.L., DEBITUS C., PISERA A., CANFIELD D.E. & SCHUSTER A. – Biodiversity of Mozambique rock sponges
11:30 – 12:00 Talk 14: GUZZI A., BERTOLINO M., SANDS C., MERIALDI A. & SCHIAPARELLI S. – Characterization of Iophon spp. (Porifera, Demospongiae) in association with the brittle stars genus Ophioplinthus (Echinodermata, Ophiuroidea) in the Southern Ocean
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Taxonomy session
15:00 – 15:30 DE VOOGD N.J. – World Porifera Database presentation for young researchers
15:30 – 17:00 DE VOOGD N.J. – World Porifera Database meeting for editors
Thursday, 14th September 2023
09:00 – 13:00 Portofino promontory boat trip with snorkeling and diving (The chosen day could change according to the weather and sea conditions)
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 17:00 Taxonomy session
Friday, 15th September 2023
Theme – Mediterranean and Atlantic cave sponges
09:00 – 09:30 Talk 15: BOURY-ESNAULT N., VACELET J., GRENIER M., DERRIEN M., RUIZ C., CHEVALDONNE P. & PEREZ T. – Long-term survey of sponge biodiversity in a Mediterranean cave with bathyal affinities
09:30 – 10:00 Talk 16: MALDONADO M., MARTOS I., SARDA J., DAMIE M. & HISPANO C. – The taxonomic interpretation of skeletal features: warnings from sponge silicon physiology
10:00 – 10:30 Talk 17: PISERA A., GEROVASILEIOU V. & DIGENIS M. – Lithistid sponges from submarine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: hidden diversity and false endemicity?
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Talk 18: LAGE A., KINDEL I., MURICY G. & KLAUTAU M. – Diversity of the class Homoscleromorpha from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeast Brazil
11:30 – 12:00 Talk 19: LOPES M.V., PÉREZ T. & KLAUTAU M. – Cave-dwelling calcareous sponges (Porifera: Calcarea) from Marquesas Archipelago, French Polynesia
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15:00 – 19:00 Visiting the Genoa Aquarium with a discounted ticket
Saturday, 16th September 2023
09:00 – 09:30 Talk 20: MURICY G., LAGE A., SANDES J., KLAUTAU M., PINHEIRO U., LAPORT M., OLIVEIRA B., PEQUENO C. & LOPES M. – Sponge communities of submarine caves and tunnels in Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeast Brazil
09:30 – 10:00 Talk 21: PICTON B., MICARONI V., SCHUSTER A., MORROW C., STREHLOW B.W. & CANFIELD D.E. – Molecular insights into the genus Eurypon Gray, 1867 (Raspaillidae: Axinellida)
10:00 – 10:30 Talk 22: SANDES J., LEVY T. & MURICY G. – Demospongiae from submarine caves of Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Northeast Brazil
10:30 – 11:00 Talk 23: SANTÍN A., WIRTZ P., NEVES P. & RIBEIRO C. – Filling the knowledge gaps in the Webbnesia marine diversity: The Madeiran shallow-water sponge fauna
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Closing session – JMSE Best Presentation Award – Where is the next workshop?
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