Workshops

After the congress, two workshops will be organized at the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology of the University of Lodz. If you are interested in any of them, fill out the available forms or write an email to the organizing committee.

Remember also to mark your preference in the registration form!

MEDAMP

(Mediterranean and Adjacent Seas Amphipod Reference Library)

Announced on April 2024, involving the taxonomists and amphipodologists in general of the Mediterranean Sea and the adjacent Seas, the collective initiative MEDAMP aims to start to fill the gaps in the public databases for the amphipods and to bring some order with the help of Everyone. Coordinated by the University of Lodz and the University of Minho, with the support of the Horizon Europe “Biodiversity Genomics Europe” project (BGE) and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the first project aiming to disentangle the Elasmopus genus managed to process more than 1000 specimens from all over the Mediterranean Sea!

This 4-day workshop (5 to 8 September) aims to identify some specimens left without an accurate ID but already with a sequence, from the Mediterranean and Red Sea. This will allow us to develop a curated reference library that will help future monitoring efforts.

Also, during the workshop, it will be possible to sequence specimens using ONT sequencing.

If you would like to sequence your amphipods, please contact us at: icaxx.2025@gmail.com

A few grants for accommodation are available.

Distribution of specimens in BOLD System for MEDAMP project

Please fill out this form to register for this workshop.

MEDAMP WorkshopThis form is to register for the MEDAMP Workshop that will take place right after the 20th ICA in LODZ (1-5 September), between the 5 and 8 of September 2025. The workshop will be focused on identification and possible starting the description of new species from the Mediterranean and Red Sea. The workshop is meant to be for experienced taxonomists, but also for students that would like to embark the world of amphipod taxonomy and scientific drawing! Everyone involved will be part of the manuscripts resulting from the work done during (and after) the workshop.

Talitraits

The group was established to meet the interdisciplinary need of pairing a taxonomic backbone with ecological studies -for the time being, focusing on the land-sea interface. In 2018, the first group of editors met to setup a strategy for the years to come and sets of traits to be prioritized.

It is now timely to readdress these points to keep aligned with WoRMS directions (including new traits!) and to train eventual new editors willing to work with talitrids.

The workshop will last one day, including a presentation of the bigger picture of WoRMS, a hands-on training, a discussion on updated priorities, and the planning of a communication strategy about this piece of work, under the supervision of the WoRMS Data Management Team. Finally, a collective paper to provide the state of the art is expected to proceed from the workshop.

If interested, please let us know through the FORM and consider staying on the 6th of September for an extra day in Lodz.

We are planning at least one workshop after the congress, but please contact us if you have any idea and would like to propose one: icaxx.2025@gmail.com

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