Programme 

Please note, the timings and presenters are subject to change.

This is a preliminary programme

Monday 13th July 

09:00

Registration   

09:20 – 10:30

Session 1

09:20 – 09:30

Welcome

09:30 – 09:45

O01: Invasion – Reinvasion? Has Patiriella regularis (Verrill, 1867) crossed the Tasman Sea more than once?
Hugh Carter
, Natural History Museum

  09:45 – 10:00

O02: Understanding diploporan niche conservatism through phylogenetic paleoecology 
Elizabeth Altier,
Binghamton University

10:00 – 10:15

O03: Reconstructing past echinoderm communities based on ossicles preserved in sediment cores
Bettina Bachman,
University of Vienna

10:15 – 10:30

O04: Originations and modern distribution of Astriclypeoidea with new fossil evidence from India and Taiwan
Jihpai Lin,
National Taiwan University

10:30 – 11:00    

Coffee Break    

11:00 – 12:30

Session 2

11:00 – 11:30
KEYNOTE

KN1: Inspired by the stars: 30 years of research on the functional biology of asteroid tube feet

Patrick Flammang, University of MONS

11:30 – 11:45

O05: Going with the flow: examining fluid entrapment around disparate feeding structures of blastozoan echinoderms
Sarah Sheffield,
Binghamton University

11:45 – 12:00

O06: Staying flexible: Evolution of the peristomial membrane in stem group echinoids
Luis Pauly,
University of Bonn

12:00 – 12:15

O07: From microstructure to function and bioinspiration: hierarchical biomechanics of planispirally coiled crinoids
Przemyslaw Gorzelak,
Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences

12:15 – 12:30

O08: Morphological and ecological evolution of the British Cretaceous echinoids
Chia-Hsin Hsu,
University of Southampton

12:30 – 14:00    

Lunch    

14:00 – 15:15

Session 3

14:00 – 14:15

O09: The functional performance of spiral feeding structures in Cambrian echinoderms
James McDermott,
The Natural History Museum

14:15 – 14:30

O10: Evaluating the ecological and morphological linkages between girdle shape and lantern musculature in “regular” echinoids
Nicholas Hebdon,
Baylor University

14:30 – 14:45

O11: News from Glowing Stars
Jerome Mallefet,
UCLouvain BMAR

14:45 – 15:00

O12: Neuropeptide evolution and function: new perspectives from the starfish Asterias rubens
Maurice Elphick,
Queen Mary University of London

15:00 – 15:15

O13: Discovery of a novel secretin family-related neuropeptide signalling system in echinoderms
Kite Jones,
Queen Mary University of London

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00

Session 4

15:45 – 16:00

O14: What killed the feather star Antedon bifida? Evidence from field, mesocosm, and historical data rules out warming and predation
Nancy Peters,
University of Plymouth

16:00 – 16:15

O15: Survival opportunity or causality: sea urchins’ associated fauna in subtropical coastal ecosystems
Raibel Nunez-Gonzalez,
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

16:15 – 16:30

O16: Environmental change opens a gate for skin ulceration disease

Mikko Koivu-Jolma, University of Helsinki; University of Eastern Finland

16:30 – 16:45

O17: Distribution patterns and diversity of echinoderms along the Algerian coastline
Karim Mezali,
Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University - Mostaganem

16:45 – 17:00

O18: Taxonomic diversity and community structure of echinoderms in the protected coastal area of Essaouira (Atlantic coast of Morocco)
Mohamed Amine Hilal,
Higher Normal School -ENS

17:00 – 18:00

Poster Session

  18:00

Close   

Tuesday 14th July

09:00

Registration   

09:30 – 10:30

Session 5

09:30 – 09:45

O19: Macroevolutionary diversification of feeding structures in echinoids
Alice Leavey,
University of Southampton

  09:45 – 10:00

O20: A new dibrachicystid echinoderm from the Cambrian of Morocco informs on the origin of ‘arms’ in Pelmatozoa
Samuel Zamora,
IGME-CSIC

10:00 – 10:15

O21: Broad comparative analysis of sea urchin (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) tooth shape provides a novel substrate for systematic and functional inferences
Alexander Ziegler,
Bonner Institut für Organismische Biologie

10:15 – 10:30

O22: Atelecrinidae: using X-ray tomography and molecular data to look into the latest hypotheses
Pablo Martinez Soares,
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

10:30 – 11:00    

Coffee Break    

11:00 – 12:30

Session 6

11:00 – 11:30
KEYNOTE

KN2: The paleoecology of biotic interactions Involving echinoids
Elizabeth Petsios,
Baylor University

11:30 – 11:45

O23: (Re)discovery" of an echinoderm Lagerstätte in the Lower Devonian of the Argentine Precordillera
Ninon Allaire,
LGLTPE, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

11:45 – 12:00

O24: A first articulated fossil molpadid sea cucumber from the Early Miocene deep-water Konservat Lagerstätte of Meljski hrib, Maribor, Slovenia
Mike Reich,
State Natural History Museum Braunschweig/Brunswick

12:00 – 12:15

  O25: Indirect evidence for predation on crinoids from the Lower

  Devonian Hunsrück Slate
  Teresa Franke,
University of Bonn

12:15 – 12:30

O26: Palaeoenvironmental control of echinoderm assemblages in the Lower Ordovician of the Montagne Noire (France)
Bertrand Lebrave,
Université de Lyon, CNRS

12:30 – 14:00   

Lunch   

14:00 – 15:15

Session 7

14:00 – 14:15

O27: Global warming modulates pollution toxicity in the development of Mediterranean sea urchin species
Chiara Martino,
University of Palermo

14:15 – 14:30

O28: Multidisciplinary evidence of adaptation to natural ocean acidification in sea urchins
Rocío Perez-Portela,
University of Barcelona

14:30 – 14:45

O29: Have the growth and morphometrics of the sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus responded to 30 years of environmental change?
Miles Lamare,
University of Otago

14:45 – 15:00

O30: Thermal plasticity reveals potential physiological thresholds in Coscinasterias tenuispina
Robert Fernandez Vilert,
Universitat de Barcelona

15:00 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00

Session 8

15:45 – 16:00

O31: Development of diamond-type stereom microlattice and the emergence of saddle-shaped minimal surfaces of the echinoderm skeleton
Kamil Humanski,
Instytut Paleobiologii im. R. Kozlowskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

16:00 – 16:15

O32: Pit sweet pit: rock type mediates growth–trait relationships in sea urchins
Jose Carlos Hernandez,
Universidad de La Laguna

16:15 – 16:30

O33: Extracellular trap formation in echinoderm coelomocytes: insights into an ancient immune strategy
Carla Pugliese,
University of Mons (UMONS)

16:30 – 16:45

O34: Hidden colors of immunity: carotenoid-rich coelomocytes challenge a century of assumptions
Estelle Bossiroy,
University of Mons (UMONS)

16:45 – 17:00

O35: Crinoid coelomic cells as a model for regeneration: first morphological and functional profiling with relevance to human tissue repair
Dijana Pavleska,
UKSH Kiel

17:00 – 18:00

Poster Session

  18:00

Close   

Wednesday 15th July

Field Trip

07:30 – 19:30

UNESCO Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site

Philpot Museum, Lyme Regis and Charmouth Heritage Centre

Thursday 16th July 

09:00

Registration   

09:30 – 10:30

Session 9

09:30 – 09:45

O36: A new model to relate echinoderm pentaradial symmetry with the ancestral bilateral symmetry
Laurent Formery,
CNRS

  09:45 – 10:00

O37: The oldest bilaterally symmetrical fossil echinoderm informs on the origin of ambulacra
Imran Rahman,
The Natural History Museum

10:00 – 10:15

O38: A new enteropneust hemichordate from the early Cambrian of China resolves the nature of the last common ambulacrarian ancestor
Frankie Dunn,
University of Oxford

10:15 – 10:30

O39: Using microCT and Bayesian phylogenetic methods to investigate the evolution of Cambrian echinoderms
Lucy Jackson,
The Natural History Museum

10:30 – 11:00    

Coffee Break    

11:00 – 12:30

Session 10

11:00 – 11:30

KEYNOTE

KN3: Gene regulatory networks meet cell type evolution: lessons from an 'urchin'
Maria Ina Arnone,
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

11:30 – 11:45

O40: Evolutionary emergence of bioluminescence in brittle stars: from global ecological patterns to molecular validation in Amphiura filiformis
Jérôme Delroisse,
University of MONS

11:45 – 12:00

O41: Echinoderm larvae illuminate conserved sensory–secretory and neural-like cell programs across animal evolution
Imran Luqman Muhammad Hatta,
The Marine Biological Association

12:00 – 12:15

O42: Novel insights into the evolution of toxins found in spine and pedicellarial venom glands in sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)

Simon Coppard, University of Greenwich

12:15 – 12:30

O43: Deorphanisation and evolutionary analysis of monoamine GPCRs in the sea urchin Mespilia globulus
Yang Zou,
University of Southampton

12:30 – 14:00    

Lunch    

14:00 – 15:15

Session 11

14:00 – 14:15

O44: The spikes of spikey skinned animals
Gary Wessel,
Brown University

14:15 – 14:30

O45: Reassessing species boundaries in Promachocrinus (Crinoidea: Antedonidae) through comprehensive morphological study
Tulio Henrique de Souza,
University of São Paulo

14:30 – 14:45

O46: Identification and preliminary characterization of softenin, a softener of mutable collagenous tissues, in Holothuria forskali
Némo Lemaire,
University of MONS

14:45 – 15:00

O47: The Ophiuroidea of Iceland - morphology, taxonomy and distribution
Sabine Stoehr,
Swedish Museum of Natural History

15:00 – 15:15

O48: Exploring abyssal echinoid diversity in the Clarion-Clipperton zone
Magdalini Christodoulou,
Biodiversity Center, OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00

Session 12

15:45 – 16:00

O49: Using HCR-RNA FISH to investigate spatial gene expression in the juvenile sea urchin tooth
Laura Hudson,
University of Southampton

16:00 – 16:15

O50: How do complex organs arise? Exploration of the pancreatic-like cell composition of a sea urchin by differential single-cell transcriptomics
Maria Lorenza Rusciano,
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn

16:15 – 16:30

O51: When species meet: genomic insights into speciation, hybridization, and population structure in Ophiothrix
Marta Martin Huete,
Universitat de Barcelona

16:30 – 16:45

O52: Recapitulated developmental regulators Myc and Wnt play diverse roles in post-traumatic regeneration in Ophioderma brevispina
Soji Ademiluyi,
University of North Carolina At Charlotte

16:45 – 17:00

O53: Subtle distinctions in population genetics in a high-larval dispersal marine invertebrate, the New Zealand Sand Dollar Fellaster zelandiae
Ian S.
Dixon-Anderson, University of Otago

17:00 – 18:00

Poster Session

  18:00

Close   

  19:00 – 21:30

Conference Dinner

Friday 17th July 

09:00

Registration   

09:30 – 10:30

Session 13

09:30 – 09:45

O54: Morphological revision of the Ophidiasteridae (Valvatacea, Asteroidea) and its implications for the fossil record of the family
Marine Fau,
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève

  09:45 – 10:00

O55: Evolutionary history of the echinoderm class Soluta
Harry Savage,
University of Manchester

10:00 – 10:15

O56: Historical biogeography of the echinoid genus Arbacia: insights from fossils, integrative dated phylogenetic inferences, and biogeographic modelling
Erwan Courville,
Université Bourgogne Europe

10:15 – 10:30

O57: Diversification of Southern Ocean Echinoderms
Chester Sands,
British Antarctic Survey

10:30 – 11:00    

Coffee Break    

11:00 – 12:30

Session 14

11:00 – 11:30

KEYNOTE

KN4: How can twenty years of research on echinoderms help minimize and address ocean acidification and other global changes?

Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg

11:30 – 11:45

O58: The evolution of echinoderm genome architecture
Ferdi Marletaz,
University College London

11:45 – 12:00

O59: Echinoderm diversity and palaeoecology on an ancient (Cretaceous) rocky coastline
Andy Gale,
University of Portsmouth

12:00 – 12:15

O60: Polyploidy across the Ophiuroidea
Timothy O’Hara,
Museums Victoria

12:15 – 12:30

O61: From carnivory to herbivory: dietary shift of Arbacia lixula increases niche overlap with Paracentrotus lividus under acidification
Sara Gonzalez-Delgado,
Universitat de Barcelona

12:30 – 14:00    

Lunch    

14:00 – 15:15

Session 15

14:00 – 14:15

O62: Sea cucumbers in hot—and cold—water: how acute thermal stress drives disease susceptibility in juvenile Holothuria scabra
Noé Wambreuse,
University of Southampton

14:15 – 14:30

O63: Multilevel resilience to ocean acidification in Arbacia lixulalarvae
Andrés Rufino Navarro,
Universidad de La Laguna

14:30 – 14:45

O64: Larval thermal tolerances of the boom-bust subtropical-to-temperate sea urchin Tripneustes australiae
Emily McLaren,
The University of Sydney

14:45 – 15:00

O65: Sexual dimorphism and predatory marks in Oligopodia epigonus (Echinoidea, Cassiduloida) from Bangka Island, Indonesia
Camilla Alves Souto,
Stockton University

15:00 – 15:15

O66: Late Ordovician echinoderm assemblages from Ougarta (western Algeria): palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographic implications
Makhlouf Yamouna,
Constantine 1 University

15:15 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 17:00

Session 16

15:45 – 16:00

O67: The late Cambrian diversification of cornutes (Echinodermata, Stylophora): New insights from the Furongian of the Montagne Noire (France)
Enzo Birolini,
CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

16:00 – 16:15

O68: Anomalocystitid mitrates (Echinodermata, Stylophora) from the Talacasto Formation (Lower Devonian, Argentina): Phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications
Melinie Bobichon,
CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

16:15 – 16:30

O69: Ethical echinoderm handling: smart sampling and safe preservation
Hayfa Chammem,
Universidad de Murcia

16:30 – 16:45

O70: Echinoderms as a tool to boost ocean literacy at the Museum of Biological Diversity of UNICAMP (MDBio)
Renata Alitto,
MDBio, UNICAMP

16:45 – 17:00

 

 

Closing Remarks

  17:00

Close of Conference