Pre-Conference Workshop
The objective of this workshop is to provide postgraduate students/postdoctoral fellows with a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the diversity, morphology, systematics and biology of benthic, planktonic and symbiotic copepods, including training in technical skills.
This is an innovative and unique course in that the Training-Research Vessel TOYOSHIO MARU of Hiroshima University will be used during the workshop.
The syllabus of this workshop is now available. Click here!
Workshop Details
- Dates26 to 31 May 2024
- Fee20,000 JPY
- The participation fee includes accommodation at the Fisheries Laboratory (from 26 May evening to 31 May morning), transportation from the nearest airport/train station to the venue (see below), meals (from the dinner on 26 May to the lunch on 31 May), textbooks, and cruise fee (including medical insurance cover).
- EligibilityStudents and Young Researchers (below 35-years-old) *Students may have a higher chance of being selected if the quality of the applications are equal.
- VenueFisheries Laboratory, Hiroshima University
- TourHiroshima Prefectural Farming Fisheries Center
- BusShuttle buses will be arranged from Hiroshima Airport/Higashi-Hiroshima Shinkansen Station to the Fisheries Laboratory on 25 and 26 May.
- On 31 May, we will arrange transportation for all workshop participants from the Fisheries Laboratory to Hiroshima City (15th ICOC venue). Workshop participants will need to find their own accommodation in Hiroshima City near the main conference venue starting 31 May.
Location of the Fisheries Laboratory
Application and Registration
The maximum number of participants that we can accept for the workshop will be 25 due to the limitation of the number of beds at the venue. In the event that we receive applications from more than 25 eligible persons, trainees will be selected by the workshop co-organizers, in consultation with Dr. Danny Tang, based on the quality and merit of their respective applications.
The applicants will be asked to write about (1) their current research topic, and (2) their motivation to participate in this workshop (500 words for each).
Schedule for the selection
Aapplication form is now available! The deadline will be on 30 November 2023.
More details of the workshop is available on the Syllabus.
Workshop schedule
Topics and tutors
Lecture 1 : General biology, life cycles, phylogeny and methodology
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| Rony Huys (The Natural History Museum) |
Lecture 2 : Benthos
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| Rony Huys (The Natural History Museum) |
Motohiro Shimanaga (Kumamoto University) |
Lecture 3 : Marine plankton
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| Susumu Ohtsuka (Hiroshima Univerisity) |
Shuhei Nishida (The University of Tokyo) |
Atsushi Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University) |
Hiroshi Itoh (Suidosha) |
Lecture 4 : Parasitic copepods
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| Danny Tang (Orange County Sanitation District) |
Rony Huys (The Natural History Museum) |
Susumu Ohtsuka (Hiroshima University) |
Kaori Wakabayashi (Hiroshima University) |
Panakkool Thamban Aneesh (Hiroshima University) |
Lecture 5 : Freshwater copepods
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| Ko Tomikawa (Hiroshima Univerisity) |
Nancy F. Mercado Salas (Zoological Museum, Hamburg) |
Lecture 6 : Molecular biology of calanoids
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| Iole Di Capua (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn) |
Lecture 7 : Copepods as hosts to other crustaceans
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| Alexandra Savchenko (Lomonosov Moscow State University) |
Lecture 8 : Zoological nomenclature
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| Rony Huys (The Natural History Museum) |
Cruise
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| Yusuke Kondo (Hiroshima University) |
Kazumitsu Nakaguchi (TOYOSHIO MARU, Hiroshima University) |
Shuhei Yamaguchi (TOYOSHIO MARU, Hiroshima University) |
