Schedule

This is the final schedule for EUROMAL 2021, some additional but minimal changes might be made in this schedule, the following schedule shows the time in Central European Summertime (for more info visit this link). Our conference will take place between the 5th and 9th of September. Each day has three parallel tracks (Line A, Line B, Line C). The keynotes talks and some special events are common for all tracks. The “presenter” field corresponds to the corresponding author of the contribution.

The fields marked with “★” correspond to student presentations

(*)=To be confirmed

Day 1 (05/09/2021)

Time	Common Program
18:00-20:00	Welcome presentation Euromal Organization Committee
20:00	End of today program

Day 2 (06/09/2021)

Breakout Room A

Time	Session	Title
14:00-14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Opening ceremony
14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Applied malacology: from pure science to environmental monitoring, ecological restoration and aquaculture Dr. David Aldridge
15:00 Day 2 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
15:05 Day 2 Room A	Ecology & evolution Dr. David Aldridge	Effects of habitat homogenisation on biodiversity associated with mussel beds Dr Puri Veiga
15:25 Day 2 Room A		★“Enemy release” as an explanation for the success of invasive freshwater mussels M.S. Binglin Deng
15:45 Day 2 Room A		Ecosystem services of freshwater mussels: elimination of parasite larvae infecting fish Prof. Jouni Taskinen
15:55 Day 2 Room A	Break
16:10 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Bivalve ecotoxicology: from biomonitoring of legacy pollutants to recent advances to assess the impacts of contaminants on aquatic ecosystems Dr. Camilla Della Torre
16:40 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Monitoring of mollusks using eDNA and other innovative methods Dr. Vincent Prié
17:10 Day 2 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 2 Room A	Ecotoxicology Dr. Camilla Della Torre	Coatings with natural molecules affect the ecotoxicity of Cerium oxide nanoparticles to the mussel species Dreissena polymorpha and Mytilus galloprovincialis Lara Nigro
17:35 Day 2 Room A		Nanoplastic, Microplastic and Bivalves – physical and chemical perspective Dr Agnieszka Dąbrowska
17:55 Day 2 Room A		Levels of microelements and risks in consumption of soft tissues of mussels collected along South African coast Pavel Nekhoroshkov
18:05 Day 2 Room A	Long Break
18:50 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Conservation of freshwater mollusks in the Anthropocene Professor Ronaldo Sousa
19:20 Day 2 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 2 Room A	Conservation Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając	★ The parasitic travel of Margaritifera margaritifera in the gills of Atlantic salmon: from glochidium to post-larva Pedro A. Castrillo
19:45 Day 2 Room A		Lagged Response and Gradual Change of a Mussel Community (Unionidae)to Natural Hydrologic Variability Over Two Decades Dr. Garrett Hopper
20:05 Day 2 Room A	Break
20:15 Day 2 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 2 Room A	End of program

Breakout room B

Time	Session	Title
14:00-14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Opening ceremony
14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Applied malacology: from pure science to environmental monitoring, ecological restoration and aquaculture Dr. David Aldridge
15:00 Day 2 All Rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
15:05 Day 2 Room B	Invasive species Professor Ronaldo Sousa	★ Effect of temperature on life history traits and immune status of the invasive tropical freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata. Julie Offerle
15:25 Day 2 Room B		Testing monitoring method for Arion vulgaris and Krynickillus melanocephalus (Gastropoda: Arionidae & Agriolimacidae) Dr. agr. Arturs Stalažs
15:35 Day 2 Room B		Population genetics of an invasive and a resident slug; the races and hybrids of Arion vulgaris and Arion ater s.l. Dr John M.C. Hutchinson
15:45 Day 2 Room B		★Freshwater snails Gyraulus parvus (Say, 1817) and G. laevis (Alder, 1838): a story of the invasion at the population level Mgr. Erika Šlachtová
15:55 Day 2 Room B	Break
16:10 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Bivalve ecotoxicology: from biomonitoring of legacy pollutants to recent advances to assess the impacts of contaminants on aquatic ecosystems Dr. Camilla Della Torre
16:40 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Monitoring of mollusks using eDNA and other innovative methods Dr. Vincent Prié
17:10 Day 2 All Rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 2 Room B	Ecology and evolution Professor Ronaldo Sousa	The impact of changes in hydrological conditions and in physicochemical properties of water on mussel populations in euthrophic floodplain Lake Dr. Adam Ćmiel
17:25 Day 2 Room B		Phenology and reproductive effort in endangered thick-shelled river mussel Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 (Bivalvia: Unionidae) Dr. Katarzyna Zając
17:35 Day 2 Room B		★Fish infestation with glochidia of Unio crassus 1788, Philipsson in the wild M.Sc. Jacek Dołęga
17:45 Day 2 Room B		Freshwater mollusc assemblages in the Bednja River (Croatia) Professor Jasna Lajtner
17:55 Day 2 Room B		★Effect of substrate particle size on burrowing of the juvenile freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera MSc Heini Hyvärinen
18:05 Day 2 Room B	Long Break
18:50 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Conservation of freshwater mollusks in the Anthropocene Professor Ronaldo Sousa
19:20 Day 2 All Rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 2 Room B	Paleonthology Dr. Marco Thomas Neiber	Trends and patterns in the European Cenozoic land snail record Dr. Harzhauser Mathias
19:45 Day 2 Room B		★ Reconstructing Plio-Pleistocene hydrosystems of the Northern Turkana Depression (East African Rift System) from the study of fossil freshwater mollusk communities Msc. Juan David Andrade
19:55 Day 2 Room B		A taxonomic revision of fossil freshwater pearl mussels (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae) from Neogene-Quaternary rivers of Southeastern Europe Dr. Artem Lyubas
20:05 Day 2 Room B	Break
20:15 Day 2 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 2 Room B	End of program

Breakout room C

Time	Session	Title
14:00-14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Opening ceremony
14:30 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Applied malacology: from pure science to environmental monitoring, ecological restoration and aquaculture Dr. David Aldridge
15:00 Day 2 Room C	Transition to Breakout rooms
15:05 Day 2 Room C	Taxonomy and Systematics Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke	In situ identification of cryptic marine invertebrates using molecular markers Dr. Alejandro Centeno-Cuadros
15:25 Day 2 Room C		★Molecular phylogeny and species delimitation of the Felimida dalli species complex (Nudibranchia, Chromodorididae) Priscila Vilela
15:45 Day 2 Room C		The first data on abyssal aglajids Dr. Elena Chaban
15:55 Day 2 Room C	Break
16:10 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Bivalve ecotoxicology: from biomonitoring of legacy pollutants to recent advances to assess the impacts of contaminants on aquatic ecosystems Dr. Camilla Della Torre
16:40 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Monitoring of mollusks using eDNA and other innovative methods Dr. Vincent Prié
17:10 Day 2 Room C	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 2 Room C	Taxonomy and Systematics Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke	Solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) diversity in Corsica: findings of the program “La Planète Revisiteé” Dr. M Carmen Cobo
17:35 Day 2 Room C		★Small solenogasters causing big problems: molecular data from the family Meiomeniidae (Aplacophora, Mollusca) Meghan Yap-Chiongco
17:55 Day 2 Room C		★ Chitons (Class: Polyplacophora) of the Indian coast: Present status and future needs Msc. Liju Thomas
18:05 Day 2 Room C	Long Break
18:50 Day 2 All Rooms	Keynote	Conservation of freshwater mollusks in the Anthropocene Professor Ronaldo Sousa
19:20 Day 2 Room C	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 2 Room C	Host parasitic relationships Dr. David Aldridge	★Field and laboratory evaluation of susceptibility of Corbicula spp. clams to Chaetogaster limnaei gill parasites Florencia Liquin
19:45 Day 2 Room C		★ Parasite communities in freshwater mussels: what we know and what we still need to learn M.Sc Joshua Brian
20:05 Day 2 Room C	Break
20:15 Day 2 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 2 Room C	End of program

Day 3 (07/09/2021)

Breakout room A

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day3 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Czech and Slovak malacologists Prof. Michal Horsák
13:25 Day3 All Rooms		mGIG: Mollusc genomics interest group Dr. Alice Dennis
13:30 Day3 All Rooms		Indonesian Malacological Society / Masyarakat Moluska Indonesia Dr. Ayu Savitri Nurinsiyah
13:35 Day3 All Rooms		Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland Dr. Ben Rowson
13:40 Day3 All Rooms		American Malacological Society Dr. Kevin Kocot
13:50 Day3 Room A	Break
14:00 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Impact of anthropogenic pressures on marine and estuarine molluscs Professor Rui Rosa
14:30 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day3 Room A	Global change Professor Rui Rosa	★Biological impacts of ocean warming and acidification on cephalopods: a meta-analysis MSc Francisco Borges
14:55 Day3 Room A		Establishing mussel behaviour as a monitoring tool to measure climatic disturbances PhD Vanessa Modesto
15:15 Day3 Room A		★Running from climate change: Freshwater mussels behavioural responses to dewatering events Paulo Castro
15:35 Day3 Room A		★ High frequency video analysis as a new method for tracking bivalve filtering behaviour: comparison with traditional methods. Msc. Juan Felipe Escobar-Calderón
15:55 Day3 Room A	Break
16:10 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Spring fen habitats as archipelago like systems: Lessons for inland mollusc ecology and paleoecology Professor Michal Horsák
16:40 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Nullius in verba: Bias and error from unverified data. Dr. Jeffrey C. Nekola
17:10 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day3 Room A	Ecology and evolution Professor Michal Horsák	★ Land snail assemblages as indicators of regional habitat conservation status of European spring fens M.Sc. Radovan Coufal
17:35 Day3 Room A		Population collapse in viviparid gastropods of the Lake Victoria ecoregion started before the Last Glacial Maximum Dr. Bert Van Bocxlaer
17:55 Day3 Room A		Extinction probability is linked to lifestyle in freshwater gastropods Dr. Thomas Neubauer
18:05 Day3 Room A	Long Break
18:50 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Modern approaches to species delimitation in molluscs Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke
19:20 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day3 Room A	Taxonomy and systematics Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke	Molecular phylogeny of the crown snail genus Taphrenalla (Stylommatophora, Ariophantidae) from Thailand Dr. Arthit Pholyotha
19:35 Day3 Room A		★ Morphological species of the genus Belgrandia Bourguignat, 1870 (Mollusca:Caenogastropoda:Hydrobiidae) in the Iberian Peninsula evaluated using multilocus species delimitation methods Fernando García-Guerrero
19:45 Day3 Room A		★Mollusc biodiversity of Essaouira dunes (Morocco) Fatima Zahra Guennoun
19:55 Day3 Room A		Studies on the abundance and spread management of invasive slugs in Lithuania Mantas Adomaitis
20:05 Day3 Room A	Break
20:25 Day3 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:55 Day3 Room A	End of program

Breakout Room B

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day3 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Czech and Slovak malacologists Prof. Michal Horsák
13:25 Day3 All Rooms		mGIG: Mollusc genomics interest group Dr. Alice Dennis
13:30 Day3 All Rooms		Indonesian Malacological Society / Masyarakat Moluska Indonesia Dr. Ayu Savitri Nurinsiyah
13:35 Day3 All Rooms		Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland Dr. Ben Rowson
13:40 Day3 All Rooms		American Malacological Society Dr. Kevin Kocot
13:50 Day3 Room B	Break
14:00 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Impact of anthropogenic pressures on marine and estuarine molluscs Professor Rui Rosa
14:30 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day3 Room B	Biogeography, Ecology and evolution Dr. Marco Thomas Neiber	Comparative phylogeography of amphiboreal Nudibranchia (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia): genetic consequences of historical climatic fluctuations Dr. Irina Ekimova
14:55 Day3 Room B		Incorporating palaeogeography into ancestral area estimation can explain the disjunct distribution of land snails in Macaronesia and the Balearic Islands Dr. Marco Thomas Neiber
15:15 Day3 Room B		Central-European phylogeographic crossroads and postglacial colonization to the south in Monachoides incarnatus (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) ★ Mgr. Tereza Kosová
15:25		Mollusc diversity associated to intertidal mussel beds in North Portugal. Dr. Marcos Rubal García
15:35 Day3 Room B		★ Attacking strategies of malacophagous shell-breaking carabid beetles in laboratory experiments Mgr. Tomáš Němec
15:55 Day3 Room B	Break
16:10 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Spring fen habitats as archipelago like systems: Lessons for inland mollusc ecology and paleoecology Professor Michal Horsák
16:40 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Nullius in verba: Bias and error from unverified data.
17:10 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day3 Room B	Taxonomy and systematics Dr. Jeffrey C. Nekola	A mitogenomic phylogeny for the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka land-snail genus Corilla Dr. Dinarzarde Raheem
17:35 Day3 Room B		Convergent evolution of Amphidromus-like colourful arboreal snails and phylogenetic relationship of East Asian camaenids Dr. Parin Jirapatrasilp
17:55 Day3 Room B		The freshwater gastropods of Greece – preliminary list, conservation and prospects Dr. Elisavet Georgopoulou
18:05 Day3 Room B	Long Break
18:50 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Modern approaches to species delimitation in molluscs Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke
19:20 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day3 Room B	Ecology and evolution Prof. em. Winfried Peters	Feeding behavior in Olividae: more diverse than expected Prof. em. Winfried Peters
19:45 Day3 Room B		★ Function and evolution of high-resolution spatial vision in strombid gastropods Alison Irwin
20:05 Day3 Room B	Break
20:25 Day3 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:55 Day3 Room B	End of program

Breakout room C

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day3 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Czech and Slovak malacologists Prof. Michal Horsák
13:25 Day3 All Rooms		mGIG: Mollusc genomics interest group Dr. Alice Dennis
13:30 Day3 All Rooms		Indonesian Malacological Society / Masyarakat Moluska Indonesia Dr. Ayu Savitri Nurinsiyah
13:35 Day3 All Rooms		Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland Dr. Ben Rowson
13:40 Day3 All Rooms		American Malacological Society Dr. Kevin Kocot
13:50 Day3 Room C	Break
14:00 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Impact of anthropogenic pressures on marine and estuarine molluscs Professor Rui Rosa
14:30 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day3 Room C	Ecology and evolution Professor Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha	Correlated loss of shell colour and pattern and vision in deep sea snails Dr. Suzanne Williams
14:55 Day3 Room C		★Collective behaviour and social dynamics during interspecific collaborative hunting between octopus (Octopus cyanea) and multiple fish species. MSc. Eduardo Sampaio
15:15 Day3 Room C		★Location probing by males complicates sexual dynamics and successful mate-guarding in squid groups MSc. Eduardo Sampaio
15:25 Day3 Room C		Effect of the elemental content of shells of the bivalve mollusks from Saldanha Bay (South Africa) on their crystallographic texture Pavel Nekhoroshkov
15:35 Day3 Room C		You are what (and how) you eat: evolutionary trends in the morphology of nudibranch buccal complex Dr Anna Mikhlina
15:55 Day3 Room C	Break
16:10 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Spring fen habitats as archipelago like systems: Lessons for inland mollusc ecology and paleoecology Professor Michal Horsák
16:40 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Nullius in verba: Bias and error from unverified data. Dr. Jeffrey C. Nekola
17:10 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day3 Room C	Free Networking space
17:15 Day3 Room C
17:35 Day3 Room C
18:05 Day3 Room C	Long Break
18:50 Day3 All Rooms	Keynote	Modern approaches to species delimitation in molluscs Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke
19:20 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day3 Room C	Invasice species Dr. Karel Douda	★ Asian clam explosion and its implication on freshwater mussel populations: the case in the middle Ebro basin, Spain. MSc. Keiko Nakamura
19:45 Day3 Room C		South American freshwater invasive Bivalvia: patterns emerged by a connectivity analysis Dr. Evangelos Vlachos
20:05 Day3 Room C		Break
20:25 Day3 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:55 Day3 Room C	End of program

Day 4 08/09/2021

Breakout Room A

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 4 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Instituto Português de Malacologia Dr. Joaquim Reis
13:25 Day 4 All Rooms		Archiv für Molluskenkunde Dr John M.C. Hutchinson
13:30 Day 4 All Rooms		The Association of Polish Malacologists Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając
13:35 Day 4 All Rooms		Dutch Malacological Society Drs. Piet Arie Johannes (Hannco) Bakker
13:40 Day 4 All Rooms		(*)Freshwater Mollusk Conservation society Dr. Garrett Hopper
13:50 Day 4 Room A	Break
14:00 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	From shells to genomes, systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of molluscs Dr. Manuel Lopes-Lima
14:30 Day 4 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day 4 Room A	Genetics Dr. Manuel Lopes-Lima	Applying genomic approaches to delineate conservation strategies: a case study using the freshwater mussel M. margaritifera in the Iberian Peninsula Dr. Joaquim Reis
14:55 Day 4 Room A		Population genetic trends in the common whelk, Buccinum undatum, reveal fine-scale structuring and cryptic speciation within the North Atlantic Dr Jake Goodall
15:15 Day 4 Room A		Whole-genome re-sequencing data to infer historical demography and speciation processes in land snails: the study of two Candidula sister species Dr Luis J. Chueca
15:35 Day 4 Room A		★ Inference of DNA methylation patterns in molluscs M.Sc. Lisa Männer
15:55 Day 4 Room A	Break
16:10 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Critically evaluating the functional role of freshwater mussels and their ecosystem services Dr. Carla L. Atkinson
16:40 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Current advances in propagation methods of endangered mollusks Dr. Frankie T. Thielen
17:10 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 4 Room A	Ecosystem services Dr. Carla L. Atkinson	Ecosystem services of freshwater bivalves: reviewing the global evidence Dr Alexandra Zieritz
17:35 Day 4 Room A		Weighing-in: biometric conversion factors as a unifying platform for impact assessment of invasive freshwater bivalves Dr Neil Coughlan
17:55 Day 4 Room A	Monitoring	Holoplankton and Meroplanktonic Gastropods from the Celebes Sea, North Sulawesi, Indonesia Dr. Medy Ompi
18:05 Day 4 Room A	Long Break
18:50 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Crowdsourcing: a neglected research approach in malacology Dr. Ivan Jarić
19:20 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 4 Room A	Citizen Science Dr. Karel Douda	★“Slugs count”; using citizen science to understand terrestrial slug species diversity in UK gardens Ms Imogen Cavadino
19:45 Day 4 Room A		The Role of Citizen Scientists for the Recent Development of Malacology in Indonesia Dr Felicia Zahida
20:05 Day 4 Room A	Break
20:15 Day 4 Room A	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 4 Room A	End of program

Breakout Room B

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 4 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Instituto Português de Malacologia Dr. Joaquim Reis
13:25 Day 4 All Rooms		Archiv für Molluskenkunde Dr John M.C. Hutchinson
13:30 Day 4 All Rooms		The Association of Polish Malacologists Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając
13:35 Day 4 All Rooms		Dutch Malacological Society Drs. Piet Arie Johannes (Hannco) Bakker
13:40 Day 4 All Rooms		(*)Freshwater Mollusk Conservation society Dr. Garrett Hopper
13:50 Day 4 All Rooms	Break
14:00 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	From shells to genomes, systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of molluscs Dr. Manuel Lopes-Lima
14:30 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day 4 Room B	Ecology and evolution Prof. Michal Horsák	Genetic determination of shell-shape variation in Lanistes from the Northern region of the Malawi Basin. Dr. Alexis Dollion
14:55 Day 4 Room B		Assessment of the status of populations of Unio crassus Philipsson, 1788 for the establishment of conservation areas in Lithuania Dr. Grita Skujienė
15:15 Day 4 Room B		“Obstetrical dilemma” in viviparous snails Dr. Sulikowska-Drozd Anna
15:35 Day 4 Room B		Parallel adaptation of shell morphology across space and time in the land snail genus Pupilla (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora: Pupillidae) Dr. Martin Haase
15:55 Day 4 Room B	Break
16:10 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Critically evaluating the functional role of freshwater mussels and their ecosystem services Dr. Carla L. Atkinson
16:40 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Current advances in propagation methods of endangered mollusks Dr. Frankie T. Thielen
17:10 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 4 Room B	Monitoring Dr. Ayu Savitri Nurinsiyah	★Distribution and DNA barcoding of hydrobioids (Gastropoda)from the Kalkalpen National Park (Austria) Hannah Schubert
17:35 Day 4 Room B		Effect of professional harvesting on intertidal mussel beds. An experimental approach. Dr. Marcos Rubal García
17:55 Day 4 Room B		The rebirth of the Indonesian Malacological Society for mainstreaming mollusks biodiversity, conservation, and sustainable utilization in Indonesia. Dr. Ayu Savitri Nurinsiyah
18:05 Day 4 Room B	Long Break
18:50 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Crowdsourcing: a neglected research approach in malacology Dr. Ivan Jarić
19:20 Day 3 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 4 Room B	Ecotoxicology & Invasive species Dr. Camilla Della Torre(*)	★ Toxicity associated to exposure and recovery of neodymium in Mytilus galloprovincialis exposed to warming conditions M.Sc Carla Leite
19:45 Day 4 Room B		★ Predation effects of native and invasive crayfish on native and invasive freshwater mussels M.Sc. Andreas H. Dobler
20:05 Day 4 Room B	Break
20:15 Day 4 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 4 Room B	End of program

Breakout room C

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 4 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Instituto Português de Malacologia Dr. Joaquim Reis
13:25 Day 4 All Rooms		Archiv für Molluskenkunde Dr John M.C. Hutchinson
13:30 Day 4 All Rooms		The Association of Polish Malacologists Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając
13:35 Day 4 All Rooms		Dutch Malacological Society Drs. Piet Arie Johannes (Hannco) Bakker
13:40 Day 4 All Rooms		(*)Freshwater Mollusk Conservation society Dr. Garrett Hopper
13:50 Day 4 Room C	Break
14:00 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	From shells to genomes, systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of molluscs Dr. Manuel Lopes-Lima
14:30 Day 4 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day 4 Room C	Ecology and evolution Dr Alexandra Zieritz	The size and shape of parasitic larvae of naiads (Unionidae) – are they optimized? Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając
14:55 Day 4 Room C		Biodiversity associated with mussel beds as tool to detect anthropogenic disturbances Dr Puri Veiga
15:05 Day 4 Room C		Using self–organizing maps and machine learning models to assess mollusc community structure in relation to physicochemical variables in a West Africa river–estuary system Dr. Zinsou Cosme Koudenoukpo
15:15 Day 4 Room C		★ Enrichment of ORFs and UCEs in genomic samples to link microevolution and macroevolution in African freshwater unionids (Parreysiinae: Coelaturini) M.Sc Claudia M. Ortiz-Sepulveda
15:35 Day 4 Room C		★Patterns of Trophic Resource Partitioning in Diverse Freshwater Bivalve Assemblages Support Classic Niche Theory MSc. Irene Sanchez Gonzalez
15:55 Day 4 Room C	Break
16:10 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Critically evaluating the functional role of freshwater mussels and their ecosystem services Dr. Carla L. Atkinson
16:40 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Current advances in propagation methods of endangered mollusks Dr. Frankie T. Thielen
17:10 Day 4 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 4 Room C	Free networking space
17:35 Day 4 Room C	Free discussion session: Microplastics and other emerging contaminants Dr. Camilla Della Torre
17:45 Day 4 Room C
18:05 Day 4 Room C	Long Break
18:50 Day 4 All Rooms	Keynote	Crowdsourcing: a neglected research approach in malacology Dr. Ivan Jarić
19:20 Day 4 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
19:25 Day 4 Room C	Invasie Species: (Sinanodonta woodiana) Dr. Ilya Vikhrev	Study of preferred orientation and residual stress of Sinanodonta woodiana shells by diffraction methods Ing. Monika Kucerakova
19:45 Day 4 Room C		Massive Northward Expansion of the Alien Asian Pond Mussels (Sinanodonta spp.) in European Russia Dr. Ilya Vikhrev
20:05 Day 4 Room C	Break
20:15 Day 4 All Rooms	Poster session and discussion
20:45 Day 4 Room C	End of program

Day 5 09/09/2021

Breakout room A

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 5 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Sociedad Espanola de Malacologia Dr. Carmen Salas
13:25 Day 5 All Rooms		COST Conservation of Freshwater Mussels: Pan-European approach Prof. Tadeusz Zając
13:30 Day 5 All Rooms		Malacological Society of London Mr Jonathan Ablett
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Lagunet/Eurolag MSc Davide Tagliapietra
13:40 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Sociedad de Malacología de México PhD. Deneb Ortigosa
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Asociacion Argentina de Malacologia Licenciada Ana Carolina Díaz
13:50 Day 5 Room A	Break
14:00 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	From Mollusks to medicine Dr. Mandë Holford
14:30 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day 5 Room A	Conservation practice Proffesor. Tadeusz Zając	Hundreds of shells: a time-consuming but useful quantitative approach to malacofauna Dr Salomé Granai
14:45 Day 5 Room A		Introducing new project on freshwater pearl mussel conservation: LIFE Revives Dr. Heidi M. T. Kunttu
14:55 Day 5 Room A		★ Spatial distribution of Unio crassus linked with environmental variables at a regional scale. Quintia Vaessen
15:05 Day 5 Room A		Three decades of active protection and population reinforcements of Margaritifera margaritifera as the flagship species for oligotrophic rivers in Czechia Dr. Ondrej Simon
15:25 Day 5 Room A		★ Host-parasitic compatibility of brown trout Salmo trutta and freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera in central Europe based on fluorescence lipid quantification Ing. Barbora Vodáková
15:35 Day 5 Room A		Mollusks in the rural green belt of Vienna : continuities and changes Dr. Michael Duda
15:55 Day 5 Room A	Break
16:10 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Biogeography and Quaternary malacology Dr. Nicole Limondin-Lozouet
16:40 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Islands and snails: unraveling processes Professor Robert A. D. Cameron
17:10 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 5 Room A	Biogeography Professor Robert A. D. Cameron	Phylogeography and potential glacial refugia of terrestrial gastropod Faustina faustina (Rossmässler, 1835) (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Helicidae) MSc Kamila Stefania Zając
17:35 Day 5 Room A		★Predicting future range shifts to a critically endangered freshwater mussel in Europe: the importance of including fish hosts M.S. Janine P. da Silva
17:55 Day 5 Room A	Ecology and evolution	Freshwater mollusc diversity in the Upper Brahmaputra Basin of Assam, India Jyotish Sonowal
18:05 Day 5 Room A	Long Break
18:50 Day 5 Room A	Invasive species Professor Ronaldo Sousa	Occurrence of the parasite and endosymbionts of Corbicula clams from native range: Thailand, Korea and Myanmar Ph.D. Yulia Bespalaya
19:10 Day 5 Room A		Shipworms in Lagoon of Venice Ph.D. Irene Guarneri
19:30 Day 5 Room A	Long Break
	Scientific committee meeting (closed doors)
20:10 Day 5 Room A	Student awards and final word
20:40 Day 5 Room A	End of the event

Breakout Room B

Time	Session	Title
Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 5 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Sociedad Espanola de Malacologia Dr. Carmen Salas
13:25 Day 5 All Rooms		COST Conservation of Freshwater Mussels: Pan-European approach Prof. Tadeusz Zając
13:30 Day 5 All Rooms		Malacological Society of London Mr Jonathan Ablett
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Lagunet/Eurolag MSc Davide Tagliapietra
13:40 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Sociedad de Malacología de México PhD. Deneb Ortigosa
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Asociacion Argentina de Malacologia Licenciada Ana Carolina Díaz
13:50 Day 5 Room B	Break
14:00 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	From Mollusks to medicine Dr. Mandë Holford
14:30 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day5 Room B	Ecology and Evolution Prof. Dr. Thomas Wilke	Extinction at the fifth and sixth mass extinction – a freshwater perspective Dr. Thomas Neubauer
14:55 Day5 Room B		Causes and evolutionary consequences of phenotypic plasticity in land snails of Trochulus hispidus complex Dr Małgorzata Proćków
15:15 Day5 Room B		Shell microsculpture unmasks convergent shell form witdin four European Pyramidula species Mgr. Veronika Horsáková
15:35 Day5 Room B		A fragile species in a harsh habitat: a case study of Vertigo moulinsiana population in extreme environmental conditions Dr Anna Lipińska
15:45 Day5 Room B		★Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy used to study glycosylation of proteins in gastropod mucus MSc Edgar Barajas Ledesma
15:55 Day 5 Room B	Break
16:10 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Biogeography and Quaternary malacology Dr. Nicole Limondin-Lozouet
16:40 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Islands and snails: unraveling processes Professor Robert A. D. Cameron
17:10 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day5 Room B	Quaternary Malacology Dr. Nicole Limondin-Lozouet	Mollusc assemblages and paleoenvironmental implications during tde Holocene in tde Elefsis Bay (Saronikos Gulf, Greece) MSc Nikolaos Mavrommatis
17:35 Day5 Room B		★Quaternary continental malacology in Spain: new investigations from a Holocene succession at Rio Galera (Andalusia) reveal tde biogeographical history of Quentin Wackenheim
18:05 Day 5 Room B	Long Break
18:50 Day 5 Room B	Quaternary malacology & Monitoring Dr. Nicole Limondin-Lozouet	Molluscs of archaeological sites from tde Jabron valley (SE France) dr hab. Marcin Szymanek
19:10 Day 5 Room B		Rare Vertiginidae are absent in the Curonian Spit Benediktas Jukonis
19:30 Day 5 Room A	Long Break
	Scientific committee meeting (closed doors)
20:10 Day 5 Room A	Student awards and final word
20:40 Day 5 Room A	End of the event

Breakout Room C

Time	Session	Title
13:20 Day 5 All Rooms	Conference with malacological societies	Sociedad Espanola de Malacologia Dr. Carmen Salas
13:25 Day 5 All Rooms		COST Conservation of Freshwater Mussels: Pan-European approach Prof. Tadeusz Zając
13:30 Day 5 All Rooms		Malacological Society of London Mr Jonathan Ablett
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Lagunet/Eurolag MSc Davide Tagliapietra
13:40 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Sociedad de Malacología de México PhD. Deneb Ortigosa
13:35 Day 5 All Rooms		(*)Asociacion Argentina de Malacologia Licenciada Ana Carolina Díaz
13:50 Day 5 Room C	Break
14:00 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	From Mollusks to medicine Dr. Mandë Holford
14:30 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
14:35 Day 5 Room C	Special program: popularization of science with games! Killer snails Dr. Mandë Holford
15:55 Day 5 Room C	Break
16:10 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Biogeography and Quaternary malacology Dr. Nicole Limondin-Lozouet
16:40 Day 5 All Rooms	Keynote	Islands and snails: unraveling processes Professor Robert A. D. Cameron
17:10 Day 5 All rooms	Transition to Breakout rooms
17:15 Day 5 Room C	Anatomy Professor Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha	Functional micro-morphology of the digestive tract in polyplacophoran molluscs Professor Alexandre Lobo-da-Cunha
17:35 Day 5 Room C		★ Stuck fast and loose: the impact of ions on gastropod pedal mucus Lauren Eggleton
17:55 Day 5 Room C		Rhipidoglossan radula of Gastropoda: morphology and formation. Dr. Elena Vortsepneva
18:05 Day 5 Room C	Long Break
18:50 Day 5 Room C	Paleonthology and collections Dr. Frank Wesselingh	Review and update of the systematics of the malacological collections belonging to the Bonsor Collection (Mairena del Alcor, Seville, southern Spain) Dr. M. Carmen Lozano-Francisco
19:10 Day 5 Room C		Crisis or Change? Unlocking biodiversity change from mollusc time series Dr. Frank Wesselingh
19:30 Day 5 Room C	Long Break
	Scientific committee meeting (closed doors)
20:10 Day 5 Room C	Student awards and final word
20:40 Day 5 Room C	End of the event