4 - 6 NOVEMBER 2019
IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM
CAPE TOWN | SOUTH AFRICA
PROGRAMME
| Wednesday, 6 November 2019 | ||
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Welcome desk | |
| 08:30 – 10:40 | Session IJBS6-03 The Human-Jellyfish Nexus Conveners: Rachel Tiller, Angel Yanagihara, Jamileh Javidpour, Angus Bloomfield, Lucas Brotz |
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| Rachel Tiller | Pest and plague or valuable resource and opportunities: Stakeholder perceptions of Jellyfish across Europe | |
| Ainara Ballesteros | The cnidome of Pelagia noctiluca (Forsskål, 1775) and why you should not use vinegar in case of its sting | |
| Euikyung Kim | Protective effect of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) on toxic metalloproteinases-mediated skin damage induced by Scyphozoan jellyfish envenomation | |
| Jamie Seymour | Jellyfish venom extraction and delivery in animal models; do we have it right? | |
| Angel Yanagihara | Preliminary studies to improve outcomes of box jellyfish sting injuries in the Indo-Pacific | |
| Biju Kumar Appukuttannair | Jellyfish blooms in India: Ecosystem implications and socio-economic concerns | |
| Lucas Brotz | The race for jellyfish: winners and losers in Mexico’s Gulf of California | |
| Damien Haberlin | Interactions between between jellyfish and finfish aquaculture: current mitigation strategies | |
| Cesar Bordehore | MedusApp, a citizen science tool for monitoring jellyfish populations and stings | |
| Angus Bloomfield | Towards an Early Warning System for Jellyfish Blooms | |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Macarena Marambio Campos | More than 10 years dealing with jellyfish blooms: the Jellyfish Observation Network in the NW Mediterranean |
| Zhang Fang | Progress on the disaster prevention & mitigation strategy, equipment development for emergency disposal of Jellyfish Bloom in China coastal waters | |
| Sunwoo Kim | Precautionary management of jellyfish bloom by polyp elimination | |
| Mathias Clausen | The microstructure of jellyfish mesoglea and jellyfish chips | |
| Tjaša Kogovšek | Are farmed fish hungry for jellyfish? – The potential of jellyfish as alternative source of proteins in fish feed | |
| Isabella D’Ambra | Biotechnological applications of scyphomedusae | |
| Kylie Pitt | Sea Jellies Illuminated: Partnering with Sea World to deliver a state-of-the-art jellyfish research laboratory that engages the public in jellyfish science | |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | LUNCH | |
| 14:00 – 15:40 | Session IJBS6-04 Novel techniques for understanding the ecology of gelatinous zooplankton blooms Conveners: Dror Angel, Natasha Henschke, Mary Beth Decker, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Cornelia Jaspers |
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| Opening talk | ||
| Dror Angel | How do we quantify the abundances of something as elusive as jellyfish? | |
| Mary Beth Decker | Chrysaora melanaster spatial and seasonal dynamics detected by Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) in the eastern Bering Sea | |
| Brett Bolte | Detection of the cubozoan, Copula sivickisi, using environmental DNA (eDNA) | |
| Aidan Long | A novel platform for monitoring small gelatinous zooplankton: the high-speed Gulf VII plankton sampler captures gelatinous meso-zooplankton as effectively as a traditional ring net | |
| Ben Mcilwaine | Combining UAVs and AI: producing an early warning system for coastal industries | |
| Laura Prieto | State-of-the-art technologies to study Pelagia noctiluca in the Balearic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | |
| Evgeny Pakhomov | Spatial shifts of major gelatinous and crustacean metazoans in response to projected climate change scenarios | |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 – 17:40 | Mayara de Almeida Jordano | Is phenotypic plasticity determined by temperature and fluid regime in scyphomedusae ? |
| Marine Pastor | Pelagia noctiluca ephyrae from NW Mediterranean Sea: where are they before becoming medusae? | |
| Michael Kingsford | Ecology and population connectivity of the cubozoan Copula sivickisi in northern Australia | |
| Verena Ras | Population structuring of Chrysaora africana and Chrysaora fulgida across the west coast of Africa | |
| Richard Brodeur | Causes and consequences of the great pyrosome bloom in the Northern California Current | |
| Léo Berline | Modeling Pelagia noctiluca dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea | |
| Jasmine L. Headlam | Using citizen science, at-sea observations and a Lagrangian particle-tracking model to determine the source of a Portuguese Man O’War Physalia physalis (Hydrozoa: Siphonophorae) mass stranding event | |
| Joan Josep Soto Angel | Quorum sensing and abiotic factors underlying bloom potential in Mnemiopsis: new evidence from laboratory culture | |
| Concluding remarks | ||
| 19:00 – 23:00 | Awards and farewell at the Two Oceans Aquarium | |