Rotifera XIII: Meeting Possibilities

The XIII International Rotifer Symposium (Rotifera XIII) will be in 2012.

For the next meeting in 2012 proposals should be made. The prospective candidates willing to organise this meeting should download an information and question file. Expressions of interests should be submitted immediately to Linda May. Full proposals with answers to the questions should be submitted by end of August 2010 to Linda May.

Download Information and question file to Rotifera XIII can be found here.

You also can see already a proposal for India by Prof. Sharma in the same page.

Rotifera XII: Abstract deadline...

Just a quick reminder: the deadline for abstract sumission and early registration ends on 31st of January if you want to participate in the XII International Rotifer Symposium.

You can see all information on the event's website, here!

Happy 2009...

The "MeiofaunaBrasil" wishes everyone a wonderful 2009!
The coming year will have many interesting meetings (see below), so be prepared for a great year!

16th International Symposium on Ostracoda
Local: University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil
Date: 20-30 July 2009
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 Jan 2009
Deadline for Registration: 31 May 2009
More Information: http://www.finatec.org.br/eventos/ostracoda

XII International Symposium on Flatworm Biology (International Symposium on the Biology of Turbellaria)
Local: Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Date: 26-30 July 2009
Deadline for early registration and Abstract submission: 1 May 2009
More Information: http://alpha.uhasselt.be/~lucdk/CMK/FLATWORMS/HOMEFrameset.html

11th International Symposium on Tardigrada
Local: Tubingen, Germany
Date: 3-6 August 2009
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 1 Jun 2009
Deadline for early registration: 1 Apr 2009
More Information: http://www.tardigrada-symposium-2009.org/

XII International Rotifer Symposium (Rotifera XII)
Local: Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Humboldt University and Natural History Museum, Berlin, Germany
Date: 16-21 August 2009
Deadline for early registration and Abstract submission: 31 Jan 2009
More Information: http://www.rotifera-xii.igb-berlin.de/

International Nematology Symposium in Hanoi, Vietnam
(Representing also the VIIIth Meeting of the Russian Society of Nematologists)
Local: Hanoi, Vietnam
Date: 16-21 August 2009
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 May 2009
Deadline for early registration: 25 April 2009
More Information: soon…

2nd International Congress of Tropical Nematology
Local: Maceio, Brazil
Date: 4-9 October 2009
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 30 Apr 2009
Deadline for early registration: 30 Apr 2009
More Information: http://docentes.esalq.usp.br/sbn

XII International Rotifer Symposium

The XII International Rotifer Symposium or Rotifera XII will take place in Berlin, Germany from 16 to 21 August, 2009. It is hosted by the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, the Humboldt-University Berlin and the Natural History Museum Berlin.

Rotifera XII will be held in the tradition of previous meetings dedicated to rotifers from molecular to ecological science and from basic to applied research including aquaculture.

More information here.

Phylum Rotifera

ROTIFERA...

As the name Rotifera suggests, one of their most diagnostic features is the corona or “Wheel”-like complex of cilia in the head region which functions is locomotion and feeding. They are commonly vermiform metazoans, sometimes with elaborate cuticular spines or ornamentation, but rarely exceeding 2mm in length and more commonly less than 0.5 mm long. An estimated 2,000 species of rotifers have been described and divided into three classes, five orders up to 22 families and 123 genera and subgenera. Ten of the families have meiobenthic representatives. Although the majority are known from freshwater, rotifers are also found in brackish water and in the sea.
The Rotifera are composed of three classes. The class Pararotatoria is represented by a single genus, Seison, an exclusively marine taxon epizoic on the gills of the crustacean Nebalia. The remaining two classes include the Digononta and the Eurotatoria: the latter class contains most of the known species of the phylum.