ICOC PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

History

The first pre-conference workshop was organized in Brazil by Carlos E.F. da Rocha at the Centre for Marine Biology (CEBIMar) in São Sebastião (São Paulo State), during the week preceding the 7th International Conference on Copepoda which took place further south in Curitiba (Paraná State). The objective of the workshop was to document and summarize the state of knowledge of copepod diversity in the Neotropical realm and foster networking and future collaboration between the 44 taxonomists and other specialists in Latin America who were capable of identifying copepods. Gaps in taxonomic knowledge and expertise, geographical coverage, and habitat sampling were identified during the workshop, in addition to a strong need for regional or even international courses on copepod taxonomy which would offer students and young professionals the opportunity to learn more about observation and identification of copepods from a wide range of groups.

In response to the outcome of the discussions held during the CEBIMar meeting, the format of future pre-conference workshops changed to make existing taxonomic expertise more widely available to the younger generation. The main objective of these training courses became 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. The courses typically cover marine, brackish and freshwater forms and are taught in English by an international team of tutors, each one of them being an internationally renowned specialist in a different area of copepod systematics and biology. Typically run over five days, the workshop comprises a combination of lectures, laboratory-based practical sessions and informal, problem-solving discussions between highly motivated young researchers and established workers.

Previous Workshops

2024 Training Workshop on Biology and Ecology of Copepods, Japan

Location: Fisheries Laboratory, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima
Date: 26 – 31 May 2024
Co-organizers: Rony Huys & Susumu Ohtsuka
Local host: Susumu Ohtsuka
Tutors: Panakool Thambun Aneesh, Iole Di Capua, Rony Huys, Hiroshi Itoh, Nancy F. Mercado-Salas, Shuhei Nishida, Susumu Ohtsuka, Alexandra Savchenko, Motohiro Shimanaga, Danny Tang, Ko Tomikawa, Kaori Wakabayashi, Atsushi Yamaguchi
Participants: Amare Mezgebu Alamrew, Makoto Ameno, Nur Nabilah Ahmad Ariffian, Paulene Anne Sun Chen, Sijun Chen, Ceiça Alfredo Chioze, Parvez Chowdhury, Anitha Mary Davidson, Vera Emelianenko, Rina Hashimoto, Dongwoo Kim, Ratiporn Klabsook, Kazuki Maeda, Mary Anne Eata Mandario, Andrea Montalbano, Yusuke Motomura, Rodrigo Bravin Narciso, Sidonie Edith Jeannine Rousseau, Son Ryu, Fanny Sieler, Nakako Tamamushi, Jin Yiqian, Nanami Yumura, Qian Zhang (24 participants representing 14 countries)

2017 Training Workshop on Morphology and Systematics of Copepods, U.S.A.

Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Date: 10 – 15 July 2017
Organizer: Rony Huys
Local host: Mark Ohman
Tutors: Janet Bradford-Grieve, Ruth Böttger-Schnack, Barbara Fiasca, Diana Galassi, Samuel Gómez, Rony Huys, Mark Ohman, Danny Tang
Participants: Diane Alps, Renata Polyana de Santana Campelo, Juan Ramón Beltrán Castro, Joe Connolly, Santiago Gaviria Melo, José Manuel Gutierrez-Salcedo, Maja Karoline Viddal Hatlebakk, ‎Phillip Hoover, Elena Kochanova, Sota Komeda, Tuba Terbıyık Kurt, Stephanie Matthews, Max Murray, Bruno Passarelli, Michele Sciberras, Caitlin Smoot, Elizabeth Stockmar, Kevin Sugier, Samantha Tong, Julian Uribe-Palomino, Funda Üstün (21 participants representing 14 countries)

2014 Training Workshop on Morphology and Systematics of Copepods, Korea

Location: Fisheries Science Institute of Chonnam National University, Yeosu
Date: 08 – 12 July 2014
Organizer: Rony Huys
Local host: Ho Young Soh
Tutors: Diana Galassi, Samuel Gómez, Ju-shey Ho, Rony Huys, Susumu Ohtsuka
Participants: Fahad Alajmi, Daichi Arima, Thomas Camus, Barbara Fiasca, Takeshi Hirabayashi, Jong Guk Kim, Jurry Kim, Marijana Miloslavić, Fanghong Mu, Fatemeh Nazari, Gihong Park, Melissa ‎Rohal, Madhuri Saindane, Bome Song, Vinod Vakati, Gabriela Vergara, Woo Yul Yi (17 participants representing 11 countries)

2011 Training Workshop on Morphology and Systematics of Copepods, Mexico

Location: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Universidad de Quintana Roo, Chetumal
Date: 04 – 11 July 2011
Organizer: Rony Huys
Local host: Eduardo Suárez-Morales
Tutors: Ruth Böttger-Schnack, Geoff Boxshall, Anton Brancelj, Samuel Gómez, Ju-shey Ho,
Rony Huys, Terue Kihara, Susumu Ohtsuka, Janet Reid
Participants: Valdylene Tavares Pessoa Fidelis, Pedro Augusto Mendes de Castro Melo, Leonardo Kenji Miyashita, Xiomara Franchesca García Díaz, Marco Vinicio Corrales Ugalde, Allan Martín Carillo Baltodano, Carlos Varela Pérez, Amit Kant Awasthi, Gopikrishna Mantha, Dong-Gu Jeon, Eunkyoung Park, Paulina Abigail Sabido Villanueva, Nancy Fabiola Mercado-Salas, Eva Kozak, Montserrat Delfina Reyes Flores, Ramses Nuñez Alamo, Alexandra Savchenko, Barret Phillips, Carissa Shipman (19 particpants representing 9 countries)

2008 Training Workshop on Systematics, Morphology and Techniques for Identification of Copepods and their Larval Stages, Thailand

Location: Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen
Date: 7 – 11 July 2008
Organizer: Geoff Boxshall
Local host: La-orsri Sanoamuang
Tutors: Geoff Boxshall, Anton Brancelj, Hans-Uwe Dahms, Rony Huys, La-orsri Sanoamuang
Participants: Cristy Acabado, Wongpiya Anansatitporn, Sujiporn Athibai, Sarah Barker, Rachada Chaicharoen, Kwang-Hyeon Chang, Nongnut Chanyaek, Wipavee Dararat, Inta Deimantovica, Christopher Ellison, Nur Hasan, Jung-Ho Hong, Koorosh Jalilzadeh, Hyeon-Gyeong Jeong. Pailin Jitchum, Ratchadawan Jullawateelert, Jung-Hoon Kang, Pawana Kangtia, Ki-Choon Kim, Pradchek Klangsin, Queen Kongratana, Kamonwan Koomput, Dong-Ju Lee, Seung-Han Lee, Ione Madinabeitia, Waraporn Mahasap, Supiyanit Maiphae, Juana Mendoza-Vera, Seong-Yong Moon, Elena Naumova, Mary Mar Noblezada, Argun Özak, Eun-Ok Park, Abdulwahed Pehpouri, Pornsilp Pholpunthin, Sutthana Plodsomboon, Daniel Previattelli, Supattra Rodniam, Phannee Sa-ardrit, Weearawan Saowakul, Fereshteh Saraji, Suree Satapoomin, Alexandra Savchenko, Min-Ho Seo, Bancherd Sonsupharp, Sairung Sonsupharp, Michal Šorf, Kosit Sriputhorn, Igor Stankovic, Kesarin Suankamjad, Ivancica Ternjej, Daisuke Uyeno, Vararin Vongpanich, Santi Watiroyram, Agata Weydmann, Ladda Wongrat, Marianne Wootton, Serdar Yıldırım, Lou Yue, Anastasiya Zykova (60 participants representing 16 countries)

2005 Training Workshop on Biology and Systematics of Copepods, Tunisia

Location: University of Bizerte
Date: 4 – 8 July 2005
Organizer: Geoff Boxshall
Local host: Mohamed Néjib Daly Yahia
Tutors: Geoff Boxshall, Jiang-shiou Hwang, Thomas Kiørboe, Carol Lee, Claude Razouls, Sami Souissi, Rudi Strickler
Participants: to be completed

2002 Training Workshop on Morphology and Systematics of Copepods, Taiwan

Location: National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Kenting
Date: 15 – 19 July 2002
Organizer: Geoff Boxshall
Local host: Jiang-shiou Hwang
Tutors: Geoff Boxshall, Sophie Conroy-Dalton, Carlos E.F. da Rocha, Ju-shey Ho, Rony Huys, Susumu Ohtsuka, Grace Wyngaard
Participants: Huyn Woo Bang, Min-hsiu Chao, Wen Been Chang, Shin-hon Cheng, Hung-yi Chien, Mohamed Néjib Daly Yahia, Susan Dippenaar, Salvacion Nacionales Golez, Shih-hui Hsaoi, Yu-ching Hsaoi, Hung-yen Hsieh, Chi-hao Hsieh, Chih-wei Hsieh, Hui-ting Hung, Abigail Ingram, Tzu Kao, Julianne Kalman, Christine Nga Wing Lee, Yang-chi Lan, Eun Jung Nam, Dennyse Newbound, Ai Nihongi, Pieter Oliver, Melcksedeck Osore, Joseph Palermo, Shao-hung Peng, Young Hee Song, Huei-meei Suh, Danny Tang, Li-chun Tseng, Yuan-hsien Tu, Cheng-han Wu (32 participants representing 11 countries)                                 

1999 Pre-conference workshop on Copepod Diversity in the Neotropis: Present Knowledge and new Directions for Research, Brazil

Location: Centre for Marine Biology (CEBIMar), São Sebastião, São Paulo State
Date: 20 – 23 July 1999
Organizer: Carlos E.F. da Rocha
Local host: Carlos E.F. da Rocha
Participants: Tagea Björnberg, Philippe Bodin, Geoff Boxshall, Sophie Conroy-Dalton, Paulo Corgosinho, Danielle Defaye, Rebeca Gasca, Santiago Gaviria, Samuel Gómez, Ju-shey & Pao-hsi Ho, Rony Huys, Rodrigo Johnsson, Hilde Juhl, Terue Kihara, Christine Nga Wing Lee, Wonchoel Lee, José Celso De Oliveira Malta, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Silvina Menu-Marque, Luis Moreno, Juan Paggi, Janet & Willis Reid, Carlos E.F. da Rocha, Nelson dos Santos Silva, Horst-Kurt Schminke, Eduardo Suárez-Morales, Angela Varella, Evelyn Zoppi de Roa, Luis Zuñiga and a few others (35 participants representing 14 countries)