International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium (JBS) is the recurrent get-together of the global jellyfish research community. The JBS brings together researchers from all over the world to meet, interact and share up-to-date research on the topic, discuss issues, future scenarios and innovations in research, inspire researchers, and develop networks to collaborate.

Scientific awareness about jellyfish and jellyfish blooms has increased markedly in the past few decades due to frequent reports of jellyfish blooms in some parts of the global ocean and concerns about their impacts on marine ecosystems and human society. The emerging areas of research in this field include the ecological processes driving the jellyfish populations, possible implications of the blooms on sustainable fisheries and livelihoods, the critical role of jellyfish in sustaining marine biodiversity, evolutionary genomics of jellyfish and symbionts, and the use of jellyfish as a model organism in cutting edge research in ocean science.

Ever since the first International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium in 2000, the event has become a major platform to address ecological and societal issues of jellyfish blooms around the world, and so far held in major cities spread across six continents:

1. 1. Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA: 2000
   2. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia: 2007
   3. Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: 2010
   4. Hiroshima, Japan: 2013
   5. Barcelona, Spain: 2016
   6. Cape Town, South Africa: 2019

The Seventh International Jellyfish Blooms Symposium (JBS7) will be held in India, one of the leading countries in jellyfish diversity. JBS7 will be an opportunity to share and learn about current and future research on jellyfish in different parts of the globe, consolidate knowledge on the subject, and discuss innovations to address questions for future research and collaborations. The seventh edition of the symposium will be an opportunity to focus on outreach connecting ocean science with sustainability in the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).