Jellyfish Blooms Symposium

Programme Schedule​

Tuesday, 21 NOVEMBER 2023

Venue: Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel, Kovalam

https://www.udshotels.com/uday-samudra-leisure-beach-hotel-spa/

15.00-17.00

WELCOME DESK AND REGISTRATION

17.00-18.00

INAUGURAL SESSION

Invocation song:Lokah Samastah Sukinho Bhavantu’ (May All Beings Everywhere Be Happy and Free): Students of Dept of Music, University of Kerala

Welcome:Prof A Biju Kumar, Organising Secretary, JBS7

Symposium Overview:Prof Mike Dawson, California State University and Chair, International Advisory Board

Speech by Guest of Honour:Dr B Meenakumari, Former Chairperson of National Biodiversity Authority and Deputy Director General (Fisheries), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi

Inauguration: Prof Mohanan Kunnummal, Vice-Chancellor, University of Kerala, and Kerala University of Health Sciences

Honouring the international committee members

World Fisheries Day: Honouring a representative of traditional fisherman of Kerala, followed by his perception on jellyfish in coastal waters of Kerala (the speech will be translated into English)

Felicitations:

Prof Mark John Gibbons, Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Republic of South Africa

Prof PM Radhamany and Prof Gopchandran KG, Members of Syndicate, University of Kerala

Prof KS Anil Kumar, Registrar, University of Kerala

Dr JK Patterson Edward, Director, Suganthi Devadason Marine Research Institute (SDMRI)

Vote of Thanks:Dr Grinson George, Head, Marine Biodiversity & Environment Management Division, CMFRI, Kochi

NATIONAL ANTHEM (Students of Dept of Music, University of Kerala)

18.30 – 20.30

Welcome dinner (Uday Samudra Leisure Beach Hotel, Kovalam)

Fusion music by CLAP BOX BAND (Violin: Neeraj Ram B; Guitar : Hrishikesh, P., Percussion: Dhanush JP; Bass Guitar: Harikrishnan; Keyboard: Induchoodan G.)

Wednesday, 22 NOVEMBER 2023

8.00-9.00

WELCOME DESK AND REGISTRATION

09.00-9.15

Welcome Talk and Symposium Overview

Mike Dawson and Biju Kumar

JBS7- SESSION 1: Human-Jelly Interactions

Chair: Sergio Stampar 

Co-Chairs: Grinson George; S M Raffi

Rapporteur: A Riyas

Time  

Author

Abstract title

9.15-9.45

PLENARY LECTURE

Jamileh Javidpour

Harmony Disrupted: The interplay of humans and jellyfish

9.45-10.00

Antonella Leone 

Jellyfish blooms in the Mediterranean Sea: a potential source of functional novel food

10.00-10.15

Pralaya Ranjan Behera

Emerging commercial fisheries of catostylid jellyfish, Crambionella annandalei from Western Bay of Bengal

10.15-10.30

Hannah Brownlow

Developing a short-term harmful jellyfish forecast model for the salmon aquaculture industry

10.30-10.45

Sunwoo Kim

Precautionary management of jellyfish bloom by polyp elimination

10.45-11.00

Alexandre Jan

A versatile method to culture different ctenophore species

11.00-11.30

TEA

11.30-11.40

Subal Roul 

Characterization of the small-scale jellyfish fishery and its economic efficiency along the Odisha coast, northwestern Bay of Bengal

11.40-11.50

Sergio Stampar 

Jellyfish bloom of Craspedacusta in tilapia farms in Southern Brazil

11.50-12.00

Ramkumar Sugumar

Cubozoan blooms and its interaction with commercial fish production activity along the coastal region of Palghar district, Maharashtra, Northeastern Arabian Sea, India

12.00-12.10

Miriam Paul Sreeram

Stakeholders perception on jellyfish blooms and effects on marine fisheries in Kerala state, India

JBS7- SESSION 2: Bio-inspiration / Envenomation

Chair: Angel Yanagihara

Co-Chairs: Miriam Paul Sreeram; Venmathi Maran

Rapporteur: Kurian Mathew Abraham

12.10-12.25

Angel Yanagihara

Cubozoan envenomation: mechanisms, models and management

12.25-12.40

Vasudevan Shankar

Dynamics of Jellyfish Swarms: Unraveling the Intricate Influence of Coastal Ocean Parameters in the South Eastern Arabian Sea

12.40-12.55

Krishan Karunarathne

Jellyfish fishery in Sri Lanka

13.00-14.00

LUNCH

JBS7- SESSION 3: Associations and Ecology

Chair: Kylie Pitt

Co-Chairs: Mark Gibbons; R Saravanan

Rapporteur: Surya S

14.00-14.30

PLENARY LECTURE

Tinkara Tinta

The missing links between jellyfish and microbes in the ocean realm

14.30-14.45

Serafin III Geson

Thermal influences on the life cycle recruitment of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea sp., in a tropical shallow embayment

14.45-15.00

Marta Mammone

The influence of photosymbiosis in Cassiopea xamachana regenerative success

15.00-15.15

Kentaro Suzuki

Environmental factors affecting the population dynamics of moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea in Ise Bay, Japan

15.15-15.30

Kylie Pitt 

Parasites as trophic indicators of predation on gelatinous zooplankton

15.30-16.00

TEA

16.00-16.15

Riyas Abdul

Evaluating environmental influences on Acromitus flagellatus Maas, 1903 jellyfish blooms in southwest Indian backwaters and estuaries

16.15-16.30

Gregorio Motta 

The hidden gastrovascular system of Rhizostomeae: innovative methods of study

16.30-16.45

Samir Aljbour 

Differential effects of PAR and UVA on Cassiopea andromeda jellyfish respiration, oxidative stress, and photosynthesis

16.45-17.00

organizational break

17.00-22.00: Tour

(Delegates to give options at Registration desk)

Thursday, 23 NOVEMBER 2023

8.30-9.00

Virtual Poster Presentations

JBS7- SESSION 4: Associations and Ecology

Chair: Andre Morandini

Co-Chairs: Macarena Campos; L Ranjith

Rapporteur: Subal Kumar Roul

9.00-9.15

Announcements

9.15-9.45

PLENARY LECTURE

Cornelia Jaspers

Do gelatinous zooplankton traits facilitate population outbursts under global change?

9.45-10.00

Ratheesh Kumar R 

Spatio-temporal variations in jellyfish catch of bagnets in Maharashtra, India

10.00-10.15

Jessica Strickland 

Convergent oceanographic slicks as potential habitat for jellyfishes

10.15-10.30

Macarena Marambio Campos 

Jellyfish, the favored ones by climate change conditions in the Catalan coast, NW Mediterranean

10.30-10.45

Valentina Leoni 

Trophic ecology of jellyfish in marine food webs

10.45-11.00

Jonathan Lawley 

Differential expression of rhizostomin pigments leads to colour variation in a jellyfish

11.00-11.30

TEA

11.30-11.45

Joshua Stone

Temporal and spatial distribution of the cannonball jellyfish (Stomolophus meleagris) in the South Atlantic Bight, USA

11.45-12.00

Mohamed Nejib Daly Yahia 

Jellyfish populations in Qatar seawaters: the role of artificial shoreline development and recent hydro-climatic changes on scyphozoans blooms

12.00-12.15

Kyoung Yeon Kim

Causes of the Aurelia coerulea outbreak on the southern coast of Korea

12.15-12.30

Rebecca Helm 

Distribution of left- and right-handed Velella in the global ocean

12.30-12.45

Giacomo Milisenda 

The role of fatty acids in the reproduction of Pelagia noctiluca

12.45-13.00

Scott Morrissey

Use of eDNA to test hypotheses on the ecology of Chironex fleckeri

13.00-14.00

LUNCH

Chair: Rebecca Helm

Co-Chairs: Cesar Bordehore; Pralay Ranjan Behera

Rapporteur: Mithun Sukumaran

14.00-14.10

Marie Meffre

Unmanned aerial survey allows mapping Rhizostoma pulmo bloom dynamics in Bages-Sigean lagoon (Aude, France)

14.10-14.20

Mayara Jordano

The role of cilia in cnidarians, a brief review and new insights on the feeding mechanisms

14.20-14.25*

Rithin Raj M 

Studies on the dietary preferences of three scyphozoan jellyfish species in a tropical positive estuary, south India

14.30-14.40

Kavya Gokul 

Association of jellyfish Catostylus perezi with crustaceans: A preliminary observation from Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat

14.40-14.45*

Nicholas Wei Liang Yap 

Marine stingers: effects of sea warming and food availability on a tropical jellyfish species

14.50-15.00

Clarissa Garbi Molinari

Molecular responses of cnidarians to environmental stress

15.00-15.10

Cesar Bordehore 

Transforming Matrix Population Model into a Dynamic Size-Structured Model: A case study of Carybdea marsupialis population

15.10-15.20

Nicole Aberle-Malzahn 

Long-term dynamics and population structure of the Helmet jellyfish Periphylla periphylla in a Norwegian fjord

15.20-15.30

Luis Martell 

Worm-filled jellies: a multiapproach assessment of the dynamics of helminths parasitizing jellyfish hosts in two Norwegian fjords

15.30-16.00

TEA

16.00-18.00

POSTER EVALUATION

Themes: Bioinspiration and Evenomation

Associations and Ecology

Participants to be near the poster for flash presentations in front of the affixed poster

Affix your poster in the two themes ONLY on 23rd November 2023 in the allotted spaces

18.00-19.30

CULTURAL EVENING

Kathakali (Traditional Art form of Kerala)

Story: Duryodhanavadham (Scene of killing Dussasana and Duryodhana- story from the epic Mahabharatham

Lead: Dr Narayanan Namboothiri (Scientist, JNTBGRI)

HIGH TEA

PARALLEL EVENT

Public Lecture (10.00-11.00) and PRESS MEET

Venue: Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram

Mark J Gibbons (Jellyfish, People and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals)

Friday, 24 NOVEMBER 2023

JBS7- SESSION 5: Biodiversity

Chair: Delphine Thibault

Co-Chairs: TBD; S. Ramkumar

Rapporteur: Pramod Kiran

9.00-9.30

PLENARY LECTURE

Allen G. Collins

Pace and scope in characterizing the diversity and distributions of jellyfishes – How are we doing as a community?

9.30-9.45

Michael Dawson 

Scyphozoan systematics, genomics, and a new age of reason

9.45-10.00

Mehul Sangekar 

New technologies for detecting blooms of mesozooplanktonic jellies

10.00-10.15

Joan J Soto-Angel 

Bipolar jellyfish: evolutionary origin and diversification

10.15-10.30

Saravanan Raju 

Mapping and monitoring recurrent jellyfish blooms in Indian coastal waters: known and unknown

10.30-10.45

Florian Lüskow

Freshwater jellyfish research – hidden gems, knowledge gaps, and current progress

10.45-11.00

Maciej Mańko 

Gelatinous zooplankton as indicators of the Arctic Ocean Atlantification

11.00-11.30

TEA

11.30-11.45

Verena Ras

Hiding in plain sight – hidden genetic diversity of west African jellyfish

11.45-12.00

Ramesh Chatragadda 

Underexplored jellyfish blooms in some locations of India: Impacts, research gaps and future directions in sustainable utilization and management

12.00-12.15

Delphine Thibault

Siphonophore community along the Southeast Coast of South Africa (ACEP 2017 Summer and Winter cruises)

12.15-12.30

Maria McGuinness

The Irish seasonal coastal current – the source of Muggaea atlantica in Ireland?

12.30-12.45

Martin Vodopivec 

Modelling the dispersal of Pelagia noctiluca in the Mediterranean Sea

12.45-13.00

Doris Björling 

Anthoathecate jellyfish and their polyps in Swedish waters: An integrative taxonomy approach

13.00-14.00

LUNCH

Chair: Mike Dawson

Co-Chairs: Dhugal Lindsay; K V Jayachandran

Rapporteur: Ramesh Chatragadda

14.00-14.15

Michael Brown

Morphoplasticity and environment: Where the lines between taxonomy and ecology blur

14-15-14.30

Gerlien Verhaegen

Drivers behind the diversity and distribution of a widespread midwater narcomedusa

14.30-14.45

Dhugal Lindsay 

Hot bathtubs as proxies: jellyfish in a warming ocean

14.45-15.00

A.B. Kumar

Citizen Science illuminate the enigmatic realm of scyphozoans, including three new records to India

15.00-15.15

BA Venmathi Maran

Jellyfish Biodiversity in Sabah, Malaysia

15.15-15.30

Libertine Agatha Densing

Cubozoan and scyphozoan jellyfish from Carigara Bay, Leyte, Philippines

15.30-16.00

TEA

16.00-18.00

POSTER EVALUATION

Themes: Human-Jelly Interactions

Biodiversity 

Participants to be near the poster for flash presentations in front of the affixed poster

Affix your poster in the two themes ONLY on 24th November 2023 in the allotted spaces

18.30 -21.00

VALEDICTORY DINNER

Coordinator: Mike Dawson

Venue: Amphitheatre, Arts and Crafts Village

In Honour & Memoriam Lectures

Memorials

Honoree Presenter In-person/Video

Dale Calder Allen In person

Veronica Fuentes Macarena Marambio In person

Appreciations (recently retired and/or not previously honoured)

Honoree Presenter In-person/Video

Ric Brodeur Tom Video

Bill Hamner Mike In person

Larry Madin Kelly Video

Jenny Purcell Kylie In person

Peter Schuchert Allen In person

Shin Uye Dhugal Lindsay In person

Guest of Honour:

Padmasree M.C. Dathan, former director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and Scientific Advisor to Chief Minister of Kerala

Valedictory Address:

Dr A Gopalakrishanan, Director, ICAR-Central Marine Research Institute, Kochi

REOPORT

VOTE OF THANKS

PARALLEL EVENT

Venue: Mini Conference Hall, Kerala Arts and Crafts Village

THEME: Jellyfish fisheries and Trade: Status, Trends and Impacts on Livelihood

Date & Time: November 24, 2023 | 10.00 to 12.00 hrs

Organised by CMFRI

Venue: Mini Conference Hall, Kerala Arts and Crafts Village

Chair: A. Gopalakrishnan, Director, ICAR-CMFRI

Chair: Dr Biju Kumar K., Head, Dept. of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala

10.00 – 10.10

A. Gopalakrishnan, Director, ICAR-CMFRI

Introductory remarks: Jellyfish fisheries and Trade – Status, Trends and Impacts on Livelihood

10.10 – 10.30

Dr Biju Kumar A., Head, Dept. of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala

Jellyfish and jellyfish fisheries in India: State of Knowledge and Knowledge Gaps

10.30 – 10.50

Dr Bindu J, Principal Scientist, ICAR-CIFT

Novel Processing Technologies for Jellyfish Products: Enhancing Quality, Safety, and Market Value

10.50 – 11.10

Dr Krishan Karunarathne

Jellyfish fishery in Sri Lanka

11.10 – 11.30

Dr Saravanan Raju, Senior Scientist, ICAR-CMFRI

Jellyfish Fisheries: Unveiling the Economic and Social Implications of a Rising Marine Resource

11.30 – 11.50

Dr Miriam Paul Sreeram, Principal Scientist, ICAR-CMFRI

From Nuisance to Economic Boon – The Emergence of Catosylids as a Commercial Fishery in India

DISCUSSION

PHOTO EXHIBITION: Venue- Art Centre, Kerala Arts and Crafts Village

22 to 24 November 2023

Saturday, 25 NOVEMBER 2023

Fieldwork and local tour

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JBS7 Workshop: INTEGRATIVE TAXONOMY

25–27 November, 2023

Venue: Dept. of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Karyavattom Campus, Thiruvananthapuram

Contact Resource Persons: Dr Mike Dawson (mdawson@ucmerced.edu) or Liza Liza Gomez Daglio (liza.gomez-daglio@fresnocitycollege.edu)

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