Theme: Marine Copepoda

Symposium: Marine Copepods of the Indian Ocean: A contribution to the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2)

• Why bother with copepods in the Indian Ocean, when krill will do?
• Characterizing copepod communities across 30 degrees of latitude in the Indian Ocean
• The large-bodied copepods off Masirah Island, Oman: changes during a decade of sampling
• Spatial structuring of pelagic copepod diversity in the Bay of Bengal

Theme: Symbiotic Copepoda

Symposium: Diversity, Ecology and Evolution of Symbiotic Copepoda

• New discoveries on the life cycle, host specificity and development of Caligus
• Invasions create competitors: How novel interactions among established and invasive parasites modify host-parasite coevolution
• How many copepods still play hide and seek in the mouth of vetigastropods?
• Parasitic copepods – the epitome of radically divergent body plans in the Crustacea

Theme: Molecular work on Copepoda

Symposium: Molecular Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Copepoda

• Assessing copepod diversity: the molecular perspective
• Molecular Phylogeny of Copepoda, lessons learned and future directions
• Identification of copepods using proteome fingerprinting

Theme: Freshwater Copepoda

Symposium: Systematics, Ecology and Evolution of Freshwater Copepods

• Island biogeography of Cyclopidae: a review
• Biodiversity and phylogenetic studies of diaptomid copepods from the lower Mekong River Basin of Southeast Asia
• Revision and updates of copepods found in oddly investigated continental habitats
• Groundwater habitats – an inexhaustible source of new Copepoda species