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Sunday8th

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Saturday

09:00–10:45 DevelopmentalBiology Ecology Systematics &

BiogeographySpecialHabitats

SpongeMicrobiology

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DevelopmentalBiology

SpecialHabitats

11:15–13:00Cell Biology &

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Ecology Systematics &Biogeography Official

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SpongeMicrobiology

13:00–14:30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

14:30-16:15 Cell Biology& Physiology Ecology

Population& Ecological

Genetics

Phylogeny &Evolution

Biotechnology &Pharmacology

16:15–16:45

RegistrationDesk Open

Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break

16:45–17:45 OpeningSession

Cell Biology& Physiology Paleontology

17:45–18:30 Molecular Biology& Biochemistry

EcologyNatural Products

Chemistry

Phylogeny& Evolution

Biotechnology &Pharmacology

18:30–20:00 Poster Session 1 Poster Session 2Round-table

PoriferanCollections

Poster Session 3 ClosingSession

20:00-21:30

OpeningCocktail

Dinner Dinner Dinner

21:30–22:30 Photo & VideoSession 1

Photo & VideoSession 2

Photo & VideoSession 3

ConferenceParty Conclusion

Dives &Tours

Day 1 - Sunday, May 7th, 2006

12:00-16:45 REGISTRATION

Opening Sessions16:45-17:15 Eduardo Hajdu & Authorities — Opening Remarks

Lecture17:15-17:45 Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro — South American continental sponges: State of the art of the

research

17:45-19:45 COCKTAIL

Day 2 - Monday, May 8th, 2006

Oral Presentations

Developmental BiologyChairpersons Cristiano C. Coutinho and Sally P. Leys

09:00-09:25 Alexander Ereskovsky — Sponge development: The past and the future (invited lecture)09:25-09:50 Cristiano C. Coutinho; Rodrigo N. Fonseca; Guilherme A. Maia — The contribution of

Urmetazoa Tlx/Hox11 homeobox gene for origin and early evolution of gastrulation process(invited lecture)

09:50-10:15 Sally P. Leys — Gastrulation in sponges: Epithelialization of the larva and juvenile (invitedlecture)

10:15-10:30 Discussion10:30-10:45 Yulia I. Mukhina; Vadim V. Kumeiko; Olga I. Podgornaya; Sofia M. Efremova — The

events of metamorphosis in the demosponge Halisarca dujardini Johnston, 1842, studiedwith immunocytochemical method

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:30 Piers Ettinger-Epstein; Dianne M. Tapiolas; Rocky de Nys — The larval biology of thechemically rich sponge Luffariella sp

11:30-11:45 Manuel Maldonado; Ana Riesgo — Deuterostome-like sperm cells in Demospongiae:Evolutionary implications

11:45-12:00 Ana Riesgo; Manuel Maldonado — Dynamics of gametogenesis and embryogenesis in atemperate demosponge

12:00-12:15 Jaap A. Kaandorp; Joke G. Blom; Werner E.G. Müller — A mathematical model for thegenetic regulation of growth and canal formation in a sponge with radiate accretive growth

12:15-12:30 Sònia de Caralt; Maria-J. Uriz; René H. Wijffels — Embryo development and transfer ofsymbiotic bacteria from adults to larvae in Corticium candelabrum (Porifera: Demospongiae)

Cell Biology & PhysiologyChairpersons Márcio Reis Custódio and Sally P. Leys

12:30-13:00 Gitai Yahel; Sally P. Leys — In situ measurement of feeding and metabolism in fjord sponges(invited lecture)

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

14:30-14:45 Manuel Maldonado; Maria Carmen Carmona; Ana Riesgo — Silicon use by marine sponges:A re-examination of ecological and histological aspects

14:45-15:00 Carlo Cerrano; Barbara Calcinai; Laura Valisano; Giorgio Bavestrello — How and why dosponges incorporate foreign material? Strategies among Porifera

15:00-15:15 Henry M. Reiswig; Chaman L. Singla; Craig M. Young — First ultrastructural study of livingtissues of an Amphidiscophoran - Sericolophus hawaiicus Tabachnick and Lévi, 2000

15:15-15:30 Lorenzo Parma; Dario Fassini; Giorgio Bavestrello; Iain C. Wilkie; Francesco Bonasoro;Maria Daniela Candia Carnevali — Ecology and physiology of mesohyl plasticisation inChondrosia reniformis

15:30-15:45 Martin Pfannkuchen; Gisela Fritz; Sabine Schlesinger; Ralph O. Schill; Kristina Bayer; UteHentschel; Friederike Hoffmann; Franz Brümmer — Sponge activity in situ -Biotechnological and ecological implications

15:45-16:00 Calhoun Bond — Asconoid sponge motility as revealed by time-lapse microscopy16:00-16:15 Marieke Koopmans; René H. Wijffels — How (fast) sponges metabolize particulate organic

carbon

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

16:30-16:45 Matthias Philipp Wiens — Poriferan apoptotic cell death: Of sponges and man

Molecular Biology & BiochemistryChairpersons Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu and Werner E.G. Müller

17:00-17:30 Werner E.G. Müller — Porifera as model systems for early metazoans: The geneticcomplexity of siliceous sponges (invited lecture)

17:30-17:45 Vera Gamulin; Helena Cetkovic; Lada Lukic-Bilela; Matija Harcet; Drago Perina — Howcomplex is sponge genome? Example: The demosponge Suberites domuncula

17:45-18:00 Marina Pozzolini; Laura Valisano; Carlo Cerrano; Raffaella Risso; Mattia Menta; GiorgioBavestrello; Umberto Benatti; Marco Giovine — Influence of rock substrata on 3D spongecell culture development. A molecular biology study

18:00-18:15 Eduardo Vilanova; Márcio Reis Custódio; Paulo Antonio de Souza Mourão — The role ofsulfated polysaccharides in cellular aggregation of marine sponges

18:15-18:30 Gradimir N. Misevic; Yann Guerardel; Maurice Demarty; Camille Ripoll; Vic Norris; PascalBallet; Yannis Karamanos; Emmanuel Maes; Lazar T. Sumanovski; Octavian Popescu;Gerard Strecker — Evolution of multicellularity in Porifera via molecular self-assembly ofglyconectin carbohydrates

Poster Session 1 - 18:30-20:00

Cell Biolog & Physiology

1. Franz Brümmer; Martin Pfannkuchen; Ralph O. Schill — Variations and limits of thermotolerance in thecommon Mediterranean sponges Chondrilla nucula and Axinella polypoides

2. Cláudio Corrêa-Porto; Márcio Reis Custódio; Luis Carlos Salomão; Antônio Carlos Cassola — Ionchannels in Haliclona melana (Haplosclerida, Chalinidae)

3. Carsten Eckert; Richard Wirth; Michael Wiedenbeck; Klaus Kropf — Ultrastructure analysis on theanchoring spicule of deep sea sponge Monorhaphis chuni (Schulze, 1904) - Implications forspiculogenesis in Hexactinellids

4. Cristina Ferretti; Michela Pizzorno; Roberto Pronzato; Renata Manconi; Alan R. Duckworth — In vitrosponge culture: Morphological changes in the aquiferous system of the Mediterranean sponge speciesAgelas oroides (Demospongiae, Agelasida)

5. Jasper M. de Goeij; Fleur C. van Duyl — Sponges feeding mainly on dissolved organic matter (DOM)?Encrusting sponges play a key role in DOM removal in coral cavities

6. Anne Kathryn Kauffman; Mark J. Butler; Andrew S. Gordon — Feeding selectivity within thebacterioplankton in seven sponge species

7. Renata Manconi; Cristina Ferretti; Lorenzo Gallus; Grazia Tagliafierro; Roberto Pronzato; PaolaRamoino — Discovery of the Gaba-ergic system in freshwater and marine sponges

8. Wilfred Meyer; Marzia Sidri; Franz Brümmer — A sponge with a "skin": Structural and chemicalantimicrobial activity in the Mediterranean Chondrilla nucula

9. Henry M. Reiswig — How do dictyonal Hexactinellida build their skeletons?10. Marie-Lise Schläppy; Friederike Hoffmann; Hans Røy; René H. Wijffels; Dominick Mendola; Marzia

Sidri; Dirk de Beer — Correlating pumping behavior and oxygen gradients in the tissue of Dysideaavara and Haliclona xena (Porifera: Demospongiae)

11. Gabrielle J. Tompkins; Sally P. Leys — Glass sponges arrest pumping in response to increasedsediment loads

12. Philippe Willenz — Growth rate variations of the calcareous skeleton of the Caribbean sclerospongeCeratoporella nicholsoni: In situ measurement versus calculated methods

Developmental Biology

1. Sofia M. Efremova; Alexander Ereskovsky; Yulia I. Mukhina; Philippe Willenz; Nicole Boury-Esnault— Comparative study on spermatogenesis in the Homoscleromorpha

2. Alexander Ereskovsky; Daria B. Tokina — Asexual reproduction in Oscarella (Porifera;Homoscleromorpha)

3. Alexander Ereskovsky; Daria B. Tokina; Chantal Bézac; Thierry Pérez — Reproduction strategies andreproductive effort of Oscarella tuberculata (Demospongiae, Homoscleromorpha) from the NorthwestMediterranean

4. Elena Igorevna Gerasimova; Alexander Ereskovsky — Reproductive strategies of three halichondriidspecies in the White Sea

5. Elisaveta L. Gonobobleva — Differentiation of the ciliated cells during the embryogenesis of Halisarcadujardini (Demospongiae, Halisarcida)

6. Ludmila V. Ivanova — New data about morphology, nutrition and metamorphosis of sponge larvaeHalichondria panicea (Pallas, 1766) (Demospongiae, Halichondrida) from Barenz sea

7. Emílio Lanna; Leandro C. Monteiro; Michelle Klautau — Life-cycle of Paraleucilla magna Klautau,Monteiro & Borojevic, 2004 (Calcarea: Porifera)

8. Sally P. Leys; Nicole Boury-Esnault — Glass sponges become syncytial by fusion of blastomeres9. Guilherme A. Maia; Rodrigo N. Fonseca; Cristiano C. Coutinho — Heterologous analyses of sponge

Tlx/Hox11 homeobox gene regulation suggesting deep homology10. Renata Manconi; Maria Francesca Ortu; Fabio Ledda; Giacinta Stocchino; Gavina Corso — Skeletal

fibers of Sarcotragus spinosulus and Aplysina aerophoba (Porifera, Demospongiae): A histochemicalstudy during regeneration

11. Thierry Pérez; Alexander Ereskovsky; S. Correia; Chantal Bézac; Nicole Boury-Esnault; Jean Vacelet— Life cycle and reproductive effort of the Mediterranean commercial sponge Spongia officinalis

12. Frank Spetland; Hans Tore Rapp; Friederike Hoffmann; Ole Secher Tendal — The reproductive cycleof Geodia barretti (Bowerbank, 1858) (Porifera, Astrophorida) in two Scandinavian fjords

13. Philippe Willenz; Alexander Ereskovsky; Eduardo Hajdu — Spermatogenesis in the genus Iophon(Acarnidae, Microcionina, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) from Chilean Patagonia and the White Sea:A comparative study

Systematics & Biogeography

1. Fernanda Correia Azevedo; Eduardo Hajdu; Michelle Klautau — Calcareous sponges (Porifera Calcarea)

from Chile2. Franz Brümmer; Martin Pfannkuchen; Jochen Gugel; Andrej Jaklin — The need of in situ observation

and documentation for the description of sponge species3. Maurício Campos; Beatriz Mothes; Cléa Lerner; João Luís Carraro; Inga Ludmila Veitenheimer-Mendes

— Sponges (Porifera, Demospongiae) of Brazilian Antarctic Program - PROANTAR. Bransfield Strait,off D'Urville and Joinville Island

4. João Luís Carraro; Alexandre Bondan; Guilherme Rupp; Adriano Marenzi; Maurício Campos; RafaelEckert; Beatriz Mothes; Mariana S. de Carvalho; Cléa Lerner — Sponges of Order Halichondrida(Porifera, Demospongiae) collected at Santa Catarina State coast, Brazil

5. Mariana S. de Carvalho; Gustavo Bastos; Ruth Desqueyroux-Faúndez; Eduardo Hajdu — Towards arevision of Chilean Astrophorida (Demospongiae) - SE Pacific

6. Fernanda Cavalcanti; Carla Zilberberg; Michelle Klautau — Morphological plasticity of Chondrilla aff.nucula (Porifera, Demospongiae)

7. Victor Ribeiro Cedro; Eduardo Hajdu; Monica Dorigo Correia — Demospongiae (Porifera) of theshallow coral reefs of Maceió, Alagoas State, Brazil

8. Pierre Chevaldonné; Christophe Lejeusne; Yohan Pillon; Charlotte Dehollain; Claire Lecroisey; CarolineRocher; Didier Aurelle; Anne Chenuil; Thierry Pérez; Nicole Boury-Esnault; Jean Vacelet — Molecularphylogeography of Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic sponges of the genus Aplysina

9. Steve Cook — Clarification of taxonomic characters for Dictyoceratida10. Bruno Cosme; Eduardo Hajdu; Solange Peixinho — New material of Caminus spheroconia Sollas,

1886 from Brazil (Geodiidae, Astrophorida, Demospongiae), with an identification key for the Caminusof the world

11. Javier Cristobo; Pilar Ríos; Joana Xavier; Helena Gaspar; Andrea Cunha; Madalena Humanes —Preliminary results of Poecilosclerid sponges from Berlengas Island (Portugal)

12. Andrea Cunha; Joana Xavier; Ana Costa; Javier Cristobo; Pilar Ríos; Rob W.M. van Soest; MadalenaHumanes — Demosponge fauna of the Berlengas Natural Reserve (Portugal): Diversity andzoogeographical affinities

13. Maria Cristina Diaz; Adriana Alvizu; José Luis Palazón — Halisarca sp. nov. (Porifera,Demospongiae, Halisarcida): A new species from Caribbean mangroves

14. Maria Cristina Diaz; Eduardo Hajdu; Klaus Rützler — Mycale (Paresperella) n.sp. (Mycalidae,Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) from Bocas del Toro, Panamanian Caribbean, with a synopsis of otherMycale (Paresperella)

15. Maria Cristina Diaz; Robert W. Thacker; Klaus Rützler — Haliclona sp. nov. and Xestospongia sp.nov.: Two new sponge species from Bocas del Toro (Panamá) with a unique cyanobacterial association

16. Eduardo L. Esteves; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu; Eduardo Hajdu — High diversity of Crambe Vosmaer, 1880(Crambeidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) in the SE Pacific

17. Jochen Gugel; Franz Brümmer; Andrej Jaklin — Higher biodiversity than thought before: Suberitesdomuncula in Rovinj/Croatia/ Northern Adriatic Sea

18. Eduardo Hajdu; Gustavo Bastos; Simone Caires; Luiz F. Machado; Tatiane M. Garcia; WilsonFranklin; Helena Matthews-Cascon — Sponges (Phylum Porifera) associated to the fire-coral Milleporaalcicornis Linnaeus, 1758 at the "parrachos" of Maracajaú, Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil

19. Eduardo Hajdu; Ruth Desqueyroux-Faúndez; Philippe Willenz — A rosettes bearing Clathria(Cornulotrocha) sp. nov. from a SE Pacific fjord (Chilean Patagonia) (Microcionidae, Poecilosclerida,Demospongiae)

20. Hyung June Kim; Chung Ja Sim — Two new marine sponges of the genus Antho (Acarnia)(Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Microcionidae) from Korea

21. Anne Klöppel; Franz Brümmer — Aplysina aerophoba and Aplysina cavernicola: Phenotypicvariability or two different species?

22. Kyung Jin Lee; Chung Ja Sim — Fauna of dictyoceratid sponges in Korea23. Cléa Lerner; João Luís Carraro; Beatriz Mothes; Maurício Campos; Alexandre Bondan; Guilherme

Rupp; Eduardo Hajdu — A new Mycale Gray, 1867 with raphidotoxas from the Southern Brazilian

coast (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Mycalidae)24. Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu; Ruth Desqueyroux-Faúndez; Mariana S. de Carvalho; Philippe Willenz; Eduardo

L. Esteves; Verena Häusserman; Günter Försterra; Alejandro Bravo; Eduardo Hajdu — New records ofmarine sponges for the southeastern Pacific (23 - 56ºS)

25. Larisa L. Menshenina; Konstantin Tabachnick — Revision of Calycosoma and finding of Lophocalyxin the Atlantic Ocean (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

26. Leandro C. Monteiro; Guilherme Muricy; Michelle Klautau — New records and one new species ofcalcareous sponges (Porifera) of Cagarras Archipelago, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

27. Beatriz Mothes; Manuel Maldonado; Rafael Eckert; Cléa Lerner; Maurício Campos; João Luís Carraro;Rafael Metri; Ricardo Capitoli — Pachastrellidae Carter, 1875 from South Brazilian coast

28. Guilherme Muricy; Josivete P. Santos; Paulo J.P. Santos; Márcia F. Rocha; Eduardo L. Esteves —Marine sponges from Potiguar Basin, Northeastern Brazil

29. Marcos P.C. de Oliveira; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu; Amanda B. de Oliveira; Eduardo Hajdu — Newobservations on Clionaopsis platei Thiele, 1905 (Clionaidae, Hadromerida, Demospongiae)

30. Fernando J. Parra-Velandia; Sven Zea; Rob W.M. van Soest — The Agelas from the Caribbean Sea31. Solange Peixinho; Júlio Fernandez; Bruno Cosme — New records of tetractinellids sponges from

Bahia, Brazil with description of a new species of Acanthotetilla Burton, 195932. Bernard Picton; Claire Goodwin — Sponge biodiversity of Rathlin Island33. Sumaitt Putchakarn; Pichai Sonchaeng; Rob W.M. van Soest — The demosponges dwelling in the coral

reefs from Khram Islands, the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand34. Pilar Ríos; Javier Cristobo — About the presence of Mycale (Mycale) tylotornota Koltun, 1964

(Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) in Antarctic waters: Redescription and spicular iconography35. Pilar Ríos; Javier Cristobo — Phorbas sp. nov. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) of

Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctic)36. Pilar Ríos; Javier Cristobo — Poecilosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae) from Peter I Island

(Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctic) with description of a new species of Isodictya37. Pilar Ríos; Javier Cristobo — Redescription of Stylopus fristedti Topsent, 1916, (Porifera,

Poecilosclerida) collected for the first time after its original description38. Pilar Ríos; Javier Cristobo — Sponges of genus Myxilla Schmidt, 1862, collected in Antarctic waters

by Spanish Antarctic expeditions39. Pablo Rodrigues Dominguez Rodriguez; Guilherme Muricy — A new species of Cinachyra (Tetillidae;

Spirophorida) collected by the project REVIZEE score central in Espirito Santo state, Brazil40. Toufiek Samaai; Michelle Kelly; Mark J. Gibbons — Speciation and biogeography of the sponge genus

Latrunculia, within the Southern Ocean41. Carla M.M. da Silva; Maurício Campos; Beatriz Mothes — Revision of Eastern Pacific Geodia

Lamarck, 1815 (Porifera, Astrophorida) with new approaches on the classification of Geodiidae42. Carla M.M. da Silva; Bruno Cosme; Fernanda Casares; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu; Joel Creed — Sponges

from Ilha Grande Bay (Porifera, Demospongiae), Southwest Atlantic, detected by rapid assessmentprotocol

43. Carla M.M. da Silva; Meiryelen Vieira da Silva — Redescription of Geodia glariosa (Sollas, 1886)with new records along the Brazilian coast

44. Konstantin Tabachnick; Larisa L. Menshenina — Hexactinellida collected by the French R.V. "MarionDufresne" off the Brazilian coast

45. Diego F. Valderrama; Juan C. Márquez; Marco A. Romero — Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1776) andAplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882) from shallow coral areas of Isla Colón, Panamá

Photo & Video Session 1

21:30-22:30 Calhoun Bond — Cell Development 1Calhoun Bond — Cell Development 2

Sally P. Leys — Cell Biology - FreshwaterJean Vacelet — Carnivorous SpongeWerner E.G. Müller — Freshwater sponges in Lake BaikalSally P. Leys — Deep Sea - Hexactinellida phisiology

Day 3 - Tuesday, May 09th, 2006

Oral Presentations

Ecology IChairpersons Maria Cristina Diaz and Guilherme Muricy

09:00-09:30 Janie L. Wulff — Morphological strategies of sponges: Resistance vs. recovery vs.recruitment (invited lecture)

09:30-09:45 Yvonne R. Vaillancourt — Large skeletal structures do not always accompany high tensilestrength in resistant morphologies of the North Atlantic intertidal encrusting demosponge,Halichondria panicea

09:45-10:00 John Stevely; Donald Sweat; Robert Wasno; Charles Adams — Long term evaluation ofsponge population recovery following a widespread mortality: Will we ever know whenrecovery has occurred? Is restoration necessary?

10:00-10:15 Deborah Gochfeld; Marc Slattery; Julie Olson — Aplysina red band syndrome: A newcondition affecting Caribbean sponges

10:15-10:30 Sven Zea; Andia Chaves-Fonnegra — Competition for space between the Caribbeanencrusting and excavating sponge Cliona delitrix and reef corals

10:30-10:45 Gregory Nishiyama — Sponge allelopathy detection using mathematical models

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:30 James J. Bell — Inter- and intra-specific sponge competition on a coral reef11:30-11:45 Giorgio Bavestrello; Francesca Azzini; Carlo Cerrano; Barbara Calcinai — Substrate related

differences in the excavating patterns of boring sponges11:45-12:00 Susanne M.L. Pohler; Klaus Feussner; Jioji Tabudravu — An integrated study of excavating

sponges from Laucala Bay and Suva Barrier Reef, Suva, Fiji Islands12:00-12:15 Ann L. Knowlton; Jason E. Hall — Seasonal and geographic variability of organic content in

Halichondria panicea (Demospongiae) and its effects on Archidoris montereyensis(Archidorididae)

12:15-12:30 Carsten Thoms; Peter J. Schupp — Activated chemical defense in Aplysinella rhax12:30-12:45 Timothy D. Swain — Specificity of zoanthid-sponge symbioses in the Central Western

Atlantic region12:45-13:00 Andy Davis; Adrian Ferguson; John Himmelman — Spicule armament and defense in

temperate zone sponges: A transcontinental comparison

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Ecology IIChairpersons James Bell and Guilherme Muricy

14:30-14:45 Steve L. Coles; Holly Bolick — Assessment of invasiveness of the orange keyhole spongeMycale armata in Kâne'ohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i

14:45-15:00 Peter Barnes — Effects of shading, current and predation on the distribution of the sponge,Suberites sp. in temperate Australian coastal lakes

15:00-15:30 José Luis Carballo — Diversity patterns in sponges assemblages from the Northern Pacific

Ocean: The influence of physical disturbances (invited lecture)15:30-15:45 Adriana Alvizu; Maria Cristina Diaz; José Luis Palazón — Community structure of sponges

in coral patches at upwelling zone, Northeast Venezuela15:45-16:00 Adriana Pérez; Maria Cristina Diaz; Luis León — Community structure of marine sponges

associated to red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) aerial roots from "Laguna de la Restinga"National Park, Venezuela

16:00-16:15 Alan R. Duckworth; Carsten Wolff; Elizabeth Evans-Illidge; Stephen Whalan; Stanley Lui —Spatial variability in community structure of Dictyoceratid sponges across Torres Strait,Australia

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

16:45-17:15 Maria Cristina Diaz; Klaus Rützler — Sponge biodiversity and abundance as indicators ofmangrove epibenthic community health (invited lecture)

17:15-17:45 Pedro Alcolado — Reading the sponge community structure code in coral reefs (invitedlecture)

17:45-18:00 Nicole J. de Voogd; Daniel F.R. Cleary — Sponge diversity and composition across adisturbance gradient in the Thousands Islands Reef Complex off Jakarta, Indonesia

18:00-18:15 Emma Cebrian; Thierry Pérez — Overview on sponges for studying environmentalperturbations

18:15-18:30 Ana Esteves; Marise Almeida; Angela Serafim; Maria João Bebianno; Liliana P. Ferreira;Madalena Humanes — Nickel biomagnification in marine sponges

Poster Session 2 - 18:30-20:00

Ecology

1. David Abdo — Population dynamics of two West Australian Haliclona species (Porifera:Demospongiae: Haplosclerida: Chalinidae)

2. David Abdo; James Seager; Euan Harvey — Morphometric measurements of complex sessile epibenthicorganisms using a novel photogrammetric technique

3. Bárbara Rustum Andréa; Daniela Batista; Cláudio L.S. Sampaio; Guilherme Muricy — Spongivory byangelfish (Family Pomacanthidae) in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil

4. Raymond Bannister; Christopher Battershill; Rocky de Nys — Environmental factors affecting thedistribution and abundance of the tropical sponge Rhopaloeides odorabile on the Great Barrier Reef(GBR)

5. Daniela Batista; Bárbara Rustum Andréa; Roberto Villaça; Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira; GuilhermeMuricy — Spongivory by Pomacanthus paru (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) in Brazil

6. James J. Bell; Mark Burton; Blaise Bullimore; Philip B. Newman; Kate Lock — Morphologicalmonitoring of subtidal sponge assemblages

7. Mark J. Butler; Anne Kathryn Kauffman — The ecology of sponges subject to fishing and ecosystemchange

8. Emiliano Nicolas Calderon; Paulo Cesar de Paiva — The influence of the sea urchin Echinometralucunter in the local distribution of Darwinella sp. (Porifera: Haplosclerida) in Arraial do Cabo, RJ,Brazil

9. José Luis Carballo; Enrique Ávila; Susana Enríquez — Life history of the symbiotic associationHaliclona caerulea (Porifera: Haplosclerida) and Jania adherens (Rhodophyta: Corallinales) in the Bayof Mazatlán

10. José Luis Carballo; Héctor Nava; Eric Bautista; José Antonio Cruz-Barraza — Diversity anddistribution of boring sponges from the Mexican Pacific coast: Excavating patterns and abundance incoral reefs ecosystems

11. Emma Cebrian; Maria-J. Uriz; Xavier Turon — Sponges as bioaccumulators of heavy metals: Spatial

and temporal variations12. Andia Chaves-Fonnegra; Sven Zea — Observations of reef coral undermining by the Caribbean

excavating sponge Cliona delitrix (Demospongiae, Hadromerida)13. Mark Chiappone; Leanne M. Rutten; Steven L. Miller; Dione W. Swanson — Population ecology of

conspicuous sponges in Florida Keys coral reef and hard-bottom habitats14. Mirna Helena M. Dias; Suzi M. Ribeiro; Patrícia O. Silva — Foraminifera associated to the sponge

Mycale (Carmia) microsigmatosa (Mycalidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae) in Niterói, Brazil15. Eduardo Hajdu; Guilherme Muricy; Maíra V. de Oliveira; Ulisses S. Pinheiro; Suzi M. Ribeiro; Cristina

P. Santos; Eduardo Vilanova — High sponge richness in the southwestern Atlantic (3 - 25ºS)16. Deborah Gochfeld; Lucy Harrison; Julie Olson; Michael P. Lesser; Sridevi Ankisetty; Marc Slattery —

Allelopathic effects of the Caribbean sponge Svenzea zeai on the coral Montastraea annularis17. Jason E. Hall; Ann L. Knowlton — Color variability in the sponge Halichondria panicea

(Demospongiae) in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean18. Dorte Janussen; Wei Zhang; Daniela Henkel — Diversity and chemical ecology of shallow water

sponge communities in the Chinese Yellow Sea: Status and perspectives19. Rodrigo Johnsson; Elizabeth Neves; Bruno Cosme — A new species of Scottocheres (Copepoda:

Siphonostomatoida) associated with Craniella quirimure Peixinho et al20. Balasaheb Govind Kulkarni; Neetash D`cruz; Ashok Jaiswar — Intertidal diversity of sponges and

ecological conditions in and around Mumbai coast (west coast of India)21. Tito M.C. Lotufo; Eduardo Hajdu; Cristina P. Santos; Célio A. Ribeiro; Israel R. Joca; Flávio F. da

Silva; Márcia F. Rocha; Guarani H. Cavalcanti — Sessile epifauna of Ceara's Shelf - high dominance ofsponges

22. Daniela Marques; Marise Almeida; Joana Xavier; Madalena Humanes — Biomarkers in marinesponges - metalothioneins and acetylcolinesterase in the sponge Cliona celata

23. Juan C. Márquez; Sven Zea — Coral mortality and bioerosion by encrusting excavating sponges: Dofish play a role?

24. Elizabeth Layli McLean; Paul Yoshioka — Overgrowth of gorgonians by various sponge species25. Leandro C. Monteiro; Fernando Moraes; Maíra V. de Oliveira; Guilherme Muricy — Sponge

distribution in São Pedro & São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil26. Sheila M. Pauls — Distribution and abundance of coral reefs sponges at Cienaga de Ocumare de la

Costa Bay, Venezuela27. Rosa Pestana; Nicole Boury-Esnault; Manuel Biscoito — Biodiversity and distribution of sponge fauna

in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic Ocean)28. Suzi M. Ribeiro; Éverson M. Bianco; Renato C. Pereira — Chemical defense of marine sponge

Hymeniacidon heliophila against predation29. Suzi M. Ribeiro; Renato C. Pereira; Valéria L. Teixeira — Antipredation defenses of sponge Tethya sp.

against hermit crab30. Carmen Schloeder; Robert W. Thacker; Deborah Gochfeld — Effect of anthropogenic disturbance on

sponge community structure and disease incidence31. Marc Slattery; Deborah Gochfeld; Michael P. Lesser — Ecology and bioactivity of deep-reef sponge

communities in the Bahamas32. Fabiana A. de Souza; Marcia A. de O. Figueiredo; Guilherme Muricy — Association between sponges

and macroalgae on rhodoliths in the Abrolhos marine national park, Bahia, Brazil33. Christiane Sym; Guilherme Muricy; Karina Garcia; Emmanoel Silva-Filho — Co, Cr, Zn and Fe

accumulation by the marine sponge Mycale microsigmatosa from Praia Vermelha, Rio de Janeiro, SEBrazil

34. Stephen Whalan; Christopher Battershill; Piers Ettinger-Epstein; Alan R. Duckworth; Carsten Wolff;Elizabeth Evans-Illidge; Rocky de Nys — Managing the impacts of translocation decisions for spongeaquaculture using reproductive biology

Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

1. Leontine E. Becking; Nicole J. de Voogd; Rob W.M. van Soest; Nobuhiro Fusetani; Shigeki Matsunaga— Perplexing distribution of compounds in haplosclerid sponges

2. Roger Remy Dresch; Gilberto Dolejal Zanetti; Rodrigo Pestana Lopes; Moises Evandro Bauer; BeatrizMothes; Cléa Lerner; Vera Treis Trindade; Amélia Teresinha Henriques; Magdolna Maria Vozári-Hampe — Mitogenic activity of ACL-I lectin from the marine sponge Axinella cf. corrugata

3. Patrícia Fernandes Ferreira; Luciana Pereira Rangel; Gustavo Nazaré Livramento; Guilherme Muricy;Andre Goffeau; Antônio Ferreira Pereira — Effect of marine sponges on Pdr5p catalytic activity ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae

4. Oksana V. Kaluzhnaya; Sergey Belikov; Anatoli Krasko; Heinz C. Schröder; Werner E.G. Müller —Study of the structure and organization of the gene family of silicatein proteins in Baikal sponges

5. Anne Kuusksalu; Tõnu Reintamm; Madis Metsis; Merike Kelve — Construction and screening of cDNAlibrary from a marine sponge Chondrosia reniformis

6. Luciana Macis; Joachim Reitner; Gert Wörheide — Characterization of matrix proteins in the corallineDemosponge Astrosclera willeyana

7. Marisa Nicolai; Ana Esteves; Gisela Gonçalves; Marise Almeida; Madalena Humanes — Halogenasesfrom the marine sponge Erylus discophorus

8. Tõnu Reintamm; Merike Kelve — Partial purification and preliminary characterization of ATP N-glycosidase from a marine sponge Axinella polypoides

9. Ralph O. Schill; Martin Pfannkuchen; Franz Brümmer — High levels of the stress proteins (Hsp70)accompany quiescent gemmules of the freshwater sponge, Spongilla lacustris Linné, 1759

10. Henriqueta Veríssimo; Joana Xavier; Ana Costa; Maria do Carmo Barreto — Iodoperoxidase activityfrom sponges of São Miguel Island (Azores)

11. Henriqueta Veríssimo; Joana Xavier; Ana Costa; Maria do Carmo Barreto — Antioxidant enzymesfrom São Miguel Island littoral sponges

Paleontology

1. Mauro Parolin; Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; José Cândido Stevaux — Sponge spicules in recoveredsediments allow for the distinction of 26 kaBP lentic and lotic paleoenvironments at the Paraná basin -Brazil

2. Elena V. Weinberg; Carsten Eckert — Evolution of sponge fauna of Lake Baikal from late Miocene torecent times according to micropaleontological results

Sponge Microbiology

1. Kristina Bayer; Ute Hentschel — Microbial nitrification in Aplysina aerophoba2. Patrick M. Erwin; Robert W. Thacker — Incidence, identity and importance of photosynthetic symbionts

in shallow-water Coral Reef sponge communities3. Aron Premnath Lipton; V.S. Pramitha; Joseph Selvin; A.J. Huxley — Bioactivity profile of sponge-

associated bacteria isolated from marine sponges, Callyspongia sp. and Sigmadocia sp.4. Maria Millán; Maria Cristina Diaz; Nydia Ozejo; Rojas Lisbetsida — Effects of the sponge Chondrilla

nucula (Hadromerida, Demospongiae) in the transformation of DIN species (ammonium, nitrite, andnitrate) in marine aquaria containing fish

5. Ana Paula Barbosa Moreira; Guilherme Muricy; Maria do Carmo de Freire Bastos; Kátia Regina Nettodos Santos; Marcia Giambiagi-deMarval; Marinella Silva Laport — Antimicrobial activities of bacteriaisolated from marine sponges of Rio de Janeiro coast, Brazil

6. Shinichi Nagata; Manmadhan Kanagasabhapathy — Cross-species induction for the enhancement ofantimicrobial activity produced by epibiotic bacteria isolated from Indian marine sponge Pseudoceratinapurpurea

7. Raquel Peixoto; Estevão Miranda; Ana Paula Barbosa Moreira; Marinella Silva Laport; Fábio Araújo;Alexandre Rosado — Use of molecular and conventional methodology to access microbial diversity inHymeniacidon heliophila

8. Martin Pfannkuchen; Sabine Schlesinger; Anne Klöppel; Franz Brümmer — A closer histological viewon microbial life in Mediterranean sponges

9. Andrey Vishnyakov; Alexander Ereskovsky — Symbiotic bacteria of different species of Oscarella(Porifera, Homoscleromorpha, Plakinidae): Comparative ultrastructural studies

Photo and Video Session 2

21:30-22:30 John Stevely — Sponge Divers of Tarpon Springs Florida - USA

Day 4 - Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Oral Presentations

Systematics & BiogeographyChairpersons John N.A Hooper and Michelle Klautau

09:00-09:30 John N.A. Hooper; Merrick Ekins; Vicki Nelson — Sponge species distributions in marinebioregional planning (invited lecture)

09:30-09:45 Christine Hanna Lydia Schoenberg — Global environmental changes: 'Boring' sponges callfor more attention

09:45-10:00 Fernando Moraes; Michelle Klautau; Guilherme Muricy — First records of Porifera fromTrindade Island, Brazil, with description of four new species

10:00-10:15 Toufiek Samaai; Kerry Sink; Ruwen Pillay — Biodiversity "hotspots", patterns of richnessand endemism, and distribution of marine sponges in South Africa based on actual andinterpolation data: A comparative approach

10:15-10:30 Barbara Calcinai; Giorgio Bavestrello; Carlo Cerrano; Michele Sarà — Description andtaxonomic position of a new genus of Tethyidae from North Sulawesi (Indonesia)

10:30-10:45 Michelle Kelly; Lincoln Tubbs — The 'Lithistid' Demospongiae of New Zealand

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:30 Konstantin Tabachnick — Revision of Auloplax gives ground to place it in the orderAulocalycoida, family Aulocalycidae (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

11:30-11:45 Isabel Heim; Michael Nickel; Franz Brümmer — Cytochrome oxidase subunit I -Opportunities and limits for molecular species discrimination

Round-table - Barcodes11:45-13:00 Antônio M. Solé-Cava; Gert Wörheide — Barcoding Sponges

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Population & Ecological GeneticsChairpersons Antônio M. Solé-Cava and Gert Wörheide

14:30-15:00 Gert Wörheide — Phylogeography of tropical Indo-Pacific coral reef sponges: Insights intopopulation history and speciation (invited lecture)

15:00-15:15 Stephen Whalan; Dean Jerry; Christopher Battershill; Rocky de Nys — Larvaldispersal behaviours and reproductive strategies determining the population geneticstructure of Rhopaloeides odorabile

15:15-15:30 Xavier Turon; Isabel Calderón; Sandra Duran; Natalia Ortega; Mikel A. Becerro — Findingthe relevant scale: Clonality and small-scale genetic structure in Crambe crambe

15:30-15:45 Sayumi Hoshino; Daichi S. Saito; Toshihiko Fujita — Estimation of gene flow usingmicrosatellite markers on Hymeniacidon sinapium

15:45-16:00 Andrea Blanquer; Maria-J. Uriz; Juli Caujapé-Castells — Philopatric larval dispersal andfission events contrast with molecular evidences of lack of inbreeding and clonality inScopalina lophyopoda Schmidt (Halichondrida)

16:00-16:15 Antônio Solé-Cava — Concluding Remarks

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

PaleontologyChairperson Andrzej Pisera

16:45-17:05 Matilde Sylvia Beresi — Biostratigraphic and paleogeographic distribution of the fossilregisters of sponge and sponge spicules in Argentina, South America (invited lecture)

17:05-17:25 Andrzej Pisera — Late Eocene fauna of lithistid and soft demosponges from SW Australia: Acase of exceptional and highly diversified endemic fauna (invited lecture)

17:25-17:40 John S. Buckeridge; Michelle Kelly — On the palaeobiology of two distinctive sponge faunasfrom the Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Natural Products ChemistryChairperson Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck

17:45-18:15 Raymond J. Andersen — New drug leads and cell biology tools from sponge extracts (invitedlecture)

18:15-18:30 Diana Márquez; Sara Robledo; Alejandro Martínez — Antileishmanial epidioxysterols fromisolated sterols of the Colombian marine sponge Ircinia campana

Round-table - Poriferan Collections18:30-20:00 Eduardo Hajdu; Alexander Ereskovsky; John N.A. Hooper; Henry M. Reiswig; Klaus

Rützler; Toufiek Samaai; Rob W.M. van Soest; Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; Wei Zhang —Porifera collections around the world. A round-table status report for year 2005

Photo and Video Session 3

21:30-22:30 Fernando Moraes — Fernando de Noronha, the sponge archipelagoClaire Goodwin — Sponges on Rathlin Island, Northern IrelandRob van Soest & Fleur van Duyl — Rockall Bank deepwater sponge populationPETROBRAS — Deep Sea - Campos Basin

Day 5 - Thursday May 11th, 2006

Oral Presentations

Special HabitatsChairpersons Eduardo Hajdu and Jean Vacelet

09:00-09:30 Jean Vacelet — Diversity, evolution and classification of deep-sea carnivorous sponges(invited lecture)

09:30-09:45 Rob W.M. van Soest; Marc S.S. Lavaleye; Gerard C. Duineveld; Conny Maier; Fleur C. van

Duyl — Diversity of sponges in bathyal coral reefs of the North East Atlantic09:45-10:00 Dorte Janussen; Ole Secher Tendal — What is characteristic for the deep-sea sponge fauna in

the Weddell Sea? First results from the ANDEEP I, II and III expeditions, Antarctica10:00-10:15 Hans Tore Rapp; Ole Secher Tendal — Calcareous sponges (Calcarea: Porifera) from the

abyssal Norwegian, Greenland and Iceland seas10:15-10:30 Michael J. Ellwood; Michelle Kelly; Bertrand Richer de Forges — Silica banding in the deep-

sea lithistid sponge Corallistes undulatus: Investigating the influence of diet andenvironmental conditions on growth

10:30-10:45 Monika A. Schlacher-Hoenlinger; Thomas A. Schlacher; Alan Williams; John N.A. Hooper— Facets of diversity estimated from combined seafloor trawling and optical mapping in thesponge fauna of Tasmanian canyons (SE Australia)

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:30 Eduardo Hajdu; Daniela A. Lopes; Mariana S. de Carvalho; Ana Paula Falcão; Helena P.Lavrado; Guilherme Muricy — Deep-sea sponges from Southeastern Brazil: Campos BasinDeep-Sea Environmental Project (CENPES/PETROBRAS)

11:30-11:45 Toufiek Samaai; Kerry Sink — The use of sponge bathymetric distribution patterns indefining depth zones in the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park off St Lucia on the East coast ofSouth Africa

11:45-12:00 Francesca Azzini; Barbara Calcinai; Carlo Cerrano; Giorgio Bavestrello; Maurizio Pansini —The marine lakes enclosed in Karsts Islands of the Ha Long Bay (North Vietnam): A uniqueenvironment for sponges

12:00-12:15 Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli; Donat Petricioli; Irena Bogdanovic; Petra Žvorc; SandroDujmovic; Veljko Vorkapic; Jean Vacelet — Biodiversity of sponges in marine caves onDalmatian islands (Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea)

12:15-12:45 Renata Manconi; Roberto Pronzato — Life styles and strategies of freshwater sponges: Amorpho-functional and biogeographic study (invited lecture)

Official Photo - 12:45-13:00

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Phylogeny & EvolutionChairpersons Nicole Boury-Esnault and Carla Zilberberg

14:30-14:45 Nicole Boury Esnault — Sponge Evolution14:45-15:15 Carole Borchiellini; Emmanuelle Deniel-Renard; Nicole Boury-Esnault — Characterization

of homeobox genes related to bilaterian Hox and Para-Hox genes in the Homoscleromorphasponges (invited lecture)

15:15-15:30 Dennis Lavrov; Natalia Frishman; Karri Haen; Zhiyong Shao; Xiujuan Wang —Mitochondrial genomics of sponges - implications for sponge phylogeny and animal mtDNAevolution

15:30-15:45 Michaël Manuel; Romain Derelle; Carole Borchiellini; Jean Vacelet; Nicole Boury-Esnault— Are sponges monophyletic or paraphyletic? A phylogenomic approach

15:45-16:00 Dirk Erpenbeck; Scott A. Nichols; John N.A. Hooper; Gert Wörheide — Demospongephylogenies analysed under secondary structure-based substitution models

16:00-16:15 Martin Dohrmann; Dorte Janussen; Joachim Reitner; Gert Wörheide — Phylogeny ofHexactinellida

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

16:45-17:00 Jean Raleigh; Niamh Redmond; Rob W.M. van Soest; Michelle Kelly; Pete Cowman;Nathaniel Coffolla; Flint Walter; Grace McCormack — Do skeletal architecture, spicule type

and spicule arrangement reflect phylogenetic history in the marine Haplosclerida?17:00-17:15 Yuji Ise; Toshihiko Fujita — Molecular phylogeny of the family Clionaidae (Demospongiae:

Hadromerida)17:15-17:30 Fernando J. Parra-Velandia; Dirk Erpenbeck; Sven Zea; Rob W.M. van Soest —

Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Agelas (Porifera, Demospongiae)17:30-17:45 Gert Wörheide; Joachim Reitner; Jean Vacelet; John N.A. Hooper — Molecular phylogeny,

origin and diversification of Vaceletia spp. 'living fossil sphinctozoan' sponges17:45-18:00 Oliver Voigt; Martin Dohrmann; Dirk Erpenbeck; Eilika Wülfing; Gert Wörheide — New

insights into the phylogeny and evolution of calcareous sponges18:00-18:30 General Discussion

Poster Session 3 - 18:30-20:00

Biotechnology & Pharmacology

1. Charles Adams; John Stevely; Donald Sweat — An evaluation of the financial feasibility of small-scalecommercial sponge culture in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia

2. Alan R. Duckworth; Carsten Wolff; Elizabeth Evans-Illidge — Developing methods for farming bathsponges

3. Elthon G. Ferreira; Paula C. Jimenez; Diego V. Wilke; Thiago A. Portela; Eduardo Hajdu; Claudia O.Pessoa; Manoel O. de Moraes; Edilberto R. Silveira; Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo — Antimitotic effect onsea-urchin eggs of marine sponges collected at the Pedra da Risca do Meio state park, Ceará, Brazil

4. Cristina Ferretti; Simona Canepa; Antonio Sará; Roberto Pronzato; Renata Manconi; Alan R. Duckworth— Effects of feeding regimens on clearance and retention rates of the Mediterranean sponge speciesAgelas oroides (Demospongiae, Agelasida) and Petrosia ficiformis (Demospongiae, Haplosclerida)

5. Cristina Ferretti; Cinzia Domenicotti; Barbara Marengo; Chiara De Ciucis; Maria Adelaide Pronzato;Roberto Pronzato; Renata Manconi — Effects of crude extracts from the Mediterranean sponge speciesAgelas oroides (Demospongiae, Agelasida) and Petrosia ficiformis (Demospongiae, Haplosclerida) onhuman neuroblastoma cell lines

6. Cristina Ferretti; Simone Vacca; Roberto Pronzato; Renata Manconi; Alan R. Duckworth — Spongeculture in a small harbour: The case study of the demosponges Agelas oroides (Agelasida) and Petrosiaficiformis (Haplosclerida) in the W-Mediterranean Sea

7. Zoran Kljajic; Slavica Kascelan; Vesna Macic — Screening of extracts of marine organisms from theSouth Adriatic coast for biological activity

8. Renata Manconi; Fabio Ledda; Maria Francesca Ortu; Giacinta Stocchino — Sponge farming in ashallow water pilot plant: Survival and life style

9. Alejandro Martínez; Elkin Galeano Jaramillo; Diego Valderrama — Antimicrobial activity of Caribbeanreef sponges (north-west Gulf of Urabá, Colombia)

10. Sebastian Rühle; Matthias Voigt; Rudolf Hausmann — Biotechnological cultivation of the marinesponge Aplysina aerophoba

11. Peter J. Schupp — Does sponge chemical defense correlate with its pharmacological activities?Examples from Western Pacific sponges

12. Joseph Selvin; Aron Premnath Lipton — Bycatch sponges of fishing nets: An eco-friendly collectionmethod for preliminary bioactivity screening

13. Marzia Sidri; Dominick Mendola; René H. Wijffels; Ronald Osinga — Development of closed-systemsfor high density culture of the Mediterranean sponge Dysidea avara (Demospongiae) for itspharmaceutically-important metabolite, Avarol

14. Mara Flávia Lima da Silva; Juliana Andrade Biagio; Palloma Rodrigues Marinho; Ricardo MachadoKuster; Marley Gomes da Silva; Bruno Mendes Tavares; Leila de Souza Fonseca; Maria do Carmo deFreire Bastos; Kátia Regina Netto dos Santos; Marcia Giambiagi-deMarval; Guilherme Muricy;Marinella Silva Laport — Antimicrobial activities in extracts of marine sponges from Rio de Janeiro

coast, Brazil15. Matthias Voigt; Sebastian Rühle; Rudolf Hausmann — Growth of gemmulae and tissue fragments of

Suberites domuncula in shallow, dihedral spaces16. Diego V. Wilke; Paula C. Jimenez; Elthon G. Ferreira; Thiago A. Portela; Eduardo Hajdu; Claudia O.

Pessoa; Manoel O. de Moraes; Edilberto R. Silveira; Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo — Bioguided fractionationof an ethanol extract derived from Amphimedon compressa collected at the Pedra da Risca do Meio statepark, Ceará, Brazil

17. Carsten Wolff; Alan R. Duckworth; Elizabeth Evans-Illidge; Christopher Battershill — Growth andrecovery in two wild donor sponge candidates for indigenous in situ dictyoceratid bath-spongeaquaculture in the Palm Island group, North Queensland, Australia

18. Wei Zhang; Wantao Fu; Liming Sun; Xichang Zhang — Potential of marine sponge Hymeniacidonperleve as a bioremediator of pathogenic bacteria in integrated aquaculture ecosystem

Human Health & Education

1. Maria Cristina Diaz; Robert W. Thacker; Guilherme Muricy; Rachel Collin — Taxonomy and ecologyof Caribbean sponges: Effective training for new investigators

2. A. Magalhães; Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; José F.M. Barcellos; J.C. Cardoso; M. Dos-Santos — Report ontwo cases of human skin injuries caused by sponge spicules at the Amazon

3. Meiryelen Vieira da Silva; Leonardo Luis Marques Assumpção; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu — The influence ofSponge Bob Square Pants cartoon in natural science teaching to kids between ten and twelve years old

Natural Products Chemistry

1. Mario Luiz Conte da Frota Junior; Mariana Leivas Muller Hoff; Guilherme Antônio Behr; MiriamAnders Apel; Beatriz Mothes; Cléa Lerner; Amélia Teresinha Henriques; José Cláudio Fonseca Moreira— Redox properties of marine sponges collected from the coastline of Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil

2. Helena Gaspar; Cristina Moiteiro; João Sardinha; Azucena González-Coloma; Darío Martín; Rob W.M.van Soest — Antifeedant and chemical transformation studies of (S)-(+)-curcuphenol, a sesquiterpenefrom the marine sponge Didiscus oxeata

3. Anake Kijjoa; Júlia Bessa; Paulo Pinho; Rawiwan Watanadilok; Pichai Sonchaeng; Rob W.M. van Soest— Chemical investigation of bioactive secondary metabolites of the marine sponges, collected from theGulf of Thailand

4. Simone Possedente de Lira; Chris A. Gray; Marcio Silva; Eli Pimenta; Otavio Thiemann; GlauciusOliva; Eduardo Hajdu; Raymond J. Andersen; Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck — Inhibitors ofLeishmania tarentolae adenosine phosphoribosyl transferase from marine sponges

5. Fabio Renato Pereira; Suzi de Oliveira Marques; Andréa Mendes do Nascimento; Kelly Oliveira Santos;Érika Virgínia Raphael de Almeida; Cecília Verónica Nuñez; Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck —Chemical variability within the sponge Aplysina fulva

6. Paulo Pinho; Anake Kijjoa; Júlia Bessa; Saida Rifai; Aziz Fassouane; Rob W.M. van Soest — Bioactivesecondary metabolites from Hippospongia communis and Ircinia variabilis, collected from the Atlanticcoast of Morocco

7. Salvatore De Rosa; Sabina Carbonelli — Two new luffarin derivatives from the sponge Fasciospongiacavernosa

8. Salvatore De Rosa; Carmine Iodice; Sabina Carbonelli — Minor cacospongionolide derivatives from thesponge Fasciospongia cavernosa

9. Olivier P. Thomas; Fabrice Berrue; Remi Laville; Philippe Amade — The sponge biodiversity of the'Martinique' as a source of bioactive secondary metabolites

Phylogeny & Evolution

1. Paco Cardenas; Hans Tore Rapp; Christoffer Schander; Ole Secher Tendal — Molecular phylogeny of

the Geodiidae Gray, 1867 (Porifera, Demospongiae) with a reassessment of the NE Atlantic species2. Dirk Erpenbeck; Scott A. Nichols; Oliver Voigt; Martin Dohrmann; John N.A. Hooper; Gert Wörheide

— Evolutionary patterns of nucleotide composition in demosponge rRNA3. Valeria Itskovich; Sergey Belikov; Sofia M. Efremova; Yoshiki Masuda; Thierry Pérez; Eliane Alivon;

Carole Borchiellini; Nicole Boury-Esnault — Phylogenetic relationships between freshwater and marineHaplosclerida (Porifera) based on the full length 18S rRNA and partial COXI gene sequences

4. Cintia Paula Jandre Rua; Adriana Mattos; Antônio M. Solé-Cava — Cryptic speciation andcorrespondence between spiculation and molecular markers in Placospongia

5. André Rossi; Claudia Augusta de Moraes Russo; Hans Tore Rapp; Michelle Klautau — Molecularphylogeny and morphological evolution of the genus Clathrina (Porifera, Calcarea)

6. Susanne Schmitt; Sven Zea; Thomas Dandekar; Matthias Wolf; Ute Hentschel — ITS-2 and 18S rRNAgene phylogeny of Aplysinidae (Verongida, Demospongiae)

7. Carla Zilberberg; Antônio M. Solé-Cava — Agreement between allozymes and cytochrome oxidase Isequences in separating Mediterranean and Atlantic Chondrosia species (Chondrosida: Demospongiae)

8. Carla Zilberberg; Antônio M. Solé-Cava — Mitochondrial and ribosomal markers have less resolutionthan allozymes to separate cryptic species of Chondrilla (Demospongiae: Chondrillidae)

Population & Ecological Genetics

1. Leonardo Luis Marques Assumpção; Meiryelen Vieira da Silva; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu — BrazilianAmphimedon compressa Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 (Porifera, Haplosclerida): Phenotypicdiversity evaluated by morpho-molecular methodology

2. Andrea Blanquer; Maria-J. Uriz — Population genetic structure of the marine sponge Scopalinalophyropoda Schmidt (Halichondrida) assessed by microsatellites markers

3. Estéfane Cardinot Reis; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu — Intraspecific variation in Aplysina lacunosa (Pallas, 1766)(Aplysinidae, Verongida, Demospongiae) by analysis of ITS1 and ITS2 fragments

4. Julie Reveillaud; Thomas Remerie; Rob W.M. van Soest; Ann Vanreusel; Jean-Pierre Henriet —Population genetics study of five broad range sponge taxa associated with cold-water coral reefs alongthe European margins

5. Adriana Salgado; Guilherme Muricy; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu — Morphological and molecular variation inDragmacidon reticulatus (Porifera, Demospongiae) from the Brazilian coast

6. Meiryelen Vieira da Silva; Leonardo Luis Marques Assumpção; Gisele Lôbo-Hajdu — Morphologic andgenetic variation in Brazilian Amphimedon viridis

7. Joana Xavier; Rob W.M. van Soest; Johannes Breeuwer; Antonio Frias Martins — Phylogeography andtaxonomy of sponges from the Azores Archipelago and North Atlantic seamounts

Special Habitats

1. William C. Austin; Kim W. Conway; J. Vaughn Barrie; Manfred Krautter — Growth and morphology ofa reef-forming glass sponge, and implications for recovery from widespread trawl damage

2. Twiggy Cristina A. Batista; Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; Maria da Graça G. Melão — Freshwater habitatsindicated by sponge assemblages at the Amazonian protected area of "Meandros do Rio Araguaia",Brazil

3. Marco Bertolino; Laura Schejter; Barbara Calcinai; Carlo Cerrano; Maurizio Pansini; Claudia Bremec —Sponges from a submarine canyon in the Argentinian Sea

4. Cara Fiore; Pamela Cox Jutte — Deep-water sponges and their associated fauna collected off theSoutheastern United States

5. Annika Lopp; Tõnu Reintamm; Kerli Vallmann; Mailis Päri; Valdek Mikli; Evelyn Richelle-Maurer;Merike Kelve — Freshwater sponges in Estonia: Distribution, morphological and genetic identification

6. Renata Manconi; Tiziana Cubeddu; Cristina Ferretti; Roberto Pronzato — A new morphological trait forNorthern Australian Pectispongillas

7. Renata Manconi; Fabio Ledda; Maria Francesca Ortu; Annalisa Serusi; Giacinta Stocchino — Newrecords of Petrobiona massiliana (Porifera, Lithonida) in the W-Mediterranean Sea

8. Yoshiki Masuda; Valeria Itskovich; Elena Veinberg; Sofia M. Efremova — A study of the distribution offreshwater sponges in Lake Baikal

9. Martin Pfannkuchen; Franz Brümmer; Sabine Schlesinger; Gisela Fritz; Martin Meixner — Remarks onspongillid sponge species in Lake Constance, Germany

10. Ulisses S. Pinheiro; Loyana Docio Santos; Yoshiki Masuda; Eduardo Hajdu — Morphologic variabilityof Spongilla alba Carter, 1849 on distinct geographic scales (Spongillidae, Haplosclerida,Demospongiae)

11. Andrzej Pisera; Jean Vacelet — New lithistid sponges from a submarine cave in Philippines: Affinitiesand evolutionary significance

12. Andrzej Pisera; Jean Vacelet — Lithistid sponges from submarine caves in the Mediterranean:Taxonomy and affinities

13. Henry M. Reiswig; Welton Lee — A new Cladorhiza from Southern California, USA14. Maria da Conceição M. Tavares; Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; Guilherme Hermany; Maria C.D. Mansur

— Seasonal and habitat correlation among freshwater sponges and the asiatic mytilid Limnopernafortunei in an inner delta at Southern Brazil

15. Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; Vanessa de Souza Machado — Freshwater sponges indicators to Braziliancoastal water bodies

16. Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro; Carolina Coimbra Mostardeiro — Freshwater sponges of the Atlantic Forestat Southern Brazil

17. Nicole J. de Voogd; Wallie H. de Weerdt; Rob W.M. van Soest — The sponge fauna of the AnchialineLakes of Kakaban and Maratua (East Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Day 6 - Friday, May 12th, 2006

Oral Presentations

Sponge MicrobiologyChairperson Marinella Silva Laport and Robert Thacker

09:00-09:30 Kayley M. Usher; Walter M. Goldberg; Simon Toze; Jane Fromont — Importance of sponge-cyanobacterial symbioses in temperate, nutrient-rich waters (invited lecture)

09:30-09:45 Robert W. Thacker; Maria Cristina Diaz; Klaus Rützler; Patrick M. Erwin; Steven J.A.Kimble; Melissa J. Pierce — Filamentous cyanobacterial symbionts of Caribbean sponges

09:45-10:00 Fleur C. van Duyl; Jasper M. de Goeij; Astrid Hoogstraten; Conny Maier; Martine M. vanOostveen — Sponge-associated prokaryotes: Abundance, community composition and theirpossible role in the nutrition of the host

10:00-10:15 Malcolm Hill; Nathan Lemoine; April Hill — Stability and structure of microbialcommunities in marine sponges: Case studies with temperate and tropical sponges

10:15-10:30 Nuno Conceição; Marise Almeida; Manuela Carolino; Sandra Chaves; Mário Gadanho;Rogério Tenreiro; Madalena Humanes — Bacterial consortia in the marine sponge Erylusdiscophorus from the Northeast Atlantic

10:30-10:45 Jose Lopez; Dedra Harmody; Angela Ledger; Cheryl Peterson; Shirley A. Pomponi; KarenSfanos; Peter McCarthy — Molecular census and comparison of cultured and unculturedmicrobial symbiont diversity from an ancient metazoan host, phylum Porifera

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:30 Joseph Selvin; Aron Premnath Lipton — Strategies for the isolation and cultivation of spongeassociated microbial endosymbionts

11:30-11:45 Joseph Selvin; Aron Premnath Lipton — Bioprospecting of sponge associated microbial

endosymbionts11:45-12:00 Manmadhan Kanagasabhapathy; Hideaki Sasaki; Soumya Haldar; Shinji Yamasaki; Shinichi

Nagata — Comparative analysis of bacteria possessing antimicrobial activities isolated fromdifferent marine sponges of Japan

12:00-12:15 Susanne Schmitt; Jeremy Weisz; Niels Lindquist; Jonathan Cowart; Ute Hentschel —Vertical transmission of bacteria in Caribbean reef sponges

12:15-12:30 Koty Sharp; Boreth Eam; Margo Haygood — Identification of a vertically transmittedmicrobial assemblage in the tropical sponge Corticium candelabrum

12:30-12:45 Friederike Hoffmann; Hans Røy; Kristina Bayer; Ute Hentschel; Hans Tore Rapp; OleLarsen; Dirk de Beer; Antje Boetius — Oxygen dynamics in sponges: Microbial life in afluctuating chemical environment

12:45-13:00 Maria-J. Uriz; Xavier Turon — Simultaneous calcification and silification processes in a non-sclerosponge species: The enigmatic Hemimycale spherules revisited

13:00-14:30 LUNCH

Biotechnology & PharmacologyChairperson Roberto Gomes de Souza Berlinck

14:30-14:45 Wei Zhang; Haitao Zhang; Yoo Kyung Lee; HongKum Lee — Marine sponge Hymeniacidonperleve possesses high diversity of culturable actinobacteria: Isolation and phylogeneticdiversity by 16S rDNA-RFLP analysis

14:45-15:00 Jane H. Thompson; Jay J. Bottesch; Shirley A. Pomponi — Transfection of marine spongecells to produce a cell line

15:00-15:15 Jay J. Bottesch, Jane H. Thompson, Shirley A. Pomponi — Relative temporal gene regulationin cultured Axinella corrugata cells upon exogenous perturbation by phytohemagglutinin Mform

15:15-15:30 Laura Valisano; Marco Giovine; Marina Pozzolini; Giorgio Bavestrello; Carlo Cerrano —Primmorphs production: Comparisons among species and importance of environmentalfactors

15:30-15:45 Detmer Sipkema; Harvey W. Blanch; René H. Wijffels — Large-scale production ofpharmaceuticals by marine sponges: Sea, cell or synthesis?

15:45-16:00 Wei Zhang; Liming Sun; Yuefan Song; Yi Qu; Xupeng Cao; Yan Jin — Advances in thedevelopment of in vitro cell cultures of sponge archaeocytes for the production of sponge-derived bioactive metabolites

16:00-16:15 Bruno Coêlho Cavalcanti; Carla Maria Lima Sombra; Jaine H.H.L. De Oliveira; RobertoGomes de Souza Berlinck; Manoel O. de Moraes; Claudia O. Pessoa — Effect of ingenamineG isolated from the marine sponge Pachychalina sp. on in vitro chromosomal aberrations andDNA strand breaks in human lymphocytes

16:15-16:45 COFFEE BREAK

16:45-17:00 K. Padmakumar; M. Srikumar; S. Deepa — Antifouling activity of marine sponges17:00-17:15 Marisa Rangel; Marisa Paula do Prado; Katsuhiro Konno; Hideo Naoki; José Carlos de

Freitas; Glaucia Maria Machado-Santelli — Anti-proliferative substances of the marinesponge Geodia corticostylifera from Brazilian coast

17:15-17:30 Piers Ettinger-Epstein; Rocky de Nys; Dianne M. Tapiolas — Geographic and temporalvariation of manoalide analogues in the sponge Luffariella sp.

17:30-17:45 Ronald Osinga; Michiel Kotterman — Maintaining marine sponges in tanks: Effects offeeding and iron

17:45-18:00 Rudolf Hausmann; Marco P. Vitello; Frank Leitermann; Sebastian Rühle; Matthias Voigt;Christoph Syldatk — Aplysina aerophoba - A model sponge for ex situ sponge biomassproduction?

18:00-18:15 Hermann Ehrlich; Hartmut Worch — Sponges as natural composites: from biomimeticpotential to development of new biomaterials

18:15-18:30 Heinz C. Schröder; Anatoli Krasko; Matthias Philipp Wiens; Werner E.G. Müller —Biosilicification machinery in siliceous sponges: Key enzymes and proteins for silicananobiotechnology

Closing Session

Lecture18:30-19:00 Radovan Borojevic — Tissue homeostasis, repair and regeneration: The concept of

stem cells

Closing Remarks19:00-19:05 Cecília Volkmer Ribeiro — Biography of Dr. Rosário de Rosa Barbosa19:05-19:10 Chris Ireland — Biography of Dr. John Faulkner19:10-19:15 Alexander Ereskovsky — Biography of Dr. Vladimir Koltun19:15-19:20 Malcom Hill — Biography of Dr. Paul Fell19:20-19:30 Eduardo Hajdu — Where to Next?

20:00 CONCLUSION

Day 7 - Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Dives and Tours

List of Participants

Abdo, David. University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology (M090). Faculty of Natural andAgricultural Sciences. 35 Stirling Hwy 6009. Western Australia. Crawley. Australia.abdod01@student.uwa.edu.au

Adams, Charles. University of Florida. Florida Sea Grant. 3406 Palm Beach Blvd. Fort Myers, FL 33916-3736. Gainesville. USA. cmadams@ufl.edu

Alcolado, Pedro. Institute of Oceanology. Ave. 1a, No.18406, Playa. Havana. Cuba. alcolado@ama.cuAlmeida, Maria Marise. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa. Depto. de Química e

Bioquímica. Edifício C8, Campo Grande, 1749-016. Lisboa. Portugal.Andersen, Raymond J. University of British Columbia. Dept. of Chemistry. British Columbia, V6T 1Z1.

Vancouver. Canada.Andrea, Barbara Rustum. Museu Nacional - UFRJ. Depto. de Invertebrados. Laboratório de Porifera.

Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n. São Cristóvão, 20940-040. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.barbararandrea@gmail.com

Assumpção, Leonardo Luís Marques. Universidade do Grande Rio. Biociências. Rua Bezerra de Menesesnº16 apt 202 Vaz Lobo- Rio de Janeiro CEP 21361-000. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.leonardo_assumpcao@hotmail.com

Austin, William C. Marine Ecology Centre. 9835 Seaport Place, BC V8L 4X3. Sidney. Canada.baustin@mareco.org

Azevedo, Fernanda Correia. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Depto. de Zoologia. Av. Pau Brasil211, CCS, Bloco A, sala A0-100. Ilha do Fundão. CEP 21.941-590. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.fernanda@biologia.ufrj.br

Bakran-Petricioli, Tatjana. University of Zagreb. Faculty of Science. Dept. of Zoology. Division ofBiology. Rooseveltov trg 6. HR-10000. Zagreb. Croatia. tatjana.bakran-petricioli@zg.htnet.hr

Bannister, Raymond John. James Cook University. Marine Biology & Aquaculture. School of MarineBiology & Aquaculture. QLD, 4811. Townsville. Australia. raymond.bannister@jcu.edu.au

Barnes, Peter Brendan. University of Wollongong. Biological Sciences. Northfields Ave, NSW 2522.Wollongong. Australia. pbb47@uow.edu.au

Barreto, Maria do Carmo R.L. Felgueiras. Azores University. DCTD. DCTD, Azores University, Rua daMãe de Deus, 58, 9501-801. Ponta Delgada. Portugal. barreto@notes.uac.pt

Bastos, Murillo Moreira. Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências - FTC. Coordenação de CiênciasBiológicas. Rua Manuel de Mendonça n° 167 - Condominio Pituba Ville - Edificio São Mateus - Ap.1101 - Pituba - CEP 41810-820. Salvador. Brazil. mumb@bol.com.br

Batista, Daniela. Museu Nacional - UFRJ. Depto. de Invertebrados. Laboratório de Porifera. Quinta daBoa Vista, s/n. São Cristóvão, 20940-040. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. danibiomar@uol.com.br

Batista, Twiggy Cristina Alves. Universidade Federal de São Carlos and SESAU/TO. PPGERN-UFSCarand Dir. Vigilância à Saúde - SESAU. UFSCar: Rod. Washington Luiz, Km 235, São Carlos-SP. CEP13565-905. SESAU: Pça dos Girassóis s/n. Diretoria de Vigilância à Saúde. Palmas-TO. CEP 77000-000. São Carlos. Brazil. twiggybat@hotmail.com

Bayer, Kristina. University of Wuerzburg. Research Center for Infectious Diseases. Roentgenring 11.97070. Wuerzburg. Germany. kristina.bayer@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

Becking, Leontine E. National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis. Zoology. PO Box 9517. 2300 RA.Leiden. The Netherlands. lebecking@gmail.com

Bell, James J. University of Wales. Institute of Biological Sciences. Edward Llwyd Building, Ceredigion.SY23 3DA. Aberystwyth. Wales. jdb@aber.ac.uk

Bello, Utsman Debo. Polytechnic Of Ibadan. Computing. 22, Kabiawu street. Ibadan. Nigeria.utsbell911@yahoo.com

Benatti, Umberto. Università degli Studi di Genova. Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale. VialeBenedetto XV, 1 16132. Genova. Italy. benatti@unige.it

Beresi, Matilde Sylvia. Cricyt-IANIGLA. A. Ruiz Leal s/n (5500). Mendoza. Argentina.mberesi@lab.cricyt.edu.ar

Berlinck, Roberto Gomes de Souza. Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Química de São Carlos.Avenida Dr. Carlos Botelho, 1465 - Vila Pureza. CP 780, CEP 13560-970 (SP). São Carlos. Brazil.rgsberlinck@iqsc.usp.br

Bessa, Julia Manuela Marques. CIIMAR-ICBAS Universidade do Porto. Chemistry. Instituto de CiênciasBiomédicas Abel Salazar-CIIMAR. Universidade do Porto. 4099-003. Porto. Portugal.ankijjoa@icbas.up.pt

Blanquer, Andrea. Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC). Aquatic Ecolgy Department.Acceés a la Cala St Francesc, 14. Blanes- Girona. Spain. andrea@ceab.csic.es

Bond, Calhoun. Greensboro College. Dept. of Natural Sciences. Greensboro College. 815 West MarketSt. NC 27401. Greensboro. USA. bondc@gborocollege.edu

Borchiellini, Carole. Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille. DIMAR UMR CNRS 6540. Station Marined'Endoume. Rue de la Batterie des Lions 13007. Marseille. France. borchiellini@com.univ-mrs.fr

Borojevic, Radovan. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Depto. de Histologia e Embriologia. Centrode Ciências da Saúde, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Bloco B. Av. Pau Brasil, s/n, CidadeUniversitária, Ilha do Fundão, CEP 21.940-590. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. hajdu@acd.ufrj.br

Boury-Esnault, Nicole. Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille. Station Marine d'Endoume. Station Marined'Endoume. Rue de la Batterie des Lions 13007. Marseille. France.

Buckeridge, John St James Stewart. RMIT University. EOS Group. RMIT University. GPO Box 2467V.3001. Melbourne. Australia. john.buckeridge@rmit.edu.au

Bueno, Santiago. Pharma Mar, S.A. Sociedad Unipersonal. Research and Development. Avda. de losReyes, nº1. P.I. La Mina Norte. 28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid. Spain. sbueno@pharmamar.com

Cabral, Sergio de Andrade. Museu Nacional - UFRJ. Depto. de Invertebrados. Bartolomeu Mitre 230/302Leblon. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. cabral_sergio@hotmail.com

Calcinai, Barbara. Università Politecnica delle Marche. Dipartimento di Scienze del Mare. Via BrecceBianche. Zipcode 60131. Ancona. Italy. b.calcinai@univpm.it

Calderon, Emiliano N. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Depto. de Zoologia. Rua Pereira da Silva764/703, Laranjeiras. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. encalderon@yahoo.com.br

Campos, Maurício Alves de. Museu de Ciências Naturais - FZBRS. Seção de Zoologia de Invertebrados.Rua Dr. Salvador França, 1427. Bairro Jardim Botânico. Cep. 90.690-000. Porto Alegre. Brazil.

Caralt, Sonia de. Wageningen University & CEAB (CSIC). Food and Bioprocess Engineering Group.Acceés a la Cala St Francesc, 14. Blanes. Spain. sonia@ceab.csic.es

Carballo, José Luis. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM. Laboratorio de Ecología delBentos. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Avenida Joel Montes Camarena s/n. ApartadoPostal 811. Mazatlán. México. jlcarballo@ola.icmyl.unam.mx

Cárdenas, Paco. University of Bergen. Dept. of Biology. Høyteknologisenteret. Thormøhlensgate, 55.5020. Bergen. Norway. cardenas_paco@yahoo.fr

Carraro, João Luís de Fraga. Museu de Ciências Naturais - FZBRS. Seção de Zoologia de Invertebrados.Rua Dr. Salvador França, 1427. Bairro Jardim Botânico. Cep. 90.690-000. Porto Alegre. Brazil.joaocarraro_rs@yahoo.com.br

Carvalho, Mariana de Souza. Museu Nacional - UFRJ. Depto. de Invertebrados. Laboratório de Porifera.Quinta da Boa Vista, s/n. São Cristóvão, 20940-040. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. mscarvalho@mn.ufrj.br

Cavalcanti, Bruno Coêlho. Universidade Federal do Ceará. Depto. de Fisiologia e Farmacologia. Rua Cel.Nunes de Melo, 1127. CEP 60.430-270. Fortaleza. Brazil. nunim_br@yahoo.com.br

Cavalcanti, Fernanda Fernandes. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Instituto de Biologia - Depto.de Zoologia. Rua Mateus Silva, 91 casa 15 apto 201. Inhaúma. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.nandafc@click21.com.br

Cavalcanti, Guarani de Hollanda. PETROBRAS. CENPES. Av. Jequitibá, 950 - Cidade Universitária -Ilha do Fundão. CEP. 21941-598 - Rio de Janeiro-RJ. Gerência de Avaliação e MonitoramentoAmbiental. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. guaranihc@petrobras.com.br

Cebrian, Emma. Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC). Aquatic Ecology. Acceés a la CalaSt Francesc, 14. Blanes. Spain. emma@ceab.csic.es

Cedro, Victor Ribeiro. Universidade Federal de Alagoas. LABMAR. Setor de Comunidades Bentônicas.Av. Aristeu de Andrade 452, Farol, CEP 57021-090. Maceió. Brazil.

Cerrano, Carlo. Università di Genova. DIPTERIS. Corso Europa 26. Zip code: 16132. Genova. Italy.cerrano@dipteris.unige.it

Chaves-Fonnegra, Andia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Biología - Línea Biología Marina.Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Cerro Punta Betín - INVEMAR, A.A. 1016. Santa Marta.Colombia. andiecita@hotmail.com

Chiappone, Mark. University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Center for Marine Science. 515 CaribbeanDrive. Key Largo. USA. chiapponem@uncw.edu

Cidade Universitária. Recife. Brazil. josivetepinheiro@yahoo.com.brColes, Steve L. Bishop Museum. Dept. of Natural Science. 1525 Bernice St. Honolulu. USA.

slcoles@bishopmuseum.orgCook, Steve. Auckland University of Technology. Earth & Oceanic Sciences Research Institute. 24 St

Paul Street. Private Bag 92006. Auckland. New Zealand. steve.cook@aut.ac.nzCorreia, Monica Dorigo. Universidade Federal de Alagoas. LABMAR. Setor de Comunidades

Bentônicas. Av. Aristeu de Andrade 452, Farol, CEP 57021-090. Maceió. Brazil. mdc@fapeal.brCosme, Bruno. Universidade Federal da Bahia. Depto. de Zoologia. Rua Conde de Porto Alegre, 128,

IAPI. Salvador. Brazil. brunoignis@yahoo.com.brCoutinho, Cristiano Carvalho. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Depto. de Histologia e

Embriologia. Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Bloco B. Av. Pau Brasil,s/n, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, CEP 21.940-590. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil.ccoutinho@histo.ufrj.br

Cuevas, Carmen. Pharma Mar, S.A. Sociedad Unipersonal. Research and Development. Avda. de losReyes, nº1. P.I. La Mina Norte. 28770 Colmenar Viejo. Madrid. Spain. ccuevas@pharmamar.com

Cunha, Andreia Brazão A.C. da. Universidade dos Açores. Depto. de Biologia. Rua da Mãe de Deus,n.13. 9500 - São Miguel Açores. Ponta Delgada. Portugal. andrea_cunha@linus.uac.pt

Custódio, Márcio Reis. Universidade de São Paulo. Depto. de Fisiologia. Rua do Matão. Trav. 14, n. 321.CEP 05508-900. Cidade Universitária. São Paulo. Brazil. mcust@usp.br

Dailianis, Thanos. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). Institute of Marine Biology andGenetics (IMBG). Thalassocosmos. Former US Base at Gournes. PO Box 2214. 71003, Crete.Herakleion. Greece. thanosd@her.hcmr.gr

Davis, Andy. University of Wollongong. School of Biological Sciences. Northfields Ave. NSW 2522.Wollongong. Australia. adavis@uow.edu.au

Desqueyroux-Faúndez, Ruth. Muséum d´histoire naturelle de Genève. Invertebrés. C.P. 6434, CH-1211.Geneva. Switzerland. faundez@bluewin.ch

Diaz, Maria Cristina. Smithsonian Institution / Museo Marino Margarita. Calle 3 de mayo, ResidenciasTerrazas del Mar, 5 PB-A, Sector Campeare. Pampatar. Venezuela. crisdiaz@ix.netcom.com

Dicks, Emilie Fleur. University of Wales. Biological Sciences. 31 upper Garth Road, Gwynedd, NorthWales, LL57 2SR. Bangor. UK. e.dicks@ccw.gov.uk

Dohrmann, Martin. University of Göttingen. Dept. of Geobiology. Goldschmidtstr. 3 - 37077. Göttingen.Germany. mdohrma1@gwdg.de

Dolmen, Paola G. Rachello. Amsterdam University. Biological Science. Prinsengracht 241 D7, DT 1015.Amsterdam. The Netherlands. pgrachellod@gmail.com

Dresch, Roger Remy. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Av. Ipiranga, 2752, 90610-000. PortoAlegre. Brazil. rogdresch@yahoo.com.br

Duckworth, Alan. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Marine Biotechnology. PMB No 3 Townsville4810. Townsville. Australia. a.duckworth@aims.gov.au

Duyl, Fleur C. van. Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Biological Oceanography. PO Box 59.1790 AB. Den Burg. The Netherlands. duyl@nioz.nl

Eckert, Carsten. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Institut für Systematische Zoologie. An der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin. Invalidenstrasse 43. D-10115. Berlin. Germany. carsten.eckert@museum.hu-berlin.de

Efremova, Sofia. Biological Institute of St. Petersburg University. Laboratory of Ontogenesis.Oranienbaumskoye sch. 2, Stary Peterhoff. 198504. St. Petersburg. Russia. smefremova@mail.ru

Ehrlich, Hermann. Dresden University of Technology. Institute of Materials Science. Max BergmannCenter of Biomaterials. Budapester Str. 27. Dresden. Germany. hermann.ehrlich@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Ellwood, Michael. NIWA Ltd. PO Box 11 115. Gate 10 Silverdale Road. Hamilton. New Zealand.m.ellwood@niwa.co.nz

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Erwin, Patrick M. University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dept. of Biology. CH109. 1530 3rd AvenueSouth. Alabama 35294-1170. Birmingham. USA. erwin@uab.edu

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da Boa Vista, s/n. São Cristóvão, 20940-040. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. edlealesteves@yahoo.com.brEttinger-Epstein, Piers. James Cook University. Marine Biology & Aquaculture. School of Marine

Biology & Aquaculture. QLD, 4811. Townsville. Australia. piers.ettingerepstein@jcu.edu.auFernandez, Diana Margarita Marquez. Universidad de Antioquia. Farmacia. Calle 67 53-108 Bloque 2

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