Sessions

The meeting will focus on five main topics:

Reproduction

Reproductive cycles in wild populations
Experimental approaches to studying external and endocrine controls
Gametes and control of reproduction

Nutrition
Endo- and exo-trophy of early stages
Food availability and quality of trophic resources
Nutrient transfer and pathways

Growth and bioenergetics
Ecophysiology and energy budgets
External and endocrine controls

Genetics and genomics
Polymorphism, physiology, intra-specific variation and selection
Genetic improvement of cultivated species
Adaptation to environmental changes

Marine molluscs and global change
Species boundary changes and extinctions
Phenology shifts
Mollusc shells as climate tracers
Trophic resources and environmental changes (including toxic phytoplankton effects)
Invasive species

Each oral presentation is limited to 15 minutes (including questions)