Credits & Attribution
| 09:00-10:30 | Registration and Mounting of posters |
| 10:30-10:40 | Welcome by the organizing institute | Jan Mees, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 10:40-10:50 | History of the EMBS, by Prof. Guido Persoone | Organiser of EMBS10, held in Ostend in 1975 |
| 10:50-11:00 | Welcome by the EMBS chair | Tasman Crowe, University College Dublin (IE) |
| 11:00-11:15 | Pitches on the information booths
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| Theme: Science from a historical perspective | |
| Chair: Tasman Crowe | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Science from a historical perspective | Georg Engelhard, CEFAS (UK) |
| 12:00-12:15 | Reconstructing Mediterranean historical seascapes through the analysis of archives of underwater photographs | Fabrizio Torsani, Polytechnic University of Marche (IT) |
| 12:15-12:30 | Marine Data Archeology: A heritage for future science | Carolien Knockaert, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch + poster session |
| Chair: Michiel Vandegehuchte | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Marked changes in megafauna composition of the North Sea require multidisciplinary collaborations: A historical overview | Kees Camphuysen, NIOZ (NL) |
| 14:15-14:30 | Metchnikovellids as basal microsporidia: Research history and perspectives | Gita Paskerova, Saint-Petersburg State University (RU) |
| 14:30-14:45 | Short history of the Adriatic marine science: Croatian naturalists and their contributions | Jakov Dulcic, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (HR) |
| 14:45-15:00 | Climate-driven shifts of species ranges or just a bias? A case study of newly recorded molluskan species from the Barents Sea | Ivan Nekhaev, Saint-Petersburg State University (RU) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Quantification of benthic biodiversity and biomass in time, space and changes with season at an Antarctic site | Terri Souster, The British Antarctic Survey (UK) |
| 15:15-15:30 | Yellow Submarine announcement | Ruth Vandepitte, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Fifty-year changes of phytoplankton in the deep-water basin of the Black Sea | Alexander Mikaelyan, Russian Academy of Sciences (RU) |
| 16:15-16:30 | Transitional larval type of Alcyonidium hirsutum (Bryozoa, Gymnolaemata): From Van Beneden to the era of modern methods | Olga Kotenko, Saint-Petersburg State University (RU) |
| 16:30-17:15 | The history of marine science in Belgium | Ruth Pirlet, National Fisheries Museum (BE) |
| 19:30-21:00 | Ice Breaker Reception |
| Theme: Science in a modern era | |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Science in a modern era: From science networks to network science | Matthias Obst, University of Gothenburg (SE) |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal? | Christos Arvanitidis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (GR) |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | LifeWatch marine data services supporting marine biodiversity and ecosystem research | Klaas Deneudt, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| Chair: Christos Arvanitidis | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | The European Tracking Network: Connecting biotelemetry users in Europe | Jan Reubens, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | BIO-Tide: an international collaboration to tackle the complexity of marine tidal flats | Koen Sabbe, Ghent University (BE) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Current initiatives supporting dynamic evolvement and long term sustainability of Genomic Observatories in a European and international context | Klaas Deneudt, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | DNA barcodes for fish identification: To believe or not to believe | Ekaterina Vasil’eva, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU) |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Migratory routes and stopover sites of the Lesser Black-backed Gull: Where to go if your options are endless? | Jan Baert, Antwerp University (BE) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | OBIS 2.0: Towards real-time integration, quality control, and analysis of rich marine data streams | Pieter Provoost, UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE (BE) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break + poster session |
| Chair: Colin Janssen | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Seascape-mediated patterns and processes of population differentiation in European seabass | Filip Volckaert, University of Leuven (BE) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Long-term plankton measurements using semi-automatic image classification techniques | Luz Amadei Martinez, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Heading South or North: Novel insights on European silver eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) migration in the North Sea | Pieterjan Verhelst, Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Ghent University (BE) |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | What moves European sea bass? | Jolien Goossens, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey: 60 years of data and counting | Jennifer Skinner, The Marine Biological Association (UK) |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Group picture |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch + poster session |
| Chair: Francisco Hernandez | |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Eavesdropping in the wild: What are porpoises and bats up to | Elisabeth Debusschere, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | The Census of Antarctic Marine Life, and its legacy 10 years on | Anton Vandeputte, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (BE) |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | JMBA Special Issue | Matthew Frost, The Marine Biological Association (UK) |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Yellow Submarine: Practical information | Ruth Vandepitte, Flanders Marine Institute (BE) |
| 15:00 - 18:00 | Yellow Submarine Competition |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Announcement of EMBS54 | Tasman Crowe, University College Dublin (IE) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Picnic lunch |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Excursions |
| 18:30 - 22:30 | Conference dinner @Halve Maan (Brugge) including the announcement of the Poster Awards and the Yellow Submarine Trophy |
