LARVAL 2002 5th International Larval Biology Meeting Vigo, Galicia, Spain September 15th to 20th, 2002 Vlbm@uvigo.es

What is LBM?	Meeting location	Organising committee	Registration
Abstract submission	Travel and Accommodation	Instructions for presenters	Provisional Program

• What is Larval Biology Meeting?

The Larval Biology Meetings started in 1993 as a biennial forum for work on the ecology and evolutionary biology of larval stages (or propagules) of all aquatic animals. The first meeting was held by the State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA). The second one was in 1995 at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution in Florida (USA). The third meeting was held in Melbourne, Australia in 1998. The fourth one was in 2000 in Santa Cruz (USA) at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The 2002 meeting will be hosted by the University of Vigo, Vigo, Galicia, Spain. Vigo is a fishing town of about 300.000 people on the atlantic coast of Spain, 30 km from Portugal border. The town is located at the Ría de Vigo, a long fjord with beautiful sandy beaches and rocky shores, protected from the Atlantic storms by three islands, Illas Cíes, that conform the Illas do Atlántico National Park, a superb diving and bird-watching site.

• Meeting location

The Meeting will be held at Theatre García Barbón (Policarpo Sainz Street), a modern old theatre downtown, 5-10 minutes walking from meeting hotels and very close to restaurants, bars, cafés, shops, harbour and marina.

• Organising committee

Secretariat

All correspondence and questions regarding registration, conference logistics, abstracts and so on should be addressed to:

Dr. Elsa Vázquez Otero
Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal
Facultade de Ciencias
Universidade de Vigo
36200 Vigo, Spain
Phone number 34 986812579
Fax number 34 986812556

Organizing committee

Dr. Elsa Vázquez Otero, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Dr. Ricardo Beiras García-Sabell, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Dr. José Molares Villa, Centro de Investigacións Mariñas, Xunta de Galicia, Spain
Dr. Xavier Turon i Barrera, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Iosune Uriz, Centre d'Estudis Avançás, C.S.I.C., Spain
Dr. Daniel Martín, Centre d'Estudis Avançás, C.S.I.C., Spain
Dr. Manuel Maldonado, Centre d'Estudis Avançás, C.S.I.C., Spain
Dr. Michael Jangoux, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Dr. Anne-Marie Power, University College Cork, Ireland
Dr. Michael Bhaud, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Dr. Klaus Anger, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Germany
Dr. Anthony Clare, Newcastle University, U.K
Dr. Claus Nielsen, Zoological Museum, Denmark

Conference Support Staff

Juan Bellas Bereijo, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Nuria Fernandez Rodríguez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
José Ignacio Lorenzo González, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
José Carlos Mariño Balsa, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Carmen Primo Pérez, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
Gonzalo Macho Rivero, Centro de Investigacións Mariñas, Xunta de Galicia, Spain
Sandra Duran, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Fiona Tomás, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Isabel Tarjuelo Capdevila, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

• Registration

DEADLINE MARCH 1

Please, note that all amount are in EUROS.

The cost of entire conference is:

*A photocopy of a valid student card or a paper signed by the Supervisor or Head of Department refering student status must be attached to the registration form.

** Includes social events only

The conference registration covers:

*all academic sessions
*the program booklet
*all morning and afternoon coffee-breaks
*social events
*conference dinner

• Registration form

• Abstract submission

Deadline March 1

We will try not to hold two parallel sessions. After experience of the last meetings we concluded that all larval biologist are interested in all topics and sometimes is very hard to choose between two session.

We ask your collaboration on that purpose. So, we encourage everybody to present just one talk. If you have more results you want to show us and discuss, you can present a poster.

For information on specific symposium, please contact the organisers of the symposium of interest.

• Abstract form

Abstracts should be sent as attachment by e-mail to the organiser of the symposium where you want to present it.

Do not forget to indicate if the contribution will be presented as a poster or as an oral communication.

Please, follow the instructions. It will save us a lot of work!

AUTHOR´S NAME should be written in ARIAL, size 11, CAPITAL LETTER;

Address should be written in Arial, size 9, Normal letter

TITLE should be written in ARIAL, size 11, CAPITAL LETTER;

Abstract should be written in Arial, size 9, normal letter;

Length of the abstract should not be over 300 words.

Please, use italics for species scientific name only. Do not indent paragraphs.

Example:

 

• Provisional program

Although until we receive all abstracts we will not have the definitive program, we want to present you a tentative schedule.

 

• Travel and Accommodation

Vigo, situated in the north-west of Spain, has an airport with 10 daily flights to/from Madrid, 3 daily flights to/from Barcelona and a daily flight to/from Paris.

Alternative airports:

Santiago de Compostela, located 90 kms from Vigo by road, has daily flights to/from Madrid, Barcelona, London and Brussels.

Oporto (Portugal), located 140 kms from Vigo by road, has flights to/from Lisboa, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Milan, Frankfurt, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

We have organized transportation from the airport of Vigo to the official "V Larval Biology Meeting" hotels and vice versa for the 15th and 21st of September. If you notify us about your flight arrival and departure times, we will organise your transportation.

In the Accommodation Booking form you will find information about the hotels we have booked for the meeting.

All correspondence and questions regarding travel and accommodation should be addressed to:

Karma Agencia de Viajes
Avda Camelias, 134
36211 Vigo (Spain)
Phone no: 34 986214070
Fax no: 34 986214065
Email: congresos1@karmaviajes.com

• Instructions for presenters

Spoken Papers

Talks will be 20 minutes long. You are expected to talk for 15 minutes; 5 last minutes will be for questions.

Theatre will have slide, video, overhead and computer projection capabilities.

Posters

We will communicate the size of the posters after we receive all abstracts.

The posters will remain on display for the entire duration of the conference. They will be housed in the corridors of the Theatre García Barbón