Summer course in embryology of marine invertebrates
Embryology of Invertebrates, White Sea Biological Station, 04 – 20 of July 2010
The first international summer course in embryology of marine invertebrates has taken place at the White Sea Biological Station form the 4th to 21st of July 2010. Twelve students from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and Jordan joined in the course taking part in the practical lab work. Many field station visitors and students from the Moscow State University have attended the lectures.
Practical classes took palace in the newly built laboratory located right on the sea coast.
A seawater flow system maintaining constant temperature around 10-12ºC was designed in order to rare cultures of living embryos and larvae of marine invertebrates in the lab. Fifteen species of invertebrates were studied form the fertilization till formation of larvae or juveniles (sea urchin Strongylocentrotus pallidus, starfishes Asterias rubens and Pteraster militaris, hydrioids Dynamena pumilla, Gonothyraea loveni, Aglantha digitale, gastropod Littorina saxatilis, nudibranch Coryphella, bivalve Mytilus edulis, polychaete Spirorbis, nematode Pontonema vulgare, nemerteans Poseidon viridis and Poseidon ruber, bryozoan Cribrilina annulata, and amphipod Gammarus).
The course program included daily lectures on the different aspects of developmental biology in major invertebrate phyla, as well as field collecting trips (intertidal sampling, trawling and plankton sampling) and extensive laboratory work. Students had an opportunity to learn how to obtain rape gametes, perform artificial fertilization and maintain cultures of developing invertebrates in the lab including cleaning and feeding of planktotrophic larvae with marine algae. All course participants have presented scientific results in biology of invertebrates of their own ongoing research projects.
Instructors and organizing committee
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Dr. Nataliya E. Budaeva (Lab. of Ocean Benthic Fauna, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences)
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Dr. Igor A. Kosevitch (Lab. of Developmental Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
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Dr. Maria L. Semenova (Dept. of Embryology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
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Dr. Vladimir V. Malakhov (Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
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Dr. Alexander B. Tzetlin (White Sea Biological Station M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
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Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (Dept. of Invertebrate Zoology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
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Yulia Khramova (Dept. of Embryology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Participants
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Dr Tariq Hasan Al-Najjar (Marine Science Station, Jordan University, Aqaba, JORDAN)
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Viktoria Vinnikova (Lab. of Embryology, A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, RUSSIA)
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Nickolay Voronoy (Dept. of Marine Biology and Aquaculture, Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, RUSSIA)
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Ilya Gorodnyansky (Dept. of zoology and animal ecology, Kharkiv Karazin National University, UKRAINE)
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Simone Kinle (Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, GERMANY)
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Maryna Kovalenko (Dept. of zoology and animal ecology, Kharkiv Karazin National University, UKRAINE)
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Mariia Kolesnikova (Dept. of zoology and animal ecology, Kharkiv Karazin National University, UKRAINE)
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Darya Krupenko (Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, Saint-Petersburg State University, RUSSIA)
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Anna Savelieva (Lab. of Embryology, A.V.Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, RUSSIA)
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Alexandra Stupnikova (Lab. of pelagic ecosystems functioning, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RUS, Moscow, RUSSIA)
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Conrad Helm (Molecular evolution and systematics of animals, University of Leipzig, GERMANY)
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Ksenia Shunkina (Dept. Invertebrate Zoology, Saint-Petersburg State University, RUSSIA)
Photos: http://files.mail.ru/1L4GDD
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