Thanks to everybody for submitting abstracts for the Heraklion meeting. There was the usual deluge in the last 24 hours before the deadline! The scientific committee has begun the process of reading abstracts and will attempt to contact everyone about abstract acceptance by 15th February.
There is also work going on behind the scenes organising hotels as per your preferences and the organising committee will confirm all this with participants in due course.
A joint meeting between members of the EU COST Action FA1301 ‘CephsInAction’ and the wider CIAC community will take place at the Heraklion Aquarium Crete, March 28th-31st 2017.
The CephsInAction team have kindly offered to take care of registration and abstract submission through their website at cephsinaction.org. You’ll need to register as a user on their site and then just follow the instructions.
The important deadlines are:
Abstract Submission: 31st January 2017
Regular Registration: 15th February (€ 280 / € 160 student)
Late Registration: 10th March (€ 350 / € 200 student)
Note: onsite registration (€ 400 / € 250 student) will be possible during the week of the conference for those who make a last minute decision to attend!
The suggested themes for abstracts are:
– Evolution, Radiation and Adaptation (this may also include contributions from palaeontology/paleobiology)
– Physiology and Adaptation
– Genome, Transcriptome and Functional Genomics
– Reproductive Biology
– Neuroscience: from cells to organisms
– Cognition and Behaviour
– Animal welfare: from the bench to the production and fishery
– Fisheries – Conservation of cephalopods as resource for biosphere and human beings
– Policies and Strategies: impact of regulations and policies on cephalopod research and resources
– Current and future challenges for cephalopod science
– Other Contributions
As you likely know by now, CIAC 2018 will be held in St. Petersburg Florida.
A huge thank you from CIAC to our Japanese colleagues for a truly wonderful conference!
Madoka Sasaki was a brilliant Japanese cephalopod taxonomist who described numerous new species. Today’s workshop gave researchers from across the world the opportunity to examine important type specimens from Sasaki’s collections.
This was also a chance for young researchers new to taxonomy to get some guidance from other members of the research community. Talks by Ian Glendall, CC Lu, Mandy Reid, Giambattista Bello, Jaruwat Nabhitabhata and Kat Bolstad explored a range of topics and taxa.
Cephalopod biologists from across the world are streaming to Hakodate, a city on the northern island of Hokkaido in Japan, this month for the triennial meeting of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council. 
