La troisième édition du congrès Nématodes, Bioindicateurs a eu lieu à Carlow (Irlande) les 28 et 29 juin 2017.
Many anthropogenic factors have a negative impact on the quality of soil, air and water leading to detrimental environmental changes. This conference will bring together experts working to understand the response of key food web organisms to these changes. Scientists from across the world using a common platform, the phylum Nematoda, will present their studies on these environmentally important organisms to address questions of habitat and ecosystem changes at community, individual organism and molecular levels in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Furthermore, this event will aid towards the dissemination of information by ecologists who aim to understand the underlying mechanisms leading to nematode community change. It is envisaged that it will disseminate high impact science that could influence not only other scientists, but also regulators and policy makers
Themes for this symposium will include, but will not be limited to
Role of nematodes in ecosystems
Nematode biodiversity
Nematode community analyses: classical
Nematode community analyses: molecular
Nematode ecotoxicology and genotoxicity
Transgenic nematode biosensors
Environmental change and nematode gene expression
Commercialisation potential of nematodes as bio-indicators
Environmental monitoring and risk assessment using nematodes
Sentinel nematode species
Nematodes in terrestrial and aquatic (fresh water and marine) habitats
Nematodes and sustainability
Various land use effects on nematode communities and/or individual taxa
Nematodes and climate change
