This was the second time when a tardigrade conference was held in Poland. The last Polish meeting took place in 1977, also in Kraków.

The Symposium was attended by 119 participants, including 13 accompanying persons, representing 18 countries from four continents (Asia, Europe, North and South America).

During the congress 52 talks and (in nine sessions) and 69 posters (in two two-day sessions) were presented. The topics discussed at the Symposium included taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution, biodiversity and biogeography, ecology and behaviour, omics and physiology (including cryptobiosis), anatomy, development and reproduction, astrobiology and emerging methods.

For the first time, Young Scientist Awards were given in two fields, zoology and physiology, and included gold and silver medals for the best oral and poster presentation, respectively. The gold medal in zoology was awarded to Dr. Matteo Vecchi (Finland) and the gold medal in physiology went to Napat Emdee, MSc (Denmark). The silver medal in zoology was given to Kamil Janelt, MSc (Poland) and the silver medal in physiology was awarded to Dr. Ana Lyons (USA).

Table of contents

Logo
Dates
Place
Venue
Organisers
Participants
Group photo
Programme
Proceedings
Booklet
Photos
Official website
 

Logo

The Symposium logo shows an individual of Doryphoribius dawkinsi stylised as the statue of the Wawel Dragon at the foot of the Wawel Hill in Kraków. Font and outer flame colours represent the colours of the Jagiellonian University logo. Concept and design: £ukasz Michalczyk, artwork: Kamil Janelt (Silesia University) & £ukasz Michalczyk (Jagiellonian University).

Dates

22-26 August 2022.

Place

Kraków, Poland.

World Map from Wikipedia.

Venue

Auditorium Maximum, Krupnicza 33.

Organisers

Chair:

£ukasz Michalczyk (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Local Committee:

Magdalena Dudziak (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Piotr G¹siorek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Witold Morek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Alejandro López-López (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Pritam Dey (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Izabela Poprawa (University of Silesia, Poland)
Kamil Janelt (University of Silesia, Poland)
£ukasz Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Krzysztof Zawierucha (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

International Committee:

Nadja Møbjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Vladimir Gross (University of Kassel, Germany)
Peter Degma (Comenius University, Slovakia)
Yevgen Kiosya (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)
Atsushi Suzuki (Keio University, Japan)
Kazuharu Arakawa (Keio University, Japan)
Takekazu Kunieda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Shinta Fujimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Honorary Committee:

Barbara Wêglarska† (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Diane Nelson (East Tennessee State University, USA)
Hartmut Greven (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Volunteers:

Justyna Pogwizd (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Karol Wa³ach (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Andrzej Ostoja-Wilamowski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Alexandra Sumliñska (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Olga Kozio³ (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Zuzanna Purwin (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Julia Sojka (University of Silesia, Poland)
Filip Wieczorkiewicz (University of Silesia, Poland)
Oskar Karnówka (University of Silesia, Poland)

Participants (alphabetically)

Alexandra, Sefra (USA)
Altiero, Tiziana (Italy)
Arakawa, Kazuharu (Japan)
Atherton, Sarah (Sweden)
Auvinen, Suvi (Finland)
Bartels, Paul (USA)
Bartylak, Tomasz (Poland)
Brandoli, Sara (Italy)
Buda, Jakub (Poland)
Calhim, Sara (Finland)
Camarda, Daniele (Italy)
Chartrain, Justine (Finland)
Choi, Yuna (South Korea) [online]
Concordet, Jean-Paul (France)
Czerneková, Michaela (Czechia)
De Cian, Anne (France)
Dey, Pritam Kumar (Poland)
Dudziak, Magdalena (Poland)
Edgecombe, Gregory (UK)
Eibye-Jacobsen, Jette (Denmark)
Emdee, Napat (Denmark)
Erdmann, Weronika (Poland)
G¹siorek, Piotr (Poland)
Giovannini, Ilaria (Italy)
Górna, Magdalena (Poland)
Grabosky, Alfonsina Ayelén (Argentina)
Grollmann, Milena Marie (Denmark)
Gross, Vladimir (Germany)
Grothman, Gary (Canada)
Guidetti, Roberto (Italy)
Hejnol, Andreas (Germany)
Inshyna, Valentyna (Germany)
Ishikawa, Sora (Japan)
Itang, Lowelyn Anne (Philippines)
Janelt, Kamil (Poland)
Jones, Kathleen (USA)
Jönsson, K. Ingemar (Sweden)
Jørgensen, Aslak (Denmark)
Kaczmarek, £ukasz (Poland)
Karnówka, Oskar (Poland)
Kasianchuk, Nadiia (Ukraine/Poland)
Kato, Saul (USA)
Kayastha, Pushpalata (Poland)
Kihm, Ji-Hoon (South Korea)
Klein, Mercedes (Germany)
Kmita, Hanna (Poland)
Kozio³, Olga (Poland)
Krakowiak, Michalina (Poland)
Kristensen, Reinhardt (Denmark)
Kunieda, Takekazu (Japan)
Kurz, Katrin-Theres (Austria)
Lee, Natuschka (Sweden)
Lisi, Oscar Paolo Vincenzo (Italy)
López-López, Alejandro (Poland)
Lyons, Ana (USA)
Mäenpää, Hennariikka (Finland)
Mapalo, Marc (USA)
Marley, Nigel (UK)
Massa, Edoardo (Italy)
Matsko, Yelyzaveta (Ukraine/Poland)
Matsumoto, Midori (Japan) [online]
McInnes, Sandra (UK)
Meier, María Florencia (Argentina)
Meyer, Harry (USA)
Michalczyk, £ukasz (Poland)
Miernik, Aleksandra (Poland)
Miller, William (USA)
Møbjerg, Ask (Denmark)
Møbjerg, Nadja (Denmark)
Møbjerg, Sif (Denmark)
Momeni, Sogol (USA)
Morek, Witold (Poland)
Nagwani, Amit Kumar (Poland)
Nahimova, Olena (Ukraine/Poland)
Nelson, Diane (USA)
Nelson, Jack (USA)
Novotná Florianèièová, Kamila (Czechia)
Ostoja-Wilamowski, Andrzej (Poland)
Panlaqui, Glibennette (Philippines)
Panlaqui, Beatrice (Philippines)
Perry, Emma (USA)
Pogwizd, Justyna (Poland)
Polishchuk, Anastasiia (Ukraine/Poland)
Poprawa, Izabela (Poland)
Purwin, Zuzanna (Poland)
Pust, Frida Loekkegaard (Denmark)
Rocha, Alejandra Mariana (Argentina)
Roszkowska, Milena (Poland)
Schuster, Rolf (Germany)
Smith, Frank (USA)
Sojka, Julia (Poland)
Stec, Daniel (Poland)
Sudworth, Jennifer (UK)
Sugiura, Kenta (Japan) [online]
Sumliñska, Aleksandra (Poland)
Surmacz, Bart³omiej (Poland)
Suzuki, Atsushi (Japan)
Suzuki, Juli (Japan)
Suzuki, Sanae (Japan)
Tanaka, Akihiro (Japan)
Tanaka, Sae (Japan)
Tibbs-Cortes, Laura (USA)
Tibbs-Cortes, Bienvenido (USA)
Trokhymchuk, Roman (Germany)
Tùmová, Michala (Czechia)
Vecchi, Matteo (Poland)
Veselá, Anna (Czechia)
Vincenzi, Joel (Italy)
Vítek, Dominik (Czechia)
Wa³ach, Karol (Poland)
Wang, Xiaogu (China) [online]
Wieczorkiewicz, Filip (Poland)
Xueling, Sun (China) [online]
Yuan, Zhimin (China) [online]
Zawierucha, Krzysztof (Poland)

Group photo

Photo by Adam Koprowski.

Programme