This was the first Symposium not only in Japan but also in Asia.

The Symposium was attended by 116 participants, including 5 accompanying persons, representing 17 countries from four continents (Asia, Europe, North and South America).

During the congress 57 talks and (in nine sessions) and 61 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.

Young Scientist Awards for best oral and poster presentations were given in two fields, zoology and physiology. The medal for the best talk in zoology was awarded to Karol Wałach, BSc (Poland) and the medal in physiology went to Paige Shukwit, BSc (USA). The medal for the best poster in zoology was given to Aleksandra Sumlińska, BSc (Poland) and the medal in physiology was awarded to Dr. Kenta Sugiura (Japan).

Table of contents

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

Logo

The Symposium logo design is inspired by the famous Ukiyo-e art by Hokusai Katsushika. The logo portrays Milnesium inceptum with Shonai scenary and Mt. Chokai in the background, in a unique but traditional Japanese style. Logo designed by Juli Suzuki.

Dates

23-27 June 2025.

Place

Tsuruoka, Japan.

World Map from Wikipedia.

Venue

Tsuruoka Metabolome Campus Lecture Hall, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University.

Organisers

Chairs:

Atsushi Suzuki (Keio University, Japan)
Kazuharu Arakawa (Keio University, Japan)

Local Committee:

Shinta Fujimoto (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
Saori Harada (Keio University, Japan)
Koyuki Kondo (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)
Takekazu Kunieda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kenta Sugiura (Gunma University, Japan)
Sae Tanaka (Keio University, Japan)
Yuki Yoshida (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan)
Ana Lyons (Keio University, Japan)

International Committee:

Sara Calhim (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Vladimir Gross (University of Kassel, Germany)
Łukasz Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Łukasz Michalczyk (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Nadja Møbjerg (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ralph O. Schill (Stuttgart University, Germany)
Frank W. Smith (University of North Florida, USA)

Honorary Committee:

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

Participants (alphabetically)

Altiero, Tiziana (Italy)
Arakawa, Kazuharu (Japan)
Ballardini, Florentina (Argentina)
Barahtjan, Pavel (Switzerland)
Barot, Tricia Anne (Philippines)
Bartels, Paul (USA)
Bartylak, Magdalena (Poland)
Bartylak, Tomasz (Poland)
Behkam, Bahareh (USA)
Brandoli, Sara (Italy)
Cabada Malvar, Cintia (Spain)
Dash, Payal (Poland)
Dey, Pritam (Poland)
Dmuchowska, Wiktoria (Poland)
Dobles, Judy (USA)
Dutta, Soumi (Germany)
Emdee, Napat (Poland)
Erdmann, Weronika (Poland)
Fernandez, Berenice (Mexico)
Fleming, James (Japan)
Flores-Romero, Roxana (Mexico)
Frigieri, Federica (Italy)
Fujimoto, Shinta (Japan)
Gąsiorek, Piotr (Poland)
Geng, Jing (China)
Giribet, Gonzalo (USA)
Grabosky, Alfonsina (Argentina)
Gross, Vladimir (Germany)
Grothman, Gary (Canada)
Guidetti, Roberto (Italy)
Harada, Saori (Japan)
He, Ziyang (Australia)
Hu, Hangwei (Australia)
Jackson, Kathy Jo (USA)
Kaczmarek, Łukasz (Poland)
Karhánek, Jonáš (Czechia)
Katayama, Toshiaki (Japan)
Kato, Saul (USA)
Kihm, Ji-Hoon (Republic of Korea)
Kikawada, Takahiro (Japan)
Kirk, Molly (USA)
Klinger, Michael (Germany)
Kondo, Koyuki (Japan)
Koshy, Elssa (India)
Krakowiak, Michalina (Poland)
Kunieda, Takekazu (Japan)
Lopez-Sandoval, Daniel (Mexico)
López-López, Alejandro (Poland)
Lyons, Ana (Japan)
Machač, Tomáš (Czechia)
Manome, Tomoki (Japan)
Mapalo, Marc (USA)
Matsuko, Yelyzaveta (Poland)
Matsumoto, Midori (Japan)
Matthews, Michael (USA)
Mayer, Georg (Germany)
Meyer, Harry (USA)
Michalczyk, Łukasz (Poland)
Miernik, Aleksandra (Poland)
Mioduchowska, Monika (Poland)
Morek, Witold (UK)
Møbjerg, Nadja (Denmark)
Nagwani, Amit Kumar (Japan)
Nain, Amrinder (USA)
Nara, Haruka (Japan)
Niimi, Tetsuma (Japan)
Novak, Karel (Japan)
Novotná Floriančičová, Kamila (Czechia)
Paules, Jonathan (USA)
Perry, Emma (USA)
Polishchuk, Anastasiia (Poland)
Poprawa, Izabela (Poland)
Prato, Gianluigi (Italy)
Pujol Moris, Myriam (Canada)
Raveendranathanpillai, Sanil (India)
Robinson, Alison (Canada)
Rocha, Alejandra (Argentina)
Romero-Mendoza, Jose (Mexico)
Rothman, Joel (USA)
Roy, Erik (USA)
Saigo, Tokiko (Japan)
Sato, Miyuki (Japan)
Schill, Ralph (Germany)
Shimano, Satoshi (Japan)
Shinzaki, Kota (Japan)
Shukwit, Paige (USA)
Štíchová, Natálie (Czechia)
Sugiura, Kenta (Japan)
Sumlińska, Aleksandra (Poland)
Suzuki, Atsushi (Japan)
Takagi, Akira (Japan)
Takahashi, Ryo (Japan)
Tanaka, Sae (Japan)
Tanshin, Sho (Japan)
Torikai, Naoki (Japan)
Tsvetkova, Alexandra (Russia)
Veselá, Anna (Czechia)
Vincenzi, Joel (Italy)
Vinopal, Stanislav (Czechia)
Voller, jiri (Czechia)
Wałach, Karol (Poland)
Wang, Yujuan (China)
Warguła, Jędrzej (Poland)
Wieczorkiewicz, Filip (Poland)
Woods, Ian (USA)
Yagi-Utsumi, Maho (Japan)
Yang, Dong (China)
Yoshida, Yuki (Japan)
Yoshimura, Kurumi (Japan)
Zamora, Ma.Joy (Philippines)
Zhang, Lingqiang (China)

Group photo

Photo by Abe Photography.

Programme