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12.12.2021
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XV International
Symposium on Tardigrada -
the Third
Announcement!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I hope this message finds you well and healthy.
A quick announcement with some vital updates concerning the
15th International Symposium on Tardigrada, which is planned
to be held in Kraków, from the 22nd to the 26th of August
2022:
Early Registration and Abstract submission deadline is the
31st of March 2022, whereas Late Registration
will be open until the 15th of May 2022.
The official Symposium website will be released in the beginning
of 2022 and the link to the website with further information
will be sent in the Fourth Announcement. For the time being, all
information on the Kraków Symposium can be found in the
dedicated section of the
Tardigrada Newsletter.We will be grateful for forwarding
this announcement to your friends and colleagues who might be
interested in attending the Symposium.
Please stay tuned for future announcements, which will be
published on the
Tardigrada Newsletter and will be also circulated via the
Tardigrada Newsletter Mailing List.
We look forward to seeing you all in Kraków next
Summer!
Best Wishes,
Take care,
Łukasz Michalczyk
Chair of Tardigrada 2022 |
16.11.2021
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PostDoc position in the
Czech Republic
A new PostDoc position on Tardigrades and Rotifers in glaciers
will be established in the Biology Centre,
Institute of
Soil Biology, Czech Academy of Science, České Budějovice,
Czech Republic.
Please contact
Miloslav Devetter
for more information:
devetter@upb.cas.cz |
01.03.2021
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XV International
Symposium on Tardigrada -
the Second
Announcement!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,We have been carefully observing
the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions and
vaccinations in Poland and throughout the World.
It seems that holding the
Symposium this year is too risky, thus we have come to the
conclusion that the best solution is to postpone the event to 2022.

We will be very much grateful for forwarding this announcement
to your friends and colleagues who might be interested in
attending the Symposium.
Please stay tuned for future announcements, which will be
published on the
Tardigrada Newsletter and will be also circulated by the
Tardigrada Newsletter Mailing List.
We look forward to seeing you all in Kraków next
year!
On behalf of the
Organising
Committee,
Chair of
XV International Symposium on
Tardigrada,
Łukasz Michalczyk |
05.10.2020 |
Barbara Węglarska
passed away
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I am very sorry to inform you that
Professor
Barbara Węglarska
passed away last Friday night (02.10.2020), in a hospital in
Kraków, at the age of 98.
She has been suffering from kidney malfunction for many months,
which entailed frequent and exhausting dialyses. Last Wednesday
her condition has suddenly worsen and she was rushed to a
hospital where sepsis was diagnosed. Unfortunately, given her
advanced age and multiple other afflictions, the treatment was
unsuccessful. She has been given morphine to ease her pain and
she passed away in peace.

Barbara
Węglarska in her apartment in
Kraków, in 2003.
Barbara
was born in a village near Kraków on the 20.02.1922. She
survived through the horrors of the World War II and communism,
including the extremely difficult times of Stalinism when
scientific discoveries, such as DNA structure, were considered
‘imperialist’ and were banned at Polish universities, and it
took a lot of effort and skills to get hold of scientific
literature from the West. Nevertheless,
Barbara
was an internationally recognised tardigradologists who worked
mainly on tardigrade morphology and ultrastructure, but she also
published important papers on embryology, physiology as
well as faunistics and taxonomy. Altogether, she published
around fifty research articles. Her first tardigrade papers were
published in the 1950’ (including a publication in
Nature) and her last article was published in 2006. Apart from
tardigrades, she also worked on scale insects (Coccidae).
Barbara
started studying and working at the Jagiellonian University in
Kraków soon after the WWII has ended. She obtained her MSc
degree in 1951, her PhD in 1960, her DSc in 1968 and she earned
her Professorship in 1984. She retired in 1992, but she kept on
doing her research into the first decade of the present century.
Although her sight was very limited in the last years and she
could no longer read, she was always eager to hear about the
latest developments in tardigrade research.
In recognition of her achievements, she
was awarded high Polish medals, such as the Golden Cross of
Merit or Order of Polonia Restituta. She was also recognised by
the international community of tardigradologists who have named
two genera (heterotardigrade
Barbaria
and
eutardigrade
Weglarskobius)
as well as six species (heterotardigrades Barbaria
weglarskae,
Bryodelphax weglarskae
and
Claxtonia barbarae,
and eutardigrades
Isohypsibius barbarae,
Bertolanius weglarskae
and
Minibiotus weglarskae)
in her honour.

Barbara
Węglarska in her apartment in
Kraków, in 2018.
Many of you were hoping to see her at the
15th International Symposium on Tardigrada which is planned to
be held next year. I can tell you that
Barbara
was looking forward to see you too. In order to honour her,
both the Symposium and Symposium Proceedings will be dedicated
to her memory and legacy. Barbara was a member of the Honorary Committee of
the upcoming Symposium, but most importantly she was the sole
organiser of the 2nd International Symposium on Tardigrada that
took place in Kraków in 1977. It was an immense effort to
organise an international event behind the Iron Curtain. For
example,
Barbara
had to provide the authorities not only with the names of
participants, but also with some of their personal details such
as the birth dates and names of parents as all westerners were
considered potential spies by the communist government. Wanting
to avoid bothering her guests,
Barbara made up the
dates and other details. Fortunately, the authorities haven't
found out about her hustle, otherwise she would had been in
serious trouble.
Barbara
was a great person, always keen to help and make you laugh with
her sharp wit and dark sense of humour. She was a fighter and
compromise was not one of her favourite words.
She will be missed.
***
For the last several years, Barbara had a ringback melody in her
mobile phone, which was the cover of “Supergirl” by Anna Naklab
(originally performed by Reamonn). Whenever you called her, you
could hear these lines, which now will always ring in my head
whenever I think of her:
And then she'd say,
"It's alright
I got home late last night
But I'm a supergirl
And supergirls just fly"
And supergirls don't cry.
***
Łukasz Michalczyk
If you would like to pass on your
condolences to her family and her colleagues at the Institute of
Zoology and Biomedical Research of the Jagiellonian University,
please send them to my email address (LM@tardigrada.net).
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01.10.2020
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XV International
Symposium on Tardigrada -
the First
Announcement!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As announced three years ago in Copenhagen, the
15th International Symposium on
Tardigrada is planned to be held in Kraków, Poland,
from the 23rd to the 27th of August 2021, and as of
today (October 2020), this date remains valid.
However, since the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered
the lives of people in 2020 throughout the world, we must take
into consideration that travel and gathering restrictions may
extend into 2021 and it may not be possible to hold the
Symposium as originally planned. If this is indeed the case, we
could postpone the Symposium to 2022, move the meeting to an
online platform in 2021 or organise a hybrid meeting in 2021 (a
small gathering in Kraków transmitted online).
The Organising Committee has agreed that if the pandemic is
still untamed in early Spring 2021, it would be better to
postpone the Symposium to 2022 than to move it to the virtual
dimension partially or in full. We decided that this will be the
best solution since with the current technology virtual meetings
are far from what real gatherings can provide. This is
especially important in terms of social interactions, including
informal conversations that often take place in parallel to the
conference programme and which are an indispensable arena for
exchanging thoughts and ideas.
Thus, depending on the dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic
in Spring 2021, we will either confirm that the Symposium will
take place in 2021 as originally planned or we will inform that
the conference will be postponed to 2022. This will be
communicated in the second announcement which is planned to be
published in early Spring 2021.
A dedicated website with detailed information on the Symposium
is planned to be launched in the Spring 2021 and in the meantime
all Symposium announcements will be communicated via the
Tardigrade Newsletter Mailing List
and they will also be published in the 'News'
section of the Tardigrada Newsletter.
The Symposium Proceedings are planned to be published in the
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
We are also happy to present the official logo of the
15th International Symposium on
Tardigrada:
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The explanation of the idea behind the logo is available in the
section of the Tardigrada Newsletter dedicated to the
Symposium.
We will be very much grateful for spreading this announcement
to your friends and colleagues.
We look forward to seeing you all in Kraków!
On behalf of the
Organising
Committee,
Chair of
XV International Symposium on
Tardigrada,
Łukasz Michalczyk |
04.05.2020
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Funded PhD
Opportunity in UK
The University of Plymouth is proud to announce a new funded PhD
opportunity. Applications are invited for a three-year PhD
studentship, starting on 01 October 2020.
Extremophiles in a Changing World: the Mechanistic Bases
of Stress Resistance in Rotifers and Tardigrades
Director of Studies: Dr Chiara
Boschetti
(chiara.boschetti@plymouth.ac.uk)
2nd Supervisor: Dr Jon Ellis
(jonathan.s.ellis@plymouth.ac.uk)
3rd Supervisor: Prof Simon Rundle
(S.Rundle@plymouth.ac.uk)
The closing date for applications is noon on Friday 29 May
2020.
Further details are available at
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/student-life/your-studies/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/extremophiles-in-a-changing-world-the-mechanistic-bases-of-stress-resistance-in-rotifers-and-tardigrades
Sent in by Chiara
Boschetti |
20.04.2020
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A fully funded
4-year PhD studentship and a 3-year full time PostDoc position
in tardigrade evolution at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
(Poland) in the team of Dr. Łukasz Michalczyk are now available
Detailed information on the project, university, our team and
the application procedure for the PhD studentship is available
at
http://tardigrada.edu.pl/PhD.htm
Detailed information on the project, university, our team and
the application procedure for the postdoctoral position is
available at
http://tardigrada.edu.pl/PostDoc.htm
Deadline for applications: 20.05.2020.
Please forward this ad to your colleagues and students.
Thank you in advance,
Łukasz Michalczyk |
16.03.2020
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XIV Symposium
Proceedings published
We are very happy to inform you that the issue of the Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society containing selected papers
presented at 14th International Symposium
on Tardigrada has been published today.
The papers can be downloaded from
the journal's website.
Łukasz Michalczyk |
10.02.2020
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Marine tardigrade
map
A new, improved and up-to-date map of marine tardigrade species
is now available at:
https://paul-bartels.shinyapps.io/marine-tardigrades
Sent in by Paul
Bartels |
15.01.2020
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Anhydrobiosis –
cheating death and telling the tale
Scientific meeting of the Royal Society, 30-31 March 2020, in
Chicheley, England
Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by
Professor Roy Quinlan
and Professor Takekazu Kunieda.
Anhydrobiosis was first described by
Van Leeuwenhoek in
1702. Both plants and animals have anhydrobiotic responses and
understanding the mechanisms that support such an extreme stress
response will prove invaluable for future food security and for
new therapeutics to treat for example proteinopathy-based
diseases. Interdisciplinary scientists at the plant-animal
interface will scope the application of anhydrobiotic mechanisms
in future technologies.
The schedule of talks and speaker biographies is available
below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting
date. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on
this page after the meeting has taken place.
Poster session - deadline extended to Monday 20 January
2020:
If you would like to apply to present a poster, please submit
your title, your abstract (no more than 200 words and in third
person), author list, name of the proposed presenter and
authors' institutions to the Scientific Programmes team no later
than Monday 20 January 2020. Please include the text
‘Anhydrobiosis: poster abstract' in the subject heading. Please
note that places are limited and are selected at the scientific
organisers' discretion. Poster abstracts will only be considered
if the proposed presenter is registered to attend the meeting.
Poster presenters will be selected to give flash talks on the
first day of the meeting.
This is a residential conference which allows for increased
discussion and networking:
- Free to attend
- Advance registration essential
- Catering and accommodation available to purchase during
registration
Enquiries:
scientific.meetings@royalsociety.org
Sent in by Roy
Quinlan and Takekazu Kunieda |
11.08.2019
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Fundraising for a
waterbear sculpture
"Want to join me in making a difference? I am raising funds to
purchase a large tardigrade waterbear sculpture from a local
artist for the front of the Bohart Museum
building. This sculpture will advance the museum's educational
role and will increase the museum's visibility. Any donation
will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your
contribution to this cause that means so much to me."
Lynn Kimsey
"I'm working with Lynn to be sure the tardigrade is
'anatomically correct' (maybe not exact, but identifiable) using
SEM photos of Echiniscus. (It may have to have very
short cirri A so not to pose a liability hazard!"
Diane Nelson

You can donate here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/waterbear-sculpture
Sent in by
Diane Nelson |
01.08.2019
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Special Issue of
Diversity
This Special Issue entitled “Tardigrade
Taxonomy, Biology, and Ecology” will be a good
platform to publish high-quality papers focused on a) tardigrade
taxonomy (including integrative approach); b) different aspects
of physiology (with special emphasis on cryptobiosis); c)
ecology; d) diversity and distribution; e) biogeography; f)
population dynamics; g) surviving in extreme conditions.
Manuscripts can be either full length manuscripts (including
original research as well as reviews) or short communications.
Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818 is a
peer-reviewed, open-access journal on the science of
biodiversity from molecules, genes, populations, and species, to
ecosystems.
Journal IF is 2.047 (indexed by WoS and
Scopus).
Publication fee per article: 1200 CHF.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31.12.2019.
Guest Editor: Dr.
Łukasz Kaczmarek.
Sent in by
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
01.07.2019
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PhD in
Tardigrade Reproductive Biology
PhD Title: Sexual selection in tardigrades: sex-(in)dependent
mechanisms
Duration: January 2020 – December 2023
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our
new and enthusiastic research group led by Dr. Sara Calhim, at
the University of Jyväskylä (Finland). We investigate key themes
in reproductive evolutionary biology using a little studied but
charismatic group of organisms – tardigrades (a.k.a. water
bears).
These transparent, microscopic (<1mm), eight-legged animals are
well known for their ability to survive extreme stressors in a
cryptobiotic (i.e. ametabolic) state. However, they also have
incredibly diverse but largely unexplored reproductive biology
which makes them the ideal study system to tackle long standing
questions in the field of sexual selection and reproductive
trait evolution.
Sexual selection is an important evolutionary force that acts on
traits associated with the ability to access mates and/or
fertilizations. It is well established that it can affect both
sexes. However, most research uses study systems where the
traits under sexual selection differ markedly between the sexes
and/or the mechanisms by which they evolve are confounded by
different aspects of the species’ biology (e.g. due to marked
sexual dimorphism in morphology, behaviour, physiology or
life-history. As a result, male and female phenotypes cannot be
studied simultaneously or in a biologically relevant comparable
way. Tardigrades have little sexual differentiation, short
generation time, and tractable (mating) behaviour and
development. Therefore, they are ideally suited for researching
of sex-(in)dependent mechanisms of sexual selection (i.e. using
equivalent measures and experimental protocols). This PhD
project will make a valuable contribution to the field beyond
increased scientific knowledge, through the development of tools
for quantitative assessment chemical signals and parentage
assignment in this phylum.
Requirements:
A Master’s degree in Evolutionary Biology, Ecology or Molecular
Biology. Previous experience with handling microscopic organisms
and/or using chemical or genomic laboratory and analytical tools
are an advantage. The candidate must show considerable written
and verbal communication skills in English, independent and
creative thinking, and an ability to work collaboratively. The
University of Jyväskylä promotes equal opportunities.
Apply online (DEADLINE: 31.08.2019) at:
https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=12&id=00007607&lang=fi
Documents required:
- A one-page cover letter where the motivation for applying for
the position is outlined and relevant skills are described. The
cover letter should clearly identify which project you are
applying for (#6 in
https://www.jyu.fi/science/en/bioenv/research/doctoral-programme/phd-posts/2020/call)
- The cover letter should include the contact information for
1-2 referees. Note that reference letters should be made
available at very short-notice request (or included in the
application).
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Degree certificates
For more information contact Dr.
Sara Calhim
Email: sara.calhim@jyu.fi
TT: @SaraFirebolt
Sent in by
Sara Calhim |
14.09.2018

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Deadline for
manuscript submission to XIV Symposium Proceedings postponed
The submission deadline will be the 1st
November 2018.
Please could we remind you that the
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society publishes papers
on systematic and evolutionary zoology and comparative,
functional, and other studies where relevant to these areas.
Studies of extinct as well as living animals are included. The
ZJLS also has a wide circulation amongst zoologists and although
narrowly specialised papers are not excluded, potential authors
should bear that readership in mind.
A number of presentations at the Symposium based studies on
cultured animals, and using laboratory strains for model
organisms is becoming a common practice. However, we are
discovering that several of the laboratory strains are not the
‘type species’ but are new or separate species. For example, the
commercial isogenic culture sold as Hypsibius dujardini
(Sciento strain Z151) is now Hypsibius exemplaris (Gąsiorek
et al. 2018 Zootaxa 4415: 45–75). In
some cases, we have a recognised strain, e.g. Ramazzottius
varieornatus strain YOKOZUNA-1 (Horikawa
et al. 2008 Astrobiology 8: 549–556).
A good practice is to identify the origin of cultured organisms
in a manuscript (i.e. commercial or local sample collection) and
establishing an authentication reference for a particular strain
(e.g. Ramazzottius varieornatus strain YOKOZUNA-1). It
is also good practice to provide in the manuscript a GenBank
accession number to the DNA barcode sequence (COI
or/and ITS-2) for the strain that is the
subject of the study. This is especially important if the strain
has not yet been taxonomically verified. In such cases, we also
strongly advise to explicitly show the taxonomic uncertainty by
placing a “cf.” or an “aff.”
between the genus and the species names. These actions would
allow future researcher to relate studies and identify any
changes to the taxonomic nomenclature of that species (e.g. see
Table 1 in
Kosztyła et al. 2016
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 765–775).
We hereby encourage corresponding authors to send an email
immediately to the senior Editor (Nadja
Møbjerg) with information on the title,
authors, and abstract for each manuscript they would like to
submit. This will allow us to identify reviewers in advance and
how many manuscripts we are to expect. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Symposium
Proceedings Editorial Team.
We look forward to receiving your manuscripts for the Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society “Special Issue: Tardigrade
Symposium”, and we also hope to be able to call on you to help
with the reviewing process.
With Regards,
Symposium Proceedings Editorial Team
Nadja Møbjerg:
nmobjerg@bio.ku.dk
Łukasz Michalczyk:
LM@tardigrada.net
Sandra McInnes:
s.mcinnes@bas.ac.uk |
22.08.2018
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Third Annual Meeting
on Tardigradology in Japan
The Third Annual Meeting on Tardigradology in Japan will take
place on the 9th of September 2018, in the Hiyoshi Campus of the
Keio University. The meeting will be chaired by Professor Midori
Matsumoto.
The meeting will be in Japanese, official website of the meeting
(also in Japanese):
www.kumamushigakkai.net
Sent in by
Kazuharu Arakawa |
12.08.2018
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PostDoc on
Tardigrade Sperm Evolution
A two-year position starting in January 2019 at the
University of Jyväskylä, Finland, is now open for
applications. This project is funded by an Academy of Finland
Fellowship to Dr.
Sara Calhim. The main
objective of this position is to conduct comparative analyses to
tackle major reproductive trait evolution questions, by
compiling a phylogeny and gathering new and literature-based
data on species-specific reproductive (morphological,
behavioural) and ecological traits.
Contact:
sara.calhim@jyu.fi
More information:
https://rekry.saima.fi/certiahome/open_job_view.html?did=5600&jc=12&id=00006007&lang=fi
Deadline: 30.09.2018
Sent in by
Sara Calhim |
07.08.2018

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København & Kraków
The 14th International Symposium on
Tardigrada is now officially closed. The atmosphere was
wonderful and the presentations were truly amazing. We would
like to thank the Symposium Chair,
Nadja Møbjerg, and all
other organisers for such a great meeting! :-)
Although it is sad that the Symposium is already over and it is
now time to write up manuscripts for the Symposium Proceedings,
we are happy to let you know that the next tardigrade meeting,
the 15th International Symposium on
Tardigrada, will be held in Kraków, in August 2021,
so make a note in your calendars because we would very much like
to see you all again in three years! :-)
The TN section devoted to the
København Symposium is under construction, but you can
already see the Group Photo taken during the conference there -
thank you Nadja for sending it to us
so quickly :-)
Talking about photos, we will be very grateful for any photos
taken at the Symposium that we could upload on the TN website.
Thus, if you would like to share your photos, please send them
to us and we will upload them online (the best way for you to
send us your photos is to upload them on a cloud, such as
DropBox, and send us a download link or send them to us in a
zipped folder via a file transfer service, such as SendSpace or
WeTransfer).
Once again thank you for København and see you in Kraków in
three years! :-D
Łukasz Michalczyk |
07.07.2018
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Two meiofauna
PostDoc positions at Ifremer
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the Atacama and
Kermadec trenches (Scientific Responsables: Daniela
Zeppilli/Ifremer, Frank Wenzhöfer/AWI-MPI and Matthias
Zabel/MARUM)
Ecological connectivity and functional links between
hydrothermal active and inactive sites in view of potential SMS
mining in the deep sea (Scientific Responsables: Daniela
Zeppilli, Lenaick Menot and Lucie Pastor/Ifremer)
Details:
https://wwz.ifremer.fr/en/Research-Technology/Scientific-strategy/Post-doctoral-research-positions-2018-2019
Deadline for applications: 10.09.2018
Contact:
Daniela.Zeppilli@ifremer.fr
Sent in by
Nigel Marley |
20.04.2018
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PhD studentship in
tardigrade evolution
Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship in tardigrade
evolution at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
(Poland) in the team of Dr.
Łukasz Michalczyk.
The main goal of the project is to test how reproductive mode
and cryptobiotic abilities affect dispersal and, in consequence,
speciation and extinction rates in tardigrades. Tardigrades are
a phylum of microinvertebrates that dwell a wide variety of
habitats throughout the globe. They are famous for their
cryptobiotic abilities that allow them to withstand extreme
conditions and are also thought to aid dispersal of individual
species. Moreover, tardigrades exhibit a range of reproductive
modes, including dioecy and parthenogenesis. Theory predicts
that both asexual reproduction and cryptobiotic survival should
increase dispersal potential. On the other hand, differences in
dispersal abilities are hypothesised to affect speciation and
lineage extinction rates. Thus, tardigrades are an interesting
model to address some of the fundamental questions of modern
evolutionary biology, biogeography and taxonomy such as
mechanism underlying the evolution of biodiversity or evolution
of sex.
The successful candidate will be involved in fieldwork (sample
collection), sample extraction, slide preparation, morphometrics
and imaging in light microscope, processing specimens for
scanning electron microscope, karyotyping, DNA extraction,
amplification and multilocus sequencing (NGS), species
identification, and taking care of tardigrade cultures. The
student will also analyse data and prepare drafts of
manuscripts, and will be involved in the promotion of results at
seminars and conferences.
The PhD programme in Biology at the Jagiellonian University is
run entirely in English and includes some obligatory and
facultative classes. The programme is open to all
nationalities and there are no tuition fees.
Depending on achievements and performance of the successful
candidate, the tax-free monthly stipend will vary from 4 000 to
7 000 PLN (typically, cost of life in Kraków for a PhD student
is ca. 2 500 PLN).
Deadline for applications: 20th May 2018.
Detailed information on the project, university, our team and
the application procedure is available here:
tardigrada.edu.pl/PhD.htm
Łukasz Michalczyk |
28.03.2018

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XIV International
Symposium on Tardigrada - early bird
deadline extension The deadline for early
registration and abstracts submission for the
14th International Symposium on
Tardigrada will be extended until 20th April 2018
as a number of you have asked for a little more time to prepare
abstracts etc.
For those of you who are interested in acquiring Irwin Loops for
tardigrade collection: Paul Bartels is currently making these –
please contact Paul at pbartels@warren-wilson.edu if you are
interested in acquiring an Irwin loop and he can bring them with
him to the Symposium.
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.
Happy Easter!
Best wishes,
Sent in by
The Local Committee Tardigrada2018
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23.03.2018
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A funded PhD studentship
in a project on rotifers and tardigrades
University of Plymouth, UK
Group of Dr.
Chiara Boschetti
Please see the following links for further information:
https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=96236
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/student-life/your-studies/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/extremophiles-in-a-changing-world-the-mechanistic-bases-of-stress-resistance-in-rotifers-and-tardigrades
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BIK462/phd-research-studentship-extremophiles-in-a-changing-world-the-mechanistic-bases-of-stress-resistance-in-rotifers-and-tardigrades
Deadline for applications: 06.04.2018
Sent in by
Nigel Marley |
01.01.2018

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XIV International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the Second
Announcement!
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are very pleased to welcome you to the
14th International Symposium on
Tardigrada, which will be held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, 30 July - 03 August 2018.
Information about the Symposium is available at the website:
www.tardigrada2018.org
Please note that the deadline for Early Registration and
Abstract submission is 30 March 2018. Late
Registration is open until 1 June 2018. Information about
registration and abstract preparation etc. can be found at the
Symposium website.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the Copenhagen Symposium
in 2018!
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.
On behalf of the Organising
Committee,
Chair of Tardigrada 2018,
Nadja Møbjerg |
01.01.2018
|
Happy New Year!!!
Thank you very much for all the wishes you have been sending us
over the holiday period. We also wish you all the best in 2018!
:-)
We hope to see you all in København this
Summer!
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
17.07.2017

|
XIV International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the First
Announcement!
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to announce that the
14th International Symposium on Tardigrada will be held in
Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 July – 3 August 2018.
Tardigrade Symposia take place every three years and represent a
unique opportunity for researchers, students and other
tardigrade enthusiasts from all over the world to get together,
discuss and promote research and scientific ideas on all aspects
of tardigrade biology.
Tardigrade Symposia represent the greatest scientific forum on
tardigrades and the 14th International
Symposium will provide a good option for an up-to-date
perspective on a range of topics related to these enigmatic
animals. Please inform your colleagues and students of this
opportunity.
The official website with detailed information on the Symposium
will be available in the Fall.
We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen next summer!
On behalf of the Organising
Committee,
Chair of Tardigrada 2018,
Nadja Møbjerg |
01.01.2017
|
Happy New Year!!!
Thank you very much for all the wishes you have been sending us
over the holiday period.
We also wish you all the best in the New Year, but most of all -
incredible tardigrade discoveries that will amaze the world in
2017! :-)
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
22.11.2016
 |
XIII Symposium
Proceedings published
We are very happy to inform you that the issue of the Zoological
Journal of the Linnean Society containing selected papers
presented at XIII Symposium has been published today.
The papers can be downloaded from
the journal's website.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
01.01.2016
|
Happy New Year!!!
Thank you very much for all the wishes you have been sending us
over the holiday period. We also wish you all the best in 2016!
:-)
Although there are no tardigrade meetings planned for this year,
the XIII Symposium volume is to be published in June, in the
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Given that such
publications happen only once per three years and they are
likely to shape the trends in tardigrade research for the next
couple of years, we are looking forward to reading the ZJLS
issue dedicated entirely to tardigrades.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
25.09.2015
|
Postdoctoral
position in Tardigrade Biology
A 2-year postdoctoral position is available in the group of
Nadja Møbjerg at the Department of Biology, University of
Copenhagen (UCPH), with start January 2016 or shortly
thereafter. The position is part of the project “Advanced Life
in Extreme Environments”, funded by the Danish Council for
Independent Research.
The deadline for application is 01.11.2015.
More information on the
Københavns Universitet website.
Sent in by
Nadja Møbjerg |
06.09.2015
 |
XIV International
Symposium on Tardigrada -
preliminary information
It's been only a couple of months since the XIII Symposium in
Modena, but we already have some information on the next
Symposium that will be held in København, in 2018.
The chief organiser of the Symposium,
Nadja Møbjerg,
kindly sent
us the preliminary dates and the make up of the organising
committees (yes, there is more than one this time).
You can find all this info in the
Symposia section of the Tardigrada Newsletter.
Łukasz Michalczyk |
13.07.2015
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada - TN section
completed
The section devoted to the 13th tardigrade symposium is now open and can be viewed
here. Big thanks to the chief
organiser of the Symposium, Lorena
Rebecchi, who
provided the materials necessary for the completion of the
section.
If any of you who participated in the Symposium, took photos at
the event and are willing to share them with the world, please
send us an email and will
upload them on the website. Currently we have photos kindly
provided by Iza Poprawa
(Poland), Nigel Marley (UK), Peter Degma
(Slovakia), Ralph Schill
(Germany), Vladimir Gross (USA).
We would like to take this opportunity to thank once again all
organisers of the Symposium as well as the participants for this
extremely valuable event in our growing tardigrade community!
:-)
See you in København in 2018!
Łukasz Michalczyk |
13.06.2015
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada - conference
programme
The programme of the XIII Symposium on Tardigrada has been
announced. You can view it on the Symposium
official
website.
Sent in by
The Organising
Committee of the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada
|
01.04.2015
|
Section for the VIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada
The section is now open and can be viewed
here. Big thanks to the chief
organiser of the Symposium,
Reinhardt Kristensen, who
provided all the materials necessary for the completion of the
section.
If any of you who participated in the Symposium, took photos at
the event and are willing to share them with the world, please
send us an email and will post them on the website.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
05.03.2015
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada -
extended deadline for registration and abstract submission
In response to a number of requests, the Organising Committee
has decided to extend the deadline for registration with regular
fees and the submission of abstracts to the 22.03.2015.
Sent in by
The Organising
Committee of the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada
|
21.02.2015
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the Third
Announcement!
We are pleased to inform you that the Proceedings of the
Symposium will be published as a special issue (i.e. one of the
12 normal issues) of the
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY (Impact Factor:
2.658; ISI Journal Citation Reports Ranking: 13/153 - Zoology).
The manuscripts from both oral and poster presentations will be
considered for publication in the Proceedings. Only registrants
to the Symposium will be allowed to submit papers for the
Proceedings. Each registered participant can submit one paper as
submitting author, but he/she can also be included as co-author
in other papers submitted by other registrants.
Authors may be requested to make substantial changes to comply
with the standards of the ZJLS, and the Guest Editors reserve
the right to reject manuscripts of poor quality. The Guest
Editors will submit final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the
Editor in Chief of the ZJLS, who will take the final decision
about the fate of each manuscript (accept, revise, reject).
Please note that the ZJLS will not accept alpha taxonomic papers
presenting only the description of new species.
Further information on publication of the Proceedings,
manuscript preparation and submission are available at
www.tardigrada2015.it.
The deadline for manuscript submission is 18.07.2015. After that
date manuscripts will not be accepted.
Sent in by
The Organising
Committee of the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada
|
01.02.2015
|
A 3D-print tardigrade
EricHo, a designer at the Shapeways 3D print company, has
designed and printed a macrobiotid tardigrade. You can buy one
here.
Sent in by
Alyson Lumley |
01.01.2015
|
Happy 2015!!!
Dear All,
We would like to wish you a truly wonderful 2015 full of
brilliant tardigrade discoveries!
We hope to see you all in Modena this June!
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
25.11.2014
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the Second
Announcement!
The Organising Committee of the 13th International Symposium on
Tardigrada has just announced the
official
website of the Symposium.
The website is in the making, but it already contains a lot of
important information such as conference fees and submission
deadline.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
01.11.2014
|
Tardigrada Newsletter is ten
years old! :-)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It's hard to accept that time flies so fast... Believe it or
not, but we're 10 this
year!
Thank you for being with us
for the last decade - you're the reason why we're here. We hope to serve you another ten years and hopefully many
more! :-)
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
28.03.2014
|
The genome of Hypsibius
dujardini sequenced and assembled!
Back in July 2007 we have informed you that there were plans
emerging to sequence the genome of Hypsibius dujardini
(Doyère, 1840).
Finally, after seven years, we
are very happy to inform you that the genome of H. dujardini
has been sequenced and assembled by a consortium of three
labs:
Mark Blaxter's
group at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland),
Aziz Aboobaker's
group at the Oxford University (England) and
Itai Yanai's group
at Technion (Israel).
Mark told us that
he and his colleagues intend to publish a paper on the genome
and its analysis in the future, but they are releasing these
data now as a service to the tardigrade community. "If there
are particular genes you are interested in, please do go and
look for them." he says.
He also invites
collaborators: "If you would like to be part of a genome
paper analysis group,
do contact me."
The genome data are
available for browsing and download
here.
This is a very exciting
time in the history of tardigrade research, when water bear
genomes are being revealed. Last year, in a
paper on DNA repair,
Daiki Horikawa and his colleagues have announced that
they have sequenced the genome of another parachelan, Ramazzottius varieornatus
(however, their data have not been published yet). Also,
Ralph Schill's
group at the University of Tübingen has been sequencing the
genome of an apochelan, Milnesium alpigenum.
We hope that these new and
important discoveries will enhance our understanding of
tardigrade biology and will also stimulate research in all
fields of tardigradology.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
25.02.2014
 |
XIII International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the First
Announcement!
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are pleased to inform you that the 13th
International Symposium on Tardigrada will take place in
Modena, Italy, from the 23rd to the 26th
June 2015.
Tardigrade Symposia take place every three years and represent
unique opportunities for scientific researchers, students and
other tardigrade enthusiasts from all over the world to get
together and promote scientific exchange and friendship.
The International Symposium on Tardigrada is the greatest
scientific forum to provide an up-to-date perspective on all
topics related to water bear biology.
Please inform your colleagues and friends interested in
tardigrades about this opportunity.
We hope to see you in Modena, thirty years since the 4th
symposium on Tardigrada in 1985.
The Organising Committee:
Lorena Rebecchi,
Roberto Bertolani,
Tiziana Altiero,
Michele Cesari,
Ilaria Giovannini &
Roberto Guidetti |
14.01.2014
|
Call for Comments:
Taxonomic Practice and the Code
Doug Yanega (Department of Entomology, University of California,
Riverside) and Mark Harvey (an ICZN Commissioner) have published
a brief
note in the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.
They inquire: "Are there, or are there not, circumstances - when
the opinion of the community is that a work has been produced in
a manner incompatible with standards of taxonomic practice and
ethics - where names or nomenclatural acts in a work should be
treated (as if they had never been published)?"
They also ask for comments
from taxonomists.
Sent in by
Sandra McInnes |
31.08.2013
|
Tardigrades in children's
stories
Here are two children's stories featuring tardigrades :-)
"Star
Bear" and "Magical
Creature Kayak"
Enjoy! :-)
Sent in by
Michelle de Villiers
and Colleen Mitchell |
24.07.2013
|
Proceedings of the XII
Symposium published
Proceedings of the Porto Symposium
have been published today. The entire issue can be downloaded
from
here.We
would like to take this opportunity to thank the organisers of
the Symposium and the guest editors, reviewers and authors
who all worked hard to produce this special issue of the Journal
of Limnology.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek |
21.07.2013
|
The Wild Little World
A brilliant computer animation starring a macrobiotid
tardigrade on
YouTube! :-)
Łukasz Michalczyk |
03.03.2013
|
Zootaxa embraces DOI
Zootaxa joined the DOI club this year and the journal would now
like to encourage authors to start adding DOI links to
references cited in their manuscripts. Zootaxa production staff
will check and add DOI's to manuscripts, but with authors' help
the publication process will be faster.
Sent in by
Sandra McInnes |
18.01.2013
|
Tardigrades on Channel 4

Sent in by
Tudur Evans
|
07.01.2013 |
Jeanne
Renaud-Mornant
passed away
Dear All,
We are very sorry to inform
you that another tardigradologist, Professor
Jeanne
Renaud-Mornant,
has passed away in 2012.

Jeanne
Renaud-Mornant (photo courtesy of
Nikolaos Lampadariou,
the editor of
Psammonalia
published by the International Association of
Meiobenthologists).
Jeanne Renaud-Mornant, a
honorary director of research at the French National Centre
for Scientific Research, died on the 18.09.2012. She was
born in 1925 and began her career working on meiofauna at
the Marine Station of Arcachon in 1951.
She published over a 100 papers on ultrastructure, taxonomy,
phylogeny, ecophysiology, and ecology of interstitial fauna.
She was a zoologist with very wide interests and
knowledge on many meiofaunal taxa, including tardigrades.
Actually, her international impact was mainly due to her
contributions to Tardigrada phylogeny. She described or
co-described 51 new
heterotardigrade species and 20 new higher taxa within
the Arthrotardigrada.
She was also the first to identify the 'ghost larvae' of the
phylum Loricifera erected by
Reinhardt Kristensen,
a discovery which allowed the Danish scientist to describe 3
types of larval cycles in Tardigrada.
Many
students, French, Spanish, Tunisian, Polish, Danish, and
so on, have acknowledged her help by naming multiple new
meiofauna taxa with the family name of Jeanne (e.g.
Renaudarctidae and Renaudarctus).
Sent in by
Roberto Bertolani,
based on a tribute in
Psammonalia 158 by
Guy
Boucher & Pierre Lasserre.
|
01.01.2013
|
Happy New Year!!! :-)
We hope that the New Year will bring a multitude of interesting
tardigrade discoveries! We wish you and your families all the
best in 2013!!! :-)
Although this is a time of happy thoughts and
wishes, it is impossible not to look back and remember the two
of our fellow tardigradologists, Professor
Clark W. Beasley
and Professor Frank
Romano III, who we have lost in 2012.
Fortunately, the last year
will be also remembered for the XII International Symposium on
Tardigrada and the launch of the Tardigrada Register.
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek
|
07.09.2012
|
Specimen Collections
The section with links to tardigrade collections has been moved
to the Tardigrada Register.
Given that specimen collections are strictly related to
taxonomy, the TR is more suitable for such list.
Łukasz
Michalczyk
|
03.09.2012
|
VI Symposium section is
now open
We wanted to let you know that the section of the TN devoted to
the VI
Symposium is finished.
We invite you to refresh
your memories, if you were among the lucky ones who attended
that meeting, or discover what was fashionable and on top those
days if the Symposium was before you were into tardigrades :-)
As usual, we need to thank
the Symposium organiser for helping us with preparing the
Section.
Sandra
McInnes was very kind to send us all materials that we
needed, including scans of the original booklets and of some
photos as well. Without her help, we wouldn't have been able to
complete the task. Thus, thank you very much
Sandra!
Also as usual, we would be
grateful for those who attended the VI Symposium to send us
scans of photos they may have. We'll be very happy to upload
them on the TN.
We hope to open the
remaining few not yet finished Symposia sections soon.
Łukasz
Michalczyk &
Łukasz
Kaczmarek
|
19.08.2012 |
Frank Romano III
passed away
Dear All,
We are very sorry to
inform you that another of our colleagues, dr.
Frank
Romano III,
has passed away.
Below is an
obituary by Professor Diane Nelson.

Frank Romano III
at his retirement party in May 2012.
Dr.
Frank A. Romano
III, retired chair of the Department of Biology, Jacksonville
State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, passed away on 17
August 2012 after an extended battle with esophageal cancer. He
is survived by his wife
Elaine and three grown children. They will have
visitation for Frank
at KL Brown Funeral Home in Jacksonville on Wednesday, August
22nd at 5:00 PM followed by a memorial service at 6:00 PM. In
lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the JSU Student
Research Fund. Details for donations will be posted on the JSU
Biology Web page. Cards can be sent to their home address at 301
Macon Drive SE, Jacksonville, AL 36265. Photos and videos can be
viewed on the
JSU Biology
Web Page (direct
links:
Friends about Frank,
Outdoor Classroom and photos,
JSU Biology obituary).
A New York
native with a PhD from Syracuse University,
Frank joined the
JSU faculty in 1989 and became chair in 2002. He retired in May
2012, due to his illness. Throughout his career, his
professionalism and rapport with his students and colleagues
were unparalleled. Among his recent accolades was his selection
for the 2010 Meritorious Teaching Award given by the Association
of Southeastern Biologists. In honor of his retirement, the “Dr.
Frank Romano III
Outdoor Classroom” was dedicated at Jacksonville State
University.
Frank had a unique ability to
interest students in pursuing research, especially sharing his
fascination and enthusiasm for working with tardigrades. Many of
his students earned their Master’s degrees at JSU studying the
ecology of limno-terrestrial and marine tardigrades, and several
presented their research at our international symposia. One of
Frank’s students,
Dr. Brent Nichols,
who went on to earn his PhD at the University of South Florida
under Dr. Jim Garey,
played a major role in organising the IX International Symposium
on Tardigrada in Tampa, Florida, USA, and served as one of the
Guest Editors for the symposium volume published in
Hydrobiologia.
Frank was the man
instrumental in shaping the education and careers of his beloved
students. This is what
Brent Nichols says about
Frank: “You go off
to college with an intended agenda aimed at creating the
foundation for your future. Then you meet a unique individual
that just “gets” it, and somewhere along the way something
happens and you realise that, along with thousands of other
students, you have had the opportunity to learn from one of the
greatest teachers to ever walk the JSU campus. However, there
are a select few of us, those who dared to push harder and whose
lives were forever changed by that One Man, his dedication and
his belief in what we could accomplish. I Am One.
Frank is My
Teacher, My Mentor and My Colleague. Best of all,
Frank is my
Friend. I Will Miss My Friend!”
Those of
you who were fortunate to know
Frank from his
attendance at our international Symposia were blessed to have a
friend and a colleague who shared his enthusiasm for life and
tardigrades and his positive outlook, sense of humour, and pride
in his Italian heritage.
It’s been 20 years since
Frank asked me at
an ASB meeting to help him and his students study tardigrades. I
am privileged to have had such a long friendship with this
dedicated man, who has meant so much to so many people.
Sent in by
Diane
Nelson
|
16.08.2012

|
XII Symposium section and
photo request
Dear All!Just
wanted to let you know that the XII
Symposium section in the TN is finished. The only things
missing are the Proceedings and your photos. Whereas we'll need
to wait for the Proceedings probably until the beginning of the
next year, you can send your photographs now :-)
If you want to share your
photos,
please send us an email and we'll let you know what to do
next. There are already uploaded photos by
Peter Degma and
Joao Teixeira (the
official Symposium Photographer). Also, there is the picture
from the Calem Cellars, kindly scanned by
Iza Poprawa.
However, we'll be grateful for more! :-)
We would like to thank the
Symposium Organisers, especially
Paulo Fontoura and
Cristina Neves,
and Joao Teixeira
for all the materials and information they provided for the
Tardigrada Newsletter. Without their help it wouldn't have
been possible to complete the section on the XII Symposium.
Thank you very much!
Please remember that the
deadline for submission of the XII Symposium manuscripts is the
15.10.2012. Please remember also to follow
the Journal of Limnology instructions for authors when
preparing your paper.
Łukasz
Michalczyk &
Łukasz
Kaczmarek
|
05.08.2012
|
Tardigrada Register - a new online service
for tardigradologists
At the XII Symposium we have
presented the
Tardigrada Register, a comprehensive
data repository for tardigrade taxonomy.
Now it's time for
the World premiere! :-)

We think that variance
is vital in taxonomy. Variance in everything that
characterises a species, i.e. in its morphology and morphometry,
in its genetic makeup and finally in its geographic
distribution. Unfortunately, raw data accompanying tardigrade
descriptions are only occasionally uploaded on journal's
websites (and very often are not freely available). That is why we
decided to create a free online service for storing taxonomic
data and digitising type series.
The web design of the TR
mirrors that of the TN, but the two services are independent and
fulfil different functions. The TN remains a service that mainly
provides latest tardigrade-related news and references, and that
also serves as a platform uniting the community of
tardigradologists by providing their current directories and
keeping the track of our history in the section devoted to
tardigrade Symposia. Tardigrada Register, on the other hand, is
devoted entirely to data reposition.
We invite you to
explore the Register, to see
how it's organised and how it works. The website is not fully
finished yet, but we hope to open all subsections by the end of
the year. Importantly however, the heart of the service, the
Register itself, is open and ready to store your data
(verbal descriptions, images, morphometrics, barcodes,
geographic distribution). Moreover, we prepared
morphometric Excel templates
tailored for several higher taxa, that automatically calculate
standard ratios and statistics.
Currently, there are only
three taxa listed in the Register, but our hope is that from now
on all species descriptions and redescriptions will be
accompanied with links to specific files in the TR. Also, to set
an example, we'll subsequently add raw data for all species that
we have described.
We hope that the TR will be
accepted by the community of tardigradologists and with time it
will grow to become a considerable database, which will benefit
not only the contemporary but also future researchers. The
ultimate goal is that the TR will elevate the standards of the
tardigrade taxonomic descriptions and thanks to stored data it
will in the future allow more confident species identifications
and delineations.
Thus, please don't keep
the valuable tardigrade data to yourself, but
share them with the World and
make a difference! :-)
Łukasz Michalczyk &
Łukasz Kaczmarek
|
05.08.2012

|
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada
Dear All!We
hope you made it home alright :-) We also hope that you enjoyed
the Symposium as much as we did!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Symposium
Organisers, especially
Paulo Fontoura, for the enormous work they did to make
this important event happen!
The XII International Symposium on Tardigrada opened on Monday the 23rd July with a
presentation dedicated to the memory of
Clark
Beasley, who passed away soon before the Symposium. The
presentation was accompanied with a beautiful Fado song.
The Symposium lasted four
days (23rd-26th July, with the 26th being the excursion day). In
total, 77 tardigradologists from 21 countries and 5 continents
have attended the meeting. 36 talks (in 6 sessions) and 40
posters (in a single session) were presented. The topics
discussed at the Symposium included taxonomy, phylogeny,
morphology, biogeography, ecology, physiology, molecular
genetics, genomics and life histories.
The closing lecture on
Wednesday the 25th wasn't a standard PowerPoint presentation,
but a magnificent show by the one and only
Diane
Nelson. If we manage to get hold of the record, we'll
surely upload it online, for everyone interested in tardigrades
should be able to see it.
We already know that the
next Symposium will be held in Modena, Italy. It seems that
the the XIV and the XV Symposia have their hosts
assigned too. The 2018 meeting is to be held in Denmark and the 2021
conference in Poland (cities yet to be decided).
Thanks for everything,
especially for the brilliant, family-like atmosphere, and we
hope to see you all again at the XIII
Symposium in 2015 in Italy! :-)
Łukasz
Michalczyk &
Łukasz
Kaczmarek
|
26.06.2012 |
Clark Beasley
passed away
Dear All,
We are very sorry to
inform you that our dear colleague and friend, Professor
Clark W.
Beasley,
has passed away.

Clark Beasley
at the X Symposium on Tardigrada in Catania, in 2006. Photo
by Ralph Schill.
Clark was recently taken
to the hospital and he informed us that he had to cancel his
trip to Porto. However, but his condition did not seem this serious
and that is why his death came so unexpected.
Clark was a very cheerful
and a good person. We have been especially grateful to him
for his great support to us and to the Tardigrada Newsletter.
He was
an author of scientific papers. He described one genus and
ten tardigrade species from all over the world. However, he
is most known for his brilliant English translation of the
monumental "Il Phylum Tardigrada" (1014 pages), which is a
must-have for any tardigrade taxonomist.
Clark
was also the Tardigrada Associate Editor for Zootaxa in
years 2004-2010. Zootaxa is one of the largest zoological
journals in the World and also the most popular among
tardigradologists. As the Zootaxa Editor, Clark accepted
over 60 tardigarde papers.
We will always remember
him,
Łukasz & Łukasz
|
25.06.2012

|
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada: The meeting
programme is now available!
As we informed you last week, the Symposium Programme has now
been published. It should be available on the
Symposium official website
very soon, but the Members of our TN Mailing List received it
today already. The Programme looks very exciting and we just
cannot wait! :-)
The Programme sent in by
Cristina Neves
|
22.06.2012

|
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada: One month to go!
In exactly one month the majority of
World's Tardigradologists will be arriving to Portugal to meet
at the XII International Symposium on Tardigrada. In order to
celebrate this special event, we enriched the TN logo in the XII
Symposium motifs :-)
We've been informed that the official Symposium programme will
be published very soon, so keep checking the
Symposium official website as well as the Tardigrada
Newsletter!
Łukasz
Michalczyk &
Łukasz
Kaczmarek
|
01.02.2012

|
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada: Second call for papers!
The
second call for papers has been announced by the Organising
Committee
of the 12th International Symposium on Tardigrada.
More info on the
Symposium official website:
www.tardigrada2012.com.
Sent in by: Paulo
Fontoura
|
10.01.2012.
|
Vladimir Biserov - in
memoriam
A special issue of Invertebrate Zoology dedicated to the
late Vladimir Biserov,
a Russian tardigradologist, has been published. Papers can be
accessed for free from the
journal's official website (all papers are also listed in
the TN).
Łukasz
Michalczyk &
Łukasz
Kaczmarek
|
31.12.2011.
|
Happy New Year!!! :-)
Thank you very much for all the wishes you're sending us. We also would like to wish you all the best in 2012. We hope that the New
Year will bring many interesting and groundbreaking tardigrade
discoveries :-)
We also hope to see you in July in Porto at the
XII International Symposium on Tardigrada!
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
25.11.2011

|
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada: Call for papers!
The
organising committee of the 12th International
Symposium on Tardigrada invites you to submit abstracts for oral
and poster presentations. All topics will be considered, but the
abstracts will be reviewed for pertinence and quality of the
contribution. Abstracts will not be edited, so the authors are
requested to be rigorous to avoid undesirable errors. Abstracts
must be submitted electronically (info@tardigrada2012.com)
by the 30th March 2012, in English, and must conform
to the guidelines and format of the abstract template model. The
submission of an abstract is equivalent to the author's consent
for the abstract publication in the Symposium Abstract Booklet.
Only abstracts accompanied by the payment for the registration
fee will be accepted.
Each participant at
the symposium may give one or more presentations, but only one
manuscript per participant (or two with a collaborator who is
also a registrant of the Symposium) will be considered for
publication in the proceedings.
More info on the
Symposium official website:
www.tardigrada2012.com.
Sent in by: Paulo
Fontoura
|
22.09.2011
 |
XII International
Symposium on Tardigrada: The First
Announcement!
We
are pleased to invite you to the 12th International
Symposium on Tardigrada, which will take place in Vila Nova de
Gaia, Portugal, from the 23rd to the 26th
of July 2012.
Tardigrade Symposia
take place every three years and are unique opportunities for
tardigrade scientific researchers, students and other tardigrade
enthusiasts from all over the world to get together and to
promote scientific exchange and friendship. The XII
International Symposium on Tardigrada represents the greatest
scientific forum to provide an up-to-date perspective on
tardigrade biology including taxonomy, biogeography, ecology,
genetics, molecular biology, physiology, developmental biology,
ethology and other topics.
Your attendance at
the Symposium will be much appreciated.
Please forward this
announcement to anyone who might be interested. Further
information will be available soon at the official website of
the Symposium:
www.tardigrada2012.com.

Sent in by: Paulo
Fontoura
|
16.08.2011
|
A play about tardigrades
and tardigradologists! :-)
The play is being put on
as part of the Philadelphia Live-Arts/Fringe Festival and is a
bit of a spoof on 80's fantasy movies like "Labyrinth" or
"Neverending Story" mixed in with a bit of Sci-Fi. Two
separate stories unfold - the tardigrades, who live happily on
moss until one day they are kidnapped and placed on a spaceship
and are being chased by a giant cannibal Milnesium
tardigradum who wants to eat them. The other story is that
of the tardigradologists - a young upstart who heads the
experiment and her former mentor, who has gone mad and lost her
thumbs.
The official blurb is:
Voyage from the cosmic to the
microscopic with WATER BEARS IN SPACE
Can life exist in the vacuum of space? Are we human without our
thumbs? Just what are water bears, and why should we send them
to space? A team of puppets, scientists, musicians and dry
aquatic invertebrates band together to discover the answers.
Join them as they journey from a mossy kingdom to the depths of
outer space and the limits of what is necessary for life to
exist.
The show will be played on the 03., 05., 12., 14. and the 16. of
September at Circle of Hope, 1125 South Broad Street, 2nd Floor,
Philadelphia PA 19147. Tickets only $10, available at the door
or through the Live Arts and Philly Fringe Box Office, or online
at
www.livearts-fringe.org
The
artists promised that after the show they will put up videos on
their website:
http://www.waterbearsinspace.weebly.com
Sent in by: Kennedy
|
29.04.2011
|
Tardigrades in space again
In addition to
astronauts, Endeavour will carry a legion of microscopic
passengers, including water bears, in the Planetary Society's
Shuttle
LIFE experiment. The space shuttle launches on its last
flight today. Read the full story
here.
Also, some tardies will be flying on this mission within the
Italian project
BIOKIS.
Update: Due to
unfavourable weather conditions the shuttle launch was
rescheduled for the 16.05.2011.
Sent in by: Jack Fisher
|
21.04.2011
 |
Proceedings of the XI
Symposium published
Proceedings of the Tubingen Symposium have been published today.
The entire issue can be downloaded from
here (subscription required).
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
20.03.2011
|
Two new additions to the
Symposia section
We're very happy to announce two new Symposia sections: the
5th
and the 7th Symposium
section.
We're extremely grateful to
the organisers of these Symposia,
Diane Nelson and
Hartmut Greven, for their invaluable help. Without their
input it would not had been possible to complete the work on
these sections.
We hope you'll enjoy these
two new additions to the TN and that they will bring back many
nice memories to those that were lucky to attend the meetings.
Lukasz
Michalczyk
|
01.01.2011
|
Happy New Year!!! :-)
Thank you very much for all the wishes you sent to us. We also would like to wish you all the best in 2011. We hope that the New
Year will bring many interesting tardiscoveries :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
19.10.2010

|
XI Symposium Proceedings
in 2011
The publisher of the Proceedings of the 11th International
Symposium on Tardigrada informed that they will be published in
January 2011.
Sent in by: Ralph Schill
|
05.03.2010
 |
IX Symposium section
opened
We're happy to let you know that the section devoted to the
IX
International Symposium on Tardigrada is now completed. We're
extremely grateful to
Jim Garey (one of the Symposium organisers) who
kindly sent us all the materials we asked for, including also some
photos from the conference.
We invite you to
have a look at the section and also encourage you to
email us your pictures from the meeting. We'll then
upload them to the
online Symposium album.
We decided to gather all
Symposia photos in
one place and we'll be adding new albums when sections for
other Symposia are opened. Given that now there's only one
picture in the II Symposium album, we'd be grateful for any
photos from that conference!
Currently there are four Symposia sections
completed (the II, IX, X and XI Symposium). This also means that
there're still seven to go, but with your help we should have no
problems with finishing the task! :-)
Lukasz Michalczyk
|
03.03.2010
|
Tardies on TV
A short PlanetopiaTV documentary, apart from water bears
starring also Ralph
Schill, is available on
YouTube :-)
Sent in by: Ralph Schill
|
14.02.2010
|
Tardigrada Newsletter
Archives extended to the beginning of the XXI century
We decided to add tardigrade references for years 2001-2003, so
that the
Archives start with the beginning of the current century.
Most likely we missed some of the papers, thus if you know
of any references not listed in our
Archives, please let us
know!
Lukasz
Michalczyk
|
03.02.2010
|
A fluffy tardigrade
A plush
doll
Hypsibius dujardini is available in the Giant Microbes
online store.
Sent in by: Bob Goldstein
|
02.02.2010
|
Change in "Zootaxa"
tardigrade editorship
Clark Beasley is retiring this year from his university and he
also decided to resign from the tardigrade editorship in the
international journal of zoological taxonomy "Zootaxa".
We would like to thank Clark
for his work that he has done for the tardigrade community as
the Zootaxa editor. We wish him a lot of fun
during his well-deserved retirement, but we also hope his adventure
with water bears has not finished yet! :-)
The new Editor for
Tardigrada is Sandra McInnes. We'd like to wish Sandra a lot of
satisfaction from the new job.
"Zootaxa"
is one of the largest zoological journals in the World and also
the most popular among tardigradologists. Since 2001, when the
journal was launched, over 17% of all tardigrade papers have
been published in its volumes, making it the top journal in tardigrade publishing
within the last decade.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
01.01.2010
|
Happy New Year!!! :-)
Thank you very much for all the wishes you sent to us. We also would like to wish you all the best in 2010. We hope that the New
Year will bring many interesting and groundbreaking tardigrade
discoveries :-)
As a New Year gift we prepared a new
section with tardigrade icons for computer folders.
We also created a photo
album for the XI Symposium. Peter Degma already kindly uploaded
some of his photos (link available
here). Please follow his example and upload your
pictures too (please
email
us in order to obtain the password required to upload/delete
pictures).
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
01.11.2009
|
Our 5th
Birthday :-)
It may be hard to believe, but the time goes by so quickly and
the TN celebrates its 5th birthday today!
This is a good occasion to
look at some stats for the first five years of TN activity (i.e.
2004-2008):
- We noted 32 thousand
hits. As can be seen from the graph below, the number of
visits increased with each year (a slightly better result
for 2007/2008 was due to a general increase in interest in
tardigrades caused by the publications on the survival of
tardigrades after the exposure to the outer space
conditions).

- The total number of
tardigrade and tardigrade-related papers published between
2004 and 2008 amounted to 248.
- The number of papers
on Tardigrada did not vary much across the five years (blue
bars in 2006 and 2007 represent the IX and X Symposia
volumes, respectively):

- The most popular
subjects of tardigrade papers were definitely taxonomy,
biogeography/faunistics and ecology:

- Of all papers, 84%
were dedicated entirely to Tardigrada and in the remaining
16% water bears were only a part of larger assays.
- As much as 93% were
research papers whereas only 7% were reviews.
- Almost all papers were
written in English (98%, the remaining 2% were published in
German, Italian and Polish).
- 120 new taxa were
described (117 new species and 3 new genera).
- Of all taxonomic
papers, 90% described new taxa and 10% were devoted to
redescriptions.
- Nearly a quarter of
all papers were published in 'Zootaxa', making it the most
popular journal for tardigradologists in the last five
years.
- Currently the
Newsletter consists of eleven sections encompassing 40
pages, whereas in the beginning there were only 6 sections
with 13 pages.
- There are 48
tardigradology experts listed in our Directories, and almost
130 email addresses on our TN Mailing List.
- Of all listed papers
only 42% were sent in by their authors (this includes the
Symposia volumes sent in by their editors and papers
published by us).
Once again we would like to
thank you for your cooperation and support. We hope that the TN
will survive another five years (and more!). Also, one of our
wishes is that more of the TN users not only visit the website,
but also send in their papers.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
PS
...and they said we wouldn't last... ;-) |
06.10.2009

|
12th International Symposium on Tardigrada
We were just informed that the next International Symposium on
Tardigrada is going to be held in the Summer of 2012 in Vila
Nova de Gaia/Porto, Portugal. The conference will be organised
by Paulo Fontoura of the Faculty of Sciences University of Porto
and with the cooperation
of the "Parque Biologico de Gaia".
That's all the details that
are known for now, but keep checking
the TN section devoted to the
XII
Symposium as it will be updated as new information flows in.
Sent in by: Paulo
Fontoura |
18.08.2009

|
11th International Symposium on Tardigrada in
the 'Symposia' section of TN
We hope everybody who attended the last Symposium in Germany
safely returned home.
We'd like to thank
Ralph O. Schill,
Heinz-K Kohler,
Hartmut Greven
and
Karin Hochberg
for organising the Symposium! It's always hard work and cannot
be underestimated, especially given how rarely the tardigrade
meetings are held.
No decisions regarding the
XII Symposium have been made yet, but as soon as we hear
anything on the subject, we'll let you know via the TN Mailing
List.
For now we'd like to invite
you to have a look at the section of TN devoted to the
XI
Symposium. There're only two things missing there: the
proceedings (for which we'll have to wait a bit) and your
photographs. Thus, please choose some of your pictures, zip
them, upload
here and
send us the download link. We will then put them all on our
website.
Last, but not least - big
thanks to Ralph
who provided materials for the TN section devoted to the
Tubingen Symposium! :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
26.07.2009

|
11th International Symposium on Tardigrada -
in just one week :-)
Surely you're all getting ready and excited about the XI
International Symposium on Tardigrada which will open next
Sunday in Germany. Unfortunately this time only one of us will
be present, but to express our support for this very important
to all tardigradologists event, we prepared a special banner
with eleven copies of the Symposium logo walking around in the
TN banner.We
also updated the
Symposia
section with some information about the
II
Symposium, including the never-published-before group photo!
:-D
Have fun in Germany and
good luck with your talks and posters! :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
26.05.2009

|
11th International Symposium on Tardigrada - The final call for abstracts!
Please take note that the abstract submission deadline is the
31.05.2009.!
You can find the abstract submission procedures, deadlines and
further conference information on the
Symposium official website (for abstract submission alone
your First Name/Last Name is enough).
We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium in Germany this
Summer!
The Organizing Committee:
Ralph O.
Schill (Universitat Stuttgart),
Heinz-R. Kohler (University of Tubingen),
Hartmut Greven (University of Dusseldorf), and
Karin Hohberg (State Museum of Natural History Gorlitz) |
15.04.2009
|
SYMPOSIA - a new section
of the TN
Given that the tardigrade Symposia are extremely important
events in our small community, we decided to devote
a separate
section of the TN to them. We also thought it'd be good to have a single
place in the Net with information on all tardigrade conferences.
For today only the X and the
XI Symposia have their sites ready, but we'll be working
backwards on all other meetings until we reach the I Symposium.
Since we are not able to find all the information by ourselves, we'll
be asking the organisers for their help. We hope the new section
will not only be useful as a source of information on tardigrade
papers and the history of tardigradology but that it'll also
have some sentimental value :-)
We are grateful to all who
already did and to those who will help us with building the
Symposia
section.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
22.03.2009

|
11th International Symposium on Tardigrada - The Second Announcement
To register for the 11th International Symposium on Tardigrada
in Tubingen, please use the
registration form. You will find the
bank account number
here.
Please transfer the early bird rebate registration fees before
the 1st of April 2009.
The Organizing Committee:
Ralph O.
Schill (Universitat Stuttgart),
Heinz-R. Kohler (University of Tubingen),
Hartmut Greven (University of Dusseldorf), and
Karin Hohberg (State Museum of Natural History Gorlitz) |
10.03.2009
|
New
server
A couple of days ago we
informed you about the server change. We decided to buy some
space on a commercial server in order to be completely
independent and to make sure we can keep extending the
Newsletter. The server change went quite quickly, with only some
minor disturbances and we hope the service will work as it
should. The www address remains the same (i.e.
www.tardigrada.net) and
the only difference is that the logo 'Hosted by UEA' is not
visible anymore. The first www address (www.uea.ac.uk/~b444219)
is no longer available.
Please add the domain @tardigrada.net
to your safe-sender list in order to prevent your email
system from classifying our emails as spam and deleting them.
Just to make sure everyone on the TN Mailing List receives this
information, it was sent from both
the old (L.Michalczyk@uea.ac.uk)
and the new email address (Newsletter@tardigrada.net).
Thus, if you received only one instead of two emails, the domain
tardigrada.net was rejected by your system.
All future emails concerning Tardigrada Newsletter
will be sent from the new address only (Newsletter@tardigrada.net).
Please note that we also have
new email addresses
(although the old ones work too):
Lukasz Michalczyk:
new:
LM@tardigrada.net
old:
agnostic@poczta.fm
or:
L.Michalczyk@uea.ac.uk
Lukasz Kaczmarek:
new:
LK@tardigrada.net
old: kacztar@poczta.fm
or: kaczmar@amu.edu.pl
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
08.03.2009
|
Server change
We decided to move Tardigrada Newsletter to a new server, thus
there may be some problems with the service during the week.
Hopefully everything will go smoothly and the move won't cause you
any inconveniences.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
01.03.2009
|
Search Tardigrada
Newsletter
In order to aid finding the references you're looking for, we added a within-TN
GoogleTM
search engine in the
Archives
section.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
28.02.2009
|
The
"Systematics" BioSystEU
2009
The combined 1st meeting of BioSyst EU, 7th Biennial Conference
of the Systematics Association and 11th GfBS-Jahrestagung will
be held in Leiden, Netherlands, 10-14 August 2009.
Participarting societies include: GfBS - Gesellschaft für
Biologische Systematik (Germany), NOBIS - Network of Biological
Systematics Austria (Austria), SFS - Société Française de
Systématique (France), Swiss Systematics Society (Switzerland)
and The Systematics Association (UK).
Further information is available
here.
Sent in by: E. F. Smets |
09.02.2009
|
The 10th Central European
Workshop on Soil Zoology
The Workshop will be held in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 21-24.04.2009.
The first announcement with further information is available
here.
Sent in by: Karel Tajovsky |
12.01.2009
|
Tardigrada Checklist
An up-to-date list of all known tardigrade species put together
by Peter Degma, Roberto Bertolani and Roberto Guidetti can be
downloaded from
here (the link is permanently available in section 'Links').
Sent in by: Peter Degma |
03.01.2009
|
New Year
Hello Everybody!!!We'd like to wish you all the best in 2009 both in professional
and private life. We also thank you for all the greetings we
received from you recently as well as for all the support we
have been receiving throughout the year.
The last year was relatively
quiet in our small tardigrade world, which was also reflected in
a low amount of news published in the Newsletter. The only
exception was the report on tardigrades in space which gained a
lot of attention and publicity not only in the scientific
community but also in popular science media.
Even though there have been only
43 papers published in 2008 so far (which is less than 70%
compared to 2007) we noted as many as 11 thousand hits on our
website (only 7.5 thousand in 2007), which suggests that
Tardigrada Newsletter's popularity is slowly, but systematically
growing, and that - of course - makes us very happy ;-)
Given that this August the XI
International Symposium on Tardigrada is being held, you should
expect much more activity on our website. Also, we'll be
celebrating our 5th birthday in November and we plan to open a
new section devoted entirely to tardigrade symposia.
We hope to see you all in
Germany later this year! :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
25.10.2008

|
11th International Symposium on Tardigrada -
The First Announcement
We are pleased to announce the 11th International Symposium on
Tardigrada to be held in Tubingen, Germany on August 3-6, 2009.
This is the only conference focused on tardigrade ecology,
taxonomy, biogeography, physiology, developmental biology,
biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology and has the
potential to attract a stimulating and cohesive group of
researchers, from all around the world, who work in these and
closely related areas.
We thank you for your personal attention and we look forward to
giving you more information soon. If you are interested in
participating in the Symposium, please use the 'Expression of
Interest' form available on
the official symposium website.
We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium in Germany 2009,
The Organizing Committee:
Ralph O.
Schill (Universitat Stuttgart),
Heinz-R. Kohler (University of Tubingen),
Hartmut Greven (University of Dusseldorf), and
Karin Hohberg (State Museum of Natural History Gorlitz) |
01.04.2008
|
Archives 2008
The section 'Archives
2008' has been opened today. If you visited the Archives
recently you may have noticed the new buttons that we put there
to facilitate the navigation in the growing pile of
references. Actually, we had to refurbish all the buttons in TN
as they seemed to be a bit threadbare. Well, it shouldn't be
that surprising since you've been clicking them quite a lot -
our hit counter has shown nearly 16 000 visits...! :-)
OK, enough of showing off, lets get back to the
references... The beginning of 2008 was quite good in the tardigrade paper publishing
business: twenty-one papers were added to the Newsletter in the
first three months of this year. Even though this number
includes eight papers dated for 2007 that have been published
with a delay, it is still a very nice number giving hopes for a
very fruitful year in tardigrade research!
There were as many as 58 papers published in 2007
and despite the fact that 24 of them were published in the X
International Symposium volume it is still an impressive result.
The number of papers on tardigrades seems to increase slowly,
but consistently with each year. There are 31 references listed
in Archives 2004, 48 in 2005, 56 in 2006 and 59 in 2007...
Please let us know if we
overlooked any references from 2007 and, of course, keep sending
in references of your brand new papers! :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
10.03.2008
|
The First International
Congress on Invertebrate Morphology (ICIM-1)
The Congress will be held in
Copenhagen (Denmark), 17-21 August 2008. The deadline for
abstract submission is the 01.05.2008. For detailed information
on the meeting see the official website:
www.ICIM-1.dk.
Sent in by: Diane Nelson
|
24.12.2007
|
Season's greetings
Thank you for all warm greetings
we received from you recently as well as for all the support we
receive throughout the year. We also wish you all the best in
coming year 2008! :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
02.11.2007
|
Tardigrades In Space (TARDIS)
A month ago the first ever
tardigrades that were sent into outer space returned to Earth and
now they are going to be analysed. The coordinator of the
project is Ingemar Jonsson of the Kristianstad University,
Sweden. You can find out more about TARDIS
on the project's official website.
Sent in by: Ingemar Jonsson
|
01.11.2007
|
Our 3rd birthday! :-)
As usual, we would like to
thank you for all the support and wishes you're sending to us.
It's been three years that you've been with us.
Our hit counter shows nearly 12
000 visits and we plan to open a new section of the Newsletter
soon. Thanks again, and we hope you'll keep enjoying Tardigrada
Newsletter.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek
|
07.07.2007
|
Tardigrade genome to be
sequenced!
National Human Genome Research
Institute (NHGRI)
has announced that the tardigrade genome is going to be
sequenced. Hypsibius dujardini (Doyere, 1840) was chosen
as the first ever tardigrade species which genome will be
described. The date and the lab where sequencing will be done is
not known yet. You can find the project proposal
here.
Sent in by: the
Bob
Goldstein Lab
|
30.06.2007

|
Proceedings of the 10th
International
Symposium on Tardigrada
We are glad to inform you that
the Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on
Tardigrada are available on-line on the web site of the
Journal of Limnology.
The proceedings contain 24 scientific papers on tardigrade
morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, faunistics, biogeography,
ecology and methodology. Traditionally, there's also a
photograph of all Symposium participants.
The printed version will be available very soon.
Sent in by:
Lorena Rebecchi & Giovanni Pilato
|
04.06.2007
|
Conference break
The summer has arrived and it's
time for a small break. We're going to be away for nearly a
month (conferences that need to be attended...) and the next
Newsletter update will be in the very end of June. Don't worry,
everything that you send us while we're away, will be published
(just with a little delay).
Talking about conferences - it's
been almost a year since we've seen you in Catania! Diane and
Jack have recently added their photos to the
X Symposium photo album. A good reason to refresh nice
memories! :-)
Lots of sun,
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
01.04.2007
|
Archives 2007
The section 'Archives
2007' has been opened today. The first quarter of 2007 was
extremely poor regarding tardigrade papers publishing: only five
papers were added to the Newsletter in the first three months of
2007, including four dated for 2006. Hopefully, the rest of 2007
will be more productive, however it will be very hard to beat
2006, in which 55 papers were published! It's a nice number,
even though it's overstated by the IX Symposium volume (15
references).
Please let us know if we
overlooked any references from 2006 and, of course, keep sending
your brand new papers as well! :-)
Cheers,
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
20.03.2007
|
Annual
stats summary
It's time for the annual stats
summary. Two years ago we introduced
the stats system which records the visits to the Tardigrada
Newsletter. During the last 365 days we noted 6400 hits which
gives 17.5 visits per day on average. This is nearly 8
times more than in the last stats year (837 hits)! Thank you for
visiting the web and we hope that the Newsletter will become
even more popular in the next stats year.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
07.01.2007
|
A wee improvement
Following a suggestion of one of our users, we have
put the date of the last update in the upper part of the most
frequently updated pages.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
19.12.2006
|
Wishes :-)
Dear All!
We would like to wish you all the best in the New Year!!!
This is the last update in the Old Year, but the next one will be
in the very beginning of 2007.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
01.11.2006
|
Our second birthday & the
Newsletter extension! :-D
Dear All!
Tardigrada Newsletter is two years old! :-) We are very
happy to inform you that with each month we note a higher number of
hits, which means that the website is more and more popular. For
example, during October 2005 only 77 people visited the
Newsletter, while during October
2006 we noted nearly ten times more hits (732).
On the occasion of the second birthday we have added three
new sections to the Newsletter and also enriched the graphics by
adding six new background tardigrade photographs.
When we started the Newsletter
it was thought to be a website mainly for professional
tardigradologists, but now we know that the website is visited
also by people from outside of our water bear community. For
them we created a little section 'Tardigrades'
which shortly explains what water bears actually are.
The second of the new extensions
is the section of 'Mailing lists'.
Finally, in the third of the new
sections ('Goodies') you will find
the Newsletter banners and wallpapers.
As always, we are open to your
suggestions and offers of cooperation. We would also like to
thank you for all the support and interest you have shown during
these first two years and we hope that the Newsletter will get
much older than that... :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
05.09.2006
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!!!
NEW MAILING LIST !!!
We decided to update our mailing list since many of the
addresses seem not to work anymore. We tend to send a few emails
per year (usually dealing with the technical issues of the
Newsletter). The next group email is planned for the 1st of
November 2006, when we are going to inform you about changes in
the TN being made on the occasion of the TN's 2nd birthday.
THUS, IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE EMAILS FROM THE TARDIGRADA
NEWSLETTER, PLEASE
SEND ME AN EMAIL (YOU DON'T HAVE TO WRITE ANYTHING, YOUR
EMAIL ADDRESS IS SUFFICIENT).
The next group email will be sent only to those who provided
us with their current email addresses.
You can send us an email with your address anytime (there's
no deadline) and we'll add it to the list when we receive it.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
31.08.2006
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"Il
Phylum Tardigrada" in English
For a number of
years
Hartmut Greven and
Clark Beasley have discussed having the
English translation of Ramazzotti & Maucci’s monograph ("Il
Phylum Tardigrada" 1983)
published. They are especially concerned that the volume be
available to new workers in the future. Having it published by
an institution would establish a relatively permanent source for
new workers after some of us have retired, and also facilitate
copies being deposited in libraries. The problems have been
resolved and it is possible to publish the monograph as a
supplement to ACTA BIOLOGICA BENRODIS. Only the species
descriptions section of the monograph would be included; the
general biology section in the first part of the monograph is
badly out of date and does not seem to warrant publishing.
A minimum of 50
copies (at a cost of $60 each) is needed. It would be valuable
if each of us would place a copy in our institutional library,
in additional to any personal copies. If you can support this
cause and subscribe for one or more copies, please email
Hartmut
Greven.
Don’t forget to specify how many copies you would like to buy. The deadline for this is 01.01.2007.
Sent in by:
Clark Beasley |
08.08.2006
 |
11th
International Symposium on Tardigrada
The official website of the 11th
International Symposium on Tardigrada that is going to be held
in Germany in 2009 has been launched. The link to the website is
available in the section
links.
The Symposium will focus on the taxonomy, physiology, genetics
and biochemistry of tardigrades.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
05.08.2006
 |
Proceedings of the 9th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
Proceedings of the 9th
International Symposium on Tardigrada held in St. Petersburg,
Florida in August of 2003 are available for purchase.
The cost is $50.00 USD for the volume and $10.00 USD for
shipping. Total cost is $60.00 USD. Shipping for orders with
multiple copies can be combined.
For more information please
contact Dr. Brent Nichols.
Sent in by:
Brent Nichols |
01.07.2006
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada & The Symposium Web
Photo Album
The 10th International Symposium
on Tardigrada is over. It was a very nice Symposium and we are
glad we could meet many of you in beautiful and hot Catania. We
hope to meet you all again in Germany, in 2009 at the 11th
Symposium! :-)
For those of who were taking
pictures at the Symposium and would like to share them with
others we set up a special
web photo album. We have already put some of our
photos there. If you would like to do the same, please
email me for the details/instructions on how to put your
photos online. The photo album is open, which means that anyone
can view (and also download) the pics and videos (yes, you can
publish short movies too). This way not only the Symposium
participants will be able to exchange their photos but also guys
that couldn't be with us in Italy will have a chance to see what
all the fuss was about ;-)
Cheers,
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
11.05.2006
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
- Programme
The programme of the Symposium is now available
here.
The Organizing Committee:
Giovanni Pilato (University of
Catania), Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena & R.E.,
Maria Grazia Binda (University of Catania),
Dr. Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena & R.E.),
Dr.
Oscar Lisi (University of Catania),
Professor Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena & R.E.) |
03.04.2006 |
Archives 2006
The section 'Archives
2006' has been opened today. It contains articles published in
the beginning of 2006 (currently published articles are moved from
the 'Recently published' to the 'Archives'
after three months).
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
18.03.2006 |
Annual
stats summary
Exactly a year ago we introduced
the stats system which records the visits to the Tardigrada
Newsletter. During last 365 days we noted 837 hits which
gives 2.2 visits per day on average. Thank you for
visiting the web and we hope that the Newsletter will become
even more popular in the next stats year.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
01.03.2006 |
WWW.TARDIGRADA.NET
New
address for Tardigrada Newsletter
Tardigrada Newsletter has
finally got a proper web address (www.tardigrada.net).
The old one (http://www.uea.ac.uk/~b444219)
is still working, but the new one is surely much easier to remember!
:-)
Please update your links to the Newsletter.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
05.01.2006
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
- Fourth Announcement
The fourth announcement has been made. The link is available in the section 'Tardigrada
links'.
The Organizing Committee:
Giovanni Pilato (University of
Catania), Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena & R.E.,
Maria Grazia Binda (University of Catania),
Dr. Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena & R.E.),
Dr.
Oscar Lisi (University of Catania),
Professor Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena & R.E.) |
05.01.2006
 |
9th International
Symposium on Tardigrada - the symposium volume has been published
Chosen papers form the 9th International Symposium
on Tardigrada have been published in a special issue of
'Hydrobiologia'. All the references are listed in the 'Recently published'
section and here is the link to the
whole issue. The symposium
volume is dedicated to Nigel Marley.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
07.12.2005
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
- Third Announcement
The third announcement has been made. The
information on the registration fees, abstract submissions,
deadlines and accommodation in Catania is now available on the 10th International Symposium on
Tardigrada official website (link available in the section 'Tardigrada
links').
The Organizing Committee:
Giovanni Pilato (University of
Catania), Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena & R.E.,
Maria Grazia Binda (University of Catania),
Dr. Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena & R.E.),
Dr.
Oscar Lisi (University of Catania),
Professor Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena & R.E.) |
01.11.2005 |
The 1st birthday! :-)
Dear All!
Tardigrada Newsletter is one year old! :-)
We would like to thank you for all the support and interest you
have shown during the first year and we hope that the Newsletter
will get much older than that... :-D
Keep visiting our website and keep sending references of your
papers!
Remember that on average TN is updated once a week and we note
ca. 50 hits on the web each month.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
01.05.2005 |
After six months
Today six months passes since the Tardigrada
Newsletter was launched. We would like to thank you for all the
interest and support. We hope that the Newsletter will remain
helpful to you and also that more people will contribute
information to the website.
Here are some numbers and statistics:
Number of pages in the Tardigrada Newsletter =
18;
Number of Tardigradologists who provided their
directories = 21;
Number of references listed (both in 'Recently
published' and in 'Archives') = 45;
Updates have been made once a week on average;
We have noted one visit per day on average.
Today we also start a new section 'Collections'
in which we would like to provide addresses and links to
Tardigrada Collections in the world. We start with five, but
hopefully the number will increase with time. If you would like to
provide us with some addresses, we will be happy to put them on
the web.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
07.04.2005 |
Archives 2005
The section 'Archives
2005' has been opened today. It contains articles published in
the beginning of 2005 (currently published articles are moved from
the 'Recently published' to the 'Archives'
after three months).
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
15.02.2005
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
- Second Announcement
All interested in attending the 10th Symposium can
download the Pre-Registration form from the Symposium website
(link available in the section 'Tardigrada
links'). The deadline for pre-registration is 10 April 2005.
The Organizing Committee:
Giovanni Pilato (University of
Catania), Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena & R.E.,
Maria Grazia Binda (University of Catania),
Dr. Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena & R.E.),
Dr.
Oscar Lisi (University of Catania),
Professor Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena & R.E.) |
19.01.2005 |
Two week break
I'm going to be away for the next two weeks, so there will be no
updates during that time. Of course you are most welcome to send
us any info for the Newsletter - it will just be put on the web in
the beginning of February.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
15.01.2005 |
The first update in 2005
We start the New Year with a new section: 'Archives'.
In the archives you will find the complete list of references for
2004. References from the section 'Recently
published' will be moved to the archives after three months,
thus after some time in the archives there will be also a full
list for 2005 etc.
We are also happy to inform that
we have added three new persons to the directories, four new
papers published in 2004 and the first paper from 2005.
Please let us know if we have
overlooked any papers in the archives from 2004!
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
17.12.2004 |
The last update in 2004...
Dear All!!!
We would like to wish you all
the best (which includes also lots of fascinating Tardie
discoveries, of course!) in the coming New Year!!! :-)
This is the last update in the Old Year, but you won't have to
wait for another one too long, as it will have place around mid
January 2005.
We plan to put the complete list of Tardigrada references for 2004
and we would of course appreciate your help - thus, if you have
published any papers on Tardigrada in 2004 that are not included
in the
current list, please
let us know.
Cheers!
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
10.12.2004
 |
10th International
Symposium on Tardigrada
We have just received the
information that the next International Symposium on Tardigrada
will be held in Catania (Italy), 18-23 June 2006. More
information can be found on the Symposium official website (link
is available in the section 'Tardigrada
Links').
The Organizing Committee:
Giovanni Pilato (University of
Catania), Roberto Bertolani (University of Modena & R.E.,
Maria Grazia Binda (University of Catania),
Dr. Roberto Guidetti (University of Modena & R.E.),
Dr.
Oscar Lisi (University of Catania),
Professor Lorena Rebecchi (University of Modena & R.E.) |
07.12.2004 |
After one month...
We are very happy that the
Newsletter was warmly welcomed by most of Tardigradologists who
wrote to us. After one month we've got eight Tardigradologists
directories, references to eight published papers and three which
are currently in press. We hope that more of you will provide the
addresses and other info to the directories and references (with
links) of your papers. We are also open to any suggestions and
new ideas.
Thanks for your co-operation :-)
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
06.12.2004 |
The computer's death
Due to the problems with my
computer (= death of the hard drive), the Newsletter wasn't
updated for more than a month. I'm sorry for that - the update
will be made tomorrow and all the sub pages will be available.
Lukasz
Michalczyk |
01.11.2004 |
Tardigrada
Newsletter starts! :-)
Today is the first day of the Tardigrada
Newsletter existence. The web is not completely finished, but the
sections which are currently under construction will be ready
soon.
We hope that this website will remain alive and
will help in your research. We also count on your co-operation and
sending us any references of papers that you are publishing or have
recently published.
Lukasz
Michalczyk &
Lukasz
Kaczmarek |
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