Sunday, 15 09 2024
Hotel Dubrovnik

Registration and welcome drink

Monday, 16 09 2024
Hotel Dubrovnik

Registration

IAA 2024 Opening ceremonies

Sture Abrahamsson lecture Edsman & Jussila

All ok in Fennoscandia? Well, at least crayfisheries messed up big time

Chair Strand

Baudry

Unlocking crayfish biodiversity: eDNA metabarcoding for exhaustive monitoring?

Burnham

Testing substrates for an environmental DNA signal of a Critically Endangered burrowing crayfish

Coffee break – poster session

Posters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13

Chair Grandjean

Bohman

Comparison and intercalibration of eDNA protocols for crayfish and crayfish plague detection across Europe

Strand

Molecular detection of Aphanomyces astaci – experience with an improved species specific qPCR assay

Vucić

First application of environmental DNA metabarcoding and single-target detection of invasive and native crayfish in Croatia

Petrusek

Monitoring of native and invasive crayfish from environmental DNA: experience from Czech waters

Aluma

eDNA-based detection of invasive crayfish and crayfish plague in Estonia

Manfrin

Harmonizing Transboundary Monitoring of Austropotamobius pallipes Using Environmental DNA (eDNA): The PALLIPES Project

Lunch

Chair Diéguez-Uribeondo

Colli

Population genomics and habitat modelling to improve the conservation status of the white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes species complex in the Italian North-Western Apennines

Pipinić

Genetic and population characteristics of stone crayfish Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) in the cave Sušik

Ströder

Genetic screening of Tyrolean noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) – Identification of potentially endangered populations for the planning of sustainable conservation measures

Bonassin

Characterisation and comparative genomics of satellite DNA in freshwater crayfish

Khan Areeba

Characterizing the role of RNA editing in clonal and invasive marbled crayfish

Vucić

Coevolution of genus Branchiobdella with their crayfish hosts generated new species?

Coffee break – poster session
posters 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27

Chair Taylor

Huber

Keep digging: two new burrowing crayfish species of genus Parastacus Huxley, 1879 (Decapoda, Parastacidae) from southern Brazil

Westhoff

Systematic distributional survey of endemic and invasive crayfishes in the upper Saint Francis River drainage, Missouri

Bányai

Has everything changed in ten years, or not so dramatically? The results of long-term crayfish monitoring programs in different Hunagrian waters

Audo

Reviewing fossil crayfishes

Furse

Students travel awards

Surprise evening (Zagreb’s walks)

Tuesday, 17 09 2024

Hotel Dubrovnik

Plenary lecture Tricarico

How behavioural studies help to control invasive alien crayfish

Chair Hudina

Riascos-Flores

Procambarus clarkii in Andean waters: Ecological impacts and mitigation efforts

Orlandi

Spatio-temporal occurrence and abundance of Faxonius limosus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) in two North-western subalpine lakes (Italy)

Hamr

First Record of the first wild Marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) population in North America/Canada and subsequent eradication efforts

Mrugała-Koese

Towards a risk-oriented national monitoring in the Netherlands

Weiperth

Are we really able to do anything, or are we just sitting back and watching? The history and the current status of signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852)) in Hungary

Coffee break – poster sessiom
Posters 29, 31, 33, 35, 2, 4, 6

Chair Westhoff

Bohman

Density estimation of signal crayfish with diving and ROV

Fitzsimmons

Multimethod assessment of Woodland Crayfish (Faxonius hylas) movement in the upper St. Francis River drainage, Missouri, USA

Morbidelli

Improving trapping effectiveness for controlling the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii

Saito

Effects of pleopods removal on survival and sterility of signal crayfish

Košir

The North-American signal crayfish in the Drava river basin in Slovenia: latest spread and the first eDNA results

Faller

Limited efficiency of trapping on the prevention of the upstream migration of the invasive spiny-cheek crayfish

Koese

Crab cut, what about crayfish?

Lunch

Chair Kozák

Swedberg

From streams, swamps, sloughs and roadside ditches: The places you will go while sampling the rare crayfishes of Texas, USA

Magoulick

Influence of flow regime and drought on seasonal population dynamics of co-occurring stream crayfish species

Khan Tanya

Seasonal microhabitat use by Brawleys Fork crayfish, Cambarus williami, a Species of Conservation Concern

Klefoth

Winter behaviour of adult noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) under natural conditions

Graham

The evolution of conspicuous coloration in crayfish

Torrance

Seeing the spectrum: investigating color vision in freshwater crayfish

Coffee break – poster session

Posters 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20

Chair Klobučar

Huber

An overview of the knowledge about juvenile stages of the South American genus Parastacus Huxley, 1879 (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Parastacidae)

Klefoth

Winter mortality and growth of juvenile noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) under realistic environmental conditions – implications for conservation management

Grubb

No, I’m Dirty Dan! Comparative methods to explore disagreement within the Faxonius erichsonianus species complex

Barnes

Crayfish are like onions: Peeling back the layers on the burrowing behaviors of red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii)

Bonvillain

Effects of environmental hypoxia on red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii population characteristics and fecundity in the Atchafalaya River Basin, Louisiana

Breithaupt

The role of biogenic amines in anti-predator behaviour of crayfish

Board meeting

Pub quiz – Pivnica Medvedgrad

Address: Ilica 49

Wednesday, 18 09 2024

Departure

Plitvice Lakes National Park

Late lunch

Return to Zagreb

Thursday, 19 09 2024
Hotel Dubrovnik

Plenary lecture Martín-Torrijos

Crayfish in crisis: exploring pathogens and diseases in a challenging world

Chair Bielen

Ortega López

Exploring the Evolution of Aphanomyces: Were ancestral Oomycetes such effective parasites?

Jemmi

Filling the gap: Starting to decrypt the genetic diversity of Aphanomyces astaci in Switzerland

Pisano

Eco – Epidemiology of Aphanomyces astaci in Switzerland

Mojžišová

Aphanomyces astaci in Cambarid crayfish from the native range of Faxonius limosus: in search of the elusive genotype group

Coffee Break – poster session
Posters 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34

Chair Theissinger

Martínez-Ríos

Protocols for studying Aphanomyces astaci and its host interaction

Tripp

Effects of season and stress on prevalence of White Spot Syndrome Virus in Procambarus clarkii

Hudina

Crayfish pet trade as a gateway for the introduction of known and novel viruses into Europe

Boštjančić

Immune stimulation of the noble crayfish as a tool to study Aphanomyces astaci recognition

Bielen

Deciphering the mechanisms underlying the inhibition of Aphanomyces astaci by Pseudomonas

Zimmerman

P2X as a solution to crayfish plague

Lunch

Chair Petrusek

Danilović

Trophic insights of the invasive signal crayfish in Croatian freshwaters employing stable isotope analysis

Ghia

Better alone than in bad company: trophic ecology of co-occurring invasive and native crayfish

Iqbal

Can artificial light pollution affect the metabolic rate of Procambarus clarkii and Pacifastacus leniusculus?

Kaur

Efficacy of administration routes in crayfish: Comparative analysis of subcutaneous and intrapericardial techniques using fluorescein dye

Rodgers

Energetic cost of burrowing in red swamp crayfish

Fogelman

Filling in physiology knowledge gaps: Use of enzyme activity to quantify thermal ecology and evaluate differences in primary and tertiary burrowing crayfish

Coffee break

Chair Colli

Jia

Impact of land use on the presence/absence of an endangered freshwater crayfish species at local population scale on Hokkaido Island

Ion

Reassessing crayfish conservation: collaborative updates of Austropotamobius species IUCN status

Diéguez-Uribeondo

The strategy for the conservation of the native crayfish of Spain

Acs

Conservation and management strategies of the endemic idle crayfish (Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu, 2019): Lessons from long-term monitoring

Forni

The conservation status of the native crayfish Austropotamobius palipes complex in the Foreste Casentinesi National Park (Central Italy)

Edsman

Why are the crayfish too small for the crayfish party?

Official dinner – Sallon 

Address: Tuškanac 1A, 10000, Zagreb

Friday, 20 09 2024
Hotel Dubrovnik

Plenary lecture Temunović

Application of species distribution modelling in freshwater crayfish conservation

Chair Burnham

Quebedeaux

Evaluating response efforts to red swamp crayfish in Michigan, USA

Vermeylen

Craywatch, a citizen science project towards a better understanding of the distribution of invasive alien crayfish in Flanders: set up and initial results

Krieg

Misconceptions in the conservation of crayfish – what could we do better?

Matijević

Significance of the “Žumberak – Samoborsko gorje” Nature Park area for the conservation of the stone crayfish populations

Furse

Challenges in Australian Astacology: Common name confusion and much, much more. A cautionary tale

Kawai

Taxonomic revision of extant and fossil European Astacidae: A paleontological, molecular, and morphological approach

Faller

Proper interpretation of negative findings is crucial for the objective long-term monitoring of the crayfish populations

Coffee break

IAA24 General Assembly, different announcements and Closing Ceremonies

Farewell drink(s)