Lorena Rebecchi, Tiziana Altiero, Roberto Bertolani, Michele Cesari, Michele d’Errico, Ilaria Giovannini, Roberto Guidetti, Maria Agnese Sabatini, Matteo Vecchi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Leonardo Latella (Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona), Sandra J. McInnes (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK), Diane R. Nelson (East Tennessee State University, USA)
Lorena Rebecchi, Tiziana Altiero, Roberto Bertolani, Michele Cesari, Roberto Guidetti, Sandra J. McInnes, Diane R. Nelson
If you are interested in attending the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada, please fill in the Registration Form:
The registration fees are:
Before 22nd March 2015 | After 22nd March 2015 | |
Regular | 330.00 € | 390.00 € |
Student | 110.00 € | 170.00 € |
Accompanying person | 250.00 € | 310.00 € |
Registration for accompanying children under 10 years is free.
Thanks to the economic support received from several sponsors and co-organizers, we were able to reduce the registration fee for all students in order to encourage their participation.
Students are considered to be bachelor, master or PhD students and will require a signed statement from their academic institution. Please send confirmation of the full-time student status to the Organizing Committee.
Cancellation and refunds
Registered participants who are unable to attend the Symposium will have their fees refunded with a 25% administration charge if the cancellation is received before May 25, 2015.
No refund will be made for a cancellation received after that date.
The deadline for the payment of the Symposium Registration Fee and the submission of the Registration Form is
For all registrants (regulars, students, accompanying persons and children) the registration fee will cover the admission to both scientific oral and poster sessions, conference kit, shuttle service from/to the Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, coffee breaks, lunches, conference excursion, and guided visit to discover the treasures of Modena.
In addition, regular and student registrants will receive the abstract booklet and conference program. Publication costs of the symposium proceedings are included in the fee.
Registration fee for accompanying persons also includes an additional guided tour to a tourist site in the Modena surroundings.
How to pay the registration fee
Symposium registration fees must be paid by Bank Money Transfer:
UNICREDIT BANK sede di Modena - Piazza Grande n. 40 - 41121 Modena, Italy
Beneficiary: Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita - Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia
IBAN: IT60I0200812930000102063751
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ONLY FOR ITALIAN INSTITUTIONS PLEASE USE THIS IBAN
IBAN: IT23E0100003245243300037150
You must specify your name and 13th Symposium on Tardigrada on the Bank Money Transfer.
A copy of the bank money transfer must be attached to the Registration Form.
Registered participants are invited to give one or more oral/poster presentations during the Symposium. The Scientific Committee can recommend change to another presentation mode, as part of the acceptance process. The manuscripts of both oral and poster presentations will be considered for publication in the proceedings (see Manuscript Submittal and Proceedings). Oral or poster presentations will be confirmed by the Scientific Committee in May 2015.
The duration of each contribution will be 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions. Power Point presentations will be accepted. Facilities for alternative presentation material may be available with advanced request.
Posters (dimension: 700 mm wide x 1000 mm high) will be attached to boards by means furnished by the organizers. Posters will be displayed for the whole period of the symposium. To promote scientific exchange, special Poster Sessions will be scheduled in the program of the Symposium. Authors of poster presentations are kindly requested to be available during this session to answer questions and discuss their results.
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The Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada will be published as a special issue (i.e. one of the 12 normal issues) of the ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY.
For authors guidelines and further information please click here
The Awards will honor the best oral and also the best poster presentations. Young researchers (registered as bachelor, master or PhD students) who want to be considered for the Awards must indicate that intention on the registration form and abstract submittal.
Candidates have to be the first and presenting author. Only one submission per candidate will be considered. The Jury will be constituted by Senior Scientists and the winners will be chosen on the basis of the originality and quality of the work and presentation.
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The Symposium will be opening on Tuesday June 23rd at 9:00 AM.
The last day of the Symposium (26th June 2015) will be held in the Museum of Natural History of Verona. Transport will be by bus (about 1 h), and after the conclusion of the program there will be a visit to discover the city of Verona. Return to Modena will be in the late evening. Therefore please take this into account when booking your flight or organizing your return home.
Verona is located in Northern Italy, about 90 km from Modena. [...]click here
The 13th International Symposium on Tardigrada will take place at the “Centro San Geminiano” in the Historic Centre of Modena.
Nowadays, the “Centro San Geminiano” is the Department of Law of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In the past the “Centro San Geminiano” was the San Geminiano Monastery. This convent was originally built as a hospital in 1348, the year in which the plague was at its peak. It continued as a hospital until the middle of the following century. In 1348, the facility was transformed into a convent for the San Geminiano nuns. In 1586, the convent was adorned with two bell towers. In 1798, when the monastic order was suppressed, the convent was permanently closed and the buildings were used for a wide variety of activities: the city bakery was located here as well as one of the main Italian avant-garde theaters. Still today one can admire the lovely XV century cloisters adorned by a double series of arches. Please note that in the historic centre of Modena the traffic is limited
Modena is one of the richest and most socially advanced cities in Italy: 48 miles of cycling paths, 12 museums, 25 libraries, and one of the oldest universities in Europe. There are many art treasures in Modena: the 12h century Cathedral a masterpiece of Italian Romanesque art, that, together with Piazza Grande and the Ghirlandina bell tower, creates a complex of unique beauty, included as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Other monuments and sites are the Town Hall, the Ducal Palace (today a Military Academy), many monumental churches in the town centre and the Museum Building, with the art gallery “Galleria Estense”.
Modena is also known as the “Land of Motors”. You can find the main supercar factories in Modena or in the province like Ferrari, Maserati, Pagani Zonda, B.G. Engineering, De Tomaso and Bugatti. People can visit a lot of museums and private car collections like: Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari (Modena), Ferrari Gallery at the Ferrari car factory (in Maranello, 15 kilometers from Modena), Stanguellini Vintage Car Museum (Modena), Lamborghini (in Sant’Agata Bolognese, Bologna, 21 km from Modena).
The territory of Modena and province is synonymous with good food too. A tour of the tastes and flavours of cuisine in Modena can ideally be started in the Modena Indoor Food Market and then travel to the production centres themselves: dairy farms, to enjoy tastings of Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan cheese), vinegar producers to delight in the unique, enticing taste of the Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, and then where hams are cured and wine cellars offer a fine glass of Lambrusco DOC, Modena's sparkling red wine. Farms can be visited to see the making of these great products.
The Regione Emilia Romagna in which Modena is located is served by the Airport Guglielmo Marconi of Bologna [...] click here
Modena is located in the middle of the Po River valley and it is positioned on the main trading routes between Northern Europe [...] click here
Modena is also well connected by the train network. Modena is on the train lines Milano-Piacenza-Parma-Modena-Bologna [...] click here
A wide range of accommodations from all classes of hotels other than B&B and hostel are available in Modena to suit every budget. Delegates are requested to make their own accommodation bookings. A set of specially priced rooms have been negotiated with the hotels listed below. Please quote that you will participate to a conference at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia when booking to gain these special rates. If not differently specified, the prices are per room per night (breakfast included). Important note: the room price may include a "tourist tax"” that could be paid at the end of your stay. The cost of the tourist tax is: 1 €/person/day for 2 stars hotels and B&B, 2 €/person/day for 3 stars hotels, 3 €/person/day for 4 stars hotels. Please ask about the cost of the tourist tax before booking. Hotel accommodation bookings should be made as soon as possible, due to overlapping with Italian summer holidays. To have an idea of the quality of the hotel, other than the stars, the review score of "booking.com" (when available) is reported within parentheses after the name of the hotel. The locations of the hotels can be found in the map of the symposium webpage. Moreover, locations and details of the hotels can be found on their webpages.
NB: Other than the accommodations on this list, other hotels, B&B, apartments, etc. are available by consulting the online sites that offer hotel booking service (e.g. booking.com, TripAdvisor, etc).