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May 2-4, 2018
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Clark Laboratory 5^th Floor

Wednesday, May 2

8:30-9:00
Registration and Light Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Welcome and Announcements
Mary Carman

9:15-9:45
A remarkable case of non-invasion in British Columbia, Canada
Gretchen Lambert

9:45-10:15
Assessing Ascidian Use of Open Spaces Throughout the Year
Judith Pederson and Carolina Bastidas

10:15-10:30
Break

10:30-11:00
Impacts of Hurricane Sandy on recruit dynamics of Botryllus schlosseri
Paul Bologna and John Gaynor

11:00-11:30
Biotic exchange from the movement of ‘static’ maritime structures in an era of marine urbanization
Josephine C. Iacarella, Ian C. Davidson, Anya Dunham

11:30-12:00
Understanding the Ecological Impacts of Invasive Tunicates and Their Response to Climate Change
Yingqi Zhang, Linda Deegan, Mary Carman

12:00-1:00
Lunch and Open Session

1:00-1:30
Color morphs of Distaplia bermudensis represent cryptic lineages with distinct microbiomes that remain structurally and functionally equivalent across different environments
James S. Evans, P.M. Erwin, H.F. Sihaloho, N. Shenkar, S. Lopez-Legentil

1:30-2:00
Prevalence of chimerism and colony fusion in Didemnum vexillum: a genomic approach
Xavier Turon, Maria Casso, Davide Tagliapietra, Marta Pascual

2:00-2:30
How to make lemonade from invasive ascidians
Noa Shenkar, Dror Avisar, Aviv Ben-Tal, Aviv Kaplan, Zafrir Kuplik, Gal Navon, Lion Novak, Adi Torfstein, Roni Tzafriri-Milo, Gal Vered

2:30-3:00
Proteomic profiling of ascidians from tropical and sub-tropical environments as a biomonitoring tool
Lion Novak, Zafrir Kuplik, Noa Shenkar

Thursday, May 3

8:30-9:00
Registration and Light Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Welcome and Announcements
Mary Carman

9:15-9:45
Ascidian Invasion Perspectives: IV. The Definition of "Invasive," and the Shifting Baseline of Biodiversity History, Revisited
James T. Carlton

9:45-10:15
Ocean Invader Tactics Revealed: The Role of Copper Pollution in the Presence and Invasiveness of Colonial Ascidians
Kristin Osborne and Helen Poynton

10:15-10:30
Break

10:30-11:00
Sea squirts (Ascidiacea) dominate fouling communities and impact aquaculture and eelgrass in Edgartown, Massachusetts
Emily Reddington, Mary Carman, Ryan Smith, Kristin Gribble

11:00-11:30
Tunicates (Ascidiacea) utilizing eelgrass as substrate in the Northwest Atlantic
Mary R. Carman

11:30-12:00
Crab predation on eelgrass fouling epiphytes: sponge Halichondria panicea, colonial tunicate Botryllus schlosseri, and solitary tunicate Molgula manhattensis
David Grunden and Mary Carman

12:00-1:00
Lunch and Open Session

1:00-1:30
Can invasive tunicates be useful for fish aquaculture? The replacement of menhaden fish meal by the tunicate Styela plicata in the diets of juvenile black sea bass Centropristis striata
Avery J. Delmaine, Wade O. Watanabe, Md Shah Alam

1:30-2:00
Management Strategies for Invasive Tunicates on Prince Edward Island Mussel Farms
John DP Davidson, Luc A Comeau, Thomas Landry, Jeff Davidson

2:00-2:30
Exploratory baseline surveys for tunicates at Nantucket and Muskeget Islands off southern Massachusetts in the Northwest Atlantic
Dann Blackwood and Mary Carman

2:30-3:00
Ascidian diversity in Ireland with a focus on invasive species
Satheesh Kumar Palanisamy, Olivier P. Thomas, Grace P. Mccormack

3:00-3:15
Break

Poster Presentations

3:15-3:30
Effects of Air Exposure on Markers of Oxidative Damage in an Invasive Tunicate (Styela plicata) and a Native Shellfish (Crassostrea virginica)
Peyton A. Thomas, S.T. Kinsey, S. Lopez-Legentil, A. Wilbur

3:30-3:45
Two lineages of Polyandrocarpa zorritensis co-exist in the US southeastern Atlantic
Jamie Webb, Bailey Counts, Marie Nydam, Susanna Lopez-Legentil

3:45-4:00
Analysis of the spatial distribution, and recruitment of native and non-native tunicate species on Zostera marina in New Jersey
Sarah Hoffman and Paul Bologna

4:00-4:15
Rapid coastal survey of the distribution of invasive ascidians in Coastal Lake Faro, Messina- Italy
Satheesh Kumar Palanisamy, Andrea Cosentino, Salvatore Giacobbe

4:15-4:30
No introduced ascidians detected in reef and mangrove habitats of the Bahamas
Bailey Counts, Xavier Turon, Susanna Lopez-Legentil

4:30-4:45
Microbiome shifts across the native and invasive range of the ascidian Clavelina oblonga
Millie Goddard-Dwyer, Susanna Lopez-Legentil, P.M. Erwin

5:00-6:00
Banquet Dinner

Friday, May 4

8:30-9:00
Light Breakfast

9:00-9:15
Welcome and Announcements
Mary Carman

9:15-9:45
Invasive Ascidian Research – A recap of 13 years of the International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference
Stephan G. Bullard

9:45-3:15
Field Trip to Martha’s Vineyard

3:30-4:30
Field Trip to WHOI Exhibit Center in Woods Hole