XXI ICA · Lecce, Italy
International Colloquium
on Amphipoda
Integrating knowledge in a changing world.
We are pleased to welcome the Amphipodologist community in Lecce, Italy, for the next International Colloquium. Researchers at all career stages are welcome to present their work to an audience holding interdisciplinary perspectives around, needless to say, the group of Amphipoda.
We are looking forward to gathering and sharing contributions ranging from taxonomy to ecology and behaviour, as well as studies where amphipods are model species, contribute to indexes, indicate impacts or effects of global change.
To allow everyone to fully benefit of the participation to ICA and be able to assist to all contributions, there will be no parallel sessions. Please consider submitting no more than one abstract for a talk and one abstract for a poster per author.
30 August – 3 September 2027
As solid good practice, we reserved a free space for workshops back-to-back with ICA in the morning of September 4th, 2027. They usually are a great occasion for extremely productive time. If you wish to propose a workshop, please contact the organizers.
University of Salento, Lecce
Aula 7, Studium 2000.
Proceedings will be hosted by Mediterranean Marine Science. More information will follow — in the meantime, you can find an overview of the journal below.
Mediterranean Marine Science →Important Dates
Workshops on relevant topics will be proposed, for participants to benefit from in-person discussions around topics of common interest. While workshops are still taking shape in further detail, the two following topics are proposed as relevant. Should you find them of interest, you will be asked to register and to start contributing a little earlier than meeting at the ICA, so that the workshop can be a wrap-up and bring to the delivery of a multi-authored position paper to be included in the proceedings.
How to survive data management
Given the importance of datasets as background for research, we partnered with GBIF Italian node to highlight the bottlenecks affecting amphipodologists, proposing possible solutions and discussing perspectives allowed by quality-controlled, FAIR datasets.
Communicating about unappealing species
We all know that outreach and communication are of paramount importance, but what to do when the species we deal with are (let's face it) noncharismatic? Ideally, by gathering lessons learned and insiders' tips and tricks, we can produce a handbook to engage non amphipodologists.