Program overview
All the times will be in Japan Standard Time (JST).

Monday4 JulyBefore4 JulyTuesday
5 JulyThursday
7 July9:00 - 10:30
Ecology 2

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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30
Poster session 2

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Wednesday
6 July12:00 - 14:00
Poster session 1

15:00 - 15:10

14:00 - 15:30
Taxonomy 1

14:00 - 15:30
Genomics /Phylogeny

15:30 - 16:00

15:30 - 16:00

15:30 - 16:30

16:00 - 18:00

16:00 - 17:30
Physiology

16:30 - 16:40

Opening

15:30 - 16:30
The Honorary
Thienemann
Lecture16:30 - 16:40
Short break

12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

Coffee break

Taxonomy 2

Coffee break

Taxonomyworkshop 1
Short break

16:40 - 17:40
Taxonomyworkshop 2

16:40 - 18:30
Ecology 1

18:00 - 19:30
Final forum

After 4 July, oral presentations will be also given on time through links to Zoom meetings.

-5-Oral session
All the times will be in Japan Standard Time (JST).

Monday, 4 July
15:00 - 15:10 Welcome and opening

15:30 - 16:30 The Honorary Thienemann Lecture
Response of chironomids to climate change: evidence on cold, heat andchemical tolerance of cold-adapted species
Valeria Lencioni
Chair:Richard Cornette
16:30 - 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - 18:30 Ecology 1
Chair: Kenzi Takamura
16:40 - 17:00 Chironomid community response to climate drivenchanges in a tufa barrier in Plitvice Lakes National Park(Croatia)
V. Dorić
17:00 - 17:20 Chironomids and the City - Chironomidae diversity anddistribution in urban water bodies
Dubravka Čerba
17:20 - 17:40 Brief review: impact of dams on non-biting midges (Diptera:Chironomidae) diversity and ecology in the rivers of theŠventoji and Žeimena sub-basins (Lithuania)
Laurynas Stasiukynas
17:40 - 18:00 Recent advances in the knowledge on the Chironomidae
community from Pico da Neblina, Amazonas, Brazil
Erika Mayumi Shimabukuro
18:00 - 18:20 New Chironomidae records for the North Atlantic islands
based on pupal exuviae
Agnes-Katharina Kreiling-6-Tuesday, 5 July
12:00 - 14:00 Poster session 1
14:00 - 15:30 Taxonomy 1
Chair:Koichiro Kawai
14:00 - 14:20 Stictochironomus species can fold their gonostylus
inwardly. Why?
Masaru Yamamoto
14:20 - 14:40 A Taxonomic Review of the Japanese Dicrotendipes
Ozaki Daisuke
14:40 - 15:00 Orthocladius (Orthocladius) montisdei sp. n. and O. (O. )queyrassianus sp. n., two new crenophilous species with
reduced antennae from continental France (Chironomidae,Orthocladiinae)
Joel Moubayed
15:00 - 15:20 Limnophyes knispelae sp. n. and L. sartorii sp. n., two newspecies from the Swiss Alps (Chironomidae,Orthocladiinae)
Joel Moubayed
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 18:00 Taxonomy 2
Chair: Peter Langton
16:00 - 16:20 Fossils of non-biting midges illuminating reversible loss ofblood-feeding
Viktor Baranov
16:20 - 16:40 The use of artificial intelligence to determine the taxonomic
classification of chironomid larvae
Djuradj Milošević
16:40 - 17:00 DNA barcodes cast light on genetic diversity in thecircumpolar species Tanytarsus gracilentus (Holmgren,1883)
Torbjørn Ekrem
17:00 - 17:20 European Chironomidae barcode data – joint efforts
needed to improve the reference library for non-biting
midgesElisabeth Stur
17:20 - 17:40 DNA barcoding reveals an unknown Chironomidae diversity
from the freshwater biodiversity hot-spot
Piotr Gadawski-7-Wednesday, 6 July
9:00 - 10:30

Ecology 2
Chair: Will Bouchard Jr.
9:00 - 9:20

9:20 - 9:40

Temporal partitioning of emergence by Chironomidae in an
insular tropical rainforest stream
R. William Bouchard Jr.
Diversity of Chironomidae (Diptera) from Saline andFreshwater Lakes in a Grass-Stabilized Sand Dune Regionof North America
Barbara Hayford

The influence on the taxonomic sufficiency of theChironomidae on the outcome of a biomonitoring study ofurban prairie streams of differing flow regimes
Megann Harlow
10:00 - 10:20 Genetic differentiation within two Nanocladius species
phoretic on Megaloptera and Plecoptera
Natsuko I. Kondo
9:40 - 10:00

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Poster session 2
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Genomics / Phylogeny
Chair: Richard Cornette
14:00 - 14:20 High quality genome assembly of the anhydrobiotic midge
provides insights on a single chromosome-based
emergence of extreme desiccation tolerance
Yuki Yoshida
14:20 - 14:40 Genome skimming provides new insights in evolutionary
history of Chironomidae
Xiao-Long Lin
14:40 - 15:00 Evolutionary relationships between chironomid
hemoglobins
Koichiro Kawai
15:00 - 15:20 Evolutionary studies on Chironomus hemoglobin using
phylogenetic approach
Bimalendu B. Nath-8-15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Physiology
Chair: Valeria Lencioni16:00 - 16:20 Evaluation of rearing efficiency and characterization ofdevelopmental stages of the anhydrobiotic midge
Polypedilum vanderplanki in laboratory conditions
Richard Cornette
16:20 - 16:40 Fate-determining metabolic pathways in a tropicalchironomid midge under physiological water unavailability
Leena Thorat
16:40 - 17:00 Chironomid Eating Disorder - alteration in digestive system
of Chironomus riparius (Diptera, Chironomidae) exposed tomagnetic nanoparticles
Stojanovic J.
17:00 - 17:20 Gene Expression Analysis of Tire Rubber Microparticles
and Leachate in Freshwater Organism Chironomus riparius
Caballero-Carretero P.

Thursday, 7 July
15:30 - 16:30 Taxonomy workshop 1
Chair:Elisabeth Stur
16:30 - 16:40 Short break
16:40 - 17:40 Taxonomy workshop 2
Chair:Richard Cornette
18:00 - 19:00 Final forum
Chair:Richard Cornette
In Memoriam
Presentation of CHIRONOMUS journal and publication of symposium
proceedings
Torbjørn Ekrem
Vote and announcement of 22nd ISC
Closing Discussion and farewell-9-Poster session
P01

Comparative genome and transcriptome analyses provide insights into molecularmechanisms of adaptation to acidic environments in chironomids
Eita Nakanishi

P02Combinatorial omics approaches to study control of circalunar clock genes
Danila Voronov

P03

Development of Trans-membrane protein expression system using Pv11 cells fromsleeping chironomid (Polypedilum vanderplanki )Hiroto FUSE

P04

Histological characterization of Chironomus riparius (Diptera, Chironomidae)
larvaeMilovanovic A.

P05

Visualization Using Zinc Ion Probe of Zinc Uptake from Different Route of Exposure
and Tissue Distribution in Chironomidae Larvae
Ashok Kumar SHRESTHA

P06

High temperature tolerance of Chironomus sulfurosus and its molecularmechanisms
Tettey Afi PamelaP07Relationship between the distribution of mosquito larvae and chironomid larvae inwater and their hemoglobin gene expression
Jing-Yao Tsai

P08

Larval oogenesis in the Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica
Mizuki Yoshida

P09

New chironomid species (Diptera, Chironomidae) from a mountain stream, acontribution to the Croatian checklist
Ergović Viktorija

P10

Bryophaenocladius adigensis sp. n., a new crenophilous species from the middle
basin of Adige River, NW-Italy (Diptera, Chironomidae)
Joel Moubayed

P11

An Evaluation of Chironomid pupal exuviae as indicators of changing
environmental quality in stormwater retention ponds along an urban gradient.
Kaitlynn Davis- 10 -P12

The optimum water temperature and degree days for the Chironomus riparius(Meigen, 1804) growth
Sorour Hemmati

P13

Annual and seasonal trends of density, biomass, and secondary production ofchironomid midges (Diptera : Chironomidae) in the middle reaches of the Chikuma
River during April 2015 to March 2019
Kimio Hirabayashi

P14

Chironomidae collected at the seashore in Kume Island
Goro Kimura

P15

Seasonal variation in chironomid communities in two Faroese streams
Agnes-Katharina Kreiling

P16

Population dynamics of Qeshlagh River Chironomidae, Kurdistan, Iran
Pegah Mirbeigi

P17

Gut living fungi of Chironomidae larvae recently collected in Japan, a preliminary
study
Hiroki Sato

P18

Chironomid-Plant Relationships of Lake Austin and Lady Bird LakeJames Shugart- 11 -