Invited speakers
A Love Letter to the Deep Ocean
University of California, USA
Are Seamounts Hotspots of Mesopelagic Densities Geographic Area of Focus: Indian Ocean
Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, France
Microbial Ecological Patterns in Sediments from Low- and High-Temperature Hydrothermal Vents, and an Oxygen Minimum Zone in the Gulf of California: Insights into Functionality
National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Loss of Genetic Diversity in Hydrothermal Vent Populations after the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai Eruption
University of Rhode Island, USA
Why Symbiont Strain Diversity Matters in Deep-sea Mussels
University of Bremen, Germany
Vision in the Deep – an Overview of Adaptations to Dim Light and Bioluminescence
Nova Southeastern University, USA
Deep-sea Coral Ecosystem Dynamics through Space and Time: Implications for Conservation
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Deep Ocean Science and Exploration with eDNA
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
Progress in the Development of Standards and Best Practice in Benthic Imagery Annotation and Onward Data Use
University of Plymouth, UK
Extreme Living: Host-symbiont Interactions in Deep-sea Hydrothermal Vent Snails
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Trait-based Approaches and Conservation in the Azores Marine Park
University of Azores, Portugal
Biodiversity of Deep-sea Nematodes: from Morphology to Molecules
Ghent University, Belgium
African Network of Deep Water Researchers: Challenges and Opportunities
University of Nairobi, Kenya
Ecology of Deep-sea Protistan and Metazoan Meiofauna: Experimental Approaches
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Current Issues and Future Priorities for the Deep Ocean under Climate Change
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
Broadening Our Views on Common Heritage: Factoring in Art, Science and all Forms of Knowledge in the Politics and Regulatory Framing of the Deep Sea
Research Institute for Sustainability, Germany
Towards FAIRer Deep Ocean Data: Progress and Opportunities
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
Democratising the Deep Sea
Nekton Foundation, UK
Distribution and Genomic Variation of Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea in Abyssal and Hadal Surface Sediments
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France
Non-invasive Methods for Studying Midwater Jellyfish
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
What Are the Prevalent Clades Involved in Marine Biogeochemical Processes at Extreme Energy Limitation?
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany
Global Plastics Treaty and Deep Sea Science
University of Exeter, UK
*Remarks: The topics mentioned above are subject to change and are tentative in nature.