Program
Program
The 2025 International Seaweed Symposium (ISS25) Committee will begin accepting abstract proposals on a variety of applied phycology themes starting on May 5, 2024. Proposed themes are, but may not be limited, to:
Applications
- Bioactives and human health
- Biofuels
- Biostimulants
- Cosmetics
- Extraction and purification
- Feed ingredients
- Functional foods
- New applications of phycocolloids
- Rare Earth minerals
- Seaweeds as biofilters
- Seaweeds as feed
- Seaweeds and wastewater treatment
- Seaweed extracts in agriculture
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Solutions
- Carbon uptake and allocation
- Climate-driven changes in seaweed distribution/biogeography
- Genomics and breeding to enhance e.g. thermal tolerance
- Mechanisms of acclimation and adaptation to global change
- Multiple drivers of change
- Physiological and molecular responses to global change
- Refugia from climate change
Ecology
- Chemical ecology
- Ecotoxicology
- Fertilization and dispersal
- Introduced seaweeds
- Local environmental change (e.g. eutrophication, pollution)
- Macroalgal blooms (green tides, Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt etc)
- Microbiome/Holobiome
- Ocean acidification
- Pathogens/disease in natural and farmed systems
- Population and community ecology
- Restoration
- Seaweed-herbivore interactions
Gastronomy
- Best practices to expand seaweed in gastronomy
- Seaweed as a source of natural flavours in innovative foods
- Seaweed acceptance and introduction into food habits
- Seaweed in food cuisines around the world
- Showcasing seaweed in markets and restaurants
Indigenous Knowledge
- Indigenous knowledge
- Traditional uses of seaweed
- Seaweed in Indigenous art
- Seaweed in Indigenous gastronomy
- Seaweed cultivation, harvesting and aquaculture
- Seaweed monitoring, management and stewardship
Seaweed Aquaculture
- Breeding, elite strain development, and seedstock production
- Diversity of seaweeds in Canada
- Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA)
- Impacts of aquaculture on natural seaweed populations/ invasive species
- Major farmed seaweeds
- Offshore, open ocean and land-based culture
- Storage, processing and biorefinery
- Sustainable harvesting of wild populations
Regulatory Frameworks for Industry and Restoration
- Area-based management, governance and socio-economics
- Balancing industrial development with ecosystem protection in regulations
- Carbon accounting and forensics
- Canada’s mosaic of seaweed regulations
- Environmental regulation of reproduction
- Permitting practices - the good, the bad, the ugly
- Seaweed regulations for carbon dioxide removal
- Seaweed standards & regulations
- Wild harvest regulations
Taxonomy, Diversity and Evolution
- Seed banks to protect seaweed diversity
- Coralline algae
- Biogeography
- Ancestral character state reconstruction from multi-gene phylogenies; evolution of novelties in seaweeds
- Phylogenomics of the seaweeds, and the evolution of organelles
- The diversity and physiological challenges of cryptic seaweed species
The 2025 International Seaweed Symposium (ISS25) Committee will begin accepting abstract proposals on a variety of applied phycology topics starting on May 5, 2024. Proposed topics are, but may not be limited, to:
Applications
- Bioactives and human health
- Biofuels
- Biostimulants
- Cosmetics
- Extraction and purification
- Feed ingredients
- Functional foods
- New applications of phycocolloids
- Rare Earth minerals
- Seaweeds as biofilters
- Seaweeds as feed
- Seaweeds and wastewater treatment
- Seaweed extracts in agriculture
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Solutions
- Carbon uptake and allocation
- Climate-driven changes in seaweed distribution/biogeography
- Genomics and breeding to enhance e.g. thermal tolerance
- Mechanisms of acclimation and adaptation to global change
- Multiple drivers of change
- Physiological and molecular responses to global change
- Refugia from climate change
Ecology
- Chemical ecology
- Ecotoxicology
- Fertilization and dispersal
- Introduced seaweeds
- Local environmental change (e.g. eutrophication, pollution)
- Macroalgal blooms (green tides, Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt etc)
- Microbiome/Holobiome
- Ocean acidification
- Pathogens/disease in natural and farmed systems
- Population and community ecology
- Restoration
- Seaweed-herbivore interactions
Gastronomy
- Best practices to expand seaweed in gastronomy
- Seaweed as a source of natural flavours in innovative foods
- Seaweed acceptance and introduction into food habits
- Seaweed in food cuisines around the world
- Showcasing seaweed in markets and restaurants
Aquaculture
- Breeding, elite strain development, and seedstock production
- Diversity of seaweeds in Canada
- Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA)
- Impacts of aquaculture on natural seaweed populations/ invasive species
- Major farmed seaweeds
- Offshore, open ocean and land-based culture
- Storage, processing and biorefinery
- Sustainable harvesting of wild populations
Regulatory Frameworks for Industry and Restoration
- Area-based management, governance and socio-economics
- Balancing industrial development with ecosystem protection in regulations
- Carbon accounting and forensics
- Canada’s mosaic of seaweed regulations
- Environmental regulation of reproduction
- Permitting practices - the good, the bad, the ugly
- Seaweed regulations for carbon dioxide removal
- Seaweed standards & regulations
Taxonomy, diversity and evolution
- Seed banks to protect seaweed diversity
- Coralline algae
- Biogeography
- Ancestral character state reconstruction from multi-gene phylogenies; evolution of novelties in seaweeds
- Phylogenomics of the seaweeds, and the evolution of organelles
- The diversity and physiological challenges of cryptic seaweed species