Event Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Day 4, 23- December 2021, Thursday is earmarked for Post-Conference Excursion.

  • Time IST
    (+5.30 GMT)
    Speaker /Participant
    Title
  • 9.30 AM
    Inaugural session
  • 10.30 AM
    Conference Photo
  • 10.45 AM
    Tea break
  • 10.55 AM
    Seah Wan Xin Rachel
    Introducing the plenary speaker Sven Weber and Anja Melcher
  • 11.00 AM
    Sven Weber and Anja Melcher
    Plenary talk: Biodiversity assessments in the 21st century - and what spiders have to do with it
  • 11.57 AM
    Runbiao Wu
    Introducing the session host Zhisheng Zhang
  • 12.00 PM
    Li Fan
    1: The complete mitochondrial genome of the intertidal spider (Desis jiaxiangi) provides novel insights into the adaptive evolution of the mitogenome and the evolution of spiders
  • 12.15 PM
    Xi Yuan
    2: Studying adaptive evolution to cave environment of cuticle in Chinese Leptonetela spiders based on transcriptomics
  • 12.30 PM
    Mathura Tharmarajan
    3: DNA barcoding, Molecular phylogeny and Taxonomy of selected genera of cobweb spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) of Sri Lanka
  • 12.45 PM
    Session Photo
  • 12.50 PM
    Lunch
  • 2.45 PM
    Rui Zhong
    Introducing the session host Jie Liu
  • 2.50 PM
    Li Daiqin
    4: From crypsis to masquerade: ontogeny changes the colour defences of a crab spider hiding as bird droppings
  • 3.00 PM
    Zheng Fan
    5: The chromosome level genome of Trichonephila antipodiana revels its adaptive evolution of polyphagy
  • 3.15 PM
    Amrita M. Shirbhate
    6: Salticids of Patur region in Maharashtra
  • 3.30 PM
    Zhou Wei
    7: Sexual selection on jumping spider color pattern: investigation with a new quantitative approach
  • 3.45 PM
    Session Photo
  • 3.50 PM
    Tea break
  • 3.57 PM
    Sheetal Laxman Zend
    Introducing the session host Peter Jaeger
  • 4.00 PM
    Milind Shirbhate
    8: Araneids of Katepurna Sanctuary Akola
  • 4.15 PM
    Jithin Johnson
    10: Diversity and evolution of the pseudoscorpion family Chthoniidae in the Western Ghats of India
  • 4.30 PM
    Reshmi Sekhar
    11: Two species of genus Argyrodes Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Therididdae) from Kerala
  • 4.45 PM
    Session Photo
  • Time IST
    (+5.30 GMT)
    Speaker /Participant
    Subject
  • 9.30
    Nishi Babu
    Introducing the plenary speaker Nathan Morehouse
  • 9.35
    Nathan Morehouse
    Plenary talks: Evolution of Looking and Seeing: New insights from Jumping Spiders
  • 10.30
    Aneesh Mathew Vergis
    Introducing the session host Milind Shirbhate
  • 10.35
    Kun Yu
    12: Charippus Thorell, 1895, a poorly studied genus of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae)
  • 10.50
    Changhao Hu
    13: Global Diversity of Pseudopoda Spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae)
  • 11.05
    Tan Min
    14: Variation in visual responsiveness of motion in jumping spiders
  • 11.20
    Session Photo
  • 11.25
    Tea break
  • 11.30
    Thanakron Into
    Introducing the session host Booppa Petcharad
  • 11.33
    Rui Zhong
    15: Safety becomes more and more important in cobweb spiders.
  • 11.48
    Nishi Babu
    16: Species richness and vertical stratification of family Tetragnathidae (Araneae) in paddy fields of selected areas at Kuttanad.
  • 12.05
    Aswathy S.
    17: Burrow morphology and microhabitat characteristics of an iridescent tarantula Haploclastus devamatha Prasanth & Jose, 2014 from Western Ghats, Kerala (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
  • 12.20
    Anitha Abraham
    18: Spider silk-an alternative promising antibiotic.
  • 12.35
    Session Photo
  • 12.40
    Lunch
  • 14.27
    Karthika K
    Introducing the session host Fr.Jobi Malamel CMI
  • 14.30
    Minu M
    19: Diversity and Seasonal Variation in Spider Abundance from Salim Ali Bird sanctuary, Thattekkad, Kerala
  • 14.45
    Ashirwad Tripathy
    20: New distributional record of Coenoptychus pulcher, Simon, 1885 ( Araneae: Corinnidae) with notes on morphology from Eastern India.
  • 15.00
    Hemant Vijay Karkhanis
    21: Spider Diversity at Godrej Mangroves, Vikhroli, Mumbai, Maharastra
  • 15.15
    Sheetal Laxman Zend
    22: Faunistic diversity of spiders at Godrej Mangroves, Vikhroli, Mumbai, Maharastra
  • 15.30
    Session Photo
  • 15.35
    Tea break
  • 15.42
    Aswathy S
    Introducing the session host Stephanie Loria
  • 15.45
    Runbiao Wu
    23: Inside the spider: gut microbial diversity and function in two closely related Pardosa spiders
  • 16.00
    Amelia Joyce Philip
    24: Non-consumptive effects by spider and bird on herbivory rate
  • 16.15
    Caroline Fukushima
    25: Who wants to buy a tarantula? Some results of a global survey about tarantula pet trade and conservation.
  • 16.30
    Peter Jaeger
    26: A diverse lineage of ground-dwelling Ctenidae in Asia
  • 16.50
    Session Photo
  • 17.00
    ASA meeting
  • 18.00
    Concluding Meeting
  • Time IST
    (+5.30 GMT)
    Speaker /Participant
    Subject
  • 9.30 AM
    Mathura Tharmarajan
    Introducing the plenary speaker
  • 9.33 AM
    Suresh P. Benjamin
    Plenary talks: Serendipity is the taxonomist's strongest ally: the discovery of spiders trapped on mountains trapped in a tropical island
  • 10.27 AM
    Anusmitha Domichan
    Introducing the session host John Caleb
  • 10.30 AM
    ASIMA A
    27: Araneid Spiders of Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary- A Short Term Study.
  • 10.45 AM
    Anusmitha Domichan
    28: First record of Oedothorax rusticus Tanasevitch, 2015 and Neriene birmanica
  • 11.00 AM
    Irina Das Sarkar
    29: Indian Arachnology in the 21st century
  • 11.17 AM
    Session Photo
  • 11.20 AM
    Tea break
  • 11.27 AM
    Asima A
    Introducing the session host Elizabeth V. Mathew
  • 11.30 AM
    Karthika K
    30: New distributional record of Annandaliella travancorica Hirst 1909 from Western Ghats,Kerala
  • 11.45 AM
    Namrata Kanjibhai Hun
    31: A review and first geographic distribution record of Chilobrachys fimbriatus Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) from Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary Junagadh Gujarat India
  • 12.00 PM
    Devi Priyadarshini
    32: Comparative study on spider diversity of paddy fields and protected areas of western Odisha
  • 12.15 PM
    Linta Joseph
    33: Preliminary Checklist of Spiders from Periyar Tiger Reserve(Vallakadavu Range), Western Ghats of Kerala
  • 12.32 PM
    Session Photo
  • 12.35 PM
    Lunch
  • 2.30 PM
    Session 34: Cultural Programme
  • 2.45 PM
    Session 35: Cultural Programme
  • 3.00 PM
    Nishi Babu
    Introducing the Session Host Priyanka Hadole
  • 3.05 PM
    Elizabeth V. Mathew
    36: 9: Taxonomy of Cyrtophora sp of Western Ghats
  • 3.15 PM
    Seah Wan Xin Rachel
    37: Opsins variation and differential expression in jumping spiders
  • 3.32 PM
    Session Photo
  • 3.35 PM
    Tea break
  • 3.42 PM
    Aswathy S.
    Introducing the session host Caroline Fukushima
  • 3.45 PM
    Poster Li Daiqin
    38: Masquerading predators deceive prey by aggressively mimicking bird droppings in a crab spider
  • 4.00 PM
    Poster - Abira Satkunanathan
    39: Diversity and conservation of Nannenini Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) in rapidly changing cloud forest of Sri Lanka
  • 4.15 PM
    Poster
    Session 40:
  • 4.30 PM
    Aneesh Mathew Vergis
    41: An insight to the type localities of Pseudoscorpiones of India
  • 4.46 PM
    Session Photo
  • 4.47 PM
    Valedictory Session