16th International Symposium on Tardigrada

The 16th International Symposium on Tardigrada was held in Japan in June 2025, marking the first time the conference has visited Asia since its inception in Italy in 1974.

120 researchers from 17 countries gathered at the Tsuruoka Metabolome Campus to share their research. The program featured 4 keynote lectures, 57 oral presentations, and 61 conference poster presentations, showcasing cutting-edge research on spanning morphology, ecology, molecular biology, and genomics.