July 19th to July 24th 2026

ITM13 will take place at Humboldt University's lovely Campus Nord right in the middle of the city of Berlin (Germany).



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Tao Laurent will offer a demonstration of MorphoNet and a hands-on workshop in parallel to the taxonomy workshop on Friday afternoon.


Sessions' main presentations:  allotted time 20 minutes (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes questions)


Sessions' regular presentations: allotted time 15 minutes (12 minutes presentation, 3 minutes questions)



Poster sizes: stands accommodate

A0 format (= 84.1 cm × 118.9 cm)

in portrait orientation




Updated detailed program available

Detailed program & all abstracts as pdf-file also available for download


Please check for typos, lapses, or omissions - and let us know about them, so we can fix them.



Here you can find information about activities, you can join on Wednesday, July 22nd.



Tunicata 101

A series of three webinars in anticipation of ITM13 see information here.


The recordings of all webinars are available now:


'Ascidian Taxonomy'  by Prof. Marie Nydam

'Ascidian Embryology & Neurobiology' by Prof. Takehiro Kusakabe

'Pelagic Tunicate Morphology' by Prof. Thomas Stach




Registration is still open!


See details on the Registration & Submission page.




Get involved:

Please send suggestions to

thomas.stach@hu-berlin.de