The 8th international tunicate meeting will be held July 13-17, 2015 at Aomori City Cultural Hall, Aomori, Japan.
The International Tunicate Meeting is the major scientific gathering of tunicate researchers with diverse interests, expertizes and experiences in tunicate biology and its related field from around the world, and is regularly held biennially in Europe, North America or Japan. The previous meetings were held in Napoli, Italy (2013), in Montreal, Canada (2011), in Okinawa, Japan (2009), in Villefranche-sur-Mer, France (2007), in Santa Barbara, California (2005), in Marseille, France (2003), and in Sapporo, Japan (2000). The meeting is organized with plenary sessions and poster sessions.

The meetings cover any aspect of tunicate research including, but not limited to, bio-informatics, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology and population diversity, evolution, genetics, genomics, immunity and allo-recoginition, invasive species, morphogenesis, neurobiology and physiology, and regeneration (alphabetically listed).