This meeting is open to all who work with diatoms or use diatoms in their research:

• Academic researchers in freshwater and marine diatom biology, taxonomy, and ecology

• Environmental monitoring agencies and water management bodies

• PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in phycology, limnology, and environmental sciences

• Industry professionals in environmental consulting, biotechnology, and nanotechnology

• Paleolimnologists and Quaternary scientists using diatoms as climate and environmental proxies

• Bioinformaticians and data scientists working on taxonomic automation and eDNA pipelines

• Microscopists and imaging specialists developing diatom identification tools

• Science communicators, natural historians, and citizen science enthusiasts