Clinical Use of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins: First evidence of Neosaxitoxin as a long-acting pain-blocker in Bladder Pain Syndrome, Valentín Manríquez, Daniela Castro, Rodrigo Guzmán, Michel Naser, Daniela Castro & Néstor. Lagos...... 1 HAB genera identified on archival samples from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, Rowena Stern, Pierre Helaouet & Jessica Clarke ........................ 2 Announcement: The 17th International Conference on Harmful Algae 2016 ............................................................... 3 Persistent golden tides stranding Caribbean Sea in 2014 and 2015, José C. Báez, A. Enrique Salvo & Antonio Flores-Moya, ................................................... 4 Recurrence of the harmful dinoflagellate Karlodinium australe along the Johor Strait, Sing Tung Teng, Chui Pin Leaw, Winnie Lik Sing Lau, Ing Kuo Law & Po Teen Lim .................................................................................................. 5 Gonyaulax spinifera bloom in Thermaikos Gulf, Katerina Aligizaki, Eleni Arvaniti, Iliana Nikolopoulou, Agoritsa Kaliora & Minas Arsenakis ............................ 6 Occurrence of Pyrodinium bahamense blooms related to cyst accumulation in the bottom sediments in the bays at Ambon, Lampung and Jakarta, Indonesia, Tumpak Sidabutar, Hikmah Thoha, Mariana D. Bayu, Arief Rachman, Oksto Ridho Sianturi & Nurul Fitriya, A Muawanah, Hanung Agus Mulyadi, Sem Likumahua & Estelle Masseret.................... 8 Encystment and excystment of tropical strains of the toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae), Guat Ru Liow, Po Teen Lim, Suh Nih Tan & Chui Pin Leaw............................................................................................ 10 Extensive outbreaks of heterotrophic dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans blooms along coastal waters of the South Eastern Arabian Sea, Kunnatholickal B Padmakumar, Lathika Cicily, Maruthadu Sudhakar & Bijoy Nandan S .... 11 Predicting the unknown from the unknown: Can we model our way out of ecological ignorance?, Barrie Dale .......... 13 IOC and IAEA together in a Regional Science Planning Workshop on Harmful Algae in the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions, J Ernesto Mancera-Pineda, Henrik Enevoldsen & Carlos Alonso-Hernández ....................................... 15 Algae for the future: from harm to benefits – Highlights on the HABSCS-ICBUAB 2015, Hong Kong, Kin Chung Ho................................................ 16 Colombia organized its first national workshop on HABs, J. Ernesto Mancera-Pineda, Brigitte Gavio, Luis Carlos Montenegro-Rodríguez & Liliana Rodríguez........... 17 Phytoplankton taxonomists at work! Rafael Salas....................................... 19 IOC-SCOR GlobalHAB Steering Meeting, Oban, UK 8-10 March 2016, Elisa Berdalet, ........................... 19 Theme session about phyto­plankton trends to be held at the ICES ASC 2016 ...................... 20 The US 9th Symposium on Harmful Algae ............................................. 20 The SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting ............................................. 20 Tribute to Yves Collos (1949-2015), Estelle Masseret, Mohamed Labir & Philipp Hess, ........................ 21 10th International Conference on Toxic Cyanobacteria ........................... 22