It is our pleasure to host the Physiomar-14 International Meeting in La Serena, Chile! Physiomar have been successfully organized every 2 years since 2006. Previous meetings were held in La Paz (Mexico), Brest (France), Quebec (Canada), and Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Physiomar-14 in La Serena will be already our 5th meeting. We hope it will attract open-minded biologists who are interested in recent advances in all aspects of the physiology of molluscs. We are looking fo