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2015 Animal Ecology Meeting

This is the schedule and talk titles for the 2015 Annual Meeting at Animal Ecology, Uppsala University:

Wednesday 11 February
10:40 Simon Evans "Climate change drives evolution of an ornament in a wild bird"
11:00 Elina Immonen "Mitonuclear epistasis in ageing: Sex specific direct and indirect genetic effects on reproductive performance"
11:20 Richard Svanbäck "When friends turn to foes"
11:40 María Cortázar "MHC genetic variation in anuran species. Let´s look at Moor frog as a model system"

13:30 Göran Arnqvist "The evolution of genome size"
13:50 Germán Orizaola "On plasticity and distribution ranges"
14:10 Mattias Siljestam "Polymorphism and multi-level selection"
14:30 Jono Henshaw "Measuring sexual selection: a more holistic model of reproductive life histories"
14:50 Yvonne Meyer-Lucht "Genetic divergence among Scottish and endangered Irish red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica)"

15:40 Hwei-Yen Chen "Forget the worms - let's talk about those bad girls"
16:00 Peter Halvarsson "Global and local homozygosity affect malaria infection status"
16:20 Martin Lind "Slow development as an evolutionary cost of long life"
16:40 Murielle Ålund "An asymmetric barrier to foreign sperm in hybridizing flycatchers"

Thursday 12 February
09:00 Patrizia d'Ettore "Recognition of identity in ants"

10:20 Anssi Laurila "Rapid evolution of constitutive and inducible defenses against an invasive predator"
10:40 Elisabeth Bolund "Costs of reproduction explain a gradual change from a male-biased to a female-biased sex difference in human lifespan"
11:00 Ivain Martinossi "Is there an opportunity for sexual selection to aid adaptation to novel environments?"
11:20 Warren Kunce "The effects of pesticides on predator behavior"
11:40 Foteini Spagopoulou "From Australia with Love: Early life condition effects on ageing of males, females and their offspring"

13:30 Friederike Schulz "Adaptation to rapid warming in a Baltic Sea snail"
13:50 Eryn McFarlane "GWAS on a sexually selected trait in flycatchers"
14:10 Claus Rüffler "A general condition for adaptive genetic polymorphism in temporally and spatially heterogeneous environments"
14:30 Jacob Höglund "Linkage disequilibrium and sexual selection on MHC genes in black grouse"
14:50 Anders Ödeen "Visual acuity in insectivorous birds"

15:40 Lars Gustafsson "The collared flycatcher and the African black box"
16:00 Brian Mautz "Purging of mutations via sexual selection is dependent upon which sex chooses a mate"
16:20 Jannika Boström "Temporal visual resolution of budgerigars. Are pet birds at risk?"
16:40 Bruno Carreira "Climate change effects on phenotypic plasticity and food preferences of ponds omnivores"
17:00 Radoslav Kozma "Climate change: how do grouse like it?!"

Friday 13 February
09:00 Ben Dantzer "Eco-Evo-Endocrinology: an integrative approach for understanding how animals adapt to changing environments"

10:20 Mats Björklund "Let there be chaos!"
10:40 Magnus Johansson "Temperature preference and tolerance in snails from thermal environments"
11:00 David Berger "The sexually antagonistic genetic variation of same-sex behavior"
11:20 Jakub Rybinski "Competition driven build-up of habitat isolation"
11:40 Frank Johansson "Seasonal time constraints and genetic variation in life history traits along a latitudinal gradient"

13:30 Ingrid Ahnesjö "Stand-up for the reproductive compensation hypothesis"
13:50 Karoline Fritzsche "Evolution of female courtship behaviour under skewed sex ratios"
14:10 David Wheatcroft "Innate species recognition and the consequences for reproductive isolation"
14:30 Alexei Maklakov "Evolutionary consequences of lifespan extension"
14:50 Masahito Tsuboi "Functional coupling constrains morphological diversification in Lake Tanganyika cichlids"

15:40 Anna Qvarnström "The catch 22 in Genome Wide Association Studies"
16:00 Karl Grieshop "The capacity for sexual selection to remove mutations from a population"
16:20 Katerina Guschanski "Expression evolution of mammalian duplicate genes"
16:40 Kevin Fletcher "Investigating intergenerational costs in a passerine bird"
17:00 Ahmed Sayadi "Callosobruchus maculatus Genome project"

Animal Ecology Seminar Series

Animal Ecology Seminar Series will re-start on Februray 2015, focusing on post-docs/early career researchers.

The preliminary schedule is: