Program
2nd Sept: Registration
14:00 - 18:00 Registration (Queens Building Entrance Hall)
19:00 Evening Reception (Queens Meeting Rooms 1-3)
3rd Sept: Conference Day 1
8:00-850 Registration (Queens Building Entrance Hall)
8.55 Welcome
09.00 Session 1 Sexual Selection (Jean-Guy Godin)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Professor Gil Rosenthal - Back to the future: contemporary insights on behavior, genes, and
evolution in poeciliids
09.40-10.00 Inês Órfão - Title Male sexual behaviour adjustment in the presence of a rival
10.00-10.20 Carolyn Burt - Illusions and Deception in Mate Choice
10.20-10.40 Elizabeth Hardy - Initial findings on behavioral mechanisms for a conditional signal in Xiphophorus hellerii
10.40 Coffee/tea break
11.10 Session 2 Reproductive Biology (Ingo Schlupp)
11.10-11.30 Alessandro Devigili - Sperm production, sex ratio and GxE interaction
11.30-11.50 Miguel Barbosa - Testing the stress effects of female multiple mating
11.50-12.10 Silvia Cattelan - Exploring genotype x environment interactions in pre- and post-copulatory traits in guppies
12.10-12.30 Clelia Gasparini - Sperm ageing and reproductive success in the guppy
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session 3 Behaviour (Rob Heathcote)
14.00-14.40 Grant Brown - Phenotypically-plastic neophobia in guppies: a response to variable predation threats
14.40-15.00 Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato - Sex differences in cognitive abilities in guppies
15.00-15.20 Josefine Bohr Brask - Social preferences based on sexual attractiveness: a female strategy to reduce male sexual attention
15.20-15.40 Amir Ghazilou - Single and repeated exposure to methamphetamine induces altered sexual behavior in male sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna Lesueur)
15.40 Coffee/tea break
15:40-16:30 Posters
Patricia de Lourdes Frías Alvarez - Superfetation in poeciliid fishes does not always result from a
morphological constraint
Pierre Chuard - Mean females: consequences of predation risk and operational sex ratio on the mating
competition of the Trinidadian guppy
Stephen White - Pace of Life Syndrome in a laboratory population of the Trinidadian guppy Poecilia reticulata
Stefanie Gierszewski - The virtual Lover – Do real fish interact with 3-D fish in questions of mate-choice?
Shaun Killen - Sexual harassment drives increased swimming efficiency in female guppies
Spencer Ingley - anyFish for anybody: a free, open-source software platform for generating animated fish
models to study behavior
Grant Brown - Personality and the response to predation risk: effects of information quantity and quality
Mia Kent - Impact of temperature on the routine swimming behaviour of juvenile guppies
Rebecca Pinkham - The effect of familiarity on on mate choice copying in the trinidadian guppy
16:30-17:30 AnyFish workshop
4th Sept: Conference Day 2, with a conference dinner in the evening
09.00 Session 4: Social Behaviour 1 (Darren Croft)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Prof Ashley Ward - Individuality and sociality in the collective behaviour of mosquitofish
09.40-10.00 Jean-Guy Godin - Phenotype-dependent social associations among male sexual rivals in a promiscuous fish
10.00-10.20 Amber Makowicz - Clonal selection in a unisexual vertebrate, Poecilia formosa
10.20-10.40 Mathew Edenbrow - Interacting phenotypes across social contexts and the evolution of cooperation in the Trinidadian guppy
10.40 Coffee/tea break
11.10 Session 5 Social Behaviour 2 (Safi Darden)
11.10-11.30 Robert Heathcote - The role of predation risk, social network dynamics, and personality trait stability on growth rates in guppies.
11.30-11.50 Alessandro Macario - Experimentally induced social disruption and female fitness in guppies
11.50-12.10 Alastair Wilson - Integrating personality, dominance and life-history: Genetic and environmental effects on development in the sheepshead swordtail
12.10 Lunch and opportunity for small group discussion
15.00-15.20 Karoline Borner - Changes in social behaviour in response to turbid environments (Poecilia reticulata)
15.20-15.40 Christos Ioannou - Group decision making in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata
15.40 Coffee/tea break
16.10 Session 6 Invasiveness (Chair to be confirmed)
16.10-16.30 Alfredo Ojanguren - Thermal performance of routine swimming activity and growth rate of juvenile guppies
16.30-16.50 Morelia Camacho-Cervantes - Contribution of social interactions to the worldwide spread of an invasive species
16.50-17.10 Douglas Fraser - Introductions and interactions: effects of heterospecifics on colonisation success
17.10-17.30 Al Reeve - Thermal regime change affects life history parameters in a tropical freshwater fish
17.30 End
5th Sept: Conference Day 3 (ending at 12:00)
09.00 Session 7 Ecology and Evolution 1 (Grant Brown)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Dr Joanne Cable - Poeciliid Parasites
09.40-10.00 Bruce Stallsmith - Monogenoidean gill parasites of Brachyrhaphis species in Panamá
10.00-10.20 Ulrike Scherer - Effects of Female Choice on Female Fitness – Do Mate Preferences of Female Poecilia latipinna Benefit Their Reproductive Success?
10.20-10.40 P. Andreas Svensson - Experimentally induced divergence of carotenoid usage in male guppy ornamentation.
10.40 Coffee/tea break and posters
11.30 Session 8 Ecology and Evolution 2 (Grant Brown)
11.10-11.30 Claudia Zimmer - Evolution of body coloration in extremophile mollies (Poecilia mexicana) from sulfidic habitats
11.30-11.50 Ingo Schlupp - Caribbean Adventures: Ecology and Conservation of the Sulfur Limia complex, Limia sulphurophila.
11.50-12.00 Final Comments
12:00 End
14:00 - 18:00 Registration (Queens Building Entrance Hall)
19:00 Evening Reception (Queens Meeting Rooms 1-3)
3rd Sept: Conference Day 1
8:00-850 Registration (Queens Building Entrance Hall)
8.55 Welcome
09.00 Session 1 Sexual Selection (Jean-Guy Godin)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Professor Gil Rosenthal - Back to the future: contemporary insights on behavior, genes, and
evolution in poeciliids
09.40-10.00 Inês Órfão - Title Male sexual behaviour adjustment in the presence of a rival
10.00-10.20 Carolyn Burt - Illusions and Deception in Mate Choice
10.20-10.40 Elizabeth Hardy - Initial findings on behavioral mechanisms for a conditional signal in Xiphophorus hellerii
10.40 Coffee/tea break
11.10 Session 2 Reproductive Biology (Ingo Schlupp)
11.10-11.30 Alessandro Devigili - Sperm production, sex ratio and GxE interaction
11.30-11.50 Miguel Barbosa - Testing the stress effects of female multiple mating
11.50-12.10 Silvia Cattelan - Exploring genotype x environment interactions in pre- and post-copulatory traits in guppies
12.10-12.30 Clelia Gasparini - Sperm ageing and reproductive success in the guppy
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Session 3 Behaviour (Rob Heathcote)
14.00-14.40 Grant Brown - Phenotypically-plastic neophobia in guppies: a response to variable predation threats
14.40-15.00 Tyrone Lucon-Xiccato - Sex differences in cognitive abilities in guppies
15.00-15.20 Josefine Bohr Brask - Social preferences based on sexual attractiveness: a female strategy to reduce male sexual attention
15.20-15.40 Amir Ghazilou - Single and repeated exposure to methamphetamine induces altered sexual behavior in male sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna Lesueur)
15.40 Coffee/tea break
15:40-16:30 Posters
Patricia de Lourdes Frías Alvarez - Superfetation in poeciliid fishes does not always result from a
morphological constraint
Pierre Chuard - Mean females: consequences of predation risk and operational sex ratio on the mating
competition of the Trinidadian guppy
Stephen White - Pace of Life Syndrome in a laboratory population of the Trinidadian guppy Poecilia reticulata
Stefanie Gierszewski - The virtual Lover – Do real fish interact with 3-D fish in questions of mate-choice?
Shaun Killen - Sexual harassment drives increased swimming efficiency in female guppies
Spencer Ingley - anyFish for anybody: a free, open-source software platform for generating animated fish
models to study behavior
Grant Brown - Personality and the response to predation risk: effects of information quantity and quality
Mia Kent - Impact of temperature on the routine swimming behaviour of juvenile guppies
Rebecca Pinkham - The effect of familiarity on on mate choice copying in the trinidadian guppy
16:30-17:30 AnyFish workshop
4th Sept: Conference Day 2, with a conference dinner in the evening
09.00 Session 4: Social Behaviour 1 (Darren Croft)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Prof Ashley Ward - Individuality and sociality in the collective behaviour of mosquitofish
09.40-10.00 Jean-Guy Godin - Phenotype-dependent social associations among male sexual rivals in a promiscuous fish
10.00-10.20 Amber Makowicz - Clonal selection in a unisexual vertebrate, Poecilia formosa
10.20-10.40 Mathew Edenbrow - Interacting phenotypes across social contexts and the evolution of cooperation in the Trinidadian guppy
10.40 Coffee/tea break
11.10 Session 5 Social Behaviour 2 (Safi Darden)
11.10-11.30 Robert Heathcote - The role of predation risk, social network dynamics, and personality trait stability on growth rates in guppies.
11.30-11.50 Alessandro Macario - Experimentally induced social disruption and female fitness in guppies
11.50-12.10 Alastair Wilson - Integrating personality, dominance and life-history: Genetic and environmental effects on development in the sheepshead swordtail
12.10 Lunch and opportunity for small group discussion
15.00-15.20 Karoline Borner - Changes in social behaviour in response to turbid environments (Poecilia reticulata)
15.20-15.40 Christos Ioannou - Group decision making in the Trinidadian guppy, Poecilia reticulata
15.40 Coffee/tea break
16.10 Session 6 Invasiveness (Chair to be confirmed)
16.10-16.30 Alfredo Ojanguren - Thermal performance of routine swimming activity and growth rate of juvenile guppies
16.30-16.50 Morelia Camacho-Cervantes - Contribution of social interactions to the worldwide spread of an invasive species
16.50-17.10 Douglas Fraser - Introductions and interactions: effects of heterospecifics on colonisation success
17.10-17.30 Al Reeve - Thermal regime change affects life history parameters in a tropical freshwater fish
17.30 End
5th Sept: Conference Day 3 (ending at 12:00)
09.00 Session 7 Ecology and Evolution 1 (Grant Brown)
09.00-09.40 Plenary Dr Joanne Cable - Poeciliid Parasites
09.40-10.00 Bruce Stallsmith - Monogenoidean gill parasites of Brachyrhaphis species in Panamá
10.00-10.20 Ulrike Scherer - Effects of Female Choice on Female Fitness – Do Mate Preferences of Female Poecilia latipinna Benefit Their Reproductive Success?
10.20-10.40 P. Andreas Svensson - Experimentally induced divergence of carotenoid usage in male guppy ornamentation.
10.40 Coffee/tea break and posters
11.30 Session 8 Ecology and Evolution 2 (Grant Brown)
11.10-11.30 Claudia Zimmer - Evolution of body coloration in extremophile mollies (Poecilia mexicana) from sulfidic habitats
11.30-11.50 Ingo Schlupp - Caribbean Adventures: Ecology and Conservation of the Sulfur Limia complex, Limia sulphurophila.
11.50-12.00 Final Comments
12:00 End