Provisional Programme

Monday 21st July

1400-1830 Registration

1845-1945 Ice breaker reception

1945 Dinner

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Tuesday 22nd July

0730-0900 Breakfast

0830 Registration

0900 Conference opening (Iain Barber, Joanne Cable)

0905 Welcome address by Prof. Ken Woodhouse (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University)

0920 Announcements and logistics

Jack Jones Memorial Lecture

0925 ECOSYSTEM CONSEQUENCES OF FISH PARASITES
Kevin Lafferty (University of California, USA)

1025 Coffee / Tea

Theme 1: Genes and evolution

Chair: Joanne Cable

1100 THE ROLE OF Mhc GENES IN HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS (PLENARY)
Mathias Wegner (ETH-Zurich, Switzerland)

1150 Mhc-MEDIATED MATE CHOICE INCREASES PARASITE RESISTANCE IN SALMON
Sofia Consuegra (Swansea University, UK)

1210 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN Mhc VARIATION AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SEA LICE IN ATLANTIC SALMON: A CLOSER LOOK USING QTL ANALYSIS
Kharim Gharbi (University of Glasgow, UK)

1230 MOLECULAR STUDIES OF THE SAPROLEGNIA-FISH INTERACTION
Andrew Phillips (University of Aberdeen, UK)

1250 LUNCH

Chair: Matthias Wegner (TBC)

1350 IMMUNOCOMPETENCE, AN ENHANCING FORCE IN SPECIATION? INTERACTION OF STICKLEBACK GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS ECOTYPES WITH HABITAT SPECIFIC PARASITES (KEYNOTE)
Joern Scharsack (Max Planck Institute, Ploen, Germany)

1420 RELAXED PARASITE PRESSURE ON MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX (Mhc) POLYMORPHISM IN WILD TRINIDADIAN GUPPIES
Mark McMullan (University of Hull, UK)

1440 INTER-POPULATION VARIATION IN IMMUNE RESPONSE OF THE THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)
Job de Roij (University of Nottingham, UK)

1500 POLYMORPHISM OF Dab GENES AND VARIATION IN PARASITE SPECIES DIVERSITY IN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS OF CHUB (LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS)
Maria Seifertova (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)

1520 Coffee / Tea

Chair: Carl Smith

1550 THE COEVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF THE HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BITTERLING FISH AND FRESHWATER MUSSELS (KEYNOTE)
Martin Reichard (Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic)

1620 SPECIATION IN GYRODACTYLID MONOGENEANS - THE ROLE OF THE ICE AGES
Phil Harris (University of Nottingham, UK)

1640 COEVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN CONGENERIC MONOGENEANS: DACTYLOGYRUS SPECIES AND THEIR CYPRINID HOST
Serge Morand (Université Montpellier, France)

1700 PARASITE HOST SPECIFICITY: IS THERE SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT SPECIALISTS?
Tracy King (Cardiff University, UK)

1720 TRANSMISSION OF NEOZOIC ANGUILLICOLOIDES CRASSUS AND ESTABLISHED CAMALLANUS LACUSTRIS IN RUFFE
Julia Unger (Fisheries Research Station, Langenargen, Germany)

1740 Closing remarks and poster highlights

1745 POSTER RECEPTION (sponsored by Blackwells)

1945 DINNER

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Wednesday 23rd July

0730-0845 Breakfast

Theme 2: Proximate mechanisms of selection

Chair: Andrew MacColl (TBC)

0900 ADAPTATION, SPECIATION, AND PARASITES. PART I: PARASITE COMMUNITIES
Joost Raeymaekers (University of Leuven, Belgium)

0920 ADAPTATION, SPECIATION, AND PARASITES. PART II: PARASITE GENETICS
Maarten Vanhove (University of Leuven, Belgium)

0940 PATHOLOGY OF FISH PARASITE INFECTIONS (PLENARY)
Steve Feist (CEFAS Weymouth, UK)

1030 Coffee / Tea

1100 MIGRATION, SITE SELECTION, AND PATHOLOGY OF ORNITHODIPLOSTOMUM SPP. METACERCARIAE IN FATHEAD MINNOWS
Chelsea Matisz (University of Lethbridge, Canada)

1120 ANISAKIS SIMPLEX (NEMATODA: ANISAKIDAE) IN ENDANGERED ATLANTIC SALMON POPULATIONS
Carlos Garcia de Leaniz (University of Swansea, UK)

1140 NEOPARAMOEBIC GILL INFECTIONS: HOST RESPONSE AND PHYSIOLOGY IN SALMONIDS
Mark Powell (Bodø University, Norway)

1200 Annual General Meeting of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles

1300 Lunch

Chair: Bernd Sures (TBC)

1400 GYRODACTYLUS SALARIS INFECTING ALLOPATRIC ARCTIC CHARR FRY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HOST SURVIVAL
Anja Winger (University of Tromsø, Norway)

1420 EFFECTS OF BLACK SPOT DISEASE ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE FISH INTERMEDIATE HOST
Marketa Ondrackova (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Brno, Czech Republic)

Theme 3: Reproductive Parasitism

1440 PARASITIC SPAWNING IN THE SAND GOBY POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS
Ola Svensson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

1500 ALTERNATIVE MALE MATING TACTICS AND REPRODUCTIVE PARASITISM
Carl Smith (University of Leicester, UK)

1520 Coffee / Tea

Theme 4: The role of behaviour in host-parasite interactions

Chair: Iain Barber

1550 EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF BRAIN-ENCYSTING METACERCARIAE IN FATHEAD MINNOWS (KEYNOTE)
Cameron Goater (University of Lethbridge, Canada)

1620 ANTIPATHOGENIC FUNCTIONS MAY MAINTAIN EPIDERMAL "ALARM SUBSTANCE" CELLS IN OSTARIOPHYSANS AND PERCIDS
Brian Wisenden (Minnesota State University, USA)

1640 EFFECTS OF THE EYE FLUKE (DIPLOSTOMUM SP.) ON THE ENERGETICS AND FEEDING OF ARCTIC CHARR (SALVELINUS ALPINUS)
Ari Voutilainen (University of Joensuu, Finland)

1700 BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES OF MALE AND FEMALE PET SHOP GUPPIES, POECILIA RETICULATA, FOLLOWING PARASITIC INFECTION
Elizabeth Richards-Hobbs (Cardiff University, UK)

1720 Closing remarks and poster highlights

1900 BARBEQUE AND PUB QUIZ (Y Mochyn Du, Bute Park, Cardiff)

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Thursday 24th July

0730-0845 Breakfast

Theme 5: Population consequences of parasite infections

Chair: Steve Feist (TBC)

0910 PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES CAUSED BY THREE FRESHWATER ERGASILID PARASITES - IMPACTS ON HOSTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FISH POPULATIONS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (KEYNOTE)
Chris Williams (Environment Agency, UK)

0940 COMBINED INFLUENCE OF PARASITISM AND ENVIRONMENT ON POPULATION STRUCTURE OF FRESHWATER CYPRINIDS FROM LARVAE TO JUVENILE AND BEYOND
Matt Longshaw (CEFAS Weymouth, UK)

1000 POPULATION LEVEL RESPONSES OF ROACH (RUTILUS RUTILUS) TO CHANGES IN INFECTION PRESSURE BY MYXOBOLUS PSEUDODISPAR (MYXOZOA)
Nick Taylor (CEFAS Weymouth, UK)

1020 Coffee / Tea

Theme 6: Ecological impacts of parasites

Chair: Kevin Lafferty (TBC)

1050 MICROPREDATORY GNATHIID ISOPOD AND FISH INTERACTIONS (PLENARY)
Alexandra Grutter (University of Queensland, Australia)

1140 EVOLUTIONARY EFFECT OF CLEANING SYMBIOSIS ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF FISH PARASITIC GNATHIID ISOPODS
Nico Smit (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

1200 SHORT TERM SELECTION BY GYRODACTYLIDS ON WILD GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA)
Gabriella Archard (Cardiff University, UK)

1220 PARASITES CAN CAUSE BIOTIC RESISTANCE TO HOST INVASION AND CONTRIBUTE TO REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION BETWEEN HOST POPULATIONS.
Andrew MacColl (University of Nottingham, UK)

1300 LUNCH

Theme 7: Applied aspects of fish parasitology

Chair: David Marcogliese

1400 HELMINTH PARASITES OF FISH AS BIOINDICATORS: THREE CASE STUDIES (KEYNOTE)
Scott Monks (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico)

1430 A NEW APPROACH TO VISUALISE FISH AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH USING PARASITES
Harry Palm (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany)

1450 IS THE PARASITE CERATOTHOA ITALICA A GOOD INDICATOR OF HOST POPULATION CONNECTIVITY IN THE STRIPED SEABREAM (LITHOGNATHUS MORMYRUS)?
Maria Sala-Bozano (University College Dublin, Ireland)

1510 OPTIMAL RELEASE STRATEGIES OF CAPTIVE-BRED HOSTS IN SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS: EXPERIMENTS WITH GUPPIES AND GYRODACTYLID PARASITES
Patricia Faria (Cardiff University, UK)

1530 Coffee / Tea

Chair: Marilyn Scott

1600 DOES THE ROSETTE AGENT POSE A THREAT TO CYPRINIDS?
Demetra Andreou (CEH Oxford, UK)

1620 A HOST-PARASITE MODEL FOR THE DISPERSAL OF LESSEPSIAN SPECIES IN MEDITERRANEAN
Paulo Galli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

1640 MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF IMMUNE DEFENSE IN FISH
Jouni Taskinen (University of Joensuu, Finland)

1700 A SAPROLEGNIA PARASITICA cDNA LIBRARY: MINING ESTS FOR POTENTIAL VACCINE CANDIDATES
Vicky Anderson (University of Aberdeen, UK)

1720 PROTEOMIC STUDIES OF WILD, ADULT ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) SKIN MUCUS PROTEINS WITH LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS INFESTATION
Paul Dunne (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland)

1740 Closing remarks and poster highlights

1900 CONFERENCE BANQUET (Cardiff Castle)

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Friday 25th July

0730-0845 Breakfast

Theme 8: Host-parasite interactions in a changing world

Chair: John Lewis

0910 HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS IN POLLUTED ENVIRONMENTS (PLENARY)
Bernd Sures (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

1000 PARASITES AND POLLUTION: COMBINED EFFECTS OF NATURAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSORS ON FISH (KEYNOTE)
David Marcogliese (Environment Canada, Montreal, Canada)

1030 Coffee / Tea

1100 EFFECTS OF ZINC ON A FISH HOST AND ITS MONOGENEAN PARASITE: WHICH ONE WINS?
Marilyn Scott (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

1120 EXPLOSION OF LIGULA INTESTINALIS IN THE RASTRINEOBOLA ARGENTEA IN LAKE VICTORIA: IS THIS ANOTHER LEGACY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF NILE PERCH?
Ian Cowx (University of Hull, UK)

1140 TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON PROLIFERATIVE KIDNEY DISEASE IN TROUT
Thomas Wahli (Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health, Bern, Switzerland)

1200 Summary and concluding remarks

1230 Lunch

End of Conference

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Posters

UNRAVELING THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE ROSETTE AGENT
D. Andreou, R. Gozlan, S. Feist, M. Hussey, R. Paley, R.D. Possee, &
D.M.Stone

FIRST RECORD OF A KABATANA SP. MICROSPORIDIAN INFECTING FISH IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
I. Barber, A.J. Davies, J. Ironside, C. Pélabon, E. Forsgren, & T. Amundsen

THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE INTRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT AND SEVERITY OF PARASITIC DISEASES IN FRESHWATER FISHERIES
M.K. Beck, N.R. Hewlett & C.F. Williams

OCCURRENCE AND MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION OF ANISAKIS SPP. FROM NORTH AFRICAN COASTS OF MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND EAST ATLANTIC OCEAN
S. Farjallah, B. Ben Slimane, M. Busi, M. Ould Mahjoub, L. Paggi, K. Said & S. D'Amelio

METAZOAN PARASITE FAUNA OF SWORDFISH (XIPHIAS GLADIUS L. 1758) FROM ATLANTIC OCEAN
A. Garcia, S. Damiano, M.N. Santos, G. Nascetti & S. Mattiucci

INFLUENCE OF HOST SIZE AND SEX ON THE PARASITOLOGICAL FAUNA OF SWORDFISH (XIPHIAS GLADIUS L. 1758) FROM ATLANTIC EQUATORIAL WATERS
A. Garcia, S. Damiano, M.N. Santos, G. Nascetti & S. Mattiucci

SMALL SCALE GEOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES IN PARASITE INFECTIONS OF PERCH (PERCA FLUVIATILIS) AND RUFFE (GYMNOCEPHALUS CERNUUS) SUGGEST LOCAL ADAPTATION IN LAKE CONSTANCE, GERMANY
D. Harrer & Jasminca Behrmann-Godel

INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL FOR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PARASITE INFECTION AND ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING POLLUTANTS IN MALE THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACKS
V. MacNab, I. Katsiadaki & I Barber

OCCURRENCE AND SIZE SELECTION OF ARGULUS SP. ON THE CATFISH, HYPOSTOMUS ROBINII
R.S. Mohammed, A. Ramsubhag, A. Mohammed, A.A. Adesiyun &
A. Mutani

INFECTION OF FISH IN THE ESTONIAN LARGE LAKE SYSTEM WITH DANGEROUS TO HUMANS AND PETS PARASITE, THE BROAD TAPEWORM (DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM LATUM) PLEROCERCOIDS
M. Nõlvak, T. Paaver & J. Kasesalu

GIRARDINICHTHYS (GOODEIDAE: GOODEINAE: GIRARDINICHTHYNNI) IN MEXICO: DISTRIBUTION, PARAISTES AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
G. Pulido-Flores, R. Miranda-Ferreiro, S. Monks & D. Galicia-Paredes

PARASITES OF NON-NATIVE FISH - AWARENESS, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL
A.J. Reading, G.D. Davies, & C.F. Williams

THE SWIMBLADDER NEMATODE ANGUILLICOLA CRASSUS IN EEL POPULATIONS FROM RIVERS IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND
A. Sadowska

COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGY OF ECHINORHYNCHUS GADI FROM COD IN NORTHERN ATLANTIC AND SOUTHERN BALTIC
E. Sobecka, M. Lemieszko, S. Prajsnar & K. MacKenzie

MOLECULAR EVALUATION OF GENETIC STRUCTURE OF ECHINORHYNCHUS GADI ZOEGA IN MUELLER, 1776 PARASITIZING COD IN SEVEN DIFFERENT FISHING GROUNDS
E. Sobecka & B. Szostakowska

THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN ACQUIRED RECOGNITION OF PREDATION RISK BY PIMEPHALES PROMELAS (FATHEAD MINNOW) IN RESPONSE TO OLFACTORY AND VISUAL STIMULI OF CERCARIAE OF THE TREMATODE ORNITHODIPLOSTOMUM SP.
A.D. Stumbo, C.T. James, B.D. Wisenden & C.P. Goater