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Provisional Programme

Mon 13 | Tue 14 | Wed 15 | Thu 16 | Fri 17

Monday 13th July

14:00 Registration opens

18:30 Reception sponsored by Heartland Wines

19:30 Dinner, John Foster Dining Hall

20:30 - 23:30 After Dinner Bar, John Foster Hall

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Tuesday 14th July

8:45 Conference opens - UoL VC Prof R Burgess

9:00 The history of stickleback studies Jack Jones Lecture - Bob Wootton.

Evolution

9:45 Signatures of adaptive evolution revealed in stickleback populations. Evan Mauceli

10:00 Rapid evolution in threespine stickleback in recently formed, seismically uplifted lakes, Middleton Island, Alaska. Frank von Hippel

10:15 Parasites as selective forces in the ecological diversification of sticklebacks. Martin Kalbe

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Divergent immune responses of three-spined stickleback populations: an infection experiment with Diplostomum spathaceum. Job de Roij

11:15 Evaluating evolutionary changes of transplanted stickleback to biophysically divergent selective landscapes. Steve Leaver

11:30 Genetic control of stickleback armor plate size. Vahan Indjeian

11:45 From salty to fresh: building freshwater stickleback from standing genetic variation. Haili Zhang

12:00 Morphological evolution of Queen Charlotte Island Stickleback. Tom Reimchen

12:15 Evolvabillity of craniofacial morphology. Charles Kimmel

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Along the speciation continuum in stickleback. Andrew Hendry

Speciation

14:45 Ancestral plasticity as a driver of parallel ecotypic divergence. Matthew Wund

15:00 Sex chromosomes and speciation in sticklebacks. Katie Peichel

15:15 Genetic components of divergent male intra- and intersexual behaviour in misty lake/stream stickleback and their hybrids. Joost Raeymakers

15:30 Tea

16:00 Pre- and post-zygotic reproductive isolation through MHC mediated selection in sticklebacks. Christophe Eizaguirre

16:15 Reservoir-stream pairs: models for studying morphological evolution in sticklebacks. Swati Nettleship

16:30 Gene flow and clinal variation of lateral plates in lowland three-spined stickleback. Nellie Konijnendijk

16:45 Variable progress towards ecological speciation in parapatry: stickleback across lake-stream transitions. Daniel Berner

17:00 Posters - Presentations by:

Topic: Evolution & speciation

CHANGING ARMOR AND TROPHIC MORPHOLOGY IN THREESPINE STICKLEBACK IN RESPONSE TO INVASIVE NORTHERN PIKE
Stormy Haught

SPECIES SPECIFICITY OF EGG ENVELOPE DIGESTION BY HATCHING ENZYMES OF STICKLEBACKS GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS AND PUNGITIUS SINENSIS: A MOLECULAR ASPECT OF COEVOLUTION OF PROTEASE AND PROTEINOUS SUBSTRATE
Mari Kawaguchi

GENETIC COVARIANCE BETWEEN BODY SHAPE AND ARMOUR TRAITS OF THREESPINE STICKLEBACKS
Tuomas Leinonen

SELECTION FOR DIFFERENT ARMORED PHENOTYPES IN THE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS) IN WALLACE LAKE, ALASKA
Emily Lescak

NO EVIDENCE FOR INBREEDING AVOIDANCE DURING ARTIFICIAL FERTILISATION IN THE THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)
Anna-Katrin Rahn

CHARACTERISING ECOLOGICAL VARIATION IN IRISH THREESPINE STICKLEBACK POPULATIONS
Mark Ravinet

FOUR-SPINED JUVENILE GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS: AN ADAPTATION TO PREDATION OR DEVELOPMENTAL INSTABILITY?
Linda Zanella

COPHYLOGEOGRAPHIC STUDY OF GYRODACTYLUS PARASITES AND THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK FROM ALASKA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA
Tine Huyse

THE STICKLEBACKS OF THE NERETVA RIVER BASIN: A CASE STUDY IN GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION
Linda Zanella

EXPLORING GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN STICKLEBACK POPULATIONS
Kristin Sikkink

17:30 Posters Session, sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell

19:30 Dinner, John Foster Dining Hall

20:30 - 23:30 After Dinner Bar, John Foster Hall

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Wednesday 15th July

9:00 Evolution and development (prov title). David Kingsley

Evolution and development

9:45 Genetic mapping of latitudinal growth differences in threespine stickleback fish. Steve Arnott

10:00 Gene expression responses in three-spined stickleback following short-term exposure to quantum dots. Tim Bean

10:15 Stickleback population genomic analysis using ILLUMINA-sequenced RAD tags. William Cresko

10:30 Coffee

11:00 From trait to base pairs: parallel evolution of pelvic reduction in threespine sticklebacks occurs by repeated deletion of a tissue-specific pelvic enhancer at PITX1. Frank Chan

11:15 Transcription evolution in threespine sticklebacks. Alex Pollen

11:30 Genetic analysis of branchial skeleton evolution. Craig Miller

11:45 FSBI AGM

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Implications of fossil sticklebacks for Darwinian gradualism. Mike Bell

Variation & evolution

14:45 The genomics of parallel evolution in threespine sticklebacks. Felicity Jones

15:00 Varying frequency and time of embryonic experience with predator dietary cues on the learned recognition. Justin Golub

15:15 Effects of MHC diversity and specific haplotypes on mate choice decisions of three-spined sticklebacks under semi-natural conditions. Tobias Lenz

15:30 Tea

16:00 Using stable isotope analysis to examine ecological specialisation and evolution in three-spined sticklebacks. Chris Harrod

16:15 Mate preferences have no effect on ecological divergence of body size in a species pair of threespine stickleback. Megan Head

16:30 Phylogeography of ninespine sticklebacks in North America. Jaclyn Aldenhoven

16:45 Posters - presentations by:

Topic: Evolution and development

STICKLEBACK DORSAL SPINES AND POSITION SPECIFICITY IN DEVELOPMENT
Tim Howes

MORPHOLOGICAL INTEGRATION OF THE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK SKULL
Kimberly Lum

GENETICS OF PIGMENTATION PATTERNS IN STICKLEBACKS
Katie Peichel

COMPARISON OF LANDMARK SETS USED IN GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC STUDIES OF THREESPINE STICKLEBACK AND THEIR EFFECTIVENESS ON UNSTAINED FISH
James Willacker

Topic: Behaviour

SOCIAL ENHANCEMENT OF FOOD PREFERENCES IN THREESPINE STICKLEBACKS
Nicola Atton

IT'S ALL FISH BRAINS TO ME: A LOOK AT THE BRAIN OF THE TELEOST GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS L. (THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK)
Molly Kent

ECOLOGICAL VALIDATION OF PERSONALITY MEASURES IN WILD THREESPINE STICKLEBACKS
Kate Laskowski

BEHAVIORAL VARIABILITY AMONG THREESPINE STICKLEBACK POPULATIONS TESTED IN A LABORATORY SHOALING ASSAY
Katie Peichel

THE EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC INFORMATION USE IN STICKLEBACKS
Mike Webster

THE GENOMICS OF STICKLEBACK PERSONALITY: A SEARCH FOR CANDIDATE GENES
Osee Sanogo

17:30 End of Session

18:00 Pre-Dinner Bar, Gilbert Murray Stamford Hall

19:00 Barbecue, Gilbert Murray Stamford Hall

20:00 - 23:30 After Dinner Bar, Gilbert Murray Stamford Hall

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Thursday 16th July

9:00 Sticklebacks as a model for exploring behavioural biology. Felicity Huntingford

Behaviour

9:45 Species differences in stickleback social learning. Mike Webster

10:00 Efficient social learning strategies in 9-spined sticklebacks. Kevin Laland

10:15 Looks are not everything - do female sticklebacks smell their way to quality? Annette Taugbøl

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Learned conspecific mate recognition in a species pair of sticklebacks. Genevieve Kozak

11:15 Inter- and intrasexual kin recognition in three-spined sticklebacks. Marion Mehlis

11:30 Personality in sticklebacks. Alison Bell

11:45 Male sticklebacks make antibiotic nests: a novel form of parental protection? Victoria Braithwaite

12:00 Comparative populational studies on natural selection in three-spined sticklebacks. Meike Hiermes

12:15 Reproductive state influences anti-predator behaviour or female three-spined sticklebacks. Joachim Frommen

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Photoperiodism: know when to hold, know when to fold, and know when to walk away. Bill Bradshaw

Circadian rhythms & physiology

14:45 Mechanisms in the photoperiodic control of reproduction in sticklebacks. Bertil Borg

15:00 Androgen receptor MRNA levels in different tissues in male and female sticklebacks. Erik Hoffmann

15:15 Hormonal variation between threespine stickleback populations. Jun Kitano

15:30 Tea

16:00 Positive effects of carotenoids on detoxification in sticklebacks. Theo Bakker

16:15 The genetic and mechanistic basis of photoperiodic response in the threespine stickleback. Conor O'Brien

16:30 Slow and steady wins the race? - compensatory growth and breeding performance in sticklebacks. Who Seung Lee

16:45 Colour signalling in conspicuous red sticklebacks: do ultraviolet signals surpass others? Ingolf Rick

17:00 Posters - Presentations by:

Topic: Circadian rhythms and physiology

STANDARD METABOLIC RATE IN MORPHS OF THE THREESPINED STICKLEBACK IN A SALINITY GRADIENT
Kyrre Grøtan

LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF INCREASED REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT BY 11-KETOANDROSTENEDIONE MANIPULATION
Mirre Simons

Topic: Adapting to a changing world

A STICKLEBACK RING TEST IN VIEW OF REDUCING THE NUMBER OF FISH USED IN REGULATORY TESTING
Georgina Rimmer

NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF STEROIDS IN MALE STICKLEBACKS
Alexander Scott

STICKLEBACK TOXICOGENOMICS
Tim Williams

LOCAL ADAPTATION IN THREESPINE STICKLEBACK POPULATIONS TO HUMAN-INDUCED EUTROPHICATION
Ulla Tuomainen

PARASITES OF STICKLEBACKS OF SELECTED HOST POPULATIONS FROM THE KENAI PENINSULA - ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, AREA
Glenn Bristow

EFFECT OF A SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE TO A TREATED SEWAGE EFFLUENT ON THE REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR IN THE THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)
Marion Sebire

17:30 End of Session

19:30 Conference dinner, The City Rooms, Leicester

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Friday 17th July

9:00 Population responses to anthropogenic disturbance: lessons from sticklebacks in eutrophied habitats. Ulrike Candolin

Adapting to a changing world

9:45 Uptake and trophic transfer of perchlorate in a simulated northern pike and threespine stickleback food web. Christoff Furin

10:00 Ecological consequences of environmental warming effects on the reproductive behaviour of the three-spined stickleback. Andrew Gill

10:15 Two exposure scenarios to a mixture of endocrine disrupting chemicals. Ioanna Katsiadaki

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Interactions between parasitism and endocrine disrupting chemicals in the three-spined stickleback. Vicki Macnab

11:15 The Three-spined stickleback as a sentinel species of anthropogenic impacts in the Arctic. Ian Mayer

11:30 Cadmium and copper can modulate androgenic response of stickleback: laboratory and field experiments. Wilfried Sanchez

11:45 Alternative mating tactics in sticklebacks and the impact of eutrophication. Leon Vlieger

12:00 Plate reduction in freshwater threespine sticklebacks - an adaptation to a different buoyancy regime? Tom Klepaker

12:15 Population structure and phenotypic patterns in the threespine stickleback along a salinity gradient in south-eastern Norway. Kjartan Østbye

12:30 Lunch

Departure

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