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The 6th International Conference on Stickleback Behaviour and Evolution

2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. This coincidence has inspired the organising group of the conference to focus the meeting on the role that stickleback studies have had in developing Darwin's big idea. Although small and apparently insignificant little fishes, research on them has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of diverse aspects of living systems. Keynote speakers have been asked to present an overview of their field in a way which shows how stickleback research is contributing, or could contribute, to our understanding of how natural selection has produced the systems they study. We hope that others who are contributing papers will also bear this overarching theme in mind, especially as the conference will also double up as the annual conference of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, and we would hope to attract more than just ardent fans of sticklebacks.

Bob Wootton (Aberystwyth University, UK) History of stickleback studies

Andrew Hendry (McGill University, Canada) Adaptation and phylogeny

Felicity Huntingford (University of Glasgow, UK) Behaviour

David Kingsley (Stanford University, USA) Evolution and development

Ulrika Candolin (Helsinki University, Finland) Responses to anthropogenic disturbance

Mike Bell (SUNY Stony Brook, USA) Paleobiology

Bill Bradshaw (University of Oregon, USA) Photoperiodism

1 November 2008 - Deadline for abstracts
1 March 2009 - Deadline for manuscript submission
17 April 2009 - Deadline for early registration

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