The Physiology of Fish Behaviour

BACKGROUND

The aim of this symposium is to bring together fish biologists from a broad range of backgrounds to advance our knowledge and understanding of the interactions between fish behaviour and physiology. The symposium will identify the critical importance of behaviour-physiology interactions at all levels of organisation, from the molecular to the population level, and it will address how environmental perturbations such as climate change and anthropogenic impacts, including pollutants, can disrupt this defining relationship. We are interested in maximising interactions between fish biologists from all disciplines and backgrounds interested in the inter-relationship between fish behaviour and physiology. We hope this meeting will help foster new collaborations that further progress the development and advancement of this field of research.

THEME

The following topics focusing on the integration of physiology and fish behaviour will be presented:

• Hormones and Behaviour
• Cognition, neural plasticity and neural control of behaviour
• Disease/Parasites and Behaviour
• Pollutants and Behaviour
• Behaviour and climate change (global warming)
• Behaviour in extreme environments (hypoxia, turbidity, salinity)
• Communication and fish behaviour (i.e. pheromones, acoustic, electric)
• Fish welfare (aquaculture, recreational angling and commercial fishing)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jack Jones Memorial Lecture:

Felicity Huntingford (University of Glasgow, UK) 

Keynote Speakers:

Lars Ebbesson (University of Bergen, Norway)
Rui Oliveira (ISPA-Instituto Universitário, Portugal)
David Righton (CEFAS, UK)
Jenny Shaw (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Kath Sloman (University of the West of Scotland, UK)