Preliminary schedule

Thursday 13 April

09.00 Workshops at the Department of Biology

12.15 Registration & lunch at Palaestra

13.30 Opening

13.45 Plenary I

Ludovic Orlando, Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse (CAGT), France (external website) – "The genomic history of the domestic horse"

14.45 Poster presentation introductions (1 min each)

14.50 Poster session 1 and fika

1. Karla Iveth Aguilera Campos – “Predicting metabolic interactions of Arcobacter species with breviate protists”

2. Chuyu Cheng – “Why having roosts close to foraging sites matters: from an energetic perspective”

3. Meng Li and Hampus Månefjord – “Stratification of insect populations and species richness in the Taï tropical virgin forest”

4. Valeria Palma – “Resistance induction in Chenopodium plants”

5. Johanna Stedt – “Porpoise Activity in Space and Time within a High-Density Area Provides Important Insights for Conservation Actions”

6. Huy Cuong Tran – “Mitochondrial translation in plants is initiated by a unique mTRAN-mRNA interaction mechanism”

7. Erica Winslott – “Should I Drop or Should I Duck - Predator avoidance in the tortoise beetle Cassida viridis”

8. Siyuan Zhou – “How is the balance of soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization affected by repeated drying-rewetting cycles?"

16.00 Oral presentation session 1

Full talks (12 minutes)

1. Elin Dirlik – “Cue integration in an insect compass system”

2. Victor Kalbskopf – “An Abundance of SNPs - More variation than expected in avian malaria infections”

3. Johanna Yourstone – “Effects of honeybee competition on bumblebee foraging behaviour”

4. Nima Mohseni – “‘Morphometrics in the Age of Machine Learning”

Flash Talk (3 minutes)

1. Mingyue Yuan – “Australian soil microbes need more phosphorus compared to their Swedish folks!”

2. Jöran Klink – “Genetics and systematics of two orchids: Nigritella nigra and Pseudorchis albida”

3. Pedro Rosero – “The importance of evolution to understand long-term biological control”

4. Emma Kärrnäs – “A holistic approach to describing new species”

18.00 –20.00 Dinner and mingle at Palaestra

Friday 14 April

09.15 Plenary II

Ellen Decaestecker, KU Leuven, Belgium (external website) – "Phenotypic mediated switches induced by host genotype x microbiome interactions".

10.45 Oral presentation session 2

Full talks (12 minutes)

1. Valentin Gillet – “A novel navigation circuit in the central complex of the insect brain”

2. Esther Nobs – “Mycobacterial manipulation of host macrophages”

3. Shahrzad Shaverdian – “The role of the antennae during wind-guided straight line orientation”

4. David Gómez Blanco – “Connections between telomere length, infections and life history trade-offs in a wild bird population”

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Oral presentation session 3

Full talks (12 minutes)

1. Mridula Nandakumar – “Balancing selection on innate immune genes in bank voles: the case of TLR2”

2. Theodor Kindeberg – “Carbon cycling in restored seagrass meadows”

3. Sofie Nilén – “Opposites attract? The damselfly dating guide”

4. Cecilia Kardum Hjort – “Genomic divergence and lack of introgression between commercial and wild bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)”

Flash Talk (3 minutes)

1. Dima Massri – “Polar Growth in Streptomyces””

2. Etka Yapar – “Using phylogenomics to place the rogue superfamily Gelechioidea (Lepidoptera)”

3. Katie Laschanzky – “When soil microbes find a home in the lungs: a tragedy in two parts”

14.30 Poster presentation introductions (1 min each)

14.40 Poster presentation 2 and fika

1. Frida Alenius – “How air flow affect pitch behaviour in a flight feather”

2. Susana Garcia Dominguez – “Particle deposition and their physiological effects on birds: an experimental approach”

3. Janka Kluge – ”Unravelling the transformation of skylight polarization signals into a neural compass in the bumblebee brain”

4. Pablo Macías Torres – “Metabolic costs of flight in a long-distance migratory songbird”

5. Elin Persson – “Physiological consequences of growing up during a heatwave”

6. Agnieszka Rzepczynska – “Microbial nitrogen mining across soils from a tundra forest ecotone”

7. Josefin Winberg – “The impact on farmland plant diversity from land abandonment and bioenergy production”

8. Jorge Yaniquez – “Production of Recombinant and Modified Enzymes for Biocontrol and Improvement of Bolivian Food Production”

15.30 Oral presentation session 4

Full talks (12 minutes)

1. Ye Xiong – “Pre- and post-natal development is critical to determination of early-life telomere length”

2. Carsten Kost – “Forest(ry) and the lesser spotted woodpecker in Sweden”

3. Twinkle Biswas – ”Ips typographus aggregation pheromone receptor”

4. Carl-Johan Hörberg – “Neuronal cultures - Neuronal soup or self-assembled minds?”

Flash Talks (3 minutes)

5. Elana Engert – “Correlations and constraints forming the metabolic phenotype”

6. Simon Jacobsen Ellerstrand – “The dark side of genetic diversity”

7. Iain Moodie – “What can Ecotoxicology and Evolutionary Biology learn from each other?”

16.45 Closing Ceremony

18.00 Department of Biology 10 Anniversary Party (pre-registration required) In the Ecology Building