This schedule is just an advance for the general format of the proposed programme of IX ISOLBE. Details of the sessions and workshops will be included in the programme as soon as possible. At this moment the schedule is provisional and subject to change.
All the sessions will take place at the Talaso Atlántico Hotel.
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| Last updated on, Friday 29th August 2008 |
2nd September (Tuesday) |
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17:00 – 20:00 |
Arrival and Congress Inscription (also next day from 8:00 to 9:00) |
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21:00 |
Dinner |
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3rd September (Wednesday) |
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7:45 |
Breakfast |
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8:50 |
Welcome to the meeting (E. Rolán-Alvarez) |
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9:00 |
Invited talk: Paradigms in Marine Ecology Inspired by a Periwinkle (Dr. Brian Silliman, University of Florida USA) |
Session chairman (Mark Davies) |
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10:00 |
The evolution of co-operative behaviour: a possible mechanism using high-shore littorinids (MS Davies, R. Stafford & GA Williams) |
10:30 |
Is ‘standing’ posture an effective behavioural adaptation to reduce heat stress in Echinolittorina malaccana? (SSL Lim & MFbin Surahman) |
11:00 |
Gay behaviour in a marine snail - a likely result of a sexual conflict over mating frequency (K Johannesson, S Saltin, I Duranovic, JN Havenhand & PR Jonsson) |
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11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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12:00 |
Male discrimination of female mucous trails permits assortative mating in a marine snail species (K Johannesson, JN Havenhand, PR Jonsson, M Lindegarth, A Sundin & J Hollander) |
12:30 |
Analysis of the interspecific crosses frequency in copulating pairs of littorinids of “saxatilis” species-complex (YA Gracheva, AI Granovitch & NA Mikhailova) |
13:00 |
Analysing the biological factors contributing to assortative mating: an example of application in Littorina saxatilis (A Pérez-Figueroa, J De Uña-Alvarez, P Conde-Padín & E Rolán-Alvarez) |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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16:00 |
Predator-induced phenotypic plasticity in shell morphology in different morphs of Littorina fabalis (G Toth and D Andersson) |
16:30 |
The relative role of genetic determination and plastic response in a case of parallel adaptive diversification (P Conde-Padín, A Caballero & E Rolán-Alvarez) |
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17:00 |
Coffee Break |
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17:30 – 20:00 |
Workshop on Sequence Data Analysis (H Quesada & D Posada) |
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21:00 |
Dinner |
22:00 |
Queimada (typical Galician spirit) on the shore |
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4th September (Thursday) |
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8:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session chairman (K. Johannesson) |
9:00 |
Selection, sequences, phenotypes and fitness in Littorina saxatilis (J Grahame, R Butlin, J Rogers, S Humphray & H Word) |
9:30 |
Maintenance of variation for shell color in populations of the flat periwinkle, Littorina obtusata, from the Gulf of Maine (M Phifer-Rixey, M Heckman, G Trussell, P Schmidt) |
10:00 |
A test of the local adaptation mechanism for ecotype linked inversion polymorphism in Littorina fabalis (P Kemppainen, T Lindskog & K Johannesson) |
10:30 |
Assessing connectivity in the TRANSMAP Project: morphometric differentiation in two species of the genus Littoraria in the Western Indian Ocean coast (IC Silva & J Paula) |
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11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30 |
A comparison of Littorina species from the north pacific (Allozyme data) (NI Zaslavskaya, KV Regel & VA Brykov) |
12:00 |
Morphometrical analysis of three rouge periwinkles copulatory organ (ZI Loskutova, NA Mikhailova, AI Granovitch, YA Gracheva) |
12:30 |
Morpho-anatomical and molecular complex analysis of the rough periwinkles from the North Atlantic: pro et contra of accepted meaning (N Mikhailova) |
13:00 |
Littorinid Distribution in Different Mangrove Heights and Substrates in Dar-es-Salaam Coast, Tanzania (RE Sallema, YD Mgaya, JM Paula & D Reid) |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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16:00 - 19:30 |
Workshop on Morphometric and taxonomic techniques (P Conde-Padín & E Rolán-Alvarez) |
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20:30 |
Special Dinner Talaso Atlántico |
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21:30 – 2:00 |
Visit to Baiona |
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5th September (Friday) |
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8:00 |
Breakfast |
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9:00 |
Invited talk: The Biogeography of Speciation (Dr. Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago USA) |
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Session chairman (John Grahame) |
10:00 |
Comparing the genetic structure of candidate and non-candidate loci for divergent adaptation in a marine intertidal snail (J Galindo, P Morán, E Rolán-Alvarez) |
10:30 |
Transcriptomics and proteomics in two sympatric ecotypes of Littorina saxatilis (M Martínez-Fernández, H Quesada & E Rolán-Alvarez) |
11:00 |
Transcriptome sequencing of Littorina saxatilis using 454 Life Sciences technology: Welcome to the ‘wild genomics’ (J Galindo and RK. Butlin) |
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11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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12:00 |
Case studies and mathematical models of ecological speciation 3: Ecotype formation in a Swedish snail (S Sadedin, J Hollander, M Panova, K Johannesson & S Gavrilets) |
12:30 |
Multiple paternity in Littorina saxatilis (C Andre, J Boström, T Hofving, T Areskoug, M Panova, T Mäkinen and K Johannesson) |
13:00 |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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16:00 – 18: |
30 Workshop on Mating Behaviour (E Rolán-Alvarez & A Carvajal-Rodríguez) |
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19:00 – 19:30 |
Poster Session |
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19:30 - 20:30 |
Meeting of the International littorinid Association |
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21:00 |
Dinner |
23:30 - 2:00 |
Littorinid Disco Session |
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6th September (Saturday) |
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8:00 |
Breakfast |
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Session chairman (Elizabeth Boulding) |
9:00 |
What can and can’t do the Trematodes with Littorines (AI Granovitch) |
9:30 |
Using the molecular coancestry to infer population genetic structure (ST Rodríguez-Ramilo, J Fernández & MA Toro) |
10:00 |
A new statistical adjustment for multiple testing (A Carvajal-Rodríguez, J Uña-Alvarez & E Rolán-Alvarez) |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 – 13:30 |
Workshop Genomics in littorinids (E Boulding & J Grahame) |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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15:00– 22:00 |
Cultural-Sampling trips |
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Visit to the Celtic Village and the Galician hybrid zone; sampling possibilities in exposed rocky shore areas. |
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20:30 |
Special Dinner (La Guardia) |
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7th September (Sunday) |
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8:00 |
Breakfast |
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Before 12:00 |
LEAVING from Talaso Atlántico Hotel |