Summary timetable of symposia
(detailed timetable available here)

 

Tuesday 19 August

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 1: JEB Special Symposium:
The role of evolutionary biology in understanding, preventing and treating infectious diseases (Bruce Levin)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 2: Reproductive parasites in evolution (Greg Hurst & Tim Karr)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 3: Genetics of species differences (Juergen Gadau & Leo Beukeboom)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 4: Natural hybridization and introgression: its role in evolution and conservation (Thure Hauser, Michael L. Arnold & Michael M. Hansen)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 5: Evolution in non-coding DNA (Richard Sibly & Mark Pagel)

Wednesday 20 August

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 6: Sexual conflict (Rhonda Snook & David Hosken)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 7: Pleistocene refugia, colonization patterns and evolution (Anna-Britta Berglund, Pierre Taberlet and Godfrey Hewitt)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 8: Are transmission modes important for the evolution of mutualistic symbioses? (Duur K. Aanen & Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma)

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 9: Genetic biodiversity in natural populations: implications for management (Kerstin Johannesson, Armando Caballero and Jesús Fernández)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 10: Experimental microbial evolution: the roles of sex, recombination and mutation (Santiago F. Elena, J. Arjan G. M. de Visser and Graham Bell)

Thursday 21 August

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 11: Pollinators and plant evolution - from specialists to generalists (Christine B. Mueller & James M. Cook)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 12: Evolution of sexual communication in insects (Astrid Groot & Anneli Hoikkala)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 13: Geographical parthenogenesis and polyploidy (Koen Martens & Peter Van Dijk

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 14: Positive selection and adaptive trait genes (Christian Schlötterer & Diethard Tautz)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 15: Evolutionary biology of learning (Tadeusz J. Kawecki & Sue Healy)

Friday 22 August morning

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 16: Key factors in adaptive radiation (Konrad Bachmann & Susanne Foitzik)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 17: The evolutionary biology of complex phenotypes (Massimo Pigliucci & Katherine Preston)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 18: The evolution of sexual size dimorphism (Jutta Schneider & Marie Herberstein)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 19: From cell to society: conflict and cooperation at different evolutionary levels (Francis Ratnieks & Tom Wenseleers)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 20: The evolutionary roles of biased variation and internal selection (Wallace Arthur & Alessandro Minelli)

Friday 22 August afternoon

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 21: Evolution on islands - patterns of colonisation, adaptation and speciation (Sara Goodacre & Angus Davison)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 22: The evolutionary significance of variation in reproductive investment (B. J. Zwaan & K. Fischer)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 23: Morphological model systems in evolution and development (Christian Klingenberg & Benedikt Hallgrímsson)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 24: Social plasticity (Jürgen Heinze & Patrizia D'Ettorre)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 25: Genome size, cell size and scaling metabolic rate: a cytogenetic approach to life history evolution (Marek Konarzewski & Jan Kozlowski)

Saturday 23 August

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 20
Symposium 26: Theoretical and empirical aspects of the evolution of diversity: speciation, species discovery, and inventory (Douglas Causey)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 22
Symposium 27: Limits to species' boundaries: linking hybrid zones with adaptation to marginal conditions (Jon Bridle, Nick Barton, Tim Vines)

Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 21
Symposium 28: Evolutionary consequences of mate choice (Martine Maan & Vicky Schneider)

Conference Auditorium 2
Symposium 29: Evolutionary dynamics of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) (Stuart Piertney & Steve Paterson)

Conference Auditorium 1
Symposium 30: Evolution of host defences against parasites (Arjen Biere & Jacqui A Shykoff)