Symposium 26

Friday August 24

There might be minor changes in the program.
Location: Ekonomikum 1

  Ageing and senescence in wild animal populations
  Organizers: Anne Charmantier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
Dan Nussey, University of Cambridge, UK
     
  9.45-10.15 James Carey (invited)
Population aging and extraordinary life span in wild medflies
  10.15-10.45 Anne Bronikowski (invited)
Physiological evolution and rate of aging in wild populations of the garter snake (Thamnophis elegans)
  10.45-11.05 Thomas Reed
Reproductive senescence in a long-lived species: rates of decline in late life performance are associated with varying costs of early reproduction
  11.05-11.35 Coffee
  11.35-11.55 Petteri Ilmonen
Telomere attrition due to chronic infection
  11.55-12.15 Paul Schmidt
Reproductive diapause and aging in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster
  12.15-12.35 Russell Bonduriansky
The final frontier: ageing in wild insect populations
  12.35-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-14.20 Jean-Michel Gaillard
Reproductive senescence in female large herbivores: a review of the field evidence and some patterns of variation
  14.20-14.40 Alastair Wilson
Support for the evolutionary theory of ageing from two wild vertebrate populations
  14.40-15.00 Jarrod Hadfield
Evolutionary stasis of age-trajectories in a wild population of bird predicted by non-linear developmental processes
  15.00-15.20 Ophélie Ronce
Does dispersal influence the evolution of ageing?
  15.20-16.00 Coffee

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