PROGRAMME (as of 23th August 2010)
Thursday, 26th of August 2010
19:00+ Registration evening with drinks and snacks
at
the Zoological Institute (Vesalgasse
1, 4051 Basel)
Poster presenters are asked to put their posters up
Friday, 27th of August 2010
08:30
– 12:30 Registration
08:45
– 09:00 Opening of conference
09:00 – 12:00 Talks
in the small lecture hall (kleiner Hörsaal) at the Zoological Institute
09:00 – 09:40 Walter
Salzburger (Basel, Switzerland) “The adaptive
radiations of cichlid fishes – a preface to Cichlid Science 2010”
09:40 – 09:50 Coffee break & posters
09:50 – 10:10 Michael
Matschiner “Vicariance or transatlantic dispersal:
The origin of neotropical
cichlids”
10:10 – 10:30 Zuzana Musilova “Phylogeography of the cichlid genus Serranochromis in Angola headwaters region: white spot
in the African biogeographic map”
10:30 – 10:50 Stephan
Koblmüller “Comparative population genetics of
rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes: species-specific patterns of
population structure across a large sandy bay and along almost continuous rocky
habitat”
10:50 – 11:00 Coffee break & posters
11:00 – 11:20 Gavan
Cooke “Can an isolated satellite lake act as a species nursery?”
11:20– 11:40 Maarten
Vanhove “What’s more diverse than cichlids? Evolution
of Cichlidogyrus
monogenean flatworms on Tanganyika cichlids”
11:40– 12:00 Maarten
Van Steenberge “Morphological study on similar Tropheus
populations occurring on opposite shorelines”
12:00
– 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 17:30 Talks in the small lecture hall (kleiner Hörsaal) at the Zoological
Institute
14:00 – 14:40 Todd
Streelman (Atlanta, USA) “Evolution and development of
diversity in regenerating dentitions“
14:40 – 14:50 Coffee break & posters
14:50 – 15:10 Frans Witte “Cichlid species diversity in naturally and anthropogenically turbid habitats of Lake Victoria, East
Africa”
15:10 – 15:30 Jacco van Rijssel “Contemporary
morphological changes in Lake Victoria cichlids”
15:30 – 15:50 Etienne
Bezault “Genomic signature of divergent adaptation
along replicated environmental gradients in Lake Victoria cichlid fish”
15:50 – 16:10 Heather
Machado “Genomic Architecture of Adaptive Radiation: the Role for Gene
Duplication in African Cichlid Fishes“
16:10 – 16:20 Coffee break & posters
16:20 – 16:40 Eveline Diepeveen “The effects of
genome duplication on adaptive traits; endothelins
and key innovations in cichlids”
16:40 – 17:00 Laura
Baldo “Comparative transcriptomics
and role of expression profiles in cichlid diversification“
17:00 – 17:10 Coffee
break & posters
17:10 – 17:30 Kathryn
Elmer “Comparative transcriptomics of extremely young
species of Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes”
17:30
– 18:30 Postersession
20:00+ BBQ
Saturday, 28th of August 2010
09:00 – 11:40 Talks in the small lecture hall (kleiner Hörsaal) at the
Zoological Institute
09:00 – 09:40 Michael Taborsky
(Bern, Switzerland) “Cichlids as model for the study of social evolution“
09:40 – 09:50 Coffee break & posters
09:50 – 10:10 Stefan
Fischer “Neighbors reduce the cost of predation
deterrence in a colonial breeding cichlid, Neolamprologus
caudopunctatus”
10:10 – 10:30 Dik Heg “Habitat saturation,
benefits of philopatry, relatedness and cooperative
breeding in a cichlid”
10:30 – 10:50 Caroline Hermann
“Mate choice cues in Tropheus moorii”
10:50 – 11:00 Coffee break & posters
11:00 – 11:20 Anya
Theis “The function of eggspots
in a haplochromine cichlid”
11:20 – 11:40 Corina Heule “Eggspots
in African cichlids”
11:40
– 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 16:10 Talks in the small lecture hall (kleiner Hörsaal) at the
Zoological Institute
14:00 – 14:40 Hans
A. Hofmann (Austin, USA) “Variations on a Theme:
The Evolution of Social Decision Making“
14:40 – 14:50 Coffee break & posters
14:50 – 15:10 Lin
Huffman “Rising StARs:
Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Responses to Social
Challenge and Opportunity
“
15:10 – 15:30 Emilia Santos “The genetic and
molecular basis of parallel evolution in egg-spots of cichlid fishes “
15:30 – 15:50 Karin
Mattersdorfer “Origin of color
diversity in Tropheus moorii
– Approaches to reveal underlying forces “
15:50 – 16:10 Hugo
Gante “Convergent evolution of coloration phenotype
in cichlid fishes”
16:10 – 16:20 Coffee
break & posters
16:20 – 17:00 Anton Lamboj
(Vienna, Austria) “Pelvicachromis
in West Cameroon - distribution, ecology, systematics“
17:00
– 19:30 Swimming
in the river Rhein
20:00+ Banquet
at the restaurant "Der vierte
König”.
22:00+ Party
Sunday, 29th of August 2010
11:00+ Brunch,
farewell & résumé