ASAB Postgraduate Conference and Workshop, Easter 2003
The annual ASAB Easter meeting will be held at the University of Leeds.The main meeting will occupy Thursday 3rd April and Friday 4th April. It will be preceded by a workshop on Wednesday 2th April. The meeting is hosted by Roger Butlin and Jens Krause and the workshop by Tom Tregenza, all from the School of Biology and members of the Ecology and Evolution group, The University of Leeds.
All enquiries should be addressed to: asab03@leeds.ac.uk
Venue
The meeting will take place in the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, and adjacent rooms, in the centre of the University of Leeds campus. Accommodation for conference delegates will be in Charles Morris Hall that is also on campus and only about 5 minutes walk from the Lecture Theatre. See below for directions.
Programme
All talks take place in the Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building. Coffee, lunch, tea and posters are in rooms adjoining the Lecture Theatre. Venues for other events are given below.
Tuesday 1st April 2003
1600-2000
Registration at Charles
Morris Hall
Dinner by own arrangement at nearby restaurants, take-aways or pubs
2000
Bar open at Charles
Morris Hall.
Wednesday 2nd April 2003 - Postgraduate Workshop
10.00 – 11.00 Tom Tregenza How to give a research talk.
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.30 Jens Krause (Associate Editor of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology). Writing a research paper.
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.30
Catriona MacCallum (Editor of Trends in Ecology and Evolution).
The death of print? Scientific publishing in an online world.
14.30 - 15.30 Nick Colegrave Experimental design.
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 –
17.00 Sheila Anderson (NERC Head of Communications).
How to communicate your science.
1730 Wine reception sponsored by Wisepress
1900 Evening meal
at Charles Morris Hall
Thursday 3rd April 2003
Chair: Nina Wedell (Leeds) 0900 Welcome to meeting
0910
Invited lecture: Janice Moore (Colorado State University)
When an ant is not an ant: Animal behaviour in the presence of parasites.
0945
Otto Seppälä*, Anssi Karvonen and E Tellervo Valtonen
(University of Jyväskylä)
Altered behaviour and predation vulnerability of fish infected with trophically
transmitted parasites.
1005
Marie-Claude Bel-Venner*, Samuel Venner, Alain Pasquet
and Raymond Leborgne (Université Henri Poincare, Nancy)
Pre-copulatory mate guarding behaviour in the orb-weaving spider Zygiella
x-notata: a field experiment.
1025 Coffee and posters
Chair: Mike Ritchie (St Andrews)
1105
Samuel Venner*, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, Alain Pasquet
and Raymond Leborgne (Université Henri Poincare, Nancy)
Optimal successive web-building behaviour in the orb-weaving spider
Zygiella x-notata: data from laboratory, field studies and theoretical modelling
1125
Satu Paukku* & Janne Kotiaho (University of Jyväskylä)
Genetic variation in the tolerance of the cost of reproduction in male Callosobruchus
maculatus
1145
Lesley Morrell* and Hanna Kokko (Universities of Glasgow and Helsinki)
Adaptive strategies of territory formation
1205
Ilse van Opzeeland*, Rudolf Drent, Carel Ten Cate, Sofie
Van Parijs (Universities of Groningen, Leiden and Tromsoe)
Variability of harp seal (Phoca greenlandica) pup vocalisations
1225 Lunch and posters
Chair: Sue Healy (Edinburgh)
1400
Invited lecture: Kevin Laland (St Andrews)
From 'three-second memory' to 'culture'. Fish are smarter than you think.
1435
Yfke van Bergen*, Isabelle Coolen and Kevin Laland (University
of Cambridge and University of St. Andrews)
When fish go back to school: a study of public and private information use
in sticklebacks
1455
Andrew Jackson* and Graham Ruxton (Glasgow)
A model of vigilance behaviour: doing what your neighbours don't.
1515
Alexandre Millon* (CEBC-CNRS de Chizé)
Population-specific response of offspring sex ratio: the case of a specialist
predator facing extreme variation in prey abundance.
15.35 Tea and posters
Chair: Gilbert Roberts (Newcastle)
1620
Zoë Hodgson*, Simone Meddle, Matthew Evans, Todd
Sperry, Marian van der Meulen and Sue Healy (Universities
of Edinburgh, Stirling and Washington)
Do steroid hormones affect avian spatial learning and memory?
1640
Hanne Løvlie and Tom Pizzari (Stockholm)
Strategic sperm allocation by male feral fowl, Gallus gallus domesticus.
1700
Charlie Cornwallis* and Tim Birkhead (Sheffield)
Fowl sperm and sexy eggs: male mate choice for ornamented females
1720
Stuart Sharp* and B J Hatchwell (Sheffield)
Vocal recognition in cooperatively breeding long-tailed tits, Aegithalos
caudatus) do not change day
1740
Laura Spooner* and Mike Ritchie (St Andrews)
Intraspecific variation in female mate preferences in the bushcricket Ephippiger
ephippiger
1800 Posters
2000 Buffet meal, wine and dancing, Leeds University Refectory.
Fri 4th April 2002
Chair: Felicity Huntingford (ASAB President)
0930
ASAB Outstanding New Researcher: Robert Brooks (New South Wales)
Mate choice in multiple dimensions: the evolution of attractiveness and attraction
in guppies.
1020
Andrew Young*, S Montfort and Tim Clutton-Brock (Cambridge)
Helpful imperialists: consolidation and conquest in cooperative societies.
1040
Sarah Hodge* (Cambridge)
Do helpers help? Influences on offspring growth, survival and future reproductive
success.
1100 Coffee and posters
Chair: Matt Gage (UEA)
1130
Helena Soukopová*, Martin Vácha (Masaryk University)
Magnetoreception in the mealworm beetle (Tenebrio molitor L.)
1150
Marienke Stöwe*, T Bunyar, B Heinrich and K Kotrschal
(Konrad Lorenz Research Station, Grunau and University of Vermont)
Social influence on explorative behaviour in ravens (Corvus corax)
1210
M L Roberts*, K L Buchanan, A.T.D. Bennett and
M R Evans (Stirling and Cardiff)
Do females prefer low stress males as mates?
1230
Victoria Wearmouth*, David Sims, Julian Partridge and Innes
Cuthill (MBA Plymouth and University of Bristol)
Sex differences in dogfish behaviour: alternative activity patterns and habitat
choice.
1250 Lunch and posters
Chair: Roger Butlin (Leeds)
1400
Invited speaker: Jo Todrank (Haifa)
A fresh look at "recognition" mechanisms
1435
Thomas Cornulier* (CEBC-CNRS de Chizé)
Is fitness spatially structured in a facultative colonial raptor?
1455
Nils Bunnefeld*, John Odden, John Linnell and Reidar
Andersen (Universities of Groningen and Trondheim)
Risk-taking by Eurasian lynx in a human-dominated landscape: effects of sex
and reproductive status
1515 Tea and posters
Chair: Roger Butlin (Leeds)
1545
Mark Lineham* (St Andrews)
Sexual isolation in North American fruit flies: reinforcement, reproductive
character displacement and the role of courtship song.
1605
Katja Tynkkynen*, Mari Hynninen, Janne Kotiaho, Marcus
Rantala and Jukka Suhonen (University of Jyväskylä)
Interspecific aggression, character displacement and selection on sexual
characters in the damselfly.
1625
Judith Lock*, Per Smiseth and Allen Moore (Manchester)
Behavioural coadaptations and their effects on offspring fitness in the burying
beetle.
1645 Close of meeting and prizes for best talk and poster (sponsored by Tracksys)
* indicates presenting author is a student and therefore eligible for a talk or poster prize.
Full programme and posters can be downloaded in Word
format
Events
Wednesday:
Drinks
reception
Thursday: Buffet dinner and Ceilidh
Travel
information / maps
Leeds
is easily reached by car (M1 or M62), train (the University is only 15 mins
walk from the central station) or plane (Leeds-Bradford airport or direct train
from Manchester airport). For details of routes and a campus map see here.
Accommodation
is in Charles
Morris Hall (No. 76 on the campus map) where there is ample car
parking space. Go to 'Car Park West' (see Campus
Map) and use the intercom
at the barrier to tell Security that you are attending the ASAB Conference.
Lectures,
lunches and poster sessions are in the Michael
Sadler building (No. 28 on the campus map).
The
Ceilidh will be in the University
Refectory (No. 39 on the campus map).
For
more information about Leeds try here.
If you don't know what to expect of the weather in northern England in April, try here.
