Conference programme - HNB-conference
Conference Programme
Monday 30 October
19:00 – 22:00 FoyerRegistration and welcome reception
Tuesday 31 October
09:00 – 09:15 Seminar RoomBernt-Erik Sæther – Welcome address
Session 1: Behaviour
Keynote
Ben Sheldon – Social processes in a community of Paridae
10:00 – 10:20 Seminar RoomTore Slagsvold – On the use of heterospecific information in birds
10:20 – 10:35 Foyer
Coffee
10:35 – 10:55 Seminar Room
Jesús Martínez-Padilla – Evolutionary dynamics in wild birds: from single populations to multiple species
10:55 – 11:15 Seminar Room
Friederike Hillemann – Diurnal patterns of the production and use of food-related information in Parid flocks
11:15 – 11:35 Seminar Room
Tomasz Wesołowski – Adaptations of birds to tree holes: insights from long-term studies in primeval conditions
11:15 – 11:35 Seminar Room
Eva Serrano-Davies – Personality-related differences in response to habitat in Mediterranean blue tits
Session 2: Physiology
11:55 – 12:40 Seminar RoomKeynote
Jan-Åke Nilsson – Body temperature and immune defence
12:40 – 13:00 Seminar Room
Anna Dubiec – Interaction types between four genera of haemoparasites in blue tit females
13:00 – 14:30 Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch
14:30 – 14:50 Seminar Room
Roger Colominas-Ciuró – Distinct foraging behaviours differently constrain the physiological state in a hole-nesting seabird, the Scopoli’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)
14:50 – 15:10 Seminar Room
Sylvie Massemin – Effects of urban environment on health in the great tits
15:10 – 15:30 Seminar Room
Szymon Drobniak – Interaction between genetic effects and experimentally manipulated pre-hatching hormonal conditions
15:30 – 15:45 Foyer
Coffee
Session 3: Population Dynamics
15:45 – 16:30 Seminar RoomKeynote
Marlène Gamelon – Age-specific contributions to the dynamics of hole-nesting birds
16:30 – 16:50 Seminar Room
Toni Laaksonen – The importance of conservation measures for pied flycatchers breeding in the boreal landscape dominated by forest management
16:50 – 17:10 Seminar Room
Gábor Seress – Impact of urbanization on abundance and phenology of caterpillars and consequences for breeding in an insectivorous bird
Session 4: Posters
17:10 – 19:00 Seminar Room
Poster presentations
19:30 – Restaurant
Dinner
Wednesday 1 November
Session 5: Movement
Keynote
Erik Matthysen – Individual variation in dispersal in great tits
09:45 – 10:05 Seminar Room
Yimen Araya-Ajoy – Spatio-temporal variation in emigration and immigration is density-dependent in a house sparrow metapopulation
10:05 – 10:25 Seminar Room
Luis Cadahia – Advancement of spring arrival in a long-term study of a passerine bird: sex, age and environmental effects
10:25 – 10:40 Foyer
Coffee
Session 6: Speciation
10:40 – 11:25 Seminar RoomKeynote
Anna Qvarnström – Speciation in hole-nesting birds: any general lessons so far?
11:25 – 11:45 Seminar Room
Martyn Stenning – The Blue Tit
11:45 – 12:05 Seminar Room
Malcolm Burgess – Citizen science for the study of hole-nesting birds: UK examples and emerging opportunities
12:05 – 13:30 Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch
Session 7: Genetics & Genomics
13:30 – 14:15 Seminar RoomKeynote
Jon Slate – The significance of genetic variation in wild tit populations
14:15 – 14:35 Seminar Room
Kees van Oers – Avian ecological epigenetics: what do we know about DNA methylation in hole-breeding passerines
14:35 – 14:55 Seminar Room
Henrik Jensen – Consequences of demographic processes for genetic drift in house sparrows
14:55 – 15:15 Seminar Room
Erica Ponzi – Estimating heritability and response to selection in the presence of phenotypic error
15:15 – 15:30 Foyer
Coffee
15:30 – 16:15 Seminar Room
Keynote
Phillip Gienapp – Phenotypic evolution in tits: have we identified the important processes?
16:15 – 16:35 Seminar Room
Thomas Kvalnes – Reversal of response to artificial selection on body size in a wild passerine
16:35 – 16:55 Seminar Room
Veronika Laine – Gene expression linked to timing of reproduction in the great tit
Session 8: Discussion
16:55 – 17:10 Seminar Room
Requests for discussions, meetings, collaborations
17:10 – 19:00 Discussion Room 1–4, Foyer & Seminar Room
Group discussion
19:30 – Restaurant
Dinner
Thursday 2 November
Session 9: Life History
Keynote
09:45 – 10:05 Seminar Room
Marta Szulkin – The evolutionary ecology of passerines in the Anthropocene
10:05 – 10:25 Seminar Room
Peter Santema – Complete brood loss in blue tits is almost always associated with the sudden and permanent disappearance of a parent
10:25 – 10:40 Foyer
Coffee
10:40 – 11:25 Seminar Room
Keynote
David Westneat – Layers of variance in the parental care of hole-nesting birds and what they might mean
11:25 – 11:45 Seminar Room
Nathanial Warning – Structural nest cavity modification using stones
11:45 – 12:05 Seminar Room
Rienk Fokkema – Family planning under social competition
12:05 – 13:30 Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch
Session 10: Climate Change
13:30 – 14:15 Seminar RoomKeynote
Marcel Visser – Hole-nesting passerines in a warming world
14:15 – 14:35 Seminar Room
Josefa Bleu – An experimental increase of nestbox temperature during egg-laying affects maternal effects and nestling health in great tits
14:35 – 14:55 Seminar Room
Liam Bailey – Do responses to temperature vary spatially in the great tit (Parus major)?
14:55 – 15:15 Seminar Room
Valeria Jennings – Eco-evolutionary dynamics of a sexually selected trait in a Mediterranean population of pied flycatchers
15:15 – 15:30 Foyer
Coffee
15:30 – 15:50 Seminar Room
Jelmer Samplonius – Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders
15:50 – 16:10 Seminar Room
Tomas Pärt – Seasonal decline in fitness: its causes and its relation to warmer springs in northern wheatears
16:10 – 16:30 Seminar Room
Bernt-Erik Sæther – Concluding remarks
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