Monday 30 October

Registration and welcome reception

Tuesday 31 October

Bernt-Erik Sæther – Welcome address

Session 1: Behaviour

Ben Sheldon – Social processes in a community of Paridae

Tore 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

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

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

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

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

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

Christiaan Both – Ongoing adjustment of flycatcher phenology in response to climate change: evolution in action?

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

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