Instructions for authors:
Oral presentations
Talks will last 15 minutes plus 5 for discussion and questions. Please make the presentations in PowerPoint or in any other equivalent software compatible with standard PC.
Posters
Program
If you want to be synchronized with our schedule follow this calendar
Monday 29 July
16:30-17:30- Registration and welcomes
17:30-18:30- Plenary lecture by John Lighton: “Combining physiology, energetics and behavior to understand how animals work”
18:30-20:00- Welcome cocktail
Tuesday 30 July
8:30-9:00- Registration opens
9:00-10:00- Plenary lecture by Francisco Bozinovic: “The performance of ectotherms in variable thermal landscapes. Inside the mechanisms, processes and patterns in a warming world”
10:00-10:30- Coffee break
10:30-12:10- Session 1: Climate change and biogeography. Chair: Daniel Naya
10:30-10:50- Peter Convey: “The influence of predicted climatic changes on Antarctic Peninsula invertebrate diversity and distribution”
10:50-11:10- J. M. Alruiz: “Latitudinal diversity in heat tolerance among populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Chile”.
11:10-11:30- Craig J. Marshall: “Nematodes in the mist: a nematode is the sole invertebrate inhabitant of an Antarctic desert influenced by orographic clouds”
11:30-11:50- Nigel R Andrew: “The future keepers: Assessing effects of thermal stress and resource limitation on ants”
11:50-12:10- Kevin T Roberts: “Snow cover modulates winter energy use and cold stress across elevation in a montane beetle”
12:10-13:30- Lunch
13:30-14:50- Session 2: Evolutionary physiology. Chair: Katie Marshall
13:30-13:50- Enrico L. Rezende: “Were dinosaurs cold- or warm-blooded?”
13:50-14:10- Indrikis Krams: “Ecological stoichiometry: a possible link between developmental speed, physiological stress and responses to climate change in insects”
14:10-14:30- Gregory Ragland: “Evidence for distinct, genetically decoupled responses to thermal stress in larval vs. adult Drosophila melanogaster”
14:30-14:50- Brent J. Sinclair: “How did tropical stick insects end up in the mountains in New Zealand?”
14:50-15:30- Coffee break
15:30-16:30- Plenary lecture by Caroline Williams: “Cold truths: Evolutionary impacts of winter on terrestrial ectotherms”
Wednesday 31
9:00-10:00- Plenary lecture by Hervé Colinet: “Cold tolerance of insects: a complex and multifaceted flexible trait”
10:00-10:30- Coffee break
10:30-11:50- Session 3: Stress tolerance. Chair: Nick Teets
10:30-10:50- Fabian Norry: “Genetic variation for heat thermotolerance in eggs as compared to other stages of the life cycle in Drosophila melanogaster”
10:50-11:10- Stefane Saruhashi : “Thermal sensitivity and thermal tolerance of Anastrepha sp.1 aff fraterculus (Insecta, Tephritidae)”
11:10-11:30- Pablo E. Schilman: “The importance of water balance in terrestrial insects”.
11:30-11:50- Agustín Camacho: “Behavioral thermoregulation responses to dehydration differ between vertebrates and invertebrates”.
11:50-18:30- Lunch and City tour
Thursday 1st August
9:00-10:00- Plenary lecture by Carlos Navas: “The natural history of high-elevation tropical anurans: A life of extremes”
10:00-10:30- Coffee break
10:30-11:50- Session 4: Cold tolerance. Chair: Brent Sinclair
10:30-10:50- Tomáš Ditrich: “Associations between different metrics of insect cold tolerance and cryoprotectant loads”.
10:50-11:10- Ana Lyons: “Sensitivity of tardigrades (Hypsibius exemplaris) to ecologically relevant cold & underlying mechanisms”
11:10-11:30- Lauren E. Des Marteaux: “Insect fat body cell morphology and response to cold stress is modulated by acclimation”
11:30-11:50- Jan Rozsypal: “Survival of internal ice formation in freeze avoiding insect, Pyrrhocoris apterus: an update”
11:50-12:10- Nicholas M. Teets: “Nonlethal freezing injury in the Antarctic midge Belgica antarctica”
12:10-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:10- Session 5: Genomics and metabolomics of stress. Chair: Lauren Des Marteaux
13:30-13:50- José-Luis Martínez-Guitarte: “Analysis of toxicity by RT-PCR array on Chironomus riparius and Physella acuta”
13:50-14:10- Jan Lubawy: “The effects of cold stress on tropical cockroach Gromphadorhina coquereliana”
14:10-14:30- Katie E. Marshall: “Amplitude of Temperature Fluctuation Induces Distinct Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Responses in the Temperate Dung Beetle Phanaeus vindex.”
14:30-14:50- Alex S. Torson: “The physiology and functional genomics of overwintering in the Asian longhorned beetle”
14:50-15:10- Julián Mensch: “Metabolic differences between tropical and temperate Drosophila species after cold-induced reproductive arrest”
15:10-17:00- Coffee break + poster session
20:00 -Dinner
Friday August 2nd
9:00-10:30- Publication workshop by Enrico Rezende (Editor of Functional Ecology) and Nigel R Andrew (Editor of Austral Ecology)
10:30-11:00- Coffee break
11:00 – 12:20- Session 6: Development. Chair: Gregory Ragland
11:00-11:20- Elena B. Lopatina: “How the photoperiodic conditions can modify the thermal reaction norms for development in insects”
11:20-11:40- Sylvia Fischer: “Adaptation to temperate climates: Evidence of photoperiod-induced embryonic diapause in Aedes aegypti in South America”
11:40-12:00- Jantina Toxopeus: “Do mechanisms of cold tolerance change with development? A case study using RNA interference of multiple genes in Drosophila melanogaster”
12:00-12:20- Dmitry Kutcherov: “Thermal reaction norms for embryonic development in leaf beetles: comparing the fast with the slow”
12:20-12:30- Closing of the Symposium
