Conference Programme

Provisional Programme:

Venue:	Bute Building, Westburn Lane, St Andrews, KY16 9TS, and Hew Hall, St Andrews.
Sunday 13th June, 2010
14:00 - 19:00	Registration at New Hall
19:00	Introductory Drinks New Hall
Monday 14th June, 2010
8.55	Welcome
09.00	Session 1 Ecology (Chair: Douglas Fraser)
09.00-09.40	Joel Trexler - Population dynamics and control of local density of three poeciliid species in a dynamic landscape.
09.40-10.00	William J. Matthews - Gambusia affinis population dynamics: boom and bust, and why?
10.00-10.20	Jon Ward - The role of temporal predator variation in prey behaviour using the guppy as a model system.
10.20-10.40	Rüdiger Riesch - Female life–history in an extremophile fish (Poecilia mexicana): evolutionary responses to toxicity and darkness.
10.40	Coffee/tea break
11.10	Session 2 Invasiveness (Chair: Indar Ramnarine)
11.10-11.30	Amy Deacon - The behavioural and life-history traits contributing to the remarkable colonisation ability of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).
11.30-11.50	E. Ramírez Carrillo - Temperature-mediated interactions between an invasive poeciliid and a native goodeid.
11.50-12.10	Emili Garcia-Berthou - Understanding the invasive success of mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) in Europe.
12.10-12.30	Caya Sievers - Enemy within the gates. Finding reasons for the invasive success of a guppy population.
12.30	Spoken posters 1. A. Li - Shoaling behaviour in Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata): survival costs, benefits and plasticity. 2. A.E. Houde - Female preference for novel males in guppies: does a fresh face matter? 3. Alessandro Devigili - Pre- and post- copulatory sexual selection in the guppy: an integrated approach. 4. Beatriz Diaz Pauli - Inbreeding depression in male mating behaviour of Heterandria formosa.
12.40	Lunch
14.00	Session 3 Social Environment (Chair: Iain Matthews)
14.00-14.40	David Bierbach - Mate choice in communication networks. familiarity among males influences audience effect in Atlantic mollies (Poecilia mexicana)
14.40-15.00	Dawn Thomas - Association patterns in social networks. the effect of behavioural phenotype and predation risk.
15.00-15.20	Amber Makowicz - Modification of poeciliid behaviors in a social environment.
15.20-15.40	Sabine Noebel - Audience matters in male and female sailfin mollies Poecilia latipinna.
15.40	Coffee/tea break
16.10	Session 4 Behaviour (Chair: Raelynn Deaton)
16.10-16.30	Christian Agrillo - Ontogeny of numerical ability in Poecilia reticulata.
16.30-16.50	Marco Dadda - Brain lateralization and mating success in male goldbelly topminnow.
16.50-17.10	Alessandro Macario - Early social experience and female mate choice in Guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
17.10-17.30	Chris Kroll - A comparative field study on mating behavior across three isolated populations of the spring dwelling gambusia, Gambusia geiseri
17.30	Spoken posters 5. Chris Kroll - Current Distribution of the Spring Dwelling Gambusia, Gambusia geiseri 6. Douglas Fraser - Guppies as heterospecific facilitators: a precursor of exploratory boldness 7. Giovanna Serena - Comparative evaluation in mate choice decisions in the guppy 8. Janalyn West - Fecundity assessment across 7 isolated spring populations of Gambusia geiseri.
17.40	End

19.30	Dinner and ceilidh (Scottish dance) Kilt hire

Tuesday 15th June, 2010
09.00	Session 5 Reproductive Biology (Chair: Carl Smith)
09.00-09.40	Edie Marsh-Matthews - Effects of Stress Hormone on Morphology, Behavior and Reproduction of Western Mosquitofish.
09.40-10.00	Clelia Gasparini - Effects of ovarian fluids on sperm performance in the guppy.
10.00-10.20	Manfred Schartl- Determination of onset of sexual maturation and mating behavior by melanocortin receptor 4 polymorphisms.
10.20-10.40	Stacy B Stoops - Interpopulation and intrapopulation variation in gonopodial morphology of two congeners of livebearing mosquitofishes (Gambusia geiseri and G. affinis).
10.40	Coffee/tea break
11.10	Session 6 Mating System (Chair:Amy Deacon)
11.10-11.30	Richard Lewis - Effects of Black Spot Disease on the Gambusia affinis Mating System.
11.30-11.50	M. Barbosa - Effects of polyandry on male phenotypic diversity.
11.50-12.10	Jessica L Sanchez - Effects of Density, Time and Female Presence on Male Same-Sex Mating in Western Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
12.10-12.30	Manfred Schartl- Sex chromosome polymorphisms in guppies.
12.30	Spoken posters 9. Ji Hyoun Kang - Hybrid origin of another southern swordtail species Xiphophorus monticolus. 10. Laura Piffer - Discrimination of quantity in the Eastern mosquitofish: does numerical information require a higher cognitive load than continuous extent? 11. Madlen Ziege - Perceived sperm competition risk, audience effects, and male mate choice in Poecilia mexicana. 12. Mike Webster - Eavesdropping on courtship behaviour by male guppies.
12.40	Lunch
14.00	Session 7 Evolution I (Chair: Manfred Schartl)
14.00-14.40	Martin Plath - Maintenance of small-scale genetic differentiation despite perturbation by a catastrophic flood in extremophile Poecilia mexicana.
14.40-15.00	Julia Jones - The phylogeography of the hybrid origin of a swordtail species from Mexico.
15.00-15.20	Uribe Aranzábal Mari Carmen - Oogenesis of extreme microlecithal oocytes in the poeciliid Heterandria formosa.
15.20-15.40	Janalyn West - Effects of male harassment and gonopodial structure on female fitness in coercive livebearing fishes of the genus Gambusia.
15.40	Coffee/tea break
16.10	Session 8 Sexual selection (Chair: Anne Houde)
16.10-16.30	Ingo Schlupp - A novel, sexually selected trait in poeciliid fishes. Female preference for mustache-like, rostral filaments in male Poecilia sphenops.
16.30-16.50	Raelynn Deaton - Male reproductive success in a coercive livebearer. a test of the paternity assurance hypothesis.
16.50-17.10	Janalyn West - Female latency to remating increases with male coercion in a livebearing fish.
17.10-17.30	Stacy B Stoops - Effects of male gonopodial length on female mate choice in livebearing coercive mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
17.30	Spoken posters 13. Raelynn Deaton - Genetic structure of five isolated populations of the largespring gambusia, Gambusia geiseri in Texas. 14. Richard Lewis - Effect of black spot disease on female fecundity and body condition in the western mosquitofish. 15. Richard Lewis - Effects of competition and predation on life history strategies of Gambusia species. 16. Stacy B Stoops - Effects of Parasites on Reproduction in Isolated Spring Populations of Gambusia geiseri. 17. Jessica L Sanchez - Hydrological seasonality of reproductive activity in the least killifish, Heterandria formosa.
17.40	End

19.30	Barbecue and pub quiz

Wednesday 16th June, 2010
09.00	Session 9 Evolution II (Chair: Christine Dreyer)
09.00-09.40	Kimberly Hughes - From model to supermodel? Sequencing and annotation of transcribed genes in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).
09.40-10.00	Serinde van Wijk - Genetic basis of life history evolution in Trinidadian guppies. a model for fisheries-induced evolution.
10.00-10.20	tbc
10.20-10.40	tbc
10.40	Coffee/tea break and posters
11.30	Session 10 Genetics (Chair: Kim Hughes)
11.10-11.30	Christine Dreyer - An (almost) comprehensive genetic map of the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.
11.30-11.50	Eva-Maria Willing - Strategies to detect regions under selection in the Guppy genome.
11.50-12.10	tbc
12.10-12.30	Ronald B. Walter - Progress in Xiphophorus OMIC Resources.
12.50	Final Comments
12.40	Lunch