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Programme

Speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.


Sunday 22 March

17.00-17.45   Welcome Reception

17.45-18.45   Delegate introductions

18.45-19.25   Introductory lecture (Chair: Craig Franklin)

Hans-Otto Pörtner (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Germany)

Understanding the impacts of climate change on organisms and ecosystems: contributions from Experimental Biology

19.30   Dinner


Monday 23 March

Session I: Scope and general effects of rising temperatures (Chair: Hans Hoppeler)

09.00-09.40  Carmenza Robledo Abad Althaus (ETH Zϋrich, Switzerland)

Climate change and the human perspective: a risky gap between science and policy

09.45-10.25  Sarah Diamond (Case Western Reserve University, USA)

Physiological adaptation to cities as a proxy to forecast global-scale responses to climate change

10.30   Refreshment break

11.00-11.40  Christian Hof (Technische Universität München, Germany)

Integrating physiology, dispersal and land‐use to project species ranges under climate change

11.45-12.25  Lauren Buckley (University of Washington, USA)

Shifts in the relative fitness contributions of fecundity and survival in variable and changing environments

12.30   Lunch

Session II: Temperature challenges for reptiles (Chair: Craig Franklin)

13.30-14.10  Fredric Janzen (Iowa State University, USA and Michigan State University, USA)

Predicting the effects of climate change on incubation in reptiles: methodological advances and new directions

14.15- 14.55  Essie Rodgers (The Australian National University, Australia)

Diving in a warming world: understanding the impacts of elevated temperatures on ectothermic dive capacity

15.00   Refreshment break

Session III: Risks for mammals in different temperature zones   (Chair: Craig Franklin)

15.30-16.10  Andrea Fuller (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Predicting how arid-zone mammals will respond to the direct and indirect effects of climate change

16.15-16.55  Anthony Pagano (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

Physiological consequences of Arctic sea ice loss on large marine carnivores: unique responses by polar bears and narwhals

19.30   Dinner


Tuesday 24 March

Session IV: Specific challenges for birds and insects (Chair: Hans Hoppeler)

9.00-09.40  Andrew McKechnie (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Scaling of avian heat tolerance limits and evaporative cooling capacity

09.45-10.25  Cécile Le Lann (Université de Rennes 1, France)

Is winter coming? Climate change, parasitoids and associated trophic webs

10.30   Refreshment break

11.00-11.40  Caroline Williams (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Insect responses to winter climate change: interactions between cold and energy stress

11.45-12.00  An introduction to The Company of Biologists and JEB

12.00   Lunch

12.30-22.00  Social event and dinner


Wednesday 25 March

08.15-11.45  JEB Editors’ meeting (JEB Editors, Staff and Directors only)

Session V: Environmental stress for marine ectotherms   (Chair: Craig Franklin)

12.00-12.40  Sjannie Lefevre (University of Oslo, Norway)

The role of oxygen supply in modelling effects of global warming on fish

12.45   Lunch

13.30-14.10  David McKenzie (Centre for Marine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation, France)

Using aerobic exercise to investigate the thermal physiology of fishes

14.15-14.55 Josefin Sundin (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden)

Effects of ocean acidification on fish behaviour and physiology

15.00 Refreshment break

15.30-16.10  Inna Sokolova (University of Rostock, Germany)

Bioenergetics in environmental adaptation and stress tolerance of aquatic ectotherms: linking ecology and physiology in a multistressor landscape

16.15-16.55  Hollie Putnam (University of Rhode Island, USA)

Avenues of marine invertebrate acclimatization in response to rapid environmental change

17.00   Meeting wrap-up (Chair: Hans Hoppeler and Craig Franklin)

19.30   Dinner


Thursday 26 March

Departure by 11 am