Photo credit: Patricia Wright
Programme
Speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.
Click on the title of each presentation to view the abstract.
Saturday 11 March
17:30 – 18:30 Welcome Reception and drinks (bar)
18:30 – 19:30 Delegate introductions (Conference room)
19:30 Dinner
Sunday 12 March
Introductory lecture (Chair: Pat Wright) (Conference room)
09:00 – 09:55 Sophie Jarriault (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France)
You are what you eat: how the environment impacts cellular plasticity
Session I: Developmental plasticity as a driver of evolution (Chair: Katie Gilmour)
10:00 – 10:40 Matthew Walsh (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Environmental signals, developmental plasticity and evolutionary change: insights from waterfleas
10:45 Refreshment break
11:15 – 11:55 Tobias Uller (University of Lund, Sweden)
Developmental plasticity and evolvability
12:00 -12:40 Alexander Little (McMaster University, Canada)
Plasticity, diversified bet-hedging, and robustness: what does it mean to be unstable?
12:45 Lunch
Session I (continued): Developmental plasticity as a driver of evolution (Chair: Pat Wright)
13:45 – 14:25 Armin Moczek (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Genomic mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of developmental plasticity in horned dung beetles
14:30 – 15:10 Jorge Contreras Garduño (UNAM, Unidad Morelia, Mexico)
The importance of the insect developmental stage for transgenerational immune memory
15:15 Refreshment break
15:45 – 16:25 Rajendhran Rajakumar (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Developmental plasticity of a superorganism from cells to societies: Eco-Evo-Devo of ants
An introduction to The Company of Biologists and JEB
16:30 – 17:00 Michaela Handel (Managing Editor, Journal of Experimental Biology)
19:30 Dinner
Monday 13 March
Session II: The rearing environment (Chair: Katie Gilmour)
09:00 – 09:40 Amy Newman (University of Guelph, Canada)
Long-term ecophysiological impacts of the early life environment on birds and mammals
09:45 – 10:25 Mylene Mariette (Doñana Biological Station, Spain and Deakin University, Australia)
Prenatal acoustic programming of development in birds
10:30 Refreshment break
11:00 – 11:40 Anne Bronikowski (Michigan State University, USA)
Early-life nutrition and temperature affect adult life histories in reptiles
11:45 – 12:25 Imroze Khan (Ashoka University, India)
Evolution of ageing & development of immunity: a tale of intertwined strands
12:30 Lunch
14:00 – 18:15 Social event
19:30 Gala Dinner
Tuesday 14 March
Session III: Early life stress (Chair: Pat Wright)
09:00 – 09:40 Paula Brunton (University of Edinburgh, UK)
The impact of maternal stress on offspring brain development
09:45 – 10:25 Helen Eachus (University of Exeter, UK)
Early life stress: from adaptive plasticity to allostatic overload
10:30 Refreshment break
11:00 – 11:40 Linda Wilbrecht (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Food, scarcity, and the development of learning and decision-making systems in mice
11:45 – 12:25 Daniel Ardia (Franklin & Marshall College, USA)
12:30 Lunch
Session IV: Hormones, epigenetics and other physiological mechanisms (Chair Katie Gilmour)
13:30 – 14:10 Simon Blanchet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Moulis, France)
14:15 – 14:55 Suvi Ruuskanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Early-life environmental effects on birds: mechanisms underlying long-lasting effects
15:00 Refreshment break
15:30 – 16:10 Neil Metcalfe (University of Glasgow, UK)
16:15 – 17:00 General discussion (Chairs: Pat Wright and Katie Gilmour)
19:30 Dinner
Wednesday 15 March
By 10:00 Departure
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