Draft programme
Introductory lecture
Sophie Jarriault (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France)
You are what you eat: how the environment impacts cellular plasticity
Developmental plasticity as a driver of evolution
Matthew Walsh (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Does behavioural plasticity promote or constrain adaptation? Experiments on Daphnia
Tobias Uller (University of Lund, Sweden)
Developmental plasticity and evolutionary explanations – insights from lizards and other animals
Alexander Little (Queen’s University, Canada)
Adaptive plasticity: mechanisms and costs
Armin Moczek (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Developmental plasticity and the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution
Jorge Contreras Garduño (UNAM, Unidad Morelia, Mexico)
Developmental plasticity after innate immune memory: cost or strategy?
The rearing environment
Amy Newman (University of Guelph, Canada)
Resource availability during early life impacts later fitness in birds
Mylene Mariette (Doñana Biological Station, Spain and Deakin University, Australia)
Prenatal acoustic programming of development in birds
Anne Bronikowski (Iowa State University, USA)
Early nutritional stress affects growth, reproduction and survival in snakes
Imroze Khan (Ashoka University, India)
Evolution of ageing rate vs immune system development: a tale of intertwined strands
Patrícia Beldade (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Developmental plasticity in multifactorial environments
Early life stress
Paula Brunton (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Impact of early life stress on the development of the nervous system in mammals
Helen Eachus (University of Exeter, UK)
Early life adversity impacts the development of the stress response in fish
Linda Wilbrecht (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Feast and famine in development influence adult learning, decision making and dopamine neurons in mice
Hormones, epigenetics and other physiological mechanisms
Simon Blanchet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Moulis, France)
Beyond individuals: the use of population epigenetics to inform environmental conservation, management and restoration
Rajendhran Rajakumar (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Developmental mechanisms driving phenotypic variation in ants and flies
Neil Metcalfe (University of Glasgow, UK)
Physiological mechanisms behind phenotypic variation across generations – insights from fishes
Suvi Ruuskanen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Early-life environmental effects on birds
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