Symposium Schedule August 3rd 2016

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9:15-9:30 Suzanne Alonzo Opening Remarks: The causes and consequences of behavioural plasticity

 

9:30-10:15 Rui Oliveira Neurogenomic mechanisms of social plasticity

 

10:15 -11:00 Coffee Break (as per ISBE organizers)

 

11:00-11:30 Amanda Bretman Understanding the “how” of behavioural plasticity using Drosophila melanogaster sperm competition responses as a model

 

11:30-12:00 Clare Rittschof Honey bee aggression and brain energy metabolism: a plasticity mechanism that stands the test of time

 

12:00-12:30 Lucy Aplin Social learning, the spread of innovation and a changing world - studies in great tits Parus major

 

12:30-14:00 Lunch

 

14:00-14:30 Bram Kuijper Does transgenerational plasticity increase robustness to changes in environmental variability?

 

14:30-15:00 Alastair Wilson Plasticity is not a trait

 

15:00-15:45 Coffee Break

 

15:45-16:45 Breakout groups + Discussion

 

16:45-17:00 Nick Royle Closing Remarks: Future research on behavioural plasticity

 

Further post-symposium discussion over food and drinks - Details to be determined.