EES Conference

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Welcome to the 2009 EES Conference

Dates: October 12th and 13th 2009

Location: LMU Biozentrum in Martinsried

The annual EES conference is being held on the 12. and 13. October 2009 at the LMU Biozentrum. Everyone interested in topics in Evolution, Ecology, and/or Systematics is invited to join. At this conference we also welcome the new Master students and there will be the first EES graduation ceremony for the students who will have finished their Master degree.

Invited speakers:

Manyuan Long from the University of Chicago

http://pondside.uchicago.edu/~longlab/
Manyuan works on the evolutionary biology of the origin of genes with novel functions.

Joachim Kurtz from the University of Muenster

http://ieb.uni-muenster.de/animalevolecol
Joachim works on he evolutionary ecology of specificity and phenotypic plasticity in innate immunity and adaptation of parasites to different host immune systems.

EES Young Researchers Prizes

All finishing Master, Diplom and PhD students were invited to apply for the EES prizes for the best Master and PhD theses. Every applicant will present his or her work at the EES conference. At the end of the conference, a jury consisting of EES professors will decide who will win the prizes. For more information about the EES prizes contact Stephan Hutter (hutter"at"bio.lmu.de).

Poster session

All EES Master students who have just finished their first year of the program will present a poster of the work they did in their second lab rotation (IRT2).

Program

Monday 12th of October

10:00	Welcome

	Talk by invited speaker
10:15	Manyuan Long, University of Chicago "Gene movement between X and autosomes and evolutionary mechanisms"

11:15	Coffee break

	Talks by Master/Diplom students applying for an EES Young Researchers Prize
11:30	Pablo Duchen "The evolution of Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae): Repeated shifts from bat to bee pollination and long-distance dispersal to Africa 2-6 million years ago"
11:45	Jennifer Lohr "Experiments on host-parasite interactions in Daphnia galeata and two sympatric lake parasites"
12:00	Oliver Hawlitschek "Reptiles and amphibians of the Comoro Islands"
12:15	Matthias Konrad "Slave rebellion in the ant Temnothorax curvispinosus and the inhibition of worker reproduction in the ant Temnothorax longispinosus"

12:30	Poster Introduction
12:45	Lunch (offered by EES, please sign up!)
13:45	Poster session by 2nd cohort EES Master students

	Talks by Master/Diplom students applying for an EES Young Researchers Prize
14:45	Rebecca Meredith "Functional diversity measures and null models describe assembly patterns in grassland communities"
15:00	Delsy Trujillo "Mechanism of pollination systems in Cranichideae (Orchidaceae)"
15:15	Rob Morrison "Ecology, chemistry and genetics: What part have they played in the speciation of two sibling species from the genus Lasius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)"
15:30	Ricardo Wilches "Evolution of two X-chromosome regions associated with cold stress resistance in European Drosophila melanogaster"

15:45	End of day 1

Tuesday 13th of October

	Talk by invited speaker
10:00	Joachim Kurtz, University of Münster "The evolutionary ecology of specific immunity in invertebrates"

11:00	Coffee break

	Talks by PhD students applying for an EES Young Researchers Prize
11:15	Stefan Laurent "Statistical evaluation of demographic models in Drosophila melanogaster"
11:35	Elisabeth Bolund "Condition dependence and fitness consequences of sexual traits in Zebra Finches"
11:55	Sabine Dietrich "Detrimental effects of a pharmaceutical mixture on Daphnia magna"

12:15	Lunch (offered by EES, please sign up!)

	Talks by PhD students applying for an EES Young Researchers Prize
13:20	Winfried Hense "X chromosome inactivation during Drosophila spermatogenesis"
13:40	Holger Schielzeth "Causes of between-individual variation in mating preferences"
14:00	Carlos Merino "Population genetic approaches to speciation of wild tomatoes with special reference to Solanum habrochaites and S. arcanum"

14:20	Movie: Evolution before our eyes
14:30	Coffee break
15:00	Graduation ceremony for the 1st cohort of EES Master students
15:30	Young Researchers Prize ceremony

15:45	End of day 2