NEW DIRECTIONS IN SEXUAL SELECTION RESEARCH:

                   Unifying behavioural & genomic approaches

                             University of Bath, September 1st - 4th 2010

Programme & oral presentations

Wednesday 1st September (arrival)

14:00   (onwards) Registration and room check-in

19:00   Conference banquet and welcome address

20:00   Social gathering in the bar

Thursday 2nd September

08:00   Breakfast

09:00   Conference sessions

17:30   End of sessions

19:00   Evening meal

20:00   Poster session

20:00   Social gathering in the bar

Friday 3rd September

08:00   Breakfast

09:00   Conference sessions

17:30   End of sessions

18:30   Evening meal

20:00   Outing to Bath city: visit pub and see the sights !!

Saturday 4th September

08:00   Breakfast

09:00   Conference sessions

13:00   End of conference

SESSION 1:  POST-COPULATORY SEXUAL SELECTION

Keynote: Post-copulatory sexual selection

Tim Birkhead

University of Sheffield, UK.

Theme 1: Seminal fluid evolution & function

Female phenotypic responses to receipt of male ejaculate sex peptide

C. Fricke & T. Chapman

University of East Anglia, UK.

Ejaculates as condition-dependent traits

J. Perry & L. Rowe

University of Toronto, Canada.

Male accessory gland proteins in simultaneous hermaphrodites

J. Koene

VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Divergent mating systems alter evolutionary rates of seminal fluid proteins in Heliconius butterflies

J. Walters

University of Cambridge, UK.

Comparative proteomics of mammalian seminal fluid

S. Ramm, L. McDonald, J. Hurst, R. Beynon  & P. Stockley

University of Liverpool, U.K.

University of Basel, Switzerland

Allocation of seminal proteins by male Drosophila melanogaster

S. Wigby, L. Sirot & M. Wolfner

University of Oxford, UK.

Theme 2: Sperm competition & evolution

Sperm competition and cooperation in Peromyscus mice

H. Fisher & H. Hoesktra

Harvard University, USA.

Sperm competition and plastic male behaviour

A. Bretman, C. Fricke, J. Westmancoat & T. Chapman

University of East Anglia, UK.

The influence of sexual selection upon sperm design in mammals: integrating phenotypic and genomic approaches

M. Gomendio, M. Tourmente, L. Lueke, L. Gomez-Montoto, A. Vicens, F Serra, H Dopazo, & E Roldan

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.

Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain.

SESSION 2:  SEXUAL CONFLICT & MALE-FEMALE COEVOLUTION

Keynote:  Male-female coevolution

Goran Arnqvist

University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Is sexual conflict caused by sexual selection or natural selection?

N. Priest

University of Bath, UK

Evidence of sexual conflict in female nematodes of Caenorhabditis remanei

S. Anaid-Diaz, D. Haydon & J. Lindström

University of Bristol, UK.

University of Glasgow, UK.

Females benefits over pre-copulatory mate guarding in the amphipod Gammarus pulex

M. Galipaud, F. Dechaume Moncharmont, A. & L. Bollache

University of Bourgogne, France.

Experimental evolution reveals male and female responses to sexual selection in Tribolium castaneum

Ł. Michalczyk, A. Millard , O. Martin, B. Emerson & M. Gage

University of East Anglia, UK.

ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Sexual Conflict over Inbreeding

C. Tan

University of Oxford, UK.

Divergence in sexually selected traits and assortative mating in natural populations

A. Schwartz

University of Glasgow, UK

Comparative evidence suggests that prolonged copulation and nuptial feeding are analogous in function in bushcrickets.

K. Vahed

University of Derby, UK.

Sexual selection and the evolution of male wing pigmentation in dragon- and damselflies

M. Serrano-Meneses, A. Córdoba-Aguilar & Tamás Székely

Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Mexico.

University of Bath, UK.

Selection and population differentiation for song and cuticular hydrocarbons in Drosophila montana

P. Veltsos, C. Wicker-Thomas, R. Butlin, & M. Ritchie

University of St Andrews, UK.

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

University of Sheffield, UK.

Mating strategies in a population with over dominance of males: the case of the Common quail (Coturnix coturnix)

I. Sánchez-Donoso, M. Puigcerver, C. Vilà, & J. Rodríguez-Teijeiro

University of Barcelona, Spain.

Estación Biológica de Doñana-CSIC. A, Spain.

Sphragis-bearing and female size in the Clouded Apollo butterfly

J. Kis

Szent István University, Hungary.

Sexual selection and conflict: diversifying morphology, behaviour and genomes in Penduline Tits

R. van Dijk, Á. Pogány & T. Székely

University of Sheffield, UK.

University of Bath, UK.

Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

SESSION 3:  UNIFYING BEHAVIOURAL & GENOMIC APPROACHES

Keynote: Genetics and social behaviour

Allen Moore

University of Exeter, UK.

Theme 1: Ecology, behaviour & genetics of mate choice

Genetic Drift and the Frog Prince

S. Tazzyman, Y. Iwasa & A. Pomiankowski

University College London, UK.

Kyushu University, Japan.

Infection-induced gene expression and plumage coloration in the House Finch

S. Balenger, C. Bonneaud, S. Edwards & G. Hill

Auburn University, USA.
Harvard University, USA.
Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du C.N.R.S, France.

The coloration of Atlantic salmon sneaker males is linked to the viability and emergence timing of their offspring

L. Marie-Orleach, J. Roussel, J. Bugeon, G. Evanno

INRA, France.

University of Basel,  Switzerland.

Judging a book by its cover: uncovering the genetic mechanisms behind carotenoid coloration in birds

M. Pointer, S. Andersson, N. Mundy

University of Cambridge, UK.

University of Göteborg, Sweden.

Testing the Fisherian mechanism: examining the genetic correlation between male song and female response in acoustic Lepidoptera

M. Greenfield

Université François Rabelais de Tours, France.

Preliminary results of a long-term study on female sexual choice in tortoises (Testudo spp.) based on behavioural observations and genetic analysis

G. Cutuli, S. Cardoso, M. Vannini & S. Fratini

University of Florence, Italy.

A female signal reflects MHC genotype in a social primate

E. Huchard, M. Raymond, J. Benavides, H. Marshall, L. Knapp & G. Cowlishaw

University of Montpellier, France.

German Primate Center, Germany.

Institute of Zoology, UK.

University of Cambridge, UK.

Investigating mate choice between differentiated populations of house mice

I. Montero & M. Teschke

Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Germany.

Male-male contest in stalk-eyed flies: modified front legs help to decide the winner of a fight

M. Foldvari

University College London, UK.

Theme 2: Male & female sex roles

Sex roles in parental care: specialisation and cooperation

Z. Barta, T. Székely,  A. Liker & F. Harrison

University of Debrecen, Hungary.

University of Bath, UK.

University of Pannonia, Hungary.

University of Oxford, UK.

Polygyny and personality in pinnipeds: examining the links between behavioural types and fitness in male and female grey seals (Halichoerus grypus).

S. Twiss, R. Culloch, J. Franklin & P. Pomeroy

University of Durham University, UK.

University of St. Andrews (SMRU), UK.

Adult sex ratio in a polyandrous shorebird, the Kentish plover

A. Kosztolányi, Z. Barta, C. Küpper & T. Székely

Eötvös University, Hungary.

University of Debrecen, Hungary.

Harvard University, USA.

University of Bath, UK.

SESSION 4:  SYNTHESIS - NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING, TRANSCRIPTIOMICS, PROTEOMICS & BEYOND....

Keynote: Phenotype-genotype relationships

Judith Mank

University of Oxford, UK.

Integrating transcriptomics and proteomics in the study of spermatogenesis

S. Dorus

University of Bath, UK.

Sexually-selected nucleotide variation in a natural Drosophila population: integrating quantitative genetic and genomic approaches

S. Chenoweth

University of Queensland, Australia.

SESSION 5: SUMMARY & PLENARY DISCUSSION