Orientation & Navigation - Royal Institute of Navigation

Orientation 

& Navigation 

0Birds, Humans 

1& & Other Animals 

7th Conference in this Series 

6-9 April 2011 

University of Reading, UK 

PROGRAMME AND 

REGISTRATION FORM 

Hosted by the Royal Institute of Navigation’s Animal Navigation Group

SEVENTH CONFERENCE 

ORIENTATION AND NAVIGATION 

BIRDS, HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS 

The Seventh International Conference on Animal Navigation, hosted by the Animal Navigation Special Interest 

Group of the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN), will be held at Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, 

UK, on 6-9 April 2011. The conference will bring together research scientists, from the whole range of 

disciplines that relate to animal navigation including Orientation, Migration, Ethology, Neurobiology, Sensory 

physiology, Ecology and Entomology. In keeping with the ethos of the Institute, the conference will also 

welcome professionals and amateurs from all fields of navigation and related scientific disciplines. We are 

grateful to the Company of Biologists Ltd, familiar to many through the Journal of Experimental Biology, which 

has provided a grant to provide support for students attending the conference, and to the European 

Commission (EC) who have helped some researchers from the new EC countries by the provision of travel 

funding. We also wish to thank the following for their contribution to the success of the conference: 

Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL), The European Office of Aerospace Research & 

Development (EOARD) and the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE 

Dr Peter Fraser, Chairman RIN 11 Organising Committee 

Professor John Kemp, Past-Chairman RIN 11 Organising Committee 

Air Cdre ‘Pinky’ Grocott, Moderator RIN Animal-forum 

Capt Peter Chapman-Andrews, Director, RIN 

Sally-Anne Cooke, Conference and Events Manager, RIN 

VENUE 

UNIVERSITY OF READING, WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS, UPPER REDLANDS ROAD, READING, RG6 6UA 

The Conference will take place in the Palmer Lecture Theatre of the Whiteknights Campus, University of 

Reading. Accommodation will be available in the halls of residence at reasonable rates, and may be booked for 

partners who are not attending the conference. All rooms are single en-suite. An ice-breaker reception will be 

held on the Wednesday evening, prior to dinner, and a Conference Dinner will be held on the Friday evening. 

All meals (including the Conference Dinner), coffee/tea, and the ice-breaker reception, will be included in the 

conference fee. Reading is situated about 25 miles (~40 km) from Heathrow. 

The town of Reading is served by a direct bus service from Heathrow and by a fast train service from 

Paddington station, London. There is a bus service from Reading station to Whiteknights Campus (Bus routes 

19, 20 and 21) and taxis are available from Reading Railway Station to Whiteknights Campus at about £9. See 

maps opposite. 

There is a bank, ATM and shop onsite. And there will be 50 parking spaces available fairly near to the 

accommodation. Parking spaces will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

LOCATION & CONTACT 

Wantage Hall 

Accommodation 

Eat Park 

Park reception 

Car Park 2 

Palmer building 

Blue room 

Senior common room 

Prior to the Conference: 

All queries should be addressed to the Institute: 

Royal Institute of Navigation 

1 Kensington Gore 

London SW7 2AT 

Tel: +44 (0)20 7591 3135/3130 

Fax: +44 (0)20 7591 3131 

E-mail: conference@rin.org.uk 

During the Conference: 

Main University telephone: +44 (0)118 987 5123 

Park Place Reception (Halls of Residence) may be contacted on: +44 (0)118 378 8800 

Emergency contact number for the University Campus on a 24-hr basis: +44 (0)118 378 7799 

Emergency contact number for the Royal Institute of Navigation: +44 07970 517271

DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL 

1000 Registration and coffee – Palmer Theatre Foyer 

1200 LUNCH - Blue Room – Park House 

1330 Welcome David Barnes, President RIN 

1340 Opening Address Peter Fraser, Chairman ANG 

SESSION 1A - INSECTS 

Chairman: ‘Pinky’ Grocott, Moderator RIN Animal Forum 

1350 First evidence of star orientation in insects M Dacke 1 , E Baird 1 , M Byrne 2 , E Warrant 1 

1Lund University, Sweden 

2University of the Witwatersrand, South 

Africa 

1410 Ball-room dancing: Orientation behaviour in dung beetles E Baird 1 , E Warrant 1 , C Scholtz 2 , 

M Byrne 3 & M Dacke 1 


2University of Pretoria, South Africa 

3University of Witwatersrand, South 

Africa 

1430 What does the world look like to a navigating ant? P Graham 1 , A Wystrach 2 & K Cheng 2 

1University of Sussex, UK 

2MacQuarie University, Australia 

1450 Characterizing the Light-dependent Magnetic Compass M Painter 1 , D Dommer 2 , M Gnirke 1 , 

of Drosophila melanogaster D Tran 1 , B Moore 1 & J B Phillips 1 

1Virginia Tech, USA 

2Mount Olive College, USA 

1510 Cryptochrome 2 necessary for magnetosensitivity of M Vacha 1 , O Bazalova 2 , H Sehadova 2 , 

American cockroach Periplaneta americana I Sauman 2 , D Dolezel 2 , C Budejovice 1 , 

T Valkova 1 , P Bartos 1 , M Kvicalova 1 , 

K Tomanova 1 & R Loesel 3 

1Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 

2South Bohemia University, Czech 

Republic 

3RWTH University, Aachen, Germany 

1530 Biomimicry and the guidance systems of migratory insects R B Srygley 1 , R Dudley 2 , E G Oliveira 3 , 

A J Riveros 4,6 , S P Sane 5 , 

1USDA-Agricultural Research Service, 

USA 

2University of California-Berkeley, 

USA 

3Centro Universitário UNA, Brazil 

4Smithsonian Tropical Research 

Institute, Panama 

5National Center for Biological 

Sciences, India 

6University of Arizona, USA 

1550 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK

SESSION 1B – INSECTS, SPIDERS AND AMPHIBIA 

Chairman: F Scapini, University of Florence 

1620 Homing in a nocturnal spider T Nørgaard 

Lund University, Sweden 

1640 Do leaf-cutter ants Atta colombica obtain their magnetic A J Riveros 1,3 , D M S Esquivel 2 , E 

compass materials from soil? A behavioral assessment Wajnberg 2 , A De Sedas 3 , H Herz 3 , 

R B Srygley 4 


2Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas 

Físicas, Brazil 


Institute, Panama, 4 USDA-Agriculture 

Research Service, USA 

1700 Do leaf-cutter ants Atta colombica obtain their magnetic D M S Esquivel 1 , R B Srygley 2 , 

compass materials from soil? The comparative FMR results. A J Riveros 3,4 , M A Barbosa 1 , 

E Wajnberg 1 

1Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas, 

Físicas, Brazil 

2USDA-Agricultural Research Service, 

USA 



Institute, Panama 

1710 Star orientation in a diurnal beetle J Smolka 1 , E Baird 1 , M Byrne 2 , M 

Dacke 1 


2University of the Witwatersrand, 

South Africa 

1720 Home-cuts and Crosscuts by Ants and Rodents While Homing R Jander 

University of Kansas, USA 

1730 Lycosa tarantula (Araneae, Lycosidae) homing by using J Ortega-Escobar 

visual information from the substratum obtained through University Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 

the anterior lateral eyes (ALEs). 

1740 Age, gender and species specific differences in spatial S Ogurtsov, V A Antipov, 

orientation of the common toad (Bufo bufo L) and the G A Armeev, E E Verdian 

common grass frog (Rana temporaria L) in a visual 

Lomonosov Moscow State 

environment 

University, Russia 

1750 CLOSE 

1800 RECEPTION Sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation – Senior Common Room – Park House 

1900 DINNER ON CAMPUS – Blue Room – Park House 

Bar open until 2359 – Senior Common Room – Park House

Day 2 - THURSDAY 7 APRIL 

SESSION 2A - PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR MAGNETORECEPTION (1) 

Chairman: M Liedvogel, Lund University 

0900 Night-migratory songbirds possess a magnetic S Engels 1 , C Hein 1 , D Kishkinev 1 , 

compass in both eyes H Prior 2 , H Mouritsen 1 

1University of Oldenburg, Germany 

2Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 

Germany 

0920 Magnetoreception in Birds: 'Fixed Direction' Responses are D Gehring, R Wiltschko 

not Lateralized 

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 

Germany 

0940 Cryptochrome magnetoreception: disorder and motion P Hore, J C S Lau, H J Hogben 

University of Oxford, UK 

1000 Light-dependent information processed in Cluster N is H Mouritsen 1 , M Zapka 1 , D Heyers 1 , 

essential for a functional magnetic compass in European C Hein 1 , S Engels 1 , N-L 

Robins 

Schneider 1 , J Hans 1 , S Weiler 1 , D 

Dreyer 1 ,D Kishkinev 1 , J Wild 2 , H 

Mouritsen 1 


2University of Auckland, New Zealand 

1020 Magnetic field changes activate the retina in homing P Nemec 1 , A Bajgar 1,2,3 , M Lucova 1 , 

pigeons O Cerny 1 , H Novakova 1 

1Charles University, Prague, Czech 

Republic 

2University of South Bohemia, Czech 

Republic 

3Institute of Entomology, Biology 

Centre AS CR, Czech Republic 

1040 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK 

SESSION 2B - PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR MAGNETORECEPTION (2) 

Chairman: J B Phillips, Virginia Tech 

1110 Magnetic Orientation in Different Strains of Domestic S Denzau 1 , R Freire 2 , D Kuriakose 1 , 

Chickens, Gallus gallus U Munroe 3 , W Wiltschko 1 


Germany 

2Charles Sturt University, Wagga 

Wagga, Australia 

3University of Technology, Sydney, 

Australia

1130 Magnetic alignment - a neglected phenomenon in the H Burda 1 , S Begall 1 , P Nemec 2 , 

study of magnetoreception J Cerveny 3 

1University of Duisburg-Essen, 


Republic 

3University of Life Sciences, Czech 

Republic 

1150 The effect of magnetic pulses on the orientation of birds R Holland 1 , K Thorup 2 , M Wilkelsi 1 , 

in the wild A Gagliardo 3 

1Max Planck Institute for 

Ornithology, Germany 

2University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

3University of Pisa, Italy 

1210 A sky polarization compass in lizards; which wavelengths of G Beltrami 1 , P Buttini 1 , C Bertolucci 1 

light are involved? A Parretta 1.2 , F Petrucci 1,3 , A Foà 1 

1Università di Ferrara, Italy, 2 ENEA, 

Bologna, Italy, 3 INFN, Ferrara, Italy 

1230 Not all songbirds calibrate their magnetic compass from N Chernetsov 1 , D Kishkinev 2 , 

twilight cues: a telemetry study V Kosarev 3 , C V Bolshakov 1 

1Biological Station Rybachy, 

Russia 


3BioConsult SH GmbH & Co, 

Germany 

1250 LUNCH - Blue Room - Park House 

SESSION 3A - PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR MAGNETORECEPTION (3) 

Chairman: K Lohmann, University of N Carolina 

1350 Magnetic field changes activate the trigeminal brainstem D Heyers 1 , M Zapka 1 , M Hoffmeister 1 , 

complex in a migratory bird J M Wild 2 , H Mouritsen 1 



1410 The magnetite-based receptors in the beak of homing pigeons R Wiltschko, I Schiffner, W 

mediate magnetic 'map' information 

Wiltschko 


Germany 

1430 Does the geomagnetic field intensity affect the flight path of A De Santis 1 , C Fillanino 2 , P Ioalè 2 , E 

homing pigeons? Analysis of GPS recorded tracks of intact and Qamili 1 , M Savini 2 , M Wild 3 , A 

trigeminal sectioned pigeons. Gagliardo 2 

1Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e 

Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma, Italy 



1450 Test of a double clock navigation mechanism in a migratory D Kishkinev 1 , N Chernetsov 2 , H 

songbird Mouritsen 1 


2Biological Station Rybachy, Russia 

1510 The genetics of migration in the willow warbler Phylloscopus M Liedvogel, S Åkesson, S Bensch 

trochillus 

CAnMove Centre, Lund University, 

Sweden


SESSION 3B - USE OF OLFACTION IN BIRDS 

Chairman: S Åkesson, Lund University 

1600 Testing the olfactory activation hypothesis with GPS data A Gagliardo 1 , P Ioalè 1 , C Filannino 1 , 

loggers: evidence against a priming role of artificial odours in M Wilkelski 2 

pigeon navigation 


2Max Planck Institute of Ornithology, 

Germany 

1620 Activation of the olfactory system in pigeons correlates with V Meskenaite, N Blaser, J Nair, 

odor concentrations 

H-P Lipp 

Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland 

1640 The structure of navigational information - neural constraints H Prior 

on its perception and representation 


Germany 

1700 Oceanic navigation in Cory’s shearwaters: evidence for a P Lambardi 1 , F Bonnadonna 2 , J Bried 1 , 

critical role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement in P Luschi 3 , M Wikelski 4 , A Gagliardo 3 

open ocean.. 

1University of the Azores, Portugal 

2CNRS – CEFE, France 


4Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, 

Germany 

1720 Odor perception signatures in homing pigeons J Nair, N Blaser, V Meskenaite, H-P 

Lipp, 

University of Zurich, Switzerland 

1730 Odors in the context of animal navigation P E Jorge 1 , J B Phillips 2 , P A M 

Marques 1 

1Unidade Investigação Eco-Etologia. 

ISPA , Lisbon, Portugal 

2 

Virginia Tech, USA 

1750 Close 

1810 Discussion: Pigeons and Magnetism. Chairman: M M Walker, University of Auckland 

1900 DINNER ON CAMPUS – Blue Room – Park House 

Bar open until 2359 – Senior Common Room – Park House 

DAY 3 – FRIDAY 8 APRIL 

SESSION 4A – BIRD MIGRATION 

Chairman: H Mouritsen, University of Oldenburg 

0900 Cue-conflict experiments revisited: what can we learn from S Åkesson 

experiments at different continents? 


0920 No apparent coastline effects on the flight paths of nocturnally C Nilsson, T Alerstam, J Bäckman,

migrating passerines in Falsterbo, Sweden H Karlsson 


0940 Mathematical Analysis of Pigeon Tracks: Characterisation of I Schiffner 

the Underlying Navigational Process 


Germany 

1000 Testing cognitive navigation: Homing pigeons fly to two N Blaser, G. Dell’Ariccia, 

different goals 

G. Dell'Omo, J. Nair, 

V. Meskenaite, H.-P. Lipp 

University of Zurich, Switzerland 

1020 Do homing pigeons (Columba livia) use the Earth’s magnetic C V Mora, V Bingman 

field to determine their position during homing? 

Bowling Green State University, USA 


SESSION 4B - AQUATIC ORIENTATION 

Chairman: P J Fraser, University of Aberdeen 

1110 Physiological mechanisms of imprinting and homing migration H Ueda, 

in salmon 

Hokkaido University, Japan 

1130 Three-dimensional navigation R Holbrook, T Burt de Perera 


1150 Magnetite-Based Magnetoreceptor Cells in the Olfactory J L Kirschvink 1 , B B H Yuen 2 , H 

Organ of Rainbow Trout 

Cadiou 3 , A N Muhamad 3 , M M 

Walker 2 , P A McNaughton 2 , M 

Winklhofer 4 , A Kobayashi 1,5 

1California Institute of Technology, 

USA 

2Auckland University, New Zealand 

3University of Cambridge, UK 

4Ludwig-Maximilians University of 

Munich, Germany 

5Institute of Advance Industrial 

Science & Technology, Osaka, Japan 

1210 In-vivo determination of the magnetic dipole moment of M Winklhofer 1 , S H K Eder 1 , H 

candidate receptor cells in teleost fish 

Cadiou 2,3 , P McNaughton 2 , J 

Kirschvink 4 

1Ludwig-Maximilians-University of 

Munich 

2University of Cambridge, UK 

3CNRS Dijon, France 

4California Institute of Technology, 

USA

1230 Reef Odor: A stimulus to larval fish navigation C Paris 1 , J Ateme 2 , J-O Irisson 3 , M 

Kingsford 4 , G Gerlach 5 

1University of Miami, USA 

2Boston University Marine Program, 

USA 

3Laboratoire Oceanographique de 

Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 

4James Cook University, Townsville, 

Australia 

5Oldenburg University, Germany 

1240 Characterization of candidate magnetite-based B Yuen 1,2 , M M Walker 1 

magnetoreceptor cells in the olfactory organ of rainbow trout 1University of Auckland 

2United International College, Zhuhai, 

China 

1250 LUNCH – Blue Room – Park House 

SESSION 5A – TURTLES AND MAMMALS 

Chairman: F Vollrath, University of Oxford 

1350 Navigating the Atlantic Ocean with geomagnetic markers: an K Lohmann 

inherited ‘magnetic map’ in loggerhead sea turtles 

University of N Carolina, USA 

1410 Investigating current drift detection by leatherback sea turtles P Luschi 1 , S. Galli 1 , S Fossette 2 , 

L Benedetti-Cecchi 1 , P Gaspar 3 , G. C. 

Hays 2 , J R E Lutjeharms 4 


2Swansea University, UK 

3CLS France 

4University of Cape Town, South 

Africa 

1430 Turtle tracks on sandy beaches: Straightness as a proxy of L Fanini 1 , L Bertelli 1 , E A. Cuevasnesting 

site research on the supralittoral zone Flores 2 

1University of Florence, Italy 

Department of Marine Resources, 

CINVESTAV-IPN, Mérida, Yucatán, 

México 

1450 Oceanic Navigation of Free-Ranging Northern Elephant Seals P Robinson 1 , K Lohmann 2 , D Costa 1 

(Mirounga angustirostris) 

1University of California, USA 

2University of N Carolina, USA 

1510 Use of Magnetic Compass Cues by Epigeic Rodents J B Phillips 

Virginia Tech, USA 

1530 Magnetic maps in an oceanographic context: Simulating N F Putman 1 , Phillipe Verley 2 

migration of young loggerhead sea turtles using ocean Tom J Shay 1 , Kenneth J Lohmann 1 

circulation models and behavioral data 

1University of North Carolina, USA 

2IFREMER, France 


SESSION 5B - MECHANISMS OF ORIENTATION (1) 

Chairman: R Wiltschko, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 

1610 Polarized light sensitivity in birds - behavioural and R Muheim 

physiological mechanisms and its interaction with the Lund University, Sweden 

light-dependent magnetic compass 

1630 Do pigeon release-site biases depend on the combined J T Hagstrum 1 , J. Spritzer 1 , 

effects of topography and wind during transmission of L M Baker 1 , R M Jones 2 , 

infrasonic map cues? 

1U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, 

USA 

2University of Colorado, USA 

1650 King penguin chicks (Aptenodytes patagonicus) orientation and A Nesterova, J Chiffard, 

navigation: the importance of acoustic and magnetic cues C Couchoux, F Bonadonna 

CEFE-CNRS, France 

1710 Investigating Orientation in Auks T Evans 1 , M Kadin 2 , J Sundberg 2 , 

O Olsson 2 , H Ӧsterblom 2 , S Åkesson 1 , 

1CAnMove Centre, Lund University, 

Sweden 

2Stockholm University, Sweden 

1720 Migratory orientation of paddyfield warbler (Acrocephalus M Ilieva 1 , P Zehtindjiev 1 , D Dimitrov 1 , 

agricola) displaced from NE Bulgaria to Saratov province, O Oparina 2 , M Oparin 2 , S Åkesson 3 

Russia 

1Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 

Bulgaria 

2Russian Academy of Sciences, 

Saratov, Russia 


1730 Population studies on migratory warblers – application of A Ozarowska 

orientation cage tests 

Bird Migration Research Station, 

University of Gdansk, Poland 

1740 GPS track analysis reveals that homing of pigeons is not G Dell'Ariccia 1 , S Benamou 1 , 

influenced by geomagnetic anomalies G Dell'Omo 2 , H-P Lipp 3 

1CEFE-CNRS, France 

2Ornis Italica, Italy 

3University of Zurich, Switzerland 

1750 CLOSE 

1900 CONFERENCE DINNER – Wantage Hall 

Bar open until 2359 – Wantage Hall

DAY 4 – SATURDAY 9 April 2011 

SESSION 6A – MECHANISMS OF ORIENTATION (2) 

Chairman: P Nemec, Charles University 

0900 Effects of group membership on route learning in homing B Pettit, A Flack, T Guilford, D Biro 

pigeons 


0920 The Influence of Geometric Environments on Head Direction R Knight, R Hayman, K Jeffery 

Cells 

University College London, UK 

0940 Central processing of magnetic information: cues from African T Burger 1 , M Lucova 1 , V Blahova 1 , 

mole rats R E Moritz 2 , C Poth 3 , H Burda 3 , 

W Wiltschko 3 , R Wiltschko 3 , HHA 

Oelschlager 3 , P Nemec 1,3 


Republic 

2University of Duisburg- Essen, 

Germany 


Germany 

0950 Artificial orientation cues can influence bird orientation in O Černý, H Nováková, P Němec 

Emlen funnels 

Charles University, Prague, Czech 

Republic 

1000 Bird migration in Falsterbo - first results from a radio telemetry S Sjöberg, T Alerstam, S Åkesson, 

project focusing on stop-over behaviour and vanishing direction R Muheim 

in migratory passerines. 


1010 Species-dependent reactions to displacement in free-flying K Thorup 

migrating birds 

University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

1020 Cryptochrome-based magnetoreception in birds L Solov'yov 1 , K Schulten 2 

1Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

University,Germany 

2University of Illinois, USA 

1030 A geometric model for initial orientation errors in pigeon C Postlethwaite, M Walker 

navigation 

University of Auckland, New Zealand 


SESSION 6B - MECHANISMS OF ORIENTATION (3) 

Chairman: J Kirschvink, California Institute of Technology 

1120 Magnetoreception neural responses in homing pigeons L-Q Wu, J D Dickman 

Washington University, St Louis, USA 

1130 Effects of hypergravity on eye motor neurones of the crab P Fraser 1 , D K Reynolds 1 , F E 

Carcinus maenas (L.) O'Callaghan 1 , J W A van Loon 2,3 

1University of Aberdeen, UK 

2University of Amsterdam, 

Netherlands 

3ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands 

1140 Ontogeny of the iron-based putative magneto receptor in the C Niessner 1 , S Denzau 1 , 

upper beak of chicken (Gallus gallus) A Österreicher 1 , Gü Fleissner 1 

Ge Fleissner 1 , G Falkenberg 2 

G Wellenreuther 2 

1 Johann Wolfgang Goethe 

University, Germany 

2Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron 

(DESY) Hamburg, Germany 

1150 A majority of iron rich cells in the feather follicle, C D Treiber, L Lundell, 

olfactory epithelium, and subcutaneous tissue of Columbia M Saunders, J Shaw, D A Keays 

livia are negative for neuronal markers, are nucleated, and Institute of Molecular Pathology, 

share a similar ultrastructure. 

Vienna, Austria 

1200 Rats use horizontally biased strategies in spaces with a A Jovalekic, K Jeffery 

vertical dimension 

UCL London, UK 

1210 The influence of homing experience on leader-follower A Flack, B Pettit, T Guilford, 

relationships in navigating pigeons 

D Biro 


1220 CLOSING ADDRESS T Burt de Perera 

University of Oxford 

1230 LUNCH AND END OF CONFERENCE – Blue Room – Park House 

There will be a display of Posters at the Conference. Details of Posters, and copies of this programme, may be 

found on the RIN website, www.rin.org.uk

POSTERS 

POSTERS 

CONFERENCE NOTES 

THE CAMPUS 

All facilities are located on the University of 

Reading Whiteknights Campus. The 

accommodation is located in Whiteknights Hall. 

The Palmer Lecture Theatre, lunch facilities and 

poster exhibition are close together and about 

10 - 15 minutes walk from Whiteknights Hall. 

Detailed maps will be sent out to delegates on 

registration. 

ACCOMMODATION 

All campus accommodation comprises modern 

en suite single rooms. The cost includes all 

meals from lunch on Wednesday 6 April to 

lunch on Saturday 9 April. Those wishing to 

book adjoining (but not necessarily 

interconnecting rooms) should indicate as such 

on the registration form. Rooms may be booked 

for any of the nights of the 5, 6, 7, 8 April – you 

don’t have to book all four. You may book an 

additional room for a partner not attending the 

Conference. 

MEALS 

The registration cost covers all meals and 

refreshments – all coffee/tea breaks, a reception 

on 6 April and formal dinner on the 8 April. A 

pay bar will be open on all three evenings until 

midnight. 

Should you wish to bring guests to either the 

reception or formal dinner, please annotate the 

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Please also indicate any special dietary 

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STUDENT GRANTS 

Through the generosity of the Company of 

Biologists, a limited number of small grants are 

available to pay accommodation costs for PhD 

students. Postgraduate students from outside 

the UK will also be considered for assistance. 

To apply, please e-mail conference@rin.org.uk 

by 7 February 2011 with confirmation of your 

student status. Grants will be refunded, or 

deducted from charges should time permit. 

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Reduced registration fees apply to any level of 

membership of the Royal Institute of Navigation, 

to presenters of papers and to session 

chairmen. 

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