draft program 30-04-2011
draft program 30-04-2011
draft program 30-04-2011
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Wednesday 01-06:<br />
18:00-21:00 Registration: The Kings Arms Pub, Oxford<br />
(at the corner of Holywell Street and Parks Road)<br />
Day 1: Thursday 02-06 Morning<br />
08:00 Registration (at St Catherine's)<br />
08:50 Welcome (M Fischer & organisation)<br />
Session 1 Chair: tba<br />
09:00 Keynote: Dr. Katriona Shea<br />
Disturbance, Diversity and Invasion<br />
09:45 Luis Santos<br />
Patterns of early sex allocation and growth across Pinus pinaster<br />
populations<br />
10:00 Silvia Winter<br />
Population biology of the toxic grassland weed Colchicum<br />
autumnale<br />
10:15 Anne Marie Labouche<br />
Silene latifolia corolla tube depth affects oviposition site choice<br />
of its pollinator-seed predator Hadena bicruris<br />
10:<strong>30</strong> Eelke Jongejans<br />
Importance of individual and environmental variation for<br />
invasive species spread: a spatial Integral Projection Model<br />
10:45 COFFEE<br />
Session 2 Chair: tba<br />
11:15 Maik Bartelheimer<br />
Mechanisms of plant-plant root interactions investigated by means of<br />
gene expression analysis<br />
11:<strong>30</strong> Thomas van Hengstum<br />
Effects of non-native (transgenic) plants on natural communities<br />
11:45 Lucie Hemrova<br />
Impact of herbivory on prospect of Scorzonera hispanica L. at<br />
landscape level<br />
12:00 Madalin Parepa<br />
Mechanism of interference between invasive knotweeds and their<br />
native competitors<br />
12:15 Alistair Jump<br />
Interactions between genetics and demography in forest<br />
fragmentation<br />
12:<strong>30</strong> LUNCH (at St Catherine's) & Informal Poster session
Day 1: Thursday 02-06 Afternoon<br />
Session 3 Chair: tba<br />
14:00 Keynote: Dr. Miguel Verdú<br />
Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Facilitation<br />
14:45 Heidi Hirsch<br />
Are invasives the better – A comparison of hydrochoric spread and<br />
germination performance between native and invasive Ulmus<br />
pumila populations<br />
15:00 Yuan-Ye Zhang<br />
Epigenetic variation can cause heritable variation in complex<br />
traits and phenotypic plasticity<br />
15:15 Susanne Lachmuth<br />
The role of climatic differentiation and pre-adaptation for the<br />
invasion of Senecio inaequidens in Europe<br />
15:<strong>30</strong> Andrea Case<br />
Are all female plants created equal Comparing patterns of<br />
population variation across diverse gynodioecious species<br />
15:45 TEA/COFFEE<br />
Session 4 Chair: tba<br />
16:15 Katrin Heer<br />
Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of Neotropical bat-dispersed<br />
fig species (Ficus spp., Moraceae)<br />
16:<strong>30</strong> Jarmila Gabrielová<br />
Can we distinguish plant species which are rare and endangered<br />
from other plants using their biological traits<br />
16:45 Mark Bilton<br />
Observed rainfall preference predicts climate change response of<br />
Mediterranean plants<br />
17:00 BREAK<br />
17:15 Yorike Hartman<br />
Using QTL-analysis to localize areas under negative selection:<br />
possibilities for minimizing transgene escape in lettuce<br />
17:<strong>30</strong> Hana Skálová<br />
Species traits, plasticity and local differentiation in invasive and<br />
native Impatiens species<br />
17:45 Zuzana Münzbergová<br />
Intensity of seed rain has significant effect on diversity and<br />
composition of artificial plant communities<br />
18:00 End of Day 1
Day 2: Friday 03-06 Morning<br />
Session 5 Chair: tba<br />
09:00 Keynote: Prof. John N. Thompson<br />
The assembly of coevolving webs of life<br />
09:45 Andrea Vaupel<br />
Population structure and genetic diversity of Carduus<br />
defloratus from the centre to the periphery of its distribution<br />
10:00 Antoine Dornier<br />
Colonization and extinction dynamics of an annual plant<br />
metapopulation in an urban environment<br />
10:15 Anne Kempel<br />
Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant<br />
resistance against herbivory<br />
10:<strong>30</strong> Maia Bailey<br />
Pollen viability across a landscape: geographic variation in the<br />
cost of restoration in Lobelia siphilitica<br />
10:45 COFFEE<br />
Session 6 Chair: tba<br />
11:15 Julia Sanchez Vilas<br />
Sexual dimorphism in the dioecious herb Mercurialis annua<br />
11:<strong>30</strong> Jan Håkon Vikane<br />
Temporal and spatial spread of a non-native conifer species in<br />
Norwegian coastal heathland<br />
11:45 Maria Clara Castellanos<br />
Genetic consequences of plant facilitation<br />
12:00 Anne Muola<br />
The geographic mosaic of coevolving plant-herbivore<br />
interactions: genetic variation, local adaptation and plant<br />
secondary chemistry<br />
12:15 Philippine Vergeer<br />
Adaptation at range margins: common garden trials and the<br />
performance of Arabidopsis lyrata across its northwest European<br />
range<br />
12:<strong>30</strong> LUNCH (at St Catherine's) & Informal Poster session
Day 2: Friday 03-06 Afternoon<br />
Session 7 Chair: tba<br />
14:00 Keynote: Prof. Rosie Hails<br />
tba<br />
14:45 Raj Whitlock<br />
The spatial and temporal genetic structure of a natural limestone<br />
grassland community<br />
15:00 Rebecca Ross<br />
Weak ecological selection and high hybrid fitness under field<br />
conditions in a Senecio hybrid zone on Mount Etna, Sicily<br />
15:15 Tobias Zuest<br />
Aphids as drivers of natural selection<br />
15:<strong>30</strong> POSTER SESSION (authors present at posters)<br />
Session 8 Chair: tba<br />
17:00 Roberto Salguero Gomez<br />
Matrix dimensions bias demographic inferences: implications<br />
for comparative plant demography<br />
17:15 Marcos Siqueira<br />
Microsatellites polymorphism in water yams (Dioscorea alata)<br />
from different Brazilian regions<br />
17:<strong>30</strong> Vit Latzel<br />
Epigenetic variation causes heritable variation in induced plant<br />
defences and pathogen resistance<br />
17:45 Katja Tielbörger<br />
Cherchez la femme- is invasiveness maternally inherited<br />
18:00 DRINKS in the venue<br />
19:<strong>30</strong> CONFERENCE DINNER<br />
Cherwell Boathouse, Oxford (walking)<br />
**:** End of Day 2
Day 3: Saturday <strong>04</strong>-06<br />
Session 9 Chair: tba<br />
09:00 Keynote: Dr. Anna Traveset<br />
Mutualistic networks in the Galapagos Islands. Impacts of<br />
invasive species on their structure<br />
09:45 Raúl García-Camacho<br />
Is survival in annual plant communities affected by species<br />
phylogenetic relatedness Variations along an aridity gradient<br />
10:00 Niek Scheepens<br />
Monocarpic perenniality of Campanula thyrsoides results in high<br />
population differentiation despite high pollen flow<br />
10:15 Sven Hanoteaux<br />
Density and spatial distribution of an attractive species: effects on<br />
plant-pollinator interaction structure in grasslands.<br />
10:<strong>30</strong> Elze Hesse<br />
Density-dependent pollen limitation and reproductive assurance<br />
in a wind-pollinated herb with contrasting sexual systems<br />
10:45 COFFEE<br />
Session 10 Chair: tba<br />
11:15 Camille Guilbaud<br />
A simple, useful growth model for annual plants<br />
11:<strong>30</strong> Mathilde Dufay<br />
How do females survive in a (harsh) world of hermaphrodites<br />
The effects of selection vs. population structure<br />
11:45 Corina Del Fabbro<br />
Do invasive species create a more negative soil-feedback than<br />
their native congeners<br />
12:00 Lauri Laanisto<br />
Microfragmentation theory explains non-positive environmental<br />
heterogeneity-diversity relationships<br />
12:15 Jonathan Silvertown<br />
Experimental investigation of the origin of fynbos plant<br />
community structure after fire<br />
12:<strong>30</strong> Farewell & next meeting announcement<br />
13:15 LUNCH (at St Catherine's)<br />
14:00-18:00 PopBio EXCURSION<br />
Wytham Woods (by bus)