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As usual, the Winter Meeting took place at the Zoological Society of London Meeting Rooms, Regent’s Park, London, UK. The theme of this year's conference was 'Sex Differences', and the aim was to address this issue at all of the four Tinbergian levels: ontogeny, evolution, function and mechanism.
Programme
The full programme, including poster presentations, and list of abstracts are available for download.
Thursday 6 December
| 09.30-10.15 |
Coffee & posters |
| 10.15-11.05 | Plenary: The sex determination genes fruitless and doublesex specify a neural substrate required for courtship song production in Drosophila.
Stephen Goodwin, Glasgow, UK |
| 11.05-11.30 | Sexual conflict influences morphology and behaviour in penduline tits.
René E Van Dijk, Ákos Pogány, Jan Komdeur, Penn Lloyd & Tamás Székely, Bath, UK |
| 11.30-11.55 | Sexual antagonism between paternity success and female mating frequency.
Mikael Mokkonen, Esa Koskela, Tapio Mappes & Suzanne Mills, Jyväskylä, Finland |
| 11.55-12.20 | Male mate preferences and sexual conflict in guppies: behavioural and olfactory cues reveal female mating history.
Palestina Guevara-Fiore, A Skinner & PJ Watt, Sheffield, UK |
| 12.20-12.45 | Sex differences in parental care: conflicts and cooperation in the Kentish plover.
Andras Kosztolanyi, Innes C Cuthill & Tamas Székely, Bath, UK & Bristol, UK |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00-14.25 | Different strokes for different folks: sex differential fitness effects of rearing environment in the great tit.
Kristopher Jones, Oxford, UK |
| 14.25-14.50 | Do male zebra finches with greater EPC opportunity reduce incubation effort into an existing clutch?
Davina Hill, Jan Lindström & Ruedi Nager, Glasgow, UK |
| 14.50-15.15 | Effects of helper sex, relatedness and brood sex ratio on cooperative provisioning effort in Bell Miners.
Jonathan Wright, Paul McDonald & Anahita Kazem, NTNU, Norway & Macquarie, Australia |
| 15.15-15.40 | Differential investment between the sexes in greylag geese (Anser anser).
Claudia AF Wascher, Iulia Nedelcu, Isabella BR Scheiber & Kurt Kotrschal, Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle für Ethologie, Austria |
| 15.40-16.15 | Tea & poster viewing |
| 16.15-16.40 | A model of courtship extended over time.
Robert M Seymour & Peter D Sozou, UCL & LSE, UK |
| 16.40-17.05 | What is the evidence for sexual selection in humans?
John Archer, Univ Central Lancashire, UK |
| 17.05-17.30 | Sex, diet and death: sex-specific fitness peaks result in suboptimal dietary preferences in black field crickets.
Alexei A Maklakov, Stephen J Simpson, Josephine Dessman, Fiona Clissold, Matthew Hall, Felix Zaijtscheck, David Raubenheimer, Russell Bonduriansky & Robert Brooks, UNSW & Univ. Sydney, Australia |
| 17.30-17.55 | Speciation and sexual selection: does intersexual phenotypic divergence predict species-richness in lizards?
Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, David J Hodgson & Tom Tregenza, Exeter, UK |
| 18.00 | Wine reception sponsored by Wisepress |
Friday 7 December
| 09.30-10.15 |
Coffee & posters |
| 10.15-11.05 |
Plenary: Sex matters: gonadal hormone regulation of hippocampus structure and function.
Lisa Galea, UBC, Canada |
| 11.05-11.30 |
Isolation housing has no impact on spatial cognition in male and female rats.
Anjanette P Harris, Richard B D’Eath & Susan D Healy, Edinburgh, UK & Scottish Agricultural College, UK |
| 11.30-11.55 |
Sex differences in exploratory behaviour in adult and adolescent rats.
Gillian Brown, De-Laine Cyrenne & Debra Lynn, St. Andrews, UK |
| 11.55-12.20 |
Sex differences in humans: a case study of peer- and self-assessment by university students.
David M Shuker, W Rod Cullen & A Mark Langan, Edinburgh, & Manchester Metropolitan Univ, UK |
| 12.20-12.45 |
Sex-specific foraging influences the species interactions of two sex-changing reef fishes.
Maria E Abate, Boston, USA |
| 12.45-14.00 |
Lunch & poster viewing |
| 14.00-15.00 | The Niko Tinbergen Lecture: Sex differences in the "-omics" era: behaviour bites back.
Mark Kirkpatrick, Univ Texas (Austin), USA |
| 15.00-15.20 | Tea & poster viewing |
| 15.20-15.45 | Sex differences in population genetics, home range size and habitat use of the parti-coloured bat (Verspertilio murinus) and their consequences for conservation.
Kamran Safi, Institute of Zoology, UK |
| 15.45-16.10 | The response of the genetic mating system to seasonal variation in competition among mates in the broad-nosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle.
Kenyon Mobley, NTNU, Norway |
| 16.10-16.35 | When does male choice play a role in mate selection?
Steve Alpern & Ioanna Katrantzi, LSE, UK |
| 16.35-17.00 | Sex difference in co-operation and competition: the male warrior hypothesis.
Mark Van Vugt, Canterbury, UK |
| 17.00-17.25 | Sex differences in dispersal and helping and harming.
Rufus Johnstone and Michael Cant, Cambridge, UK |
| 17.25 | Close |
Presentations at ASAB meetings are assumed to comply with the Society's standards of scientific integrity and are subject to ethical scrutiny in the same way as papers published in Animal Behaviour. Please note that authors submitting talks or posters must therefore confirm that the research in question was carried out in accordance with the ASAB/ABS Guidelines for the Treatment of Animals in Behavioural Research and Teaching, which can be downloaded here.
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