SEB Annual Main Meeting - Marseille 2008
Climate change: from genes to ecosystem (and general thermal biology)
Session organised by Prof. Craig Franklin (The University of Queensland) and Prof. Hans Poertner (Alfred Wegener Institute)
Global climate change is one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, therefore understanding and determining how organisms will respond to potentially rapid environmental change is becoming increasingly important. The impact of climate change is likely to operate at all levels of biological organisation: from the genome, to biochemical and physiological function; to organismal performance, and to the maintenance of ecosystem services and biodiversity. The challenge ahead for biologists is to predict how organisms will respond to climate change. Such information will be critical in order to predict the likely implications for loss of biodiversity and all the associated cascading effects. This symposium will explore the current experimental approaches utilised to assess the likely impacts of current and future climate change on organisms.
This session has been linked with the general thermal biology session to provide further room for contributed papers and stimulate submissions to both the theme of climate change and more general items within the field.
Session Programme - Monday 7th July
Chair: Prof. Craig Franklin (The University of Queensland)
10:30 Prof. Craig Franklin (The University of Queensland)
Climate change and conservation physiology [C5.1]
10:40 Dr Brian Helmuth (University of South Carolina)
Ecological forecasting and hindcasting in the rocky intertidal zone: where and when do we worry about weather? [C5.2]
11:10 Prof. Anthony Farrell (University of British Columbia)
Salmonids in hot water: examining aerobic scope and cardiac limitations [C5.3]
11:30 Prof. Lloyd Peck (British Antarctic Survey)
When the going gets hot! [C5.4]
11:45 Dr Melody Clark (British Antarctic Survey)
Is there an emergency first aid kit for warm Antarctic marine animals? [C5.5]
12:00 Dr Jonathon Stillman (San Francisco State University)
Variation in transcriptome responses to thermal stress in porcelain crabs across latitudinal and seasonal gradients [C5.6]
12:30 Lunch
Chair: Prof. Tony Farrell (University of British Columbia)
13:30 Miss Cheryl Logan (Stanford University)
Transcriptional remodeling during temperature acclimation of the eurythermal goby fish Gillichthys mirabilis [C5.7]
13:45 Miss Hanna Hanssen (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Climate Change Induced Temperature Effects: A Physiological Kinetic Model for the Incorporation of Calcium and Strontium in the bivalve Mytilus edulis [C5.8]
14:00 Dr Daniela Storch (Alfred Wegener Institut)
Temperature tolerance of Zoea I from two different populations of the kelp crab Taliepus dentatus [C5.9]
14:15 Ms Erika Eliason (University of British Columbia)
Oxygen limitations at warm temperatures in migrating salmon [C5.10]
14:30 Mr Keith Chan (University of British Columbia)
Modeling of thermal and hydraulic barriers that marginalize Pacific salmon spawning migrations [C5.11]
14:45 Miss Chloe Cadby (University of Tasmania)
Can viviparous reptiles adapt to a sudden change in climate? Looking at the adaptive nature of maternal basking behaviour in a Tasmanian skink. [C5.12]
15:00 Dr Martin J Cann (University of Durham)
A protein domain activated by carbon dioxide [C5.25]
15:15 Refreshment Break
Chair: Prof. Hans Poertner (Alfred Wegener Institute)
15:45 Dr Frank Seebacher (University of Sydney)
Detecting environmental change: transient receptor potential ion channels control thermoregulatory behaviour in reptiles [C5.14]
16:00 Dr Felix Mark (Cambridge University / Alfred Wegener Institute)
Thermal effects on cephalopod energy metabolism – a case study for Sepia officinalis [C5.15]
16:15 Miss Isabel Walter (University of Sydney)
Molecular mechanism which underlie the development of endothermy in birds (Gallus gallus) [C5.16]
16:30 Ms Elsa Glanville (University of Sydney)
Seasonal acclimatization of body temperature and metabolic capacities in an Australian rat (Rattus fuscipes assimilis) [C5.17]
16:45 Mr Johannes Overgaard (University of Aarhus) SEB ANIMAL SECTION PRESIDENT'S MEDALLIST 2008
Costs and benefits of cold acclimation in field released Drosophila - Associating laboratory and field results [C5.18]
