LIST OF GUEST SPEAKERS:
- Dr. Ravinder Sehgal. Professor at Department of Biology at San Francisco State University, USA.
- Dr. Anders P. Møller. Research Professor at Parasitic Evolutionary Ecology Lab at University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris.
- Dr. Santiago Merino. Researcher and scitist from Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid.
- Dr. Gediminas Valkiūnas. Header of Department of Ecologic Physiology, Ethology and Parasitology from the Institute of Ecology at Uinversity of Vilnius. Lituania.
TIMETABLE AND SPEECH SCHEDULE:
MONDAY 24/11/2008
16.00 – 21.00 WELCOME and ACCREDITATIO
TUESDAY 25/11/2008
9.00 – 9.30 INAUGURATION
9.30 – 10.30 Plenary speaker 1: GEDIMINAS VALKIŪNAS
The present discrepancies between traditional and molecular data on biology of avian haemosporidians: How they contribute to the development of research?
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.15 ORAL SESION 1: MOLECULAR & MICROSCOPIC STUDIES
Staffan Bensch
A data base of cytochrome b lineages of avian hemosporidean parasites
Lenka Zidkova
Molecular phylogeny revealed a new life-cycle of avian trypanosomes
Asta Krizanauskiene
The experimental approach for direct investigation of reproductive isolation of parasites: Hybridization of Haemoproteus spp. in vitro
Olga Dolnik
Individual oocysts of isospora (Apicomplexa: Coccidia) parasites from avian faeces: from photo to sequence
12.15 – 12.30 BREAK
12.30 – 13.30 ORAL SESION 2: MALARIA PARASITES and COLONIZATION OF SPECIES
Alfonso Marzal
Diversity, loss and gain of malaria parasites in a globally invasive species
Farah Ishtiaq
Phylogeography of mainland versus insular parasites of a colonist passerine Zosterops lateralis in the southwest Pacific
Ruth Brown
The introduction of avian malaria to New Zealand
Diego Santiago-Alarcón
High lineage diversity of Haemosporidian parasites in New World doves: multiple colonization of the Galapagos Islands
13.30 – 16.00 LUNCH
16.00 – 17.00 PLENARY SPEAKER 2: ANDERS MØLLER
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of blood parasite infections for their avian hosts
17.00 – 18.00 ORAL SESION 3: LIFE HISTORY and EVOLUTION OF VIRULENCE
Rosemary K Barraclough
New Zealand avian blood parasites: recent results and current research
Laszlo Garamszegi
The evolution of virulence in malaria parasites: lessons from the primate system
Elena Arriero
Host ecology and life-history traits associated with blood parasite species richness in birds
WEDNESDAY 26/11/2008
9.00 – 10.00 PLENARY SPEAKER 3: SANTIAGO MERINO
Reproductive strategies and distribution of avian malaria and malaria-like parasites: From microscopy to macro-ecology
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.45 ORAL SESION 4: FITNESS CONSEQUENCES of AVIAN MALARIA INFECTION
Sarah Knowles
Do chronic avian malaria infections have fitness consequences in the wild? A medication experiment
Josué Martínez de la Puente
A medication treatment against blood parasites and the change in levels of blood stress proteins affect wild bird survival
Petr Seynek
Haemosporidian parasites in the Scarlet Rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus), identification of lineages, multiple infections and the effect on host fitness
Sara del Cerro
Carotenoid-based plumage colouration is a signal of health status in Blue tits
Vaidas Palinauskas
Experimental infection of Plasmodium relictum (lineage P-SGS1)in passerine birds, with remarks on treatment with malarone
11.45 – 12.00 BREAK
12.00 – 13.15 ORAL SESION 5: VECTORS of AVIAN MALARIA
Mari Kimura
Avian malaria parasites share congeneric mosquito vectors
Julien Vézilier
Avian malaria: A new system to study mosquito vectorial capacity
Mihaela Ilieva
Diversity of malaria blood parasites and their vectors at Kalimok Biological Station
Ricardo Alves
Spatial and temporal variation in malaria vector abundance at a woodland site
13.30 – 16.00 LUNCH
16.00 – 17.00 PLENARY SPEAKER 4: RAVINDER SEHGAL
Effects of Deforestation on the Prevalence of Blood-borne Pathogens in African Rainforest Birds
17.00 – 18.00 ORAL SESION 6: HABITAT DEGRADATION and MALARIA INFECTION
Erika M Braga
Avian Malaria among Brazilian wild birds from Atlantic Forest: effect of habitat fragmentation
Claire Loiseau
Host-dependent variation in haemosporidian parasite prevalence and parasitemia in response to deforestation in African bird species
Nayara Belo
Parasitism by Plasmodium spp. in wild birds: effect of the habitat fragmentation and urbanization process
THURSDAY 27/11/2008
9.00 – 10.15 ORAL SESION 7: MIGRATION, WINTERING and MALARIA INFECTION
Jan von Rönn
Linking wintering habitat and malaria infection in a passerine bird species
Matt Wood
Circannual variation in blood parasite infection in a migratory passerine
Antón Pérez Rodríguez
Prevalence of malaria parasites in sedentary and migratory blackcap populations in sympatric wintering grounds
Daniel Patón
Changes in ndvi of north-africa during the last 953 years using artificial neural networks and tree rings applications to malaria disease in migrating birds
10.15 – 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 – 12.00 ORAL SESION 8: IMMUNE DEFENCE and MHC
Philippe Christe
Parental investment increases susceptibility to malarial parasites and decreases antioxidant defences
Juan Rivero
MHC diversity and avian malaria parasites in the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Shauna Baillie
MHC and avian malaria in the New Zealand bellbird Anthornis melanura: a phylogeographic perspective
Benjamin Metzger
Effects of dietary carotenoids on Garden Warblers infected with coccidia
12.00 – 12.15 BREAK
12.15 – 13.15 ORAL SESION 9: HOST-SPECIFICTY and POPULATIONS
Olof Hellgren
Are broad host-ranges driven by keystone species?-examples from two different host-parasite communities
Dimitar Dimitrov
Specificity of the Cyt b lineage (GRW4), Plasmodium (Haemamoeba) relictum (Grassi & Feletti 1891) in experimental infection of House Sparrow
Peter Shurulinkov
Haematozoa of wild birds in Bulgaria –an overview of their composition, and incidence in the local bird populations and passing migrants
Pavel Zehtindjiev
The occurrence of haemosporidian parasites in Skylark (Alauda arvensis Linnaeus, 1758) populations from Southern Italy and the Netherlands
13.15 – 13.30 WORKSHOP CLOSING CEREMONY
13.30 – 16.00 LUNCH
16.00 – 19.00 WORK MEETINGS
20.00 WORKSHOP DINNER
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