The
First Syngnathid Biology International Symposium
Fiskebäckskil Sweden,
April 25th 29th, 2011
Scientific program**UPDATED**
Conference
fees, accommodation & registration
Location & directions**UPDATED**
Excursions**NEW**
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the first
Syngnathid Biology International Symposium. We currently have 40 registered
guests from around the globe and look forward to hosting you this April in
Fiskebäckskil, Sweden.
Topics: physiology,
phylogenetics, phylogeography, genomics, sexual selection & mating systems,
behavior, conservation and management of pipefishes, seahorses and seadragons.
Invited speakers:
Ingrid Ahnesjö, Uppsala University, Sweden. “Time perspectives on paternal
pipefish pregnancies”
Adam Jones, Texas A&M University, USA. “The past, present and future of
mating system and sexual selection research in syngnathid fishes”
Charlotta Kvarnemo, Gothenburg University, Sweden. “Sexual selection in a
monogamous seahorse”
Sara Lourie, McGill University, Canada. “Taking conservation action in the face
of taxonomic confusion: seahorses as a case study”
Nuno Monteiro, Centre for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of
Porto, Portugal. “There is a time and place for
everything”
Tony Wilson, Zoologisches Museum Universität Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland. “The
evolutionary origins of syngnathid fishes”
Contact information:
Scientific Program: Kenyon Mobley, Umeå University (kenyon.mobley@emg.umu.se)
All registration and roommate requests: Gunilla Rosenqvist, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (gunilla.rosenqvist@bio.ntnu.no)
Anders Berglund, Uppsala University (anders.berglund@ebc.uu.se)
sponsored by the Nordic Marine
Academy
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