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Sunday, March 24, 2013
| 4:00–7:00 p.m. | Registration at Hotel Santa Maria |
| 5:30–7:00 p.m. | Meet & Greet Session at Hotel Santa Maria |
Monday, March 25, 2013
| 8:30–9:00 a.m. |
Registration at the University of the Algarve Symposium location: Faculty of Economics Amphitheatre (Building 9), University of the Algarve, Gambelas Campus |
Session 1: Sexual Selection and Reproduction
Chair: Anders Berglund
| 9:00–9:20 a.m. | Introduction and Orientation |
| 9:20–10:20 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker Sexual selection and climate change Nuno Monteiro, CIBIO, University of Oporto, Portugal |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. |
Body size differences influences mating competition in the broad-nosed pipefish Ingrid Ahnesjö, Gry Sagebakken, Inês Braga Gonçalves, Charlotta Kvarnemo |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. |
Partitioning episodes of total selection in the Gulf pipefish Emily Rose |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. |
Sexual selection variation with latitude: insights from a sex-role reversed pipefish Lídia Ferreira, Natividade Vieira, Nuno Monteiro |
| 11:40–12:00 p.m. |
Caring fathers and their energy reserves: a growth hormone experiment on the broad-nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle) Gry Sagebakken |
| 12:00–2:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 2:00–3:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker Sexual signals and mating patterns in syngnathidae Gunilla Rosenqvist, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. |
Correlating female secondary sex traits and mating success in the sex-role reversed Gulf Pipefish Sarah Flanagan, Emily Rose, James Johnson, Adam Jones |
| 3:20–3:40 p.m. |
Sex ratio and density affect sexual selection in a sex-role reversed fish Tonje Aronsen, Anders Berglund, Kenyon Mobley, Irja Ratikainen, Gunilla Rosenqvist |
| 3:40–4:00 p.m. |
Sexual selection: is time a key variable? Mário Cunha, Anders Berglund, Nuno Monteiro |
| 4:00–4:20 p.m. | TEA BREAK |
| 4:20–6:20 p.m. | iSeahorse demonstration |
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Session 2 (A.M.): Genetics and Evolution
Chair: Tony Wilson
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker The evolution of male pregnancy meets next-generation sequencing Adam Jones, Texas A&M University, USA |
| 10:00–10:20 a.m. |
Bi-parental immune priming in the sex-role reversed pipefish Syngnathus typhle Anne Beemelmanns, Olivia Roth |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. |
Testing the effectiveness of pigmentation patterns for accurate individual recognition Miguel Silva, Mário Cunha, Natividade Vieira, Nuno Monteiro |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. | Population genetics of the longnose seahorse (Hippocampus trimaculatus) along the northern South China Sea Yan-Hong Xhang, Nancy Kim Pham, Qiang Lin |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. |
Looking for sex in the genome of Hippocampus subelongatus Erica Leder, Sami Meriläita, and Charlotta Kvarnemo |
| 11:40–12:00 p.m. |
Tracking Hippocampus guttulatus recruits within artificial holdfast units in the Ria Formosa using microsatellites José Pedro Andrade, Céline Madeira, Diana Novac, João Gomes, Miguel Correia, Samantha Birch, Jorge Palma |
| 12:00–2:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
Session 3 (P.M.): Ecology and Habitat
Chair: Lotta Kvarnemo
| 2:00–3:00 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker Needles, haystacks and syngnathids: searching for small, cryptic fish in a vast ocean world Heather Masonjones, University of Tampa, USA |
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. |
Mating in space: amplifier for the outbreak of snake pipefish Matthias Kloppmann, Cindy van Damme, Jens Ulleweit, Chris Lynam, Doug Beare, Bram Couperus |
| 3:20–3:40 p.m. |
Impact of environmental change on reproductive behaviours in Syngnathus typhle and Nerophis ophidion Josefin Sundin, Gunilla Rosenqvist, Tonje Aronsen, Anders Berglund |
| 3:40–4:00 p.m. | TEA BREAK |
| 4:00–4:20 p.m. |
Can artificial holdfast units work as a habitat restoration tool for long-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier? Miguel Correia, Jorge Palma, Heather Koldewey, José Pedro Andrade |
| 4:20–4:40 p.m. |
New approach to trace seahorse feeding ecology: application of stable isotope analysis Sonia Valladares, Francesca Rossi, Miquel Planas |
| 4:40–5:00 p.m. |
Ecophysiological and behavioral responses of temperate seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus) to global warming Vanessa Madeira, Filipa Faleiro, Maria Aurélio, Marta Pimentel, Luis Narciso, Rui Rosa |
| 5:00–5:20 p.m. |
Spatial and seasonal patterns of European short-snouted seahorse Hippocampus hippocampus populations in Canary island environments Francisco Otero-Ferrer, Rogelio Herrera, Víctor Tuset, Juan Socorro, Lucía Molina |
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Session 4 (A.M.): Conservation
Chair: Sarah Foster
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker Seahorses as ambassadors for marine protected areas Heather Koldeway, Zoological Society London and Project Seahorse, UK |
| 10:00–10:20 a.m. |
The species debate: examples of seahorses from the Northern and Southern hemispheres and some conservation implications Lucy Woodall, Glenn Moore, Sami Merilaita, Heather Koldewey, Charlotta Kvarnemo |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. |
Seahorse trade in the east coast of Gulf of Thailand Parichart Laksanawimol, Saran Petpiroon, Praneet Damrongphol |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. |
The use of a non-invasive tool for capture-recapture studies on a dwindling Hippocampus guttulatus population Miguel Correia, Jorge Palma, Heather Koldewey, José Pedro Andrade |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. |
Population characteristics of seahorses in Southeast Asia from rapid assessments and citizen science Tse-Lynn Loh |
| 11:40 a.m.–12:00 p.m. |
Red List status of syngnathids Stefan Wiswedel, Sarah Foster, Amanda Vincent |
| 12:00–1:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:00–5:00 p.m. | EXCURSIONS |
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Session 5 (A.M.): Aquaculture
Chair: Junda Lin
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. |
Keynote Speaker Developments in seahorse culture: the long snout seahorse case study Jorge Palma, CCMar, University of the Algarve, Portugal |
| 10:00–10:20 a.m. |
Captive breeding of weedy sea dragons Phyllopteryx taeniolatus in Busan Aquarium, South Korea Emily Madge |
| 10:20–10:40 a.m. | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:40–11:00 a.m. |
Brazilian research network on the longsnout seahorse Hippocampus reidi culture Lilia Pereira Souza-Santos, Felipe de Azevedo Silva Ribeiro, Alexandre Alter Wainberg, Maik Cividanes Hora, Roberta Cecilia de Silfronio de Melo, Ricardo Vieira Rodrigues, Marcelo Shei, Luis Andre Sampaio, Ronaldo de Oliveira Cavalli, Wagner Contri Valenti |
| 11:00–11:20 a.m. |
A method for diet analysis in the long snouted seahorse Hippocampus guttulatus based on prey 18SrDNA amplification in faeces reveals prey-specific evacuation rate Emmanuel Corse, Sonia Valladares, Alex Chamorro, Miguel Planas, José Pintado |
| 11:20–11:40 a.m. |
Seahorse aquaculture: from research to commercial production Junda Lin, Qiang Lin |
| 11:40 a.m.–12:40 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker The tale of the pregnant male: whither seahorses? Amanda Vincent, Director, Project Seahorse, Canada |
| 12:40–2:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 2:00–3:00 p.m. |
Syngnathid Red Listing Workshop |
| 3:00–3:20 p.m. | TEA BREAK |
| 3:20–4:40 p.m. | Syngnathid Red Listing Workshop (cont'd) |
| 7:30 p.m. | SYMPOSIUM DINNER |
Friday, March 29, 2013
| 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. | Extended Syngnathid Red Listing Workshop (by registration only) |
