Tuesday 21 August

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Sunday 19 August Tuesday 21August Thursday 23 August Poster Session
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Tuesday 21 August
  Mowana Safari Lodge - I   Mowana Safari Lodge - II
       
6.45 Bus & Boats to Mowana Safari Lodge; shuttle via Garden Lodge;
Shuttle bus between lodges from 8.00 am
Registration desk at Mowana		 6.45 Bus & Boats to Mowana Safari Lodge; shuttle via Garden Lodge;
Shuttle bus between lodges from 8.00 am
Registration desk at Mowana
Session 4: Physiology of development: Egg to independence
(Bernd Pelster)

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Session 5: Birds - Water and thermal relations; life under extremes
(Ian van Tets & Berry Pinshow)

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7.15 Fritz Schiemer, Ewa Kamler and Hubert Keckeis
(Institute of Ecology and Conservation Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria)
The early life history stages of riverine fish: ecophysiological and environmental bottlenecks
  7.20 Ian G. van Tets, Carmi Korine, Lizanne Roxburgh and Berry Pinshow
(Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research and Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Changes in the composition of the urine of yellow-vented bulbuls (Pycnonotus xanthopygos) are driven by ambient temperature and not by nitrogen or water intake.
   
7.45 Bernd Pelster
(Institute for Zoology and Limnology, University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
Development of the cardiovascular system in fish: Shape and performance		  
  7.50 Mark Brown and Colleen T. Downs
(School of Botany and Zoology, University of Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
Thermoregulation, and the Role of Behaviour, in Breeding Crowned Plovers
   
8.10 Ivar Rĝnnestad
(Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, Bergen,  Norway)
Ontogeny of digestive function of fish larvae		 8.10 Andrew E. McKechnie and Barry G. Lovegrove
(School of Botany and Zoology, University of Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
The avian metabolic continuum: zoogeographical variance and a model for the energetic determinants of heterothermy
   
  8.30 Berry Pinshow
(Mitrani Department for Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion Univeristy of the Negev Israel)
Are birds preadapted to desert environments?
8.35 Susanne Holmgren1, Anna Holmberg1, Regina Fritsche1, Bernd Pelster2 and Thorsten Schwerte2
(1University of Göteborg, Department of Zoology/Zoophysiology, Göteborg, Sweden; 2University of Innsbruck, Department of Zoology, Innsbruck, Austria)
Control of gut motility in larval fish and amphibians		  
   
  8.50 Todd J. McWhorter1, Carlos Martinez del Rio2 and Berry Pinshow3,4
(1Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; 2Department of Zoology & Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA; 3Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research and 4Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, ISRAEL)
Osmoregulation in avian nectarivores- an integrative approach
9.00 Mike Thompson
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia)
Energy and nutrient utilisation by embryonic reptiles		  
  9.10 David Goldstein
(Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, USA)
Effects of dietary protein on kidney structure and function in mammals and birds.
   
9.25 Steve J. Warburton and Regina Fritsche*
(Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA and *Dept. Zoophysiology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden)
Blood pressure regulation prior to cardiac innervation in Xenopus laevis. 		 
  9.30 Colleen T. Downs and Mark Brown
(School of Botany and Zoology, University of Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
Nocturnal energy savings in a passerine bird, the Malachite Sunbird (Nectarinia famosa).
   
09.50 Tea/Coffee Registration Desk Open at Mowana 09.50 Tea/Coffee Registration Desk Open at Mowana
  Poster Session - authors should attend
(tea & coffee cont.)		  

Poster Session - authors should attend
(tea & coffee cont.)
   
   
   
   
Session 6: How fish work under extreme conditions
(Sjoerd Wendelaar-Bonga)

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10.30 Louis DuPasquier, Erika Meier and Rainer Mußmann
(Basel Institute for Immunology, Basel, Switzerland)
The development of the lympohocyte repertoires in the larvae of the South African frog Xenopus
  10.40 Sjoerd Wendelaar-Bonga
(Department of Animal Physiology, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Individual variation in the stress response of fish
   
10.55 Lucy Sullivan
(Department of Environmental Biology, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia)
The control of development of pulmonary surfactant in egg-laying amniotes		  
  11.10 F. Brian Eddy, MJ Gubbins*, JH Best, GA Codd, RM Stagg* and Susan Gallacher*
(Environmental and Applied Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, UK and *FRS Marine Laboratories, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Physiological responses of fish to toxins occurring in freshwaters and in the marine environment
11.15 Brian R. McMahon, K. Tanaka , J. E. Doyle and K-H. Chu.
(Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary and Biology Department Chinese University of Hong Kong)
A change of heart: cardiovascular development in the shrimp Metapenaeus ensis		  
  11.30 John N. Maina
(Department of Anatomical Sciences, Medical School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Morphologic respiratory and osmoregulatory adaptations in Oreochromis alcalicus grahami, a cichlid fish that subsists in hot alkaline Lake Magadi of Kenya
Session 7: General physiology and biochemistry
(Steve Morris)

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11.40 Jurg J. van der Walt1, K Dyason1, JL du Plessis1, L Prendini2, W Brandt2, A Fiedler2, GJ Müller3, F Verdonck4, J Tytgat5, LD Possani6, T Olamendi7.
(1Potchefstroom University for CHE, Potchefstroom, S. Africa., 2University of Cape Town, S. Africa, 3University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, S. Africa, 4University of Leuven, Belgium, 5University of Leuven, Belgium, 6Universidat Cuernavaca, Mexico)
An analysis of venom from scorpions of the genus Parabuthus of Southern Africa with MALDI TOF mass spectrometry.		 11.40
  11.50 Hans Ramlĝv
(Deptartment of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Roskilde University, Denmark)
Antifreeze proteins from the antarctic fish Dissostichus mawsoni studied by differential scanning calorimetry and nanoliter osmometry
12.00 Robert M. Johnson, Deborah Gumucio and Morris Goodman
(Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Wayne State Medical School, Detroit, USA
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State Medical School, Detroit,USA)
Globin Gene Switching in Primates		  
  12.10 Felister M. Urasa1 and Sjoerd E. Wendelaar Bonga2
(Department of Zoology and Marine Biology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and 2Department of Animal Physiology, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Effects of copper toxicity to larvae of Oreochromis mossambicus
12.20 Ċgot Johansson1, S. Holmgren1 and J. M. Conlon2
(1Department of Zoology/Zoophysiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden; 2Regulatory Peptide Center, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University Medical School, USA).
The primary structures and myotropic activity of two tachykinins isolated from the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis.		  
  12.30  
12.40 Formal Poster Session
authors should attend		 12.40

Formal Poster Session
authors should attend
   
   
   
   
   
   
13.50 Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge 13.50 Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
14.00 Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge 14.00 Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge
       
17.50 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge 17.50 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
18.00 Formal Poster Session
authors should attend		 18.00

Formal Poster Session
authors should attend
   
18.10 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge 18.10 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
 

Formal Poster Session Continued
authors should attend

   Formal Poster Session Continued
authors should attend
   
   
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SOCIAL PROGRAM - TUESDAY)
mini-bus shuttle Mowana - Garden Lodge - Chobe Safari - Garden Lodge - Mowana will operate 08.00 - 17.30

14.15 Afternoon to Zambia Village (depart Chobe Safari Lodge)
14.30 - 17.50 Game Drives and Chobe River Cruises into Chobe National Park
(Mowana & Chobe Safari Lodges)
Mokoro trips (depart Chobe Safari Lodge)
17.50 Bus #1 to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
18.20 Bus #2 to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
19.00 Poster Buffet Dinner (Mowana Safari Lodge)
Dress 'Casual Safari Lodge' but prepare for possible cool evening since we will be outside.
21.00 - Late Bar
21.30 - Bus #1 to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
22.15 - Bus #2 to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge