Monday 20 August

Saturday 18 August Monday 20August Wednesday 22 August Friday 24 August
Sunday 19 August Tuesday 21August Thursday 23 August Poster Session
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Monday 20 August
  Mowana Safari Lodge - I   Mowana Safari Lodge - II
       
7.00 Bus & Boats from CSL & Garden Lodge to Mowana Safari Lodge;
shuttle via Garden Lodge
Registration desk at Mowana (activities booking desk also at CSL)		 7.00 Bus & Boats from CSL & Garden Lodge to Mowana Safari Lodge;
shuttle via Garden Lodge
Registration desk at Mowana (activities booking desk also at CSL)
7.20 Introduction to the Progamme
   
Session 1: Ecophysiology and the fabric of biodiversity
(Harvey Lillywhite)

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7.30 Harvey Lillywhite
(Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.)
Water and Skin: Evolution of Cutaneous Water Barriers and its Implications for Biodiversity		  
   
   
8.00 Albert F. Bennett and Richard E. Lenski
(University of California, Irvine & Michigan State University, U.S.A)
Experimentally Testing Evolutionary Models of Temperature Adaptation		  
   
8.20 Lauren Chapman
(Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A)
Biodiversity Lost and Found: Swamps, Hypoxia Tolerance, and Faunal Refugia in the Lake Victoria Region		  
   
8.40 Claude Grenot and Sébastien Longepierre
(Laboratoire Fonctionnement et Evolution des Systèmes Ecologiques, CNRS-UMR 7625, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
Ecophysiological aspects of the Hermann's tortoise, Testudo hermanni hermanni in relation to its conservation.		  
   
9.00 Carlos A. Navas
(Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São  Paulo,  Brasil)
Understanding  biodiversity patterns of high-elevation herpetofauna in the tropical Andes: an ecophysiological approach 		 
   
9.20 Ken Storey
(Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Biodiversity: A molecular perspective		  
   
9.40 Blair O. Wolf and Carlos Martinez del Rio
(Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA)
Saguaro cacti and the species diversity of a desert bird community; an assessment of water and nutrient resource use with stable isotopes.		  
   
10.00 Tea/Coffee Registration Desk Open at Mowana  
  Poster Session - authors should attend
(tea & coffee cont.)		  
   
 
Session 2: Comparative cardiac physiology
(Tom Miller & Günther Pass)

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10.40 Barry Lovegrove1 and Linda Haines2
(1Deptartment of Botany & Zoology, and 2School of Mathematics, Statistics and Information Technology; University of Natal, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
The mammal species gap: The locomotory limitations of flat feet		 10.40 Günther Pass
(Institut für Zoologie,Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria .)
Introduction: Arthropod circulatory systems and the relationship dicussion
10.50  
11.00 11.00 Jerrel Wilkens
(Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada)
Physiology of the crustacean cardiovascular system viewed from an evolutionary perspective
11.10 Christopher B. Daniels and Sandra Orgeig
(Department of Environmental Biology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia)
The pulmonary surfactant system: An evolutionary constant in a sea of structural diversity		 11.10
11.20 11.20 Wieland Hertel1 and Günther Pass2
((1) Institut für Allgemeine Zoologie und Tierphysiologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, D-07743 Jena, Germany; (2) Institut für Zoologie, Universität Wien, A-1090 Vienna, Austria)
Evolutionary morphology and physiology of circulatory organs in insects - a review
11.30 Rick Redak and S. Nelson Thompson
(Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, and USDA-ARS, Wapato, USA)
Altered dietary selection in an herbivorous insect: The effect of parasitism		 11.30
11.40 11.40 Urmas Tartes, Alo Vanatoa and Aare Kuusik
(Institute of Zoology and Botany & Institute of Plant Protection, Estonian Agricultural University, Tartu,  Estonia)
Insect abdomen - heartbeat manager in insects
Session 3: Physiology of feeding
(Denis Andrade)

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11.50 Camila Canjani, Denis V. Andrade, Ariovaldo P. Cruz-Neto, and Augusto S. Abe
(Departmento de Zoologia, UNESP, Rio Claro, Sao Paulo, Brasil)
Aerobic metabolism during predation by a Boid snake		 11.50
12.00 12.00  
12.10 12.10 Ruthann Nichols
(University of Michigan, Natural Science Building, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.)
Myoactive peptides and their role in cardio-regulation in Drosophila.
12.20 Ariovaldo. P.Cruz-Neto1, Thomas H. Kunz2, Augusto S. Abe1, Robert Michener2 & George Camargo3
1 Depto. de Zoologia, IB, UNESP, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil; 2 Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, USA; and 3 Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Brazil.
A bloody meal: The costs of being a vampire bat		 12.20
12.30 12.30 Norman Davis and David Dulcis
(University of Arizona, Division of Neurobiology, Tucson, AZ, USA.)
Neuronal control of heartbeat reversal in Manduca Sexta.
12.40 Anna Holmberg1, Jörgen Jensen2, Tobias Wang2 and Susanne Holmgren1
(1Department of Zoophysiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden and 2Dept Zoophysiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Effects of feeding on the gut morphology, innervation and motility in Burmese python.		 12.40
12.50 12.50 Stefan Hetz
(Department of Animal Physiology, Humboldt-University at Berlin, Germany)
Interaction of circulation and respiration in insects
13.00 Tobias Wang, Johannes Overgaard and Johnnie Andersen
(Dept Zoophysiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Acid-base balance and blood gas transport during digestion in reptiles and amphibians: A comparison to muscular exercise 		13.00
13.10 13.10 Holly A. Shiels1,2, M. Vornanen2 and A. P. Farrell1
(1Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; 2Department of Biology, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland)
Effect of temperature on Ca2+ cycling in atrial myocytes of rainbow trout.
13.20 A.A.Aganga & U.J.Omphile
(University of Botswana, Gaberone, Botswana)
Indigenous browses and diet quality of grazing herbivores in Botswana		 13.20
13.30 13.30  
13.40   13.40  
14.00 Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge		   Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge
       
18.10   18.10 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge


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SOCIAL PROGRAM - MONDAY)
mini-bus shuttle Mowana - Kasane Marina - Chobe Safari - Garden Lodge - Mowana will operate 08.00 - 14.00 and 17.00 - 22.30
14.15 Afternoon to Zambia Village (depart Chobe Safari Lodge)
14.30 - 18.00 Game Drives and Chobe River Cruises into Chobe National Park
(Mowana & Chobe Safari Lodges)
Mokoro trips (depart Chobe Safari Lodge)
18.00 - Cash dinner and bar
19.00 - 21.00 Night Drives to Kasane State Forest (depart Chobe Safari Lodge)
21.00 - 22.00 Late Bar