Thursday 23 August

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Sunday 19 August Tuesday 21August Thursday 23 August Poster Session
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Thursday 23 August
  Mowana Safari Lodge - I   Mowana Safari Lodge - II
       
6.45 Bus & Boats to Mowana Safari Lodge; shuttle via Garden Lodge
Registration desk at Mowana		 6.45 Bus & Boats to Mowana Safari Lodge; shuttle via Garden Lodge
Registration desk at Mowana
Session 12: Mammals (II): Physiological responses to environmental stressors
(Ian Hume)

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7.10 1M. Scantlebury, 2Daniel Afik, 2Uri Shanas, and 2Abraham Haim
(1Mammal Research Institute, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.; 2Department of Biology, University of Haifa-Oranim, Israel.)
Thermoregulatory differences between populations of common spiny mice Acomys cahirinus from different habitats
Session 13: Comparative endocrinology
(Klaus Hoffman; Hamid Habibi)

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7.30 K. A. Hammond
(Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA)
Accomodation to altitude in small mammals.		 7.30 Klaus H. Hoffmann, Matthias W. Lorenz, Martina Meyering-Vos
(Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Insect allatoregulating neuropeptides: evolutionary trends and multifunctional tasks
   
   
8.00 Perry S. Barboza and J.E. Blake
(Department of Biology and Willdlife, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)
Rut in an arctic cervid: body composition and homeostasis in Rangifer tarandus		 8.00 Meir Paul Pener
(Department of Cell and Animal Biology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
e-mail: pener@vms.huji.ac.il)
Neurohormones affecting Arthropod colour changes with special reference to the dark-colour-inducing neurohormone (DCIN) of locusts.
   
8.20 Rochelle Buffenstein and Ryan Woodley
(City College of The City University of New York, USA; and The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Impact of chronic cold on Naked Mole-rat biology		 8.20 Heinrich Dircksen
(Institute of Zoophysiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany)
Endocrine control of ecdysis in crustaceans by CHH, CCAP, and a novel brain factor
   
8.40 C. Brown and R. Baxter
(Department of Zoology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown and University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
Thermal relations of forest shrews across an environmental gradient: absence of population differentiation.		 8.40 Norman T. Davis
(Division of Neurobiology, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA)
The proctodeal glands and their release of an ecdysterostatic hormone in Manduca sexta.
   
9.00 Lesley A. Gibson and Ian D. Hume
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia)
Seasonal patterns of energy and water use by a small marsupial, the bilby (Macrotis lagotis), in inland Australia		 9.00 Hamid Habibi
(Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Canada)
Role of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the control of synchronous ovarian development and ovulation in fish.
   
9.20 Ian G. van Tets, Carol A. Beuchat and Sue W. Nicholson
(Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, ISRAEL and Department of Zoology, Univeristy of Pretoria, South Africa)
Is the ability of small rodents to dilute their urine linked to their concentrating ability?		 9.20 John P. Chang1 and Hamid R. Habibi2
(1Departments of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta and 2Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.)
Intracellular integration of multifactorial neuroendocrine regulation of adenophypophyseal endocrine cell function: Signal transduction studies in goldfish somatotropes.
   
9.40 Tea/Coffee Registration Desk Open at Mowana 9.40 Tea/Coffee Registration Desk Open at Mowana
  Poster Session
(tea & coffee cont.)		  

Poster Session
(tea & coffee cont.)
   
   
   
10.20
Session 14: Stress-induced hypothermia: Mechanisms and functional significance
( Hans-Otto Pörtner)

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10.30 C. A. Chapman
(Dept of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)
Foraging challenges of colobine monkeys: Influence of nutrients and secondary compounds in different environments.		 10.30 H.O. Pörtner
(Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany)
Overcoming the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance
   
   
11.00 W. J. Foley
(Division of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra)
Physiological signals used in detecting dietary toxins.		 11.00 Paul Wiggins
(Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Temperature preference in Daphnia – Hb or not Hb.
   
11.20 Robert G. White and J. Lawler
(Large Animal Research Satation, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA)
Influence of leafy and woody browse on the heat increment of feeding and methane production.
(ffrgw@uaf.edu : Jim_Lawler@nps.gov.us)		 11.20 Peter Frappell
(Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
Temperature preference, hypoxia, fat rats and a small marsupial capable of torpor.
   
Session 15: Physiology of diving
(Mike Castellini)

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11.40 Mike Fedak, Dave Thompson, Bernie McConnell and Kimberly Bennett
(NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, School of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland UK)
Limits and constraints on the duration of dives in nature: why are many dives so short and others so long? 		11.40 John F. Steffensen
(Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, Helsingor, Denmark)
Temperature preference and behaviour of fish exposed to hypoxia
   
 
Session 16: Control of cell water and salts
( 'Moe' Burg & Paul Yancey)

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12.00 Maurice B. Burg
(National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
Responses of renal inner medullary collecting duct cells (IMCD) to osmotic stress.
12.10 Jennifer Burns
(Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA)
The role of physiological constraint in the acquisition of foraging ability: The development of diving capacity in juvenile phocid Seals		  
   
12.30 Russell D. Andrews
(Dept. of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Remote monitoring of the behavior and physiology of diving mammals		 12.30 Karl Erik Zachariassen
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Volume regulation during dehydration of East-African desert beetles
   
12.50 Danilo Wilhelm Filho
(Depto. Ecologia & Zoologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianspolis, Brazil)
A comparison between the antioxidant status of terrestrial and diving mammals.		 12.50 Paul H. Yancey, Wendy Blake and James Conley
(Biology Department,Whitman College, Walla Walla, USA)
Protective properties of organic osmolytes in deep-sea fish and vestimentiferans
   
13.10 Mike A. Castellini, J.M. Castellini and P.M. Rivera
(Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA)
Adaptations for tolerance to deep diving in marine mammals		 13.10 Michele Wheatly and Flavia P. Zanotto
(Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, USA and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Calcium homeostasis in crustaceans: evolutionary considerations
   
13.30   13.30  
13.40 Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge   Bus and Boats to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
    13.50  
14.10 Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge 14.10 Registration Desk Open at Chobe Safari Lodge
14.30 Bus to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge 14.30 Bus to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
17.50   17.50 Bus to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
18.00  
 
18.30 Bus to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge  

 

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SOCIAL PROGRAM - THURSDAY
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 to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
18.30 Bus to Chobe Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
19.00 Conference Dinner (Chobe Safari Lodge)
Dress 'Casual Safari Lodge' but prepare for cool evening since we will be outside. Includes entertainment and limited complimentary wine and beverages.
21.00 - Late Bar
22.00 - Bus #1 to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge
22.45 - Bus #2 to Mowana Safari Lodge via Garden Lodge