Wed. 7th May, 2025
8:45am - 9am — Breakfast
9am - 9:15am — Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15am - 10am — Deborah Charlesworth: Inferring trade-offs between male and female function in plants.
10am - 10:30am — Crispin Jordan: What is sexual dimorphism?
10:30am - 11am — Coffee Break
11am - 11:30am — George Jarvis: Hermaphrodites have lower metabolic rates than gonochores (online).
11:30am - 12pm — Cristina Lorenzi: Full compensation of parental care following partner loss in a simultaneous hermaphrodite.
12pm - 12:30pm — Takumi Saito: How is reproductive isolation established in the hermaphroditic freshwater snail Lymnaea stagnalis?
12:30pm - 1:30pm — Lunch
1:30pm - 2pm — Elise Jeanne: Fertility under stress: sex-specific responses to environmental change.
2pm - 2:30pm — Sophie Bererd: Temperature-dependent benefits and costs of cytoplasmic male sterility in snail Physa acuta (online).
2:30pm - 3pm — Yinghui Wang: Spawning is regulated by light level regardless of body size and morphology in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (online).
3pm - 3:30pm — Coffee Break
3:30pm - 3:45pm — Steven Ramm: ESEB STN Talk
3:45pm - 5pm —
Discussions:
- Plasticity and resource allocation in hermaphrodites.
- Causes and consequences of reproductive mode transition.
5pm - 6:30pm — Poster session and apero
7:30pm — Joint Diner at TukTuk Indian Street Food (Leven Street)
Thu. 8th May, 2025
8:45am - 9:10am — Breakfast
9:10am - 9:15am — Quick announcements
9:15am - 10am — Laura Ross: Insects can self-fertilize too; the evolution and evolutionary consequences of androdioecy in scale insects.
10am - 10:30am — Donald Stewart: Mitochondrial genomes of hermaphroditic freshwater mussels exhibit evidence of stronger selective constraints than their dioecious relatives.
10:30am - 11am — Coffee Break
11am - 11:30am — Colin Olito: Effects of inbreeding on the probability of balancing selection: insights from Fisher's Geometric Model.
11:30am - 12pm — Patrice David: Challenging classical views on inbreeding depression.
12pm - 12:30pm — Roman Stetsenko: Effect of selfing on the deleterious load around regions under balancing selection.
12:30pm - 1:30pm — Lunch
1:30pm - 2pm — Kat Lund-Hansen: Have experimental evolution changed the plasticity in sex allocation in the flatworm Macrostomum lignano?
2pm - 2:30pm — Irene de Sosa: Molecular toolkits for gametogenesis in sexual and parthenogenetic earthworms: comparative gene expression in gonadal tissues.
2:30pm - 3pm — Jose María Lorente-Sorolla Pons: Unraveling themolecular basis of sex determination in Ophryotrocha: differential gene expression across three sexual systems.
3pm - 3:30pm — Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4pm — Discussion
4:30pm — Post-conference drinks for those not leaving Edinburgh
immediately.
