23 - 24 November 2001, Nijmegen The Animal in Zoology: Tool or Target?"
08.30: COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
Lecture hall N2 09.45: WELCOME:
Sjoerd E Wendelaar Bonga, Dean of the Faculty 10.00: DISTINGUISHED ZOOLOGIST LECTURE (chair: JJ Bolhuis) FROM ZOOLOGY TO
GOVERNMENT POLICY 10.45: DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE POLICY OF NWO-ALW 11.00 Coffee
Lecture hall N2 MINISYMPOSIUM "BIRD VOCALIZATION" (chair: JL van Leeuwen) 11.30: DIRECT OBSERVATION
OF SYRINGEAL MUSCLE ACTION 11.45: WHAT MAKES
PURE-TONE BIRDSONG PURE-TONAL? 12.00: VIBRATION
AND SOUND IN A PHYSICAL MODEL OF THE 12.15: SINGING IN
THE BRAIN: NEURAL MECHANISMS OF BIRD 12.30: DOVE HYBRIDS
AND THEIR RESPONSE TO VOCALIZATIONS 12.45: DIRECT OBSERVATION
OF SYRINGEAL MUSCLE ACTION 13.00: Lunch
ECOLOGY I: INVERTEBRATES (chair: S Verhulst) 11.30: BIODIVERSITY
OF MEIO-EPIFAUNA ASSOCIATED WITH COLD WATER CORALS FROM THE PORCUPINE
SEABIGHT 11.45: STRUCTURAL
PATTERNS IN THE HYPERBENTHOS OF THE OOSTERSCHELDE AND THE WESTERSCHELDE
(SOUTHERN BIGHT OF THE NORTH SEA) 12.00: ESCAPE RESPONSES
OF THE BRITTLE-STAR AMPHIPHOLIS SQUAMATA: PRELIMINARY RESULTS 12.15: MICROEVOLUTIONARY
DYNAMICS IN BIVALVE MORPHOLOGY: A KEY ROLE FOR SELECTIVE PREDATION BY
CRABS AND BIRDS? 12.30: THE USE OF
HOST PLANTS AND HOST ANTS BY A MYRMECOPHILOUS PARASITE, THE ALCON BLUE
BUTTERFLY (MACULINEA ALCON) 12.45: COUNTER-INTUITIVE
SEX RATIO SPECIALIZATION IN THE ANT PHEIDOLE PALLIDULA AS REVEALED BY
MICROSATELLITE DNA ANALYSIS 13.00: Lunch
14.00: PLENARY LECTURE (chair: S Verhulst) DEVELOPMENT AND
EVOLUTION 14.45 - 16.00: POSTERS, tea and coffee
Lecture hall N2 DEVELOPMENT AND
REGENERATION (chair: Rob Peters) 16.15: TEMPERATURE
EFFECTS ON REGENERATION AND LUMINESCENCE IN THE OPHIUROID AMPHIURA FILIFORMIS
(ECHINODERMATA) 16.30: GEOGRAPHICAL
LIFE-HISTORY VARIATION IN THE AUSTRALIAN DROSOPHILA PARASITOID GANASPIS
SPEC. 16.45: PHENOTYPIC
RESPONSES TO LIFELONG ENVIRIONMENTAL HYPOXIA IN LAKE VICTORIA CICHLIDS 17.00: DOES OXYGEN
CONSTRAIN EARLY VERTEBRATE DEVELOPMENT? 17.15: BALANCE AS
A LIMITING FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT WALKING IN HUMANS 19.00: DINNER IN
"DE COMMANDERIE" (TICKETS REQUIRED)
Lecture hall N1 MINISYMPOSIUM "STRESS IN FISHES" (Chair: G Flik) 16.00: NEURO-ENDOCRINE
IMMUNE INTERACTIONS DURING STRESS: A ROLE FOR CORTISOL AND INTERLEUKIN-1 16.15: NEUROENDOCRINE-IMMUNE
INTERACTIONS DURING STRESS: EFFECTS OF IMMUNE SIGNALS ON THE ENDOCRINE
SYSTEM 16.30: NEURO-ENDOCRINE
IMMUNE INTERACTIONS DURING STRESS: HORMONES BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE
ENDOCRINE SYSTEM 16.45: IS MSH INVOLVED
IN THE SKIN DARKENING OBSERVED IN CULTURED COMMON SEA BREAM, PAGRUS
PAGRUS? 17.00: HIGH RESOLUTION
FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE BRAIN IN COMMON CARP, CYPRINUS
CARPIO, EXPOSED TO A TEMPERATURE DROP 17.15: 'WHY DO FISH
DIE AFTER SEVERE EXERCISE?' A QUESTION REVISITED USING IN VIVO 31P-NMR.
19.00: DINNER IN "DE COMMANDERIE" (TICKETS REQUIRED)
Lecture hall N5 FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY I (chair: Jan Osse) 16.00: DYNAMIC PLANTAR
PRESSURES DURING TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION OF BONOBOS (PAN PANISCUS) 16.15: CENTER OF
MASS FLUCTUATIONS DURING BIPEDAL AND QUADRUPEDAL TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION
IN THE BONOBO (PAN PANISCUS) 16.30: DESIGN RULES
FOR SEMICIRCULAR DUCT SYSTEMS 16.45: BIOMECHANICAL
ANALYSIS OF WALKING IN STILTBIRDS: SPATIO-TEMPORAL GAIT CHARACTERISTICS 17.00: DYNAMICS
AND ARCHITECTURE OF THE CHAMELEON TONGUE 19.00: DINNER IN "DE COMMANDERIE" (TICKETS REQUIRED)
Saturday Lecture hall N2 09.00: PLENARY LECTURE (Chair: Johan van Leeuwen) EVOLUTION AND STRUCTURAL
DESIGN OF INSECT WINGS 9.45: Coffee
Lecture hall N2 FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY II (chair: Johan van Leeuwen) 10.15: INTER- AND
INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION OF THE POSTCRANIAL SKELETON OF EEL-LIKE CLARIIDAE
(TELEOSTEI: SILURIFORMES) 10.30: SLOW MUSCLE
POWER OUTPUT OF YELLOW- AND SILVER-PHASE EUROPEAN EELS (ANGUILLA ANGUILLA,
L.): CHANGES IN MUSCLE PERFORMANCE PRIOR TO A 5500 KM SPAWNING MIGRATION 10.45: PREY CAPTURE
KINEMATICS OF AIR-BREATHING CATFISH 11.00: THE LABIAL
GLAND IN PONERINE ANTS : STRUCTURE, ONTOGENESIS AND PHYLOGENY 11.15: RECRUITMENT
AND INVOLVEMENT OF EXOCRINE GLANDS IN THE ANT AMBLYOPONE RECLINATA (HYMENOPTERA,
FORMICIDAE) 11.30: INTERSEXUAL
REPRODUCTIVE CONFLICTS AND GENITAL DIFFERENTIATION IN DIACAMMA SP. (HYMENOPTERA,
FORMICIDAE) 11.45- 13.30: POSTERS
and LUNCH BUFFET
Lecture hall N1 ECOLOGY II (chair: JJM van Alphen) 10.15: FEEDING HABITS
OF THE AFRICAN ANGUILLIFORM CATFISHES (SILURIFORMES: CLARIIDAE), IN
RELATION TO TROPHIC ADAPTATIONS 10.30: THERMAL ECOLOGY
AND HABITAT USE IN TWO SYMPATRIC LACERTID LIZARDS 10.45: ECOMORPHOLOGICAL
STUDY OF THE DIET OF TWO SPECIES OF LACERTID LIZARDS 11.00: ASSOCIATIONS
BETWEEN RESTING METABOLIC RATE, DAILY ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND REPRODUCTIVE
OUTPUT. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE IN BIRDS 11.15: ULTIMATE
CAUSES OF FEMALE TRANSFER IN THE THOMAS LANGUR (PRESBYTIS THOMASI):
RESHAPING A SOCIAL ORGANISATION. 11.30: THE ECOLOGY
OF THE RED SQUIRREL IN ALPINE CONIFER FORESTS 11.45- 13.30: POSTERS and LUNCH BUFFET
Lecture hall N2 13.30: PLENARY
LECTURE (chair: Eric Roubos) 14.15: Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall N2 NERVOUS SYSTEM (chair: Eric Roubos) 14.30: SYNERGETIC
EFFECT OF ADRENALINE AND ACETYLCHOLINE IN THE BIOLUMINESCENCE OF THE
BRITTLE-STAR AMPHIPHOLIS SQUAMATA 14.45: NEUROENDOCRINE
RELEASE FACTORS IN INSECTS: MONITORING IN VITRO NEUROPEPTIDE RELEASE
USING CORPORA CARDIACA OF LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA L. 15.00: DEORPHANIZING
NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTORS IN THE FRUITFLY, DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER 15.15: A Ca2+-SENSING
RECEPTOR STIMULATES Ca2+-INFLUX AND PEPTIDE SECRETION IN THE MELANOTROPE
CELL OF XENOPUS LAEVIS 15.30: DIFFERENCES
IN TYROSINE-HYDROXYLASE FIBRES AND VARICOSITIES IN THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS,
BETWEEN APOMORPHINE-SUSCEPTIBLE AND APOMORPHINE-UNSUSCEPTIBLE RATS 15.45: EXPRESSION
OF P/Q-TYPE AND L-TYPE Ca2+ CHANNELS IN THE ROSTRAL RETICULAR THALAMIC
NUCLEUS OF ABSENCE EPILEPTIC WAG/RIJ RATS 16.00: IDENTIFICATION
OF BRAIN PLASTICITY-RELATED PROTEINS USING FLUORESCENT 2D-DIFFERENTIAL
GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (2D-DIGE) AND MASS SPECTROMETRY
Lecture hall N1 TAXONOMY AND PHYLOGENY (chair G Flik) 14.45: TWO MAJOR
PROBLEMS FOR SPECIES RECOGNITION WITHIN ANGUILLIFORM CLARIIDS 15.00: A SYSTEMATIC
REVISION OF THE AFRICAN CATFISH GENUS PARAUCHENOGLANIS BOULENGER, 1911
(SILURIFORMES: CLAROTEIDAE) WITH THE TRANSFER OF A SPECIES TO THE GENUS
ANASPIDOGLANIS 15.15: TIMING OF
THE PLEISTOCENE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE BULLHEAD COTTUS GOBIO (TELEOSTEI:
COTTIDAE) 15.30: MORPHOMETRIC
AND POPULATION GENETIC COMPARISON OF INTRODUCED NORTH AMERICAN AND NATIVE
EUROPEAN CARINARION POPULATIONS (GASTROPODA, PULMONATA, ARIONIDAE) 15.45: MITOCHONDRIAL
16S RRNA AND ALLOZYME DATA REVEAL THE EXISTENCE OF DISTINCT EVOLUTIONARY
LINEAGES AND BREEDING SYSTEMS WITHIN THE ARION SUBFUSCUS COMPLEX (PULMONATA,
ARIONIDAE) IN NW EUROPE 16.15: CLOSING CEREMONY
16.30: FAREWELL
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