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Fisheries Society for the British Isles
Annual Symposium
Parasites as agents of selection in fish:
from genes to ecosystems
21st-25th July, 2008
Cardiff University, UK.
All lectures in the Wallace LT, Main Building
Monday 21st July
14:00-18:30 Registration
18:45-19:45Welcome reception
19:45 Dinner
Tuesday 22nd July
07:30-09:00 Breakfast
08:30 Registration
09:00 Conference opening
Iain Barber and Joanne Cable
09:05 Welcome address
Prof. Ken Woodhouse, Pro Vice-Chancellor, CardiffUniversity
09:20 Announcements and logistics
09:25 Jack Jones Memorial Lecture
ECOSYSTEM CONSEQUENCES OF FISH PARASITES
K. Lafferty
10:25 Coffee/Tea
Theme 1: Genes and evolution
Chair: Joanne Cable
11:00 THE ROLE OF MHC GENES IN HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS (PLENARY)
M. Wegner
11:50 MHC-MEDIATED MATE CHOICE INCREASES PARASITE RESISTANCE IN
SALMON
S. Consuegra and C. Garcia de Leániz
12:10 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MHC VARIATION AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SEA LICE
IN ATLANTIC SALMON: A CLOSER LOOK USING QTL ANALYSIS
K. Gharbi, K.A. Glover, L.C. Stone, E.S. MacDonald, U. Grimholt, R.G. Danzmann, L. Matthews and M.J. Stear
12:30 MOLECULAR STUDIES OF THE SAPROLEGNIA-FISH INTERACTION
A. Phillips, V. Anderson, S. Martin, E. Robertson, C. Secombes and P. van West
12:50 Lunch
Chair: Matthias Wegner (TBC)
13:50 IMMUNOCOMPETENCE, AN ENHANCING FORCE IN SPECIATION? INTERACTION OF STICKLEBACK GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS ECOTYPES WITH HABITAT SPECIFIC PARASITES
J.P. Scharsack, C. Eizaguirre, G. Rauch and M. Kalbe
14:20 RELAXED PARASITE PRESSURE ON MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX
(MHC)POLYMORPHISM IN WILD TRINIDADIAN GUPPIES
M. McMullan, R.S. Mohammed, J. Cable and C. van Oosterhout
14:40INTER-POPULATION VARIATION IN IMMUNE RESPONSE OF THE THREE-SPINED STICKLEBACK (GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS)
J. de Roij
15:00 POLYMORPHISM OF DAB GENES AND VARIATION IN PARASITE SPECIES
DIVERSITY IN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS OF CHUB (LEUCISCUS CEPHALUS)
M. Seifertová, M. Vyskocilová and A. Šimková
15:20 Coffee/Tea
Chair: Carl Smith
15:50 THE COEVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF THE HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BITTERLING FISH AND FRESHWATER MUSSELS
M. Reichard and C. Smith
16:20 SPECIATION IN GYRODACTYLID MONOGENEANS - THE ROLE OF THE ICE
AGES
P.D. Harris
16:40 PARASITE HOST SPECIFICITY: IS THERE SOMETHING FISHY ABOUT
SPECIALISTS?
T.A. King, C. van Oosterhout and J. Cable
17:00 TRANSMISSION OF NEOZOIC ANGUILLICOLOIDES CRASSUS AND
ESTABLISHED CAMALLANUS LACUSTRIS IN RUFFE
J. Unger, A. Brinker and H.B. Stich
17:20 Closing remarks and poster highlights
17:30 Poster reception (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell)
19:45 Dinner
Wednesday 23rd July
07:30-08:45 Breakfast
Theme 2: Proximate mechanisms of selection
Chair: Andrew MacColl
09:00 ADAPTATION, SPECIATION, AND PARASITES. PART I: PARASITE
COMMUNITIES
J.A.M. Raeymaekers, M.P.M. Vanhove, N. Thiercelin, T. Huyse, J. Snoeks and F.A.M. Volckaert
09:20 ADAPTATION, SPECIATION, AND PARASITES. PART II: PARASITE GENETICS
M.P.M. Vanhove, T. Huyse, J.A.M. Raeymaekers, J. Snoeks and F.A.M. Volckaert
09:40 PATHOLOGY OF FISH PARASITE INFECTIONS
S.W. Feist
10:30 Coffee/Tea
11:00 MIGRATION, SITE SELECTION, AND PATHOLOGY OF ORNITHODIPLOSTOMUM
SPP.METACERCARIAE IN FATHEAD MINNOWS
C.E. Matisz and C.P. Goater
11:20 ANISAKIS SIMPLEX (NEMATODA: ANISAKIDAE) IN ENDANGERED ATLANTIC SALMON POPULATIONS
C. Garcia de Leaniz and S. Consuegra
11:40 NEOPARAMOEBIC GILL INFECTIONS: HOST RESPONSE AND PHYSIOLOGY IN SALMONIDS
M.D. Powell, M.L. Leef, S.D. Roberts and M.A. Jones
12:00 Annual General Meeting of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles
13:00 Lunch
Chair: Bernd Sures
14:00 GYRODACTYLUS SALARIS INFECTING ALLOPATRIC ARCTIC CHARR FRY: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HOST SURVIVAL
A.C. Winger, R. Primicerio, Kristoffersen, S.I. Siikavuopio and R. Knudsen
1420 EFFECTS OF BLACK SPOT DISEASE ON THE BIOLOGY OF THE FISH
INTERMEDIATE HOST
M. Ondracková, P. Jurajda and M. Gelnar
Theme 3: Reproductive Parasitism
14:40 PARASITIC SPAWNING IN THE SAND GOBY POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS
O. Svensson and C. Kvarnemo
15:00 ALTERNATIVE MALE MATING TACTICS AND REPRODUCTIVE PARASITISM
C. Smith and M. Reichard
15:20 Coffee/Tea
Theme 4: The role of behaviour in host-parasite interactions
Chair: Iain Barber
15:50 EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF BRAIN-ENCYSTING METACERCARIAE IN
FATHEAD MINNOWS
C.P. Goater
16:20 ANTIPATHOGENIC FUNCTIONS MAY MAINTAIN EPIDERMAL “ALARM
SUBSTANCE”CELLS IN OSTARIOPHYSANS AND PERCIDS
B.D. Wisenden, C.T. James, R. Yunusova, S. Alemadi, A. Corwin, R. Savaloja and C.P. Goater
16:40 EFFECTS OF THE EYE FLUKE (DIPLOSTOMUM SP.) ON THE ENERGETICS AND FEEDING OF ARCTIC CHARR (SALVELINUS ALPINUS)
A. Voutilainen, K. Figueiredo and H. Huuskonen
17:00 SEX DIFFERENCES IN TRANSMISSION OF THE PATHOGENIC MONOGENEAN
PARASITE, GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI, BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE PET
SHOP GUPPIES, POECILIA RETICULATA.
E.L. Richards-Hobbs, S. Potter, C. van Oosterhout and J. Cable
17:20 Closing remarks and poster highlights
19:00 Barbecue and pub quiz (Y Mochyn Du, ButePark, Cardiff)
Thursday 24th July
07:30-08:45 Breakfast
Theme 5: Population consequences of parasite infections
Chair: Steve Feist
09:10 PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES CAUSED BY THREE FRESHWATER ERGASILID
PARASITES - IMPACTS ON HOSTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FISH POPULATIONS
IN ENGLAND AND WALES
C.F. Williams and H.W. Ferguson
09:40 COMBINED INFLUENCE OF PARASITISM AND ENVIRONMENT ON POPULATION STRUCTURE OF FRESHWATER CYPRINIDS FROM LARVAE TO JUVENILE AND
BEYOND
M. Longshaw, N.G.H. Taylor and S.W. Feist
10:00 POPULATION LEVEL RESPONSES OF ROACH (RUTILUS RUTILUS) TO CHANGES
IN INFECTION PRESSURE BY MYXOBOLUS PSEUDODISPAR (MYXOZOA)
N.G.H. Taylor, S.W. Feist and M. Longshaw
10:20 Coffee/Tea
Theme 6: Ecological impacts of parasites
Chair: Kevin Lafferty
10:50 MICROPREDATORY GNATHIID ISOPOD AND FISH INTERACTIONS
A.S. Grutter
11:40 EVOLUTIONARY EFFECT OF CLEANING SYMBIOSIS ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF
FISH PARASITIC GNATHIID ISOPODS
N.J. Smit, M.L. Coetzee, A.S. Grutter and A.J. Davies
12:00 SHORT TERM SELECTION BY GYRODACTYLIDS ON WILD GUPPIES (POECILIA RETICULATA)
G.A. Archard, C. van Oosterhout, R.S. Mohammed, M. McMullan and J. Cable
12:20 PARASITES CAN CAUSE BIOTIC RESISTANCE TO HOST INVASION AND
CONTRIBUTE TO REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION BETWEEN HOST POPULATIONS
A.D.C. MacColl
13:00 Lunch
Theme 7: Applied aspects of fish parasitology
Chair: David Marcogliese
14:00 HELMINTH PARASITES OF FISH AS BIOINDICATORS: THREE CASE STUDIES
S. Monks, G. Pulido-Flores, R. Miranda-Ferreiro and D. Galicia-Paredes
14:30 A NEW APPROACH TO VISUALISE FISH AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH USING PARASITES
H.W. Palm and S. Rückert
14:50 IS THE PARASITE CERATOTHOA ITALICA A GOOD INDICATOR OF HOST
POPULATION CONNECTIVITY IN THE STRIPED SEABREAM (LITHOGNATHUS MORMYRUS)?
M. Sala-Bozano and S. Mariani
15:10 OPTIMAL RELEASE STRATEGIES OF CAPTIVE-BRED HOSTS IN
SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS: EXPERIMENTS WITH GUPPIES AND
GYRODACTYLID PARASITES
P.J. Faria, C. van Oosterhout and J. Cable
15:30 Coffee/Tea
Chair: Marilyn Scott
16:00 DOES THE ROSETTE AGENT POSE A THREAT TO CYPRINIDS?
D. Andreou, R.E. Gozlan, M. Hussey, S.W. Feist, R.D. Possee and D.M. Stone
16:20 A HOST-PARASITE MODEL FOR THE DISPERSAL OF LESSEPSIAN SPECIES IN MEDITERRANEAN
P. Galli, G. Strona, L. Bolzoni and G. De Leo
16:40 MEASURING EFFECTIVENESS OF IMMUNE DEFENSE IN FISH
J. Taskinen, A. Vainikka, K. Löytynoja, R. Kortet and E.I. Jokinen
17:00 A SAPROLEGNIA PARASITICA cDNA LIBRARY: MINING ESTS FOR POTENTIAL
VACCINE CANDIDATES
V. Anderson, P. van West and C. Secombes
17:20 PROTEOMIC STUDIES OF WILD, ADULT ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR)
SKIN MUCUS PROTEINS WITH LEPEOPHTHEIRUS SALMONIS INFESTATION
P. Dunne, G. Ramaswamy, L. Copley, N. O’Byrne-Ring, B. Brankin, B. Wu and U.
MacEvilly
17:40 Closing remarks and poster highlights
19:00 Conference banquet (CardiffCastle)
Friday 25th July
07:30-08:45 Breakfast
Theme 8: Host-parasite interactions in a changing world
Chair: John Lewis
09:10 HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS IN POLLUTED ENVIRONMENTS
B. Sures
10:00 PARASITES AND POLLUTION: COMBINED EFFECTS OF NATURAL AND
ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSORS ON FISH
D.J. Marcogliese
10:30 Coffee/Tea
11:00 EFFECTS OF ZINC ON A FISH HOST AND ITS MONOGENEAN PARASITE: WHICH ONE WINS?
C. Gheorghiu, D.J. Marcogliese, J. Cable and M.E. Scott
11:20 EXPLOSION OF LIGULA INTESTINALIS IN THE RASTRINEOBOLA ARGENTEA IN LAKEVICTORIA: IS THIS ANOTHER LEGACY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF NILE PERCH?
I.G. Cowx, D.Rollins and R.Tumwebaze
11:40 TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON PROLIFERATIVE KIDNEY DISEASE IN TROUT
T. Wahli, K. Bettge, H. Segner, and H. Schmidt-Posthaus
12:00 Summary and concluding remarks
12:30 Lunch
End of Conference