Lisbon - Portugal

* Stories from underground: biology of subterranean rodents

ORGANISED by:

Radim Šumbera (University of South Bohemia - Czech Republic)

Hynek Burda (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Antonina Smorkatcheva - Make haste slowly: the reproductive features of the Zaisan mole-vole, Ellobius tancrei
Attila Németh - Pleistocene climatic oscillations cause speciation and adaptive radiation in a unique group of rodents
Jan Šklíba - Polyethism in spatial activity in eusocial mole-rats
Faruk Çolak - Characteristic of seismic signals of Turkish mole rats    
Pavel Nemec - Structure and Function of Subterranean Vision
Hynek Burda - Ansell's mole-rats (Fukomys anselli, Bathyergidae): from laboratory to the field - how representative are the laboratory studies?   

 

 

* Rodent Population dynamics: ecology and management

ORGANISED by:

Juan Luque-Larena (Universidad de Valladolid - Spain)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Juan Luque-Larena - Common vole (Microtus arvalis) fluctuations in agricultural landscapes of southern Europe: Population patterns and enemy dynamics
Ricardo Pita - Coexistence and interspecific interactions of Cabrera and water voles in Mediterranean farmland: a mosaic-level inference approach
Ana Gouveia -  Microtus agrestis population from central Europe: an insight into methodology.

Heikki Henttonen - Long-term dynamics of arvicoline rodents Finnish Lapland: the importance of community approach
Ruth Rodríguez-Pastor - Habitat use by small mammals in agricultural landscapes in NW of Spain
Alexandra Esther - Insights from genetic distance analysis for resistance management of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Germany
Margaret Flaherty  - An investigation into the potential dispersal and future distribution of an invasive rodent species.
Frauke Ecke - Long-term diversity changes in small mammal communities in northern Sweden

 

 

* African Rodents

ORGANISED by:

Cristiane Bastos-Silveira (National Museum of Natural History & Science - Portugal)

Josef Bryja (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, ASCR, Brno - Czech Republic)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Molly M. McDonough - Multilocus phylogeography of a widespread rodent reveals influence of Pleistocene geomorphology and climate change in the Zambezi Region of Africa
Tatiana Aghova - Molecular phylogeny of Eastern African gerbils (Gerbilliscus) reveals the history of Somali-Maasai savanna

Ana F. Moutinho - Phylogeography of eastern population of Jaculus jaculus

Fábio Sousa - Phylogeography and genetic structure of the Felou gundi (Felovia vae Lataste 1886) as revealed by mitochondrial DNA

Zbyszek Boratyński - Ecological mechanism for diversification in African desert Jerboas

Josef Bryja - African rodents - important biogeographical model group despite poor knowledge of their alpha taxonomy

 

 

* Rodents on Islands

ORGANISED by:

Jeremy Searle (Cornell University - USA)

Sofia Gabriel (University of Lisbon - Portugal)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Tom White - Adaptive evolution during an ongoing range expansion: the invasive bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) in Ireland
Jerry Herman - Wood mice in the British Isles
Natalia Martinkova - Genetic ark on the Orkney Islands
Petr Kotlik - Functional divergence and population replacement in British bank voles
Pascale Chevret - Malpaisomys, an unexpected relative of mice on the Canary Islands: morphological evolution in light of molecular phylogeny
Emilie Hardouin - Mice invasion of the sub-Antarctic Kerguelen archipelago

 

 

* Camera Trapping and Novel Census Techniques

ORGANISED by:

Paul Meek (University of New England - Australia)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Helen Nathan - Camera trapping as behavioural observation: determining detection probabilities for invasive ship rats (Rattus rattus) in New Zealand forest.

Paul D. Meek - Camera (Pit-fall) Traps: does expectation match reality?

Rebecca L. Diete - Camera traps reveal the burrowing behaviour of two sympatric rodents, with implications for threatened species management

James Russel - Studying low density rodents.

Eeva M. Soininen - Small mammal camera traps enable studies of activity patterns under snow.

Patrick Garvey - Monitoring changes in rodent behaviour and distribution following the removal of larger predators

 

 

* Ecology and conservation of tree squirrels

ORGANISED by:

Lucas Wauters (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria - Italy)

Sandro Bertolino (University of Turin - Italy)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Michael A. Steele - Right out in the open: How pilferage risks, predation risks, and predation influence scatter-hoarding decisions and seed dispersal by tree squirrels.
Stan Boutin - Maternal responses to resource-pulse dynamics in North American red squirrels
Vesa Selonen - Prospecting, dispersal, and population level patterns in squirrels
Lucas A. Wauters - Squirrels, invasions and parasites: lessons learnt and future perspectives
Sandro Bertolino - REMOVING THE AMERICAN GREY SQUIRREL TO PRESERVE THE EUROPEAN RED SQUIRREL
Sakir Önder Özkurt - Sciurus anomalus Güldenstaedt, 1785, and Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 (Rodentia: Sciuridae) in Turkey: Comparison of distribution, karyology, morphometry and DNA sequences
 

 

* Rodents as Invasive species and options for their management

ORGANISED by:

Guntram G. Meier (InGrip-Consulting - Germany)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Sandro Bertolino - Squirrel species introduced to Europe: their impacts and management

Dario Capizzi - Patterns and priorities in the scientific research on rodent pests, impact and management

Cheryl Krull - Is the grass greener on the other side? Applying road ecology to invasive rodent management in New Zealand

Keith Springer - Eradication of Rodents and Rabbits from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

 

 

* Chromosomal variation and evolution in rodents

Organised by: Jeremy Searle (Cornell University - USA) and Svetlana Pavlova (Severtsov Institute, Moscow - Russia)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Janice Britton-Davidian - Molecular systematics of the African pygmy mice: lessons from chromosomes
George Mitsainas - The study of the Robertsonian (Rb) chromosomal variation in the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus (Rodentia, Murinae) from Greece: Past, Present and Future
Jan Zima - Chromosomal evolution in rodents: The case of mole rats
Svetlana Pavlova - Chromosome variation, species limits and hybridization in common voles on the Russian Plain
N. S. Poplavskaya - Alternative scenario of karyotype evolution in Cricetulus barabensis sensu lato complex

Aurora Ruiz-Herrera - Meiotic recombination is modulated by chromosomal translocations and influenced by Prdm9 allelic diversity: lessons from a wild mice polymorphic Robertsonian population

 

 

* Rodents as hosts and vectors

ORGANISED by:

Heidi C. Hauffe (Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione E. Mach - Italy)

Adam Konecny (Masaryk University, Brno - Czech Republic)

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

Boris Klempa - Apodemus-borne hantaviruses in Europe: Complex evolution and epidemiology of Dobrava-Belgrade virus
Heikki Henttonen - Biome specific epidemiologies of  Puumala hantavirus in Europe
Adam Konecny - Social networks in rodents and consequences for their parasites under different environmental conditions

Grégoire Perez - Does agricultural landscape influence rodents and ticks abundances and their interaction?

Ángela L. Debenedetti - The helminth community of the wood mouse as biological tag of the post-fire regeneration process - An eighteen-year study in a Mediterranean ecosystem

Gerald Heckel - Ecological and evolutionary constraints of Puumala hantavirus in bank vole populations