Schedule
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15:15-15:30
GMT+3
Functional responses of wetland birds to habitat degradation and climate change: A case study
from Turkey
METU, Dept. of Biological Sciences
İbrahim Kaan Özgencil
15:30-15:45
GMT+3
Influences of Immediate Predation Risk on Agonistic Interactions Between Common
Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) Living in Urban and Rural Habitats
Koç University, Dept. of Psychology
Alper Yelimlieş
15:45-16:00
GMT+3
Seasonality effects on large-mammal co-occurrence patterns
University of Zurich, Dept. of Evol. Biol. and Envt. Studies
Dilşad Dağtekin
16:00-16:15
GMT+3
Tracking foraging outcome in the wild using accelerometers
University of Zurich, Dept. of Evol. Biol. and Envt. Studies
Pritish Chakravarty
Koç University, Dept. of Psychology
Chair: Sibel Küçükyıldırım & G. Ozan Bozdağ
9:00-9:45
GMT+3
The origins and endpoints of cell-in-cell relationships
Arizona State University, USA
John McCutcheon
11:00-11:15
GMT+3
The spatial ecology of conflicts: Unraveling patterns of wildlife damage at multiple scales.
Institute of Nature Conservation,
Polish Academy of Sciences
Carlos Bautista
11:45-12:00
GMT+3
Is the black tie of Great Tits a signal in territorial interactions? An investigation with 3D printed models
Alican Avşar
Koç University, Dept. of Psychology
12:00-12:15
GMT+3
Snow leopard ecology in Bhutan: distribution and feeding ecology
University of Zurich, Population Ecology Research Group
Dechen Lham
Chair: Anıl Soyumert
10:00-10:45
GMT+3
Knowledge needs for large carnivore conservation in Europe: how to train a new generation of conservationists?
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
John Linnell
11:30-11:45
GMT+3
Multi-modal signalling in the European robin
Koç University, Dept. of Psychology
Çağla Önsal
11:15-11:30
GMT+3
Stopover ecology of some long distance migrants in Kızılırmak delta, Turkey
Ondokuz Mayıs University, Ornithological Research Centre
Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz
15:00-15:15
GMT+3
Complementing aDNA: Catching ancient signals within contemporary human genomes
University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics,
Burak Yelmen
15:15-15:30
GMT+3
A new chapter of palaeogenomics opens with million-year-old DNA
University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Biology
Patrícia Chrzanová Pečnerová
15:45-16:00
GMT+3
Metagenomic analysis of the DNA reads from the medieval warship crew
Mersin University, Department of Biotechnology
Emrah Kırdök
16:00-16:15
GMT+3
Kinship patterns among ancient genomes shed light on past social traditions of the last
10,000 years
Hacettepe University, Dept. of Anthropology
Arda Sevkar
Chair: Gülşah Merve Kılınç
14:00-14:45
GMT+3
Opportunities and Challenges of using genomic ancient DNA in population genetic
studies
Uppsala University, Dept. of Organismal Biology
Torsten Günther
15:30-15:45
GMT+3
Tracking population structure of Southwest Asia human populations during Holocene
METU, Dept. of Biological Sciences
Dilek Koptekin
Chair: İsmail K. Sağlam & Efe Sezgin
10:00-11:00
GMT+3
Meryem Beklioğlu
Mustafa Yücel
METU, Dept. of
Biological Sciences
METU, Institute of Marine Sciences
11:15-12:15
GMT+3
Juli G. Pausas
Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Valencia, Spain
Forest fires across the Mediterranean
Marine mucilage, drought and the ecology and biodiversity of lakes and coastal waters
14:00-14:45
GMT+3
Changing Climate, Changing Pathogens: Threats to Forest Ecosystems Increase with Climate Change
Stephen Woodward
University of Aberdeen, UK
15:00-15:15
GMT+3
Impact and control of a biological invader: the case study of Dryocosmus kuriphilus in NE Italy
DAFNAE
Fernanda Colombari
15:15-15:30
GMT+3
A Hybrid Modelling Framework for Biological Invasions under Climate Change
ITU, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Oğuzhan Kanmaz
15:30-15:45
GMT+3
Gene drives for vertebrate pest control: spatial modelling of eradication probabilities and time-to-
eradication for invasive alien mammals in Australia
University of Adelaide, Dept. of Ecol. & Evol. Biol.
Aysegul Birand
Chair: Kahraman İpekdal
15:00-15:15
GMT+3
Eco-evolutionary Consequences of a Novel Trait in E. coli
Michigan State University,
Dept. of Microbiol.& Mol. Gen
Zachary D. Blount
15:30-15:45
GMT+3
Microbiome meta-analysis platform identifies host and microbiome interactions
Farid Musa
Izmir Institute of Technology, Food Engineering
15:45-16:00
GMT+3
Evolution of the mosquito-specific Culex pipiens densovirus and its interactions with
endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia
ISEM, Université de Montpellier
Mine Altınlı
16:00-16:15
GMT+3
Mobile Elements in Mitochondrial Genomes of Monilinia Fungal Pathogens
ÇOMÜ, Dept. of Mol. Biol & Gen.
Hilal Özkılınç
Chair: Hilal Özkılınç
14:00-14:45
GMT+3
Drivers and brakes on pathogen emergence
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Daniel Croll
15:15-15:30
GMT+3
Draft Genome Assembly and Annotation of a novel Pseudomonas species
Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University
Uğur Çabuk
11:00-11:20
GMT+3
Phylogenetics and Genome Evolution of the tribe Heliophileae (Brassicaceae)
Masaryk University, Central European Institute of Technology
Mert Doğan
11:50-12:15
GMT+3
Digging up the past: tracking the domestication syndrome in sunflower using extant and ancient DNA
Melis Akman
UC Berkeley,
Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology
Chair: Melis Akman & Barış Özüdoğru
10:00-10:45
GMT+3
When conifers took flight: the evolution of wind dispersal.
UC Berkeley,
Dept. of Integrative Biology
Cindy Looy
11:20-11:50
GMT+3
Pollination Ecology, Specialization, and Genetic Isolation in Sympatric Bee-Pollinated Salvia (Lamiaceae)
Kırıkkale University, Dept. of Biology
Ferhat Celep
15:00-15:45
GMT+3
Simple Processes Determine Complex Biodiversity Patterns on Global Scales
A. Townsend Peterson
KU, Biodiversity Institute
16:00-16:15
GMT+3
Current status of Great Bustard Otis tarda in Turkey: population size, distribution, movements, and threats
METU, Dept. of
Biological Sciences
Melisa Soyluer
16:15-16:30
GMT+3
Detecting Phenological shifts of different vegetation covers of Turkey with remote sensing
Tuğçe Şenel
ITU, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences
Chair: Özge Erişöz Kasap & Hakan Gür
14:00-14:45
GMT+3
Biogeography of Zoonotic Wildlife Diseases
FWC, Virginia Tech, USA
Luis E. Escobar
11:00-11:15
GMT+3
Evolutionary History of Asexual Lizard Populations In Lake Van Area
METU, Dept. of
Biological Sciences
Meric Erdolu
11:45-12:00
GMT+3
Examination of the possible role of DNA methylation on gene expression changes in response to acute
osmotic stress in invasive Mediterranean Blue Mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis).
Açelya Eren
Boğaziçi University Institute of Environmental Sciences
12:00-12:15
GMT+3
Investigation of the Effect of Floral Scents on Transcriptome Profiles of Antennal Chemoreseptors of Bombus terrestris L.
İstanbul University
Department of Biology
Tunç Dabak
Chair: Tutku Aykanat
10:00-10:45
GMT+3
Evolution of adaptive divergences in freshwater salmonids
University of Glasgow, UK
Kathryn R. Elmer
11:30-11:45
GMT+3
Genetic Structure of Sedentary and Migratory Bears (Ursus arctos) within Eastern Anatolia
Koç University, Dept. Molecular Biol. & Genetics
M. Çisel Kemahlı Aytekin
11:15-11:30
GMT+3
Heritability of immune traits of the pond snail, Lymnaea stagnalis
ETH Zürich/Eawag
Cansu Çetin
Chair: Ogün Adebali
14:00-14:20
GMT+3
Sex-specific phenotypic effects and evolutionary history of an ancient polymorphic deletion of the human growth hormone receptor
State University of New York at Buffalo
Ömer Gökçümen
14:20-14:40
GMT+3
Phylogeny-Aware Amino Acid Substitution Scoring
Sabancı University, Dept. Molecular Biol. & Genetics
Nurdan Kuru
14:40-15:00
GMT+3
Molecular evolution and population genetics of GAD system in L. brevis strains from different environments.
Izmir Institute of Technology, Food Engineering
Burcu Tekin
15:00-15:20
GMT+3
Variant stratified molecular population genetic analyses of SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Bahar Anıl Gürbüz
Izmir Institute of Technology, Food Engineering
15:30-16:15
GMT+3
Insights into patterns of cryptic speciation: Madagascar’s mouse lemurs and the multi-species coalescent
Duke University
Anne Yoder
15:00-15:15
GMT+3
How host switching can influence the ecological and evolutionary
dynamics of parasites?
Laboratório de Interações Biológicas
Elvira D’Bastiani,
Chair: Arpat Özgül
14:00-14:45
GMT+3
Addressing the global challenges ahead using mechanistic insights from natural populations
Donana Biological Station, Spain