2015 Conference Program:

27th- 29th October Deakin University Warrnambool Campus

Lecture Theatre J2.01

Day 1 – 27th October Time: Activity: 12.30pm Departure bus from Burwood 2.15pm Departure bus from Waurn Ponds 4.00pm Attendees arrive at Warrnambool; allocation of

rooms/check in 4.30pm Afternoon tea (foyer area of lecture theatre J2.01) 5.15pm 1st plenary speaker – Prof Don Driscoll 6.00pm Welcome dinner at Ginger Kitchen (on campus) 8.00pm Trivia quiz night

Day 2 – 28th October Time: Activity: 9.15am Welcoming address 9.30am 2nd plenary speaker – Adriana Verges 10:15am John Patykowski – ‘The effect of fire on the functional

role of rare plants and implications for land restoration’ 10:30am Laurie Laurenson – ‘Popular fiction: culling sharks reduces

the number of shark attacks’ 10.45am Morning tea (foyer area of lecture theatre J2.01) 11.15am Vanessa Skrzypczyk – ‘Nutrition and sensorial properties

of Australia’s marine seaweeds: future directions heading into a PhD’

11.20am Carolyn Ewers – ‘Blue carbon hotspots: Distribution and abundance of blue carbon in Victoria’

11.35am Travis Knox – ‘Evidence for individual specialisations in the foraging ecology of male Australian fur seals’

11.50am Jared Tromp – ‘The chronic thermal stress response of juvenile pre-smolt Atlantic salmon (S. salar) in freshwater’

12.05pm Erin Cumming – ‘Developing seaweed production techniques for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria’

12.10pm Emily Nicholson – TBA

12.25pm Alexandrea Kranz – ‘The effect of ambient light on the plasticity and evolution of visual pigment opsin expression levels in the guppy, Poecilia reticulate’

12.40pm Laura Tan – ‘Ravens as penguin egg predators – a brief background and fieldwork report’

12.45pm Anna Miltiadous – ‘The maternal effect: Avian stress and reproductive success’

1.00pm Lunch, at Ginger Kitchen (on campus) 2.00pm Alecia Bellgrove – ‘Comparison of marine macrophytes for

their contributions to blue carbon sequestration’ 2.15pm Meijuan Zhao – ‘Body size effects on long-distance

migration evaluated using migratory tracks of Arctic breeding shorebirds’

2.30pm Laetitia Kernaleguen – ‘Early life sexual segregation: ontogeny of isotopic niche differentiation in Antarctic fur seal’

2.45pm Sera Blair – ‘Backyard bandicoots: community attitudes towards conservation planning in residential developments’

3.00pm Afternoon tea (foyer area of lecture theatre J2.01) 3.30pm Adriana Verges – The use of visual media in science

communication 4.30pm Emily Nicholson/Matt Symonds – Women in science 5.15pm Speed dating and drinks 6.45pm Dinner (off campus– Flying Horse Bar and Brewery)

Mahoneys Rd & Raglan Parade, Warrnambool. Location map can be viewed @ http://theflyinghorse.com.au/find-us/

10.30pm Courtesy bus to escort delegates back to the University. The courtesy bus will return to do another two trips.

Day 3 – 29th October Time: Activity: 9.15am 4th plenary speaker – John Wingfield 10.00am Library support session – Dorothy Rooney, Liaison

Librarian 10.20am Alice Risely – ‘A quantitive review on the impact of

parasites on migratory animals’ 10.25am Tricia Wevill – ‘Overview of current research’ 10.30am Morning tea (foyer area of lecture theatre J2.01) 11.00am Andy Bennett – ‘The thrills and perils of integrative

ecology: a case study of Platycercus elegans’ 11.15am Daniel Lees – ‘Sex ratio variation among the Masked

Lapwing’

11.30am Marta Ferenczi – ‘Non-seasonal and long-term AIV dynamics in Australia’s arid interior suggest bird numbers, age structure and immunocompetence as potential drivers’

11.45am Christian van Rijn – ‘Assessing smoltification in juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) using a biochemical assay’

12.00pm Antoine Dujon – ‘High resolution Fastloc-GPS reveals circadian migratory patterns of sea turtles’

12.15pm Sundara Mudiyanselage Udayangani Prabodha Mawalagedera – ‘Phylogenetic prediction of medicinal utility of basal Angiosperms; Magnoliids, in Australasia’

12.20pm Stacey Trevathan-Tackett – ‘The roles of microbes in blue carbon sequestration: Focusing on the ‘bio’ in biogeochemistry’

12.25pm Adam Miller – ‘Assisting the management of Australian wildlife through the application of genetic and genomic tools at species and landscape scales’

12.40pm Mylene Mariette – ‘Pre-natal acoustic communication allows programming of offspring development: adaptation to hot weather?’

12.55pm Simeon Lisovski – ‘Seasonality in a changing world’ 1.00pm Group photo (location to be advised by photographer) 1.15pm Lunch, at Ginger Kitchen (on campus) 2.15pm Forum: Golden pieces of advice to get a job post PhD and

beyond 3.00pm Closing address and awards 3.30pm Departures