Program Schedule

May 17, 2024
Arrival in Erice

May 18, 2024
Morning Session
  • 9:00-9:50 - plenary / Alonzo : How do sexual selection and behavioral plasticity interact to affect how organisms respond to changing environments
  • 9:50-10:40 - plenary / Candolin : Behavioural responses to human-induced environmental changes: influence on sexual selection
  • 10:40-11:10 - coffee break
Late Morning Session
  • 11:10-12:00 - plenary / Cagnacci : Behavioural responses to human direct disturbance: influence on sexual selection
  • 12:00-12:50 - plenary / Córdoba Aguilar : How much different is sexual selection in urbanized environments?
  • 12:50-14:50 - lunch
Early Afternoon Session
  • 14:50-15:40 - plenary / Macias Garcia : What are the ways in which human induced environmental change modifies the consequences of sexual selection
  • 15:40-16:10 - coffee break
Late Afternoon Session
  • 16:10-16:25 - talk / Evans : Effect of urbanisation on sexual signaling in great bowerbirds
  • 16:25-16:40 - talk / Carazo : Some like it hot (and some not): thermal GxE interactions for reproductive success and their consequences for sexual selection in Drosophila melanogaster
  • 16:40-16:55 - talk / Londoño-Nieto : Temperature drives the divergent evolution of sexual conflict
  • 16:55-17:10 - talk / Albo : Following evolutionary traces of nuptial gifts in spiders: sexual selection and environment
  • 17:10-17:30 - break
Poster Session
  • 17:30-19:30 - Poster session

May 19, 2024
Morning Session
  • 9:00-9:50 - plenary / Wedekind : Effects of sexual selection on population fitness
  • 9:50-10:40 - plenary / Schacht : How does the demographic profile of a population structure reproductive decision making?
  • 10:40-11:10 - coffee
Late Morning Session
  • 11:10-12:00 - plenary / Janicke : How do ecological and demographic factors alter the strength and form of sexual selection?
  • 12:00-12:50 - plenary / Snook : How does environmental change impact the sexual selection landscape?
  • 12:50-14:50 - lunch
Early Afternoon Session
  • 14:50-15:40 - plenary / Weissing : Does sexual selection facilitate or hamper adaptation to changing conditions?
  • 15:40-16:10 - coffee break
Late Afternoon Session
  • 16:10-16:25 - talk / Flintham : Male harm offsets the demographic benefits of good genes
  • 16:25-16:40 - talk / Pandey : Strong sexual selection reduces population size and limits population recovery after heat stress in soil mites
  • 16:40-16:55 - talk / Bocedi : Sexual selection and mate limitation shape evolution of species’ range limits
  • 16:55-17:10 - talk / Shuker : How do we study sexual selection in complex environments?
  • 17:10-17:25 - talk / Riederer : Sexual selection and evolvability in Anolis lizards
  • 17:25-17:40 - break
Round Table
  • 17:40-19:30 - Round table "When is sexual selection good or bad for population fitness?"

May 20, 2024
Morning Session
  • 9:00-9:50 - plenary / Komdeur : Does social flexibility facilitate animals to cope with rapidly changing environmental conditions?
  • 9:50-10:40 - plenary / Pinter Wollmann : How is mate choice impacted by interactions in other social situations and how are all these social interactions impacted by environmental changes?
  • 10:40-11:10 - coffee break
Late Morning Session
  • 11:10-12:00 - plenary / Agrawal : How does evolution respond to environments differing in the opportunity for male harm?
  • 12:00-12:50 - plenary / Szekely : What are the causes and consequences of sex ratio bias and its implication for population resilience?
  • 12:50-14:50 - lunch
Early Afternoon Session
  • 14:50-15:05 - talk / Benvenuto : Sex change in a changing world
  • 15:05-15:20 - talk / Costa : Surviving the heat: How multiple mating rescues offspring sex ratio in a haplodiploid exposed to developmental heat stress
  • 15:20-15:35 - talk / Dougherty : Invertebrate reproduction is more sensitive to high temperature stress than survival
  • 15:35-16:10 - coffee break
Late Afternoon Session
  • 16:10-16:25 - talk / Knell : Alternative mating strategies and adaptation
  • 16:25-16:40 - talk / Baldan : Climate change relaxes sexual conflict in a bird species with multiple mating strategies.
  • 16:40-17:00 - break
  • 17:00-19:00 - Round table "Sexual selection in a changing world: Knowledge gaps and future directions"
social dinner

May 21, 2024
early departure/half-day excursion