First International Sparrow-Warbler Meeting Monday 7th April - Friday 11th April University of Sheffield, U.K. ROOMS All PI meetings and small group discussion in Terry’s office (B87) Mon afternoon: Database session in B52 Tues morning: Database session in PROBABLY BMS conf room Tues afternoon: Talks and parasessions in BMS conf room Wed morning: Talks and parasessions in BMS conf room Thursday: Talks and parasessions in Finlay? Friday: Talks and parasessions in Finlay? BOOKED ROOMS Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday B52 yes C207 Finlay room yes 13-17 yes 13-17 yes yes yes BMS conf room NO Yes yes FC-F02a * Yes yes yes exc 12- 13 yes exc 12-13 B87 Terry’s office * Go in Firth Court via the main doors. Turn left at the toilets. There's a staircase on the left hand side and follow it up to 'F' floor where the room is situated
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First International Sparrow-Warbler Meeting
Monday 7th April - Friday 11th April
University of Sheffield, U.K.
ROOMS
All PI meetings and small group discussion in Terry’s office (B87)
Mon afternoon: Database session in B52
Tues morning: Database session in PROBABLY BMS conf room
Tues afternoon: Talks and parasessions in BMS conf room
Wed morning: Talks and parasessions in BMS conf room
* Go in Firth Court via the main doors. Turn left at the toilets. There's a staircase on the left hand side and follow it up to 'F' floor where the room is situated
ATTENDEES
Warbler and sparrows
1. Terry Burke
Warblers
2. Jan Komdeur3. David Richardson4. Hannah Dugdale5. Lewis Spurgin6. Margarete Utz7. Sjouke Anne Kingma8. Dave Wright9. Danni Gilroy10. Kat Bebbington11. Frank Groenewoud12. Hannah Edwards13. Michela Busana14. Owen Howison15. Elli Fairfield
Norwich folk will travel on the Sunday night by train
Groningen people will arrive Sunday evening/Monday morning (Jan will leave Friday morning)
Seewiesen people will arrive Monday morning
Stay
Most people will stay in the Travelodge in Sheffield centre. Accommodation is booked by people themselves. Jan and Dave R stay with Terry.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?
DATABASE DAY – Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning
We are planning to have a general database introduction to the warbler database on Tuesday, presented by our new Database manager, Owen Howison. This may be useful for sparrow people and PIs as well!!!! BRING YOUR OWN COMPUTER WITH ACCESS.
Monday we can either work on questions that people have about the warbler database (please prepare if you have anything!) or solving issues etc. All depending on how much we have also done already during regular dataface meetings. We are checking with Ian whether it is useful to have a meeting with him, but that is still in planning stage.
TALKS
All warbler and sparrow post-docs and PhD students should give a talk. We have 30 minutes allocated for each talk (plus 5 minutes buffer), so everybody can discuss general and specific issues together. Please keep your talk to 20 minutes, so we can have plenty of time for discussion. Please check the preliminary talk title by your allocated slot below.
PI MEETINGS
PI Meetings are 30 minutes, and are for issues that you don’t have time for during your talk, or about things you don’t think everybody is interested in*. They are 30 minutes, and it’s really important that we don’t overrun with these or somebody ends up losing time; you will be cut off by a singing warbler (maybe). PhD students and post-docs: you should prepare a list of discussion points that you want to discuss with the PIs!!!
PARA SESSIONS
To make sure we are as productive as possible, all warbler (and if wanted HS) PhDs and postdocs are required to lead one para session. You can do whatever you like - practice an extra talk, present an analytical problem you want help with, bring up a specific database issue, lead a discussion on data, etc. etc. You can prepare a powerpoint presentation if you like, but it’s not mandatory. You have an allocated para session slot during somebody’s PI meeting (meaning some or all PIs won’t be there). Please make sure you have prepared something and put in a preliminary title by your name below if it is not there yet.
Also make sure that everybody you’d want in your parasession can be there and is not occupied with PI meetings!!!! If needed, find somebody to swap with you.
OUTING
We will join the ASAB outing: BRING SOLID FOOTWEAR, WARM CLOTHS AND WATERPROOFS
AGENDA
Monday 7th April
12:30 -17:00 DATABASE WORK
overview by Hannah and specific issues (bring your problems )
(Warbler people only, unless HS people have an urge to enter warbler data)
15:00 COFFEE
DINNER EVENING T.B.A.
Tuesday 8th April
9:00- 12:00 DATABASE (Warbler people only)
10:15 Coffee
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-13:00 Welcome Prof. Terry Burke
SESSION 1 Senescence and telomeres
13:05-13:35 TALK 1 Mirre Simons
Detailed demographic analysis of an island bird population reveals mortality senescence despite strong environmental effects
13:40-14:10 TALK 2 Kat Bebbington
Telomere analyses in the Seychelles warbler
14:15-14:35 Coffee
14:35-15:05 PI MEETING 1 Kat Bebbington
PARASESSION Hannah Edwards
SESSION 2 Nestbox breeding
15:10-15:40 TALK 3 Alfredo Sanchez-Tojar
Nestbox use in house sparrows: who and why?
15:45-16:15 FINANCING (Jan, Terry, Dave R, HannahD and Sjouke)
16:15-17:30 DATABASE INTRODUCTION BY OWEN (for all)
EVENING ASAB DINNER
Wednesday 9th April
SESSION 3 Personality and modelling
08:45-09:15 TALK 4 Hannah Edwards
Personality in Seychelles warblers
09:20-09:50 TALK 5 Isabel Winney
Personality in house sparrows
09:55-10:25 TALK 6 Margarete Utz
Modelling dispersal syndromes
10:25-10:40 COFFEE
10:40-11:10 TALK 7 Michela Busana
Group level dynamics and environmental variability: their impact on population dynamics in Seychelles warblers
11:10-11:40 PI MEETING 2 Hannah Edwards
PARA SESSION Lewis Spurgin
11:40-12:10 PI MEETING 3 Margarete Utz
PARA SESSION Sjouke A. Kingma
12:10-12:40 PI MEETING 4 Michela Busana
PARA SESSION Danni Gilroy
12:40-13:15 LUNCH
13:30 COACH LEAVES FOR ASAB OUTING until ~18:00
Bring solid footwear, warm clothing and waterproofs
Thursday 10th April 2014 Morning
SESSION 4: Genetics
09:00-09:30 TALK 8 Danni Gilroy
TLR genes: selection stories in the Seychelles warbler'
09:35-10:05 TALK 9 Lewis Spurgin
RAD sequencing results
10:10-10:45 TALK 10 David John Wright
"Dave's PhD overview*
10:45-11:00 COFFEE (and CAKE)
11:00-11:30 PI MEETING 5 Danni Gilroy
PARA SESSION Hannah Dugdale
11:30-12:00 PI MEETING 6 Lewis Spurgin
PARA SESSION Kat Bebbington
12:00-12:30 PI MEETING 7 Dave Wright
PARA SESSION Michela Busana
12:30-13:15 LUNCH
Thursday 10th April 2014 Afternoon
13:15-13:45 TALK 11 Haslina Razali
MHC typing in sparrows
SESSION 5: Cooperative breeding
13:50-14:20 TALK 12 Frank Groenewoud
Group stability in cooperatively breeding Seychelles warblers
14:25-14:55 TALK 13 Sjouke A. Kingma
Do female helpers reduce predation risk by incubation?
15:00-15:15 COFFEE
15:20-15:50 PI MEETING 8 Frank Groenewoud
PARASESSION Dave Wright
15:50-16:20 PI MEETING 9 Sjouke A. Kingma
PARASESSION Margarete Utz
16:20-17:00 GENERAL MEETING FIELDWORK WARBLERS 2014 (Warbler people only)
19:00 DINNER
FRIDAY 11TH April 2014
SESSION 6: Paternity
9:00-9:30 TALK 14 Hannah Dugdale
An update on Seychelles warbler quantitative genetics
