Hibernation and Torpor: Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Chairs: Lovegrove/Nicol
 
  Monday, July 26th, 2004 Speaker Schedule and Topics
  8:00 Gordon Grigg, University of Queensland, Australia
  8:30 Are torpor and hibernation plesiomorphic?: Implications for hibernation and the evolution of endothermy
  8:30 Barry Lovegrove, University of Natal, Scottsville, South Africa
  9:00 Was adaptive hypothermia a prerequisite for the colonization of Madagascar by mammals?
  9:00 Nomaqwezi Mzilikazi, University of Natal, Scottsville, South Africa
  9:30 Whey the lack of torpor in small, mainland African primates: the lesser bushbaby, Galago maholi?
  9:30 Michael Harris, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
  10:00 A how-to guide to mammalian heterothermy: stay young at heart and mind (and gut and liver…)
  10:00 Coffee
  10:30 Break
     
  10:30 Fritz Geiser, University of New England, Armidale, Australia
  11:00 The role of exogenous passive heating during arousal from torpor
  11:00 Craig Frank, Fordham University, Armonk, New York, USA
  11:30 Dietary preferences in golden-mantled ground squirrels
  11:30 Alan French, Penn State University, Lehman, Pennsylvania, USA
  12:00 Effect of environmental factors on food storing behavior and timing of dormancyin perognathus
  12:00 Lunch 
  1:30 Break
     
  1:30 Murray Humphries, McGill University, Quebec, Canada
  2:00 Hibernation as a behavioral trait: some physiological and ecological implications
  2:00 Claudia Bieber, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
  2:30 Seasonal timing of reproduction and hibernation in the edible dormouse, Glis glis
  2:30 Eva Millesi, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  3:00 Reproduction and hibernation: a comparison of two sympatric ground-dwelling rodents
  3:00 Stewart Nicol, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
  3:30 Behavior and hibernation in echidnas
  3:30 Coffee
  3:45 Break
Neurobiology
Chair: Arjen Strijkstra
 
   
  3:45 Arjen Strijkstra, University of Leipzig, Germany
  4:15 NMR in hibernating ground squirrels
  4:15 Thomas Arendt, University of Leipzig, Germany
  4:45 Untangling tau
  4:45 Eddy van der Zee, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
  5:00 Hippocampal PKC in hibernating ground squirrels
  5:15 Irina Popova, Institute of Theoretical & Experimental Biophysics, Pushchino, Russia
  5:45 The role of the medial septum in the control of hibernation
     
  7:15 Captain's Party
     
  8:30 Dinner