| IHS 2008 |
13th International Hibernation Symposium
6-12 August 2008
Swakopmund Hotel: Namibia
Scientific Programme
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Programme
Thursday 7 August 2008
| Session: |
Thermal and metabolic physiology of suspended animation |
| Chair: |
Gerhard Heldmaier |
| Start Time |
End Time |
Authors |
Title |
| 08:00 |
08:05 |
Gerhard Heldmaier |
Introduction |
| 08:05 |
08:35 |
Steve Swoap |
Neuroendocrine relations of torpor behaviour in mice |
| 08:35 |
09:00 |
André Malan |
Metabolism and rhythmicity: the torpor-arousal cycle |
| 09:00 |
09:20 |
Claudia Bieber and Thomas Ruf |
Hypometabolism at all seasons: Torpor in the Edible dormouse (Glis glis) |
| 09:20 |
09:40 |
Domagoj Dikic, Gerhard Heldmaier & Carola Meyer |
Torpor behaviour in mice with different metabolic phenotypes |
| 09:40 |
10:00 |
Richard Hill, Jacob Gunn, Alex Champagne and Michael Cook |
Capacity for spatial learning in weanling White-footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) is unaffected by neonatal near-freezing hypothermia |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Tea Break |
| 10:30 |
10:55 |
Luzie Braulke and Gerhard Heldmaier |
Action of Thyronamine: Can torpor be induced by metabolic inhibitors? |
| 10:55 |
11:15 |
S. Giroud, S. Blanc, C. Gilbert, M. Perret |
Seasonal differences in energy-saving mechanisms during food restriction in a Malagasy primate |
| 11:15 |
11:35 |
Kathrin Dausmann |
Sleeping single in a double bed? Social hibernation in a tropical primate species (Cheirogaleus medius) - possible causes and consequences |
| 11:35 |
12:00 |
Laura Clemens, Cornelia Exner and Gerhard Heldmaier |
Keep cool: hibernation stabilizes memory in the Alpine marmot |
| 12:00 |
13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| Session: |
Biomedical applications - the cutting edge |
| Chair: |
Hannah Carey |
| 13:30 |
14:00 |
Amanda Klein, Scott Wendroth, Lester Drewes and Matthew Andrews |
Hibernation strategies to improve recovery from hemorrhagic shock |
| 14:00 |
14:30 |
Julie Gilkeson, Gregory Beilman, Matthew Andrews and Lester R. Drewes |
Neuroprotection with TamiasynTM : Evaluation in a Large Animal Model |
| 14:30 |
15:00 |
Stephen Brown, Meera Govindaswami, Paul Bishop, Mark Kindy, Peter Oeltgen |
Hibernating woodchuck plasma and plasma fractions provide ischemic neuroprotection |
| 15:00 |
15:30 |
Tea Break |
| 15:30 |
15:55 |
Seth Donahue, Meghan McGee, Rachel Bradford, Chung-Jui Tsai, Matthew Nelsen, Kirsten Simoni |
American Black Bear parathyroid hormone as therapy for osteoporosis |
| 15:55 |
16:20 |
Bryan Rourke |
Myosin isoform dynamics in muscles of hibernating mammal species - lessons and opportunities |
| 16:20 |
16:45 |
Vadim Fedorov, Alexey Glukhov, Sangita Sudharshan, Yuri Egorov, Brian Barnes, Matthew Andrews, Leonid Rosenshtraukh and Egor Efimov |
Cardiac protection in hibernating ground squirrels: The role of connexins and cadherens |
| 17:10 |
17:35 |
Lynne Nelson, Charles Robbins and Henk Granzier |
Diastolic Function Adaptations in Unanesthetized Hibernating Grizzly Bears |
| 17:35 |
18:00 |
Hannah Carey and Clark Nelson |
Understanding Hibernation through Metabolic Profiling: Implications for Biomedicine |
Friday 8 August 2008
| Session: |
Thermogenic mechanisms |
| Chair: |
Martin Klingenspor |
| Start Time |
End Time |
Authors |
Title |
| 08:00 |
08:20 |
Barbara Cannon |
UCP1 in modern mammals |
| 08:20 |
08:40 |
Nomakwezi Mzilikazi, Carola Meyer, Martin Klingenspor |
Towards ecological relevance: a comparison of physiological and molecular evidence for the presence of adaptive, UCP1-mediated non-shivering thermogenesis in mammals |
| 08:40 |
09:00 |
Martin Jastroch and Martin Klingenspor |
A new look at the evolution of uncoupling protein 1-mediated non-shivering thermogenesis |
| 09:00 |
09:20 |
Martin Klingenspor |
Adaptive thermogenesis in UCP1 knockout mice |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Tea Break |
| Session: |
Lipids in cold adaptation |
| Chair: |
Craig Frank |
| Start Time |
End Time |
Authors |
Title |
| 10:30 |
10:50 |
Zaixiang Du and Tony Hulbert |
Tissue ion homeostasis at low temperatures: effect of dietary fat composition and thyroid status |
| 10:50 |
11:10 |
Jessica Healy, Melanie Richter, Litto Suu, Susan Fried and Gregory Florant |
Changes in serum leptin concentrations with fat mass in Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels |
| 11:10 |
11:30 |
Fritz Geiser, Bronwyn M. McAllan, G. J. Kenagy, Sara M. Hiebert |
Fat, Photoperiod, and Hibernation |
| 11:30 |
11:50 |
Jan Nedergaard, Augustine Ocloo, Irina G. Shabalina, Barbara Cannon and Martin D. Brand |
Mitochondrial phospholipids and cold accilmation |
| 12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:00 |
13:20 |
Thomas Ruf |
How to keep the cold heart going: N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids may be crucial for sustained cardiac function during hibernation and torpor |
| 13:20 |
13:40 |
Craig Frank |
The relationship between dietary PUFAs, air temperature, and hibernation: implications for future climate change |
| 13:40 |
14:00 |
Eva Millesi, Anita Divjak and Anna Strauss |
Seasonal timing and pre-hibernation fattening in breeding and non-breeding European ground squirrels |
| 14:00 |
14:30 |
Tea Break |
| Session: |
Bats |
| Chair: |
Craig Willis |
| 14:30 |
14:50 |
Clare Stawski, Christopher Turbill and Fritz Geiser |
Prolonged torpor use during winter by a free-ranging bat in subtropical Australia |
| 14:50 |
15:10 |
Lydia Hollis and Robert Barclay |
Developmental changes in body temperature and use of torpor by the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) |
| 15:10 |
15:30 |
Craig Willis |
Do roost type or sociality predict warming rate? A phylogenetic analysis of torpor arousal |
| 15:30 |
15:50 |
Christin Dzurick and Tom Tomasi |
Ambient temperature and the hibernation energy budget of the endangered Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis) |
| 15:50 |
16:10 |
Michal Wojciechowski, Malgorzata Jefimow and Eugenia Tegowska |
Effects of the thermal environment on heterothermy in vespertilionid bats |
| 16:10 |
16:30 |
Justin Boyles and Virgil Brack |
Modelling Survival Rates of Hibernating Mammals with Individual-Based Models of Energy Expenditure |
Saturday 9 August 2008
| Session: |
Molecular aspects |
| Chair: |
Sandy Martin |
| Start Time |
End Time |
Authors |
Title |
| 08:00 |
08:40 |
Frank van Breukelen, Peipei Pan, Candice Rausch, Jenifer Utz, Vanja Velickovska |
Homeostasis on hold: implications of imprecise coordination of protein metabolism during mammalian hibernation |
| 08:40 |
09:20 |
David Bechtold, Ben Saer, Elena Ivanova, Jian Li, Simon Luckman and Andrew Loudon |
Torpor and the melatonin-related receptor (GPR50) |
| 09:20 |
10:00 |
Ben Saer, David A. Bechtold, Fiona I.J. Crawford F & Andrew S.I. Loudon |
Molecular changes in heart and brain during torpor in Siberian hamsters |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Tea Break |
| 10:30 |
11:10 |
Matt Andrews |
Genes controlling the metabolic switch in hibernating mammals |
| 11:10 |
11:30 |
Ken Storey |
Oxidative stress in hibernation: how genes respond |
| 11:30 |
11:50 |
Ludmila Kramarova, Barbara Cannon and Jan Nedergaard |
Hibernation state-dependent DNA fragmentation in brown adipose tissue and liver of ground squirrels |
| 11:50 |
12:30 |
Sandy Martin and Elaine Epperson |
A two-switch model for mammalian hibernation |
| 12:30 |
13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| Session: |
Mammals |
| Chair: |
Fritz Geiser |
| 13:30 |
13:50 |
Stewart Nicol, Gemma Morrow and Niels Andersen |
Hibernation in monotremes: a review |
| 13:50 |
14:10 |
Fritz Geiser, Nereda Christian, Christine Cooper, Gerhard Körtner, Bronwyn McAllan, Chris Pavey, James Turner, Lisa Warnecke, Craig Willis, Mark Brigham |
Torpor in marsupials: recent advances |
| 14:10 |
14:30 |
Gerhard Körtner, Chris Pavey and Fritz Geiser |
Ecological physiology of a small arid zone marsupial in relation to its thermal environment |
| 14:30 |
14:50 |
Loren Buck, Andre Breton, Franziska Kohl, Oivind Toien and Brian Barnes |
Overwinter body temperature patterns in free-living Arctic Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus parryii) |
| 14:50 |
15:10 |
Alan French |
Patterns of heterothermy in rodents |
| 15:10 |
15:30 |
Kathrin Dausmann |
Hypometabolism in primates: torpor and hibernation |
| 15:30 |
15:50 |
Chafika Mouhoub-Sayah, Jean-Patrice Robin, Andre Malan, Paul Pevet & Michel Saboureau |
Patterns of body temperature change in the hedgehog Atelerix algirus during autumn and winter |
| 15:50 |
16:05 |
Barry Lovegrove |
Torpor and hibernation in a protoendotherm: The Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec, Echinops telfairi |
| 16:05 |
16:20 |
Tea Break |
| Session: |
Neurobiology |
| Chair: |
Arjen Strijkstra |
| 16:20 |
16:40 |
Paul Pevet and Annika Herwig |
Deep hibernation, torpor and the circadian clock. |
| 16:40 |
17:00 |
Stefanie Monecke, Michel Saboureau, Mireille Masson-Pévet, André Malan, Daniel Bonn and Paul Pévet |
A circannual phase-response-curve for a deep hibernator, the European hamster |
| 17:00 |
17:20 |
Jens Stieler, Ate Boerema, Torsten Bullman, Franziska Kohl, Arjen Strijkstra, Brian Barnes and Thomas Arendt |
Activity state profile of tau kinases in hibernating animals |
| 17:20 |
17:40 |
Ate Boerema, Stepha Steinlechner, Eddy Van der Zee, Jan Keijser, Arjen Strijkstra |
Reversible PHF-like phosphorylation of the microtubule associated protein tau during daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters |
| 17:40 |
18:00 |
Arjen Strijkstra, Roelof Hut and Serge Daan |
Does the timing mechanism of periodic euthermia in deep hibernation depend on its homeostatic need? |
Sunday 10 August 2008
Conference Free Day - Tours, etc
Monday 11 August 2008
| Session: |
Cryobiology |
| Chair: |
Ken Storey |
| Start Time |
End Time |
Authors |
Title |
| 08:00 |
08:30 |
Mark Rider |
Dealing with energy stress in hypometabolic states: Role of the AMP-activated protein kinase |
| 08:30 |
09:00 |
James Staples, Alexander Gerson and Jason Brown |
Mitochondrial metabolism in hibernation and daily torpor: More than one way to skin a cat? |
| 09:00 |
09:30 |
Barbara Cannon |
Brown fat - niether fat nor flesh |
| 09:30 |
10:00 |
Don Thomas and Murray Humphries |
Warmer is better... but more costly: The effects of reserve quantity and quality on the expression of torpor by hibernators |
| 10:00 |
10:30 |
Tea Break |
| 10:30 |
11:00 |
Janet Storey and Kenneth Storey |
Insects in winter: cold case files |
| 11:00 |
11:30 |
Virginia Walker |
Quiescent "bugs": getting by with a little help from proteins. |
| 11:30 |
12:00 |
Les Buck |
Role of Mitochondrial KATP Channels and GABA Receptors in the Reduced Brain Activity of Overwintering Painted Turtles |
| 12:00 |
12:30 |
Kenneth Storey |
Beyond gene chips: transcription factor profiling in freeze tolerance |
| 12:30 |
13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| Session: |
Birds |
| Chair: |
Andrew McKechnie |
| 13:30 |
13:55 |
Michal Wojciechowski, Malgorzata Jefimow and Berry Pinshow |
Blackcaps huddle at night at migratory stopovers |
| 13:55 |
14:20 |
Esa Hohtola |
Regulation and energetics of fasting-induced and spontaneous shallow torpor in birds |
| 14:20 |
14:45 |
Elke Schleucher and Roland Prinzinger |
The cuckoo`s egg: Patterns of energy conservation in the Guira cuckoo (Guira guira) |
| 14:45 |
15:10 |
Ben Smit and Andrew McKechnie |
Shallow torpor in free-ranging African Scops-Owls (Otus senegalensis) |
| 15:10 |
15:35 |
Lisa Doucette, Mark Brigham, Chris Pavey and Fritz Geiser |
Effect of Roost Microclimate and Prey Availability on Torpor in Australian Owlet-Nightjars (Aegotheles cristatus) |
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