15th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

206 participants according to country of affiliation (state 16.8.2014)

26 countries

• 2nd time in Switzerland• 1st time in 1987, Gwatt (Martine Rahier, Erich

Städler & Robert Baur)

Logo: http://www.thomas-degen.ch/

Registration

• Open 8:00 - 18:00, Monday-Thursday

Reimbursements:

Invited Speakers: Tuesday

Eurovolers: Wednesday

Posters

• Put them up ASAP• 100 posters• All posters remain up throughout the meeting• Be with your poster on the day of the theme it

falls under• Posters sessions after lunch (coffee + dessert)• Three student poster awards (CHF 500 each)

• Upload your presentation a day before• Check movies and special effects• Very full program (more that 70 presentations)

Start Every day at 8:50AM Sharp!!! (Swiss Time)

Oral presentations

Oral presentations

This is Switzerland!Stick to the allotted time!!!!!!!!- invited: 20 minutes (15 + 5)- Regular: 15 minutes (12 + 3)

Take out 2-3 slides

Meals

• 100 restaurants• Expensive ….• Make reservations• Ask for help

Restaurants (Dinner)

Lunch included: Romarin (10 min. walk), follow staff!!

Wednesday

• Business meeting before lunch– To decide on the next meeting

• Boxed lunch• Entertain yourself

– Bike (for free)– Guided tour of the city (Angela)– Watch museum (La-chaux-de-fonds)– Bern– Morat/Murten

Banquet

• Thursday 18:45 at the harbour (only those who signed up)

• Fish

Oral presentations

Stick to the allotted time!!!!!!!!Let’s keep everything running smoothly!

Thank Sandrine and Thomas

Blame Ted!! No food or drinks in the Aula

Sharon Strauss

1978 BA Harvard University Biology1984 MS University of Minnesota Ecology1988 PhD Florida State University Biological Sciences

Professor, University of California, Davis

« How organisms are influenced both ecologically and evolutionarily by the complex communities in which they are embedded « 

With Richard Karban 1st to work on Induced Defenses

Sharon Strauss

Ecological and evolutionary responses in complex communities: implications for invasions and eco evolutionary feedbacks‐

Phenotypic and transgenerational plasticity promote local adaptation to sun and shade environments

Direct and indirect effects of host-plant fertilization on an insect community Ecology

Determining the effects of herbivory using naturally damaged plants. Ecology

Sharon Strauss

Apparency Revisited