Program of the 12th of December 2024
Plenary Session 1, Room 1, 9h-10h
Chairperson: Denis MICHEZ
09:00-10:00, Nicola NADEAU: GENETIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTROL OF IRIDESCENT STRUCTURAL COLOUR IN BUTTERFLIES
Session 1, CONSERVATION GENETICS, Room 1, 10h-11h
Chairperson: Diego CEJAS
10:00-10:15, Stephen BERGACKER: THE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF PELAGIC EAGLE RAYS (AETOBATIDAE) – GENETIC PATTERNS AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEM DEPENDENCIES.
10:15-10:30, Pascal HABLUTZEL: GENERATING FAIR AND OPEN BIODIVERSITY DATA IN THE FIELD: A CASE STUDY ON BOLIVIAN FISH DIVERSITY
10:30-10:45, Marc KOCHZIUS: CONNECTIVITY OF CORAL REEFS AND MANGROVES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
10:45-11:00, Michaël MEEUS: GENETIC DIVERSITY ACROSS THE CAT FAMILY (FELIDAE)
Session 2, ADAPTIVE PHYSIOLOGY, Room 2, 10h-11h
Chairperson: Jérôme DELROISSE
10:00-10:15, Wendy-Shirley BAYAERT: CONTROLLING LIGHT IN A LUMINOUS ECHINODERM: FROM ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI TO LIGHT EMISSION
10:15-10:30, Justine BÉLIK: DEVELOPMENT OF AN EPIGENETIC CLOCK IN A SELF-FERTILIZING VERTEBRATE SPECIES
10:30-10:45, Sarah CORNET: IDENTIFYING TRANSCRIPTOMIC BIAS ACROSS DEVELOPMENTAL SHIFTS IN INSECTS
10:45-11:00, Youri NONCLERCQ: DIVERSITY OF OPSINS AND PHOTOSENSORY STRUCTURES IN SEA CUCUMBERS (HOLOTHUROIDEA, ECHINODERMATA)
Session 3, GLOBAL CHANGE ECOLOGY I, Room 3, 10h-11h
Chairperson: Guillaume GHISBAIN
10:00-10:15, Max DEVIS: VARIED RESPONSES TO URBANISATION IN ABUNDANCE AND BODY SIZE AMONG CLOSELY-RELATED SOCIAL WASPS (VESPINAE) IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
10:15-10:30, William FIORDALISO: HIDING INEQUALITIES BEHIND RICHNESS: HOW URBAN LANDSCAPES SHAPE WILD BEE COMMUNITIES
10:30-10:45, Guillaume GHISBAIN: THE NEW EUROPEAN RED LIST OF BEES
10:45-11:00, Mira VAN DEN BROECK: STUCK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: GLOW-WORM LARVAE SLOW DOWN UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
KNDV Keynote & Jacques Kets Award nominee Session, Room 1
Chairperson: Jérôme DELROISSE
12:00-12h15, Prof. Karline R. L. JANMAAT (KNDV Board member): TRACKING THE FORAGING COGNITION OF HUMANS AND CHIMPANZEES
12h15-12h30, Clément TOURBEZ (Jacques Kets Award nominee): EFFECT OF HEATHER FLAVONOIDS ON THE BUFF-TAILED BUMBLEBEE
Session 4, ECOTOXICOLOGY, Room 1, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Justine DEWAELE
14:00-14:15, Mélusine CHEVALIER: ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS IN A SELF-FERTILIZING VERTEBRATE SPECIES (KRYPTOLEBIAS MARMORATUS)
14:15-14:30, Maxime DEBOURCES: EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL NEUROPROTECTIVE EFFECTS OF GARDENIN A ON PARKINSONIAN SYMPTOMS IN NOTHOBRANCHIUS FURZERI EXPOSED TO BIFENTHRIN
14:30-14:45, Luca DORIO & Manon Fievet: INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION IN THE EFFECT OF PESTICIDES ON WILD POLLINATORS
14:45-15:00, Imke VAN DINGENEN: THE THYROID HORMONE SYSTEM DISRUPTING POTENTIAL OF RESORCINOL IN FISH
15:00-15:15, Justine DEWAELE: EFFECTS OF DNBP AND DEHP ON THE SURVIVAL AND IMMUNITY OF BOMBUS TERRESTRIS WORKERS
Session 5, DISTRIBUTION & HABITAT, Room 2, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Maxence GERARD
14:00-14:15, Clément DURET: CLIMATE CHANGE THREATS AND CONSERVATION CHALLENGES FOR THE ENDANGERED JAPANESE GIANT SALAMANDER (ANDRIAS JAPONICUS)
14:15-14:30, Mathilde FOUCTEAU: BREEDING HABITAT SELECTION AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE GREAT CRESTED NEWT (TRITURUS CRISTATUS), THE MARBLED NEWT (TRITURUS MARMORATUS), AND THEIR HYBRIDS AT THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THEIR CONTACT ZONE
14:30-14:45, Sarah JORISSEN: ENERGIZED AND EFFICIENT: HOW MITOCHONDRIA AND DIGESTIVE EFFICIENCY DRIVE FASTER PACE-OF-LIFE IN A RANGE-EXPANDING SPECIES
14:45-15:00, Gilles LEPOINT: LENS ISOTOPIC COMPOSITIONS AS A TRACER OF CORAL FISH ECOLOGICAL ONTOGENY
15:00-15:15, Helga RAVELOHASINA: HABITAT-USE OF THE RABBITFISH, SIGANUS SUTOR AT THE GREAT REEF OF TOLIARA (SW MADAGASCAR)
Session 6, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, Room 3, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Guillaume CAULIER
14:00-14:15, Tim ANDRIES: FEEDING PERFORMANCE, BEAK KINEMATICS AND SEED HANDLING SKILLS CHANGE WITH AGE IN A GRANIVOROUS SONGBIRD
14:15-14:30, Siebe INDESTEGE: CAMERA TRAP SAMPLING DESIGN MODIFICATIONS IN LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL MONITORING: IMPLICATIONS ON WILDLIFE ACTIVITY ESTIMATION
14:30-14:45, Wim KUYPERS: THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT RECREATION TYPES ON SEASONAL SPATIOTEMPORAL BEHAVIOUR OF WILDLIFE – APPLICATION TO A SMALL, HIGHLY VISITED NATIONAL PARK
14:45-15:00, Salomé LABOURY: INDIVIDUAL ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES IN THE DAMSELFISH DASCYLLUS ALBISELLA?
15:00-15:15, Sarah SCHMIDLIN: OYSTERS AS A MODEL ORGANISM FOR SETTLEMENT OF REEF-BUILDING ORGANISMS IN RESPONSE TO COMPLEX SENSORY LANDSCAPES OF CHEMICAL, TACTILE, AND SOUND CUES
Session 7, BIOTIC INTERACTIONS, Room 1, 15h45-17h
Chairperson: Kévin TOUGERON
15:45-16:00, Karen BISSCHOP: THE ROLE OF THE MICROBIOME RELATIVE TO THE GENOME FOR NICHE WIDTH
16:00-16:15, Andrea CHACON-HURTADO: PERFECT CRIME: ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODES IMPACT ON THE VOLATILE EMISSION PROFILE OF INSECT HOSTS
16:15-16:30, Lisa MUSSOÏ: MIMETIC CRUSTACEANS: PIGMENTATION CHANGES AND CHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF SCLERACTINIAN ECTOSYMBIONTS
16:30-16:45, Martina TOPIC: SYMBIOTIC INTERACTIONS CHALLENGED BY ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS IN AQUATIC TRANSITIONAL HABITATS
16:45-17:00, Kévin TOUGERON: GLOBAL MODELS OF HERBIVORY VARIABILITY: DATA FROM THE HERBVAR PROJECT
Session 8, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, Room 2, 15h45-17h
Chairperson: Denis MICHEZ
15:45-16:00, Rémi SANTERRE & Jordan BENREZKALLAH: POPULATION ASSESSMENT AND FORAGING ECOLOGY OF THE RARE SOLITARY BEE MEGACHILE CYPRICOLA ON THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS
16:00-16:15, Ahlam SENTIL: RELATION BETWEEN HONEYBEE ABUNDANCE AND WILD BEES COMMUNITIES IN MOROCCAN AGRO-ECOSYSTEMS
16:15-16:30, Imke TOMSIN: EVALUATING CONSERVATION EFFORTS FOR THE EUROPEAN HAMSTER: INSIGHTS FROM PREDICTIVE MODELLING
16:30-16:45, Marie VERHEYE: INTEGRATING GENETIC CONNECTIVITY AND LOCAL ADAPTATION IN EFFECTIVE MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGN: A CASE STUDY ON SOUTHERN OCEAN TREMATOMUS FISHES
16:45-17:00, Denis MICHEZ: EUROPEAN INITIATIVES FOR POLLINATOR MONITORING
Session 9, BIOMECHANICS & MORPHOLOGY I, Room 3, 15h45-16h45
Chairperson: Christophe MALLET
15:45-16:00, Romane FREY: HIT ME (SWIM) BLADDER ONE MORE TIME
16:00-16:15, Arthur VAN DAMME: LINKING FISH ECOLOGY TO OTOLITH DIVERSITY AT A BROAD PHYLOGENETIC SCALE
16:15-16:30, Anastasia SELINI: AN OPPORTUNE MOMENT: INVESTIGATING INERTIAL PROPERTIES OF THE DISTAL LIMB OF HORSES THROUGH AN ICONIC EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION
16:30-16:45, Christophe MALLET: SHAPE VARIATION IN THE PATELLA OF MODERN PERISSODACTYLS: DECIPHERING THE INFLUENCE OF EVOLUTIONARY LEGACY AND FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON SESAMOID BONES
Program of the 13rd of December 2024
Plenary Session 2, Room 1, 9h-10h
Chairperson: Patrick Flammang
09:00-10:00, Peter LADURNER: FLATWORMS AS MODEL SYSTEMS FOR STEM CELL BIOLOGY, REPRODUCTION, AND BIOADHESION
Session 10, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, Room 1, 10h-11h
Chairperson: Jérôme DELROISSE
10:00-10:15, Jens BOYEN: EVOLUTION OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID BIOSYNTHESIS IN COPEPODS
10:15-10:30, Michaël NICOLAI: THE FUNCTION AND EVOLUTION OF IRIDESCENT COLOURATION IN BIRDS
10:30-10:45, Maria MADRID-RESTREPO: UNRAVELING CHROMOSOMAL INVERSIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTIONARY DANCE IN A WING POLYMORPHIC BEETLE
10:45-11:00, Jérôme DELROISSE: NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF BIOLUMINESCENCE IN SEA PENS (PENNATULOIDEA, CNIDARIA)
Session 11, BIOMECHANICS & MORPHOLOGY II, Room 2, 10h-11h
Chairperson: Patrick FLAMMANG
10:00-10:15, Gerben DEBRUYN: WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS A HARD EGG? MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF REPTILE EGGSHELLS AND THEIR ROLE IN INSPIRING NEW MATERIALS
10:15-10:30, Louise ECHE: STUDY OF THE SOUND-PRODUCING APPARATUS OF TWO CARIBBEAN BOXFISHES, LACTOPHRYS TRIQUETER AND ACANTHOSTRACION POLYGONIUS
10:30-10:45, Danial FOROUHAR: HOW SEAHORSES GOT SACKED: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE TAIL MUSCLE SAC IN A PREHENSILE TAIL
10:45-11:00, Cas JORISSEN: WHY NOT STRONG AND FAST? THE BIOMECHANICS OF HIGH-FREQUENCY FINGER OSCILLATIONS
Session 12, GLOBAL CHANGE ECOLOGY II, Room 3, 10h-10h45
Chairperson: Clément TOURBEZ
10:00-10:15, Florian COSA: INVASION IN THE ROCKS: HOW BUDDLEJA DAVIDII DISRUPTS PLANT AND POLLINATOR COMMUNITIES IN QUARRY ECOSYSTEMS
10:15-10:30, Jessica ODY: MELAMPUS JAUMEI: THE METABOLOMIC ANALYSIS OF A PULMONATED GASTROPOD TO REVEAL THE MECHANISMS OF ADAPTATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
10:30-10:45, Léa POIRIER: MICROPLASTICS ON THE MENU: EXPLORING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO MOSQUITO SPECIES AND MICROPLASTICS
Session 13, STRESS BIOLOGY, Room 1, 11h30-12h30
Chairperson: Noé WAMBREUSE
11:30-11:45, Benjamin DECOUX: TOO MUCH STRESS? TAKE SOME REST! CHARACTERIZATION OF DORMANCY IN THE SEA SPIDER AMMOTHEA HILGENDORFI, A THRIVING INVASIVE SPECIES IN THE NORTH SEA
11:45-12:00, Martijn HELEVEN: THE REDOX-GUIDED BLUEPRINT OF REGENERATION: LESSONS FROM PLANARIANS
12:00-12:15, Ellen VANDEPUTTE: IMPACT OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION ON THE NUMBER OF HAIR CELLS IN NEUROMASTS OF THE LATERAL LINE ORGAN OF ZEBRAFISH LARVAE
12:15-12:30, Noé WAMBREUSE: WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES INFLUENCE DISEASE DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE ENDANGERED SEA CUCUMBER HOLOTHURIA SCABRA
Session 14, TAXONOMY & SPECIES DIVERSITY I, Room 2, 11h30-12h30
Chairperson: Paolo ROSA
11:30-11:45, Christos KAROULIS: STUDYING GENOMES TO SAVE THE SPECIES: HUMAN AND NATURAL EFFECTS ON THE GLOBAL GENETIC DIVERSITY OF MAMMALS
11:45-12:00, Lode OP’T ROODT: EXPLORING THE GENETIC POPULATION STRUCTURE OF INDO-PACIFIC CORAL REEFS: A WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING APPROACH UTILIZING THE CLOWNFISH AMPHIPRION CLARKII AS A MODEL
12:00-12:15, Iris VAN DE POL: SYNTHESIS OF ANIMAL TRAIT DATA ACROSS THE TREE OF LIFE WITH SHARETRAIT: PROBLEMS, PITFALLS AND POSSIBILITIES
12:15-12:30, Paolo ROSA: ORBIT: THE EUROPEAN TAXONOMIC INITIATIVE FOR POLLINATOR MONITORING
Session 15, PALEOBIOLOGY, Room 3, 11h30-12h15
Chairperson: Denis MICHEZ
11:30-11:45, Stijn GOOLAERTS: TO COLOUR OR NOT TO COLOUR: COLOUR PATTERNS AND PIGMENTS IN INVERTEBRATES FROM THE PALAEOZOIC OF BELGIUM
11:45-12:00, Sophie GRESHAM: THE GREAT PUZZLE OF THE GREAT LAKES: UNCOVERING THE COMPLEX HYBRID ORIGINS OF THE LAKE MALAWI CICHLID RADIATION
12:00-12:15, Mariana VASCONCELLOS: PHYLOGENOMICS OF ENYALIUS LIZARDS REVEALS CRYPTIC DIVERSITY IN THE ATLANTIC FOREST AND MIOCENE RAINFOREST CONNECTIONS WITH THE AMAZON
Session 16, ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, Room 1, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Abigaël ANSELMO
14:00-14:15, Julien CAMPISI: THE ICHTHYOLOGICAL SYMPHONY OF MESOPHOTIC CORAL REEFS: HOW LIGHT REDUCTION SHAPES FISH ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION
14:15-14:30, Hugo GANTE: SOCIAL SELECTION DRIVES THE EVOLUTION OF FACIAL COLOR PATTERNS IN COOPERATIVE BREEDING CICHLIDS
14:30-14:45, Laurent MITTELHEISER: ECOMORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSIFICATION OF GOATFISH HYOID BARBELS
14:45-15:00, Yelle VANDENBOER: ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND UV EXPOSURE AFFECT GENE ACTIVITY IN THE PUTATIVE ANCIENT ASEXUAL OSTRACOD DARWINULA STEVENSONI
15:00-15:15, Abigaël ANSELMO: CHARACTERIZATION AND DETECTION OF FRASS FROM TENEBRIO MOLITOR LARVAE BY NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES
Session 17, TAXONOMY & SPECIES DIVERSITY II, Room 2, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Sara REVERTE
14:00-14:15, Els DE KEYZER: EXPLORING THE CATALYST ROLE OF HYBRIDISATION: INSIGHTS INTO THE SPECIATION DYNAMICS OF LAKE MATANO’S SAILFIN SILVERSIDES
14:15-14:30, Fernanda HERRERA-MESÍAS: A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: THE ROLE OF MACROPHOTOGRAPHY IN WILD BEE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY IN LUXEMBOURG
14:30-14:45, Ninon LECOQUIERRE: SPECIES DELIMITATION AND GENOME SIZE VARIATION IN TROPICAL MARINE SPONGES
14:45-15:00, Géraldine MERTENS: INFRAFADA: UPGRADING THE TAXONOMIC BACKBONE OF GLOBAL FRESHWATER ANIMAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
15:00-15:15, Sara REVERTE: OUTCOMES FROM THE EUROPEAN PROJECT SPRING: CAPACITY BUILDING IN POLLINATOR TAXONOMY
Session 18, TROPHIC ECOLOGY, Room 3, 14h-15h15
Chairperson: Natasha DE MANINCOR
14:00-14:15, Martin DOGNIEZ: BENTHIC FOOD WEBS IN ANTARCTICA: WOULD YOU CARE FOR SOME MORE (MICRO)ALGAE?
14:15-14:30, Ulrich MARTIN: SHARKS OF TAIWAN: EXPLORING THEIR TROPHIC ECOLOGY THROUGH THE RESOLUTION OF THREE ISOTOPES
14:30-14:45, Loïc MICHEL: DINING IN THE DEEP: UNRAVELING ENERGY ACQUISITION STRATEGIES IN SYNTOPIC COLD-WATER CORALS
14:45-15:00, Fanny RUHLAND: MULTI-WAY METHODS FOR WIREWORMS’ CONTROL: VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, POTATO VARIETAL PREFERENCES AND ENTOMOPATHOGENIC FUNGI
15:00-15:15, Anthony VOISIN: WHAT DO GRAZERS REALLY GRAZE ON?