Third Gordon Research Conference on Predator-Prey Interactions January 28 - February 2, 2018, Ventura, California https://www.grc.org/predator-prey-interactions-conference/2018/
Gordon Research Conferences are recognized as the “world's premier scientific conferences”, where leading investigators from around the globe meet biennially for a full week of intense discussion of the frontier research in their field. We have an outstanding list of confirmed speakers and contributors, detailed below. Our meeting is capped at 200 people, and we've already accepted 193 applicants (listed at the bottom of this email)… so please apply soon. The neurobiology of responses to risk in individual prey can, when aggregated across a population, profoundly affect surrounding ecosystems. Similarly, researchers are increasingly aware of how quickly selection and epigenetic forces can shift prey phenotypes and alter future interactions with predators. In both cases, the connections between small-scale (within an individual or at a single point in time) and large-scale (across ecosystems or generations) processes illustrate how exploring the 'linkage map' of predator-prey interactions across scales can identify new fields of research and synergize the collaborations necessary to address them. We have targeted the most exciting advances in predator-prey work across multiple fields, with each speaker agreeing to share their latest unpublished findings. In order to encourage active participation from everyone at the conference, all attendees are strongly encouraged to present a poster on their work. The complete program is available, along with further details concerning registration, at our website (http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?id=16781). Sessions and Confirmed Speakers Predator-prey interactions in the field and lab Joel Berger, Caroline Blanchard Jacqueline Blundell & Evan Preisser (discussion leaders) Evolutionary underpinnings of predator-prey interactions John Orrock, Catherine Matassa, Robyn Crook, Robby Stoks Sonny Bleicher (discussion leader) Predators at the landscape level Elizabeth Madin, Trisha Atwood, Meredith Palmer Shelby Rinehart (discussion leader) Prey responses to predator cues Ted Stankowich, Grant Brown, William Resetarits, Mark Berry Adam Crane (discussion leader) Neural responses to predators Gwyneth Card, Rupshi Mitra, Cornelius Gross Newton Canteras (discussion leader) Neurobiology of fear Ken Lukowiak, Arun Asok, Gal Richter-Levin, Marta Moita Wen Han Tong (discussion leader) Carnivores in natural and managed landscapes Doug Smith, Justin Suraci, Mathew Crowther Rebecca Selden (discussion leader) Transgenerational impacts of stress Tracy Langkilde, Michael Sheriff, Brian Dias, Regina Sullivan Michael Clinchy (discussion leader) Past, present, and future directions in fear and predator-prey research James Estes, Liana Zanette Maud Ferrari & Ajai Vyas (discussion leaders) Participants and Accepted Applicants Mark Abrahams (Memorial University), Nicholas Aflitto (Cornell University), Sean Ahearn (Hunter College - CUNY), Guillermina Alcaraz (UNAM), Bridie Allan (James Cook University), T. Michael Anderson (Wake Forest University), Thomas Anderson (University of Kansas), Fergus Mark Anthony (Pune University), Tiffany Armenta (UCLA), Arun Asok (Columbia University), Justine Atkins (Princeton University), Trisha Atwood (Utah State University), Kevin Bairos-Novak (University of Saskatchewan), Shanta Barley (University of Western Australia), Brandon Barton (Mississippi State University), Miguel Bedoya-Pérez (The University of Sydney), Amanda Benoit (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Joel Berger (Colorado State University / Wildlife Conservation Society), Mark Berry (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Sriya Bhattacharya (Memorial University of Newfoundland), James Biardi (Fairfield University), Caroline Blanchard (University of Hawaii), Sonny Bleicher (University of Arizona), Carmen Blubaugh (Clemson University), Jacqueline Blundell (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Paul Bourdeau (Humboldt State University), Amos Bouskila (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Crasso Paulo Breviglieri (Universidade de Campinas), Grant Brown (Concordia University), Gary Bucciarelli (UCLA), Newton Canteras (University of Sao Paolo), Gwyneth Card (Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Irene Castaneda (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Cynthia Chai (California Institute of Technology), Anna Chalfoun (Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit/Dept of Zoology and Physiology), Michael Cherry (Virginia Tech), Douglas Chivers (University of Saskatchewan), Scott Cinel (University of Florida), Xochitl Clare (University of California, Santa Barbara), Michael Clinchy (University of Western Ontario), Alison Collins (The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California), Richard Coss (University of California, Davis), Adam Crane (University of Saskatchewan), Robyn Crook (San Francisco State University), Mathew Crowther (The University of Sydney), Fredrik Dalerum (University of Oviedo), Andrea Darracq (Murray State University), Volker Deecke (University of Cumbria), Anthony Dell (National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC)), John Delong (University of Nebraska), Craig DeMars (University of Alberta), Jessica Deslauriers (University of California San Diego), Cody Dey (University of Windsor), Brian Dias (Emory University), Beatriz Diaz Pauli (Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo), Somayeh Dodge (University of Minnesota), Sarah Donelan (Northeastern University), Darcy Doran-Myers (University of Alberta), David Duffy (University of Hawaii Manoa), Perri Eason (University of Louisville), Adam Eichenwald (Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), David Ensminger (Pennsylvania State University), James Estes (University of California, Santa Cruz), Maud Ferrari (University of Saskatchewan), Scott Gabara (San Diego State University / UC Davis), Elina Garrison (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission), Patrick Garvey (Landcare Research), Kaitlyn Gaynor (University of California - Berkeley), Benedikt Gehr (University of Zurich), Laura Gigliotti (Clemson University), Michael Gil (University of California, Davis), Sophie Gilbert (University of Idaho), Cornelius Gross (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Marko Haapakoski (University of Jyvaskyla / Konnevesi Research Station), Joel Hahn (University of Southern California), Abdel Halloway (University of Illinois at Chicago), Prince Harvim (Jiangsu University), Dror Hawlena (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ann Hedrick (Univ Ca Davis), David Heins (Tulane University), Jennifer Hellmann (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sara Hermann (Michigan State University), Jennifer Hill (Louisiana Tech University), Mark Hixon (University of Hawaii), Thomas Hossie (Trent University), Sarah Huebner (University of Minnesota Lion Center), Kurt Ingeman (University of California, Santa Barbara), Brittany Jellison (Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California Davis, CA), Asa Johannesen (Fiskaaling), Cameron Jones (UC Davis), Alex Jordan (Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology), Manda Clair Jost (Western New Mexico University), Francis Juanes (University of Victoria), Michelle Jungbluth (Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University), Ana Jurcak (Bowling Green State University), David Kimbro (Northeastern University), Osamu Kishida (Hokkaido University), Tatjana Krama (University of Tartu), Indrikis Krams (University of Tartu), Rebecca Kulp (SUNY-Stony Brook), Tracy Langkilde (Pennsylvania State University), Oriol Lapiedra (Harvard University), John Laundré (Western Oregon University), Leticiaa Legat (University of Cumbria), Nathan Lemoine (Colorado State University), Matthias Liess (UFZ - Environmental Research Centre), Isaac Ligocki (University of California, Davis), Stacy Lindshield (Purdue University), Laura Lopez (University of California, Davis), Ken Lukowiak (Hotchkiss Brain Institute), Barney Luttbeg (Oklahoma State University), Phillip MacCallum (Memorial University of Newfoundland - Psychology), Kirsty MacLeod (Pennsylvania State University), Elizabeth Madin (Macquarie University), Margaret Malone (University of Illinois at Chicago), Raoul Manenti (Università degli Studi di Milano), Ari Martinez (University of California Berkeley), Catherine Matassa (University of Connecticut), Mark McCormick (James Cook University), Michael McCoy (East Carolina University), Katie McGhee (The University of the South), Carl Meyer (University of Hawaii), Matthew Mitchell (Florida international University), Rupshi Mitra (Nanyang Technological University), Farhan Mohammad (Duke-NUS Medical School), Marta Moita (Champalimaud Foundation), Dana Morin (Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Southern Illinois University), Aoi Murase (Graduate School of Kyoto University), Steve Naranjo (USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center), Gabriel Ng (Bodega Marine Lab), Theresa Ong (Princeton University), John Orrock (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Marinde Out (Simon Fraser University), Maria Palacios (James Cook University), Meredith Palmer (University of Minnesota), Chris Pavey (CSIRO), Scott Peacor (Michigan State University), Nicholas Pilfold (San Diego Zoo Global), Lauren Pintor (The Ohio State University), Sinlan Poo (Memphis Zoo), Evan Preisser (University of Rhode Island), Dan Preston (Oregon State University), Jessica Pruett (Georgia Institute of Technology), Katerina Ramos (Delaware Valley University), Jennifer Rehage (Florida International University), Dalila Rendon (Oregon State University), William Resetarits (University of Mississippi), Gal Richterlevin (University of Haifa), Shelby Rinehart (San Diego State University), Euan Ritchie (Deakin University), Asaf Sadeh (Volcani Center), Patrick Saldaña (Coastal and Marine Institute, San Diego State University), Laura Schrader (Tulane University), Ricardo Scrosati (St Francis Xavier University), Rebecca Selden (Rutgers University), Manvi Sharma (Indian Institute of Science), Michael Sheriff (Pennsylvania State University), Thorbjörn Sievert (University of Jyväskylä), Andy Sih (University of California, Davis), Doug Smith (Yellowstone Center for Resources), Justine Smith (UC Berkeley), Cori Speights (Mississippi State University), Theodore Stankowich (California State University, Long Beach), Denon Start (University of Toronto), Robby Stoks (University of Leuven), Simon Stump (Yale University), Regina Sullivan (Nathan S Kline Institute / NYU Langone Medical Center), Justin Suraci (University of California, Santa Cruz), Lisa Teckentrup (University of Potsdam, BioMove Research Training Group), Maria Thaker (Indian Institute of Science), Ralph Tollrian (Ruhr University Bochum), Wen Han Tong (Nanyang Technological University), Viraj Torsekar (Indian Institute of Science), Benjamin Toscano (Rice University), Paula Trillo (Gettysburg College), Nedim Tüzün (University of Leuven), Laura Twardochleb (Michigan State University), Ritwika Vallomparambath Panikkas (University of California, Merced), Cameron Venable (Penn State), Darcy Visscher (The King's University), Ajai Vyas (Nanyang Technological University), Marc Weissburg (Georgia Tech), Jeff Wesner (University of South Dakota), Martijn Weterings (Van Hall Larenstein/Wageningen University), Rebecca Wheatley (University of Queensland), Christopher Wilmers (University of California, Santa Cruz), Robbie Wilson (The University of Queensland), Lauren Witterick (University of Western Ontario), Lyndsie Wszola (Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit), Yu Xu (Guizhou Normal University), Ken Yasukawa (Beloit College), Hannu Ylonen (University of Jyväskylä), Julie Young (USDA National Wildlife Research Center), Kimberly Zamuda (Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies), Liana Zanette (University of Western Ontario), Chao Zhang (KU LEUVEN), Alejandra Zubiria Perez (University of Victoria)
