The symposium program is given below, and the abstracts are here.

August 5, 2015

17:00 - 20:00 Registration

August 6, 2015

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

Session 1

Chair: Ayşegül Birand

09:00 - 09:15 Opening remarks

09:15 - 10:15 Sergey Gavrilets - Collective action and the collaborative brain

10:15 - 10:30 Ismail K. Saglam - Phylogenomic reconstructions predicts a single unique event leading to the origin of two icons of science Devils' Hole and Devils Hole Pupfish

10:30 - 10:45 Tutku Aykanat - Age at maturity in 56 Atlantic salmon populations is controlled by a single large effect locus with sex dependent dominance

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Çağatay Tavşanoğlu

11:15 - 11:30 Ahmet Tuncer Durak - Individual based modeling of future prevalence of Lyme disease vectors in Turkey

11:30 - 11:45 Arzu Karahan - Population genetics features of an invasive Tunicate time series samples in a central Californian marina

11:45 - 12:00 Burak Avci - Ecophysiology of Reinekea forsetii - the representative of a highly clonal and opportunistic gammaproteobacterium population recurrently associated with North Sea spring phytoplankton blooms

12:00 - 12:15 Mustafa Yücel - Functioning of marine chemosynthetic ecosystems: A biogeochemistry perspective

12:15 - 12:30 Meryem Beklioglu - Impact of climate and nutrient enrichment on ecology of shallow lakes of Turkey using multiple approaches

12:30 - 12:45 Kahraman İpekdal - Analyzing dynamics of a hybrid zone and testing endosymbiont hypothesis

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Erol Akçay

13:45 - 14:00 Çaglar Akçay - Aggressiveness, reliable signaling and survival in a songbird

14:00 - 14:15 Cansu Çetin - Cytonuclear discordance in the Marbled Crab, Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787) along the Mediterranean coasts of Turkey

14:15 - 14:30 Gönensin Ozan Bozdag - A screen for the Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibility regions in yeast

14:30 - 14:45 Irem Sepil - Interaction between insulin signaling and exposure to males mediates female lifespan and fitness in Drosophila melanogaster

14:45 - 15:00 Jamie Winternitz - Examining the evidence for MHC-dependent mate selection in humans and non-human primates

15:00 - 15:15 Murat Tugrul - Evolution of gene regulation: Dynamics of transcription factor binding site evolution

15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break

Session 4

Chair: Can Bilgin

15:45 - 16:00 Ayça Omrak - The first genomic data from Anatolia and its impacts on European Neolithics

16:00 - 16:15 Eren Yüncü - A study on swordfish populations of Turkey's Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, along with ancient samples by using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and microsatellite markers

16:15 - 16:30 Recep Özgür Taskent - Neanderthal introgression into Western Asian human populations

16:30 - 17:30 Resit Akcakaya - Species extinctions: prediction, understanding, prevention

17:30 - 20:30 Poster sessions (titles of the posters and the names of the presenters are given below) and Cocktail

August 7, 2015

Session 1

Chair: Mehmet Somel

09:00 - 10:00 Rasmus Nielsen - The genetic basis of human physiological adaptation

10:00 - 10:15 Andrea Migliano - Evolution of hunter-gatherers distinctive social structure, equality and cooperation

10:15 - 10:30 Gul Deniz Salali - Sharing of plant knowledge and its implications on resilience in Mbendjele BaYaka hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin

10:30 - 10:45 Erol Akçay - Partner choice in symbiotic mutualisms: The role of population structure

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Meryem Beklioğlu

11:15 - 11:30 Istem Fer - East African vegetation under the influence of tectonic uplift

11:30 - 11:45 Eren Ada - Asia Minor: A pleasant refuge during tough times

11:45 - 12:00 Burak Pekin - Plant-herbivore interactions in a forested rangeland

12:00 - 12:15 Kanat Gürün - A thorough investigation of the phylogeography and evolutionary history of Miniopterus schreibersii (Mammalia: Chiroptera) with new microsatellite data

12:15 - 12:30 Emrah Çoraman - Intraspecific lineages might respond differently to climate change: Evidence from past and present range expansion of Kuhl's Pipistrelle

12:30 - 12:45 Mert Kükrer - Genetic impact of anthropogenic factors on honey bee diversity in Turkey

12:45 - 13:45 Lunch

Session 3

Chair: Hakan Gür

13:45 - 14:00 Nicolas Schtickzelle - Dispersal in a bottle: movement ecology of Tetrahymena thermophila ciliates

14:00 - 14:15 Melis Akman - Transcriptome sequencing reveals population differentiation in gene expression linked to functional traits and environmental gradients in South African shrub Protea repens

14:15 - 14:30 Çagatay Tavsanoglu - Fire-dependent seed germination in rare annual Chaenorhinum rubrifolium (Scrophulariaceae)

14:30 - 15:30 Daniel Simberloff - Biological invasions: Many impacts, much research, and some controversies

15:30 - 15:45 Student award announcement and closing remarks

15:45 - 17:30 Visit Museum of Anatolian Civilizations / Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Turkey

Poster Presentations

Posters are sorted according to the presenting authors’ last names.

1. Yekbun Adıgüzel* - Information theoretic approach for the DNA size and the protein length relation

2. Çiğdem Akın Pekşen*, J.H. Grau, A.J. Poustka, T. Uzzell, C.C. Bilgin, J. Plötner - Characterization and molecular evolution of the serum albumin gene of the pool frog, Pelophylax lessonae

3. Y. Bayrakçı, Dinçer Ayaz*, B.Y. Yakın, K. Çiçek, C.V. Tok - Some population characteristics of Western Caspian Turtle, Mauremys rivulata (Valenciennes, 1833) from Gökçeada (Imbros), Turkey

4. Hasan H. Başıbüyük*, M.N. Ördek, S. Durel and I. Sarı - Putative function of mitochondrial tandem repeat sequences in stem borers (Cephidae: Hymenoptera)

5. İsmail Bekar*, Ç. Karacaoğlu, M. Türkeş, Ç. Tavşanoğlu - The role of natural and anthropogenic drivers shaping current fire regimes in the Mediterranean-type ecosystems of Turkey: A project proposal

6. Gizem Bezirci*, S. Sayer, A. Çakıroğlu, E.E. Levi, H. Bennion and M. Beklioğlu - Ecological reconstruction of trophic state of Turkish shallow lakes using diatom sub-fossils

7. Zirve Yiğit, Ahmet Karataş, Raşit Bilgin* - Cataloging the genetic diversity of bats (Order: Chiroptera) in Turkey

8. Tuba Bucak*, D. Trolle, H.E. Andersen, H. Thodsen, A. İ. Çakıroğlu, Ş. Erdoğan, M. Beklioğlu - Future water availability of the largest freshwater lake of Turkey is at great risk

9. Emel Çakmak*, Ç. Akın Pekşen, C.C. Bilgin - Gender determination in 77 bird species using CHD gene

10. Hazal Calışkan*, B. Efecik, A. Turan, M. Dizemen, N.C. Özcan, O. Düzgün, D. Aygün, E.D. Özsoy - Age and sex related change in the heritability of locomotor behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

11. Cansu Çetin*, A. Furman, R. Bilgin, E. Kalkan - Cytonuclear discordance in in the Marbled Crab, Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787) along the Mediterranean coasts of Turkey ORAL PRESENTATION

12. Kerim Çiçek*, D. Ayaz - Does the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) breed in Turkey?

13. Özgül Doğan*, B. Temel, B. Aydemir, E.M. Korkmaz, H.H. Başıbüyük - The complete mitogenome in Corynis lateralis (Hymenoptera: Cimbicidae)

14. Melike Dönertaş*, Ö. Gizlenci, M. Somel - Investigation of tumor suppression systems in long-lived mammalian transcriptomes

15. Canan Dülgeroğlu*, O. Ünal - A preliminary intra phylogeny of the genus Sideritis by morphology

16. Zeynep Ersoy*, T. Bucak, E. Levi, M. Beklioğlu, E. Papastergiadou, K. Stefanidis, T. Nõges, T. Feldmann, J. Hejzlar, M. Sorf, D. Baho, C. Trigal, U. Scharfenberger, A. Mahdy, M. Søndergaard and E. Jeppesen - Impact of nutrient and water level changes on submerged macrophytes along a latitudinal gradient: A Pan-European mesocosm experiment

17. Ayshin Ghalichi*, E. Özkurt, M. Somel - The effect of coding sequence and expression polymorphism in testis specific genes in primates

18. Anders Götherström* - ATLAS and the cosmopolitan town Sigtuna in Lake Mälaren Valley

19. Egemen E. Güler*, C. Ün - Analyzing of conserved miRNAs on ruminants by computational approaches

20. Hakan Gür* - The Anatolian Diagonal revisited: an environmental barrier to dispersal?

21. M.C. Unal, Deniz İnnal*, K. Civáňová, M. M. Stavrescu-Bedivan, B. Koubková - Occurrence of gill parasites in the Turkish endemic fish, Squalius fellowesii (Cyprinidae); including new host records

22. Deniz İnnal*, A. Avenant-Oldewage, Bugrahan Dogangil - Infestation of Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae) in two endemic and one non indigenous fish species from Düger Spring Creek (Burdur-Turkey)

23. Mahmut Kabalak*, İ.K. Sağlam - Molecular phylogeny and divergence time estimates for the family Elateridae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

24. Gökçe Kalankan*, D.U. Saraç, A. Egemen, N. Yıldırım and A. Ergül Bozkurt - The restraint of some exotic plant taxon over natural vegetation and utilization of these taxon by local population (case study of Trabzon)

25. Gökhan Kalaycı*, Y. Bektaş, D. Turan - Phylogenetic analysis of Petroleuciscus species distributed in Turkey

26. Mutlu Kart Gür*, G. Cornelissen, C.L. Gierke, H. Gür and T. Kankılıç - An ecophysiological study: Time patterns of body temperature in Anatolian ground squirrel before hibernation

27. Pınar Kavak*, E. Çakmak, C.C. Bilgin - Breeding ecology of two Tit species (Paridae) at METU campus: The importance of nest predation

28. Duygu Deniz Kazancı*, Ç. Tavşanoğlu - Patterns of post-fire germination in Mediterranean plants of Turkey

29. M. Çisel Kemahlı*, A. Birand - The role of biotic interactions in determining species ranges

30. Uğur Kezik*, F. Kocaçınar - Eco-physiological functioning of oak coppices in southeast terrestrial ecosystems in Turkey

31. Gülşah M. Kılınç*, F. Özer, A. Omrak, R. Yaka, N.D. Dağtaş, E. Yüncü, S.C. Açan, A.M. Büyükkarakaya, Y. Erdal, E. Bıçakçı, D. Baird, I. Hodder, C. Knüsel, C. Larsen, Ö. Taşkent, M. Dönertaş, C. Alkan, M. Jakobsson, M. Somel, A. Gotherstrom, I. Togan - Genomic investigation of the Neolithic Revolution in Near East

32. Dilek Koptekin*, L.Y. Aktaş - Computational identification of conserved miRNAs and their target genes in faba bean (Vicia faba)

33. Necla Koralay*, O. Kara and U. Kezik - Effects of river type hydropower plants on some water quality parameters

34. M. Budak, M. Güler, F. Tokgöz, S. Hastaoğlu Örgen, E. Mahir Korkmaz*, Hasan H. Başıbüyük - Identification of Tenthredopsis (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) species based on predicted ITS2 secondary structure

35. Ahmet Efe Köseoğlu*, Z. Osmanlı, M. Uslupehlivan, C. Ün - Bioinformatic analysis of Conus species-Conotoxin to understand evolutionary diet-toxin modification interactions

36. Gülşah Köseoğlu*, T. Ergül Kalaycı, Y. Kalkan, B. Karaca, L. Tümkaya, N. Özdemir - Effects of ammonium sulfate exposure on Bufo bufo tadpoles gonadal histopathology

37. Sibel Küçükyıldırım*, H. Long, W. Sung, S.F. Miller, M. Lynch - Spontaneous mutation rate and spectrum in mismatch repair-deficient Mycobacterium smegmatis

38. Eti Levi*, S. Turner, G. Bezirci, A. Çakıroğlu, M. Kernan, H. Bennion, E. Jeppesen and M. Beklioğlu - Effect of water level change on sedimentary proxies: Lakes Beyşehir, Marmara and Uluabat

39. Carla Lopes*, M. De Barba, F. Boyer, C. Mercier, D. Galiano, B. Kubiak, P. Filho, L. Gielly, E. Coissac, T. Freitas, P. Taberlet - Resource availability versus resource use: diet assessment of subterranean rodents using DNA metabarcoding

40. Ferhat Matur* - A new hypothesis for why mole rats have so many cytotypes CANCELLED

41. Hilal Özkılınç*, F. Rotondo, B.M. Pryor and T.L. Peever - Species boundaries of an asexual fungal genus

42. Murat Öztürk*, A. Ergül Bozkurt and N. Yıldırım - The effect of Buddleja davidii on dendroflora in Degirmendere Valley (in Trabzon)

43. Barış Özüdoğru*, S. Erik, G. Akaydın Phylogeography of Anatolian diagonal endemic Ricotia aucheri (Boiss.) Burtt. (Brassicaceae)

44. Huma Shehwana*, Ö. Konu - Statistical analysis of expression divergence in paralogous zebrafish genes

45. Perinçek Seçkinozan Şeker*, E. Çolak - Phylogeography of the water vole, Arvicola amphibius (Mammalia: Rodentia) in Turkey

46. Ercan S. Ünlü, D.M. Gordon, Murat Telli* - Small RNA sequencing based identification of microRNAs in Daphnia magna

47. Zeliha Gözde Turan*, P. Parvizi, M. Somel - Transcriptome conservation changes during mammalian brain aging

48. Onur Uluar*, C. Elverici, E. Ada, U. Perktaş - The Pleistocene history of a passerine bird species: phylogeography and ecological niche modeling of the blackcap

49. Reyhan Yaka*, C. Berkman, S. Gündüzalp, Y. Yılmaz, M. Somel, A.E. Özdoğan, İ. Togan - Ancient DNA Isolation and mtDNA Analysis of approximately 2500-year-old Human Teeth and Phalanx Samples from Çemialo/Batman in Southeastern Anatolia

50. Can Yeniyurt*, S. Oppel, S. Isfendiyaroğlu, C. Bowden - Breeding and foraging ecology of semi-wild Northern Bald Ibis (Geronticus eremita Linnaeus, 1758) in Turkey

51. Nebahat Yıldırım*, A. Ergül Bozkurt, İ. Turna, E. Doğan and E. Benli - The morphology and ecology of Cyclamen coum var. coum (Trabzon-Solaklı Basin Example)

52. Gizem Yılmaz* - Threatened raptor species in Turkey