09:00 am – 09:30 am

Registration and Reception

09:45 am – 10:00 am

Opening Session

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Plenary Lecture: Manfred Schartl. Evolution of sex determination and sex chromosomes in fish.

11:00 am – 11:20 am

Coffee Break

11:20 am – 11:40 am

Presentation: Astrid Böhne. Genetic sex determination in East African cichlids: comparative transcriptomics and hints for an XX‐XY system in Astatotilapia burtoni.

11:40 am – 12:00 pm

Presentation: John Postlethwait et al. Wild sex in Zebrafish.

12:00 pm – 12:20 pm

Presentation: Carole Rougeot et al. Sex determinism in fish – the Belgium team case studies.

12:20 pm – 02:00 pm

Lunch Break

02:00 pm – 03:00 pm

Plenary Lecture: Francesc Piferrer. Epigenetic and Environmental components of sex determination-differentiation in fish.

03:00 pm – 03:20 pm

Presentation: Marc Vandeputte et al. Prospects to modify sex ratio by domestication and selective breeding in farmed populations of European sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax L..

03:20 pm – 03:40 pm

Presentation: Helena D’Cotta et al. How does the masculinisation-induced by high temperatures repress the ovarian pathway in the Nile tilapia?

03:40 pm – 04:00 pm

Presentation: Miguel Machado et al. Differential expression of sex determining genes and gonad differentiation genes in an allopolyploid fish, the Squalius alburnoides complex.

04:00 pm – 04:20 pm

Coffee Break

04:20 pm – 05:20 pm

Poster Session

07:30 pm

Social Program: Dinner at Panoramico O Sol

10:00 am – 11:00 am

Plenary Lecture: Rui Oliveira. Plasticity of reproductive behaviour in fish: why and how?

11:00 am – 10:20 am

Presentation: Chiara Benvenuto and Stefano Mariani. Sex changing fish: remarkable examples of plastic reproductive life-history strategies.

11:20 am – 11:40 am

Coffee Break

11:40 am – 12:00 am

Presentation: Karel Janko et al. Time for sex and time for clonality: completion of postzygotic reproductive isolation depends on genetic divergence of hybridising species but is achieved through hybrids’ clonality rather than sterility.

12:00 am – 12:20 am

Presentation: Jose Domingos et al. Removing the impediment to large-scale selective breeding of Australian barramundi: Deciphering and manipulating the genetic basis of sex change.

12:20 pm – 12:30 pm

Closing Session

12:30 pm – 01:30 pm

Lunch

03:30 pm – 05:30 pm

Social Program: guided visit to Oceanário de Lisboa (permanent exposition + backstage)