Polish Academy of Sciences
Committee of Evolutionary and Theoretical Biology

Twenty Fourth Workshop: Evolutionary Biology
and Related Topics

Speciation
Workshop organiser: Jacek M. Szymura


Benefactors and Sponsors of the Workshop
Biological Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Biological Faculty of the University of Warsaw
Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University

Warsaw, Saturday 26th of October 2002
From 10.30 to 18.30


Programme:
10.30 am. Opening

Invited Lectures (40 minutes + 20 min discussion)

10.35 am. Godfrey  M. Hewitt ( www.bio.uea.ac.uk School of  Biological
Sciences, Univeristy of East Anglia,  Norwich, UK) "Speciation: recent
advances and future perspectives"

11.45 - 12.00 am. short break

12.00 Jacek M. Szymura and Sebastian Hofman ( Jagiellonian University,
Kraków)
"Speciation  - a tortuous path to perfection: the case of the fire-bellied
toad"

1.00 - 2.30 pm. lunch break

Short Communication (20 min + 10 min of discussion)

2.30 pm. Ewa Przybos, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals,
Polish Academy of Sciences. Cracow) "Intra-species differentiation within
Paramecium aurelia spp. complex and Paramecium jenningsi".

3.00 pm. Miroslaw Ratkiewicz, Agata Banaszek, Katarzyna Jadwiszczak,
Wlodzimierz Chetnicki, and Stanislaw Fedyk. (University of Bialystok)
"Genetic diversity, stability of population structure and barriers to gene
flow in the hybrid zone between two Sorex araneus chromosome races"

3.30 - 3.45 pm. short break

3.45 pm Alicja Boron (Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski) "Evolution by
hybridisation and polyploidy among loaches of the genus Cobitis (Pisces,
Cobitidae)"

4.15 pm. Wieslaw Babik, Jacek M. Szymura and  Jan Rafinski. Jagiellonian
University. "Even newts do it: natural hybridization between the smooth
newt (Triturus vulgaris) and the Montandon's newt (T. montandoni)"

4.45 - 5.00 pm. short break

5.00 - 5.30 pm. Godfrey M. Hewitt: "What are the genetic effects of the
Pleistocene around the world?"

5.00 - 6.30 pm general discussion



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