Funchal, Madeira (Portugal)
27-30 June 2024
12th International Symposium on Mediterranean Lacertid Lizards
Programme
Friday 28th June
Session 3 Evolutionary Biology
Session Chair: Catarina Rato
9h – 10h Keynote speaker
Living on the edge: population genomics of island lizards
Josephine R. Paris (Marche Polytechnic University)
10h – 10h15 Plastic and genomic change underlie rapid phenotypic adaptation in Podarcis siculus following small founder event
Anamaria Štambuk (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
10h15 – 10h30 Genomic insights into the montane lizards of the genus Iberolacerta (Lacertidae, Squamata)
Bernat Burriel-Carranza (CSIC-UPF, Spain)
10h30 – 10h45 From islets to high peaks: The “omics” story of Podarcis cretensis
Emmanouil Stratakis (University of Crete, Greece)
10h45 – 11h The “Island Paradox” in Podarcis siculus
Lisa Van Linden (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
11h - 11h30 Coffee break
Session Chair: José Jesus
11h30 – 11h45 A Pleistocene footprint shapes the small-scale evolutionary history of Podarcis lusitanicus (Squamata, Lacertidae)
Catarina R​ato (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
11h45 – 12h Unravelling the human-mediated patterns of introduction of Mediodactylus kotschyi (Squamata: Gekkonidae) to the inland of the Central Balkan Peninsula.
Nathan Delcour (University of Lille, France)
12h – 12h15 The role of historical biogeography in shaping colour morph diversity in the common wall lizard
Pedro Andrade (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
12h15 – 12h30 Distinct pathways of body size evolution between tribes of the family Lacertidae
Pablo Vicent-Castelló (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal; Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
12h30 – 12h45 The evolution of carotenoid colouration through cis-regulatory variation at BCO2 in colour polymorphic lizards
Pedro Andrade (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
12h45 – 13h Is mitochondrial introgression in Podarcis liolepis correlated to nuclear co- introgression of OXPHOS genes?
Mathias Laizé (University of Montpellier, France)
13h – 14h30 Lunch
Session 4: Functional Ecology (PART I)
Session Chair: Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou
14h30 – 15h30 Keynote speaker
The Future is Wall Lizards: How one species has made it in the Anthropocene
Eric J. Gangloff (Ohio Wesleyan University)
15h30 – 15h45 But what’s a Mediterranean lacertid? Towards a functional answer
Miguel A. Carretero (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
15h45 – 16h Climate interaction with micromorphology of scales: literature review and a case study of Lacertid lizards
Anamarija Žagar (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia)
16h – 16h15 Ecogeographical gradients in the colouration of Lusitanian wall lizards (Podarcis lusitanicus) in NW Iberian Peninsula
Lekshmi B. Sreelatha (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
16h15 – 16h30 Understanding habitat use in green lizards: a mechanistic approach
Katerina Sioumpoura (CIBIO-InBIO-BIOPOLIS, Portugal)
16h30 - 17h Coffee break
17h – 18h Poster session with 5 min flash talks
Faraham Ahmadzadeh
Salvador Carranza
Miguel A. Carretero
Claudia Corti
Pierre-André Crochet
Thomas Dellinger
Enrique Font
D. James Harris
Anthony Herrel
José Jesus
Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou
Marta López-Darias
Petros Lymberakis
Shai Meiri
Panayiotis Pafilis
Valentín Pérez-Mellado
Catarina Rato
Daniele Salvi
Neftalí Sillero
Giulia Simbula
Tahar Slimani
Raoul Van Damme
Anamarija Žagar
Savvas Zotos
Contacts
Organising Committee
Scientific Committee
Miguel A. Carretero
Catarina Rato
Giulia Simbula
Thomas Dellinger
José Jesus
Frederico Barroso
Sara Nunes
Ana Luísa Ramos
Anastasios Limnios
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CIBIO
Campus de Vairão
Rua Padre Armando Quintas 7
4485-661 Vairão
Portugal