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SCIENTIFIC
PROGRAM
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June 23th
8:00 – 18:00
Arrival of participants, and registration
June 24th
Session: Species and populations
Chaired
by Nina Rønsted and Jean-Yves Rasplus
8:30 Opening ceremony
9:00 Keynote Talk: The global phylogeny of Ficus
– current status.
Nina Rønsted, Wendy Clement & George Weiblen
10:00 Taxonomy and systematics of Ficus subsection
Urostigma.
Bhanumas Chantarasuwan, Cornelis Berg, Finn Kjellberg, Marjorie
Garcia & Peter van Welzen
10:30 Coffee break + Poster section
11:00 Adaptations and constraints on dioecious Ficus
phenology.
Anthony Bain, Lien-Siang Chou, Hsy-Yu Tzeng, Martine Hossaert
McKey & Finn Kjellberg
11:20 Stability and instability in the fig wasp mutualism:
genes, chemicals, populations, species and beyond.
Allen Herre
11:40 Water availability determines the richness and
abundance of Neotropical fig trees.
Rodrigo Pereira, Luis Coelho & Milton Ribeiro
12:20 Lunch
14:00 Keynote Talk: Cleaning-up the fig wasp
taxonomy... it's time to put order in the mess!
Jean-Yves Rasplus & Astrid Cruaud
15:00 The global phylogeny of the Agaonidae: were previous
analyses misled by a long branch attraction artefact?
Astrid Cruaud & Jean-Yves Rasplus
15:20 Taxonomy revision and molecular phylogeny of the fig
wasp genus Anidarnes Bouček, 1993 (Hymenoptera, Sycophaginae)
with comments on related Sycophaginae groups.
Fernando Farache, Astrid Cruaud, Gwenaëlle Genson, Rodrigo
Pereira & Jean-Yves Rasplus
15:40 Coffee Break + Poster section
16:10 The global phylogeny of the subfamily Sycoryctinae (Pteromalidae):
Parasites of an obligate mutualism.
Simon Segar, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Jean-Yves Rasplus & James Cook.
16:30 A fig wasp living fossil (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea,
Agaonidae,) pollinating some extant fig species of New World
Pharmacosycea (Ficus, Moraceae).
William Ramírez
16:50 What do experimental hybrid fig trees tell us about the
relationship between fig trees and their pollinators?
Stephen Compton, Nazia Suleman & Shazia Raja
19:00
Evening reception
June 25th
Session: Non-pollinating fig wasps and other organisms
Chaired
by Stephen Compton and Finn Kjellberg
8:30
Keynote Talk:
This little world’ - the ecological communities associated with
figs.
Stephen Compton
9:30
The parasitic wasps of Ficus guianensis: temporal and trophic
community structure, impact on the fig-pollinator mutualism.
Marina Ciminera, Lucie Conchou, Finn Kjellberg & Martine
Hossaert-McKey
9:50 Effect of landscape structure on richness and
abundance of fig wasps associated to Neotropical fig tree species
with different ecological strategies.
Ludmila Rattis-Teixeira, Monise Cerezini, Luis Coelho, Milton
Ribeiro & Rodrigo Pereira
10:30
Coffee break + Poster section
11:00
Ovipositor structure mirrors ecology in a multitrophic fig wasp
community.
Renee Borges
11:20
Non pollinating fig wasps oviposition strategies and fig morphology.
Larissa Elias, Finn Kjellberg & Rodrigo Pereira
11:40
Rapid evolution of Wolbachia sequences inside the compact fig
syconia of Ficus benjamina (Ficus: Moraceae).
Chun-Yan Yang, Jin-Hua Xiao, Li-Ming Niu, Sheng-Nan Bian, Yue-Guan
Fu & Da-Wei Huang.
12:00
Lunch
14:00
Keynote Talk:
Predictable patterns of feeding regime diversification in
non-pollinating fig wasps.
Finn Kjellberg, Astrid Cruaud, Larissa Elias, Rodrigo Pereira &
Jean-Yves Rasplus
15:00
Indirect mutualism: ants protect fig seeds and pollinators from
parasites.
K. Charlotte Jandér
15:20
Oviposition patterns of three internal ovipositing fig wasps of
Ficus curtipes.
Huan-Huan Chen, Da-Rong Yang & Yan-Qiong Peng
15:40
Coffee break + Poster section
16:10
Gall induction and larval development of Idarnes group
flavicollis associated to Ficus citrifolia in Brazil.
Sergio Jansen-Gonzalez, Simone Teixeira, Finn Kjellberg & Rodrigo
Pereira
16:40
Specialization and host preferences in Neotropical non-pollinating
fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea).
Fernando H .A. Farache & Rodrigo A.S. Pereira
17:00
Non-wasp fauna associated with Neotropical fig trees: insights for
studies on community ecology.
Luciano Palmieri, Fernando Farache & Rodrigo Pereira
17:20 Ants nesting within branches of Ficus subpisocarpa
in Taiwan.
Anthony Bain, Bhanumas Chantarasuwan, Martine Hossaert-McKey,
Bertrand Schatz, Finn Kjellberg & Lien-Siang Chou
19:00
Evening cultural event
Music and Dance Presentation
June 26th
Session: Conflicts of the mutualism
Chaired
by Finn Kjellberg
8:30
Keynote Talk:
Is there really a fig-pollinating wasp conflict? Some provocative
thoughts on “selection for the mutualism”.
Finn Kjellberg
9:30
Performance of Pegoscapus sp. in pollinated and unpollinated
figs in Ficus citrifolia.
Sergio Jansen-Gonzalez, Simone Teixeira & Rodrigo Pereira
9:50
Precision of host sanctions in the fig tree – fig wasp mutualism:
consequences for uncooperative pollinators.
K. Charlotte Jandér, Allen Herre & Ellen Simms
10:20
Coffee break + Poster section
11:00
Absence of host sanctions promotes the evolution of pollinator wasp
cheating in Eupristina wasps associated with the Asian fig,
Ficus altissima.
Jiang-Bo Zhao, Da-Rong Yang, Carlos Machado, Yan-Qiong Peng & K.
Charlotte Jander & E. Allen Herre
11:20
Syconium size and variation in conflict between fig-pollinator
mutualists.
Derek Dunn, Sarah Al-Beidh, Simon Segar, Douglas Yu, Jo Ridley,
Rodrigo Pereira & James Cook
11:40
Asymmetric and indeterminate interaction in the evolution of
cooperation or altruism.
Rui-Wu Wang, Lei Shi, Bao-Fa Sun, Qi Zheng & Lixing Zhu.
12:00
Lunch
14:00
Visit to University of São Paulo (Lab of reproductive fig biology +
fig trees)
18:00
Dinner
19:30
Evening cultural event:
Chamber Music (Dom Pedro II Theatre)
June 27th
7:30
Field excursion: Cerrado vegetation and fig adaptations to seasonal
forests
12:00
Lunch
(Rodizio Grill)
15:00
Poster section + Coffee break
17:00
Closing ceremony
19:30
Symposium dinner
Post-symposium excursion: Coastal Atlantic Forest,
Picinguaba - Ubatuba city
June 28th
7:00
Departure to Picinguaba (approximately 8 hours by coach)
16:00
Walk around for figs. Dinner and discussions
June 29th
8:30
Visit to Atlantic Forest and fig trees
19:00
Visit to a historic city (Paraty) and dinner
June 30th
6/7:00 Departure to Sao Paulo (arrival at 11:30 am) airport and
Ribeirao Preto city
OBS: exact time to confirm, according to participants’ flight
schedules.
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