• 10h00 - 10h10: Welcome by Simon Baeckens (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
  • 10h10 - 10h50: Oriol Lapiedra (CREAF, Spain) - "Rapid phenotypic shifts of island lizards in the Anthropocene and their cascading consequences for ecosystem functioning"
  • 10h50 - 11h30: Kristien Brans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - "City dwellers gearing up? Urban evolution in water fleas and the potential socio-eco-evolutionary consequences"
  • 11h30 - 12h00: Coffee
  • 12h00 - 12h40: Cara Love (Princeton University, USA) - "Radiation-induced stress and adaptation in Chernobyl wolves"
  • 12h40 - 13h20: Mats Olsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - "Local adaptation with a different outcome: artificial island colonization of outbred sand lizards"
  • 13h20 - 14h20: Lunch
  • 14h20 - 15h00: Jacintha Ellers (VUAmsterdam, The Netherlands) - “Winners and losers of the Anthropocene: What makes species endangered or invasive?”
  • 15h00 - 15h40: Hans Van Dyck (UCLouvain, Belgium) - "Biological success in anthropogenic landscapes: on butterfly niche expansion through ecotypic differentiation”
  • 15h40 - 16h10: Coffee
  • 16h10 - 17h10: Celebration Lecture by Richard Shine (Macquarie University, Australia) - “Cane toad wars” 
  • 17h10 - 18h30: Reception 

Download the poster announcing the conference

Poster: Rapid Evolution in the Anthropocene (PDF 2.56kb)