Programme
09:00 – 09:30 Registration, coffee and sandwiches
Moderator: Cathy Hill, Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Government Offices of Sweden
09:30 – 09:35 Opening, Michael Norén, FishBase Sweden
09:35 – 10:20 Zeehan Jaafar, National University of Singapore, Singapore: Fishes out of water: mudskippers and the evolution of terrestriality.
10:20 – 10:50 Fruit break
10:50 – 11:35 Leo G. Nico, United States Geological Survey, USA: Here, there, and everywhere: alien fishes in motion.
11:35 – 12:20 Lise Comte, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA: Some like it hot (and slow): how vulnerable are freshwater fishes to climate change?
12:20 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15 Håkan Westerberg, Institute of Freshwater Research, Sweden: Eel migration.
14:15 – 15:00 Ana T. Silva, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway: Fish in a hydrodynamic world: a conservation approach.
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Philipp E. Hirsch, University of Basel, Switzerland: Unauthorized entry prohibited! Research towards species-specific migration barriers to stop the upstream dispersal of invasive gobies.
16:15 – 16:30 Symposium Close
Time: Monday, 21st October 2019, 09:00 – 16:30.
Place: Main Auditorium, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Frescativägen 40, Stockholm.