Keynote Speakers

 

images.jpg    Hans Pörtner 

Prof. Pörtner studied at Münster and Düsseldorf Universities where he received his PhD and habilitated in Animal Physiology. As a Research and then Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Council he worked at Dalhousie and Acadia Universities, Nova Scotia, Canada and at the Lovelace Medical Foundation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Currently he is Professor and Head of the Department of Integrative Ecophysiology at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. He acts as an associate editor ‘Physiology’ for Marine Biology and as a co-editor of the Journal of Thermal Biology. He is the author of numerous reference works on the subject of global warming.

Dr Hans Pörtner co-chairs the IPCC working group II on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. He also heads the Department of Integrative Ecophysiology at the Alfred Wegener Institute. In 2018 he was one of the authors of the IPCC's special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius. During the IPCC Fourth Assessment cycle Dr Pörtner served as Lead Author on the Working Group III Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage, and during the Fifth Assessment Cycle as Coordinating Lead Author of Chapter 6 (Ocean Systems of the Working Group II Report, as a member of the author teams for the Working Group II Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary, and as a member of the Core Writing Team for the Synthesis Report. In October 2015 he was elected Co-Chair of Working Group II for the Sixth Assessment cycle.

His research interests include the effects of climate warming, ocean acidification, and hypoxia on marine animals and ecosystems with a focus on the links between ecological, physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms limiting tolerance and shaping biogeography and ecosystem functioning.

Julian.jpg Julian Dow 

Julian graduated with an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, where he also took his PhD in Zoology under the supervision of Simon Maddrell, FRS. After a Harkness Fellowship to work with William Harvey in Philadelphia, he returned to a Research Fellowship of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Since 1984, he has been based in the University of Glasgow, where he is Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology.

Julian switched from chemistry to zoology as an undergraduate and developed a lifelong interest in insect biology while his class was collecting insects on a small triangle of wild ground in Cambridge called ‘Paradise’ – the same area that the young Charles Darwin had studied a few years previously. He is fascinated in particular by the ability of insects to thrive in the widest range of environments with modifications to their simple body plan; and in particular, the structure and function of their excretory (renal) tubules. Although he has worked on many species of insects, his early adoption of the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model to combine physiology and genetics, has proved transformational for our understanding of insect homeostasis.

Julian has served in senior strategic roles in the UK’s Biological and Biotechnology Research Council, is Deputy Chair of the UK REF2021 research assessment exercise and has served on the Councils of the Society of Experimental Biology, Physiological Society and the European Society for Comparative Endocrinology. He is an editor of the Journal of Experimental Biology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).

   

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The Journal of Experimental Biology (https://journals.biologists.com/jeb), the leading journal in comparative animal physiology, sponsors Lucie Gerber's ECR keynote talk. The organizing and scientific committees thank the Journal of Experimental Biology for this support.

Capture2.jpg  Lucie Gerber 

Lucie Gerber graduated with a MSc in Biodiversity and Evolution from the University of Montpellier II (France); where she completed her graduate research projects with Prof. Guy Charmantier, Dr. Audrey Caro and Prof. Olivier Gros, after her undergraduate studies at the University of Antilles (Guadeloupe). Lucie received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern Denmark, where she studied nitric oxide signaling and environmental stress in fishes under the supervision of Dr. Steffen Madsen and Prof. Frank B. Jensen; and in collaboration with Prof. William (Bill) S. Marshall (St. Francis-Xavier University, NS, Canada). Her first postdoctoral research study with Dr. Johannes Overgaard at Aarhus University, on insect cold tolerance and osmoregulatory capacity, was acknowledged by the Canadian Society of Zoologists in 2018 (Finalist of the Presidents’ Award Competition). As a Postdoctoral Fellow, she also investigated the effect of warm- and hypoxic-acclimation on mitochondrial responses to heat and hypoxia stress in fishes with Prof. Kurt Gamperl at Memorial University (Canada), before she returned to Scandinavia. Lucie is currently based in the lab of Sjannie Lefevre and Göran Nilsson at the University of Oslo (Norway), where she studies metabolic and mitochondrial adaptive responses to O2 limitation.

Lucie is an early-career comparative physiologist interested in how ectotherms cope physiologically with variations in temperature, salinity and oxygen of their environment; primarily focusing on the identification of cellular/molecular mechanisms underlying metabolic and osmoregulatory responses, and on the evaluation of the role of mitochondria and nitric oxide signaling in the adaptive and acclimatory responses shaping environmental tolerance, and fitness, of ectotherms.

 

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