BritishBatsResearchSymposium

2016

UniversityCollegeLondon19thApril2016
Schedule

9:3010:00 Registration(seemapbelow)

10:0010:30 Keynotespeech

EmmaTeeling(UniversityCollegeDublin)

10:3012:00 Studenttalks:Session1chair:SimoneMordue

10:3010:45
JrmyFroidevaux(UniversityofBristol)Climateandlandscape
characteristicsmatter:populationrecoveryoftheendangeredgreaterhorseshoebat
(Rhinolophusferrumequinum)intheUnitedKingdom
10:4511:00
LuciKirkpatrick(UniversityofStirling)Batsinanecologicaldesert:activity
anabundanceofbatsincommercialconiferousplantations
11:0011:15
RoselynWare(UniversityofWarwick)Theroleoftrophicpartitioningin
supportingbatdiversityinGreatBritain
11:1511:30
JackMerrifield(UniversityofSouthampton)Modellingtheeffectsof
anthropogeniclight,soundandelectricfieldsonbatspeciesintheurbanenvironment
11:3011:45
TiagoSoutoMartinsTeixeira(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)UsingDNA
barcodestodocumentinteractionsamongbats,insectsandplantsinthehighlyfragmented
AtlanticforestofBrazil
11:4512:00
LizRowse(UniversityofBristol)TheeffectsofLEDstreetlightingonbats

12:0013:30 Lunch
13:3014:00 PostPhDbatresearchertalks

13:3013:45
OrlyRazgour(UniversityofExeter)LifeafterthePhDstayinginacademia

13:4514:00
KatherineBoughey(BatConservationTrust)LifeafterthePhDmoving
outsideofacademia

14:0015:30Studenttalks:Session2chair:LuciKirkpatrick

14:0014:15
AngelicaMenchacaRodriguez(UniversityofBristol)Understandingmigration
throughgenomicstoaidintheconservationoftheTequilabat(
Leptonycterisyerbabuenae)

14:1514:30
AlisonFairbrass(UniversityCollegeLondon)Ecoacousticbiodiversity
monitoringintheurbanenvironment
14:3014:45
HernaniFernandesMagalhaesdeOliveira(QueenMaryUniversityofLondon)
Patternsandpredictorsofdietaryoverlapinneotropicalbats
14:4515:00
PatrickWright(UniversityofExeter)Conservationgeneticsstudyofthe
BechsteinsbatinBritain
15:0015:15
AndyCarr(UniversityofBristol)Commercialwoodlandmanagementand
bats
15:1515:30
RoryGibb(UniversityCollegeLondon)AutomaticallyDetectingBatCallsin
theWild
15:3016:00
Afternoonbreak

16:0017:30

Studenttalks:Session3chair:HernaniOliveira

16:0016:15
SimoneMordue(UniversityofNewcastle)Roostingtogetherbutforaging
apart:understandingthesocialbehaviourofNatterersbats
16:1516:30
AmyFensome(UniversityofExeter)Theinfluenceofroadsonbatroosts
withintheUK
16:3016:45
JoeMeagher(UniversityofWarwick)ApproximatinganAncestralBatCall
16:4517:00
BenjaminLee(UniversityofKent)Bats,roadsandagreenbridgeroad
ecologystudiesinatropicalurbanizedlandscape
17:0017:15
JulieDay(UniversityofExeter)Lightpollutionacrossalandscapeforgreater
horseshoebats
17:1517:30
LiaGilmour(UniversityofBristol)Deterringbatsfromapproachingwind
turbines

17:3017:45
Closingup/Awards

18:0022:00

Food/drinks/quizetc
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Location:
PrintRoomCafe.MaletPlace,UCL(1minutewalkawayfromconferencevenue
seemapbelowfordirectionsfromconferencevenue).

22:00onwards
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MapofUCLconferencevenue.
RedpinindicateslocationofDarwinbuildingand
Darwinlecturetheatrewheretheconferencewillbeheld.ReddotindicatesthePrintRoom
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redline(approx.1minutewalk).DisabledaccessmarkersindicateentrancestotheUCL
campus.

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