Predation is an important interaction in nature. While predators strive to spatially overlap with prey, prey do their best to avoid predators.

Predators are equipped with specific morphologies, like teeth and claws, to hunt efficiently and use a variety of hunting tactics, like ambushing prey. Prey, in contrast, avoid predation by different means, like camouflage, or producing toxic materials, or protect themselves using adjusted morphology (like spines).

The symposium will focus on invertebrates, and will be open to all aspects of predator-prey interactions, predator tactics to hunt prey, and prey tactics to avoid predation. We will focus on behavioral and morphological adaptation but will be also open to other fields of study, such as physiology or population dynamics.

Keynote speakers will be:

• Carita Lindstedt-Kareksela
  University of Helsinki, Finnland
• Stano Pekar
  Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Ralph Tollrian
  Ruhr Universität, Germany
• Philipp Barden
  New Jersy Institute of Technology, USA

Furthermore, YOU have the opportunity to contribute a talk (15-minutes slots) or a poster on your topic related to this symposium. The event promises loads of opportunities to interact, socialise, and connect with people sharing similar interests.

Organisational matters

Lunch individually
04.00 pm – 04.30 pm Coffee break

Inon Scharf
Tel Aviv University
School of Zoology, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, Faculty of Life Sciences

Sebastian Büsse
Universität Greifswald
Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute and Museum