Research on Ithomiini butterflies presented at the 38th IUPS Carlos Candia-Gallardo 17th September 2017

In August 2017 I had the honour to participate in the symposium Wild clocks: Temporal organization of physiology and behavior in natural settings during the 38th World Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was a great opportunity to meet outstanding reseachers in the field of chronobiology that study organisms as different as rodents, birds and humans. I presented part of my PhD research about regulation of seasonal strategies in Ithomiini butterflies in face of climate changes (the article is coming soon).

The participants of the symposia were:

• Barbara Helm (UK): Temporal multitasking: programs and plasticity of migratory birds on different time scales.

• Horacio De La Iglesia (USA): Sleep Under “Natural” Conditions

• Carlos Candia-Gallardo (Brazil): Adaptative responses in changing environments: annual cycles of butterflies during atypical rainfall regimes

• Gisele A. Oda (Chair – Brazil) - Daily and annual photic synchronization in a subterranean rodent
  
  

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