Symposium number: 38

Title: COMPARATIVE AVIAN IMMUNOLOGY, FROM POULTRY TO PASSERINE

Principal organizer: Lynn Martin
Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
email: lmartin@mail.psy.ohio-state.edu

Second organizer: Dennis Hasselquist
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden

First keynote speaker: Dennis Hasselquist
Department of Animal Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
Title of first keynote paper: Comparative immunoecology in wild birds: hypotheses and tests.

Second keynote speaker: Kirk Klasing
Department of Animal Science, University of California, Davis, UCD, 1 Shields Ave, Davis, CA, USA
Title of second keynote paper: Divergence in strategies for immunocompetence between temperate and tropical birds

Contributed talks

Symposium description: Studies of wild birds have yielded extensive insights in the growing field of ecological immunology. Likewise, studies of domestic birds have provided fundamental knowledge of how the vertebrate immune system works. The goals of this symposium are to begin uniting these two bodies of work, and to promote the development of a comparative framework for understanding the immune defenses of all avian species in an ecological and evolutionary perspective. Dr. Dennis Hasselquist will review studies on inter- and intra- specific variation in the immune defenses of wild birds and the ecological and physiological factors that mediate this variation. Three additional speakers will discuss new findings from their own eco-immunological systems. Through these examples, the symposium hopes to provide useful guidance in avian ecological immunology and ornithologists in general with stimulating and relevant information on an important and growing field of avian biology.

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