1pm - 5:30pm

Tuesday 9 April 2019

Avian compass workshop

Free

Duke of Kent Building - 17 DK 02
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH

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Programme

1pm	Wolfgang and Roswitha Wiltschko: “How birds sense the Earth's magnetic field
2pm	Thorsten Ritz (University of California, Irvine): “Cryptochromes, light-dependent magnetic compasses, and robust quantum compass sensors”
3pm	Coffee break
3.30pm	Dmitry Kishkinev (University of Bangor): “What we do and do not know about animal magnetoreception”
4pm	Daniel Kattnig (University of Exeter): “Magnetoreception: What the radical pair mechanism can and cannot explain”
4.30pm	Edeline D’Souza (University of Surrey): “Inspired by the Avian Compass: The Potential of Magnetogenetics”
5pm	General Discussion
5.30pm	Close

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