World Congress of Herpetology

The academic schedule will be finalized for the Congress Program shortly. If you find any discrepancies with the information posted, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it immediately so that we have time to make corrections.

If you can't find your name, please try reversing first name/last name, as some information was typed into the abstract system incorrectly. We have made every effort to correct these but we may have overlooked some. Additionally, if you can't find your name, please try checking the primary author of the paper. We have sorted the sessions by presenter, but if the author and presenter are different, this may have been missed. Again, email us and we will make the corrections. Thank you for your patience!

Schedules

General Congress Schedule

Individual oral sessions are now posted. Please click ORAL PRESENTATIONS to find out when you are presenting (organized by presenter's last name)

Individual poster sessions are now posted. Please click POSTER PRESENTATIONS to find out when you are presenting (organized by presenter's last name). For a poster board index, click here

Oral Presenations Schedule

Poster Presentatons Schedule

Oral Presentation Guidelines

All contributed presentations are allotted 15 minutes; symposium presentations may have 15, 30 or 45 minutes. The allotted time includes an announcement of the talk, the presentation and questions. Speakers should allow sufficient time for questions, i.e. for a 15-minute time slot, the talk should be no more than 12 minutes long to allow for at least 2 minutes of questions. All talks will start ON TIME. No speaker will be allowed to go over time.

Naming Your Presentation: Please identify your presentation in the following format: Date of Presentation_Time of Presentation_Session Number_Last Name. PLEASE FOLLOW THIS FORMAT: Aug 10_1030am_Session 22_Brown

All oral presentations will take place within the followign academic buildings at the University of British Columbia:

Buchanan Arts Building (1866 Main Mall)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall)
Hennings Building (6224 Agricultural Road)

Specific room allocations are available on the Oral Presentation Schedule . A congress map is available to assist with orientation around campus.

All rooms will be equipped with a laptop or podium PC, LCD projector, screen, presenter remote, wireless lapel and podium microphones.  UBC currently operates with Microsoft Office Suite 2010 applications – it is the responsibility of the presenter to ensure that your presentation is compatible with our current operating system. The rooms will not be set up to accept a presentation preloaded on a Mac computer. 

Presenters should arrive at their allocated session no less than 20 minutes before the start of the first presentation in order to meet with the chairperson and check in with the AV volunteer.

Poster Presentation Guidelines:

Posters are to be no larger than 4 feet wide by 4 feet high (120x120cm).  Posters can be put up on Wednesday August 8 between 6pm-8pm or on Thursday August 9 between 9am and 12pm. Push pins will be provided on each poster board.

The posters will be on display all week in the Student Recreation Centre. Session dates and times are:

Friday August 10: 5pm-7pm
Saturday August 11: 5pm-7pm
Sunday August 12: 5pm-7pm

Posters can to be removed on Sunday August 12 between 7pm-9pm or on Monday August 13 between 9am-12pm. Any posters remaining after 12pm on Monday will be removed by conference staff and disposed of. 

Please make sure that the title of your poster is the same as that of your abstract and that you include all the names of your contributing authors.  The text should be laid out so that it is readily readable at a distance of 2m. 

Presenters are strongly encouraged to give presentations in English, which is the official language of the Congress.

Poster Overflow Area

For those attendees who were not able to make the abstract deadline due to late funding notifications, WCH-7 would like to offer you the opportunity to display your research in our Poster Overflow Area. There will be a sign up sheet available for you to post your work for a duration of time on a first come/first serve basis. Even though you will not be included in the official academic program, this will still allow you to showcase your research and network with colleagues.

If you would like to have your poster included in the overflow area, please register for the conference on the Registration page of the website and then email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with the title of your poster, the name of the author and/or presenter and the category in which it falls (please choose one of the following):

Amphibian Culture and Ecology
Amphibian behaviour, morphology & physiology
Amphibian systematics, biogeography, genetics & evolution

Reptile Culture and Ecology
Reptile behaviour, morphology & physiology
Reptile systematics, biogeography, genetics & evolution
Reptile behaviour, morphology & physiology

Bony fish morphology & systematics
Bony fish ecology & evolution
Bony fish morphology & systematics

Elasmobranch behaviour & ecology
Elasmobranch genetics & morphology

Other (please specify)