*The colloquium reserves the right to alter the schedule based on accepted speakers and topics to provide the most engaging experience for all participants

Friday, October 25

BRC 1F Conference Hall

13:00 - 14:00 Registration & Refreshments

14:00 - 14:40 Eco-Pavilion Tour   Guided tour of the exhibition "Ferny Soundscape of Formosa" at the                   eco-pavilion, Academia Sinica

14:40 - 15:00 Opening Remarks

15:00 - 15:30 Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen Elucidating evolutionary trajectories and constraints through AI

15:30 - 16:00 Dr. Haiwei Luo       Next-generation coral probiotics

16:00 - 16:20 Felipe Monteiro Gomes de Mattos   Biogeographic and environmental drivers of reef fish diversity in coastal     islands of the Gulf of Thailand

16:20-16:40 Mei Xie                                                       Genetic arsenal of a coral endosymbiotic Ruegeria lineage being                                                                                                                                     targeted as the next-generation coral probiotics

16:40-17:00 Chung-Hsin Huang   Fighting behavior and weapon biomechanics of a ghost stag beetle     Odontolabis siva parryi (Coleoptera, Lucanidae)

17:00-17:30 Dr. Michael Pittman   The evolution of vertebrate flight [online]

17:30-18:00 Dr. Apple Pui-Yi Chui   Reviving Hong Kong's coral communities: Insights, challenges, and     the next steps [online]

18:00-20:00     Dinner

Saturday, October 26

ICOB 1F Conference Hall

8:30 - 9:00 Arrival & Refreshments

9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks    

9:10 - 9:40 Dr. Hui Yu Wang    Effects of warming on marine fishes depends on life histories

9:40 - 10:10 Dr. Tzu-Hao Lin   Ocean biodiversity listening project

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 10:50 Thomas Lewin   Massive genome rearrangements in annelids, bryozoans, and beyond

10:50 - 11:10 Dr. Nan Xiang   A single endosymbiotic Ruegeria population mitigates the bleaching   response of its non-native host Acropora pruinosa under nitrate           eutrophication 

11:10-11:30 Dr. Shashank Keshavmurthy   Succession of marginal species in high-latitude rather than emergence                   of tropical corals through poleward expansion/ migration in the era of           changing climate 

11:30-11:50 Chun-Ting Cheung   Pilot studies on the effectiveness of Ruegeria MC10 in enhancing the   resilience of Acropora pruinosa along a nutrient gradient in Hong Kong           during summer

11:50-13:00            Lunch

13:10-13:30            Dr. Adnan Shahdadi                       Phylogeography of cryptic intertidal barnacle, Ibla cumingi   (Phosphatothoracica: Iblidae) throughout the Indo-West Pacific 

13:30-13:50 Hao Chen                                                  Energetically costly weaponry in the large morph of male stag beetles 

13:50-14:10 Pei-Yu (Yetta) Tsai   Spatiotemporal and environmental completeness of eBird Data in   Taiwan

14:10-14:40 Dr. Chih-Ming Hung   Genomic basis and gene expression plasticity underlying altitudinal   adaptation in a songbird

14:40-15:10 Dr. Shelby E. McIlroy  How coral physiology across latitudes shapes species ranges now and             in the future

15:10-16:10 Poster Session

16:10-16:30 Closing Ceremony