4. Evolution of ecophysiological responses to temperature changes.
November 10, 2023, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Presentations
Invited talks
3. Deep‑time evolution of biological responses to temperature changes.
October 10, 2019, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom
2. Deep‑time evolution of physiological responses to temperature changes.
September 13, 2019, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America
1. Trait correlations vs environmental drivers in the evolution of phytoplankton thermal responses.
March 26, 2018, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Contributed talks & poster presentations
16. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Tran, C., Barreras, S., and Pinter-Wollman, N. Diverse impacts of temperature and relative humidity on the physiology and behavior of Argentine ants.
September 22, 2026, poster presentation, 12th Annual Retreat of the UCLA Institute for Quantitative & Computational Biosciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
15. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Tran, C., and Pinter-Wollman, N. Behavioral responses of Argentine ants to changes in climatic factors.
August 18, 2026, oral presentation, XX. International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects,, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
14. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Tran, C., Barreras, S., and Pinter-Wollman, N. Impacts of climatic factors on the physiology and social behavior of Argentine ants.
July 30, 2026, oral presentation, 2026 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America,, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America
13. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Tran, C., Barreras, S., and Pinter-Wollman, N. Effects of temperature and relative humidity on the behavior of Argentine ants.
April 25, 2026, poster presentation, 15th Annual Southern California Systems Biology Symposium,, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
12. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Tran, C., Barreras, S., and Pinter-Wollman, N. Effects of temperature and relative humidity on the behavior of Argentine ants.
April 18, 2026, poster presentation, Southern California Animal Behavior Meeting, Claremont, CA, United States of America
11. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Ahmed, A.‑W., Bein, B., and Hiller, M. The impact of phylogenetic diversity on the strength of gene‑ trait associations.
October 19, 2024, oral presentation, 18th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Lamia, Greece
10. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Levesque, D.L, and Hiller, M. Physiological, ecological, and genomic underpinnings of daily torpor and hibernation across mammals and birds.
August 08, 2023, oral presentation, 2023 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR, United States of America
9. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Patmanidis, I., Barraclough, T.G., and Pawar, S. Nonsynonymous mutations are more detrimental at high temperatures; a prokaryote-wide study of adenylate kinases.
July 22, 2018, poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, ME, United States of America
8. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, van Sebille, E., Lange, M., Yvon-Durocher, G., Barraclough, T.G., and Pawar, S. Non-random adaptive evolution of the thermal sensitivity of growth rate among phytoplankton.
July 21, 2018, oral presentation, Gordon Research Seminar on Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, ME, United States of America
7. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, van Sebille, E., Lange, M., Yvon-Durocher, G., and Pawar, S. Trait correlations vs environmental drivers in the evolution of phytoplankton thermal responses.
March 16, 2018, oral presentation, 65th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Sapporo, Japan
6. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Yvon-Durocher, G., and Pawar, S. Niche convergence in the macroevolution of the thermal sensitivity of phytoplankton growth rate.
August 25, 2017, oral presentation, 2017 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Groningen, The Netherlands
5. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Yvon-Durocher, G., and Pawar, S. Deep-time macroevolution of thermal sensitivity of growth rate among phytoplankton.
December 13, 2016, oral presentation, Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, Liverpool, United Kingdom
4. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Yvon-Durocher, G., and Pawar, S. Deep-time macroevolution of thermal sensitivity of growth rate among phytoplankton.
July 25, 2016, poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference on Unifying Ecology Across Scales, Biddeford, ME, United States of America
3. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Yvon-Durocher, G., Allen, A.P., Chen, B., Thomas, M.K., and Pawar, S. Phylogenetic constraints and environmental drivers of thermal adaptation among the phytoplankton.
November 05, 2014, poster presentation, Annual London Evolutionary Research Network Conference, London, United Kingdom
2. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, Yvon-Durocher, G., Chen, B., and Pawar, S. Γενικά μοτίβα θερμικής προσαρμογής μεταξύ των ειδών του φυτοπλαγκτού [General patterns of thermal adaptation among phytoplankton].
October 11, 2014, oral presentation, 7th National Congress of the Hellenic Ecological Society, Mytilene, Greece
1. Kontopoulos, D.-G.†, and Glykos, N.M. Pinda: a Web Service for Detection and Analysis of Intraspecies Gene Duplications.
October 06, 2012, oral presentation, 7th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Heraklion, Greece
Invited round table discussions
1. Αποκρυπτογραφώντας τɑ σκɑλɩά της έρευνɑς [Deciphering the steps of research].
July 21, 2026, Summer School of the 4th Panhellenic Student Conference of Bioscientists, held online