Keynotes:

• Multiple sex change in mushroom corals

• Virginia Chadwick Memorial Foundation

• Virginia Chadwick Award presentation:
  Does biodiversity confer a degree of ecological insurance?

History of coral reef research and shifting baselines

• Science and monitoring on the Great Barrier Reef: past, present, future

• The coral record of impacts of European settlement on the river catchments of the Great Barrier Reef

• Incorporating ecological baselines in coral reef management and environmental policy

• The state of resilience science - topics of interest and challenges.

Biodiversity, climate change and corals

• Ocean acidification: unravelling the complexities of its impacts on coral reefs

• Dispersal, connectivity, and the maintenance of coral biodiversity

• Understanding the complexity of symbiotic partnerships that govern coral health in a warming world

• Genomic insights into the biology of the coral holobiont

• The coral holobiont sensing a changing environment

• A lipidomic approach to understanding cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis

• Transcriptomic response of Acropora millepora juveniles to Ocean acidification.

• Looking into the black box of the Symbiodinium genomics

• Past and future adaptation of corals to sea surface temperature

• Cold-water corals

Sustainable Reef Management

• The Outlook for the Great Barrier Reef - Standing at the crossroad

• Marine reserves as fisheries management tools on coral reefs

• Management of marine mega-fauna as climate change progresses

• Bridging the gap between regional-scale conservation design and local-scale conservation action in the Coral Triangle

• Research partnerships and community-based coral reef management in Papua New Guinea

• The potential for adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in the developing world

• What makes for success in coral reef co-management

Conservation and management of reef fishes

• Indirect impacts of habitat change on coral reef fishes

• Disturbance and recovery of reefs in Aceh

• Flexible fishes in a rapidly changing coral reef environment

• The role of behaviour in the conservation and management of reef fishes

• Do marine reserves enhance important coral reef fisheries?

• Extinction vulnerability of coral reef fishes in response to climate change and fisheries exploitation

• Is ocean acidification a threat to fish populations?