New Model Systems for Linking Evolution and Ecology
D.Tautz, D.Weigel
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Wednesday 1 May - Saturday 4 May 2013
Programme
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 11:15-13:15 | Arrival, Registration & light refreshments | |
| 13:15-13:30 | Opening remarks | |
| 13:30-17:00 |
Session 1 - Satellite species - animals
Chair: Diethard Tautz, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Germany |
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Bettina Harr, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Germany
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Dobzhansky-muller incompatablilities revealed by genome wide association mapping in a natural house mouse hybrid zone |
| 14:00-14:30 | Anne Marie Felix, ENS, France | Beyond the C. elegans reference strain in its Petri dish |
| 14:30-14:45 | Andre Pires da Silva, University ot Texas at Arlington, USA | Environmental cues trigger cross-generational polyphenism in a nematode |
| 14:45-15:00 | Angela McGaughran, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany | The nematode Pristionchus pacificus as a model system for integrative studies in evolutionary biology |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Patricia Wittkopp, University of Michigan, USA | Beyond melanogaster: studying evolutionary mechanisms using other Drosophila species |
| 16:00-16:30 | Felicity Jones, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Germany | What's so super about sticklebacks? The genomics of adaptive divergence |
| 16:30-16:45 | Christophe Eizaguirre, GEOMAR|Helmholtz Center for Ocean research, Germany | Role of genomic islands of polymorphism in local adaptation |
| 16:45-17:00 | Arne Nolte, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Germany | Evolutionary change in a hybrid fish |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Poster Session I & Beer Session | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | DINNER | |
| 20:30 - 23:00 | Welcome Reception in the Roof Top Lounge |
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-12:30 |
Session 2 - Satellite species - microorganisms
Chair: Marie Anne Felix, ENS Paris, France |
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| 09:00-09:30 | Eva Stukenbrock, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany | Species emergence and adaptive evolution of fungal pathogens in agro-ecosystems and natural grass lands |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Greg Velicer, ETHZ, Switzerland | Watching social evolution in bacteria |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Armando Azua, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile | Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case |
| 10:15 10:30 | Leila Tirichine, CNRS UMR8197, France | Phaeodactylum tricornutum, a model system for studying the genetic and epigenetic bases of adaptation in oceanic plankton communities |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Paul Rainey, Massey University, New Zealand | Life cycle evolution and transitions in Darwinian Individuality |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Wenying Shou, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA | Using mathematical and engineered biological systems to study war and peace in microbial communities |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Ricardo Rodríguez de la Vega, Universite Paris-Sud, France | What makes the Fungi cheesy: comparative genomics of Penicillium species |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Hiroshi Suga, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Spain | New protist models elucidating the origin of metazoan multicellularity: ichthyosporeans and filastereans |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 18:00 |
Session 3 - Satellite species - plants
Chair: Eva Stukenbrock, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology - Marburg, Germany |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ute Krämer, Ruhr-Universität, Germany | Arabidopsis halleri as an extremophile model plant for studying evolutionary adaptation |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Neelima Sinha, UC Davis, USA | Analyzing plant structure and function in the genomics era |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Angela Hay, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Germany | Loss of petal number canalization in Cardamine hirsuta |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Daniel Koenig, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany | The genomic footprint of mating system shift and colonization in the genus Capsella |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Rico Coen, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom | Constrained Freedom: The evolution and development of phenotypic diversity |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | John Doebley, University of Wisconsin, USA | The Genetic Architecture of Maize Domestication |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Christiane Kiefer, MPIPZ, Germany | Arabis montbretiana and Arabis alpina as a model system for studying the evolution from annual to perennial life cycle |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Xana Rebocho, John Innes Centre, UK | Of Cups and Lips and Polarity Flips: The Control of Growth and Shape of Antirrhinum Flowers |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Poster Session II & Beer Session | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | DINNER | |
| 21:00 - 23:00 |
Meet-the-Speakers-session
Drinks in the ATC Roof Top Lounge |
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 12:30 |
Session 4 - Emerging models - animals
Chair: Bettina Harr, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Germany |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Laurent Keller, Lausanne University, Switzerland | Ant behavior is modulated by complex interactions between genes and social environment |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | John Colbourne, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom |
How Daphnia populations vary in their genomic responses to chemicals and binary mixtures |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Anke Schwarzenberger, University of Cologne, Germany | Local adaptation of Daphnia to cyanobacterial protease inhibitors: linking ecological history with microevolution |
| 10:15 10:30 | Abderrahman Khila, IGFL, France | Water-walking insects: marrying evo-devo with ecology for a better understanding of morphological evolution |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard University, USA | Developmental mechanisms for morphological evolution: Insights from birds and lizards |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Patricia Beldade, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal | Genetic and environmental basis of variation and diversity in adaptive traits |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Miriam Liedvogel, Lund University, Sweden & Freiburg University, Germany | Genetics of migration—insights from Scandinavian willow warblers Phylloscopus trochilus |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Nicolas Rohner, Harvard Medical School, USA | HSP90 as a capacitor for the evolution of eye loss in cavefish |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:30 - 17:00 |
Session 5 - Emerging models - plants
Chair: Ute Krämer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Sophie Karrenberg, Uppsala University, Sweden | Reproductive isolation in Silene |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Victoria Sork, UCLA, USA | Landscape genomics of climate-associated genetic variation in a California oak |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Freek Bakker, Wageningen University, Netherlands | Nectar spur evolution in Pelargonium (Geraniaceae) |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Annette Becker, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany | California poppy – a basal eudicot model for developmental biology, population genetics, and secondary metabolite production |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | John Bowman, Monash University, Australia | Evolution of body plans inland plants |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Scott Hodges, UC Santa Barbara, USA | Evolutionary Genomics of Columbines (Aquilegia) |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Anna Kersting, University of Düsseldorf in Germany | Protein domain modulation in Eucalyptus grandis associated with reproductive diversification and geographic isolation |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Stefan Rensing, University of Marburg, Germany | The moss Physcomitrella patens: a flagship model for understanding plant evolution |
| 18:00 - 00:00 | Conference Dinner & Party |
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 12:30 |
Session 6 - Interactions and ecosystems
Chair: Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Nicole Dubilier, MPI for Marine Microbiology, Germany | Connecting organisms with their environment and evolutionary past: symbioses between deep-sea hydrothermal vent mussels and chemosynthetic bacteria |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Evolutionary genomics of body size in Soay Sheep |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Kalina Kapralova, University of Iceland, Iceland | miRNAs in development of Icelandic Arctic charr ecomorphs |
| 10:15 10:30 | Annika Guse, Heidelberg University, Germany | The sea anemone Aiptasia as a novel model system to dissect the molecular basis of cnidarian-dinoflagellate-endosymbiosis |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Ben Müller, University of Cologne, Germany | Co-evolution of virulence and resistance between Toxoplasma gondii and the mouse |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Erik Hom, Harvard University, USA | Novel Fungal-Algal Mutualisms Created By Niche Engineering |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Ian Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Ecology, Germany | Beyond the sequencing bottleneck: manipulations and phenotyping as important challenges for the future |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Closing remarks and poster prize |