22nd Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles
September 25th
8:00 9:20 am
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee
9:20 9:30 am
Introduction
ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman: Susanne Lachmuth
9:30 9:53 am
Andrei N. Lupas: On the origin of folded proteins
GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Susanne Lachmuth
9:53 10:16 am
Florian Maumus: Addressing the diversity and evolution of plant viruses using genomic data
10:16 10:39 am
Maria Assunta Biscotti: The lungfish transcriptome: a glimpse into molecular evolution events at the transition from water to land
10:39 10:54 am
Short Talk Session
1 PP Alberto Vicens: Selective pressures on cancer genes along the mammalian phylogeny
2 PP Inês Miranda: Understanding the genetic determinants of winter coat colour in the least weasel (Mustela nivalis) from museum genomics
3 PP Vikas Sharma: Hidden diversity of endogeneous geminiviruses in plants
10:54 11:44 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions
GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Andrei Lupas
11:44 12:07 am
Marie-Noëlle Rosso: Evolutionary history and function of glycoside hydrolases GH131 related to plant tissue colonisation in Dikarya, Fungi, and Oomycetes
12:07 12:30 am
Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, Nicolas Parisot, Federica Calevro:Expansion of genes encoding Apoptosis Inhibitor Proteins (IAPs) and their role in a novel bacteriocyte cell death process in aphid symbiosis
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Maria Assunta Biscotti
12:30 12:53 pm
Shuhua Xu: The impact of genetic admixture and natural selection on driving population differences in East Asia
12:53 2:30 pm
Lunch
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Maria Assunta Biscotti
2:30 2:53 pm
Susanne Lachmuth: Enemy release mitigates inbreeding depression in native and invasive Silene latifolia populations: experimental insight into the role of inbreeding x environment interactions for the success and evolution of invaders
2:53 3:16 pm
Conrad C. Labandeira: The Great Terrestrial Diversification: The Expansion of Plant–Arthropod Interactions Following the Permo-Triassic Ecologic Crisis
3:16 3:39 pm
Thomas Becking: Impact of feminizing Wolbachia endosymbionts on the evolution of a male heterogametic system of sex chromosome
TRANSPOSON EVOLUTION
Chairman: Daniel Wall
3:39 4:02 pm
Fumitoshi Ishino: Evolution of skeletal muscle in mammals by domestication of an LTR retrotoransposon
4:02 4:52 pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions
TRANSPOSON EVOLUTION
Chairman: Daniel Wall
4:52 5:15 pm
Georgy Smyshlyaev, Alex Bateman, Orsolya Barabas: Structural and evolutionary insights into the broad transfer of antibiotic resistance by bacterial conjugative transposons
5:15 5:38 pm
Daniel Elsner, Karen Meusemann, Judith Korb: Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives
5:38 6:01 pm
Yang Liu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby: Roles of coniferous transposable elements (12-18 Gb) in genome evolution and adaptive evolution
8:00 pm : Dinner at Restaurant de l’UNM
September 26th
8:30 9:00 am
Morning coffee
CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Katherine Buckley
9:00 9:23 am
Lars Jermiin: Improving the Accuracy of Phylogenetic Estimates from Genomic Data
9:23 9:46 am
Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis: Predicting the evolution of novel genes
9:4610:09 am
Nicholas David Evans: Gradualism, selection, and language diversity: why linguists need coevolutionary models
TRANSPOSON EVOLUTION
Chairman: Nicolas Marcel Cerveau
10:09 10:32 am
Jungnam Cho and Jerzy Paszkowski : Domestication of transposable elements to RNA decoys in rice
10:32 10:55 am
David Louis Adelson: Divergent Genome Evolution Caused by Regional DNA Gain and Loss in Mammals is Accompanied by Similar Evolutionary Trajectories of Retrotransposon Accumulation
10:55 11:45 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions
TRANSPOSON EVOLUTION
Chairman: Marie-Noëlle Rosso
11:45 12:08 am
Alex Kentsis: Known and unknown domesticated human DNA transposases
12:08 12:31 am
Josefa González: Transposable elements affect the transcriptional regulation of stress response genes in Drosophila and humans
12:31 2:00 pm
Lunch
TRANSPOSON EVOLUTION
Chairman: Conrad C. Labandeira
2:00 2:23 pm
Anton Buzdin: Retroelement – linked transcription factor binding patterns point to the most quickly developing molecular pathways in human evolution.
2:23 2:46 pm
Yves Bigot: Genome-wide identification of SETMAR protein binding sites reveals interactions between its isoforms and numerous Hsmar1/MADE1 ITRs that together co-evolved under selection
2:46 3:09 pm
Magali Naville: Genome size variation is driven by differential expansion of non-autonomous transposable elements in larvaceans
3:09 3:32 pm
Anne C. Roulin: Transposable element evolution in the grass Brachypodium distachyon: what can we learn from population genomics?
3:32 4:22 pm
Coffee break, and poster sessions
ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chaiman: Kelly Hugues
4:22 4:45 pm
Kunio Kawamura: Formation of oligonucleotides and oligopeptides under hydrothermal environments with minerals evaluated using hydrothermal microflow reactor systems
4:45 5:08 pm
Hideo Hashizume: Formation of adenosine from adenine and ribose in the presence of clay minerals
5:08 5:31 pm
Sávio Torres de Farias: Be Introduced to the First Universal Common Ancestor (FUCA): The Great-Grandmother of LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Alex Kentsis
5:31 5:54 pm
Ingrid Lafontaine: Evidence supporting an Antimicrobial Origin of Chloroplast Transit Peptides
5:54 6:17 pm
Pedro Martinez: The origin of animal brains. The enigmatic xenacoelomorphs as a study case
6:17 6:40 pm
Michael Hiller: The importance of cis-regulatory divergence for morphological evolution
6:40 7:03 pm
Rongling Wu: The Genetic Architecture of Ecological Interactions That Drive Evolution
7:03 pm Cocktail at the meeting center
September 27th
8:30 9:00 am
Morning coffee
EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Lara Meade
9:00:9:23 am
Miroslav Oborník: Evolution of heme biosynthetic pathway in phototrophic eukaryotes
9:23 9:55 am
Emmanuelle Renard: The Germline Multipotency Program and the origin of animal sex cells
9:55 10:10 am
Short Talk Session
4 PP Lidan Sun: The Genetic Architecture of Heterophylly, Heteroblasty and Heterochrony
5 PP Jesper Fogelholm: CREBBP and WDR24 Affects Quantitative Variation in Red Coloration in the Chicken
10:10 11:00 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions
EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Francesc Calafell
11:00 11:23 am
Christian Braendle: The molecular basis underlying the genetic assimilation of C. elegans matricidal hatching
11:2311:46 am
Liran Carmel: Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps.
11:46 12:09 am
Nicolas Marcel Cerveau: The importance of first contact in Molluscan shell development
GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Francesc Calafell
12:09 12:32 pm
Jian Lu: Linkage of A-to-I RNA Editing in Metazoans and the Impact on Genome Evolution
12:32 2:02 pm
Lunch
CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
Chairman: Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
2:02 2:25 pm
Marie Vasse: Highly convergent co-evolution of bacterial predators and prey
2:25 2:48 pm
Suhua Shi: Convergent adaptation among multiple mangrove taxa and the genomic mechanisms
2:48 3:11 pm
Andrey Ostrovsky: matrotrophy in invertebrates: distribution, structure, evolution
3:11 3:34 pm
Pierre Pontarotti: Convergent evolution of DDE transposons as sequence specific recombination activating systems.
3:34 3:57 pm
Bernard de Massy: The control of the localization of meiotic recombination by Prdm9
3:57 4:47 pm
Coffee break, and posters session
BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
Chairman: Liran Carmel
4:47 5:02 pm
Short Talk Session
6 PP Zixiao Guo: The biogeography of Indo-West Pacific mangroves cast light to conservation and speciation
7 PP Wei-Jen Chen: Toward resolving complex evolutionary history of the Indo-West Pacific sergeant majors (Pomacentridae: Abudefduf)
5:02 5:25 pm
T.D. O’Hara, Hugall, A.F.: Seafloor phylodiversity gradients in the Indo-Pacific from equator to pole
5:25 5:48 pm
Francesc Calafell: The parallel lives of Y-chromosome lineages across the Gibraltar Straits
5:48 6:11 pm
Gergely Torda: Evolution of a complex metaorganism: rapid adaptive responses in reef-building corals
8:00 pm Dinner at Restaurant les Arcenaulx
September 28th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee
BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
Chairman: Bianca Habermann
8:30 8:53 am
Morgan Gueuning, Nadir Alvarez: Elevation in tropical sky islands as the common driver in structuring genes and communities of freshwater organisms
8:53 9:16 am
Aleš Horák: Planktonic diplonemids and their place in the global ocean ecosystem
9:16 9:39 am
Mariangela Bonizzoni: Insights into an unexplored component of mosquito repeatomes: distribution of viral integrations in mosquito genomes and their possible impact on immunity
SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: David Louis Adelson
9:39 10:02 am
Katherine Buckley: Evolutionary conservation and divergence in the gut-associated immune response of an invertebrate deuterostome
10:02 10:17 am
Short Talk Session
8 PP Marius Bredon: Lignocellulose degradation across the woodlice holobionts
9 PP Aleksandra Bialas: The rice NLR immune receptor Pik-1 only recently evolved to recognise the AVR-PikD effector of the blast fungus
10:17 11:07 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions
SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: Marie Vasse
11:07 11:30 am
Daniel Wall: Direct visualization of kin recognition and discriminating toxin transfer by a dynamic polymorphic cell surface receptor in a social microbe
11:30 11:53 am
Jim Kaufman: Generalists and Specialists: a new view of how MHC molecules fight
infectious pathogens
CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Gergely Torda
11:53 12:16 am
Kelly Hughes: The triplet-of-triplets genetic code
12:16 12:39 pm
Short Talk Session
31 PP François André: Deciphering the evolution of a metabolic pathway in plants using homology modeling and docking methods : the case of CYP98A clade in Brassicaceae
12:39 2:09 pm
Lunch
CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Mariangela Bonizzoni
2:09 2:32 pm
Warren R. Francis: Neutral evolution of introns and intergenic sequence
2:32 2:55 pm
Kotaro Kagawa: Roles of hybridization in adaptive radiation: insights from a simulation study
2:55 3:15 pm
Short Talk Session
10 PP Mario Alberto Cerón-Romero: PhyloChromoMap and PhyloTol, two tools to explore gene family and karyotype evolution in eukaryotic parasites
11 PP Lara Meade: Adaptive maintenance of fertility in the face of meiotic drive
12 PP Armin O. Schmitt: Detection of gene orthologies using InterPro fingerprints
3:15 4:05 pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions
CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Michael Oborník
4:05 4:28 pm
Bianca Habermann: HH-MOTiF: de novo prediction of short linear motifs in proteins
4:28 4:51 pm
Peter A. Lind: Forecasting experimental evolution in Pseudomonas
4:51 5:14 pm
Eric Gaucher: Evolutionary history and metabolic insights of ancient mammalian uricases
5:14 5:24 pm
Conclusion
Posters with short presentation
1 PP Alberto Vicens: Selective pressures on cancer genes along the mammalian phylogeny
2 PP Inês Miranda: Understanding the genetic determinants of winter coat colour in the least weasel (Mustela nivalis) from museum genomics
3 PP Vikas Sharma: Hidden diversity of endogeneous geminiviruses in plants
4 PP Lidan Sun: The Genetic Architecture of Heterophylly, Heteroblasty and Heterochrony
5 PP Jesper Fogelholm: CREBBP and WDR24 Affects Quantitative Variation in Red Coloration in the Chicken
6 PP Zixiao Guo: The biogeography of Indo-West Pacific mangroves cast light to conservation and speciation
7 PP Wei-Jen Chen: Toward resolving complex evolutionary history of the Indo-West Pacific sergeant majors (Pomacentridae: Abudefduf)
8 PP Marius Bredon: Lignocellulose degradation across the woodlice holobionts
9 PP Aleksandra Bialas: The rice NLR immune receptor Pik-1 only recently evolved to recognise the AVR-PikD effector of the blast fungus
10 PP Mario Alberto Cerón-Romero: PhyloChromoMap and PhyloTol, two tools to explore gene family and karyotype evolution in eukaryotic parasites
11 PP Lara Meade: Adaptive maintenance of fertility in the face of meiotic drive
12 PP Armin O. Schmitt: Detection of gene orthologies using InterPro fingerprints
31 PP François Andre: Deciphering the evolution of a metabolic pathway in plants using homology modeling and docking methods : the case of CYP98A clade in Brassicaceae
Posters
13 P Kunio Kawamura: Two-gene hypothesis for the emergence of life-like system from a simple chemical evolution network of RNA molecules
P 14 James A. Langeland: Evolutionary origins of ß-secretase and Aß peptide
P 15 Leo Stahlecker: Proposal for a new Systematics of Mantodea
16 P Hassnae Afrache: Investigating the diversity of MHC class I and II genes in chickens
17 P Simona Petrelli, Maria Buglione, Marion van Vugt, Valeria Maselli, Kevin Matson, Domenico Fulgione: Return to the wild: re-adaptations in domestic Sus scrofa
18 P Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino: Brain function exerted by an LTR-retrotransposon-derived Sirh3/Ldoc1l
19 P Eugenia Rashkovetsky: Candidate genes involved in Drosophila mating behavior
20 P Louis Tsakou Ngouafo , Angèle Courtant, Robin Ordioni: DDE Transposons evolve via horizontal transfer: The RAG transposon exception.
21 P Laurent Abi-Rached, Philippe Gouret, Jung-Hua Yeh, Julie Di Cristofaro, Pierre Pontarotti,Christophe Picard, Julien Paganini: Immune Diversity Sheds Light on Missing Variation in Worldwide Genetic Diversity Panels
22 P Maximiliano Tourmente, Ruth Archer, David Hosken: Sexual conflict sperm quality in Drosophila simulans
23 P Divya Selvaraju: Molecular characterization of the gonadal dysgenesis inducing strain Harwich
24 P Emmanuelle Renard: StraS Project: studying sponge cell behavior during morphogenetic processes
25 P Lily Tran: An experimental approach to benchmark ancestral sequence reconstruction methods
26 P Chabrol O, Royer-Carenzi M, Pontarotti P, Didier G:Detecting Molecular Basis Of Phenotypic Convergence
27 P Sebastien Tempel: ProkTE: A web server for large-scale analysis of genetic context associated to the insertion sequences and their putative roles
28 P Magali Lescot: The Ocean Gene Atlas: exploring the biogeography of plankton genes online
29 P Wei-Jen Chen & Sarah Samadi: Progress on the research of fish systematics and evolution through the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos program
30 P Hsin Lee, Wei-Jen Chen & Sarah Samadi: Biodiversity Exploration and Phylogeny of Cocculinidae (Gastropoda: Cocculiniformia)
32 P Vicky Merhej: NRPPUR DB : A new NRPS-PKS database with bioinformatic method to quickly decipher
NRPS-PKS Biosynthetic gene clusters in bacterial genomes.