Program 23rd Evolutionary Biology Meeting 2019

September 24th
8:00 9:20 am
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee
9:20 9:30 am
Introduction

TRANSPOSON/SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: Lucja Fostowicz-Frelik

9:30 9:53 am
Josep M. Casacuberta: LTR-retrotransposons in peach and almond: same elements, different dynamics

9:53 10:16 am
Sishuo Wang: Lifestyle evolution in Rhizobiales

10:16 10:36am
Short Talk Session
1 PP – Louis Tsakou: The RAG transposon vertical evolution exception and the jawed vertebrates adaptive immunity emergence.

2 PP – Ana-Hermina Ghenu: Conflict between heterozygote advantage and hybrid incompatibility in haplodiploids (and sex chromosomes)

3 PP -Laura Helou: Identification of more closely related PiggyBac-like elements of genes coding PiggyBac deri ved transposases among Vertebrates, using an evolutionary in silico approach.

10:36 11:26am
Coffee break, and poster sessions

TRANSPOSON/SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: Raphaël Royauté

11:26 11:49am
Olivier Panaud: Genomic impact of TEs in plants. Comparative genomics reveals TE-driven genome dynamics over 15 My in the genus Oryza.

11:4912:12am
Kei Hiruma: A comparative analysis between closely-related plant mutualistic and parasitic fungi

12:12 12:35pm
Andreas Werner: Biological roles for natural antisense transcripts in the germline and somatic cells

12:35 12:58pm
Rob Knight: Large-scale evolutionary trends in vertebrate-associated microbiomes from the Earth Microbiome Project 

12:58 2:30pm
Lunch

TRANSPOSON/SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: Marilou Sison-Mangus

2:30 2:53pm
Justin Goodrich: New tricks for old dogs – domesticated transposases as components of novel plant chromatin modifying complexes

2:53 3:16pm
Kazumifu Mochizuki: Diversification of small RNA amplification mechanism for targeting transposon-related sequences in ciliates

3:16 3:39pm
Stephane Boissinot: Population genomics of transposable elements in

3:39 4:02pm
Laure Teysset: Transgenerational Inheritance at germline piRNA cluster: impact on maintenance and evolution

4:02 4:22pm
Short Talk Session
4 PP – Pierre Pontarotti: DDE Transposons as public

5 PP – Supriya Khedkar: Diversity and domain architecture of transposases across the bacterial tree of life

6 PP – Scott Allen Jackson, Dongying Gao: Horizontal Transfer of Retrotransposons from Arthropods to Flowering Plants

4:22 5:12pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions

TRANSPOSON/SELF NON SELF EVOLUTION
Chairman: Kamila B. Muchowska    

5:12 5:35pm
Akira Yamawo: Self-discrimination in wild plants

5:35 5:58pm
Fred Dyda, Ivana Grabundzija: The Mechanism of Eukaryotic Replicative Transposition

5:58 6:21pm
Thomas Boehm: Design principles of vertebrate immunity

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Kamila B. Muchowska    

6:21 6:44pm
Odile Lecompte: OrthoInspector 3.0: an integrative resource to explore gene evolution

8:00 pm : Diner at Restaurant de l’UNM

September 25th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Thomas Boehm

8:30 8:53 am
Emmanuel Farge: Underlying molecular mechanism of mechanotransductive mesoderm evolutionary emergence

8:53 9:16 am
Aditya Mittal: An Evolutionary View through Cellular Transmembrane Domains

9:16 9:36 am
Short Talk Session
7 PP – Sophie Lorent, Cédric Delporte, Nausicaa Noret: “Unravelling the role of local environment vs evolutionary history in shaping qualitative and quantitative variation of two adaptive traits in the metal hyperaccumulating plant Noccaea caerulescens”

8 PP– Yoram Gerchman: The Salvia viridis’ “flag” – an extrafloral display with double role

9 PP– Marco Colnaghi, Nick Lane, Andrew Pomiankowski:The failure of Lateral Gene Transfer led to the origin of sex

9:36 9:59am
Richard Dorrell: “Life after the green big bang: eco-physiological consequences of chloroplast proteome evolution in eukaryotic algae”

9:59 10:49am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Rachel Ben-Shlomo

10:49 11:12 am
Helena Štorchová: The evolution of the flowering control genes FLOWERING LOCUS T in the plant family Chenopodiaceae

11:12 11:35am
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik: Euarchontoglires (Mammalia) revisited: A morphological and phylogenetic perspective

11:35 11:58am
Jing Li, Chunjing Song, Chaoying He: Chinese lantern in Physalis is an advantageous morphological novelty and improves plant fitness

11:58 12:21pm
Eli Eisenberg: Transcriptome plasticity and genome rigidity in cephalopods

12:21 12:44pm
Nathanael Zweig, Alexandre Baldachino, Bianca Habermann: RemOtF: an automated, proteome-scale annotation pipeline for detecting remote orthologs

12:44 2:14pm
Lunch

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Jan W. Arntzen

2:14 2:37pm
Etienne G. J. Danchin: Parasitic success without sexual reproduction: what more than 10 years of root-knot nematode genomics revealed?

2:37 3:00pm
Marilou Sison-Mangus: The contribution of microbiome to host resistance against environmental stressors

3:00 3:23pm
Miroslav Oborník: Evolution of parasite from photosynthetic ancestor

3:23 3:43pm
Short Talk Session
10 PP – Dagmar Jirsová: Let’s get physical: intense connection between nucleus and mitochondria in a bicosoecid

11 PP – Felipe Lira, Gilles Hunault, Martial Briand, Perrine Portier, Claudine Landes& Marion Fischer-Le Saux: Addressing the pathogenicity of Ralstonia spp. based on genomic markers

12 PP – Raphaël Royauté, Ann Hedrick, Ned Dochtermann: Cross-sex genetic correlations constrain the evolution of a behavioral syndrome in field crickets (Gryllus integer)

3:43 4:06pm
Acar Murat: Evolution of gene network activity by tuning the strength of negative-feedback regulation

4:06 4:56pm
Coffee break, and poster sessions

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
Chairman: Helena Štorchová

4:56 5:19pm
Rachel Ben-Shlomo: Invasiveness, chimerism and genetic diversity

5:19 5:42pm
Ignacio Quintero: Effect of fluctuating environment on spatial diversification

5:42 6:05pm
Jan W. Arntzen: Ecological and genetic features of two amphibian hybrid zones that run across France

6:05 6:28pm
Guillermo Orti: Phylogenomics and biogeography of fish radiations in and out of South American freshwaters

6:28 6:51pm
Thomas Guillemaud and Denis Bourguet: Peer Community In, a free recommendation process of unpublished scientific papers based on peer reviews

6:51 pm Cocktail at the meeting center

September 26th
8:00 8:30am
Morning coffee

EVOLUTION FROM THE GENOTYPE TO THE PHENOTYPE
Chairman: Károly Kovács    

8:30 8:53am
Brian Oliver: Annotating Drosophila genomes, a strategy for the tree of life

8:53 9:16am
Tadasu Urashima: Evolution of milk oligosaccharides in Carnivora and Artiodactyla

9:16 9:39am
Vyacheslav Yurchenko: RNA viruses in trypanosomatids

9:39 9:59am
Short Talk Session
13 PP – Yuri Mineguchi: Chemical characterization of the milk oligosaccharides of some Artiodactyla species including giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii), deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

14 PP – Hannah Schmidbaur: How did genome reorganization impact the evolution of novel regulation in cephalopods?

15 PP – Nadezhda A. Potapova: Impact of closely spaced microsatellites on evolution of nearby sequences

9:59 10:49am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

EVOLUTION FROM THE GENOTYPE TO THE PHENOTYPE
Chairman: Tamir Tuller

10:49 11:12am
Georgios Koutsovoulos: Meloidogyne incognita shows surprising parallel adaptations to different ranges of host plants despite clonal reproduction and low variation at the genome level

11:12 11:35am
Yong Q. Gu: Dynamic Evolution of Wheat Prolamin Gene Families Determining End-Use Quality and Responsible for Immunogenic Potential

11:35 11:58am
Roland K. Hartmann: Some hyperthermophilic bacteria replaced its ancient RNA-based RNase P with a protein-only enzyme acquired from archaea

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Justin Goodrich

11:58 12:21am
Fernanda Pinheiro: Predicting antibiotic resistance mutations

12:21 12:44pm
Ralf Sommer: Deep taxon sampling and epigenetic profiling reveal the evolutionary dynamics of nematode orphan genes

12:44 1:07pm
Olivier Lichtarge: Evolution and Personalize Medicine: a New Calculus of Fitness

1:07 2:37pm
Lunch

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Vyacheslav Yurchenko

 2:37 3:00pm
Ivan Erill: Convergent evolution of a bacterial stress response by indirect selection

3:00 3:23pm
Alexander E. Lobkovsky, Lee Levi, Yuri I. Wolf, Martin Maiers, Loren Gragert, Idan Alter, Yoram Louzoun, Eugene V. Koonin: Multiplicative fitness, rapid haplotype discovery and fitness decay explain evolution of human major histocompatibility complex

3:23 3:46pm
Károly Kovács: Compensated deleterious mutations as drivers of morphological evolution

3:46 4:11pm
Short Talk Session
16 PP – E. Ferris, C. Gregg: Parallel accelerated evolution in hibernating mammals identifies non-coding regions that may point towards targets for gene regulation based treatments for human diseases

17 PP – Pichang Gong: Co-evolution and functional divergence of exon junction complex (EJC) cores in plants

18 PP – Andrew J. Helmstetter: Dating the dynamics of central African rain forests

19 PP – Hao Zhang: Mechanisms Driving Accelerated Sequence Evolution and Genome Reduction of a Free-living Marine Bacterial Lineage

4:11 4:34pm
Edo Kussell: Memory in Bacterial Adaptations to Fluctuating Stress

4:34 5:24pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Elvira Hoerandl    

5:24 5:47pm
Donald T. Stewart, Sophie Breton: The unusual system of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in bivalves: Did it evolve once or multiple times?

5:47 6:10pm
Alexis De Tiège: The digital continuity of the genetic germline: life as a metabolism-grounded gene-centred process

6:10 6:33pm
Michael Manhart: High-resolution dynamics of bacterial lineage diversity during adaptation to weak antibiotic pressure

6:33 6:56pm
Paul Francois: Towards Geometric models for evo-devo

8:00 pm Diner at Restaurant les Arcenaulx

September 27th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Roland K. Hartmann

8:30 8:53am
Alexandre V. Morozov: A universal biophysical model of codon bias evolution

8:53 9:16am
Shiran Abadi: ModelTeller: A Machine-Learning Approach for Phylogenetic Model Selection

9:16 9:36am
Short Talk Session
20 PP – Xiaojun Wang: Mechanisms Preventing Seemingly Separated Populations from Speciation

21 PP – Aurélien Velleret: Quasi-Stationary Distribution and related notions to understand the adaption of populations to a changing environment

22 PP – Hao Zhu: Species-specific lncRNAs and adaptive evolution on the epigenome level

9:36 9:59am
Tamir Tuller: mRNA folding and rRNA-mRNA interactions shape the evolution of  coding regions of organisms across the tree of life

9:59 10:49am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Laure Teysset

10:49 11:12am

Andrew C Doxey: AnnoTree: an interactive, functionally annotated microbial tree of life

11:12 11:35am
Jun-Yi Leu: Experimental evolution reveals a general role for the methyltransferase Hmt1 in noise buffering

11:35 11:58am
Michael J. O’Brien and George R. McGhee: Morphospace and Stone Projectile-Point Convergence: Mapping Functional Limits

EARLY EVOLUTION/ORIGIN OF LIFE/EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman: Andrew C. Doxey

11:58 12:21am
Elvira Hoerandl: How oxygen contributes to origin and maintenance of eukaryotic sex

12:21 12:44pm
Steven Ball, Bhattacharya D., Weber A. P. M., Subtil A., Greub G., Cenci U., Colleoni C.: Intracellular bacterial pathogens as major players of metabolic integration of novel organelles.

12:44 12:49pm
Short Talk Session
23 PP – Maria Kozlova, Daria V. Dibrova and Armen Y. Mulkidjanian: Reconstruction of lipid diversity in the Last Universal Cellular Ancestor

12:49 2:19pm
Lunch

EARLY EVOLUTION/ORIGIN OF LIFE/EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman: Ivan Erill  

2:19 2:42pm
Armen Mulkidjanian : Transition from the first replicators to the first cellular organisms could be driven by atmosphere recovery after a giant impact

2:42 3:05pm
Józef Kaźmierczak, Barbara Kremer, Krzysztof Owocki, Agata Królikowska, Beata Wrzosek: Archaeocyaths: siphonous algae dressed in calcified cyanobacterial biofilms in Early Cambrian Ca-stressed sea

3:05 3:28pm
Robert Pascal: A Physical Chemistry Perspective on Natural Selection

3:28 4:18pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions

EARLY EVOLUTION/ORIGIN OF LIFE/EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman: Fernanda Pinheiro

4:18 4:41pm
Kamila B. Muchowska, Sreejith J. Varma, Joseph Moran: Synthesis and breakdown of universal metabolic precursors promoted by iron

4:41 5:04pm
Louis Le Sergeant d’Hendecourt, Robert Pascal, Grégoire Danger: From astrochemistry to astrobiology

5:04 5:14pm
Conclusion

Short Oral Presentation plus Poster

1 PP Louis Tsakou: RAG-A and transposon and the evolution of the vertebrate adaptive immunity

2 PP Ana-Hermina Ghenu: Conflict between heterozygote advantage and hybrid incompatibility in haplodiploids

3 PP Laura Helou: Identification of more closely related PiggyBac-like elements of genes coding PiggyBac deri ved transposases among Vertebrates, using an evolutionary in
silico approach.

4 PP Pierre Pontarotti: DDE Transposons as public goods

5 PP – Supriya Khedkar: Diversity and domain architecture of transposases across the bacterial tree of life

6 PP – Dongying Gao: Horizontal Transfer of Retrotransposons from Arthropods to Flowering Plants

7 PP Sophie Lorent, Cédric Delporte, Nausicaa Noret: “Unravelling the role of local environment vs evolutionary history in shaping qualitative and quantitative variation of two adaptive traits in the metal hyperaccumulating plant Noccaea caerulescens” 

8 PP Yoram Gerchman: The Salvia viridis’ “flag” – an extrafloral display with double role

9 PP Marco Colnaghi, Prof. Nick Lane, Prof. Andrew Pomiankowski:The failure of Lateral Gene Transfer led to the origin of sex

10 PP Dagmar Jirsová: Let’s get physical: intense connection between nucleus and mitochondria in a bicosoecid

11 PP Felipe Lira, Gilles Hunault, Martial Briand, Perrine Portier, Claudine Landes& Marion Fischer-Le Saux: Addressing the pathogenicity of Ralstonia spp. based on genomic markers

12 PP Raphaël Royauté, Ann Hedrick, Ned Dochtermann: Cross-sex genetic correlations constrain the evolution of a behavioral syndrome in field crickets (Gryllus integer)

13 PP Yuri Mineguchi: Chemical characterization of the milk oligosaccharides of some Artiodactyla species including giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii), deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) and water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)

14 PP Hannah Schmidbaur: How did genome reorganization impact the evolution of novel regulation in cephalopods?

15 PP Nadezhda A. Potapova: Impact of closely spaced microsatellites on evolution of nearby sequences

16 PP Elliott Ferris, Christopher Gregg: Parallel accelerated evolution in hibernating mammals identifies non-coding regions that may point towards targets for gene regulation based treatments for human diseases

17 PP Pichang Gong: Co-evolution and functional divergence of exon junction complex (EJC) cores in plants

18 PP Andrew J. Helmstetter: Dating the dynamics of central African rain forests

19 PP Hao Zhu: Species-specific lncRNAs and adaptive evolution on the epigenome level

20 PP Xiaojun Wang: Mechanisms Preventing Seemingly Separated Populations from Speciation

21 PP Aurélien Velleret: Quasi-Stationary Distribution and related notions to understand the adaption of populations to a changing environment

22 PP Hao Zhang: Mechanisms Driving Accelerated Sequence Evolution and Genome Reduction of a Free-living Marine Bacterial Lineage

23 PP Maria Kozlova, Daria V. Dibrova and Armen Y. Mulkidjanian: Reconstruction of lipid diversity in the Last Universal Cellular Ancestor

Poster

24 P Ahmed Dekak: Fuzzy logic and 16S rRNA sequencing to identify symbiotic and nitrogen fixing bacteria nodulating spontaneous legumes in North Eastern of Algeria 

25 P Elena A. Ritschard: Evolutionary origins and functional impact of novel genes on cephalopod innovations

26 P Haruna Ohsaki: Variation in competition environment of host plants promotes resource partition of leaf beetles

27 P Tereza Krajzingrova: The age dependent changes in haematological traits and respiratory burst in great tits and their association with reproduction and heavy metal pollution

28 P Tereza Krajzingrova: The National Animal Genetic Bank of the Czech Republic contributes to the DNA sample availability

29 P A Deceneux, G. Koutsovoulos, C. Rancurel, M. Bailly-Bechet, E. Danchin: Mining metagenomics to uncover horizontal transfers in Meloidogyne incognita

30 P Idan Alter, Yoram Louzoun: Population growth combined with wide offspring distributions can increase fixation rate and reduce genetic diversity

31 P Tzipi Braun, Antonio V. Bordería, Cyril Barbezange, Marco Vignuzzi, Yoram Louzoun: Long term context dependent genetic adaptation of the viral genetic cloud

32 P Pierre Abad, Rahim Hassanaly Goulamhoussen, Loris Pratx, Céline Cosseau, Christoph Grunau, Philippe Castagnone-Sereno, Laetitia Perfus-Barbeoch: First Report of chromatin landscape in the plant-parasitic nematode  Meloidogyne incognita

33 P Célia Vicari, Eliza C. Martin, Louis Tsakou, Jose Ricardo Morales Poole, Yuhang Zhang, Andrei J. Petrescu, Pierre Pontarotti, David G. Schatz: Update on the distribution of the RAG transposon through the deuterostomes

34 P Nikolaos V. Schizas: Recent advances of evolutionary studies at Caribbean mesophotic coral reefs

35 P Fuhai Liu, Elisabeth Richardson, Christen Klinger, Lucas Paoli, Federico Ibarbalz, Robert J Newby, A Bruce Cahoon, Chris J Howe, Joel Dacks, Chris Bowler, Richard G. Dorrell: Functional and evolutionary consequences of a chloroplast replacement event in dinoflagellate algae

36 P Richard G. Dorrell, Guillaume Blanc, Adrien Villain, Achal Rastogi, Giselle McCallum, Guillemette Audren de Kerdrel, Ouardia ait-Mohamed, Kyle Frischkorn, Fabio Rocha Jimenez Vieira, Leila Tirichine, Chris Bowler: Integrated analyses of the consequences of horizontal gene transfer for diatom evolution