September 20th

8:00 9:20 am
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee

9:20 9:30 am
Introduction

GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Bianca Habermann

9:30 9:53 am
small Open-Reading Frames include two molecular classes of metazoan protein-coding genes
Juan-Pablo Couso, Peddro Patraquim
9:53 10:16 am
Mosaic origins and complex fates of algal lineages revealed through an ancient plastid proteome 
Richard G. Dorrell
10:16 10:39 am
Cis-regulatory basis of expression divergence between recent gene duplicates
Kohtaro Tanaka

10:39 11:24 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Dusan Kordis

11:24 11:47 am
Genetic adaptation to levels of selenium in the diet in humans and other vertebrates
Sergi Castellano
11:47 12:10 am
BG: a rapidly evolving multigene family of cell-surface molecules determined by the chicken MHC
Jim Kaufman
12:10 12:20 am
Short Talk Session
< Investigation of new β-lactamase enzymes in published databank  
Vivek Keshri
< Evolutionary dynamics of gene and isoform expression in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fish 
Pooja Singh
12:20 12:43 pm
Evolution and Conservation of Reproduction Genes from Bryophytes to Flowering Plants
Prem L. Bhalla
12:43 1:06 pm
Adaptive genomic variation in a non-model species: genotypes vs. phenotypes
Hanne De Kort
1:06 2:36 pm
Lunch

GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Hanne De Kort

2:36 2:59 pm
Evolution of new sex chromosomes by lateral genome transfer of bacterial symbiont in pillbug
Richard Cordaux
2:59 3:14 pm
Short Talk Session
< To decipher the genome-based ecology of environmental (non-host-associated) and host-associated Mycobacterium species
Arup Panda
< Evolutionary genomics analysis of the adaptive radiation of Dysdera (Araneae) in the Canary Islands
Joel Vizueta
< NGS analysis reveals HLA-G promotor specificities in an asthmatic cohort
Julie Di Cristofaro
3:14 3:37 pm
Are long non-coding RNAs under selection? Sequence and structural constraints found 
Cinta Pegueroles
3:37 4:00 pm
Evolutionary Biology of Grass Pollen Allergens
Mohan B. Singh
4:00 4:45 pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions

GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Yoav Soen

4:45 5:08 pm
Evolution of the Hect and Hect-like Ubiquitin Ligases
Arthur Haas
5:08 5:31 pm
Polyploid hybrid genomes of devastating plant pests allow plasticity without sex and meiosis 
Etienne Danchin
5:31 5:54 pm
The genomic architecture of ecological divergence with gene flow in ragworts (Senecio, Asteraceae) from Mount Etna, Sicily
Adrian C. Brennan
5:54 6:17 pm
Distal substitutions drive divergent DNA specificity among paralogous transcription factors through subdivision of conformational space
Eric A. Ortlund
6:17 6:40 pm
Prokaryotic Nucleotide Composition Is Shaped by Both Phylogeny and the Environment
Ruth Hershberg

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

September 21st

8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee

TRANSPOSON
Chairman: Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat

8:30 8:53 am
Genesis and regulatory wiring of retroelement-derived domesticated genes: a phylogenomic perspective.
Kordiš Dusan
8:53 9:16 am
Reprogramming triggers mobilization of endogenous transposable elements in human induced pluripotent stem cells with consequences for host gene expression
Gerald G. Schumann
9:16 9:39 am
Population global expression analysis of transposable elements reveals an antagonism between their activity and that of piRNA genes  
Cristina Vieira
9: 39 10:02 am
Epigenetic and Evolutionary Interactions between TEs and their plant hosts 
Brandon J. Gaut
10:02 10:47 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

TRANSPOSON
Chairman: Oscar Lao Grueso

10:47 11:10 am
Interplay of adaptation and interference machineries guide efficient CRISPR-Cas immunity
Ekaterina Semenova
11:10 11:33 am
Mammalian evolution by gene acquisition from Retrotransposons
Fumitoshi Ishino
11:33 11:56 am
A Non-Classical Phase Diagram for Virus-Bacterial Co-Evolution Mediated by CRISPR
Michael W. Deem
11:56 1:26 pm
Lunch

TRANSPOSON
Chairman: Oscar Lao Grueso

1:26 1:49 pm
Domestication of a mariner transposable element in the Therian ancestral Is it a transcription factor? 
Gabriel da Luz Wallau
1:49 2:12 pm
Recurrent Selective Sweeps in piRNA Pathway Proteins, and an Alternative to Classic ‘Arms Race’ Dynamics  
Alfred Simkin

POPULATION GENOMICS/BIODIVERSITY/SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Sally leys

2:12 2:35 pm
Contrasting post-glacial histories of two Alnus species in Europe based on microsatellite and chloroplast DNA variation 
Bohumil Mandák
2:35 2:50 pm
Short Talk Session
< Atlantic and Indian-Pacific oceans Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) sister species
Maria Eduarda Alves dos Santos
< Post-glacial overland and river dispersal of an endangered semi-aquatic mammal (Galemys pyrenaicus)
Marina Querejeta
< Population Dynamics of Schistosoma japonicum Through Whole Genome Amplification and Targeted Genome Sequencing
Jonathan A. Shortt
2:50 3:13 pm
Patterns of genetic variation arising from population network motifs 
Nicolas Alcala

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Eric A Ortlund

3:13 3:23 pm
Short Talk Session
< New evolutionary perspectives on an essential initiator of apoptotic cell death, caspase-8, and its paralogs
Kazuhiro Sakamaki
< Intersexual differences in butterfly dispersal and their evolutionary drivers  
Piotr Nowicki
3:23 4:08 pm
Coffee break, and poster sessions

POPULATION GENOMICS/BIODIVERSITY/SYSTEMATIC
Chairman:  Ekaterine Semenova

4:08 4:31pm
Genomic Data establish Bison schoetensacki as the Ancestor of the European Bison (Bison bonasus)  
Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat
4:31 4:54 pm
Competition and discrimination maintain diversity in a natural population of cooperative microbes  
Olaya Rendueles Garcia
4:54 5:17 pm
Genetic diversity and differentiation of the natural populations of diploids and triploids of tiger lily, Lilium tigrinum Ker-Gawler, collected from East Asia
Nam-Soo Kim
5:17 5:40 pm
Are darwinulid ostracods ancient asexuals?  
Isabelle Schön
5:40 6:03 pm
Evolution of milk oligosaccharides and their function in monotremes and marsupials
Tadasu Urashima
6:03 6:26 pm
The evolution of sense and sensitivity: physiological evidence from sponges
Sally Leys
6:26 6:49 pm
Bilaterian-specific genes and the evolution of animal complexity
Peter Heger
6:49 pm: Cocktail at the meeting center

September 22nd

8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION
Chairman: Frédéric Brunet

8:30 8:53 am
An unbiased, genome-wide screen uncovers new links between convergent molecular and convergent phenotypic evolution
Michael Hiller
8:53 9:16 am
Evolution of angiosperm sucrose transporters: ancient origins, differential expansion and convergent evolution in monocots and dicots
Chung-Jui Tsai
9:16 9:39 am
Evolution of beta-defensins: Adaptive genomic sequences and convergent genome structures 
Edward J. Hollox
9:39 10:02 am
Genomics of rapid parallel evolution in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus)
Arne Jacobs
10:02 10:07 am
Short Talk Session
< Do all routes lead to Rome? An initial substitution constrains the evolution of an enzyme to a distinct genotypic and structural path
Charlotte Miton
10:07 10:30 am
Convergent and parallel evolution in early Glires (Mammalia)
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik
10:30 11:15 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Isabel Schön

11:15 11:38 am
Evolution of a fly’s early body plan explained with dynamic models  
Anton Crombach
11:38 11:48 am
Short Talk Session
< Eco-morphological traits diffusion inside fishes communities of Maroni River (French Guiana and Suriname)
Yvan Papa, Raphael Covain
< An alveolate alga Vitrella brassicaformis forms zoospores by budding
Zoltán Füssy
11:48 12:11 am
Cavefish evolution as a natural model for metabolic diseases  
Nicolas Rohner
12:11 12:34 am
Genetical genomics of domestication traits in the chicken  
Martin Johnsson
12:34 2:04 pm
Lunch

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Cristina Vieira

2:04 2:27 pm
Neurocytology and neuronal connectivity in the acoel S. roscoffensis may provide insight into early bilaterian brain structure and evolution
Volker Hartenstein
2:27 2:50 pm
Higher retention rate of gene families implicated in development and cell interactions after their expansion through whole genome duplications in jawed vertebrates. 
Frédéric Brunet
2:50 3:13 pm
Genomic divergence, the Prdm9 gene and the house mouse speciation model
Jiri Forejt

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Jim Kaufmann

3:13 3:36 pm
Entropic and selective forces on immunogenic motifs in viruses and ncRNA  
Rémi Monasson
3:36 3:59 pm
Hidden regulatory codes are encoded in the viral coding regions and affect their evolution
Tamir Tuller
3:59 4:22 pm
Prokaryotic gene-family size correlations
Alexander Bolshoy
4:22 4:45 pm
Facultative recombination halts Muller’s ratchet in apomictic Ranunculus auricomus 
Ladislav Hodač
4:45 5:30 pm
Coffee break, and posters sessions

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Eric A. Ortlund

5:30 5:53 pm
Effective theory for immune-pathogen coevolution
Armita Nourmohammad
5:53 6:16 pm
Serine substitution patterns differ in regions of high and low amino acid Variability 
Uri Hershberg
6:16 6:39 pm
The impact of wobble-uridine modifications on translation and protein quality control are only partially conserved amongst species
Sebastian Leidel
8:00 pm Diner at Restaurant les Arcenaulx

September 23rd

8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Alexandre Morozov

8:30 8:53 am
Evolution of modulatory regulatory programs across different tissues in cichlids. 
Federica Di Palma
8:53 9:16 am
Taking a look at bacterial evolution of pathogenicity: comparative genomics of bacterial subspecies to identify virulence factors
Bianca H. Habermann
9:16 9:39 am
Divergent respiratory chains in chromerids, phototrophic relatives to Apicomplexa
Miroslav Obornik
9:39 10:02 am
Evolution trends of flower arrangement and androecium organisation in East Asian orchids
Marpha Telepova-Texier, Denis Larpin
10:02 10:47 am
Coffee break, and posters sessions

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Giovanna Costanzo

10:47 11:10 am
Proteins on the brink of death: Fundamental principles of coding sequence evolution
Alexandre V. Morozov
11:10 11:33
Adaptation by Natural Improvisation
Yoav Soen
11:33 11:56 am
Evolution of body coloration in two sympatric freshwater fishes: a test of the sensory-driven hypothesis 
Javier Montenegro
11:56 12:19 am
Increased evolvability under stress: separating the effects of stress-induced mutagenesis and death 
Antoine Frénoy
12:19 2:12 pm
Lunch

CONCEPTS AND METHODS
Chairman: Gerald G. Schumann

2:12 2:35pm
Evolution of bone mineral density in human populations
Oscar Lao
2:35 2:58 pm
Cryptic genetic variation in enzyme evolvability toward new catalytic function  
Nobuhiko Tokuriki
2:58 3:21 pm
On developing mechanistic models of protein evolution 
David D. Pollock
3:21 3:44 pm
Inferring interaction partners from the co-evolution of protein sequences
Anne-Florence Bitbol
3:44 4:30 pm
strong>Coffee break, and posters sessions

EXOBIOLOGY ORIGIN OF LIFE
Chairman: Richard G. Dorrell

4:30 4:35 pm
Short Talk Session
<From formamide to RNA the prebiotic path is tenuous but continuous 
GiovannaCostanzo
4:35 4:58 pm
The formamide-scenario of the origin of life – from structural and energetic perspectives
Judit E. Šponer
4:58 5:21 pm
Giant viruses and early evolution of life
Didier Raoult

5:21 5:31 pm
Conclusion

CHAMPAGNE!!!!!

 

Posters with short presentation

PP 1 Investigation of new β-lactamase enzymes in published databank
Vivek Keshri
PP 2 Evolutionary dynamics of gene and isoform expression in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fish
Pooja Singh
PP 3 To decipher the genome-based ecology of environmental (non-host-associated) and host-associated Mycobacterium species
Arup Panda
PP 4 Evolutionary genomics analysis of the adaptive radiation of Dysdera (Araneae) in the Canary Islands
Joel Vizueta
PP 5 NGS analysis reveals HLA-G promotor specificities in an asthmatic cohort
Julie Di Cristofaro
PP 6 Atlantic and Indian-Pacific oceans Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) sister species
Maria Eduarda Alves dos Santos
PP 7 Post-glacial overland and river dispersal of an endangered semi-aquatic mammal (Galemys pyrenaicus)
Marina Querejeta
PP 8 Population Dynamics of Schistosoma japonicum Through Whole Genome Amplification and Targeted Genome Sequencing
Johathan A. Shortt
PP 9 New evolutionary perspectives on an essential initiator of apoptotic cell death, caspase-8, and its paralogs
Kazuhiro Sakamaki
PP 10 Intersexual differences in butterfly dispersal and their evolutionary drivers  
Piort Nowicki
PP 11 Do all routes lead to Rome? An initial substitution constrains the evolution of an enzyme to a distinct genotypic and structural path
Charlotte Miton
PP 12 Eco-morphological traits diffusion inside fishes communities of Maroni River (French Guiana and Suriname)
Yvan Papa, Raphaël Covain
PP 13 An alveolate alga Vitrella brassicaformis forms zoospores by budding
Zoltán Füssy
PP 14 From formamide to RNA the prebiotic path is tenuous but continuous 
Giovanna Costanzo
PP38 Prediction and charecterization of ciliary proteins by comparative genomics
Yannis Nevers

 

Posters

P 15 Is natural selection driving the polymorphism of innate immune genes in Primates species?
Brigitte Crouau-Roy
P 16 Origin of Major Megavirale Clades
Sourabh Jain
P 17 Phylogenetic analysis of Lilium species using inter-retrotransposon amplified polymorphisms (IRAP)
Nam-Soo Kim, Jong-Hwa Kim
P 18 Evolution of selected innate immune receptors (TLRs) in tit family (Paridae)
Martin Těšický
P 19 Ancient divergence, and recent diversification of peridinin dinoflagellate plastid genomes
Richard G. Dorrell
P 20 Phylogenomic analysis of the deuterostomian  RAG transposons
José Ricardo Morales Poole, Sheng Feng Huang, Pierre Pontarotti
P 21 The ancient origin of MHC-related synteny: insights from a placozoan
Jaanus Suurväli
P 22 Eudiplozoon nipponicum: « Together – chance or destiny? »
Dagmar Jirsová
P 23 Hybridization and polyploidization in C. album agg. (Chenopodiaceae): allopolyploid origin of hexaploid C. album s. str.
Karol Krak
P 24 Tonoplast-mediated phloem loading of sucrose in Populus; modern functionality for an ancient sucrose transporter
Scott A. Harding
P 25 Detecting the signatures of convergent evolution genome-wide 
Jun-Hoe Lee
P 26 Geographic distribution, origin and postglacial history of the two cytotypes of Alnus glutinosa in Europe  
Jan Douda
P 27 An LTR retrotransposon-derived SIRH11/ZCCHC16 gene involved in cognitive function displays lineage-specific structural and putative species-specific functional variations in eutherians.  
Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino
P 28 Characterization of the Immune Genes Controlling Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
Charbel Aboukhater
P 29 A first step toward ecological genomic models of transposable element dynamics  
Alheli flores-Ferrer
P 30 Fast and scalable genome-wide SNP genotyping (ddRADseq-ion) on Ion Torrent next-generation sequencing platform
Arne Jacobs
P 31 NGS and bioinformatic : new perspective and applications
Julien Paganini
P32 Population genomics of the red coral Corallium rubrum: in the search for adaptive loci in a context of strong genetic structure.
Didier Aurelle
P 33 Investigating Historical Mechanisms Driving Androgen Responsiveness
Jennifer Colucci
P 34 Average Genomic Identity of Orthologous Gene Sequences (AGIOS): a new efficient tool for genomic comparison
Simon Bessis
P35 Evidences of conditional selection on the developmental cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum
Janaina Lima De Oliveira
P 36 Distal substitutions drive divergent DNA specificity among paralogous transcription factors through subdivision of conformational space.
Emily R. Weikum, William H. Hudson
P 37 Whole Genome Duplications Shaped the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Repertoire of Jawed Vertebrates
Frédéric BRUNET, Jean-Nicolas VOLFF, Manfred SCHARTL