Program

24th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles

The date of the next meeting is September 20-23, 2022 If the travel conditions are the same as this year then we will organize a virtual meeting. We are working on this possibility to be sure that the EBM will continue

This is the last program  (23rd EBM)

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

12 PPRaphaël 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 PPE. 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 PPMaria 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