Program 12th EBM
08h00 – 09h00:
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee
09h00 – 09h10:
Introduction
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY & CONCEPT MODELIZATION
Chairman: Tomislav Domazet-Loso
09h10 – 09h35:
Accross-species variation in protein surface properties
Xavier de la Cruz
09h35 – 10h00 :
Genomic phylostratigraphy: a novel approach in macroevolutionary studies
Tomislav Domazet-Loso
10h00 – 10h25:
Nearly-neutral dynamics: when is selection not selective?
Daniel John Lawson
10h25 – 10h50:
Low Duplicability and Network Fragility of Cancer Genes
Francesca D. Ciccarelli
10h50 – 11h20:
Coffee break and Poster viewing
11h20 – 11h45:
Framework for a comparative data analysis ontology (ODAO)
Francisco Prosdocimi
11h45 – 12h10:
Interacting Gene Clusters and the Evolution of the Vertebrate Immune System
Takashi Makino
12h10 – 12h35:
Speciation through spatial self-organization of the gene pool
Guy A. Hoelzer
12h35 – 13h00:
The Evolutionary Constraints in Mutational Replacements
Branko Borštnik
13h00 – 14h30 :
Lunch at meeting center
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY & CONCEPTE MODELIZATION
Chairman: Anne Chenuil-Maurel
14h30 – 14h55 :
Galaxies and Cladistics
Didier Fraix-Burnet
14h55 – 15h20:
Modelling the relation between kinship and fertility
Stanislaw Cebrat
15h20 – 16h00:
Fast presentation: PP1, PP2, PP3, PP4, PP5, PP6, PP7
16h00 – 16h45:
Coffee break and Poster viewing
16h45 – 17h10:
Evolution of biological networks under duplication-divergence processes
Hervé Isambert
17h10 – 17h35:
Ecological Genomics of soil nematode community responses: model and non-model approaches
Michael A. Herman
17h35 – 18h00:
Accident and necessity in the quest to make economics a scientific discipline
Michael Turk
20h30:
Dinner at Vieux Port
September 25th
08h30 – 09h00:
Morning coffee
BIODIVERSITY & SYSTEMATICS
Chairman: Don Stewart
09h00 – 09h25:
Investigating the population structure of Hepatitis B virus
Camille Szmaragd
09h25 – 09h50:
Fossil Evidence of Early Angiosperms
Xin Wang
09h50 – 10h15:
Verhuellia, from forgotten taxon to a missing link in the evolution of the family Piperaceae
Marie-Stéphanie Samain
10h15 – 10h40:
Gymnophionan: a turning-point in vertebrate evolution?
Jean-Marie Exbrayat
10h40 – 11h10
Coffee break and Poster viewing
11h10 – 11h35
Fast presentations: PP8, PP9, PP10, PP11
ORIGIN OF LIFE
Chairman: Camille Szmaragd
11h35 – 12h00:
Water: from the nonenzymatic phosphorylation of nucleosides to the nonenzymatic ligation of oligonucleotides
Ernesto Di Mauro
12h00 – 12h25:
Life Origination Hydrate Hypothesis (LOH-Hypothesis)
Victor E. Ostrovskii
12h25 – 12h50:
Minimal Cell Model to Understand Origin of Life and Evolution
Tadashi Sugawara
12h50 – 14h20:
Lunch at meeting center
ENVIRONMENT & BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION
Chairman: Josephine Adams
14h20 – 14h45:
Holocene abrupt climate change: links to human evolution
Alison J. Smith
14h45 – 15h10:
Effect of pollen availability and climate on female reproductive success of a conifer tree, Abies alba Mill
Gwendal Restoux
NON ADAPTATIVE VERSUS ADAPTATIVE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Lior David
15h10 – 15h35:
Reconstraction of ancestral forms and the evolutionary history of fish galectins reveal their rapid adaptive evolution process
Tomohisa Ogawa
15h35 – 16h00:
Genetic robustness can drive sympatric speciation
Niclas Norrström
16h00 – 16h25:
Comparative evolutionary histories of the fungal chitinase gene family reveal non-random size expansions and contractions due to adaptive natural selection
Magnus Karlsson
16h25 – 17h10:
Coffee break and Poster viewing
17h10 – 17h35:
Molecular Co-evolution and the Three-dimensionality of Natural Selection
Mario A. Fares
17h35 – 18h00
The Red Tooth Hypothesis: Predator-prey relations and sexual reproduction
Robert French
18h00 – 18h25:
Population genetics of drought adaptation in wild tomatoes: the role of the Asr gene family
Létizia Camus-Kulandauvelu
18h25 – 18h50:
Positive selection in a nematode virulence factor presenting a B30.2 domain
Eric Grenier
18h50:
Cocktail and Poster viewing
September 26th
08h30 – 09h00:
Welcome coffee
EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAIT
Chairman: Alison Smith
09h00 – 09h25:
Are there conserved longevity pathways?
Brian Kennedy
09h25 – 09h50:
Functional studies of mussel sperm: Implications for understanding doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in bivalves
Don Stewart
09h50 – 10h15
The Evolution Of Developmental Signalling In The Social Amoebas
Pauline Schaap
10h15 – 10h40:
Metabolic evolution explains weakness of antioxidant defences in pancreatic beta-cells
Armin Rashidi
10h40 – 11h15
Coffee break, Poster Viewing
11h15 – 11h 45:
Fast presentation: PP12, PP13, PP14, PP15, PP16
GENE & GENOME EVOLUTION
Chairman: Jose Maria Eirin-Lopez
11h45 – 12h10:
Recent duplication of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) genome implications for population structure and diversity analyses
Lior David
12h10 – 12h35:
The sperm proteins from amphioxus mirror its basal position among chordates and redefine the origin of vertebrate protamines
José M. Eirin-Lopez
12h35 – 13h00:
Protein subcellular relocalization (PSR)A mechanism for the evolution of new gene function
Ashley Byun McKay
13h00 – 14h30:
Lunch at meeting center
14h30 – 14h55:
Is there an analog of mammalian Zona Pellucida in moon jelly Aurelia aurita (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria)?
Leonid Adonin
14h55 – 15h20:
Long-term evolution og the Histone H2A Family Mediated by a Birth-and-Death Process
Rodrigo Gonzalez-Romero
15h20 – 15h45:
The Evolution of Thrombospondins and their context in Extracellular Matrix: Phylogenetic and Phylogenomic Studies
Josephine C. Adams
15h45 – 16h10:
Minimum contradictions matrices: a visualization tool to validate phylogenies
Marc Thuillard
16h10 – 16h45
Coffee break, Poster Viewing
16h45 – 17h10:
Plant parasitism in metazoans: insights from the meloidogyne incognita nematode genome
Etienne Danchin
17h10 – 17h35:
Evolutionary Genomics of CpG Islands in Primates
Claire Guillet
17h35 – 18h00:
Does hybridization increase evolutionary rates? Data from 28S rDNA D8 domain in echinoderms
Anne Chenuil
POSTERS WITH FAST PRESENTATION
PP1: Quest for the pervasive definition of homology: insights from information theory and a mathematical model of sameness
Vedran Dunjko
PP2: Firts results on ecological and genetic divergence between the Mediterranean Myrtus communis L.and the Saharan Myrtus nivellei Batt. & Trab. (Myrtaceae)
Jérémy Migliore
PP3: Phylostratigraphic analysis of the Ciona intestinalis genome supports the origin of the urochordate sessile life style after the split from vertebrates
Martin Sebastijan Šestak
PP4: Phylostratigraphy of Caenorhabditis elegans genome reveals depletion of anatomy related mutant phenotypes among Nematoda specific genes
Robert Bakarić
PP5: Evolutionary analysis of Bombyx mori alpha-amylase from a local Thai strain silkworm
Lertluk Ngernsiri
PP6: Sexual selection, parental cooperation and brain size in shorebirds
Gabriel Ernesto García-Peña
PP7: New and old hobo transposable elements are distributed differently in the completely sequenced genome of Drosophila melanogaster
L.P. Zakharenko
PP8: Whole genome-based assessment of the taxonomic position of the arthropod pathogenic bacterium Rickettsiella grylli
Andreas Leclerque
PP9: Implication of Enzymatic Reactions in Capsule Revealed by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Giant Vesicle
Kentaro Suzuki
PP10: Ovipositor ultrastructure, oviposition behavior and fecundity of the cryptic and sympatric species, Trupanea nigricornis and T. bisetosa (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Khouzama Knio
PP11: Pervasive positive selection on duplicated and non duplicated vertebrate protein coding genes
Romain Studer
PP12: Near intron pairs (NIPs) and the phylogeny of holometabolic insects
Carina Eisenhardt
PP13: X chromosomes meiotic drive in Drosophilia simulans: a case of nonadaptive selective sweep induced by a two-locus selection
Héloïse Bastide
PP14: A Thirty Million Year-Old Inherited Heteroplasmy in Crustaceans
Vincent Doublet
PP15: Genetic diversity and Wolbachia infection status of Psyttalia lounsburyi (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), a specialist parasitoid of the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Diptera Tephritidae)
Sandrine Cheyppe-Buchmann
PP16: FOLy: an integrated database for the classification and functional annotation of fungal oxideroductases potentially involved in the degradation of the lignin and related aromatic compounds
Anthony Levasseur
POSTERS
The origin of evolutionary innovations: locomotor consequences of tail shape in aquatic snakes
Fabien Aubret
A new Perspective for the Evolution of Multicellularity: A role for Cheaters as a Primordial Germ-line
Peter L. Meintjes
Evolution and expression of chimeric GusL genes in the human genome : a paradigm for hominoid-specific gene families ?
Nicolas Pantel
Evolution of asymmetry
Armin Rashidi
A trade-off between growth rate and predator escape response among divergent grayling (Thymallus thymallus) spawning demes.
Nicola J. Barson
From oviparity to viviparity : evolution of the female genital tract in gymnophionan amphibians
Raquet Michel
Patterns of differentiation in annual killifishes from South American basins: the role of vicariance and dispersal
Graciela García
Problem of using rpoC1, rpoB, matK and trnH-psbA plastid loci in barcoding of three wheat species
Zofia Bulińska-Radomska
Phylogenetic analysis of three Conserved Non coding Elements in vertebrates and cephalochordates
Kalliopi Georgiades
A preliminary genetic analysis of some Turkish horse breeds and implications for breed management studies
Özgür Aslan
Plant parasitism in metazoans: insights from the meloidogyne incognita nematode genome
Etienne Danchin
C.A.S.S.I.O.P.E.: Clever Agent System for Synteny Inheritance and Other Phenomena in Evolution
Virginie Lopez Rascol
Genetic analysis of natural populations of gilthead seabream, Sparus aurata, along Italian coast.
Paolo Franchini
Comparative and evolutive analysis of the ABC transporter repertories in the complete archaeal genomes
Bénédicte Wirth