Program 15th EBM
September 27th
8:00 9:00 am
Registration, posters intallation and welcome coffee
9:00 9:10 am
Introduction
Evolutionary Mechanisms
Chairman: Einhard Schierenberg
9:10 9:30 am
Evidence for species-specific co-evolution of proteins controlling sex determination in the dipterans
Lucas Sánchez
9:30 9:50 am
Parallel arms races and convergent molecular evolution: garter snakes (Thamnophis) repeatedly adapt to deadly prey
Chris R. Feldman
9:50 10:10 am
Environmental regulation of floral color
Yingqing Lu
10:10 10:55 am
Coffee break, posters viewing
Evolutionary Mechanisms
Chairman: Lorena Ruiz-Montoya
10:55 11:15 am
The effects of group size, leaf size, and density on the performance of a leaf-mining moth
Candace Low
11:15 11:35 am
Effects of random and. selective mass extinctions on ecology, phylogeny, and community composition in communities of digital organisms
Gabriel Yedid
11:35 11:55 am
Evolution of viviparity and genomic imprinting in mammal by retrotransposons
Fumitoshi Ishino
11:55 12:15 am
Quantitative Genome Evolution
Hoong Chien Lee
12:15 12:35 am
Cryptic simplicity of the adaptive process: the role of TEs in adaptation to temperate climates
Josefa González
12:35 2:00 pm
Lunch
Evolutionary Mechanisms
Chairman: Lara Dawn Shepherd
2:00 2:20 pm
Genome size and species diversification
Ken Kraaijeveld
2:20 2:40 pm
Impact of replication on the evolution of the nucleotide composition in yeast genomes
Gilles Fischer
2:40 3:00 pm
Chromatin remodeling in spermatids as a new male-driven source of allelic polymorphism
Guylain Boissonneault
3:00 3:20 pm
Reduced genetic diversity and reproductive fitness of Central European halophytes growing in inland salt habitats
Kathleen Prinz
3:20 3:40 pm
Rapid evolution of fire melanism in replicated populations of pygmy grasshoppers
Anders Forsman
3:40 3:45 pm
PP 1 Relatedness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi drives plant growth via intraspecific fungal competition
Aurélien Roger
3:45 3:50 pm
PP 2 Parasitic Wasp Learning Generates Frequency-dependent Predation and Promotes Coexistence in Host-Parasitoid System: Neural Model Analysis
Masakazu Shimada
3:50 4:35 pm
Coffee break, posters viewing
4:35 4:55 pm
Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics
Matty P. Berg
4:55 5:15 pm
DFluctuations of environment, speciation and stability of benthic invertebrate communities in Lake Baikal.
Dmitry Y. Sherbakov
Molecular Evolution
Chairman: Belinda Chang
5:15 5:35 pm
The Evolution of Extracellular Matrix
Josephine C. Adams
5:35 5:55 pm
ROXYs: diversification and floral functions of land-plant specific glutaredoxins
Sabine Zachgo
5:55 6:15 pm
Evolution of Visual Opsin Genes in Fish and Primates
Shoji Kawamura
6:15 6:35 pm
Identification of functional retrogenes in human genome – new approach.
Joanna Ciomborowska
6:35 6:55
Hunger Artists: Yeast Adapted to Carbon Limitation show Trade-offs when Carbon is Abundant
Frank Rosenzweig
September 28 th
8:00 8:45 am
Morning coffee
08:45 09:05 am
J.B.S. Haldane and Evolutionary Biology
Krishna Dronamraju
Molecular Evolution
Chairman: Guylain Boissonneault
9:05 9:25 am
Deep inside into Vertebrates and Invertebrates evolution: the molecular evolution modes of strict orthologous protein sequences
KonstantinV. Gunbin
9:25 9:45 am
The Histone Variant CENP-A and Centromere Specification in Eukaryotes
Ben E. Black
9:45 10:05 am
New insights into the origin and evolution of Hox and ParaHox genes
Morgane Thomas-Chollier
10:05 10:25 am
Mechanisms underlying swift evolution and adaptation in yeast
Kevin J. Verstrepen
10:25 11:10 am
Coffee break, posters viewing
Molecular Evolution
Chairman: Acely Garza-Garcia
11:10 11:30 am
Early metazoan phylogeny: identifying obstacles and solutions
Tetyana Nosenko
11:30 11:50 am
The Rapid Evolution of Accessory Chromosomes in Bacteria
Madhusudan Choudhary
11:50 12:10 am
Alternative splicing: its impact on protein diversity of specific gene families and its relationship with cis-regulatory and protein divergence
Xavier de la Cruz
12:10 12:30 am
Horizontal gene transfer in influenza strain generation: a comparative evolutionary study
Paul-Michael Agapow
12:30 12:50 am
The effect of sequence age on protein evolutionary rate
Mar M Albà
12:50 2:00 pm
Lunch
Molecular Evolution
Chairman: Frank Rosenzweig
2:00 2:20 pm
New insights into the evolution of Hox proteins
Stefanie Hueber
2:20 2:40 pm
Comparative Molecular Evolution of Trichoderma Chitinases
Magnus Karlsson
2:40 3:00 pm
Analysis of codon usage patterns in mutationally biased genomes
Ivan Erill
3:00 3:20 pm
CACTA and CACTA-like element differentiation in Arabidopsis
Nam-Soo Kim
3:20 3:40 pm
Large scale comparative genomics of transposable elements in fish
Domitille Chalopin
3:40 4:00 pm
Transposable elements in reptilian and avian (sauropsida) genomes
Dusan Kordis
4:00 4:05 pm
PP 3 Cytosine deaminase versatility: from cancer therapy to bacterial genome instability studies
Mariana Gabriela Ghinet
4:05 4:10 pm
PP 4 Ghost loci in basal animal genomes resolve the origin of Hox and ParaHox loci
Olivia Mendivil Ramos
4:10 4:45 pm
Coffee Break, posters view
Molecular Evolution
Chairman: Josefa Gonzalez
4:45 4:50 pm
PP 5 Multidimensional scaling and the evolution of protein families: The example of G protein-coupled receptors
Marie Chabbert
4:50 4:55 pm
PP 6 Genomic studies on the spheroid body of the diatom Rhopalodia gibba.
Barbara I.K. Schoenfeld
4:55 5:15 pm
Evolution of PP5, PPEF and PP7 protein Ser/Thr phosphatases
Alexandra V. Andreeva
5:15 5:35 pm
Molecular evolutionary analysis of 5’ regulatory region of Lim3 locus associated with D. melanogaster lifespan control.
Olga Rybina
Biodiversity and Evolution
Chairman: Cene Gostincar
5:35 5:55 pm
Phylogeny of the sea chub genus Kyphosus (F. Kyphosidae)
Kendall D. Clements
5:55 6:15 pm
Ancient dogs phenotypic variations: a gleam from the past
Morgane Ollivier
6:15 6:35 pm
Tracing the domestication and translocation history of cultivated New Zealand plants using DNA markers.
Lara Shepherd
September 29th
8:00 8:45 am
Morning coffee
Biodiversity and Evolution
Chairman: Sohan Modak
8:45 9:05 am
Genetic diversity within the cryptic species of Botrytis cinerea causing grey mold on different crops in Hungary
Erzsébet Sándor
9:05 9:25 am
Molecular phylogeny of Mytilus edulis: Dispersal and diversity of the blue mussel at the coast of Germany
Georg Steinert
9:25 9:45 am
Relics of the Europe’s warm past: Microrefugia in the Aesculapian snake
Petr Kotlík
9:45 10:05 am
Characterization of DRB3.2 gen in Mexican Creole cattle
Ilda Fernández García
10:05 10:25 am
Trends of the herbs ecological evolution
Sergei N. Sheremetiev
10:25 11:10 am
Coffee break, posters viewing
Biodiversity and Evolution
Chairman: Addy Pross
11:10 11:30 am
Local and global population genetic differentiation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
Soren Rosendahl
11:30 11:50 am
Molecular identification methods of fish species: reassessment, possible applications and comparison with the DNA barcoding proposal
Fabrice Teletchea
11:50 12:10 am
Timing and patterns of divergence in Neotropical cichlid fishes
Hernán López-Fernández
12:10 12:30 am
Genetic diversity among some fruit tree viruses and its evolutionary significance
Delano James
12:30 2:00 pm
Lunch
Biodiversity and Evolution
Chairman: Masakazu Shimada
2:00 2:20 pm
Marine Genetics in Brazil – a Review
Antonio Mateo Solé-Cava
2:20 2:40 pm
Measuring alpha diversity of microbial communities
Hitoshi Koyano
2:40 3:00 pm
New insights into Xenarthran phylogeny: a study of anteaters, armadillos and sloths using complete mitochondrial genomes
Gillian C. Gibb
3:00 3:20 pm
Patterns of genetic variation and anagenetic speciation in two endemic maple species of Ullung Island, South Korea
Koji Takayama
3:20 3:25 pm
PP 7 Influence of the Benguela Cold Current System in Genetic Differentiation of Coastal Fish Species: Evidence for a Biodiversity Hotspot
Romina Henriques
3:25 3:30 pm
PP 8 Diversified Chloroplast Genomic Organizations in Pinaceae and the Evolution of Pinaceous Genera and Subfamilies
Shu-Miaw Chaw
3:30 3:35pm
PP 9 Molecular responses of the red coral Corallium rubrum to thermal stress in a context of climate change
Anne Haguenauer
Concepts
Chairman: Fabrice Teletchea
3:35 3:55 pm
What Is Cultural Phylogeny, and How Do We Model It?
Michael J. O’Brien, Gloria Smithn
3:55 4:15 pm
Evolution of Resource Cycling in Ecosystems and Individuals
Anton Crombach
4:15: 5:00 pm
Coffee Break, posters viewing
5:00 5:20 pm
Toward a General Theory of Evolution: Extending Darwinian Theory to Inanimate Matter
Addy Pross
5:20 5:40 pm
Distinguishing explanatory regimes in evolutionary biology: a systematic view
Philippe Huneman
Evolutionary Biology Concepts
Chairman: Xavier de la Cruz
5:40 6:00 pm
Fungal Pathogens and Extremophiles – One Evolution, Two Outcomes?
Cene Gostinčar
6:00 6:20 pm
Computing local and global descriptors for infering gene/genomic functional features in prokaryotes
Vasilis J. Promponas
6:20 6:40 pm
Phylogenetic Applications on Continuous Characters
Marc Thuillard
September 30 th
8:00 8:45 am
Morning coffee
Evolutionary Biology Concepts
Chairman: Chris Feldman
8:45 9:05 am
Latest, although not last, methodological advances for the study of the biota’s geographical distribution and evolution
Ella Vázquez-Domínguez
9:05 9:25 am
Insight into the processes that drive the evolution of fast moving structures: modularity and functional morphology
Thomas Claverie
9:25 9:45 am
OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes
Stephen D. Hopper, Rhian Smith
9:45 10:05 am
Reconstructing genomic sequences by co-evolution
Tamir Tuller
10:05 10:25 am
Fisher’s geometric model with a moving optimum
Michael Kopp
10:25 10:30 am
PP 10 Estimating taxonomic fidelity of phylogenetic trees
Sohan P Modak
10:30 10:35 am
PP 11 Computer simulation of the macro-evolutionary events in symbiotic systems
Nikolay Provorov
10:35 10:40 am
PP 12 Selfishness through Altruism – A Paradoxical
Xuguang Leng
10:40 11:25 am
Coffee break, posters viewing
Evolutionary Biology Concepts
Chairman: Margherita Raineri
11:25 11:45 am
The origin and evolution of the patterns of mortality and survival
Aleksey Golubev
11:45 12:05 am
Dynamic evolution of translation initiation mechanisms in prokaryotes
So Nakagawa
12:05 12:25 am
Aggregation propensity acts as strong constraint during evolution
Salvador Ventura
12:25 12:30 am
PP 13 Understanding the Effect of Secondary Structures and Aggregation on Human Protein Folding Class Evolution
Tina Begum
12:30 12:35 am
PP 14 Recovering nucleotide substitution rate matrices from alignments
Bennet J McComish
12:35 12:40 am
PP 15 Prediction of biological functions of Shewanella-like protein phosphatases (Shelphs) across different domains of life
Mikhail A. Kutuzov
12:40 2:00 pm
Lunch
Evolution of Complex Traits
Chairman: Olga Rybina
2:00 2:20 pm
Dissecting the vertebrate lineage of a salamander protein involved in limb regeneration: An example of the incorporation of protein 3D structures into phylogenetic analyses
Acely Garza -Garcia
2:20 2:40 pm
Functional evo-devo of the post-floral novelties in Solanaceae
Chaoying He
2:40 3:00 pm
Structural shifts of aldehyde dehydrogenase enzymes were instrumental for the early evolution of retinoid-dependent axial patterning in metazoans
Michael Schubert
3:00 3:20 pm
Evolution of nematode embryogenesis
Einhard Schierenberg
3:20 3:40 pm
Old shell, new snail: Correspondence between fossil and extant species
Simon F. K. Hills
3:40 3:45 pm
PP 16 Elucidating general patterns of evolutionary dynamics in bilaterians on multiple scales: Insights from Platynereis sp. foregut analysis, comparative genomics, and population sampling
Oleg Simakov
3:45 4:30 pm
Coffee Break, posters viewing
Evolution of Complex Traits
Chairman: Vasilis Promponas
4:30 4:50 pm
Tree-dimensional imaging and analysis for anatomical comparison: examples from mouse phenotyping
R. Mark Henkelman
4:50 5:10
Not all brains are made the same: new views on brain scaling in evolution
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
5:10 5:30 pm
Petal differentiation in the Portulacinae: evidence for multiple origins
Louis Ronse De Craene
POSTERS WITH SHORT ORAL PRESENTATION
PP 1 Relatedness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi drives plant growth via intraspecific fungal competition
Aurélien Roger
PP 2 Parasitic Wasp Learning Generates Frequency-dependent Predation and Promotes Coexistence in Host-Parasitoid System: Neural Model Analysis
Masakazu Shimada
PP 3 Cytosine deaminase versatility: from cancer therapy to bacterial genome instability studies
Mariana Gabriela Ghinet
PP 4 Ghost loci in basal animal genomes resolve the origin of Hox and ParaHox loci
Olivia Mendivil Ramos
PP 5 Multidimensional scaling and the evolution of protein families: The example of G protein-coupled receptors
Marie Chabbert
PP 6 Genomic studies on the spheroid body of the diatom Rhopalodia gibba.
Barbara I.K. Schoenfeld
PP 7 Influence of the Benguela Cold Current System in Genetic Differentiation of Coastal Fish Species: Evidence for a Biodiversity Hotspot
Romina Henriques
PP 8 Diversified Chloroplast Genomic Organizations in Pinaceae and the Evolution of Pinaceous Genera and Subfamilies
Shu-Miaw Chaw
PP 9 Molecular responses of the red coral Corallium rubrum to thermal stress in a context of climate change
Anne Haguenauer
PP 10 Estimating taxonomic fidelity of phylogenetic trees
Sohan P Modak
PP 11 Computer simulation of the macro-evolutionary events in symbiotic systems
Nikolay Provorov
PP 12 Selfishness through Altruism – A Paradoxical
Xuguang Leng
PP 13 Understanding the Effect of Secondary Structures and Aggregation on Human Protein Folding Class Evolution
Tina Begum
PP 14 Recovering nucleotide substitution rate matrices from alignments
Bennet J McComish
PP 15 Prediction of biological functions of Shewanella-like protein phosphatases (Shelphs) across different domains of life
Mikhail A. Kutuzov
PP 16 Elucidating general patterns of evolutionary dynamics in bilaterians on multiple scales: Insights from Platynereis sp. foregut analysis, comparative genomics, and population sampling
Oleg Simakov
POSTERS
P17 Comparison of Botrytis cinerea populations isolated from two cultivated host plants
Mojtaba Assadollahi
P18 Do phosphorylated and non-phosphorylated amino acid residues evolve at different rates in mammals?
Feng-Chi Chen
P19 Expression divergence between human and non-human primates during the transition of embryonic stem cells to neural progenitors
Trees-Juen Chuang
P20 Phylogeography of the Mediterranean red coral Corallium rubrum: evaluation of the genetic consequences of past environmental fluctuations
Isabelle Pivotto
P21 Dissecting the vertebrate lineage of a salamander protein involved in limb regeneration: An example of the incorporation of protein 3D structures into phylogenetic analyses
Paul C. Driscoll
P22 Complex evolution of S5, a major reproductive barrier regulator, in the cultivated rice Oryza sativa and its wild relatives
Yidan Ouyang, Hongyi Du, Chengjun Zhang, Qifa Zhang
P23 Phylogeography of truffles in Europe – preliminary results
Tine Grebenc
P24 Why we need new evidences for deep Archaea evolution: The lesson from study of horizontal transfer highways
KonstantinV. Gunbin
P25 Diversification of Pong-like elements in Brassica species and Arabidopsis
Kyung-Cheul Park, Young-Sup Lee, Jae-Han Son, Sung-Il Lee, and Nam-Soo Kim
P26 Differential regional response by a small mammal to late Quaternary climate change
Marjorie D. Matocq
P27 Developmental organization of the larval nervous system in a cnidarian (Clava multicornis Forsskål, 1775, Hydrozoa)
Margherita Raineri
P28 Plasticity of morphological traits of Brevicoryne brassicae in reaction to variation in nitrogen content of host plants
Lorena Ruiz-Montoya
P29 Homosexuality as a normal and necessary outcome of natural selection
John M. Saul
P30 Characterisation of pathogen populations in grapevine
Váczy Kálmán Zoltán
P31 Duplicates differential evolution in teleost fishes, the case of sox11
Emilien Voldoire
P32 The chordate proteome history database
Pierre Pontarotti
P33 Molecular evolution of visual pigments
Belinda Chang
P 34 Gene-loss and pseudogenisation in human lineage throughout the eukaryotes evolution
Jacques Dainat
P35 Phylogenetic study of the butyrophilin family
Hassnae Afrache
P 36 An eTBR proposal for non-binary trees in MCMC Bayesian phylogeny
Blaise Li
P 37 Comparative phylogeography of Dinoponera lucida and Atta robusta, two threatened-extinction ant species from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest
Tânia Maria Fernandes-Salomão
P 38 Studies on cellulases in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus
Lisa N. Schuster
P 39 Evidence for positive selection in sites neighbouring TaySachs and Sandhoff disease implicated regions
Sushrut Arora
P 40 Diversity, horizontal gene transfer and mobile elements in wine yeasts
Virginie Galeote
P 41 Pig genome evolution: chromosomal rearrangements and their impact on gene networks
Jitendra Narayan
P 42 Phylogeography of two hare species in Japanese archipelago
Mitsuo Nunome
P 43 A thermo-regulatory hypothesis on the evolution of size sexual dimorphism in mammals and its consequence in a context of climate change.
Marcelo H. Cassini
P 44 The role of Pleistocene glaciations in shaping the genetic structure of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus australis): lesson for future climate changes.
Marcelo H. Cassini
P 45 Sequence analysis of class 1 integron’s integrase gene and the associated attI1 recombination site.
Daniela Centrón
P 46 Recombination of fungal adhesins increases functional diversity
Joaquin F. Christiaens
P 47 Application of cophylogenic tools to gene sets
Bernard R. Baum
P 48 Analysing gene duplication patterns among physically interacting proteins of the human protein-protein interaction network
Aoife Doherty
P 49 A Network-Based Approach to Finding Fusion Genes
Leanne Haggerty
P 50 Diversification of visual receptors (opsin) coincides with major environmental factors such as the cambrian explosion and the oxygenation of the oceans
Sinéad Hamilton
P 51 A multidisciplinary approach to the study of electric waveform evolution in gymnotiform fishes
Nathan Lovejoy
P 52 The existence of species rests on a metastable equilibrium between inbreeding and outbreeding.
Etienne Joly