Program
September 16th
8:00 9:20 am
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee
9:20 9:30 am
Introduction
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Nir Goldman
9:30 9:54 am
Phenotypic Evolution Driven By New Genes: An Emerging Paradigm
Manyuan Long
9:54 10:18 am
Functional mapping: How to map genes for phenotypic plasticity of development
Rongling Wu
10:18 10:42 am
Comparative genomics approach to understand floral transition in a major crop legume,
soybean
Prem L Bhalla
10:42 11:32 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Collen Winters
11:32 11:56 am
The floral morphospace – a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution
Marion Chartier
11:56 12:20 am
Convergence for everyone? Detecting disparate signals of genomic adaptive convergence in several different datasets:initial results, lessons, and perspectives.
Joe Parker
12:20 12 :40 am
PP 1 Crustaceans HEAt shock Proteins (CHEAP), a new HSP70 subfamily: Diversity, Evolution and functionality within the arthropods
Stephane Baringou
PP 2 Sodium/Potassium ATPase pump in crustaceans: Novel Insights into Evolution and Structure
Rahma Thabet
PP 3 RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of Calligrapha leaf beetle testes and the quest for male-specific genes
Helena I. Vizán-Rico
12:40 2:10 pm
Lunch
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Abraham Korol
2:10 2:34 pm
Dynamics of mitochondrial inheritance in the evolution of binary mating types and two sexes
Zena Hadjivasiliou
2:34 2:58 pm
Systematic exploration of genotype, phenotype, and experimental fitness in ubiquitin
Dan Bolon
2:58 3:22 pm
Unravelling the evolution of multicellular complexity in Dictyostelid social amoebas by combining phenotypic mapping with comparative genomics and gene replacement.
Pauline Schaap
3:22 3:46 pm
Evolution and diversity of conjugation and type IV secretion systems
Julien Guglielmini
3:46 4:10 pm
Genomic donor cassette sharing in VLRA and VLRC assemblies in jawless vertebrates: Evolutionary implications
Sabyasachi Das
4:10 5:00 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Tetyana Nosenko
5:00 5:24 pm
The roles of gene novelty and cooption in development and function of the germ line and nervous system
Cassandra G. Extavour
5:24 5:48 pm
Promoter Order Strategy and Bacterial Regulon Evolution
Goran Jovanovic
5:48 6:12 pm
Evolutionary conservation of early mesoderm specification by mechanotransduction in Bilateria
Emmanuel Farge
6:12 6:36 pm
Whole genome analyses of the impact of transposable elements in the recent evolution of plant genomes
Josep M. Casacuberta
September 17th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee/tea
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Fyodor Kkondrashov
8:30 8:54am
Evolution of pollination and breeding systems of island and mainland Caribbean plants
of the family Gesneriaceae
Silvana Martén-Rodríguez
8:54 9:18 am
Evolution of novelty: from predatory feeding to novel genes
Ralf Sommer
9:18 9:42 am
Retrotransposons: Genomic and Pan-Genomic Agents of Change
David L. Adelson
9:42 10:06 am
Morphological variation in freshwater blenny Salaria fluviatilis from Corsican rivers:
adaptive divergence, phenotypic plasticity, or both?
Pierre Magnan
10:06 10:56 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
GENOME AND PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Amanda De La Torre
10:56 11:20 am
Gene camouflage by fragmentation, RNA editing and accelerated evolution in mitochondria of diplonemids
Gertraud Burger
11:20 11:44 am
Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals the genetic basis of herbivore associated elicitor induced defense evolution in Nicotiana
Shuqing Xu
11:44 12:08 am
Evolutionary genomics of the powdery mildew pathogen and its adaptation to different cereal host species
Beat Keller
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Joe Praker
12:08 12:32 am
Functional recurrent nodal mutations in the human mitochondrial phylogeny: how did they survive selection?
Dan Mishmar
12:32 12:56 pm
Quantifying the mutational meltdown in diploid populations
Camille Coron
12:56 2:26 pm
Lunch
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Joe Parker
2:26 2:50 pm
Microsatellite-encoded domain in rodent Sry functions as a genetic capacitor to enablethe
rapid evolution of biological novelty
Michael A. Weiss
2:50 3:14 pm
Long-tongued pollinators shed light on coevolutionary dynamics and network emergence
Cang Hui
3:14 3:38 pm
A mapping model can identify which genes guide the evolution of heterochrony
Lidan Sun
3:38 4:23 pm
PP 4 Signatures of adaptation to plant parasitism in nematode genomes
Etienne Danchin
PP 5 Conserved genome architecture and transposable element impact
Reuben M. Buckley
PP 6 Stem cell genes characterization in Oscarella lobularis (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha): the stepping stone towards understanding somatic and germ lines origin
Laura Fierro
PP 7 Modern carbonate deposits from an artificial thermal environment in Romania as possible analogues of ancient stromatolites
Cristian Coman
PP 8 A Paradigm Shift Hypothesis: A case for RNA’s influence on Life on Earth
Sohan Jheeta
PP 9 DNA-dependent RNA polymerase detects hidden giant viruses in published
Vikas Sharma
PP 10 Strong genetic differences of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) between two close lakes (Geneva and Neuchâtel) at the end of the spawning season
Sana Ben Khadher
PP 11 Horizontal Transfer and Evolution of Transposable Elements in Animals
Atma M. Ivancevic
4:23 4:47 pm
Increased recombination caused by directional selection for stress-related traits in Drosophila melanogaster
Abraham Korol, Eugenia Rashkovetsky
4:47 5:37 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Ernesto Di Mauro
5:37 6:01 pm
The kinetid of choanocytes as a key to reconstruction the ancestral kinetid of opisthokont
Igor Pozdnyakovs
6:01 6:25 pm
Decoding plant and animal genome plasticity from differential paleo-evolutionarypatterns
and processes
Jérôme Salse
6:25 6:49 pm
On the divergence of archaeal and bacterial membranes
Victor Sojo
6:49 7:13 pm
A report on the Echinoderm Tree of Life project.
Daniel Janies
7:13 7:37 pm
Adaptation to Low Temperatures in Wild Tomato Species
Tetyana Nosenko
September 18th
8:00 8:15 am
Morning coffee/tea
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Jesús Gómez-Zurita
8:15 8:39 am
Comparative genomics as a time machine: How relative gene dosage and metabolic requirements shaped the time-dependent resolution of yeast polyploidy
Gavin C. Conant
8:39 9:03 am
The flying genes: widespread and frequent horizontal transfers of transposable elements in plants.
Olivier Panaud
9:03 9:27 am
Modeling epistasis in molecular evolution
Fyodor A. Kondrashov
9:27 9:51 am
Divergence of duplicate genes in exon-intron structure
Hongzhi Kong
9:51 10:41 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
GENETIC POPULATION AND SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Mihaela Pertea
10:41 11:05 am
Gene-flow between niches facilitates local adaptation in sexual populations
Matthew R. Goddard
11:05 11:25 am
PP 12 Comparative analyses of mitogenomes and nuclear genomes from crustaceans
Stephane Baringou
PP 13 Mitochondria crossing barriers: repeated mtDNA introgression among hares (Lepus spp.) inferred using coalescent-based approaches
Fernando Seixas
PP 14 Assessment of certain food preservatives on biological and biochemical parameters of Biomphalaria alexandrina snails, as a biological model.
Fathia Gawish
11:25 11:49 am
Non-random patterns of genetic admixture expose an unexpected complexity for the hybrid origin of unisexual leaf beetle species
Jesús Gómez-Zurita
11:49 12:13 am
Genomic admixture and the maintenance of species boundaries between Picea species
Amanda R. De La Torre
12:13 1:43 pm
Lunch
GENETIC POPULATION AND SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Alexis De Tiège
1:43 2:07 pm
Upstream or downstream? Land snail, Ventridens ligera (Say, 1821), population structure in the Potomac River Watershed
Collen Winters
2:07 2:31 pm
Progress in Evolution and Systematics of the Elopomorpha (Teleostei)
Wei-Jen Chen
2:31 2:55 pm
Phylogeography and population genetics of Chagas disease vectors R. Prolixus and R. robustus s.l. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) cryptic species complex.
Márcio G. Pavan
2:55 3:20 pm
PP 15 Explaining invasion success of alien trees in southern Africa
Simeon Bezen Bezeng
PP 16 Environmental and biological studies on the potency of Asparagus densiflours and Oreopanax guatemalensis plants and Difenoconazole fungicide on Biomphalaria alexandrina snails
Fatma Afifi A. El-Deeb
PP 17 Phylogenetic relationships of Apodemus Kaup, 1829 (Rodentia: Muridae) species in the Middle East and Afghanistan inferred from mitochondrial cyt b sequences
Jamshid Darvish
PP 18 Forest tree species traced with the DNA based proofs for illegal logging case in Poland
J.A. Nowakowska, A. Tereba
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Julien Guglielmini
3:20 3:44 pm
The Evolution of Dominance in Response to Sexually Antagonistic Selection
Hamish Spencer
3:44 4:08 pm
Evolution of host-beneficial traits in symbiotic microbes: is inter-species altruism involved?
Nikolai Provorov
4:08 4:32 pm
Domestication and genetic variability in fish: what has been learned so far?
Fabrice Teletchea
4:32 4:56 pm
Genetical genomics of chicken comb size and pleiotropy with bone allocation
Martin Johnsson
4:56 5:46 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Florian Habermacher
5:46 6:10 pm
How does an obligate asexual plant parasitic species adapts to its host? Looking for evidences in the multiple diverged copies genome of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.
Romain Blanc-Mathieu
6:10 6:34 pm
Asexuality as a facilitator of range expansion and diversification in plants: a model
Diego Hojsgaard
6:34 6:58 pm
Extensive gene-by-environment interactions in gene expression reaction norms to copper within Saccharomyces cerevisiae are in accord with a House-of-Cards model of stabilizing selection and increased mutational variance in atypical environments
Jeffrey P. Townsend
September 19th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee/tea
EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS
Chairman: Florian Habermacher
8:30 8:54 am
Genes within genes: the influence of genomic context on the evolution of genes
Federico Abascal
ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman: Jeffrey P. Townsend
8:54 9:18 am
Nonequilibrium Pathways to the Origin of Life
Dieter Braun
9:18 9:42 am
Shock-synthesis of prebiotic compounds in oxidizing and reduced impacting simple ices
Nir Goldman
9:42 10:06 am
From formamide to RNA the path is tenuous but continuous
Ernesto Di Mauro
10:06 10:30 am
Review of Exchange Processes on Ganymede in View of Its Planetary Protection Categorization
Olivier Grasset
10:30 11:20 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chaiman: Jeffrey P. Townsend
11:20 11:44 am
Interactions of clay minerals with aromatic hydrocarbons
Hideo Hashizume
11:44 12:08 am
Probing the limits of extremophilic life in extraterrestrial environment-simulated experiments
Claudia Lage
METHODS AND CONCEPTS
Chairman: Elizabeth Housworth
12:08 12:32 am
Aperiodic crystals prevail over collective self-organisation: on the physics of life and gene-centrism
Alexis de Tiège
12:32 12:56 am
Altruism, Religion and Irrationality – Emergence of Cultural Cooperation Dominating
Innate Altruism Under Intermittent Evolutionary Pressure
Florian Habermacher
12:56 2:26 pm
Lunch
METHODS AND CONCEPTS
Chairman: Elizabeth Housworth
2:26 2:50 pm
Homology in changing timescales
Hilton F. Japyassú
2:50 3:14 pm
Bacterial proteins pinpoint a unique root of the eukaryotic tree
Romain Derelle
3:14 3:38 pm
Stability-activity tradeoffs in engineering a Kemp Eliminase in a simplified model binding site
Matthew Merski
3:38 4:02 pm
StringTie: a new approach to transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data
Mihaela Pertea
4:02 4:26 pm
Melanin-specific life-history strategies: the role of the melanocortin system
Alexandre Roulin
4:26 4:31 pm
PP 19 Evolution of evolution curriculum – an example of interdisciplinary pilot project
Tamara Milosevic
4:31 5:21 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing
METHODS AND CONCEPTS
Chairman: Prem Bhalla
5:21 5:45 pm
Bootstrapping in Phylogenetics
Elizabeth Housworth
5:45 6:09 pm
Programmed translational jumping in yeast mitochondria
B.Franz Lang
6:09 6:33 pm
Floral traits predict the effective pollinators of angiosperms: a quantitative review of pollination syndromes
Mauricio Quesada
6:33 6:38 pm
Conclusion
Posters presents
PP 1 Crustaceans HEAt shock Proteins (CHEAP), a new HSP70 subfamily:
Diversity, Evolution and functionality within the arthropods
Stephane Baringou
PP 2 Sodium/Potassium ATPase pump in crustaceans: Novel Insights into Evolution and Structure
Rahma Thabet
PP 3 RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of Calligrapha leaf beetle testes and the quest for male-specific genes
Helena I. Vizán-Rico
PP 4 Signatures of adaptation to plant parasitism in nematode genomes
Etienne Danchin
PP 5 Conserved genome architecture and transposable element impact
Reuben M. Buckley
PP 6 Stem cell genes characterization in Oscarella lobularis (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha): the stepping stone towards understanding somatic and germ lines origin
Laura Fierro
PP 7 Modern carbonate deposits from an artificial thermal environment in Romania as possible analogues of ancient stromatolites
Cristian Coman
PP 8 A Paradigm Shift Hypothesis: A case for RNA’s influence on Life on Earth
Sohan Jheeta
PP 9 DNA-dependent RNA polymerase detects hidden giant viruses in published
Vikas Sharma
PP 10 Strong genetic differences of Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) between two close lakes (Geneva and Neuchâtel) at the end of the spawning season
Sana Ben Khadher
PP 11 Horizontal Transfer and Evolution of Transposable Elements in Animals
Atma M. Ivancevic
PP 12 Comparative analyses of mitogenomes and nuclear genomes from crustaceans
Stephane Baringou
PP 13 Mitochondria crossing barriers: repeated mtDNA introgression among hares (Lepus spp.) inferred using coalescent-based approaches
Fernando Seixas
PP 14 Assessment of certain food preservatives on biological and biochemical parameters of Biomphalaria alexandrina snails, as a biological model.
Fathia Gavish
PP 15 Explaining invasion success of alien trees in southern Africa
Simeon Bezen Bezeng
PP 16 Environmental and biological studies on the potency of Asparagus densiflours and Oreopanax guatemalensis plants and Difenoconazole fungicide on Biomphalaria alexandrina snails
Fatma Afifi A. El-Deeb
PP 17 Phylogenetic relationships of Apodemus Kaup, 1829 (Rodentia: Muridae) species in the Middle East and Afghanistan inferred from mitochondrial cyt b sequences
Jamshid Darvish
PP 18 Forest tree species traced with the DNA based proofs for illegal logging case in Poland
J.A. Nowakowska, A. Tereba
PP 19 Evolution of evolution curriculum – an example of interdisciplinary pilot project
Tamara Milosevic
Posters
P 20 Phenology of Mediterranean Octocorals, a new marker to study the impact of climate change in coastal environment
Marine Rejon
P 21 Using Fisher’s geometric model of adaptation to study the evolution of bacterial complexity
Julien Guglielmini
P 22 Genomic Regions Involved in Human Evolution Are Enriched of Associations with Schizophrenia
Saurabh Srinivasan
P 23 Evolution of chimeric lncRNAs in the human lineage
Carla Bello-Cabrera
P 24 Retracing the path of epigenetics out of the maze of natural variation: genetic structure vs environmental features in the epigenetic-driven acclimatisation of wild Arabidopsis thaliana populations.
Jane Devos
P 25 Genomic data analysis in the next generation sequencing (NGS) era
Julien Paganini
P 26 Adaptive radiation of analogous ecomorphotypes in two unrelated species flocks of Crenicichla [Neotropical Cichlidae]
Lubomír Piálek
P 27 Introduction to the animal database of ribosomal DNA loci
Jana Sochorová
P 28 Ecophysiology of threespine sticklebacks: evolutionary mechanisms of population differentiation in novel environments
Sergey Morozov
P 29 Genome mining reveals common occurrence of bacteriocins in the human intestinal microbiota
Vicky Merhej
P 30 Effects of ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 on Ephydatia muelleri development
(Porifera, Demospongiae)
Laura Fierro
P 31 Sequence and expression diversity of the red coral (Corallium rubrum) transcriptome: tools for the genetic study of local adaptation
Marine Pratlong
P 32 Evaluation of genetic diversity in the argan in the Essaouira region using ISSR (inter simple sequence repeat) molecular markers and impact on conservation
Aziz Berrouj
P 33 Gene Family Evolution in gymnosperms
Amanda R. De La Torre
P34 Electroreception and and Electrogenesis in vertebrate : a paradigm to study convergent and parallel evolution
Pierre Pontarotti
P 35 Antibiotic resistance in lactobacilli of dairy origin: fitness costs and
compensatory mutations.
Károly Pál
P 36 The organization and evolution of glycolysis among oomycetes: duplications and signatures of functional diversification within Phytophthora spp.
Franck Panabières
P 37 Functional specialization in Botrytis cinerea connected to minisatellite structure and population divergence
Kálmán Zoltán Váczy
P 38 DNA tracing of forest tree species as a basic proofs in the combat with illegal logging in Poland
Anna Tereba, Justyna Anna Nowakowska
P 39 Functional and Evolutionary analysis of β-lactamase enzyme
Vivek Kershri
P 40 Phylogenetic Experimental Design
Jeffrey P. Townsend
P 41 Does the compartmentalization of PVC bacteria prevent horizontal gene transfer?
Sandrine Pinos