19th Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles

September 15th
8:00 9:20 am
Registration, posters installation and welcome coffee
9:20 9:30 am
Introduction

GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Frank Rosenzweig
9:30 9:55 am
Evolution vs disease: An elementary equation for the Evolutionary Action of genotype perturbations on fitness helps assess the clinical impact of coding variations in human genomes
Olivier Litcharge
9:55 10:20 am
Structural conservation and differentiation of acetylcholinesterases in the honey bee: Insights into their functional transition
Si Hyeock Lee
10:20 10:45 am
The conserved ancient role of PIAS as a repressor of NF-kappaB pathways
Shengfeng Huang
10:45 11:35 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: René van Dijk

11:35 11:50 am
An evolutionary view of eukaryotic ubiquitination.
Diego Miranda-Saavedra
11:50 11:15 am
Comparative genomics of amphioxus (Asymmetron lucayanum and Branchiostoma floridae), the most slowly evolving members of the Phylum Chordata: A window into chordate evolution
Linda Holland
11:15 12:35 pm
Short Talk Session
An approach to classify Megavirales using phylogenetic and phyletic method.
Vikas Sharma
Co-evolution of Chaperons and Target proteins
Sohan Modak
An evolutionary view of mitochondria and BCL-2 proteins in cell suicide
Abdel Aouacheria
Rhodopsin gene evolution in the Elopomorpha (Teleostei)
Jhen-Nien Chen
12:35 1.00 am
Neo-sex chromosomes and their role in radiation of Lepidoptera
Petr Nguyen
1:00 2:30 pm
Lunch

GENOME PHENOTYPE EVOLUTION
Chairman: Tamir Tuller

2:30 2:55 pm
The mycorrhizal genome initiative (MGI): Exploring the Genome Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Understand the Evolution and Functioning of Symbiosis
Annegret Kohler
2:55 3:20 pm
Deep phylogenomics of galectins mediating avian limb skeletogenesis
Ramray Bhat
3:20 3:45 pm
An adaptable ankyrin-based mechanism for evolution of vertebrate plasma membrane domains
Vann Bennett

POPULATION GENOMICS/ BIODIVERSITY/ SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Linda Holland

3:45 4:25 pm
Short Talk Session
Genetic analysis of transmission-related traits in schistosome parasites
Winka M. Le Clec’h
Not only Stylophora pistillata: complex evolutionary patterns in scleractinian corals of the genus Stylophora from the Red Sea
Robert Arrigoni
Impact of habitat on bacterial genomes content
Sandrine Pinos
Hunting the Extinct Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) Mitochondrial Genome in the Trois-Frères Paleolithic Painted Cave
Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat
4:25 5:10 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

POPULATION GENOMICS/ BIODIVERSITY/ SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Olivier Lichtarge

5:10 5:35 pm
Zinc homeostatic differences and genetic adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elena Bosch
5:35 6:00 pm
Schistosome population genomics using single archived parasite larvae
Frédéric D. Chevalier
6:00 6:25 pm
Bacteriophage adherence to mucus – A subdiffusive search strategy
Jeremy J. Barr
6:25 6:50 pm
Prioritizing Regulatory and Nonregulatory Variants for Cancer
Anurag Sethi

September 16th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee/tea

POPULATION GENOMICS/ BIODIVERSITY/ SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Elena Bosch

8:30 8:55 am
A preliminary phylogenomic analysis of cetaceans using target sequence capture
Michael R. McGowen
8:55 9:20 am
Continuous influx of genetic material from host to virus populations
Clément Gilbert
9:20 9:45 am
Phylogenetic evidence for the evolutionary reality of higher taxa in animals and plants
Aelys M. Humphreys
9:45 10:10 am
Genomic architecture of local adaptation versus speciation in coral reef fishes (Hypoplectrus spp, Serranidae)
Oscar Puebla
10:10 10:35 am
Genetic tools for exploring anthropogenic pollution in freshwater ecosystems
Mariella Baratti
10:35 11:15am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION: CONSTRAINT AND ADAPTATION
Chairman: Rolf Zeller

11:15 11:40 am
Evolutionary Origins Of Chemical Diversity in Terpene Natural Products
Jitender Cheema, Paul O’Maille,
11:40 12:05 am
Converged evolution of genome size and parasitism
Lotta-Riina Sundberg
12:05 12:30 am
Studying convergent evolution of sexual size dimorphism and related phenotypes in spiders
Matjaž Kuntner
12:30 12:55 am
The gene expression consequences of repeated subterranean colonization
Joshua B. Gross
12:55 2:25 pm
Lunch

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION: CONSTRAINT AND ADAPTATION
Chairman: Mariella Baratti

2:25 2:50 pm
Convergent evolution of starch metabolism in cyanobacteria and Archaeplastida: a universal mechanism of glucan-trimming model
Christophe Colleoni
2:50 3:15 pm
The origin and parallel evolution of spatial hearing in archosaurs and mammals
Benedik Grothe
3:15 3: 40 pm
Morphological parallelism of African and Eurasian golden jackals despite an ancient genomic divergence
Andrey A. Yurchenko
3:40 4:05 pm
Convergence as an Evolutionary Trade-Off in the Evolution of Acoustic Signals: Echolocation in Horseshoe bats as a Case Study.
David Steve Jacobs
4:05 4:30 pm
Short Talk Session
Study of Functional Convergent Evolution in β-lactamase Enzyme
Vivek Keshri
A road map to study convergent evolution: a proposition for evolutionary system biology approaches
Pierre Pontarotti
Transcriptomic investigation into the evolution of regional endothermy in fish
Adam Ciezarek
Convergent evolution of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) in humans and horses
Robert Kammerer
4:30 5:20 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION:CONSTRAINT AND ADAPTATION
Chairman: Ramray Bhat

5 :20 5:45 pm
The Consequence of Domestication
Roberto Papa
5:45 6:10 pm
Convergent Adaptive Evolution of Myoglobin in Elite Diving Birds and Mammals
Michael Berenbrink
6:10 6:35 pm
Can quantification provide a conceptual framework for the study of evolutionary convergence?
Christopher Mitchell

September 17th
8:00 8:30 am
Morning coffee/tea

POPULATION GENOMICS/ BIODIVERSITY/ SYSTEMATIC
Chairman: Bianca Habermann

8:30 8:55 am
Soil metagenomics, potential and pitfalls
Pascal Simonet
8:55 9:20 am
Antibiotic resistance in ancient metagenomes.
Nicolás Rascovan
9:20 9:45 am
Genomic analysis of Legionella pneumophila outbreaks
Fernando González-Candelas
9:45 10:10 am
Short Talk Session
Association of HLA-Ggenetic ploymorphisms and haplotypes structure:NGS data analyses pipelines comparison.
Julie Di Cristofaro-Glaviano, Julien Paganini
Effect of climate change on the spatial distribution of genomic variants involved in the resistance to East Coast Fever in Ugandan cattle
Estelle Rochat, Elia Vajana
10:00 am 10:50 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Wei-Jen Chen

10:50 11:20 am
Short Talk Session
Production of queen-worker mosaic phenotypes in ants: A first step toward evolution of new castes?
Sylvain Londe
Evolutionary tendencies of astroglia with speciel regard on Squamata
Mihály Kálmán
Arguments in favor of Lancelet phylogeny from a predecessor chordate with mesolecithal oocyte, and of the midgut diverticulum origin from a yolk sac
Vladimir M. Subbotin
Disentangling the size and shape components of sexual dimorphism in spiders
Ren-Chung Cheng
Deciphering Causal Pathways That Mediate Genetic Effects on Phenotype
Aaron B. Brooks
11:20 11:45 am
Mapping the functional consequences of evolutionary differences in human and mouse innate immune pathways
Matthew J. Sweet

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Winka Le Clec’h

11:45 12:10 am
Co-transfer of hypermutagenesis and symbiotic genes drives the evolution of legume endosymbionts
Catherine Masson-Boivin
12:10 12:35 am
Evolution-guided optimization of biosynthetic pathways
Srivatsan Raman
12:35 2:00 pm
Lunch

EVOLUTION COMPLEX TRAITS
Chairman: Matthew J. Sweet

2:00 2:25 pm
Similiar but not the same: The evolutionary dynamics of major regulators for sex determination among Hymenopteran species.
Martin Hasselmann
2:25 2:50 pm
A circuit-based view of gene regulatory network co-option reveals unexpected paths for the evolution of novelty
Mark Rebeiz
2:50 3:15 pm
Artiodactyl limb diversification: attenuated sensing of SHH by Ptch1 underlies adaptive evolution of bovine limbs
Rolf Zeller
3:15 3:40 pm
Incorporating interspecific interactions into phylogenetic models of trait evolution
Jonathan Drury
3:40 4:05 pm
Sophisticated digestive systems triggered arthropod
Jianni Liu

CONCEPTS
Chairman: Aelys M. Humphreys

4:05 4:30 pm
Phylogenomics with Paralogs
Mark Hellmuth
4:30 4:55 pm
The function debate: between “cheap tricks” and evolutionary neutrality
Predrag Šustar
4:55 5:05 pm
Short Talk Session
Adaptation: a Limit to Early Speciation
Alexandre Blanckaert
Ecological dynamics of a basic cellular social motif
Clara Moreno-Fenoll
5:05 5:55 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

CONCEPTS
Chairman: William Bains

5:55 6:20 pm
Cooperative investment in public goods is kin directed
René E. van Dijk
6:20 6:55 pm
Speeding up tree likelihood computation using state aggregation
Iakov Davydov

September 18th
8:00 8:55 am
Morning coffee/tea

CONCEPTS
Chairman: Lotta-Riina Sundberg

8:30 8:55 am
Inference methods for multiple merger coalescents
Bjarki Eldon
8:55 9:20 am
The origin and physical roots of life’s dual nature: metabolism and genetics
Alexis De Tiège
9:20 9:45 am
Fluctuation driven fixation of cooperative behavior
Bahram Houchmandzadeh
9:45 10:10 am
Models of information processing in evolving populations
Olivier Rivoire
10:10 11:00 am
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

CONCEPTS
Chairman: Vann Bennett

11:00 11:25 am
Does phenotypic robustness aid phenotypic evolvability of a microorganism?
Supreet Saini
11:25 11:50 am
Protein folding and binding as evolutionary spandrels
Alexandre V Morozov
11:50 12:15am
morFeus: a resource for remotely conserved orthologs
Bianca Habermann
12:15 1:45 pm
Lunch

CONCEPTS
Chairman: Robert Root-Bernstein

1:45 2:10 pm
Three-dimensional eukaryotic genomic organization is strongly correlated with codon usage expression and function.
Tamir Tuller
2:10 2:35 pm
TBA
2:35 3:00 pm
Determination and inference of eukaryotic transcription factor sequence specificity
Matt Weirauch

ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman:

3:00 3:25 pm
Short talk session
Let there be light: modeling the convergent emergence of bioluminescence on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
Claudio L. Flores Martinez
Hypothesis: network of RNAs and their influence on life
Sohan Jheeta
3:25 4:15 pm
Coffee/tea break, posters viewing

ORIGIN OF LIFE AND EXOBIOLOGY
Chairman:

4:15 4:40 pm
From Compositional Chemical Ecologies to Self-Replicating Ribosomes
Robert Root-Bernstein, Meredith Root-Bernstein
4:40 5:05 pm
Locally Targeted Ecosynthesis: A Proactive in situ Search for Extant Life on Other Worlds
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
5:05 5:30 pm
How likely are we? The evolution of complex life
William Bains
5:30 5:55 pm
Reliving the History of Life: Experimental Evolution of Major Transitions
Frank Rosenzweig
5:55 6:00 pm
Conclusion

Posters with short presentation
PP 1 An approach to classify Megavirales using phylogenetic and phyletic method.
Vikas Sharma
PP 2 Co-evolution of Chaperons and Target proteins
Sohan Modak
PP 3 An evolutionary view of mitochondria and BCL-2 proteins in cell suicide
Abdel Aouacheria
PP 4 Rhodopsin gene evolution in the Elopomorpha (Teleostei)
Jhen-Nien Chen
PP 5 Genetic analysis of transmission-related traits in schistosome parasites
Winka M. Le Clec’h
PP 6 scleractinian corals of the genus Stylophora from the Red Sea
Roberto Arrigoni
PP 7 Impact of habitat on bacterial genomes content
Sandrine Pinos
PP 8 Hunting the Extinct Steppe Bison (Bison priscus) Mitochondrial Genome in
the Trois-Frères Paleolithic Painted Cave
Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat
PP 9 Study of Functional Convergent Evolution in β-lactamase Enzyme
Vivek Keshri
PP 10 A road map to study convergent evolution: a proposition for
evolutionary system biology approaches
Pierre Pontarotti
PP 11 Transcriptomic investigation into the evolution of regional endothermy in fish
Adam Ciezarek
PP 12 Convergent evolution of pregnancy-specific glycoproteins (PSGs) in humans and horses
Robert Kammerer
PP 13 Association of HLA-Ggenetic ploymorphisms and haplotypes structure:NGS data analyses pipelines comparison.
Julie Di Cristofaro-Glaviano, Julien Paganini
PP 14 Effect of climate change on the spatial distribution of genomic variants involved in the resistance to East Coast Fever in Ugandan cattle
Estelle Rochat, Elia Vajana
PP 15 Production of queen-worker mosaic phenotypes in ants: A first step
toward evolution of new castes?
Sylvain Londe
PP 16 Not only Stylophora pistillata: complex evolutionary patterns in
Evolutionary tendencies of astroglia with speciel regard on Squamata
Mihály Kálmán
PP 17 Arguments in favor of Lancelet phylogeny from a predecessor
chordate with mesolecithal oocyte, and of the midgut diverticulum origin from a yolk sac
Vladimir M. Subbotin
PP 18 Disentangling the size and shape components of sexual dimorphism in spiders
Ren-Chung Cheng
PP 19 Deciphering Causal Pathways That Mediate Genetic Effects on Phenotype
Aaron B. Brooks
PP 20 Adaptation: a Limit to Early Speciation?
Alexandre Blanckaert
PP 21 Ecological dynamics of a basic cellular social motif
Clara Moreno-Fenoll
PP 22 Let there be light: modeling the convergent emergence of
bioluminescence on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
Claudio L. Flores Martinez
PP 23 Hypothesis: network of RNAs and their influence on life
Sohan Jheeta

Posters
P 25 Independent origins of loss-of-function mutations conferring oxamniquine resistance in Brazilian schistosome parasites
Winka M. Le Clec’h
P 26 “Extreme” QTL methods for genetic mapping in schistosome parasites
Frédéric D. Chevalier
P 27 Mitochondrial and nuclear diversity in the green oak leaf roller Tortrix viridana L. (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) from Sardinia
S. Tore, M. Baratti, M. Giovanni Battista, S. Casula, M. Coinu, G. Serra
P 28 LEIA:Leveled Events of Iso and Alloconvergences evolution database
Justine Dardaillon, Laurent Tichit
P 29 Interrelation of Megavirales classification with Gene distribution and prominent marker genes.
Sourabh Jain
P 30 Evolutionary innovation in vertebrate late development
Jialin Liu
P 31 Horizontal gene transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in human gut microbiome
Jaishriram Rathored
P32 Phylogeny and biogeography of Astyanax-Oligosarcus (Teleostei, Characidae)
in rivers of the southern Atlantic Forest
Klára Dragová (Doubnerová)
P 33 Phenotypic Adaptation in the Moving Optimum Model
Elma Nassar
P 34 Probability of fixation of an advantageous allele
in the Bolthausen–Sznitman model
Etienne Pardoux
P 35 Expansion by whole genome duplication and evolutionof the sox gene family in teleost fish
Delphine Galiana
P36 DNA Barcoding for Identification of Species of Tabanus (Tabanidae: Diptera) in Eskisehir
A. Yavur Kiliç
P37 Molecular Characterization of Tabanus bromius (Diptera:Tabanidae) from Black Sea Region of Turkey
Sumeyra N. Sanal Demirci