Program
September 18th
8:00 9:00 am Registration, posters intallation and welcome coffee
9:00 9:10 am Introduction
Evolution of Complex Traits Chairman: Valeria Montano
9:10 9:33 am Scolopendromorph centipedes: evolution of blindness, number of trunk segments and spiracles within the order Varpu Vahtera
9:33 9:56 am Molecular Evolution and Network-Level Analysis of the N-Glycosylation Metabolic Pathway Across Primates Ludovica Montanucci 9:56 10:19 am Studying gene function ‘in natura’: Robust control of a flowering-time gene in detecting seasons Hiroshi Kudoh
10:19 10:24 am PP1 Distinct copulation positions in Drosophila pachea males with symmetric or asymmetric external genitalia Michael Lang
10:24 10:29 PP2 Genetic and Epigenetic Variations in a Wild Clonal Plant Population Kiwako S. Araki
10:29 11:14 am Coffee break, posters viewing
Evolution of Complex Traits Chairman: Nir Goldman
11:14 11:19 am PP3 Meiotic behavior of B-chromosomes in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the Korean field mouse (Apodemus peninsulae) Anna Torgasheva
11:19 11:24 am PP4 Nematode genomes, evolution and development Einhard Scierenberg
11:24 11:47 am Analysis of ancestral alleles in D. Simulans and D. Sechellia identifies putative new regulators of germline development Claudia Mizutani
11:47 12:10 am Evolutionary considerations on sex determination mechanisms based on imprinting and elimination of the X chromosome Lucas Sánchez
12:10 12:15 am PP5 Face Recognition is an Exaptation of Koinophilic Mate Selection: The Exception Report Hypothesis MK Unnikrishnan
12:15 12:20 am PP6 Coping with exo- and endogenous toxins – efflux, accumulation, growth. Adam Dawidziuk
12:20 12:25 am PP7 Uncoupling to survive in the cold? New insight from the link between non-shivering thermogenesis and oxidative stress. Antoine Stier
12:25 12:30 am PP8 Telomere length and heredity in bird: indications of maternal inheritance Sophie Reichert
12:30 2:00 pm Lunch
Evolution of Complex Traits Chairman: Elizabeth Hoursworth
2:00 2:23 pm Significance of the evolution of Zea mays and other Poaceae for rhizobacterial community composition Daniel Muller
2:23 2:46 pm Evolution of human lifespan A.G. Golubev
2:46 3:09 pm Reading the plant fossil record through taxonomic survivorship curves Borja Cascales-Miñana
3:09 3:32 pm Genetic mapping of genes involved in mate discrimination in Drosophila Rui Sousa-Neves
3:32 3:55 pm Do mitochondrial genes play a role in sex determination in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)? Don Stewart
3:55 4:40 pm Coffee break, posters viewing
Evolution of Complex Traits Chairman: Jean-Yves Georges
4:40 4:45 pm PP9 Protein sequence mutations and severity phenotype in disease Xavier de la Cruz
4:45 5:08 pm The future of evo-devo: Model systems and evolutionary theory. Ralf J. Sommer
5:08 5:31 pm Rapid evolution within the lifetime of a symbiotic fungus is caused by host shi Caroline Angelard
5:31 5:54 pm VLR-encoding loci in lamprey: Illuminating the origin and early evolution of adaptive immunity Sabyasachi Das
5:54 6:19 pm
Environmental and gut Bacteroidetes : the food connection Gurvan Michel
6:19 6:42 pm Evolution of core secondary metabolite biosynthetic genes in fungi – a multiple species perspective. Grzegorz Koczyk, Delfina Popiel
September 19th
8:00 8:20 am Morning coffee
Genome Evolution Chairman: Ralf Sommer
8:22 8:45 am
Recurrent rearrangement during adaptive evolution in an interspecific yeast hybrid suggests a model for rapid introgression Frank Rosenzweig
8:45 9:08 am Origin and evolution of tetradomain hemoglobins in deep-sea hydrothermal vent scale-worms: tandem duplication and molecular tinkering Stéphane Hourdez
9:08 9:31 am Disulfide Bond Acquisition Through Eukaryotic Protein Evolution Jason W.H. Wong
9:31 9:54 am Molecular evolution of disrupted transfer RNA genes and their introns in Archaea Akio Kanai
9:54 10:17 am Extensive interkingdom horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and fungi relate to niche adaptation Maxime Bruto
10:17 10:23 am PP10 Histone H1 subtype 5 and 7 genes differ in phylogenetic resolution in peas (Pisum L.) Olga Zaytseva
10:23 10:28
PP11 Which between acetylcholinesterase 1 and acetylcholinesterase 2 plays the major role in synaptic transmission in the Class Insecta?
Si Hyeock Lee
10:28 11:13 am Coffee break, posters viewing
Genome Evolution Chairman: Olga Zaytseva
11:08 11:31 am Dynamics of ribosomal DNA clusters in mice: macro- and micro-evolutionary insights Janice Britton-Davidian
11:31 11:54 am Extensive intron gain in the ancestor of placental mammals Dušan Kordiš
11:54 12:17 am Identification of maternal origin in the allotetraploid Asplenium foreziense (Aspleniaceae, Polypodiopsida) Jose María Gabriel y Galán
12:20 1:50 pm Lunch
Genome Evolution Chairman: Einhard Schierenberg
1:50 2:13 pm Chromera velia posesses the most gene-poor mitochondrial genome known Eva Roubalová
2:13 2:36 pm Genetic Changes in Sialic Acid Biology during Hominin Evolution Ajit Varki
2:36 2:59 pm Uncovering the Contribution of Archaic Humans to the Immune Systems of Modern Humans Laurent Abi-Rached
2:59 3:22 pm Microbial genomics challenge Darwin Didier Raoult
3:22 3:45 pm Evolution and functional diversification of plant trehalose biosynthesis enzymes Patrick Van Dijck
3:45 4:08 pm Genome structure and gene expression Alexandre Reymond
4:08 4:53 pm Coffee break, posters viewing
Genome Evolution Chairman: Einhard Schierenberg
4:53 5:16 pm Evolution of synthetic regulatory networks in variable environments Sander Tans
Exobiology of Origin Life Chairman: Alexandre Reymond
5:16 5:39 pm
The Possible Roles of Water in the Prebiotic Chemical Evolution of DNA ― An Aproach by Single Molecule Studies Shuxun Cui
5:39 6:02 pm
Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life Wim Hordijk
6:02 6:25 pm
Adsorption of RNA components by some clay minerals Hideo Hashizume
6:25 6:48 pm
Bottom-up protocell design: Gaining insights in the emergence of complex function(s) Pierre-Alain Monnard
September 20th
8:00 8:45 am Morning coffee Exobiology of Origin Life Chairman: Ilda G. Fernandez
8:22 8:45
Life and Light: Exotic Photosynthesis in Binary and Multiple-Star Systems Jack O'Malley-James
8:45 9:08 am Self-replication reactions dependent on tertiary interaction motifs in an RNA ligase ribozyme Tan Inoue
9:08 9:31 am Shock-synthesis of prebiotic compounds in impacting simple ices Nir Goldman
Systematic and Phylogeography Chairman: Laurent Abi-Rached
9:31 9:54 am Assessing potential recovery in marine vertebrates: a case study of pluridisciplinarity Jean-Yves Georges
9:54 10:17 am Chloroplast phylogeny informs about coherent morphological groups in Blechnum (Blechnaceae, Polypodiopsida) Jose María Gabriel y Galán, Maria Vicent
10:17 10:40 am Phylogeography of Meconopsis cambrica (=Papaver cambricum; Papaveraceae): ancient differentiation and survival outside the southern refugia for atemperate herb Francisco Javier Valtueña
10:40 10:45 am PP12 Genetic analysis of an invasive house mouse population on Southeast Farallon Island John P. Didion
10:45 10:50 am PP13 Determination of genetic variation between Apodemus mystacinus subspecies using PCR-RFLP method Gül Olgun Karacan
10:50 10:55 am PP14 Molecular phylogeny of Myodes glareolus distributed in Northern Anatolia inferred from RAPD-PCR Dilek Beteş
10:55 11:45 am Coffee break, posters viewing
Systematic and Phylogeography Chairman: Claudia Mizutani
11:45 11:50 am PP15 Genetic variability in the locus DRB3.2 in Creole cattle at northwestrn Mexico Ilda G. Fernandez
11:50 11:55 am PP 16 Sympatric speciation or dimorphic cleistogamy in Linaria pelisseriana (Plantaginaceae)? Dieter Reich
11:55 12:00 am PP17 Revealing cryptic Diversity in the genus Ophrys: an integrative approach Demetra Rakosy
12:00 12:23 am Molecular phylogeography of the common dormouse, Muscardinus Avellanarius Alice Mouton
12:23 12:45 am Molecular Phylogeny of the Short-tailed Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) Ka Hou Chu
12:45 2:15 pm Lunch
Systematic and Phylogeography Chairman: Rui Sousa-Neves
2:15 2:20 pm PP18 Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of the Sander pikeperches (Teleostei: Percidae): Patterns across two continents Amanda E. Haponski
2:20 2:43 pm A massively parallel sequencing approach uncovers ancient origins and high genetic variability of endangered przewalski’s horses Kateryna D. Makova
2:43 3:06 pm Modelling the spatial diffusion of helicobacter pylori in Asia Valeria Montano
3:06 3:29 pm Hybrid dynamics in an alpine contact zone of two willow (Salix) species: does climate change aid speciation? Ruth Flatscher
3:29 3:52 pm From ecological specialization to cryptic speciation: an integrative study in Cotesia sesamiae, a parasitoid of cereal pests. Laure Kaiser
3:52 4:15 pm Evolutionary and Biogeographic Relationships of Dreissenid Mussels (Bivalvia: Mollusca) Carol A. Stepien
4:15 4:20 pm PP19 Real-time evolution: population genetics of fish and their parasites in recently divided biogeographic units Dagmar Jirsová
4:20 4:25 pm PP20 Involvement of the foraging gene in the acquisition of the pest status in a Lepidoptera species Floriane Chardonnet
4:25 4:30 pm PP21 Non-invasive ancient DNA protocol for fluid-preserved type specimens and phylogenetic systematics of the genus Orestias (Teleosteii: Cyprinodontidae) Yareli Esquer Garrigos
4:30 5:15 pm Coffee break, posters viewing
Systematic and Phylogeography Chairman: Rui Sousa-Neves
5:15 5:20 pm PP22 Evolution and Biogeography of an Emerging Quasispecies: Diversity Patterns of the Fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) Lindsey R. Pierce
5:20 5:25 pm PP23 Testing Pleistocene refugia and riverine barrier hypotheses of diversification using central African duikers as a model (genera Cephalophus and Philantomba) Stephan Ntie
5:25 5:48 pm Phylogenetic analysis of kangaroo apples (Solanum subg. Archaesolanum): biogeography, hybridization and polyploidy Péter Poczai
Evolutionary Mechanisms Chairman: Uri Gat
5:48 6:11 pm
Juvenile hormone signaling and social evolution in bees Guy Bloch
6:11 6:34 pm Induction of advantageous mutations by the environment contributed to adaptation of yeast to an unforeseen challenge David Lior
6:34 6:57 pm Impact of Epistasis and Pleiotropy on Adaptation Bjørn Østman
September 21th
8:00 8:20 am Morning coffee
Evolutionary Mechanisms Chairman: Frank Rosenzweig
8:22 845 am
Domain architecture evolution of metazoan proteins
László Patthy
8:45 9:08 am Evolutionary correlates of disease impact in influenza Paul-Michael Agapow
9 :08 9:31 am Parallel evolution of type IV secretion effector repertoires in radiating lineages of the bacterial pathogen Bartonella Alexander Harms
9:31 9:54 am Trends of angiosperm genome evolution Serge Sheremetiev
9:54 10:17 am Deciphering the gene translation code via an evolutionary systems biology approach Tamir Tuller
10:17 11:02 am Coffee break, poster viewing
Evolutionary Mechanisms Chairman: Frank Rosenzweig
11:02 11:25 am A trade-off between folding and aggregation during the evolution of protein sequences Salvador Ventura
11:25 11:48 am The sea-anemone Nematostella vectensis Runx gene: an evolutionary perspective on development and regeneration Uri Gat
Concepts and Methods Chairman: Kateryna Makova
11:48 12:11 am Identifiability in Phylogenetics: The GTR + Gamma + I model Elizabeth Housworth
12:11 12:16 am PP24 HelitronScanner: A general Helitron detection tool Chunguang Du
12:16 12:21 am PP25 Meta-analysis of methodological artifacts of the phylogenetic Jana Smrckova
12:21 12:26 am PP26 Pattern, process and the evolution of meaning: species and units of selection André Levy
12:26 12:31 am PP27 How to test adaptive vs exaptive hypotheses: the case of langage Irene Berra
12:31 1:50 pm Lunch
Concepts and Methods Chairman: Kateryna Makova
1:50 2:13 pm Biological complexity, aprioristic information and expanded evolutionary synthesis Aleksei V. Melkikh
2:13 2:36 pm Biological Variation: Fundamental Concept in 21st Century Biology Víctor R. Hernández-Marroquín
2:36 2:59 pm The architect metaphor: chance and natural selection Ricardo Noguera-Solano
2:59 3:22 pm Are Animals Aesthetes and Artist? Stephen Davies
3:22 3:45 pm Evolutionary invasion and escape in the presence of deleterious mutations Claude Loverdo
3:45 4:30 pm Coffee break, posters viewing
Concepts and Methods Chairman: Caroline Angelard
4:30 4:53 pm
Why Genetic Relatedness is Essential for the Evolution of Altruism James A.R. Marshall
4:53 5:16 pm Using Engineered Systems to Explore the Evolution and Patterning of Symbiosis Wenying Shou
5:16 5:39 pm Ontic Opennes as key factor in the evolution of biological systems Søren Nors Nielsen
5:39 6:02 pm Evolutionary conservation and significance of amino acid sequences from different secondary structures Sohan P. Modak
Posters with short oral presentation
PP1 Distinct copulation positions in Drosophila pachea males with symmetric or asymmetric external genitalia Michael Lang
PP2 Genetic and Epigenetic Variations in a Wild Clonal Plant Population Kiwako S. Araki
PP3 Meiotic behavior of B-chromosomes in the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the Korean field mouse (Apodemus peninsulae) Anna Torgasheva
PP4 Nematode genomes, evolution and development Einhard Scierenberg
PP5 Face Recognition is an Exaptation of Koinophilic Mate Selection: The Exception Report Hypothesis MK Unnikrishnan
PP6 Coping with exo- and endogenous toxins – efflux, accumulation, growth. Adam Dawidziuk
PP7 Uncoupling to survive in the cold? New insight from the link between non-shivering thermogenesis and oxidative stress. Antoine Stier
PP8 Telomere length and heredity in bird: indications of maternal inheritance Sophie Reichert
PP9 Protein sequence mutations and severity phenotype in disease Xavier de la Cruz
PP10 Histone H1 subtype 5 and 7 genes differ in phylogenetic resolution in peas (Pisum L.) Olga Zaytseva
PP11 Which between acetylcholinesterase 1 and acetylcholinesterase 2 plays the major role in synaptic transmission in the Class Insecta?
Si Hyeock Lee
PP12 Genetic analysis of an invasive house mouse population on Southeast Farallon Island John P. Didion
PP13 Determination of genetic variation between Apodemus mystacinus subspecies using PCR-RFLP method Gül Olgun Karacan
PP14 Molecular phylogeny of Myodes glareolus distributed in Northern Anatolia inferred from RAPD-PCR Dilek Beteş
PP15 Genetic variability in the locus DRB3.2 in Creole cattle at northwestrn Mexico Ilda G. Fernandez
PP16 Sympatric speciation or dimorphic cleistogamy in Linaria pelisseriana (Plantaginaceae)? Dieter Reich
PP17 Revealing cryptic Diversity in the genus Ophrys: an integrative approach Demetra Rakosy
PP18 Phylogenetic and biogeographic relationships of the Sander pikeperches (Teleostei: Percidae): Patterns across two continents Amanda E. Haponski
PP19 Real-time evolution: population genetics of fish and their parasites in recently divided biogeographic units Dagmar Jirsová
PP20 Involvement of the foraging gene in the acquisition of the pest status in a Lepidoptera species Floriane Chardonnet
PP21 Non-invasive ancient DNA protocol for fluid-preserved type specimens and phylogenetic systematics of the genus Orestias (Teleosteii: Cyprinodontidae) Yareli Esquer Garrigos
PP22 Evolution and Biogeography of an Emerging Quasispecies: Diversity Patterns of the Fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia virus (VHSv) Lindsey R. Pierce
PP23 Testing Pleistocene refugia and riverine barrier hypotheses of diversification using central African duikers as a model (genera Cephalophus and Philantomba) Stephan Ntie
PP24 HelitronScanner: A general Helitron detection tool Chunguang Du
PP25 Meta-analysis of methodological artifacts of the phylogenetic Jana Smrckova
PP26 Pattern, process and the evolution of meaning: species and units of selection
André Levy
PP 27 How to test adaptive vs exaptive hypotheses: the case of langage
Irene Berra
Posters
P28 Early ordered Hox gene expression in larval mesodermal bands of the polychaete Allita (Nereis) virens (Annelidae, Polychaete) Elena Novikova, Nadezda Bakalenko P29 Barcoding for central- eastern European Crioceris leaf-beetles and population genetics of Crioceris quatuordecimpunctata. Miłosz Mazur
P30 Searching for evolutionary units within the range of steppic Coraebus elatus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) - implications for its origin and taxonomy Łukasz Kajtoch
P31 Evolution of Elastin: Conservation and Variability of Sequence in a Constitutively Disordered Elastomeric Matrix Protein Fred W. Keeley
P32 Pairing and recombination between evolutionary young X and Y chromosomes in guppies, Poecilia reticulata and P. wingei Artem P. Lisachov
P33 Histochemical and morphological characteristics of morula and test cells in 6 ascidian species Anastasia Stolbovaya
P34 MtDNA variations of Myodes glareolus populations in Turkey Reyhan Çolak
P35 Retrospective analysis of the successful establishment of a biocontrol agent based upon microsatellite data Veronica Marcari
P36 Analysis of the Evolution of the chordate proteome using the expert system DAGOBAH
a focus on gene loss and pseudogenisation events Sandrine Pinos, Pierre Pontarotti
P37 Effects of seminal fluid on female post-mating behavior in Drosophila species Gaëlle Claisse
P38 The glucosyl-transferase domain of sucrose synthase: variability in Capsicum species. Natalya Ryzhova
P39 Polymorphism of the Pain-1 vacuolar invertase locus: phylogenetic inference in Solanum species. Elena Z. Kochieva
P40 Molecular phylogeny of Pipistrellus-like bats and other selected vespertilionid taxa Darina Koubínová
P41 Patterns of genetic and morphological variation within Gentianella sect. Gentianella Dieter Reich
P42 Cytogenetic and molecular analysis revel a divergence between Acromyrmex striatus (Roger, 1863) and other species of Acromyrmex: taxonomic implication Tânia Maria Fernandes Salomão
P43 Rx gene homologues in Solanum sect. Petota species. Ksenia Boris
P44 Emergence and Diversification of the Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor (LILR) Immune Gene Family
Jung-Hua Yeh
P45 Specialization and horizontal gene transfer in Rickettsia bacteria Antonio Hernandez-Lopez
P46 The first experiments of ascidian and sea urchin egg fertilization
Margherita Raineri
P47 Discordance between morphology and molecular markers in Orestias (Teleostei; Cyprinodontidae) from the Chilean Altiplano suggests recent speciation modulated by the collapse of Parinacota volcano Pamela Moralesa
P48 Evolution at the Sub-Gene Level: Domain Rearrangements in the Drosophila Phylogeny Yi-Chieh Wu
P49 Asynchronous evolutionary origins of ß-secretase and Aß peptide James A. Langeland
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