SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution of Development |
| Discussion Leader: Billie Swalla (University of Washington) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Katie Peichel (Stanford University)
"Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Morphological and Behavioral Evolution in the Threespine Stickleback" |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Elizabeth Kellogg (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
"Evolution of inflorescence development " |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Ann Burke (Wesleyan University)
"Hox expression in vertebrates" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Gunter Wagner (Yale University)
" Molecular evolution of Hox genes and their putative cis-regulatory regions" |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Conference Photo |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Comparative Genomics |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Cummings (Marine Biological Laboratories) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Andrew Clark (Pennsylvania State)
"Comparative genomics from domestic dog, man, and mouse" |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Brandon Gaut (University of California, Irvine)
"Grass Genome Evolution" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Scott Edwards (University of Washington)
"Genomics and evolution of histocompatibility genes in birds" |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Jennifer Wernegreen (Marine Biological Laboratories) "Effects of genetic drift and mutational bias on the evolution of endosymbiont genomes" |
11:30 am -12:00pm | Jeffrey Blanchard (NCGR)
"Chlamydia's ancestral relationship with cyanobacteria and chloroplasts" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution of Gene Expression |
| Discussion Leader: Junhyong Kim (Yale University) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Junhyong Kim (Yale University)
"Computational analysis of gene expression data: from visualization to structural analysis" |
8:00 pm - 8: 30pm | Artyom Kopp (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"The evolution of sexually dimorphic characters in Drosophila" |
8:30pm - 9:00 pm | Kevin White (Yale University Medical School)
"Gene expression evolution during adaptation and speciation in Drosophila" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Clay Stephens (Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
TBA |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Origin of Sex |
| Discussion Leader: Lin Chao (University of California, San Diego) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Lin Chao (University of California, San Diego)
"Sex in viruses" |
9:30 am - 10:00 am | Sally Otto (University of British Columbia)
"Why has recombination evolved?" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | John Logsdon (Emory University)
"Evolution of meiosis in protists" |
11:00 am - 11:30 pm | Rosy Redfield (University of British Columbia)
"Do bacteria have sex?"
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Matthew Meselson (Harvard University)
"Evolution of Asexuality in Rotifers" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | OPTIONAL TRIP: Whale Watching Boat |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Evolution of Novelty |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Rosenberg (Baylor College of Medicine) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Ying Tan (University of Massachusetts)
"Evolution of color vision in primates" |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Anthony Dean (University of Minnesota)
"The Molecular Anatomy of an Ancient Adaptive Event" |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Kyle Cole (Affymetrix) "C5 Protein Accelerates M1 Ribozyme Adaptation In Vitro" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Susan Rosenberg (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Stationary-phase point mutation and amplification mechanisms" |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Tree of Life |
| Discussion Leader: Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie University)
"How stands the tree?" |
9:30 am -10:00 am | Michael Sanderson (University of California, Davis)
"Supertrees: or "how to stop worrying and start building trees with 100,000 species or more" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Tandy Warnow (University of Texas)
New advances on inferring large evolutionary trees |
11:00 am - 11:30 pm | David Moreira (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie)
"New protist groups revealed by molecular ecology: changing the phylogenetic tree of eukaryotes" |
11:30 pm - 12:00 pm | Gary Olsen (University of Illinois)
"Temperature and evolution of archaeal genomes" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes |
| Discussion Leader: Laura Katz (Smith College) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Laura Katz (Smith College)
"Eukaryotic diversity: genes and genomes" |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Bill Martin (Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
"Hydrogen hypothesis for the origin of Eukaryotes" |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Sandra Baldauf (University of York)
"The Origin and Early Evolution of Animals and Fungi" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Gertraud Burger (University of Montreal)
"Primitive eukaryotes from a mitochondrial genomics perspective" |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Evolution of Infectious Disease and Resistance |
| Discussion Leader: Tom Whittam (Michigan State University) |
9:00 am - 9:30 am | Tom Whittam (Michigan State University)
"Pathogen evolution in E. coli" |
9:30 am -10:00 am | Nicole Perna (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Genome wide view of enterobacterial pathogen evolution" |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Robin Bush (University of California, Irvine)
"Temporal Variation in Influenza Evolution" |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Robert L. Dorit (Smith College)
"Addressing resistance in antibiotic design" |
11:30 am 12:00 pm | Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington)
"The evolutionary ecology of antibiotic resistance in hospitals" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:00 pm | OPTIONAL TRIP: Getty Museum |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular Population Genetics |
| Discussion Leader: Michael Clegg (University of California, Riverside) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Willie Swanson (University of California, Riverside)
"Speciation by the Rapid Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins" |
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Montserrat Aguade (University of Barcelona)
"Studies of molecular diversity: lessons from Drosophila and Arabidopsis" |
8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Marjorie Asmussen (University of Georgia)
"Cytonuclear data: a gold mine of unprecedented evolutionary information" |
9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Charles Aquadro (Cornell University)
"The interaction of selection and linkage" |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 pm | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |