Programme
Tuesday, July 10th14:00-18:00 / Registration
18:00-19:00 / Opening & Keynote Talk
Armin Mozcek
On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case study on horned beetles
Chair: Richard Bateman
19:00-20:30 / Welcoming Cocktail
Wednesday, July 11th
Room 3.3.13 / Room 3.3.14 / Room 3.3.15 / Room 3.3.16
9:00-10:40 / S2
Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations / S1
Evolution of organs and cell types / S3
Towards a theory of development / S4
Evolution at the plant-animal interface
10:40-11:10 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
11:10-12:50 / S2
Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations / S1
Evolution of organs and cell types / S3
Towards a theory of development / S4
Evolution at the plant-animal interface
12:50-14:20 / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch
14:20-15:35 / C3
Evo-Devo of patterning in arthropod appendages and epithelia / C1
Evolution of organs and cell types / C4
Evolution of early development / C2
“Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
15:35-15:50 / Break / Break / Break / Break
15:50-16:50 / C6
Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations / C5
Evolution of organs and cell types / C7
Plant Evo-Devo / C8
“Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
16:50-17:20 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
17:20-18:00 / Keynote Talk
Paula Rudall
Flower evolution in early angiosperms
Chair: Frietson Galis
18:00-19:45 / Poster Session 1
(even numbers)
Thursday, July 12th
Room 3.3.13 / Room 3.3.14 / Room 3.3.15 / Room 3.3.16
9:00-10:40 / S6
Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter / S5
“Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution / M1
Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans / Midi1
Planarians to parasitism: development and stem cells in flatworms
10:40-11:10 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
11:10-12:50 / S6
Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter / S5
“Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution / M2
Heterospory: the evolutionary road to the seed / Midi1
Planarians to parasitism: development and stem cells in flatworms
12:00 - Midi2A
Evo-Devo in extreme environments
12:50-14:20 / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch
14:20-16:00 / M4
The origin and fate of germ cells in animals evolution and development / M3
3D Imaging for Evo-Devo / M5
In Silico Evo-Devo: rerunning complex tapes / Midi2B
Evo-Devo in extreme environments
16:00-16:15 / Break / Break / Break / Break
16:15-16:45 / C11
The origin and fate of germ cells in animals evolution and development / C10
3D Imaging for Evo-Devo / C12
Paleo-Evo-Devo / C9
Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages
16:45-17:20 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
17:20-18:00 / Keynote Talk
Gerd Müller
The Evo-Devo turn: consequences for evolutionary theory
Chair: Gerhard Schlosser
18:00-19:45 / Poster Session 2
(odd numbers)
20:30 / Conference Dinner
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Friday, July 13thRoom 3.3.13 / Room 3.3.14 / Room 3.3.15 / Room 3.3.16
9:00-10:40 / S7
Morphological misfits / S8
Evolution of stem cells and regeneration / M6
Posterior elongation in bilaterians / M8
How do you like your eggs?
10:40-11:10 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
11:10-12:50 / S7
Morphological misfits / S8
Evolution of stem cells and regeneration / M7
3D morphometrics for Evo-Devo / M9
Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects
12:50-14:20 / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch / Lunch
12:50-14:20 / Council Meeting / Council Meeting / Council Meeting / Council Meeting
14:20-15:35 / C14
Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo / C13
Evolution of organs and cell types / C16
Evolution of vertebrate head development / C15
How do you like your eggs?
15:35-15:50 / Break / Break / Break
15:50-16:50 / C20
Molecular evolution / C17
Evolution of organs and cell types / C18
Posterior elongation in bilaterians / C19
Evolution of stem cells and regeneration
16:50-17:20 / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break / Coffee break
17:20-17:30 / Student Poster Prices
17:30-18:10 / Keynote Talk
Moisés Mallo
Axial patterning mechanisms and the evolution of the vertebrate body plan
Chair: Élio Sucena
18:10-19:10 / EED Business Meeting
Detailed Scientific Programme
Tuesday, July 10th18:00-19:00
Keynote Talk
Armin Mozcek
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case study on horned beetles
Chair: Richard Bateman
Wednesday, July 11thS1 - Evolution of organs and cell types (Andreas Hejnol, Jean-François Brunet)
Room 3.3.14
Chairs: Andreas Hejnol, Jean-François Brunet
Sponsored by:
Company of Biologists Journal of Experimental Zoology Wiley-Blackwell
09:00-09:25
Detlev Arendt
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: duplication and divergence of neural circuits in CNS evolution
09:25-09:50
Clare Baker
University of Cambridge, UK
The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors
09:50-10:15
Nicholas Strausfeld
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Exploring origins of a memory center in deep time
10:15-10:40
Jean-François Brunet
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Ancient divergence of somatic and visceral neurons
11:10-11:35
Uli Technau
University of Vienna, Austria
Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians
11:35-12:00
Lionel Christiaen
New York, USA
Development and evolution of the cardiogenic mesoderm in chordates
12:00-12:25
Volker Hartenstein
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Stem cells and lineages of the intestine: a developmental and evolutionary perspective
12:25-12:50
Kinya Ota
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Developmental and evolutionary process of the vestigial vertebral elements in the hagfish
S2 - Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations (André Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis)
Room 3.3.13
Chairs: André Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis
09:00-09:25
Michael Akam
University of Cambridge, UK
09:25-09:50
John Bowman
Monash University, Australia
Patterning events during the life cycle in the liverwort Marchantia
09:50-10:15
Linda Holland
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA
Retinoic acid and secreted proteins mediate homeotic transformations in the basal chordate amphioxus
10:15-10:40
Zhe-Xi Luo
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Vertebral identities in modern monotreme and therian mammals and their homeotic variations in early mammal evolution
11:10-11:35
Guenter Theissen
University of Jena, Germany
Evo-Devo of naturally occurring floral homeotic varieties
11:35-12:00
Joost Woltering
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Analysis of differential Hox gene regulation between mouse and teleost fishes with respect to the fin-limb transition
12:00-12:25
Andre Pires da Silva
University of Texas, USA
Homeotic transformation in natural populations of anole lizards
12:25-12:50
Frietson Galis
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Homeotic transformations and natural selection in mammals.
S3 - Towards a theory of development (Rinaldo Bertossa, Alessandro Minelli)
Room 3.3.15
Chairs: Rinaldo Bertossa, Alessandro Minelli
Sponsored by:
Springer
09:00-09:25
Wallace Arthur
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Past, present and future theories of development and related processes
09:25-09:50
Charbel Niño El-Hani
Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-BA, Brazil
Emergence in evolutionary and developmental time
09:50-10:15
Stuart Newman
New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA
Physico-genetics of morphogenesis: the hybrid nature of developmental mechanisms
10:15-10:40
Stephan Grill
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Morphogenetic functions of actomyosin
11:10-11:35
Johannes Jaeger
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Life´s attractors: understanding developmental systems through reverse-engineering
11:35-12:00
Antónia Monteiro
Yale University, New Haven, USA
The evolution of gene regulatory networks that produce plastic traits
12:00-12:25
Jan Traas
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
From genes to shape: morphodynamics at the shoot apical meristem
12:25-12:50
Rinaldo C. Bertossa
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Units of function across the biological hierarchy and in development
S4 - Evolution at the plant-animal interface (Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington)
Room 3.3.16
Chairs: Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington
Sponsored by:
New Phytologist Natur wissenschaften
09:00-09:25
Conrad Labandeira
Smithsonian Institution, USA
Insect herbivore diversification after the end-Permian crisis: evidence from leaf miners
09:25-09:50
Mohammed Shabab
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Plant hormones as toxins for insects: concept of molecular mimicry
09:50-10:15
Andrew Hudson
University of Edinburgh, UK
The genetics of adaptation in Antirrhinum
10:15-10:40
Harald Krenn
University of Vienna, Austria
Evolution of mouthparts in Lepidoptera: adaptations to collect nectar and pollen
11:10-11:35
Beverley Glover
University of Cambridge, UK
The petal epidermis as the origin of visual and tactile signals to pollinating insects
11:35-12:00
Ian Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
How plants solve the outcrossing-defence dilemma
12:00-12:25
Tanya Renner
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Molecular evolution of class I chitinases utilized for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales
12:25-12:50
Ulrike Bauer
University of Cambridge, UK
Wax or wetness? Evolution of alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants
C1 - Evolution of organs and cell types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Uli Technau
14:20-14:35
Oleg Simakov
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Combining developmental, population, and comparative genomics analyses to study long term evolution of cell types
14:35-14:50
Gemma S. Richards
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
A Soxb gene identifies progenitor cells that generate neurons and nematocytes in an anthozoan cnidarian
14:50-15:05
Masaaki Yoshida
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Cyclops phenocopy in squids indicates common but diverged mechanisms of eye field determination
15:05-15:20
Maria Antonietta Tosches
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Evolution of the melatonin system for the control of rhythmic locomotion
15:20-15:35
Kevin Pang
Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology
The ctenophore photocyte: light producer and light receptor?
C2 - “Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution Room 3.3.16
Chair: Maja Adamska
14:20-14:35
Marcin Adamski
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Surprisingly complex developmental toolkits of calcaronean sponge
14:35-14:50
Stephan Q. Schneider
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Symmetry makers and symmetry breakers: reiterative beta-catenin asymmetries and the formation of the annelid body plan
14:50-15:05
Eve Gazave
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
Notch signalling pathway in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii: insights into chaetogenesis and segmentation processes
15:05-15:20
Gregor Bucher
Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
IBEETLE: Genome wide RNAi screen for embryonic and metamorphic development in the beetle Tribolium castaneum
15:20-15:35
Megan J Wilson
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Sequencing and developmental expression of microRNAs from early honeybee (Apis mellifera) embryos
C3 - Evo-Devo of patterning in arthropod appendages and epithelia
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Elizabeth Jockusch
14:20-14:35
Kristen Panfilio
Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Germany
Assessing the degree of conservation in epithelial morphogenetic movements
14:35-14:50
Alistair P. McGregor
Oxford Brookes University, UK;
Evolution of the regulation of cellular morphology among Drosophila legs: a new route to the naked valley
14:50-15:05
Arnaud Martin
University of California Irvine, Irvine - CA, USA
Two developmental patterning genes that drive color pattern diversity and convergence in Heliconius mimetic butterflies
15:05-15:20
Suzanne V Saenko
Institute Biology Leiden - Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Characterization of a hotspot locus for wing pattern evolution in the Lepidoptera
15:20-15:35
Matthias Pechmann
Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
Novel function of distal-less as a gap gene during spider segmentation
C4 - Evolution of early development
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Robert Cerny
14:20-14:35
Evelyn E. Schwager
Harvard University, Cambridge - MA, USA
Germ line specification in the spider Achaearanea tepidariorum
14:35-14:50
Megan P. Leask
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Epigenetics in the honeybee ovary
14:50-15:05
Chiara Sinigaglia
SARS Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Homologs of bilaterian head genes regulate aboral pole development in a cnidarian larva
15:05-15:20
Günther Jirikowski
Universität Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Germany
Evolution of malacostracan muscle development: how myogenic patterns relate to modes of ontogeny
15:20-15:35
Adrien Demilly
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
WNT/β-Catenin and PCP pathways control CNS development in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii
C5 – Evolution of Organs and Cell Types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Volker Hartenstein
15:50-16:05
José M. Martin-Duran
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Deuterostomy in an early branching ecdysozoa: embryonic development of the digestive tract in Priapulus caudatus
16:05-16:20
Emmanuel Farge
Institut Curie, France
Beta-catenin dependent mechanical induction determines Bilateria early mesoderm specification
16:20-16:35
Koh Onimaru
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Evolution of the lateral plate mesoderm: insights from amphioxus and lampreys development
16:35-16:50
Marta Chiodin
Barcelona University, Spain
Mesodermal gene expression in the acoel Isodiametra pulchra: implications for the evolution of the mesodermal germ layer
C6 – Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Linda Holland
15:50-16:05
Daniel Capek
University of Vienna, Department of Theoretical Biology, Austria
A molecular-morphogenetic approach to avian digit identity
16:05-16:20
Michael Schubert
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Retinoic acid-FGF antagonism is an ancestral mechanism for patterning the chordate brain
16:20-16:35
Yuuta Moriyama
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Medaka zic1/zic4 mutant provides molecular insights into teleost caudal fin evolution
16:35-16:50
Verónica S. Di Stiliio
University of Washington, USA
Homeotic cultivars of Thalictrum thalictroides enable a forward genetic approach to flower organ identity evolution
C7 – Plant Evo-Devo
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Richard Bateman
15:50-16:05
Florian Karolyi
Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
Adaptations for nectar-feeding in the mouthparts and the suction pump of long-proboscid flies (Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca)
16:05-16:20
Katrina Alcorn
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Evolution of petal surface texture with variation in pollinator handling
16:20-16:35
Beatriz Gonçalves
Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) de Génétique Végétale, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A floral dimorphism in Nigella damascena: genetic control and evolutionary significance
16:35-16:50
Heather Sanders
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
A new fern model system for understanding heterospory
C8 - “Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Lennart Olson
15:50-16:05
Naoki Irie
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), Kobe, Japan
Experimental verification of the developmental hourglass model
16:05-16:20
Guillaume Balavoine
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
Annelid nervous system patterning: insight into the origin of the chordate neural tube
16:20-16:35
Helen Gunter
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Exploring the molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity in the pharyngeal jaw of the cichlid, Astatoreochromis alluaudi