Programme

Tuesday, July 10th
14:00-18:00 / 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 13th
Room 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 10th

18:00-19:00

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 11th

S1 - 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