Island Mljet, Croatia, 15Th 19Th September 2014
Workshop on the project “The effects of pollution on rapid evolution and ecological change in the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)”
Island Mljet, Croatia, 15th – 19th September 2014
Monday, September 15th______
Travel UK/Zagreb – Zadar – Ston - Mljet
14.00 Ston: Workshop lunch
19.00 arrival at Research station on Mljet
Welcome reception and introductory discussions
Tuesday, September 16th______
9.00-9.15 Opening remarks, Prof. Goran Klobučar and Dr. Patrik Nosil
9:15-10:30Mytilus and eco-toxicogenomic talks
Anamaria Štambuk, University of Zagreb, Croatia
„The effects of pollution on rapid evolution and ecological change in the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis)”
Dorotea Polović, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Stress and genotoxicity biomarkers in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis”
Vid Baković, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Mussel shell morphometry”
Helene Collin, University of Liverpool, UK
“Evolution on ecological timescales: a role for non-genetic inheritance in adapting to novel anthropogenic stressors?”
Anamaria Štambuk, University of Zagreb, Croatia
„Impact of coastal pollution on reproductive fitness and evolution of marine snail Hexaplex trunculus”
10:30-11:00 coffee/break
11:00-12:30pm
Workshop on Mytilus data (lack of IBD, interpreting experimental results, epigenomic data analyses)
12:30-1pm Timema talks
Victor Sorria-Carasco, Moritz Muschick, Stuart Dennis, University of Sheffield, UK
"Genomic divergence and the speciation continuum in the adaptive radiation of Timema stick insects"
1.00-3.00pm lunch
3.00-4:30pmTimema talks
Aaron Comeault, University of Sheffield, UK
"Selection on a genetic polymorphism counteracts ecological speciation"
Dorothea Lindke, University of Sheffield, UK
"Modeling the genomics of admixture and selection in hybrid zones"
Patrik Nosil, University of Sheffield, UK
“Repeated genome divergence during parallel speciation”
4:30-8.00pm
Workshop on Timema data (connecting datasets, further data mining in new contexts, ideas for new analyses)
Workshop on connecting ideas and results from the two systems (mussels and stick insects)
Wednesday, September 17th______
9.00-1.30pm
Maja Šrut, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Genomic responses to genotoxic stress in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Kei Matsubayashi, University of Sheffield, UK
“Species radiation of lady bird beetles in Japan”
Goran Klobučar, University of Zagreb, Croatia
“Role of the Dinaric Karst, Messinian salinity crisis and Pleistocene marine regressions in shaping the evolutionary history of the crayfish genus Austropotamobius”
Jure Skejić
“Evolution of the venom proteome in the populations of the eastern Australian Brown snake Pseudonaja textilis (Serpentes: Elapidae)”
Romain Villoutreix, University of Sheffield, UK
"Spatial and temporal scale of adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Integrating phenotypic plasticity in the study of adaptation."
Jessica Stapley, University of Sheffield, UK
"Population divergence and reproductive isolation in an Anolis lizard."
2.00-7.00pm lunch and visit to Mljet National Park
7.30-8.30 pm Plenary talk
Tomislav Domazet-Lošo, Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia
”Macroevolution: The roots of good and evil go deep in time.”
Thursday, September 18th______
8-5pm Excursion to Dubrovnik
Travel to Ježevići ecological station
9.00 Workshop dinner and closing discussions
Friday, September 19th______
Departure
List of participants
University of Sheffield
Patrik Nosil
Víctor Soria-Carrasco
Moritz Muschick
Aaron Comeault
Stuart Dennis
Kei Matsubayashi
Doro Lindtke
Romain Villoutreix
Jessica Stapley
Mar Marzo Llorca
University of Liverpool
Hélène Collin
University of Zagreb
Goran Klobučar
Maja Šrut
Dorotea Polović
Vid Baković
Aleksandar Lazić
Anamaria Štambuk
Zvonimir Šamija
Institute Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb
Tomislav Domazet-Lošo
Monash University
Jure Skejić