PLENARY SESSIONS

Plenary speakers

• Andrew G. Clark. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
• Svante Pääbo. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antropology, Leipzig, Germany

Nei Lecture

• Paul Sharp. University of Edinburgh, UK.

SYMPOSIA

Symposium	Invited Speakers
Animal domestication genomics Organizer: Miguel Pérez-Enciso	Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of domestication. Greger Larson. University of Durham, UK
Animal molecular EVO-DEVO Organizers: Michel Milinkovitch and Denis Headon	Molecular mechanisms of innovation: different from adaptation? Vincent Lynch. Yale University, USA
	How many genes does it take to make mammalian dental diversity? Jukka Jernvall. University of Helsinki, Finland
Beyond scans for selection: Studying the phenotypes Organizer: Yoav Gilad	Identifying functional SNPs using genome polymorphism and divergence data. Justin Fay. Washington University, USA
	From phenotype to genotype: The genetic basis of adaptive melanism in pocket mice. Michael Nachman. University of Arizona, USA
Bioinformatics for molecular evolution Organizer: Roderic Guigó	Recent developments in multiple sequence alignments: Preparing the right compost for growing phylogenetic trees. Cédric Notredame. CRG, Spain
Dating divergence. The Tower of Babel of geneticists and paleotologists? Organizer: Rafael Zardoya	Fossil and molecules - from confrontation to consilience in the telling of evolutionary time Philip Donoghue. University of Bristol, UK
	Putting time back into molecular phylogenetics Andrew Rambaut. University of Edinburgh, UK
Drosophila population genomics Organizer: Montserrat Aguadé	Selective sweeps and neofunctionalization. Wolfgang Stephan Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Evolution of gene regulation Organizer: Elvira Juan	Cis- and trans-regulatory evolution within and between species. Patricia J. Wittkopp. University of Michigan, USA
Evolutionary comparative genomics Organizers: Toni Gabaldon and Athanasi Tzika	Function and evolution of microRNA genes. Wen-Hsiung Li. University of Chicago, USA
Evolutionary genomics of human and pathogen interactions Organizers: Gilean McVean and Philip Awadalla	Evolutionary immunology as a tool for exploring new frontiers of host defence: The paradigm of Toll-like receptors. Lluís Quintana-Murci. Institut Pasteur, France
	Genetic variation in Africa: Implications for evolution of infectious disease. Sarah Tishkoff. University of Pennsylvania, USA
Evolutionary radiations and molecular phylogeny Organizers: Marta Riutort and José Castresana	Lack of resolution in phylogenomics. Hervé Philippe. Université de Montréal, Canada
	Bushes in the Tree of Life. Antonis Rokas. Vanderbilt University, USA
Genetics and molecular biology of speciation Organizer: Lluís Serra	Daven C. Presgraves. University of Rochester, USA
Genome variation: Lessons from the human genomes Organizer: Jaume Bertranpetit	The study of micro-evolutionary patterns using genealogical data: Humans as a model organism. Agnar Helgason. deCODE Genetics, Iceland
Genomic evidence for natural selection and implications Organizers: Molly Przeworski and Guy Sella	Evidence for effects of selection on linked sites in Drosophila. Brian Charlesworth. University of Edinburgh, UK
	Genomic rates and patterns of adaptive evolution. Adam Eyre-Walker. University of Sussex, UK
Genomics for crop evolution and improvement Organizer: Pere Arús	Transposable elements and the plant pan-genomes. Michele Morgante. Università di Udine, Italy
Models of genome evolution and phylogenomics Organizer: David Posada	Probabilistic analysis of gene family evolution -- gene duplications and sequence evolution. Lars Arvestad. Albanova University Center, Sweden
Molecular and evolutionary epidemiology Organizer: Fernando González-Candelas	The Phylodynamic Behaviour of RNA Viruses Oliver Pybus. Oxford University, UK
	Molecular evolution in the court-room: analysis of a large hepatitis C outbreak Fernando González-Candelas. Valencia, Spain
Molecular phylogeography and population genetics Organizer: Carlos Juan	Phylogeography: Virtues of a unified eclectic perspective. Lacey Knowles. University of Michigan, USA
Network evolution and systems biology Organizers: Mark L. Siegal and Joanna Masel	Robustness and evolution of the Caenorhabditis vulval intercellular signaling network. Marie-Anne Félix. Institut Jacques Monod, France
Popgen in space! Theory and inference in spatial population genetics Organizers: John Novembre and Graham Coop	Evolution in metapopulations. Michael Whitlock. University of British Columbia, Canada
RNA world: Emergence of life on earth Organizer: Mauro Santos	Dynamics of RNA-like genomes. Eörs Szathmáry. Collegium Budapest, Hungary
Spontaneous mutations and their evolutionary consequences Organizer: Armando Caballero	Mutation accumulation in D. melanogaster - direct inference of mutation rates Peter D. Keightley. University of Edinburgh, UK
The ancestral eukaryotic cell Organizer: David Penny	Intron evolution within eukaryotes Scott Roy. National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
The crossroads between prokaryotic genomics, ecology and adaptation Organizers: Edward J. Feil and Eduardo P.C. Rocha	Variation detection in highly monographic bacteria using new sequencing technologies: What can it tell us about recent evolution? Julian Parkhill. Sanger Institute, UK
The X - An exceptional chromosome! Organizer: Doris Bachtrog	Population genetics of selfish X chromosomes in Drosophila Kelly Dyer. University of Georgia, USA
Transposable elements: Diversity, dynamics and evolutionary impact on host genomes Organizer: Alfredo Ruiz	Transposon-derived transcription factors and de novo assembly of regulatory networks Cédric Feschotte. UT Arlington, USA
	Population genomics of transposable elements in D. melanogaster Dmitri Petrov. Stanford University, USA
What would/should we do with a million DNA barcodes? Organizers: Axel Meyer and Stéphane Hemmerter	Barcoding communities: comparative evolutionary dynamics of regional assemblages of birds. Eldredge Bermingham. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, USA
	Identifying evolutionary units of diversity using DNA barcodes. Timothy Barraclough. Imperial College London, UK

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