Programme

	Tue, 6.7.2010	Wed., 7.7.2010	Thur., 8.7.2010	Fri, 9.7.2010
09.00 – 10.40		Symposia (4x4x25')	Symposia (4x4x25')	Symposia (4x4x25')
11.10 – 12.50		Symposia (4x4x25')	Symposia 4x(4x25')	Symposia (4x4x25')
14.20 – 15.00		Keynote talk 2 (40')	Keynote talk 3 (40')	Keynote talk 4 (40')
15.10 – 15.55		Contributed talks (4x3x15')	Mini Symp. (4x2×25')	Contributed talks (4x3x15')
15.10 – 16.00
16.25 – 17.55		Contributed talks (4x6x15')	Mini Symp. (4x2×25')	Contributed talks (4x6x15')
16.30 – 17.20
17.20 – 17.50			Contr. (4x2×15')
18.00 – 19.00	Opening, Keynote talk 1 (40')	Poster session I (uneven)	Poster session II (even)	Business meeting
18.00 – 20.00
19.30 – 20.30/22.30	Opening social		Conference dinner

A more detailed time schedule of the meeting can be downloaded as pdf

Detailed scientific program:

Tuesday 6 July 2010
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Thursday 8 July 2010
Friday 9 July 2010

Symposia

Computational Models of Body Plan Development: The Role of Gene Regulatory Network Architecture and Non-linear Interactions

Organizers: Kirsten ten Tusscher, Paulien Hogeweg

Stan Maree (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK): Cell polarity in plants and animals: an evolutionary conservation of developmental principles
Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK): Morphogen gradients from the root up
Kunihiko Kaneko (University of Tokyo, Japan): Itinerant dynamics in gene expression implies pluripotency: differentiation by inter-intra cellular dynamics
Isaac Salazar-Ciudad (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain): What would happen if the evolution tape will be played again: generic models of evo-devo
Anton Crombach (Centre de Regulació Genòmica, Barcelona, Spain): The evolution of insect segmentation patterns: from genes to stripes in the early embryo
Kirsten ten Tusscher (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): In silico evolution of body axis patterning, interplay between modularity robustness and evolvability
Paulien Hogeweg (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): Interactions between gene regulation, cell adhesion and evolution of complexity
TBA

The Neural Crest: Vertebrates, Development, Fossils and Evolution

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Organizers: Michael Coates, Zerina Johanson

Nicole Le Douarin (Institut de Neurobiologie Alfred Fessard, Gif-sur-Yvette, France): Role of the neural crest in brain development
Daniel Meulemans Medeiros (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA): Dorsoventral patterning in the lamprey pharynx supports a new model for the evolution of the vertebrate jaw
Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan): Neural crest in cyclostomes and evolution of the vertebrate head
Anthony Graham (King’s College London, UK): Skeletogenic potential of the neural crest: the emergence of ectomesenchyme
Robert Cerny (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic), Gareth Fraser, (University of Sheffield, UK): Neural crest and the evolution of vertebrate dentitions
Rob Sansom, Mark Purnell (University of Leicester, Leicester, UK): Testing the quality of the earliest fossil chordates
Rolf Ericsson (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia), Lennart Olsson, (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany): Neural crest in axolotl, lungfish: primitive tetrapods and their closest living relatives; new advances in tracing neural crest cell fates
Phil Donoghue (University of Bristol, UK), Ivan Sansom (University of Birmingham, UK): Reviewing fossil early vertebrates and evidence for neural crest contribution to the skeletons of these taxa

Early Evolution of Metazoan Development and Body Plans

Organizers: Yulia Kraus, Günter Plickert, Michael Manuel

Maja Adamska (Sars International Center for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway): Development and regeneration in the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum
Carol Borchiellini (Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, France): Conserved use of "Wnt signalling/ T-box transcription factor" in morphogenetic and differentiation processes in Oscarella lobularis
Fabian Rentzsch (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway): Development of the nervous system in the anthozoan Nematostella vectensis
Günter Plickert (University of Köln, Germany): Hydrozoan morphogenesis and patterning - modern functions of ancestral genes
Evelyn Houliston (Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France):The maternal contribution to embryonic pattering: lessons from the cnidarian Clytia hemisphaerica
Bert Hobmayer (University of Innsbruck, Austria): Wnts integrate patterning and morphogenesis: from hydra to basal flatworms
Michael Manuel (UMR 7138 Systematique Adaptation, Evolution, Paris, France): Sox genes at both sides of the progenitor vs. differentiated cell equilibrium: insights from a cnidarian and a ctenophore
Jerzy Dzik (Institute of Paleobiology, Warszawa, Poland): The early metazoan evolution in the fossil record

Developmental Genetics of Plant Speciation

Organizers: Beverley Glover, Cris Kuhlemeier

George Coupland (MPIZ Kön, Germany): The mechanisms of seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants
Beverley Glover (University of Cambridge, UK): Petal specialisation, pollinator attraction and speciation
Minsung Kim (University of Manchester, UK): Making diverse flower heads in Asteraceae
Matt Box (John Innes Centre, UK): Nectar spur development and evolution
Cris Kuhlemeier (Institute of Plant Sciences, Bern, Switzerland): Speciation and flower development in Petunia
Takeshi Izawa (Plant Genome Research Unit, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan): A story of rice domestication
Xana Rebocho (John Innes Centre, UK): Evolution of floral diversity
TBA

The Molecular and Developmental Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Diversification

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Organizers: Patrícia Beldade, Alistair P. McGregor, Sarah Peter, Zeba Wunderlich

Juliette de Meaux (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany): Cis-regulatory (epi) divergence between Arabidopsis species
Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University, USA): The evolution, genetics and development of adaptive color pattern in mice
Alistair McGregor (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria): Morphological evolution within and among species: the view from the naked valley
Maurijn van der Zee (Leiden University, The Netherlands): Eco-Evo-Devo of the insect serosa
Matt Ronshaugen (University of Manchester, UK): The evolution of Hox microRNAs through duplication and arm switching
Jean-Michel Gibert (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Phenotypic plasticity and adaptation of reaction norms in Drosophila: lessons from the chromatin regulator cramped
Marie-Theres Hauser (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna, Austria): A hairy tale - molecular basis of the natural variation of trichome patterning in Arabidopsis populations
Gael Yvert (University of Lyon, France): Natural epigenomic variations in the budding yeast

Evolution of Segmentation and Head Patterning: The Arthropod View

Organizers: Gregor Bucher, Carlo Brena

Michael Akam (Cambridge, UK): The origins of animal segmentation
Alessandro Minelli (Padua, Italy): The segment, the head - evolutionary products of development and adaptation
Carlo Brena (Cambridge, UK): Dynamics in centipede segmentation: an ancestral model?
Sue Brown (Kansas, USA): The heads and tails of Wnt signaling in Tribolium
Wim Damen (Jena, Germany): A dual mode of segmentation in spiders
Gregor Bucher (Göttingen, Germany): How to build an insect head
Teiya Kijimoto (Bloomington, USA): Heads with horns - regulation of size and position of beetle cephalic horns
Graham Budd (Uppsala, Sweden): Building the arthropod head: New insights from the Cambrian stem group

Evolution of Flower Development

Organizers: Annette Becker, Catherine Damerval, Samuel Brockington, Louis Ronse de Craene

Charlie Scutt (ENS de Lyon, France): Evolution of the carpel in angiosperms
Dianella Howarth (St. John's University, Queens, NY, USA): The correlation of gene duplication and morphological shifts in floral symmetry genes
Günter Theißen (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany): Saltational evolution of flower development by homeosis
Michael Lenhard (Norwich, UK): Evolution of flower size – the genus Capsella as a model
Maria A Logacheva (Moscow State University, Russia): Analysis of Floral Mutants in Fagopyrum esculentum (Caryophyllales)
Heather Whitney (University of Bristol, UK): The Production of Novel Pollinator Cues by the Petal Surface
Paula M. Rudall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK): All in a Spin: Centrifugal Organ Formation and Floral Patterning
Samuel F. Brockington (University of Cambridge, UK): Genetic Basis of Novel Petal Evolution in the Caryophyllales

Evolutionary Developmental Genomics

Organizers: Didier Casane, Michel Vervoort

Max Telford (University College London, UK): What have we learned from two decades of metazoan molecular phylogenetics?
Uwe Strähle (University of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany): Evolution of regulatory mechanisms
Axel Meyer (University of Konstanz, Germany): Next generation sequencing and comparative genomics of extremely young species of crater lake cichids of Nicaragua
Didier Casane (Université Paris Diderot, France): Evolution of the vertebrate Hox gene clusters
David E.K. Ferrier (University of St Andrews, UK): Animal evolution from a homeobox perspective
Nicolas Lartillot (Université de Montréal, Canada): Mechanistic models of molecular evolution for reconstructing the phylogenetic variations of developmental and life-history traits
Sylvie Mazan (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France): Early blastula patterning: the dogfish view
Guillaume Balavoine (Université Paris Diderot, France): Evolution of segmentation in metazoans

Developmental Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change in Nervous Systems

Organizer: Georg Striedter

Markus Friedrich (Wayne State University, USA): Head and visual system development in insects that don’t start out headless: lessons from Pax6 in Tribolium
Sophie Creuzet (Institut de Neurobiologie, Gif sur Yvette, France): The advent of the neural crest, a driving force in forebrain evolution
Gerhard Schlosser (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland): How to make sense out of skin - Development and evolution of vertebrate cranial placodes
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London, UK): Cavefish eye degeneration. Can we rescue their sight?
Barbara Finlay (Cornell University, USA): Night and day, large and small: developmental structure supporting common visual system variations in mammalian evolution
J. Todd Streelman (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA): Brain diversity develops at the boundaries
Georg Striedter (University of California Irvine, USA): Diverse developmental strategies for changing brain size and brain proportions in birds
Loreta Medina (University of Lleida, Spain): Histogenetic subdivisons and origin of forebrain complexity and diversity in vertebrates

Genetic and Developmental Basis of the Evolution of Complex Traits

Organizers: Joan Richtsmeier, Chris Klingenberg

Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College, USA): Developing complex traits: Genetic and epigenetic sources of selectable variation
José María Gómez, Francisco Perfectti (University of Granada, Spain): Evolution of complex traits: Natural selection on Erysimum flower shape
Vincent Debat (Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France), Derek Roff (University of California, Riverside, USA), Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester, UK): Quantitative genetics of insect wing phenotypic plasticity: The effects of temperature in Gryllus and Drosophila
Paul Brakefield (University of Leiden, the Netherlands; University of Sheffield, UK): Eyespot evo-devo and exploring occupancy in morphospace
David W. Stock, Sharon R. Aigler (University of Colorado, USA): Is loss of complex traits reversible? An example from the zebrafish dentition
Sophie Montuire, Rémi Laffont and Elodie Renvoisé (University of Burgundy, France): Time scale in evo-devo and macroevolutionary model
Ken Weiss, Brian Lambert, Neus Martinez-Abadias, Chris Percival, Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Anne Buchanan, Tim Ryan, Joan Richtsmeier (Pennsylvania State University, USA): An integrated systems approach to craniofacial development
Katie Parkinson, Neil Buttery, Jason Wolf and Chris Thompson (University of Manchester, UK; University of Bath, UK): Defining a simple genetic basis underlying complex social behaviour

Establishing New Model Systems in Evo-Devo

Organizer: Jason Robert

Wallace Arthur (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland):An emerging model system for arthropod segmentation
Andreas Hejnol (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway): Expanding the species-list for Evo-Devo studies. The case of the brachiopod Terebratalia transversa
Ronald Jenner (Natural History Museum, London, UK): TBA
TBA
Rachel A. Ankeny (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Jessica Bolker (University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA): TBA

Evolution and Generative Laws of Morphogenesis

Organizers: Lev V. Beloussov, Victoria Scobeyeva

Emmanuel Farge (Curie Institute, Paris, France): Mechanical Induction in Development : an Ancient Embryos Sensorial Feeding Reflex Response Recapitulation?
Vladimir Cherdantzev (Moscow State University, Russia): Generic Geometry of Morphogenesis
Rafael Lahos Beltra (Universidas Complutense Madrid, Spain)): Cellular bauplans and cytoskeleton: Towards a morphogenetic field theory
Maria Samsonova (Physico-technical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia): Variation and canalization of gene expression in the Drosophila blastoderm

Epigenetics in Development and Evolution

Organizer: Angelika Stollewerk

Angelika Stollewerk (University of London, UK): The evolution of neural precursor selection in arthropods – changes in the expression patterns of achaete-scute homologues and the position of an ancient enhancer element
Paul Hurd (University of London, UK): Genome-wide mapping of chromatin modifications in humans
Ryszard Maleszka (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia): Epigenetic control of developmental canalization in honey bees
Denis Duboule (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Genetic and epigenetic regulation of Hox genes during development and evolution

The Population Genetics of Development

Organizers: David Garfield, David Lowry

David Garfield (Duke University, USA): The quantitative genetics of gene regulatory networks
Marie-Anne Felix (Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot-CNRS, France): Microevolution of Caenorhabditis vulva development
Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki, Finland): Models on variation; what are they good for anyway?
Courtney Babbitt (Duke University, USA): Influences of hybridization and development on gene expression patterns in a wild primate population

EcoDevo: Adaptation in Real Time

Organizers: W. Anthony Frankino, Alexander W. Shingleton

Jennifer Brisson (University of Nebraska):Pea aphid wing dimorphisms: linking polyphenism and polymorphism
Christian Braendle (IBDC, Nice): Mechanisms and evolution of developmental plasticity in Caenorhabditis nematodes
Robert Denver (University of Michigan): Stress hormones: mediators of developmental plasticity
Goggy Davidowitz (University of Arizona):A physiological framework for the integration of EcoDevo and EvoDevo in body size and development time

Behavioral EvoDevo

Organizer: Rinaldo C. Bertossa

Marla Sokolowski (University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada): Conservation of gene function in behavior
Nicholas Strausfeld (The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA): Neurocladistics and the identification of convergent brain centers and behaviors in the Panarthropoda
Martin Giurfa (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France): Neural bases of associative learning in invertebrates: what is common, what is specific?
Brian Johnson (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Adaptively regulated behavioral plasticity in the superorganism

Mechanisms Generating Flower Diversity

Organizer: Sabine Zachgo

Brendan Davies (University of Leeds, UK): Gene duplications and different floral organs
Ronald Koes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands): Genetic alterations underlying the diversifcation of inflorescence architectures
Elena Kramer (Harvard University, USA): Genomic level views of novel floral organ morphology
Paula Elomaa (University of Helsinki, Finland): Regulation of flower type identity in Gerbera hybrida (Asteraceae)

Evolution of Stomata and Stomatal Physiology

Organizers: David Beerling, Julie Gray

A. Hetherington (University of Bristol, UK): Using Selaginella to explore stomatal function
Peter Franks (University of Sidney/Sheffield, UK): Evolution of stomatal size
Caspar Chater (University of Sheffield, UK): Stomatal ABA signalling conserved across 450 million years of land plant evolution
John Raven (University of Dundee): What can fossils tell us?

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