Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, August 2006
Keynote Lectures
- On the Evo-Devo agenda: Flowers as evolutionary novelties
Günter Theißen (Germany) - Fossils, stems, trees & development
Michael Coates (USA) - Evo-Devo studies in orchids
Barbara Gravendeel (Netherlands) - The curious incident of the seal in the pond
Jukka Jernvall (Finland) - Large-scale sequencing and the phylogeny of animals
Hervé Philippe (Canada) - Evolution of regulation of the achaete-scute genes and bristle patterning in Diptera
Pat Simpson (UK)
Symposia
- Head Evo-Devo
Organizers: Lennart Olsson, Michael Depew - Stem groups and the integral role of palaeontology in evolutionary developmental biology
Organizers: Graham Budd, Philip Donoghue - Plant Evo-Devo
Organizer: Günter Theißen - Theoretical approaches to pattern formation, variation and innovation
Organizers: Isaac Salazar-Ciudad, Tom Van Dooren - Homeobox genes in evolution and development
Organizers: David Ferrier, Jordi Garcia Fernàndez - Evo-Devo of late development
Organizers: Eckhard Witten, Ann Huysseune - Limb Evo-Devo
Organizer: Michael Richardson - Evolutionary innovations
Organizers: Gerhard Schlösser, Shigeru Kuratani - History of Evo-Devo
Organizer: Scott Gilbert - Lamprey, shark, and vertebrate Evo-Devo
Organizers: Didier Casane, Sylvie Mazan - Insect Evo-Devo
Organizers: Urs Schmidt-Ott - Modularity
Organizer: Chris Klingenberg
Organizing Committees
Local Convenors
- Robert Cerny
- Ivan Horáček
- Karel Štastný
Chair
- Frietson Galis
Treasurer
- Michael Shubert
Symposium organizers
- Graham Budd
- Didier Casane
- Michael Depew
- Phil Donoghue
- Tom van Dooren
- Dave Ferrier
- Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
- Scott Gilbert
- Ann Huysseune
- Chris Klingenberg
- Shigeru Kuratani
- Sylvie Mazan
- Lennart Olsson
- Michael Richardson
- Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
- Gerhard Schlosser
- Urs Schmidt-Ott
- Günter Theissen
- Eckhard Witten
Scientific Board
- Per Ahlberg
- Richard Aldrich
- Claudio Alonso
- Wallace Arthur
- Jaume Baguñà
- Patricia Beldade
- Paul Brakefield
- Michael Coates
- Martin Cohn
- Quentin Cronk
- Gunter Eble
- Barbera Gravendeel
- Alain Ghysen
- Brian Hall
- Thomas Holstein
- Ronald Jenner
- Jukka Jernvall
- Bertrand Lefebvre
- Armand Leroi
- Miguel Manzanares
- Hans Metz
- Axel Meyer
- Alessandro Minelli
- Gerhard Müller
- Claus Nielsen
- Luis Puelles
- Mark Punell
- Gerhard Scholtz
- Seb Shimeld
- Moya Smith
- Jean-Ives Sire
- Ralph Sommer
- Matthias Starck
- Diethard Tautz
- Miltos Tsiantis
- Günter Wagner
- Adam Wilkins
Venue