Ghent University, Campus Ledeganck
Keynote Lectures
- The history of Hox gene discovery and exploration
Walter J. Gehring (Switzerland) - MicroRNAs, molecular paleobiology, and metazoan macroevolution
Kevin J Peterson (USA) - The evolution and development of leaves
Jane Langdale (UK) - The evolution of flower monosymmetry
Sabine Zachgo (Germany) - The Snail gene family in Evo-Devo
M. Angela Nieto (Spain)
Symposia
- Adaptive developmental plasticity
Organizers: Caspar J. Breuker (UK), Melanie Gibbs (Belgium) - Bioinformatics tools for Evo-Devo
Organizer: Didier Casane (France) - Canalization, robustness and developmental stability
Organizers: Vincent Debat (France), Tom Van Dooren (The Netherlands) - Development as a bridge between micro- and macroevolution
Organizer: Jukka Jernvall (Finland) - Evolutionary developmental genomics
Organizers: David Ferrier (UK), Pedro Martinez (Spain) - Evolution and development of segmentation
Organizer: Wim Damen (Germany) - Evolution of axis formation and axial patterning in basal metazoans
Organizers: Günter Plickert (Germany), Yulia Kraus (Russia) - Evolution of head and brain (the arthropod head problem)
Organizers: - Evolution of head and brain (the arthropod head problem)
Organizer: Gregor Bucher (Germany) - Evolution of plant form
Organizers: Paula Rudall (UK), Rolf Rutishauser (Switzerland) - Fossilized ontogenies
Organizer: Marcelo Sánchez (Zürich) - From polyphenism to complex life cycles
Organizers: Alessandro Minelli, Giuseppe Fusco (Italy) - Human Evo-Devo
Organizers: Christian Klingenberg (UK), Neus Martinez (Spain) - Mesenchymal development and evolution of the vertebrate head
Organizer: Shigeru Kuratani (Japan) - Multi-level modeling of morphogenesis
Organizers: Paulien Hogeweg and Stan Marée (The Netherlands) - Nodes for change: the molecular systems underlying developmental evolution
Organizers: Claudio Alonso and Miltos Tsiantis (UK) - Origin and diversification of seeds and flowers
Organizers: Günter Theißen (Germany) - Saltation
Organizers: Richard Bateman (UK), Jean Deutsch, (France) - Stem cells, regeneration and cancer
Organizers: Ram Resheff (Israel), John Nagy (USA), Eckhard Witten (Norway), Ann Huysseune (Belgium) - Theoretical contributions of Evo-Devo to evolutionary theory
Organizers: Isaac Salazar-Ciudad (Finland), Gerd B. Müller (Austria)
Other Sessions
- Arthropod Evo-Devo
- Evo-Devo of new model systems
- Evo-Devo of plants
- Tooth Evo-Devo
- Vertebrate Evo-Devo
Organizing Committees
Executive Committee
- Philip Donoghue (secretary) – United Kingdom
- Frietson Galis (president) – The Netherlands
- Michael Schubert (treasurer) – France
- Günter Theissen (vice-president) – Germany
- Eckhard Witten (program oficer) – Norway
Local Committee
- Gaëtan Borgonie (chair) – Belgium
- Mieke Boone – Belgium
- Ann Huysseune – Belgium
- Erik Smets – Belgium
- Hilde van Wijsberge – Belgium
- Maxime Willems – Belgium
- Eckhard Witten – Norway
Council
- Per Ahlberg – Sweden
- Claudio Alonso – United kingdom
- Wallace Arthur – Ireland
- Hila Barak – Israel
- Didier Casane – France
- Robert Cerny – Czech Republic
- Isaac Ciudad-Salazar – Finland
- Michael Coates – United States
- Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez – Spain
- Alain Ghysen – France
- Scott Gilberrt – United States
- Barbera Gravendeel – The Netherlands
- Thomas Hansen – Norway
- Ann Huysseune – Belgium
- Jukka Jernvall – Finland
- Shigeru Kuratani – Japan
- Gerd Müller – Austria
- Miguel Manazanares – Spain
- Hans Metz – The Netherlands
- Alessandro Minelli – Italy
- Claus Nielsen – Denmark
- Isabel Palmerim – Portugal
- Paula Randall – United Kingdom
- Rolf Rutishauser – Switzerland
- Gerhard Schlosser – Germany
- Sebastian Shimeld – United Kingdom
- Diethard Tautz – Germany
- Miltos Tsiantis – Greece
- Günter Wagner – United States
