The fourth meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (EED) was held from July 10–13, 2012 in Lisbon.
Keynote Speakers
Moisés Mallo (Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal)
Armin Moczek (Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.)
Gerd Müller (University of Vienna, Austria)
Paula Rudall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.)
Sponsor:
Symposia
For a full listing and programme see the Symposia Lisbon 2012 Webpage
- Towards a theory of development
Organizers: Alessandro Minelli, Rinaldo Bertossa - Evolution of organs and cell types
Organizers: Andreas Hejnol, Jean-Francois Brunet
sponsors:
- Evolution of stem cells and regeneration
Organizers: Ram Reshef, Uri Frank - Next generation models to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
Organizers: Michel Vervoort, Florian Raible - Evolution at the Plant-Animal interface
Organizers: Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington
sponsors:
- Morphological misfits
Organizers: Paula Rudall, Ronald Jenner - Evo-Devo of homeotic transformations
Organizers: Andre Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis - Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter
Organizers: Patricia Beldade, Antonia Monteiro - Evo-Devo in extreme environments
Organizers: Didier Casane, Sylvie Rétaux - Planarians to parasitism: Development and stem cells in flatworms
Organizers Peter Olson, Bret Pearson
sponsors:
- Posterior elongation in bilaterians
Organizers: Guillaume Balavoine, Ariel Chipman
sponsor:
- Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans
Organizers: Günter Theissen - Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo
Organizers: Kirsten ten Tusscher, Hans Metz - 3D Imaging for EvoDevo
Organizers: Brian Metscher, Gerd Mueller - 3D Morphometrics for EvoDevo
Organizers: Philipp Mitteroecker - Heterospory: The Evolutionary Road to the Seed
Organizers: Heather Sanders, Mike Frohlich - How do you like your eggs?
Organizers: Casper Breuker, Alistair McGregor - The origin and fate of germ cells in animal evolution and development
Organizers: Jeremy Lynch, Evelyn Schwager - Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects
Organizers: Daniel Bopp, Louis van de Zande, Lino Polito, Martin Beye
Organizing Committees
Local Committee
Élio Sucena (Chair) – Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science Oeiras, Portugal
Patricia Beldade – Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Moisés Mallo – Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Christen Mirth – Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Scientific Committee
Gerhard Schlosser (Chair) – National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Richard Bateman – The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, U.K.
Frietson Galis – VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam & NCB Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands
Ronald Jenner – Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
Peter Olson – Natural History Museum, London, U.K.
Michael Schubert – Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, ENS de Lyon, France
Élio Sucena – Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Program Committee
Gerhard Schlosser (Chair) – National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Frietson Galis – VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam & NCB Naturalis, Leiden, Netherlands
Élio Sucena -Lisbon University & Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal
Venue
Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, C3 building
