Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Population and Human Genomics
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Opening Remarks
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm
"Polygenic Architecture and Adaptation of Human Complex Traits"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:10 pm
"Seasonal Adaptation in Drosophila "
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
"The Naturally Short-Lived African Turquoise Killifish Sheds Light on the Evolutionary Basis of Vertebrate Annualism"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Strength in Numbers: Gene Expression Resilience in the Face of Rapid Regulatory Evolution in Mammals"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Evolution of mRNA Translation in Saccharomyces Yeasts"
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Gene Co-Expression Networks Drive and Predict Reproductive Effects in Response to Multiple Stress in Aquatic Invertebrates"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Genetic Basis of Octanoic acid Resistance in Drosophila sechellia "
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Evolutionary Genomics and Speciation
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm
"The Genomic Substrate for Adaptive Radiation in Lake Tanganyika Cichlid Fish"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Inference of the Fitness Landscape in a Snapdragon Hybrid Zone"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
"Selection Shapes Hybrid Genome Evolution"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Ecological and Environmental Genomics
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
"Genomic Estimation of Complex Traits Reveals Ancient Maize Adaptation to Temperate North America"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Harnessing Natural Variation to Study the Evolution of Social Behavior"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Ecophysiological Genomics of Acute Dehydration in the Desert Mouse, Peromyscus eremicus "
11:30 am - 11:35 am
Discussion
11:35 am - 11:55 am
"Genomic Signature of Population Expansion and Species Recovery in Northwest Atlantic Pinnipeds"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Genomic Insights into Climate Change from a Long-Term Forest Soil Warming Experiment"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Plasticity and Epigenomics
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm
"Plasticity and the Time Course of Rapid Evolution in Gene Expression"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Epigenetic Variation in Arabidopsis "
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
"Experimental Evolution of Gene Expression and Plasticity in Alternative Selective Regimes"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Young Investigator Presentations: Advances in Ecological and Evolutionary
Genomics
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
"Exploring Elusive Questions in Evolutionary Biology Using Modern Genomics Tools"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"The Evolution of the Mammalian Gut Microbiome"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
"A Model for Expression Evolution Across the Mammalian Lineage"
11:15 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:35 am
"Candidate Genetic Determinants of Symbiosis Function in an Insect-Bacterial Association Identified by Genome-Wide Association"
11:35 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 11:55 am
"Whole Genome Sequencing of Two Indigenous High Altitude Populations Identifies Adaptive Genetic Variants for Survival in a Hypobaric Hypoxic Environment"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
"Mitochondrial Genome Evolution During Speciation by Hybridization"
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Comparative and Phylogenomics
7:30 pm - 7:35 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:35 pm - 8:05 pm
"Comparative Approaches to Discover the Genomic Basis Underlying Species' Phenotypic Differences"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Novel Applications of Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Evo-Eco Genomics Studies"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:15 pm
"Phylogenomic Approaches to Resolve Relationships in Insects"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Emerging Genomic Technologies
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
"Competition and Clonal Selection in Multicellular Systems: In the Blood and in the Lab"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
"Resolving Eukaryotic Genomes with Single-Molecule Sequencing"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"mSTARR-Seq: A Massively-Parallel Method to Test the Causal Effects of DNA Methylation on Gene Expression"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
"Optical Maps and Hi-C Scaffolding: Ultra-Contiguous Large Plant Genomes"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Genomic Investigations of Experimental Evolution
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:10 pm
"Fitness Effects and Trade-offs of Beneficial Mutations in Yeast"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
"Contribution of Spontaneous Mutations to the Standing Genetic Variation in Natural Arabidopsis thaliana Populations"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:10 pm
"Molecular Details of Evolution and Ecology over 60,000 Generations"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure