SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm | Welcome from the Chair Greg Wray (Duke University) |
7:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Interactions Between Species |
| Discussion Leader: Loretta Johnson (Kansas State University) |
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm | Sara Via (U Maryland) "Combining genomics and ecology to understand speciation in the wild" |
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm | Phillipe Reymond (Univ. of Lausanne) "Global expression changes in plant-insect interactions: from eggs to feeding larvae" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Emerging Approaches in EEFG |
| Discussion Leader: Scott Edwards (Harvard University) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Mike Eisen (UC Berkeley) "Evolution of gene expression and gene regulation in Drosophilids" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break / Group Photo |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Kathleen Donohue (Harvard University) "Seeds and seasons: The ecological genetics of germination in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Eddie Holmes (Penn State) "The evolutionary genomics of influenza A virus" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Responses to Stressors |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Audrey Gasch (Univ. of Wisconsin) "Variation in stress sensitivity and genomic expression in natural isolates of Saccharomyces" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Ted Morgan (Kansas State) "The genomics of thermotolerance in Drosophila" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Speciation |
| Discussion Leader: Norman Johnson (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Hans Hofmann (Univ. of Texas, Austin) "Molecular substrates of social organization and its evolution in African cichlid fishes" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:15 am - 10:55 am | Mohamed Noor (Duke University) "Signatures of speciation in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:40 am | Leonie Moyle (Indiana U) "Genetics of ecological divergence and speciation in Lycopersicon" |
11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:25 pm | Craig Albertson (Syracuse) "The genetic and developmental basis of craniofacial diversity in cichlid fishes" |
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Physiological Ecology |
| Discussion Leader: Bernie Degnan (University of Queensland) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Doug Crawford (U of Miami) "The biological importance of individual variation" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Adam Marsh (U Delaware) "Bioinformatics and Gene methylation: describing adaptive processes in genomes and how to find those effects at a functional level" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:30 am | Genomic Architecture of Genetic Variation |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Feder (University of Chicago) |
9:40 am - 9:45 am | Marie-Anne Felix (U Paris) "Robustness and evolution of Caenorhabditis vulva development" |
9:40 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
9:45 am - 10:20 am | David Rand (Brown) "Mitonuclear coadaptation, epistasis, and organismal function" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 12:30 pm | Recent Advances in EEFG: Shorter talks selected from poster sessions |
10:40 am - 10:55 am | Julie Horvath (Duke University, IGSP) "Lemur Phylogeny Reconstruction and Creation of a Genetic Toolkit" |
10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 11:15 am | Bregje Wertheim (University College, London) "Functional genomics of plasticity and adaptation" |
11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
11:20 am - 11:35 am | Jamie Bridgham (University of Oregon) "Crystal Structure of an ancient protein: evolution by conformational epistasis" |
11:35 am - 11:40 am | Discussion |
11:40 am - 11:55 am | Yoshie Hanzawa (New York University) "The cis-regulatory evolution of CONSTANS and the evolution of the photoperiodic flowering response in Arabidopsis thaliana" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm | Christian Braendle (Institut Jacques Monod) "TBA" |
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sexual Selection |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Renn (Reed College) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Robert Brooks (U New South Wales) "The resolution of intragenomic sexual conflict arising from sexual selection" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Owen McMillan (NCSU) "The molecular basis of mimicry in Heliconius" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Reconstruction and Analyses of Ancestral Sequences |
| Discussion Leader: Matt Hahn (Indiana University) |
9:00 am - 9:50 am | Mathieu Blanchette (McGill) "Ancestral mammalian genome reconstruction and its application to transcription factor binding site prediction" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:20 am | Belinda Chang (U Toronto) "Paleogenomics: Reconstructing ancestral visual pigment proteins in the lab" |
11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Eric Gaucher (Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution) "Temperature history of ancient bacteria inferred from resurrected proteins" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Transcription and Evolution |
| Discussion Leader: Patricia Wittkopp (University of Michigan) |
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm | Rachel Brem (U C Berkeley) "Expression variation and regulatory feedback" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:20 pm | Sergy Nuzhdin (U C Davis) "Genetic variation in transcriptome as shaped by known transcriptional networks" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |