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Wednesday November 27th
9:00 – 9:30 | Registration |
9:30 – 9:45 | Welcome address |
09:45 – 10:45 | Opening Session: Dan Graur. “How to Assemble a Human Genome? Mix generous amounts of Junk DNA and Indifferent DNA, add a Dollop of Garbage DNA and a Sprinkling of Functional DNA (Lazarus DNA optional)” |
10:45 – 11:30 | Session I. Evolutionary Systems Biology Chairs: Susana Manrubia & Juli Peretó. Guest Speaker: Ricard Solé.“The major transitions: a Synthetic life Perspective” |
11:30 – 12:00 | Coffee Break and Poster Placement (from Aguirre to Manrubia) |
12:00 – 12:20 | “toyLIFE: a toy Universe for gaining insight into evolution”. Pablo Catalan |
12:20 – 12:40 | “Synteny in Bacteria: A Universal Law Shaped by Positive Selection”. Ivan Junier |
12:40 – 13:00 | “A heuristic model on the role of plasticity in adaptive evolution”. Ivan Gomez-Mestre |
13:00 – 13:20 | “Evolutionary study of metabolic pathways from a topological and functional network perspective”. Ludovica Montanucci |
13:20 – 13:40 | “Neutral evolution and phenotypic entrapment”. Jose A Cuesta |
13:40 – 15:40 | Lunch and Poster Session I (from Aguirre to Manrubia) |
15:40 – 16:25 | Session II. Evolutionary Medicine. Chairs: Álvaro Daschner & María José Trujillo Tiebas. Guest Speaker. Randolph Nesse. “The Smoke Detector Principle and Medical Decision Making” |
16:25 – 16:45 | “Craniosynostosis and The Evolution Of The Human Skull”. Diego Rasskin-Gutman |
16:45 – 17:05 | “Anisakis simplex hemoglobin, evolution and allergy”. Juan González-Fernández |
17:05 – 17:25 | “The role of social niche specialization in the evolution of cognitive syndromes”. Pau Carazo |
17:25 – 17:45 | “A genome wide exploration of the pleiotropic theory of senescence. Are human disease and senescence the result of natural selection?” Juan Antonio Rodriguez |
17:45 – 18:05 | “Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans”. Iñaki Comas. |
18:05 – 18:25 | “Genome-wide analysis of wild-type Epstein-Barr virus genomes derived from healthy individuals of the 1000 Genomes Project”. Gabriel Santpere. |
Thursday November 28th
09:30 – 10:15 | Session III. Population Genetics and Genomics Chairs: Francesc Calafell & Julio Rozas. Guest Speaker. Juliette de Meaux. “Cis-regulatory divergence in the Arabidopsis genus” |
10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break and Poster Placement (from Martinez to Ylla) |
10:45 – 11:05 | “Estimating inbreeding coefficients from NGS data: impact on genotype calling and allele frequency estimation”. Filipe Garrett Vieira. |
11:05 – 11:25 | “Population genomics and epidemiology of Legionella pneumophila outbreaks”. Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas. |
11:25 – 11:45 | “Evolution of the Upstream Gene Regions: Evidence for Positive Selection in the Major Chemosensory Families”. Pablo Librado. |
11:45 – 12:05 | “Detection of evidences of selection in human polymorphic inversions”. David Castellano. |
12:05 – 12:25 | “Whole-exome sequencing reveals a rapid change in the frequency of rare functional variants in a founding population of humans”. Ferran Casals. |
12:25 – 12:45 | “Great ape genetic diversity and population history”. Javier Prado-Martinez. |
12:45 – 14:00 | Special event. 3D Film: Selección Natural (Natural Selection). Charles Darwin trip on board of the HMS Beagle. |
14:00 – 16:30 | Lunch and Poster Session II (from Martinez to Ylla) |
14:30 – 16:30 | SESBE Assembly (simultaneous with lunch) Only SESBE members. |
16:30 – 17:15 | Session IV. Functional Evolution. Chairs: María Dolors Piulachs, Xavier Franch & Pedro Martinez. Guest Speaker. Michael Akam. “Conservation and divergence in arthropod developmental mechanisms: Insights from a centipede” |
17:15 – 17:35 | “Regulated aggregative multicellularity in a close unicellular relative of Metazoa”. Arnau Sebé-Pedrós. |
17:35 – 17:55 | “Evo-devo contributions for understanding the forebrain”. Loreta Medina. |
17:55 – 18:15 | “The evolution of androdioecism in Prockia krusei: evidences of the flower’s development and structure”. César Antonio Abarca-García. |
18:15 – 18:35 | “De novo sequencing and comparison of the inferred central nervous system transcriptomes of the solitary and gregarious Schistocerca gregaria”. Rubén Martín-Blázquez. |
18:35 – 18:55 | “On the emergence of novel functions in microbes: unearthing the evolutionary trajectories of innovative destabilizing mutations”. Mario Fares. |
18:55 – 19:15 | “DNA Uptake Sequences, Uptake Signal Sequences, DNA Uptake Enhancing Sequences, what are they anyway?”. Mohammed Bakkali. |
21:00 – 23:00 | Meeting Dinner. Restaurant of Catalonia’s History Museum (only for pre-registered attendees). |
Friday November 29th
09:30 – 10:15 | Session V. Phylogeny and Systematics. Chairs: Toni Gabaldón & José Castresana. Guest Speaker. Martin Embley. “Disentangling the origins of eukaryotic cells: genes, trees and organelles” |
10:15 – 10:35 | “Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians”. Diego San Mauro. |
10:35 – 10:55 | “Striking functional and molecular differences among endosymbiotic lineages from five mealybug species”. Sergio López Madrigal. |
10:55 – 11:30 | Coffee Break. |
11:30 – 12:00 | Presentation of SESBE’s Book “La Evolución Biológica: una reconstrucción darwinista”. (Sintesis 2013). By Antonio Fontdevila and Lluís Serra. |
12:00 – 12:20 | “Cryptic diversity and evolution of Australian Pseudotetracha tiger beetles”. Alejandro López. |
12:20 – 12:40 | “The freshwater planarian Dugesia: A long history for a genus, from Gondwana to the present”. Eduard Solà. |
12:40 – 13:00 | “Transcription factor evolution and the origins of multicellularity in eukaryotic lineages”. Alex de Mendoza. |
13:00 – 13:20 | “Key innovations and island colonization as engines of evolutionary diversification: a comparative test with the Australasian diplodactyloid geckos”. Joan Garcia-Porta. |
13:20 – 13:30 | Final Words and adjournment. |
contact: charles dot darwin at upf dot edu