Programme:Thursday3rdJanuary

14.00–21.00 Registration(ClericiFoyer)

17.45–18:00

LindaKing(ProViceChancellor)

Welcomeaddress

(SKWlecturetheatre)

18.00–19:00

GünterWagner

Evolvability:adaptiveorcontingent?

(SKWlecturetheatre)

19.00–21.00Welcomereception

(ClericiFoyer)

Programme: Friday 4th January

8.50 Welcome and Information (SKW lecture theatre)

9.00 – 10:00

Chris Jiggins (SKW lecture theatre) The population genomics of adaptation and speciation in tropical butterflies

10.00 Coffee (Clerici Foyer)

SKW 1 Tier SKW 2 Flat Learning Studio

10:30 – 10:50

Christopher G. Wilson Asexual bdelloid rotifers have coevolved

with virulent parasites for fifty million years

Lucy Peters (s) Genomic approaches to understanding

genetic architecture of antler morphology in red deer

Susanne Franssen Global genome diversity, hybridisation & aneuploidy in the Leishmania donovani

complex

10:50 – 11:10

Daniel J.M. Crouch Evolution of sexual reproduction: short

term consequences of the Hill-Robertson effect

Anna Maria Langmüller (s) Fine mapping without phenotyping: identification of selection targets in

Evolve and Resequence experiments

Daniel Falush The landscape of coadaptation in Vibrio

parahaemolyticus

11:10 – 11:30

Darren J. Parker Dosage compensation in stick insects

Ana Filipa Moutinho (s) The role of protein architecture in

adaptive evolution

Chris Illingworth Call 999 and ask for population genetics;

rapid turnaround analysis of viral sequence data

11:30 – 11:50

Jack G. Rayner (s) The role of sex-biased gene expression in adaptive loss of a male sexual trait

Nicola Cook An exploration of cold tolerance

mechanisms across the Drosophila genus

Gemma Murray The link between genome reduction and

pathogenicity in Streptococcus suis

11:50 – 12.10

Stuart Wigby Interactions between the sexual identity

of the nervous system and the social environment mediate lifespan in

Drosophila melanogaster

Christian Schlötterer Characterizing the genomic signature of

polygenic adaptation

Stuart J.E. Baird Holobiont Suture Zones

12.10 Lunch (JHB Terrace)

14:00 – 14.20

Roberta Bergero Exaggerated heterochiasmy in a sexually

dimorphic fish (Poecilia reticulata)

Helmut Schaschl Population genetics of human hunter-

gatherers: genetic adaptations for social cognition?

Luca Ferretti Detecting selection on structural variants

from the linked frequency spectrum

14:20 – 14:40

Filip Ruzicka (s) Genome-wide sexually antagonistic polymorphisms reveal longstanding

constraints on sexual dimorphism in the fruitfly

Danang Crysnanto (s) Widespread gene duplication and

adaptive evolution in the RNA interference pathways of the Drosophila

obscura group

Camilla Ryan (s) Don’t throw the baby out with the

bathwater: a RADiKal new solution to processing RAD data

14:40 – 15:00

Simone Immler Haploid selection in a predominantly

diploid animal

Henry J. Barton (s) Inferring the selective pressures acting on

insertions and deletions in the great tit genome

Martin Carballo-Pacheco Predicting evolutionary pathways to

antimicrobial resistance: A computational biophysics approach

15:00 – 15:20

Mark Ravinet The evolution of human-commensalism

in house sparrows

Rishi De-Kayne (s) Towards the understanding of adaptation

and speciation in the Swiss Alpine whitefish radiation

Vivak Soni (s) Evidence for widespread balancing selection

in the human genome

15:20 – 15:40

Deborah Charlesworth Associations between the sex-

determining locus and sex-linked sequence variants in the guppy

Joshua M. Schmidt Evidence that SIV drove genetic

adaptation in natural populations of eastern chimpanzees

Tom Ellis Quantifying pleiotropy and genotype-by-

environment interactions

15.40 Coffee (Clerici Foyer)

16:10 – 16:30

Marc Krasovec Slow Y-degeneration and early rise of dosage compensation on Silene sex

chromosomes.

Sonja Lecic (s) Measuring the fitness cost of insecticide

resistance with Evolve and Resequence: A case study with Ace resistance in

Drosophila simulans

Matteo Fumagalli Quantifying natural selection from genomic

data using deep learning

16:30 – 16:50

Max John A Young Social Chromosome

Alexander S.T. Papadopulos The origins of anthropogenic adaptation

in Silene uniflora

Xiaoyang Dai (s) Bayesian inference of natural selection and

allele age from time series data of allele frequencies

16:50 – 17:10

Peter Mulhair (s) Gene fusion events in Metazoa – patterns of emergence and their

potential as phylogenetic markers

Tom Hill Alternative adaptation to a long term

DNA virus infection in Drosophila innubila

Vitor A.C. Pavinato Tracking selection in time-series population

genomic data using ABC random forests

17:10 – 17:30

Joe Middleton Welling (s) Do species traits drive patterns of

phylogeography diversity in butterflies?

Martin Carr Widespread tRNA Deamination In A 900

Million Year Old Premetazoan

Sam Ebdon (s) A two locus composite-likelihood approach

for co-estimating crossing-over and gene conversion rates

17:30 – 17:50

Simon Creer Temperate grass allergy season defined

by spatio-temporal shifts in airborne pollen communities

Barbara Mable Conservation of adaptive potential and

functional diversity: how far will genomics take us?

Zhangyi He An MCMC-based method for estimating

selection coefficients from time series DNA data across linked loci

17.50 –20.00

Posters & Drinks Reception (Clerici Foyer)

Programme: Saturday 5th January

8.50 Welcome and Information (SKW lecture theatre)

9.00 – 10:00

Tami Lieberman Evolution within individual human gut and skin microbiomes

10 .00 Coffee (Clerici Foyer)

SKW 1 Tier SKW 2 Flat Learning Studio

10:30 – 10:50

William Walton (s) Comparative Phylogeography in European

Hymenopteran Parasitoids

Lucy Weinert Co-variation between antibiotic

phenotypes is explained by linkage disequilibrium rather than pleiotropy in a

zoonotic bacterium

Guillaume Achaz The mystery of the U-shaped spectra

10:50 – 11:10

Tobias Göllner (s) Unveiling the genetic history of the Maniq,

a pristine hunter-gatherer population of Southeast Asia

Lei Zhao Mutational Load and Its Effects on the

Rise of Beneficial Mutations within-host -- A genetics insight into infectious

diseases

Bhavin S. Khatri Robust estimation of recent effective

population size from number of independent origins in soft sweeps

11:10 – 11:30

Rory J. Craig (s) Towards population genetics analyses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: Patterns of

continental and local population structure in field isolates of the model green alga

Ruth Hershberg From boom to bust – bacterial

adaptation to prolonged survival following resource exhaustion

Austin Burt Possibilities for population genetic control

with Y-linked editors

11:30 – 11:50

Mimmi Eriksson (s) Genome dynamics after recurrent

allopolyploidization and their ecological implications in Dactylorhiza (Orchidaceae)

Nicolas Arning (s) Tracing the source of Gastroenteritis

with Machine Learning

Katarina Bodova How do new mating types arise in

cooperative non-self recognition system of flowering plants?

11:50 – 12.10

Anna Muir Seascape genomics of a reef-building

ecosystem engineer (Sabellaria alveolata)

Sarah Earle Genome-wide association study of carriage versus invasive disease in

Neisseria meningitidis

John Welch Hybridisation and fitness landscapes

12.10 Lunch (Clerici Foyer)

13.10 Business Meeting (SKW Flat)

14:10 – 14.30

Marcos G. Lagunas (s) Genetic and phenotypic diversity of brown trout (Salmo trutta) populations in Iceland

Alexandra Buffry (s) Investigating the post-embryonic role

and regulation of Ultrabithorax

Bruce Weir Estimation of Individual Inbreeding

Coefficients

14:30 – 14:50

Isolde van Riemsdijk (s) A toad on the road: signatures of hybrid zone movement with 3RAD sequencing

Carlos Martinez-Ruiz (s) Is genomic architecture, not evolutionary

conflict, the main driver of expression patterns in a social supergene?

Matthew Hartfield Signatures of selective sweeps with

arbitrary dominance and self–fertilisation

14:50 – 15:10

Elizabeth Mittell (s) Population genetic survey of wild Brassica oleracea in the UK and Spain: unravelling

the origins of an important crop wild relative

Toni I. Gossmann Identification of genes and non-coding conserved regions underpinning bird

beak shape evolution on a macroevolutionary scale

Marina Rafajlović Drift supports inversions in maintaining

population differences after the secondary contact

15:10 – 15:30

Elise Kerdoncuff (s) Detection of strong decline in populations

by genomic approaches

Joe Colgan Winter is coming: Haemolymph profiling

of queen life-cycle stages reveals key insights into bumblebee diapause

Jerome Kelleher Tree sequence recording opens new

horizons for forward-time simulations

15:30 – 15:50

Adam Ciezarek Phylotranscriptomic insights into the

diversification of endothermic Thunnus tunas

Samuel H. Lewis The evolution and function of DNA

methylation across arthropods

Richard A. Nichols Why is genetic diversity lost more slowly

than neutral expectations?

15:50 Coffee (Clerici Foyer)

16:20 – 16:40

Ashley T. Sendell-Price (s) The Genomic Landscape of Divergence Across the Speciation Continuum in an

Island-colonising Bird

Florencia Camus Mito-nuclear genotypes modulate

metabolism with downstream fitness consequences

Jae Young Choi Natural variation in telomere repeats, a

major plant satellite DNA, correlates with flowering time variation

16:40 – 17:00

Edgar L.Y. Wong (s) Ecological Speciation of Senecio Species on

Mount Etna, Sicily

Einar Árnason A case of mitochondrial DNA

recombination?

Yaqing Ou (s) Eukaryote genes are more likely than prokaryote genes to be composites

17:00 – 17:20

Paigan Aspinall (s) Investigating Hybrid Male Sterility in the

House Mouse

Anurag Priyam (s) Optimal long-read assembly of the red fire ant's genome through parameter-

space exploration

Kamil S. Jaron (s) Genomic features of asexual animals

17:20 – 17:40

Jasmine Ono Hybrid sterility in yeast

Christopher Cunningham Genetic networks underpinning

behavioural changes

Levi Yant Pervasive population genomic

consequences of genome duplication in Arabidopsis arenosa

18:00 Don’t forget to vote for student prizes!!

Student Union Bar Open

19:00 Conference Dinner (JHB Terrace)

Programme:Sunday6thJanuary

8.50 WelcomeandInformation(SKWlecturetheatre)9.00–10:00

PleuniPenningsHowdidwestopHIVevolution?

10.00 Coffee(ClericiFoyer) SKW1Tier SKW2Flat LearningStudio

10:30–10:50

AdamEyre-WalkerTheeffectivepopulationsizeiscorrelatedtocensuspopulationsizeinmammalian

mitochondrialDNA.

FionaJWhelanTheco-occurrenceandco-exclusionof

evolvingobjectsinprokaryotes

NicolaNadeauDivergenceinaquantitativetraitisindependentofbackgroundgenetic

structureacrossparallelhybridzonesinHeliconiuseratoandHeliconiusmelpomene

10:50–11:10

DialaAbuAwadEpistaticinteractionsandtheevolutionof

self-fertilisation

PeterKeightleyDistributionoffitnesseffectsofnew

mutationsinChlamydomonas

DominikR.LaetschPopulationgenomicsofswallowtailbutterflies:IphiclidespodaliriusandI.

feisthamelii

11:10–11:30

HannesBecherSelectionatlinkedsitesinregionsoflow

crossingover

YanWongEvolutionaryEncodingandtheAncestry

ofEveryone

JoanaMeierHybridizationfuelsrepeatedboutsof

adaptiveradiationinLakeVictoriaRegioncichlidfishes

11:30–11:50

BrianCharlesworthEvidenceforassociativeoverdominancein

lowrecombinationregionsoftheDrosophilagenome

EranElhaikAnartificialneuralnetworksapproachtodateancientskeletonsfromtheirDNA

KatyMorganSpeciationinhousemice:investigatingthedisruptionsingenenetworksassociated

withhybridsterility

11:50–12.10

KimberleyJ.GilbertMutationloaddynamicsduring

environmentally-drivenrangeshifts

JonSlateGenomicpredictioninawildmammal

population

BenWielstraHybridzonemovementincrestednewts

12.10 Lunch(ClericiFoyer)14.00 EndofConference