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
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