Credit: Ernesto del Aguila III, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH
Programme
Speakers should limit the duration of their presentations to 30 minutes to ensure ample time for discussion and transition between speakers.
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Saturday 23 March
17.00-17.30 Registration and conference materials
17.30-18.15 Welcome Reception and drinks
18.15-18.55 Introductory lecture (Chair: Michael Dickinson)
Leslie Vosshall (The Rockefeller University, USA)
New genetic tools for understanding mosquito behavior
19.00-19.30 Delegate introductions
19.30 Dinner
Sunday 24 March
Session I: Evolutionary processes (Chair: Michael Dickinson)
09.00-09.40 Claude Desplan (New York University, USA)
Evolution of sensory perception in insects
09.45-10.25 Yoshinori Tomoyasu (Miami University, Ohio, USA)
Evolutionary and developmental origin of insect wings
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Joseph Parker (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Convergent evolution of a social symbiosis
11.45-12.25 Lauren O’Connell (Stanford University, USA)
Evolutionary innovations in amphibian physiology and behaviour
12.30 Lunch
13.30-14.10 David McCauley (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Using genome editing to uncover ancestral gene functions in a basal vertebrate, the sea lamprey
14.15- 14.55 Asano Ishikawa (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
The molecular genetic mechanisms of life history evolution in sticklebacks
15.00 Refreshment break
15.30-16.10 Dario Riccardo Valenzano (Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Germany)
The evolution of lifespan and ageing in African killifishes and beyond
16.15-16.55 Jason Gallant (Michigan State University, USA)
19.30 Dinner
Monday 25 March
Session II: Physiology and development (Chair: Julian Dow)
9.00-09.40 Aissam Ikmi (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany)
Mechanisms of lifelong tentacle development in a sea anemone
09.45-10.25 Kristin Tessmar-Raible (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna, Austria)
Genetic and genomic approaches for the study of daily, monthly and seasonal timing
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00-11.40 Johanna Kowalko (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
The genetic basis of behavioral variation in natural populations
11.45-12.25 Sarah London (The University of Chicago, USA)
Towards genetic manipulations to study song learning in birds
12.30 Lunch
13.45-22.30 Social event (including dinner and wine tasting)
Tuesday 26 March
Session III: Applied approaches (Chair: Leslie Vosshall)
09.00-09.40 Elissa Hallem (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Targeted mutagenesis in a human-parasitic nematode
09.45-10.25 Omar Akbari (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Using CRISPR to combat human disease vectors
10.30 Refreshment break
11.00 -11.40 Alison Van Eenennaam (University of California, Davis, USA)
Genome editing approaches to augmenting livestock breeding programs
11.45-12.00 An introduction to The Company of Biologists and JEB
12.00 Lunch
12.30-15.55 JEB Editors’ meeting (JEB Editors and Directors only)
Session IV: Resources and teaching (Chair: Leslie Vosshall)
16.00-16.40 Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institut Jacques Monod, France)
The amino acid changes underlying physiological evolution in eukaryotes
16.45-17.25 Arnaud Martin (The George Washington University, USA)
17.30 Refreshment break
17.45-18.30 General discussion (led by Scientific Organisers)
19.30 Dinner
Wednesday 27 March
Departure
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