Wednesday, 6th July Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016
Registration
8:00AM - 5:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Foyer
Ecological and conservation genetics
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Jason Bragg
- Genomics-led biodiversity discovery in reptiles across the monsoonal tropics of northern Australia - Craig Moritz
- Colourful conservation – conservation genetics and selection on colour polymorphism in the threatened Gouldian finch - Peri E Bolton
- Effects of selection on genetic diversity in threatened species breeding programs: empirical data from Tasmanian devil - Catherine E Grueber
- Broken barriers: anthropogenic disturbance leads to continental-scale levels of genetic diversity - Katie L Millette
- Lack of genetic diversity across diverse immune genes in an endangered mammal, the Tasmanian devil - Katrina M Morris
- Genomic insights into the mechanisms of priority effects in nectar yeast - Manpreet K Dhami
- The Koala Genome Consortium – the utilization of de novo genome and transcriptome sequencing for applied conservation genomics of an iconic Australian marsupial - Rebecca Johnson
Next Generation of tools for molecular evolutionary analysis
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Chair: Sudhir Kumar
Sponsored by:
- Next generation suite for molecular evolutionary genetics analysis (MEGA) - Sudhir Kumar
- What is new in BEAST - Remco Bouckaert
- IQ-TREE: efficient phylogenomic software for maximum likelihood analysis - Arndt von Haeseler
- Beyond software tuning: scaling up comparative coding sequence analysis using approximations and models that adapt their complexity to the data. - Sergei LK Pond
- MALT: Fast alignment and analysis of metagenomic DNA sequence data applied to the Tyrolean Iceman - Alexander Herbig
- Assessment of substitution model adequacy for phylogenomics - David A. Duchene
Stronger together: powerful molecular innovation arising from partnership
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Chair: Amanda Brown
- Bacterial viruses, can’t live with them, can’t live without them - Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
- Swapping partners mid-dance: Symbiotic replacement in a tightly integrated intrabacterial, intracellular nested mutualism - Stephanie R Weldon
- Disentangling diet and phylogeny reveals both horizontal and vertical evolution of mammalian microbiomes - Mathieu Groussin
- The Genomic Footprint of Lichenization: Comparative Genomics of Lecanoromycetes - Bastian Greshake
- Nitrogen fixation by the conifer foliar microbiome - Carolin Frank
Mechanisms of transgenerational adaptation to environmental change
8:30AM - 10:30AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 7
Chair: Timothy Ravasi
- Moving from genetics to genomics in understanding climate change adaptation in Drosophila: what else can we learn? - Ary Hoffmann
- Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Adaptation to Environmental Change in Ecologically Important Aquatic Organisms - Luciano B Beheregaray
- Molecular signatures of transgenerational brain response to ocean acidification in a reef fish - Celia Schunter
- Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: mechanisms and biology in C. elegans - Eric A Miska
- Purifying selection causes genetic canalization of gene expression at high and low larval densities in Drosophila melanogaster - Ana Marija Jakšić
- Phenotypic changes in organismal adaptation to new environments: plasticity distorts while evolution restores - Wei-Chin Ho
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Wednesday, 6th July
Hall 1
Population Genomics
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Ashley Farlow
- Genomic insights from two emerging model systems: Polygenic adaptation to simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection in vervet monkeys, and the role of gene flow in rapid speciation in Lake Malawi cichlids - Hannes Svardal
- The population history of Aboriginal Australia - Anna Malaspinas
- Ancestry-specific estimation of recent effective population size in the Americas - Sharon R Browning
- Human population structure and genetic adaptation in the Himalayan region - Elena Arciero
- Fine-scale identity-by-descent and birth records in Finland provide insights into recent population history - Alicia R Martin
- Demographic history and population structure of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) with implacations for global conservation strategies - Peter Frandsen
Next Generation of tools for molecular evolutionary analysis
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Chair: Sudhir Kumar
Open Symposium
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Chair: Craig Millar
- Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts - Rodrigo Cogni
- Both co-evolution with protein binding-partners and RNA structural plasticity influences the evolution of bacterial RNA regulators. - Michelle M Meyer
- A new realistic codon model for genome-scale positive selection analysis with variation in DNA constraints and in selection - Iakov I Davydov
- Virological Factors That Increase the Transmissibility of Emerging Human Viruses - Jemma L Geoghegan
Evolution of Aerobic Metabolisms in Archaea
11:00AM - 12:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Chair: Gregory Fournier
Phylogenomics and Bacterial Pathogen Evolution
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Chair: Kathryn Holt
Genetic mechanisms driving morphological evolution
11:00AM - 1:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 7
Chair: James Noonan
- Cellular anthropology: using stem cell models to explore human development and evolution - Joanna Wysocka
- Interplay of cis and trans mechanisms driving transcription factor binding, chromatin, and gene expression evolution - Emily S Wong
- Transcription Factor Evolution as a Mechanim for Modifying Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks. - Veronica Hinman
- Genomic basis of the evolution of wing pigmentation in Drosophila - Mathilde PARIS
- Controlling for phylogenetic relatedness improves discovering the genomic basis underlying species’ phenotypic differences - Michael Hiller
Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Hall 1
Workshop: Citizen Science engagement: the good the bad and the ugly
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Workshop: Wikipedia editing for scientists
1:00PM - 2:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Population Genomics
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Ashley Farlow
- Polygenic basis for ecological adaptation in the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing - Leif Andersson
- The genetic architecture of age at maturity in 57 Atlantic salmon populations: a large-effect locus with sex dependent dominance reduces sexual conflict and shows signals of local adaptation - Craig R Primmer
- Population genomics of Paramecium species - Parul Johri
- Inferring population dynamics from high throughput genomic analysis of Plasmodium falciparum field samples - Sha Zhu
- Genomic correlates of inbreeding depression in outcrossing Caenorhabditis nematodes - Luke M Noble
- Investigating the evolution of new biochemical pathways in baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Åsa Pérez-Bercoff
Open Symposium
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Chair: David Lambert
- Co-functioning between horizontally transferred segments reveals exaptation in the evolution of new metabolic phenotypes in E. coli - Tin Yau Pang
- Dietary and Environmental Factors Shaping African Gut Microbiomes - Meagan A Rubel
- Population and sex-specific transcriptomics of east Australian Drosophila - Marina Telonis-Scott
- protTrace: Predicting the evolutionary traceabilities for proteins and pathways - Arpit Jain
- Term pregnancy in marsupials is homologous to implantation in eutherian mammals: a hypothesis - Oliver W Griffith
- Geographic patterns of virulence in a stickleback – tapeworm system - Agnes Piecyk
- Snakes, plugs and mating balls: Telomere dynamics in red-sided garter snakes - Nicky Rollings
- Ancient DNA evidence supports a ‘Founder-Takes-All’ model for spatial genetics. - Jonathan Waters
Phylogenomics and Bacterial Pathogen Evolution
2:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Chair: Kathryn Holt
- What is the role of within-host evolution in Staphylococcus aureus infection? - Daniel J Wilson
- Genome-wide association study of carriage versus invasive disease in Neisseria meningitidis - Sarah G Earle
- Profile-based comparison of Salmonella genomes reveals signatures of invasive potential - Nicole E Wheeler
- Genomic analysis of adaptation during chronic colonization in Helicobacter pylori - Sean Schneider
- Insertion sequence dynamics in the global Shigella sonnei population - Jane Hawkey
- Ancient leprosy genomics: Retracing the evolutionary history of Mycobacterium leprae from medieval genomes - Verena J Schuenemann
- Tracing the aftermath of the Black Death through analyses of ancient genomes. - Kirsten Bos
Genetic mechanisms driving morphological evolution
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 7
Chair: James Noonan
Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 7
Chair: Cedric Feschotte
Afternoon Tea
4:00PM - 4:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Hall 1
Population Genomics
4:30PM - 5:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Ashley Farlow
- Estimating seven coefficients of pairwise relatedness using population genomic data - Matthew S Ackerman
- Unsupervised Detection and Quantification of Demographic Structure in mtDNA via Multiple Correspondence Analysis - Adam B Rohrlach
- A tutorial on how (not) to over-interpret STRUCTURE/ADMIXTURE bar plots - Daniel Falush
- Hill-Robertson Interference in the Genomes of Wild Mice, Mus musculus castaneus - Tom R Booker
Graham Webb memorial symposia
5:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1B
Chair: Jenny Graves
Inter-disciplinary Mechanistic Models: From Biophysical Chemistry and Molecular Process to Evolution and Ecology
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 5
Chair: David Liberles
Sponsored by:
- The evolutionary complexity of ecological networks - Daniel B Stouffer
- The biophysical origin of observed patterns of protein evolutionary divergence of sequence, structure, and motion - Julian Echave
- Stochastically varying environments promote evolution of modularity and hierarchy in simulated bacterial metabolic networks - Aaron Goodman
- Physical origins and evolutionary effects of high-order epistasis in genotype-phenotype maps - Michael J Harms
- The use of mechanistic genotype-phenotype mapping models to simulate the evolution of transcriptional systems - Steven Maere
- Functional retention of protein-protein interactions despite substantial sequence divergence. - Ashley I. Teufel
Into the great warm open - ancient DNA beyond the temperate frontier
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 6
Chair: Marcus Thomas Gilbert
- Out in the (not so) cold: ancient DNA and the tropics - Hannes Schroeder
- 20,000 bones and counting - Insights into Past Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Preservation using Bulk-Bone Metabarcoding - Michael Bunce
- Ancient DNA preservation in tropical pre-contact archaeological sites in the Americas - Maria A Nieves Colon
- Using whole-genome in-solution capture to infer the geographic origin of Indian Ocean enslaved people in the historical cemetery of Le Morne (Mauritius) - Rosa Fregel
- The genomic enigma of two Medieval North Africans - Torsten Günther
- Eggshell palaeogenomics: palaeognath evolutionary history revealed through ancient nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from the Madagascan elephant bird Aepyornis - Alicia Grealy
- Ancient DNA preservation: cutting to the bone - Morten E Allentoft
- Harvesting information from ultra-short ancient DNA sequences - Cesare de Filippo
Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution
4:30PM - 6:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Room 7
Chair: Cedric Feschotte
- Functional analysis of nine retrotranposons inserted in the promoter of a stress-response gene in Drosophila - Josefa González
- Endogenous L1 Retrotransposition in the Mammalian Primordial Germline and Early Embryo - Sandra R Richardson
- The role of transposable elements for gene expression in Capsella hybrids and allopolyploids - Kim A Steige
- Retroelements and noncoding RNAs linked to centromere turnover during Macropodid chromosome evolution - Rachel O'Neill
- Integration and fixation preferences of human and mouse endogenous retroviruses uncovered with Functional Data Analysis - Kateryna Makova
- The dynamic landscape of transposition across the speciation continuum of Ficedula flycatchers - Alexander Suh
- CRISPR-Cas and origin of adaptive immunity from selfish genetic elements - Eugene Koonin
Conference Dinner + Awards
7:00PM - 10:30PM
Wednesday, 6th July
Arena 1