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8:00AM - 11:00AM

Thursday, 7th July

Foyer

8:30AM - 9:30AM

Thursday, 7th July

Arena 1B

Chair: David Lambert

Human migrations and megafaunal extinctions - Eske Willerslev

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Thursday, 7th July

Arena 1B

10:00AM - 10:30AM

Thursday, 7th July

Hall 1

10:30AM - 11:30AM

Thursday, 7th July

Arena 1B

Chair: Ashley Farlow

Insights into platypus population structure and history from whole-genome sequencing - Hilary C Martin
Convergence in the genomics of local adaptation to climate in conifers - Kathryn Hodgins
Patterns of diversification in two babbler species from Sundaland. - Emilie Cros

11:30AM - 1:30PM

Thursday, 7th July

Arena 1B

Chair: Katherine Belov

Regulation of the mitochondrial transcriptome - Aleksandra Filipovska
Conventional and modern genetic approaches of cloning rust disease resistance in wheat - Sambasivam Periyannan
‘Fixation” of hybrid vigour - Elizabeth Dennis
An educators journey - Dawn Gleeson
Understanding Evolutionary Rate Variation in Viruses - Sebastian Duchene

10:30AM - 1:00PM

Thursday, 7th July

Room 5

Chairs: Lisa Matisoo-Smith & Neil Gemmell

Allan Wilson as I Knew Him - James A. Lake
Avian Poxvirus Identified as Major Extinction Threat to Hawaiian Forest Birds - Rebecca Cann
Genomics of parallel evolution and speciation during repeated adaptive radiations in cichlid fishes - Axel Meyer
Convergent regulatory evolution and the origin of flightlessness in palaeognathous birds - Scott V. Edwards
Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity - W. Kelley Thomas

10:30AM - 12:30PM

Thursday, 7th July

Room 6

Chairs: Torsten Günther & Emma Svensson

The evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome - Christina Warinner
Ancient DNA, archaeology and linguistics: on the chances, limitations and perils of working on the edge of time - Wolfgang Haak
Insights from Neandertal microbiota on the history of human health and disease - Laura S Weyrich
Genomic History of Upper Paleolithic Europeans - Johannes Krause
The spread of farming across the Mediterranean to Iberia and its role in shaping ancient and modern European genomes - Cristina Valdiosera
The Neolithic Revolution developed among geographically adjacent but genetically distinct populations - Marcos Gallego Llorente

10:30AM - 12:30PM

Thursday, 7th July

Room 7

Chairs: Federica Di Palma & Wilfried Haerty

The genomics of adaptive radiation - Walter Salzburger
Shuffling of modular enhancers by adaptive introgression generates convergence and novelty in butterfly patterns - Chris Jiggins
The genetic basis for beak diversification and adaptive evolution in Darwin’s finches - Sangeet Lamichhaney
Repeated evolution of behavior via polygenic adaptation in Malawi cichlid fish - Ryan York
Testing the role of selection and demography in driving a rapid postglacial radiation in the songbird genus Junco - Angeles de Cara
High resolution populations genomics reveals an extremely complex dynamics of early speciation in Afrotropical malaria vectors. - Giordano Botta

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Thursday, 7th July Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference 2016

Registration

Plenary - Eske Willerslev

Invitation to next year's meeting

Morning Tea

Population Genomics

GSA Awards

The Allan Wilson Memorial

Ancient DNA and the effects of human innovation on genomes

Explosive radiations and the genomic basis for speciation