EMBO Conference Series
Experimental Approaches to Evolution and Ecology using Yeast
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Wednesday 29 September - Sunday 3 October 2010
Programme
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Day One: Wednesday 29 September 2010 |
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| 16:00 - 18:00 | Registration (EMBL Advanced Training Centre) |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Opening Remarks |
| 18:15 - 19:45 | Chair: Michael Knop, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany ( Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 18:15 - 18:45 | Kenneth Wolfe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland -Six ways to organise a yeast MAT locus |
| 18:45 - 19:15 | Ed Louis, University of Nottingham, UK - Natural Quantitative Variation in Yeast: Complex Antagonistic Interactions |
| 19:15 - 19:45 | Lars Steinmetz, EMBL, Germany - Genome-wide implications of antisense non-coding transcription |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Dinner (Canteen) |
| 20.00 - 22:30 | After dinner drinks in the Rooftop Lounge |
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Day Two: Thursday 30 September 2010 |
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| 09:00 - 12:45 | Chair: Kenneth Wolfe, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Justin Fay, Washington University, USA - Evolution of the transcription factor FZF1 is characterized by non-neutral patterns of divergence and interspecific differences in sulfite resistance |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Duccio Cavalieri, University of Florence, Italy - The mutual interaction between yeast and immune cells as a tool to study /S.cerevisiae/ evolution |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jan Korbel, EMBL, Germany -Structural Variations in the Genome: Extent, Impact, and Formation Mechanisms |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (ATC Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Group Photo |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Maitreya Dunham, University of Washington, USA - Comparative evolutionary and functional genomics in two yeast species and their hybrids |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Roy Kishony, Harvard Medical School, USA - "Redundancy" in yeast metabolism |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Balazs Papp, Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary - An integrated approach to elucidate the organization principles of epistasis networks in yeast metabolism |
| 12:15 - 14:30 | Lunch (ATC Foyer) |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Poster Session 1 (ATC Foyer) |
| 16:00 - 19:00 | Chair: Duccio Cavalieri, University of Florence, Italy (Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Oliver Zill, UC Berkeley, USA - Evolution of the Sir silencing mechanism in Saccharomyces |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Fred Dietrich, Duke University, USA - Comparative Genomics of Ashbya species |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | David Allan Drummond, Harvard University, USA - The fitness cost of protein misfolding in yeast |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Coffee Break (ATC Foyer) |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Frank Rosenzweig, University of Montana, USA - Adaptive mutations effect minimal trade-offs across the yeast adaptive landscape |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Lior David, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel - Novel functional regulation can rapidly evolve utilizing genetic and epigenetic factors |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Richard Harrison, University of Edinburgh, UK - Biased gene conversion affects patterns of codon usage and amino acid usage in the Saccharomyces sensu-stricto group of yeasts. |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Dinner (Canteen) |
| 19:30 - 22:30 | After dinner drinks in the Rooftop Lounge |
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Day Three: Friday 1 October 2010 |
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| 09.00 - 12:45 | Chair: Steve Oliver, University of Cambrige, UK (Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Andrew Murray / John Koschwanez, Harvard University, USA - Sucrose utilization and multicellularity in budding yeast |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Rachel Brem, UC Berkeley, USA - Pathway evolution in budding yeast |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jurg Bahler, University College London, UK - Evolution studies in fission yeast |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (ATC Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Jun-Yi Leu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Adaptive evolution of heavy metal resistance in wild yeast involves two distinct mutation mechanisms |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Michael Knop, EMBL, Germany - Meiotic genome recombination in Saccharomycodes ludwigii |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Paul Sniegowski, University of Pennsylvania, USA - tbc |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Jui-Yu Chou - Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Multiple Molecular Mechanisms Cause Reproductive Isolation between Three Yeast Species |
| 12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch (ATC Foyer) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Chair: Andrew Murray, Harvard University, USA (Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Gael Yvert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France - Genetic and epigenetic heritabilities of Single Nucleosomal Epi-Polymorphisms |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Rong Li / Norman Pavelka, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA - Aneuploidy causes global proteome changes and phenotypic variation in budding yeast |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Gavin Sherlock, Stanford University, USA - Reciprocal sign epistasis between adaptive mutations leads to a bifurcation on the fitness landscape during experimental evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Gianni Litl, University of Nottingham, UK - High resolution QTL mapping by deep shotgun sequencing a segregating yeast population under selection |
| 15:00 | Paradoxus - Optional and informal Session |
| 15:00 | Ensembl Genomes for Yeasts - Optional and informal Session |
| 15:00 | Free Afternoon |
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Day Four: Saturday 2 October 2010 |
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| 09:00 - 12:45 | Chair: Justin Fay, Washington University, USA (Klaus Tschira Auditorium) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Aimee Dudley, Institute for Systems Biology, USA - From Chocolate to Sake: Systems Genetics in Yeast |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Steve Oliver, University of Cambridge, UK - Haploinsufficiency and the sex chromosomes from yeasts to humans |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Zhenglong Gu, Cornell University, USA - Distribution and Evolution of Epistatic Interaction |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (ATC Foyer) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Vassiliki Koufopanou, Imperial College London, UK - Recombination and DNA sequence evolution in yeast |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Kevin Verstrepen, VIB and K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Mechanisms underlying swift evolution and adaptation in yeast |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Dan Jarosz, Whitehead Institute/MIT, USA - Hsp90 and environmental stress shape the adaptive value of genetic variation in S. cerevisiae |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Primrose Boynton, Harvard University, USA - Dispersal ability shapes yeast communities |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France - Ordered structure of the transcription network inherited from the yeast whole-genome duplication |
| 12:45 - 14:30 | Lunch (Canteeen) |
| 14:30 - 17:45 | Chair: Rong Li, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Peter Philippsen, University of Basel, Switzerland - Evolution of sustained polar growth and multinucleated cells starting from a budding yeast-like set of genes |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Anne Pringle, Harvard University, USA - The dispersal of fungi in an era of global change: evolved mechanisms, and dispersal as mediated by humans |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Graham Bell, McGill University, Canada - Range adaptation and evolutionary rescue during environmental change |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break (ATC Foyer) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Jure Piskur, Lund University, Sweden - Parallel evolution of life-style strategies in yeast |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Manuel Santos, University of Aveiro, Portugal - Reversion of a genetic code alteration in the human pathogen Candida albicans. |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Delphine Sicard, University Paris 11, France - Variation and evolution of life-history strategies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| 17:30 - 17:45 | Darren Platt, Amyris, USA - Natural yeast diversity and its impact on 2nd generation biofuel production |
| 17:45 - 18:00 | Poster Prize, Closing Remarks |
| 18:00 | Dinner & Party (Rooftop Lounge) |
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Day Five: Sunday 3 October 2010 |
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| Departure Day | |
| 10:00 | Bus to Frankfurt International Airport (the EMBL shuttle bus will stop at the back of the hotel next to the Lufthansa Airport Shuttle stop) |