Recent advances on the evolution of sex and genetic systems
Roscoff (Brittany), France, May 22-26, 2013
Deadline for application: March 1, 2013
Chairperson: Denis ROZE
Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, UMR 7144 CNRS-UPMC, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier, 29680 Roscoff, France
Phone: +33 (0) 2 98 29 23 20 – Fax : +33 2 98 29 23 24
Mail: roze@sb-roscoff.fr
Vice-Chairperson:Tanja SCHWANDER
Evolutionary Genetics, University of Groningen, Nijenborg 7, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 50 363 2134 – Fax : +31 50 363 2348
Mail : t.schwander@rug.nl
The last decade has seen important progress in our understanding of the causes and consequences of the evolution of genetic systems (the structure of the genetic material and its modes of transmission) both on theoretical and empirical grounds. This progress partly derives from the development of new methods and technologies such as genomics and bioinformatics, new statistical methods to explore macroevolutionary patterns, new biological systems for experimental evolution, or studies of the molecular basis of shifts in reproductive systems. At the same time, theoretical and population studies have continued to provide important insights. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers using these different approaches to study various aspects of genetic systems, including the evolution of sex and recombination, inbreeding vs. outcrossing and the evolution of sexual dimorphism, in order to pinpoint important parameters that need to be measured and determine how new forms of data can be used to make progress on important, yet unsolved evolutionary questions.
The conference will be organized in six sessions:
- advantage of sex and recombination: recent developments on the evolutionary benefits of genetic mixing.
- biology of sexual and asexual reproduction: phylogenetic distribution of sexual and asexual lineages; proximate mechanisms inducing shifts in reproductive systems.
- evolution of inbreeding vs. outcrossing: theoretical and empirical work on the evolution of mating systems.
- the evolution of sexual differentiation: the evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism.
- the evolution of sex chromosomes: genetic determination of sex in plants, animals and fungi
- open session: other aspects of genetic system evolution
Invited speakers
(provisional titles)
AGRAWAL Aneil (Toronto, Canada)
Beneficial mutations and the evolution of intermediate selfing rates
BACHTROG Doris (Berkeley, USA)
Transitions of sex chromosomes in Diptera
BARRETT Spencer (Toronto, Canada)
The evolution of sex ratios in plant populations
BARTON Nick (Vienna, Austria)
Can recombination be maintained by its adaptive benefits?
CASTAGNONE-SERENO Philippe (Sophia-Antipolis, France)
Root-knot nematodes: ancient asexuals... or not?
CHARLESWORTH Brian (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
The evolution of sex and recombination
CHARLESWORTH Deborah (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
The evolution of plant sex chromosomes
DAVID Patrice (Montpellier, France)
Natural and experimental evolution of facultative selfing in animals
DE VISSER Arjan (Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Adaptation of sexual and asexual populations in rugged fitness landscapes
DELPH Lynda (Bloomington, USA)
The genetics of sexual dimorphism in a dioecious plant
DUFAY Mathilde (Lille, France)
Evolutionary dynamics of male sterility in flowering plants: do empirical data fit with theory?
GIRAUD Tatiana (Orsay, France)
The evolution of sex, mating types, and sex chromosomes: the case of fungi
GLÉMIN Sylvain (Montpellier, France)
Adaptation and maladaptation in selfing populations
HAAG Christoph (Montpellier, France)
Evolution of partial genetic sex determination in Daphnia
JOHNSON Marc (Toronto, Canada)
Evolutionary consequences of suppressed recombination and segregation in evening primroses
LENORMAND Thomas (Montpellier, France)
Sex and hotspots
LIVELY Curt (Bloomington, USA)
Running with the Red Queen: host-parasite coevolution and sex
LOGSDON John (Iowa City, USA)
Molecular origins and evolution of meiosis: a sexy tree with old roots and kinky branches
MANK Judith (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Sex chromosomes, sex-specific selection and the evolution of sexual dimorphism
MARAIS Gabriel (Lyon, France)
Evolution of X dosage compensation in mammals and plants
OTTO Sarah (Vancouver, Canada)
On the evolution of sex and the advantage of recombination
PANNELL John (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Evolutionary transitions between combined and separate sexes in plants
PERRIN Nicolas (Lausanne, Switzerland)
The evolution of sex chromosomes: a perspective from amphibians
PORCHER Emmanuelle (Paris, France)
Evolution of selfing rates in plant populations: the interplay of ecology and genetics
ROZE Denis (Roscoff, France)
Selection for sex and recombination in diploid organisms
SCHÖN Isa (Brussels, Belgium)
Causes and consequences of asexuality in non-marine ostracods
SCHWANDER Tanja (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Mechanisms underlying transitions from sexual reproduction to parthenogenesis in animals
SHARBEL Tim (Gatersleben, Germany)
Molecular evolutionary approaches to elucidating the switch from sex to apomixis in wild plant populations
SIMON Jean-Christophe (Le Rheu, France)
Mechanisms and evolutionary dynamics of sex loss in aphids
STADLER Tanja (Zurich, Switzerland)
Quantifying selection for recombination at the macroevolutionary level
VEKEMANS Xavier (Lille, France)
Allelic diversity and genomic location of the self-incompatibility locus in Brassicaceae are strongly influenced by whole genome duplication events
Deadline for application: March 1, 2013
Registration fee (including board and lodging)
450 € for PhD students
600 € for other participants
Application for registration
The total number of participants is limited to 115 and all participants are expected to attend for the whole duration of the conference. Selection is made on the basis of the affinity of potential participants with the topics of the conference. Scientists and PhD Students interested in the meeting should send:
- their curriculum vitae
- the list of their main publications for the 3 last years
- the abstract of their presentation
to the Chairperson of the conference (roze@sb-roscoff.fr) before the deadline. After it, the chairman will select the participants. Except in some particular cases approved by the Chairperson, it is recommended that all selected participants present their work during the conference, either in poster form or by a brief in- session talk. The organizers choose the form in which the presentations are made. No payment will be sent with application. Information on how and when to pay will be mailed in due time to those selected.