Programme
Tuesday, July 10th
14:00-18:00
18:00-19:00
Registration
Opening & Keynote Talk
Armin Mozcek
On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case
study on horned beetles
Chair: Richard Bateman
19:00-20:30
Welcoming Cocktail
Wednesday, July 11th
Room 3.3.13
S2
Evo-Devo of
Homeotic
Transformations
Coffee break
S2
Evo-Devo of
Homeotic
Transformations
Lunch
C3
Evo-Devo of
patterning in
arthropod
appendages and
epithelia
Room 3.3.14
S1
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Coffee break
S1
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Lunch
C1
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Room 3.3.15
S3
Towards a theory
of development
15:35-15:50
15:50-16:50
Break
C6
Evo-Devo of
homeotic
transformations
Break
C5
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Break
C7
Plant Evo-Devo
16:50-17:20
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
9:00-10:40
10:40-11:10
11:10-12:50
12:50-14:20
14:20-15:35
17:20-18:00
Coffee break
S3
Towards a theory
of development
Lunch
C4
Evolution of
early
development
Keynote Talk
Paula Rudall
Flower evolution in early angiosperms
18:00-19:45
Chair: Frietson Galis
Poster Session 1
(even numbers)
Room 3.3.16
S4
Evolution at the
plant-animal
interface
Coffee break
S4
Evolution at the
plant-animal
interface
Lunch
C2
“Next generation
models” to
understand
animal phylogeny
and regulatory
evolution
Break
C8
“Next generation
models” to
understand
animal phylogeny
and regulatory
evolution
Coffee break
Thursday, July 12th
9:00-10:40
10:40-11:10
11:10-12:50
12:50-14:20
14:20-16:00
16:00-16:15
16:15-16:45
16:45-17:20
17:20-18:00
Room 3.3.13
S6
Evo-Devo of
arthropod
appendages: the
genes that matter
Coffee break
S6
Evo-Devo of
arthropod
appendages: the
genes that matter
Lunch
M4
The origin and
fate of germ cells
in animals
evolution and
development
Break
C11
The origin and
fate of germ cells
in animals
evolution and
development
Coffee break
Room 3.3.14
S5
“Next generation
models” to
understand
animal phylogeny
and regulatory
evolution
Coffee break
S5
“Next generation
models” to
understand
animal phylogeny
and regulatory
evolution
Room 3.3.15
M1
Regulatory
protein changes
in the evolution
of plant body
plans
Room 3.3.16
Midi1
Planarians to
parasitism:
development and
stem cells in
flatworms
Coffee break
M2
Heterospory: the
evolutionary road
to the seed
Coffee break
Midi1
Planarians to
parasitism:
development and
stem cells in
flatworms
12:00 - Midi2A
Evo-Devo in
extreme
environments
Lunch
Midi2B
Evo-Devo in
extreme
environments
Lunch
M3
3D Imaging for
Evo-Devo
Lunch
M5
In Silico EvoDevo: rerunning
complex tapes
Break
C10
3D Imaging for
Evo-Devo
Break
C12
Paleo-Evo-Devo
Break
C9
Evo-Devo of
arthropod
appendages
Coffee break
Coffee break
Coffee break
Keynote Talk
Gerd Müller
The Evo-Devo turn: consequences for evolutionary theory
18:00-19:45
20:30
´
Chair: Gerhard Schlosser
Poster Session 2
(odd numbers)
Conference Dinner
Friday, July 13th
9:00-10:40
Room 3.3.13
S7
Morphological
misfits
10:40-11:10
11:10-12:50
Coffee break
S7
Morphological
misfits
12:50-14:20
12:50-14:20
14:20-15:35
Lunch
Council Meeting
C14
Theoretical
contributions to
Evo-Devo
15:35-15:50
15:50-16:50
16:50-17:20
17:20-17:30
17:30-18:10
C20
Molecular
evolution
Coffee break
Room 3.3.14
S8
Evolution of stem
cells and
regeneration
Coffee break
S8
Evolution of stem
cells and
regeneration
Room 3.3.15
M6
Posterior
elongation in
bilaterians
Coffee break
M7
3D
morphometrics
for Evo-Devo
Lunch
Council Meeting
C13
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Break
C17
Evolution of
organs and cell
types
Coffee break
Lunch
Council Meeting
C16
Evolution of
vertebrate head
development
Break
C18
Posterior
elongation in
bilaterians
Coffee break
Room 3.3.16
M8
How do you like
your eggs?
Coffee break
M9
Evolution of sex
determining
pathways in
insects
Lunch
Council Meeting
C15
How do you like
your eggs?
Break
C19
Evolution of stem
cells and
regeneration
Coffee break
Student Poster Prices
Keynote Talk
Moisés Mallo
Axial patterning mechanisms and the evolution of the vertebrate body plan
18:10-19:10
Chair: Élio Sucena
EED Business Meeting
Detailed Scientific Programme
Tuesday, July 10th
18:00-19:00
Keynote Talk
Armin Mozcek
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
On the origins of novelty and diversity in development and evolution: a case study on horned
beetles
Chair: Richard Bateman
Wednesday, July 11th
S1 - Evolution of organs and cell types (Andreas Hejnol, Jean-François Brunet)
Room 3.3.14
Chairs: Andreas Hejnol, Jean-François Brunet
Sponsored by:
Company of Biologists
Journal of Experimental Zoology
Wiley-Blackwell
09:00-09:25
Detlev Arendt
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: duplication and divergence of neural circuits in
CNS evolution
09:25-09:50
Clare Baker
University of Cambridge, UK
The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors
09:50-10:15
Nicholas Strausfeld
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Exploring origins of a memory center in deep time
10:15-10:40
Jean-François Brunet
École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Ancient divergence of somatic and visceral neurons
11:10-11:35
Uli Technau
University of Vienna, Austria
Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians
11:35-12:00
Lionel Christiaen
New York, USA
Development and evolution of the cardiogenic mesoderm in chordates
12:00-12:25
Volker Hartenstein
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Stem cells and lineages of the intestine: a developmental and evolutionary perspective
12:25-12:50
Kinya Ota
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Developmental and evolutionary process of the vestigial vertebral elements in the hagfish
S2 - Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations (André Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis)
Room 3.3.13
Chairs: André Pires da Silva, Frietson Galis
09:00-09:25
Michael Akam
University of Cambridge, UK
09:25-09:50
John Bowman
Monash University, Australia
Patterning events during the life cycle in the liverwort Marchantia
09:50-10:15
Linda Holland
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA
Retinoic acid and secreted proteins mediate homeotic transformations in the basal chordate
amphioxus
10:15-10:40
Zhe-Xi Luo
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh
Vertebral identities in modern monotreme and therian mammals and their homeotic variations
in early mammal evolution
11:10-11:35
Guenter Theissen
University of Jena, Germany
Evo-Devo of naturally occurring floral homeotic varieties
11:35-12:00
Joost Woltering
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Analysis of differential Hox gene regulation between mouse and teleost fishes with respect to
the fin-limb transition
12:00-12:25
Andre Pires da Silva
University of Texas, USA
Homeotic transformation in natural populations of anole lizards
12:25-12:50
Frietson Galis
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Homeotic transformations and natural selection in mammals.
S3 - Towards a theory of development (Rinaldo Bertossa, Alessandro Minelli)
Room 3.3.15
Chairs: Rinaldo Bertossa, Alessandro Minelli
Sponsored by:
Springer
09:00-09:25
Wallace Arthur
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Past, present and future theories of development and related processes
09:25-09:50
Charbel Niño El-Hani
Federal University of Bahia, Salvador-BA, Brazil
Emergence in evolutionary and developmental time
09:50-10:15
Stuart Newman
New York Medical College Valhalla, NY, USA
Physico-genetics of morphogenesis: the hybrid nature of developmental mechanisms
10:15-10:40
Stephan Grill
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Morphogenetic functions of actomyosin
11:10-11:35
Johannes Jaeger
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Life´s attractors: understanding developmental systems through reverse-engineering
11:35-12:00
Antónia Monteiro
Yale University, New Haven, USA
The evolution of gene regulatory networks that produce plastic traits
12:00-12:25
Jan Traas
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
From genes to shape: morphodynamics at the shoot apical meristem
12:25-12:50
Rinaldo C. Bertossa
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Units of function across the biological hierarchy and in development
S4 - Evolution at the plant-animal interface (Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington)
Room 3.3.16
Chairs: Beverley Glover, Sam Brockington
Sponsored by:
New Phytologist
Natur wissenschaften
09:00-09:25
Conrad Labandeira
Smithsonian Institution, USA
Insect herbivore diversification after the end-Permian crisis: evidence from leaf miners
09:25-09:50
Mohammed Shabab
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Plant hormones as toxins for insects: concept of molecular mimicry
09:50-10:15
Andrew Hudson
University of Edinburgh, UK
The genetics of adaptation in Antirrhinum
10:15-10:40
Harald Krenn
University of Vienna, Austria
Evolution of mouthparts in Lepidoptera: adaptations to collect nectar and pollen
11:10-11:35
Beverley Glover
University of Cambridge, UK
The petal epidermis as the origin of visual and tactile signals to pollinating insects
11:35-12:00
Ian Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
How plants solve the outcrossing-defence dilemma
12:00-12:25
Tanya Renner
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Molecular evolution of class I chitinases utilized for plant carnivory in the Caryophyllales
12:25-12:50
Ulrike Bauer
University of Cambridge, UK
Wax or wetness? Evolution of alternative trapping strategies in carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher
plants
C1 - Evolution of organs and cell types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Uli Technau
14:20-14:35
Oleg Simakov
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Combining developmental, population, and comparative genomics analyses to study long term
evolution of cell types
14:35-14:50
Gemma S. Richards
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
A Soxb gene identifies progenitor cells that generate neurons and nematocytes in an anthozoan
cnidarian
14:50-15:05
Masaaki Yoshida
National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
Cyclops phenocopy in squids indicates common but diverged mechanisms of eye field
determination
15:05-15:20
Maria Antonietta Tosches
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Evolution of the melatonin system for the control of rhythmic locomotion
15:20-15:35
Kevin Pang
Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology
The ctenophore photocyte: light producer and light receptor?
C2 - “Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Maja Adamska
14:20-14:35
Marcin Adamski
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Surprisingly complex developmental toolkits of calcaronean sponge
14:35-14:50
Stephan Q. Schneider
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Symmetry makers and symmetry breakers: reiterative beta-catenin asymmetries and the
formation of the annelid body plan
14:50-15:05
Eve Gazave
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
Notch signalling pathway in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii: insights into chaetogenesis and
segmentation processes
15:05-15:20
Gregor Bucher
Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
IBEETLE: Genome wide RNAi screen for embryonic and metamorphic development in the
beetle Tribolium castaneum
15:20-15:35
Megan J Wilson
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Sequencing and developmental expression of microRNAs from early honeybee (Apis mellifera)
embryos
C3 - Evo-Devo of patterning in arthropod appendages and epithelia
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Elizabeth Jockusch
14:20-14:35
Kristen Panfilio
Institute for Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Germany
Assessing the degree of conservation in epithelial morphogenetic movements
14:35-14:50
Alistair P. McGregor
Oxford Brookes University, UK;
Evolution of the regulation of cellular morphology among Drosophila legs: a new route to the
naked valley
14:50-15:05
Arnaud Martin
University of California Irvine, Irvine - CA, USA
Two developmental patterning genes that drive color pattern diversity and convergence in
Heliconius mimetic butterflies
15:05-15:20
Suzanne V Saenko
Institute Biology Leiden - Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
Characterization of a hotspot locus for wing pattern evolution in the Lepidoptera
15:20-15:35
Matthias Pechmann
Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
Novel function of distal-less as a gap gene during spider segmentation
C4 - Evolution of early development
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Robert Cerny
14:20-14:35
Evelyn E. Schwager
Harvard University, Cambridge - MA, USA
Germ line specification in the spider Achaearanea tepidariorum
14:35-14:50
Megan P. Leask
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Epigenetics in the honeybee ovary
14:50-15:05
Chiara Sinigaglia
SARS Centre, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Homologs of bilaterian head genes regulate aboral pole development in a cnidarian larva
15:05-15:20
Günther Jirikowski
Universität Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Germany
Evolution of malacostracan muscle development: how myogenic patterns relate to modes of
ontogeny
15:20-15:35
Adrien Demilly
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
WNT/β-Catenin and PCP pathways control CNS development in the annelid Platynereis
dumerilii
C5 – Evolution of Organs and Cell Types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Volker Hartenstein
15:50-16:05
José M. Martin-Duran
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Deuterostomy in an early branching ecdysozoa: embryonic development of the digestive tract
in Priapulus caudatus
16:05-16:20
Emmanuel Farge
Institut Curie, France
Beta-catenin dependent mechanical induction determines Bilateria early mesoderm
specification
16:20-16:35
Koh Onimaru
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Evolution of the lateral plate mesoderm: insights from amphioxus and lampreys development
16:35-16:50
Marta Chiodin
Barcelona University, Spain
Mesodermal gene expression in the acoel Isodiametra pulchra: implications for the evolution
of the mesodermal germ layer
C6 – Evo-Devo of Homeotic Transformations
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Linda Holland
15:50-16:05
Daniel Capek
University of Vienna, Department of Theoretical Biology, Austria
A molecular-morphogenetic approach to avian digit identity
16:05-16:20
Michael Schubert
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
Retinoic acid-FGF antagonism is an ancestral mechanism for patterning the chordate brain
16:20-16:35
Yuuta Moriyama
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
The Medaka zic1/zic4 mutant provides molecular insights into teleost caudal fin evolution
16:35-16:50
Verónica S. Di Stiliio
University of Washington, USA
Homeotic cultivars of Thalictrum thalictroides enable a forward genetic approach to flower
organ identity evolution
C7 – Plant Evo-Devo
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Richard Bateman
15:50-16:05
Florian Karolyi
Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Austria
Adaptations for nectar-feeding in the mouthparts and the suction pump of long-proboscid flies
(Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca)
16:05-16:20
Katrina Alcorn
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Evolution of petal surface texture with variation in pollinator handling
16:20-16:35
Beatriz Gonçalves
Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) de Génétique Végétale, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
A floral dimorphism in Nigella damascena: genetic control and evolutionary significance
16:35-16:50
Heather Sanders
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
A new fern model system for understanding heterospory
C8 - “Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Lennart Olson
15:50-16:05
Naoki Irie
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), Kobe, Japan
Experimental verification of the developmental hourglass model
16:05-16:20
Guillaume Balavoine
Institut Jacques Monod - CNRS, Paris, France
Annelid nervous system patterning: insight into the origin of the chordate neural tube
16:20-16:35
Helen Gunter
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Exploring the molecular basis of phenotypic plasticity in the pharyngeal jaw of the cichlid,
Astatoreochromis alluaudi
16:35-16:50
Kyle Martin
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Molecular evolution in Osteoglossomorpha reveals tetralogy as a novel form of homology
16:50-17:20
Coffee break
Sponsored by
17:20-18:00
Keynote Talk
Paula Rudall
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, UK
Flower evolution in early angiosperms
Chair: Frietson Galis
18:00-19:45
Poster Session 1
Even numbers
Thursday, July 12th
S5 - “Next generation models” to understand animal phylogeny and regulatory evolution
(Michel Vervoort, Florian Raible)
Room 3.3.14
Chairs: Michel Vervoort, Florian Raible
09:00-09:25
Inaki Ruiz-Trillo
Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, UPF-CSIC, Spain
The origin of Metazoa: unicells take the lead
09:25-09:50
Maja Adamska
Sars Centre, Bergen, Norway
Sycon ciliatum as a model to study evolution of metazoan body plans
09:50-10:15
Ferdinand Marletaz
University of Oxford, UK
Chaetognaths: genomic insights into a zoological enigma
10:15-10:40
Jordi Garcia-Fernandez
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
The amphioxus in evolution: what matters is the question, not the model
11:10-11:35
Florian Raible
MFPL/University of Vienna, Austria
Platynereis dumerilii as a new functional model system to dissect circalunar reproductive
rhythmicity
11:35-12:00
Maria Ina Arnone
SZN, Naples, Italy
Conservation and divergence of a gene regulatory network that controls gut patterning in
deuterostomes
12:00-12:25
Patrick Lemaire
CNRS, Montpellier, France
How to make morphologically similar embryos with divergent genomes?
12:25-12:50
Andreas Hejnol
Sars Centre, Bergen, Norway
Increased taxon sampling in animals improves the understanding of the evolution of
developmental processes
S6 - Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages: the genes that matter (Patrícia Beldade, Antónia
Monteiro)
Room 3.3.13
Chairs: Patrícia Beldade, Antónia Monteiro
09:00-09:25
Ryo Futahashi
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Molecular bases underlying the colour pattern diversity in dragonflies
09:25-09:50
Elizabeth Jockusch
University of Connecticut, USA
Conservation and change in the metamorphic patterning of beetle appendages
09:50-10:15
Abderrahman Khila
University of Lyon, France
Morphological diversification as enabled by new ecological opportunities
10:15-10:40
Christen Mirth
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Ecdysone regulates nutrition-dependent patterning and growth of the developing wings in fruit
flies
11:10-11:35
Virginie Orgogozo
University of Paris Diderot, France
Achaete-scute, bristle loss and developmental noise in Drosophila santomea
11:35-12:00
Nipam Patel
UC Berkeley, USA
The evolution of crustacean appendages
12:00-12:25
Aleksandar Popadic
Wayne State University, USA
Hox gene patterning of hemipteran limbs
12:25-12:50
Yoshi Tomoyasu
University of Miami, USA
Diverged developmental mechanisms underlying the conserved insect wing vein patterns
M1 - Regulatory protein changes in the evolution of plant body plans (Günter Theissen)
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Günter Theissen
09:00-09:25
Annette Becker
University of Bremen, Germany
Changes that matter: evolution of a protein motif required for floral homeotic complex
formation
09:25-09:50
Chiara Airoldi
University of Leeds, UK
Male and female organ identity is influenced by a single amino acid change
09:50-10:15
Rainer Melzer
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
From fuzzy interactions to fading borders to floral diversity: evolutionary dynamics of floral
quartet formation
10:15-10:40
Edwige Moyroud
University of Cambridge, UK
Biophysical models for predicting regulatory interactions and studying leafy evolution
M2 - Heterospory: the evolutionary road to the seed (Heather Sanders, Mike Frohlich)
Room 3.3.15
Chairs: Heather Sanders, Mike Frohlich
11:10-11:35
Richard Bateman
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
Heterospory: what is it, who does it, and why does it matter?
11:35-12:00
Cyrille Prestianni
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
Heterospory and seed habit, two innovations in the Devonian changing world
12:00-12:25
Irma Roig Vilanova
Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
The role of the MADS box genes seedstick and arabidopsis bsister in the control of seed
development in A. thaliana
12:25-12:50
Ueli Grossniklaus
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Epigenetic control of a pollinator syndrome: a role for epigenetics in evolution?
Midi1 - Planarians to parasitism: development and stem cells in flatworms (Peter Olson,
Bret Pearson)
Room 3.3.16
Chairs: Peter Olson, Bret Pearson
Sponsored by:
BMC Parasites & Vectors
The Systematics Association
09:00-09:25
Aziz Aboobaker
University of Nottingham, UK
Telomere biology is adapted to an asexual life history in Schmidtea mediterranea
09:25-09:50
Klaus Brehm
Universität Würzburg, Germany
Echinococcus as a parasitic model in stem cell biology
09:50-10:15
Francesc Cebrià
University of Barcelona, Spain
The EGFR signaling pathway during planarian regeneration and homeostasis: function and
downstream targets
10:15-10:40
Jochen Rink
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Body building: axial patterning during planarian regeneration
11:10-11:35
Peter Ladurner
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Macrostomum as parasitic forerunner: lessons from cell renewal and adhesion
11:35-12:00
James Collins
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Identification and functional characterization of adult stem cells in the human parasite
Schistosoma mansoni.
Midi2A – Evo-Devo in extreme environments (Didier Casane, Sylvie Rétaux)
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Sylvie Rétaux
12:00-12:25
Rochelle Buffenstein
Barshop Institute, San Antonio, USA
News from the underground super-mole; successful aging in the extraordinarily long-lived
naked mole-rat
12:25-12:50
Tom van Dooren
UMR7625 Ecology and Evolution, Paris, France
South-american annual killifish: a vertebrate model for the eco-evo-devo of diapause
Midi2B – Evo-Devo in extreme environments (Didier Casane, Sylvie Rétaux)
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Sylvie Rétaux
14:20-14:45
William R. Jeffery and Helena Bilandžija
University of Maryland, College Park, USA, and Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Evolution of albinism in an extreme environment: dark caves
14:45-15:10
Masato Yoshizawa and William R. Jeffery
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Evolution of a behaviour and its sensory nervous system adapts cavefish to life in darkness
15:10-15:35
Sylvie Rétaux, Karen Pottin and Hélène Hinaux
CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France
Blind cavefish evolution and eye degeneration mechanisms: placodal and neural components.
15:35-16:00
Chris Jacobs
Institute Biology, Leiden, Netherlands
How insects conquered land; the serosa as innovation against desiccation.
M3 – 3D Imaging for Evo-Devo (Brian Metscher, Gerd Müller)
Room 3.3.14
Chairs: Brian Metscher, Gerd Müller
14:20-14:45
Zerina Johanson
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Evolution and development of a morphological innovation: the pufferfish beak
14:45-15:10
Thomas Schwaha
University of Vienna, Austria
Integrative approaches for developmental imaging
15:10-15:35
James Sharpe
Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
Mesoscopic optical imaging for Evo-Devo studies
15:35-16:00
Jukka Jernvall
University of Helsinki, Finland
Evolutionary phenomics tools to decipher surface complexity
M4 - The origin and fate of germ cells in animals evolution and development (Jeremy
Lynch, Evelyn Schwager)
Room 3.3.13
Chairs: Jeremy Lynch, Evelyn Schwager
14:20-14:45
Peter Dearden
University of Otago, New Zealand
Germ cell specification and ovary structure in the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis
14:45-15:10
Roland Dosch
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Germ plasm formation in vertebrates: the role of bucky ball in zebrafish
15:10-15:35
Cassandra Extavour
Harvard University, USA
The evolution of novel and diverse mechanisms of arthropod germ cell specification
15:35-16:00
Einhard Schierenberg
University of Cologne, Germany
Nematodes, the germline and construction of the body plan
M5 – In Silico Evo-Devo: rerunning complex tapes (Kirsten ten Tusscher, Hans Metz)
Room 3.3.15
Chairs: Kirsten ten Tusscher, Hans Metz
14:20-14:45
Kirsten ten Tusscher
Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics Group, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
In-silico models for the evolution of anterior-posterior patterning
14:45-15:10
Isaac Salazar Ciudad
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain;
Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology. University of Helsinki, Finland
How natural selection sees morphology? A model bringing development into the picture
15:10-15:35
Kunihiko Kaneko
Research Center for Complex Systems Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan
Phenotypic fluctuations, developmental plasticity, and environmental variation
15:35-16:00
Paul Francois
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Bifurcation theory for Evo-Devo
C9 – Evo-Devo of arthropod appendages
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Abderrahman Khila
16:15-16:30
Sara Khadjeh
Georg August University Göttingen, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Germany
The role of hox genes in the convergent evolution of ´´abdominal´´ limb repression
16:30-16:45
Takahiro Ohde
Nagoya University, Nagoya - Aichi, Japan
Diversification of dorsal appendages in the mealworm beetle, Tenebrio molitor
C10 – 3D Imaging for Evo-Devo
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Jukka Jernvall
16:15-16:30
Matt Benton
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
A widely applicable transient expression method for fluorescent live imaging in arthropods
16:30-16:45
Brian D. Metscher
University of Vienna, Theoretical Biology Department, Austria
Micro-CT for 3D Evo-Devo: imaging micromorphology, molecular expression, and
developmental variation
C11 - The origin and fate of germ cells in animals evolution and development
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Cassandra Extavour
16:15-16:30
Sven Leininger
Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Do sponges have germ line? Expression of germ and stem cell markers in the calcareous
sponge Sycon ciliatum
16:30-16:45
Sabrina Schiemann
Sars Centre for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen, Norway
Oops there goes a gonad. The tracing of an ancient apoptotic event in Rotifers
C12 – Paleo-Evo-Devo
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Zerina Johanson
16:15-16:30
Ian Corfe
University of Helsinki, Finland
The developmental basis of 200 million year old mammal teeth
16:30-16:45
Joachim T. Haug
University of Greifswald, Germany
Palaeo-Evo-Devo and the evolution of metamorphosis II: examples from insects
17:20-18:00
Keynote Talk
Gerd Müller
University of Vienna, Austria
The Evo-Devo turn: consequences for evolutionary theory
Chair: Gerhard Schlosser
18:00-19:45
Poster Session 2
Odd numbers
Sponsored by
20:30
Conference Dinner
Friday, July 13th
S7 - Morphological misfits (Paula Rudall, Ronald Jenner)
Room 3.3.13
Chairs: Paula Rudall, Ronald Jenner
09:00-09:25
Alessandro Minelli
Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
Modularity, paramorphism and synorganization – what morphological misfits suggest about the
architecture of development
09:25-09:50
Rolf Rutishauser
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Evolution of morphological misfits in seed plants such as podostemaceae, allowing for growth
in tropical rivers
09:50-10:15
Jacqueline Moustakas
Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki, Finland
Raising the shield: the origin and loss of periodic patterning in the turtle shell
10:15-10:40
Thomas Stützel
Fakultät für Biologie und Biotechnologie, University of Bochum, Germany
Fits and misfits in normal and abnormal cones of gymnosperms
11:10-11:35
Alexander Gruhl
The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Myxozoa: cnidarians gone parasitic
11:35-12:00
Chelsea Specht
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Emerging complexity in tropical gingers (zingiberales): homoplasy and floral evolution
12:00-12:25
Shigeru Kuratani
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe, Japan
Developmental understanding of the turtle shell - generation of evolutionarily novel patterns in
vertebrates
12:25-12:50
Dmitry Sokoloff
University of Moscow, Russia
Evolution of floral polymery in a derived angiosperm family, araliaceae (apiales)
S8 – Evolution of stem cells and regeneration (Uri Frank, Ram Reshef)
Room 3.3.14
Chairs: Uri Frank, Ram Reshef
09:00-09:25
Gerrit Begemann
Univ. of Constance, Germany
Pleiotropic requirements for retinoic acid signalling in zebrafish fin regeneration
09:25-09:50
António Jacinto
CEDOC - Centro de Estudos de Doenças Crónicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Wound healing in simple epithelia
09:50-10:15
Ram Reshef
University of Haifa, Israel
Stem cells and the molecular mechanisms underlie whole body regeneration
10:15-10:40
Justyna Kanska
NUI Galway, Ireland
A role for nanos in neural cell type specification
11:10-11:35
Yuichiro Suzuki
Wellesley College, USA
Evolution of limb regeneration mechanisms: insights from limb regeneration in the red flour
beetle, Tribolium castaneum
11:35-12:00
Michalis Averof
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Mapping the cellular basis of limb regeneration in an emerging model crustacean
12:00-12:25
Gideon Grafi
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Stress-induced dedifferentiation: implications for adaptive evolution
12:25-12:50
Yoav Soen
Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Heritable reprogramming of development enabled by suppression of polycomb genes
M6 – Posterior elongation in bilaterians (Guillaume Balavoine, Ariel Chipman)
Room 3.3.15
Chairs: Guillaume Balavoine, Ariel Chipman
Sponsored by:
Wiley-Blackwell
09:00-09:25
Evolution & Development
Susan Brown
Kansas State University, USA
Tribolium segmentation: from stripes to waves
09:25-09:50
Wim Damen
University of Jena, Germany
Segmentation in spiders
09:50-10:15
Jacqueline Deschamps
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Evolutionary conserved requirement of cdx for post- occipital tissue emergence
10:15-10:40
Jens H. Fritzenwanker and Chris Lowe
Stanford University, USA
Posterior growth without segmentation: insights into the origins of the bilaterian trunk.
M8 – How do you like your eggs? (Casper Breuker, Alistair McGregor)
Room 3.3.16
Chairs: Casper Breuker, Alistair McGregor
09:00-09:25
Jeremy Lynch
University of Cologne, Germany
Convergence, co-option, and novelty in the evolution of insect eggs
09:25-09:50
Ehab Abouheif
McGill University, Canada
The intimate link between social evolution and development
09:50-10:15
Thomas Flatt
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria
Endocrine regulation of ovarian development and fecundity in drosophila
10:15-10:40
Gary Wessel
Brown University, USA
Making eggs the old fashion way: multipotency and the germ line in echinoderms.
M7 – 3D Morphometrics for Evo-Devo (Philipp Mitteroecker)
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Philipp Mitteroecker
11:10-11:35
Philipp Gunz, Simon Neubauer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
A developmental perspective on hominid brain evolution
11:35-12:00
Michael Coquerelle
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain
Evodevo of the human chin: 3d morphometrics of the mandible, the teeth, and muscle
insertions
12:00-12:25
Abby Grace Drake
Skidmore College, USA
Intraspecific macroevolution in domestic dogs: disparity and modularity of skull shape
12:25-12:50
Philipp Mitteroecker
University of Vienna, Austria
How to measure phenotypic variation in development and evolution
M9 – Evolution of sex determining pathways in insects (Daniel Bopp, Louis van de Zande,
Lino Polito, Martin Beye)
Room 3.3.16
Chairs: Daniel Bopp, Louis van de Zande, Lino Polito, Martin Beye
Intro
Daniel Bopp
University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Is sex determination in insects based on a common principle?
11:10-11:35
Giuseppe Saccone
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Sex determination in Ceratitis relies on a conserved binary genetic on/off switch, splicingbased and epigenetic
11:35-12:00
Teruyuki Niimi
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Control of sexual dimorphism by the doublesex gene in beetles
12:00-12:25
Louis van de Zande
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Maternal imprinting and control of haplodiploid sex determination in Nasonia
12:25-12:50
Martin Beye
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
What can honeybees tell us about the regulation and evolution of sexual development?
C13 – Evolution of organs and cell types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Detlev Arendt
14:20-14:35
Johanna Kraus
University of Vienna, Dept. of molecular evolution and development, Austria
Homology of polyp tentacles with medusa bell in hydrozoans: implications for cnidarian life
cycle evolution
14:35-14:50
Marie-Therese Nödl
University of Vienna; Department of Theoretical Biology, Austria
WNT signalling during cephalopod appendage development
14:50-15:05
Sebastian Kittelmann
Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany
The end of a beetle: genetic control of anterior head development in Tribolium castaneum
15:05-15:20
Evangelia Stamataki
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK
MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany
Evolution of bristle pattern in Drosophilids driven by cis-regulatory changes in the achaetescute complex
15:20-15:35
Maria D. S. Nunes
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Mapping eye size variation within D. simulans using multiplexed shotgun genotyping (MSG)
C14 – Theoretical contributions to Evo-Devo
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
14:20-14:35
Irepan Salvador Martínez
Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki, Finland
Does morphological complexity increase during embryonic development? In which way?
14:35-14:50
Ajay Nair
Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago,
New Zealand
Genetic assimilation: a fact or just a philosophy shaped in the lamarckian mold?
14:50-15:05
Axel Lange
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Biased polyphenism in polydactylous cats carrying a single point mutation
15:05-15:20
Claus Rueffler
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Evolution of functional specialization and division of labor
15:20-15:35
Mario de Pinna
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Ontogenetic data in phylogenetic rooting: rescuing the arrow of time
15:35-15:50
Miquel Marín Riera
Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
How natural selection sees morphology? A model bringing development into the picture.
C15 – How do you like your eggs?
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Johannes Jaeger
14:20-14:35
Atsuko Sato
University of Oxford; Department of Zoology, UK
Maternal inheritance of thermotolerance facilitates monitoring ecological and evolutionary
changes under climate change
14:35-14:50
Barbara Vreede
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
The origin of morphological novelties: what we can learn from Drosophila oogenesis
14:50-15:05
Megan J Wilson
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
G down the maternal blueprint: the role of RNA localization in the evolution of body
patterning.
15:05-15:20
Karl R Wotton
Centre de Regulació Genómica (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
Generating anterior-posterior polarity in cyclorrhaphan flies: a story of missing maternal
factors
15:20-15:35
Elizabeth J. Duncan
Laboratory for Evolution and Development, Genetics Otago & National Research Centre for
Growth and Development, Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Aotearoa-New
Zealand
Plasticity in axis formation: how can one species have two different trajectories for early
development?
C16 – Evolution of vertebrate head development
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Shigeru Kuratani
14:20-14:35
Fumiaki Sugahara
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB), Kobe, Japan
Development of the naso-hypophyseal placode (NHP) in lamprey
14:35-14:50
Robert Cerny
Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
External gills of vertebrate larvae are generated by dissimilar developmental processes:
implications for homology
14:50-15:05
Jennifer Schmidt
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Institute of Zoology, Germany
The regulatory network of FoxN3 during I head development
15:05-15:20
Melanie Debiais-Thibaud
Université Montpellier 2, France
Variable constraints on dlx gene expression pattern during the evolution of jawed vertebrates
15:20-15:35
Daisuke Koyabu
University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Heterochrony and developmental modularity of osteogenesis in lipotyphlan mammals
C17 – Evolution of organs and cell types
Room 3.3.14
Chair: Clare Baker
15:50-16:05
Koryu Kin
Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Yale Systems Biology
Institute, USA
Transcriptomic and immunohistochemical evidence on the evolutionary origin of endometrial
stromal cells
16:05-16:20
Eric Lewitus
Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany
Oncogenetic and sex-linked gene expression in mammalian neocortical expansion
16:20-16:35
Iva Kelava
Max Planck of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Basal radial glia in the neocortex of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) and the
secondary loss of gyrencephaly
16:35-16:50
Vladimir Soukup
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Evolution of vertebrate teeth based on germ-layer and gene expression analyses
C18 – Posterior elongation in bilaterians
Room 3.3.15
Chair: Wim Damen
15:50-16:05
Ariel D. Chipman
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The evolution of insect A/P axis determination pathways – insights from the holometabolous
bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus
16:05-16:20
Christian Schmitt-Engel
Department of Developmental Biology, Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach Institute, Göttingen,
Germany
A dual role for nanos and pumilio in anterior and posterior blastodermal patterning of the shortgerm beetle Tribolium
16:20-16:35
Luke Hayden
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
A tale of tails: multiple wnt genes are involved in centipede posterior growth and development
16:35-16:50
Carlo Brena
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Transition from dynamic pair-rule oscillation to single segment patterning in segmentation of a
centipede clade
C19 – Evolution of stem cells and regeneration
Room 3.3.16
Chair: Gerrit Begemann
15:50-16:05
Maria Almuedo-Castillo
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
JNK controls cell death and G2M transition of planarian neoblasts, orchestrating differentiation
and compensatory growth
16:05-16:20
Thomas Butts
King´s College London, London, UK
Transit amplification in the amniote external granule layer evolved via regulatory evolution of
neurod1
16:20-16:35
Roman P. Kostyuchenko
Department of Embryology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Molecular and cellular events of AP axis and tissue transformations during asexual
reproduction in naidid olygochaetes
16:35-16:50
Uriel Koziol
Julius Maximilians University Würzburg; Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Germany
Cell proliferation and differentiation in cestode larval and adult development
C20 – Molecular evolution
Room 3.3.13
Chair: Michael Schubert
15:50-16:05
Manuel Irimia
Stanford University, USA
The ancient syntenic roots of the human genome
16:05-16:20
Eric Samarut
IGFL (Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon);
IGBMC (Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Céllulaire), France
Phosphorylation sites as targets of regulatory evolution: the example of retinoic acid receptors.
16:20-16:35
Juliana Gutierrez-Mazariegos
Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon
Origin and diversification of the retinoic acid signalling pathway
16:35-16:50
Jianwei Li
Georg-August-University Goettingen, Dept. of Developmental Biology, Goettingen, Germany
Transcriptome screening to understand the chemical defence mechanism in an insect model, the
red flour beetle
17:20-17:30
Student Poster Prizes
17:30-18:10
Keynote Talk
Moisés Mallo
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
Axial patterning mechanisms and the evolution of the vertebrate body plan
Chair: Élio Sucena
18:10-19:10
EED Business Meeting