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June 8 -12, 2009, University of Rennes-1, Rennes, Brittany
Scientific and organizing committee :
Prof Jacques van Alphen- Marie Curie Chair, UMR ECOBIO, University of Rennes 1 and University of Leiden (Pays-Bas)
Dr Joan van Baaren- University of Rennes 1
Dr Malika Ainouche- University of Rennes 1
Dr Jean-Christophe Simon, INRA UMR BIO3P, Rennes
Dr. Manuel Plantegenest, Agrocampus Ouest, UMR BIO3P
Dr. Yannick Outreman, Agrocampus Ouest, UMR BIO3P
Dr. Marie-Agnès Coutellec, INRA Rennes, UMR ESE
Dr. Christine Paillard, UMR CNRS 6539, Institut Européen de la Mer, Plouzané
Dr Frédéric Jean, MC, UMR CNRS 6539, Institut Européen de la Mer, Plouzané
Prof Yves-Marie Paulet, UMR CNRS 6539, Institut Européen de la Mer, Plouzané
Prof Jean Laroche, UMR CNRS 6539, Institut Européen de la Mer, Plouzané
Dr Valérie Stiger, LEBHAM, Institut Européen de la Mer, Plouzané
Evolutionary biology 2009: phylogenetics, speciation, co-evolution, development, genomes, life histories, plasticity… What is new?
June 8 -12, 2009, University of Rennes-1, Rennes, Brittany
The 200th birthday of Charles Darwin on 12 February 2009 and the 150th anniversary of the publication of “ The origin of species “ are the reasons why 2009 will see many celebrations.
In this context we propose to organize an advanced course in Evolutionary Biology, including 4 days of conferences, open to PhDs and researchers, followed by one practical day in phylogenetics analysis, open to PhDs only for French and other European PhD students in Evolutionary Biology. The course will give an overview of the research methods in evolutionary biology and will provide state of the art reviews on timely questions in evolutionary biology, by internationally leading scientists in the field. Posters could be proposed by the participants, to be discussed with the invited speakers in evening sessions. A price of the best poster will be organized.
It provides an excellent opportunity for doctoral students and young researchers to interact with internationally recognized evolutionary biologists. In addition, it will provide them to the occasion to interact with the active community of evolutionary biologists at University of Rennes1.
We will address all major questions in evolutionary biology: How to reconstruct phylogenetic trees and how to study the evolutionary past? How do new species come into existence? What is the role of sexual selection in evolution? How do life-history characters and behavior evolve? How do genomes evolve? What is the role of phenotypic plasticity in evolution? What is the role of epigenetics? What are the constraints in the evolution of developmental plans? What is the role of antagonistic and mutualistic co-evolution?
The manifestation will have the following format:
Part 1. What are the most important questions in Evolutionary Research.
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What is the evolutionary history of a clade? This question is addressed by reconstructing the phylogeny of the clade preferentially making use of molecular data, or a combination of morphological characters and molecular data.
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How do new species come into existence? There are different modes of speciation (e.g. allopatric, parapatric or sympatric) and a variety of mechanisms resulting in reproductive isolation. Speciation can be studied by making use of virtually all methods in evolutionary biology.
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How has sexual reproduction evolved and how is it maintained? This is the study of the paradox of the twofold cost of sex.
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What are the constraints in the evolutions of developmental plans? We will address questions like Why do we have five fingers? Why do almost all mammals have 7 cervical vertebrae, even when they have a long neck like a Giraffe, and why does the number of cervical vertebrae in birds vary
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How do genomes evolve? The evolution of genomic conflicts, horizontal transmission of genes, cytoplasmic genes versus nuclear genes etc.
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When do organisms co-evolve? Co-evolution and evolutionary arms races, evolutionary hot-spots and cold-spots
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How do life history characters and behaviour evolve? This is the field of evolutionary ecology and behavioural ecology.
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What is the role of sexual selection in evolution? Another question addressed in behavioural and evolutionary ecology
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How does development constrain evolution? The field of “evo-devo”
Part 2: What are the methods to study Evolutionary Biology?
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Reconstruction of phylogenies
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The comparative method with corrections for phylogeny. E.g. phylogenetic contrasts
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The phenotypic approach: Deductive modelling and empirical tests of the predictions of those models.
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Optimization models
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Evolutionary Game theory
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Adaptive dynamics
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The genetic approach: Population genetic models
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When to use phenotypic models and when to use genetic models? Why?
Evolutionary biology 2009: phylogenetics, speciation, co-evolution, development, genomes, life histories, plasticity… What is new?
June 8 -12, 2009, University of Rennes-1, Rennes, Brittany
Program
Monday, June 8
10.00h - 11.45h Registration
11.45h - 13.15h Lunch
Afternoon Session: Origin and history of life and Sexual Selection
13.15h – 13.30h Welcome & Introduction
13.30h - 14.15h Brice Felden, University of Rennes 1
Ribonucleic acids (RNAs) and their contributions in the current theories of the origin of life on Earth
14.15h - 15.00h Céline Brochier, Université de Provence Aix-Marseille
LUCA and the universal tree of life
15.00h - 15.30h Tea Break
15.30h - 16.15h Richard Cloutier , UQAR, Canada
TBA
16.15h - 18h Discussion. Poster Session
Tuesday, June 9
Morning session: Speciation
9.00h - 9.45h Heinz Müller-Schärer, University of Fribourg, Suisse
Adaptive evolutionery change in an invasive plant: tracking its evidence
9.45h - 10.30h Salvatore Cozzolino, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Pollination specificity, reproductive isolation and speciation in Mediterranean orchids
10.30h - 11.00h Coffee Break
11.00h - 11.45h Malika Ainouche, University of Rennes 1
Impact of hybridisation on plant speciation
11.45h - 12.30h Jacques van Alphen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Speciation in Lake Victoria haplochromine cichlids
12.30h - 13.30h Lunch
Afternoon Session: Co-evolution
13.30h - 14.15h Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel, Switzerland
Antagonistic coevolution
14.15h - 15.00h Abdelaziz Heddi, INRA-INSA Villeurbanne, France
Host-symbiont coevolution in insect intracellular symbiosis
15.00h - 15. 30h Tea Break
Sexual selection
15.30h - 16.15h Jean-Christophe Simon (INRA Rennes)
Evolution of Sexual Reproduction (psr, wolbachia,meiotic drive)
16.15h - 17.00h Ken Kraaijeveld, IBL, University of Leiden, Netherlands
Sexual Conflict and speciation in insects
17.00h – 18.30h Discussion- Poster session
Wednesday, June 10
Morning session: speciation
9.00h - 9.45h Richard Bateman, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Saltation and gradualism are essential and complementary components of any credible macroevolutionary paradigm
Evolution, Development and phenotypic plasticity
9.45h - 10.30h Frietson Galis, University of Leiden
Evolutionary novelties: the making and breaking of pleiotropic constraints
10.30h - 11.00h Coffee Break
11.00h - 11.45h Carl Schlichting (University of Connecticut)
Advances in Plasticity & Phenotypic Evolution
11.45h - 12.30h Paula Rudall, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Defining the limits of flowers
12.30h - 13.30h Lunch
Afternoon session: Genome Evolution
13.30h – 14h15h Scott Jackson, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Genome dynamics and comparative approaches to understanding genome evolution
14h15 - 15h Pierre Capy, CNRS Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Transposable elements and genome evolution
15h - 15h30 Coffee Break
15.30h – 16.15h Vincent Colot. Unité de recherche en génomique végétale, Evry, France.
Assessing the impact of transgenerational epigenetic variation on complex traits
Afternoon session: Co-evolution
16.15h - 17h Michele K. Nishiguchi, New Mexico State University
TBA
17h - 17.45h Allen Herre (Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Panama)
Interactions and Co-evolution in three tropical mutualisms
17h45 - 18.30h Poster session
Thursday, June 11
Morning Session: Genome Evolution
9h- 9.45h Olivier Panaud, University of Perpignan, France
TBA
9.45h - 10.30h Mike Purugganan, New York University USA
Flowering time in Arabidopsis: development, plasticity and molecular evolution of a life history trait
10.30h – 11.00h Tea Break
11h – 11.45h Pierre Pontarotti, University of Marseille, France
Evolutionary Systems Biology
11.45h – 12.30h Anne Atlan, University of Rennes1
Genetic conflicts
12h30-13h30 Lunch
Afternoon Session: Evolution of Life History Characters and Behaviour
13.30h - 14.15h John Mc Namara, University of Bristol, UK
State dependent stochastic dynamic models in the study of life history and behavior
14.15h - 15.00h Carlos Bernstein, University of Lyon, France
State dependent foraging decisions: the whys and the hows of parasitoids
15.00h - 15. 30h Tea Break
15.30h - 16.15h Kate Lessells, NIOO, Heteren, NL
Maternal effects: when everyone agrees or the subject of intra-familial conflict?
16.15h - 17.00h Alex Kacelnik
Optimality and Rationality
17.00h – 18.30h Discussion- Poster session
Friday, June 12
Morning session: Methods in the study of evolution
9.00h - 9.45h Olof Leimar, University of Stockholm
Deductive modeling optimization and evolutionary game theory
9.45h - 10.30h Tom van Dooren, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Race against the machine: comparing alternative responses to disruptive selection
10.30h - 11.00h Coffee Break
11.00h - 11.45h Bénédicte Wirth, University of Marseille, France
The comparative method with correction for phylogeny
12.40h - 14h Lunch
Afternoon Session:
14h - 18h Pierre Pontarotti and Bénédicte Wirth, University of Marseille, France
Practical exercises on methods
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