Programme outline
GENERAL PROGRAMME
July 7th - Tuesday
Morning
Registration and Opening Ceremony
Mark Kirkpatrick
Chromosome inversions as pre- and postzygotic
isolating mechanisms
Carolina Segami – The role of inversions in the reproductive isolation of recently diverged cryptic mouse lemur species.
Miniplenary talk: Ashwini V Mohan – Genomic rearrangements underlie barriers to recombination in holocentric sedges
Alistair Hockey – Massive genomic flux and rapid differentiation in a young autogamous diploid
Léa Nicolas – Evolutionary consequences of recombination suppression: the case of a chromosomal inversion in the seaweed fly
Carina Mugal – Population-level PacBio HiFi data enable the investigation of structural variants in the speciation process of two songbirds
Desanka Lazić – A graph-based pangenome of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) reveals the landscape of structural variation across the distribution range
Afternoon
Pierre Barry – Origin and fates of chromosomal inversions in Littorina marine snails
Katie Lotterhos – Comparison of population-genetic vs. read-based calls of inversions in Atlantic cod
Claire Lemaitre – Representation and detection of inversions in pangenome graphs
Mélody Temperville – SVJedi-Tag : a novel method for genotyping large inversions with linked-read data
Jana Wold – The good, the bad, and the complex: Characterizing structural variants using genome graphs
Discussion in break-out rooms
Poster session
July 9th - Thursday
Morning
Joana Meier
The role of chromosomal rearrangements in
speciation
Amin Ghane – Genomic drivers of persimmon adaptive radiation in New Caledonia, a biodiversity hotspot
Guillaume Martin – Unravelling genomic drivers of speciation in Musa through comparison of wild banana ancestors genomes.
Simone D’Alessandro –Multiple chromosomal inversions shape the genomic landscape of a marine broadcast spawner
Miniplenary talk: Océane Mion – Uncovering the role of structural variations in the evolution and adaptation of a devastating fungal pathogen
Heidi Yang – Role of chromosomal inversions in local adaptation in California endemic oak
Laure Segurel – Adaptation of the bedbug Cimex lectularius to a new (human) host
Hugo Corval – A 38-Mb region underlies an ancient climate-linked inversion in barn owls
Malin Hasselgren – Structural variation in Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)
Afternoon
Jessica Purcell – The role of gene flux in the evolutionary trajectory of supergenes
Vitor Sudbrack – The effect of supergene evolution on the structure and stability of the G-matrix
Trevor Krabbenhoft – Structural variants and the genetic diversity – population viability paradox
Eleftherios Darzentas – The role of gene Copy Number Variations (gCNVs) in the local adaptation of major european tree species
Pascal Milesi – Show Case of the ‘rCNV’, a comprehensive framework to call gene copy number variations from SNPs data.
Discussion in break-out rooms
July 10th - Friday
Morning
Jeffrey Groh
Ancient rhythms of sex alternation in flowering
plants
Dominique Hicks – Macro-evolutionary perspectives on a large chromosomal rearrangement underlying alternative life-histories in seaweed flies
Eva Koch – The role of a sex chromosome–autosome fusion in the evolution of live-bearing and speciation in the common lizard
Nikolas Vellnow – Sex-linked structural variation and paralogy shape genomic diversity in a songbird
Miniplenary talk: Katarina Stuart – Structural variants and transposable elements under weakened selection in invasive populations
Paul Battlay – Local PCA reveals widespread structural variation across the tree of life
Caitlin Price – Uncovering the complex genomic history of Araneoidea and the role of TEs on Intrachromosomal Rearrangements
Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier – Exploring Transposable Elements dynamic in human population in the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium Release 2 Data
Janina Rinke – Transposable element islands at the interface of 3D genome architecture and karyotype evolution in ants
Afternoon
Visit to Porto
Conference Dinner
Visit to the National Park of Gerês. This activity is an optional extra-conference event. We will send more information and open the registrations for this event soon.
The topics of the discussions and their leaders will be decided and disclosed soon.